Sonia Sulaiman
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Ignyte and Ember Award winning, Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW and Locus finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25
https://www.soniasulaiman.com
https://www.soniasulaiman.com
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Sonia Sulaiman
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social
· Dec 17
For the many new followers. Hi, I..
* write fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore
*have been nominated for a few awards
* am spiritually fruity
* am aroace
* curate a reading list of Palestinian spec fic
soniasulaiman.com
* write fantasy inspired by Palestinian folklore
*have been nominated for a few awards
* am spiritually fruity
* am aroace
* curate a reading list of Palestinian spec fic
soniasulaiman.com
The twist is that I didn’t choose to be a writer. It just sort of happened…and note that I’m disabled it’s all I can actually do.
Hashtag passive protagonist arc.
Hashtag passive protagonist arc.
November 23, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The twist is that I didn’t choose to be a writer. It just sort of happened…and note that I’m disabled it’s all I can actually do.
Hashtag passive protagonist arc.
Hashtag passive protagonist arc.
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After being born into poverty and getting kicked out at 17, I wouldn’t stop trying to save my own life from my mental health. It was a hard fight.
But at 45, after 2 years of safe housing, I woke up wanting to write again.
Five years later, my debut novel won the world fantasy award.
But at 45, after 2 years of safe housing, I woke up wanting to write again.
Five years later, my debut novel won the world fantasy award.
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
After being born into poverty and getting kicked out at 17, I wouldn’t stop trying to save my own life from my mental health. It was a hard fight.
But at 45, after 2 years of safe housing, I woke up wanting to write again.
Five years later, my debut novel won the world fantasy award.
But at 45, after 2 years of safe housing, I woke up wanting to write again.
Five years later, my debut novel won the world fantasy award.
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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*sniffle* It’s so beautiful.
CORRECTION: A *third* potato has been named after Prince.
November 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
*sniffle* It’s so beautiful.
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in the words of the great philosopher Strong Bad:
"I dunno. Maybe there *is* a goodminton."
"I dunno. Maybe there *is* a goodminton."
November 22, 2025 at 11:37 PM
in the words of the great philosopher Strong Bad:
"I dunno. Maybe there *is* a goodminton."
"I dunno. Maybe there *is* a goodminton."
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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If you can help this family ❤️
Please don't ignore me
My family is dying and you are our only hope
My child Jamal is experiencing diabetic episodes, and I am suffering from uterine infections. Any donation will save my family.
If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot . it's just a dot
gofund.me/ac206230a
@mommunism.bsky.social
My family is dying and you are our only hope
My child Jamal is experiencing diabetic episodes, and I am suffering from uterine infections. Any donation will save my family.
If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot . it's just a dot
gofund.me/ac206230a
@mommunism.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If you can help this family ❤️
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I hate that literal children have to get online and ask for help surviving- but they do
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Safaa. Safaa is only 16 years old and is trying to help her mother Manal who is a widow with 7 children, 3 of whom live with her in a tent. Safaa told me she wishes to go to Europe and work with refugee children when she is older. ❤️
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I hate that literal children have to get online and ask for help surviving- but they do
Okay I fixed it… it looks very off but that might be because I used smaller needles. Hopefully it will even out? The darker one ids the before, lighter one is after my first attempt at reknitting a section down a few rows…
November 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Okay I fixed it… it looks very off but that might be because I used smaller needles. Hopefully it will even out? The darker one ids the before, lighter one is after my first attempt at reknitting a section down a few rows…
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In Gaza, life isn’t easy, but my dreams remain strong. I want to become a doctor and help others. Your help means the world to me. 💪🌱
@mommunism.bsky.social
@mommunism.bsky.social
The war took my home, my classroom, and my childhood. But it didn’t take my hope. I’m Hamza from Gaza, dreaming to become a pediatric doctor. Please donate, even small help brings me closer to protecting my parents. 💔🙏
gogetfunding.com/Helphamza/
gogetfunding.com/Helphamza/
November 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
In Gaza, life isn’t easy, but my dreams remain strong. I want to become a doctor and help others. Your help means the world to me. 💪🌱
@mommunism.bsky.social
@mommunism.bsky.social
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Dear friends 🌺 We’re Farah & Mohanad.
Life has challenged us, yet your love gives strength.
Together, hope can survive. 🙏
gogetfunding.com/HelpFarahand...
Life has challenged us, yet your love gives strength.
Together, hope can survive. 🙏
gogetfunding.com/HelpFarahand...
Farrah and Muhanad have a lot of integrity and upon finding out that a scammer was trying to trick other Gazans by saying he promoted their campaign (when he didn’t) they decided to change the URL so he couldn’t do that- so this is their new link to their fundraiser now.
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Dear friends 🌺 We’re Farah & Mohanad.
Life has challenged us, yet your love gives strength.
Together, hope can survive. 🙏
gogetfunding.com/HelpFarahand...
Life has challenged us, yet your love gives strength.
Together, hope can survive. 🙏
gogetfunding.com/HelpFarahand...
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After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
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"the writer's barely-disguised fetish" WRONG, all my fetishes are out in the open and actively make what i write even better
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"the writer's barely-disguised fetish" WRONG, all my fetishes are out in the open and actively make what i write even better
I think… I’m fixing it? First time trying to tear down in a column and reknit.
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I think… I’m fixing it? First time trying to tear down in a column and reknit.
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Knitting friends, I need some advice. I am not sure what happened here on these Ragland sleeves. The one with the rings and blue marker is the start of round, the yellow one is what it should look like. I estimated how many stitches I should have. I’ll 2 short. Can this be fixed?
November 22, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Knitting friends, I need some advice. I am not sure what happened here on these Ragland sleeves. The one with the rings and blue marker is the start of round, the yellow one is what it should look like. I estimated how many stitches I should have. I’ll 2 short. Can this be fixed?
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Thinking about the time my friends and I skipped school to go see the phantom menace when it premiered and somehow our principal figured it out and called us into his office but didn’t punish us because he also saw it and decided we’d been through enough
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Thinking about the time my friends and I skipped school to go see the phantom menace when it premiered and somehow our principal figured it out and called us into his office but didn’t punish us because he also saw it and decided we’d been through enough
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This is the final episode in the limited run series, a re-release of the conversations that became Bad Indians Book Club. In it we return to where we started, the knowledge that our stories matter because we matter.
www.thousandworlds.ca/baamaapii/
www.thousandworlds.ca/baamaapii/
Baamaapii!
This brings us to the end of our limited run series of the original conversations that became Bad Indians Book Club, and I hope you have enjoyed listening to, or reading, them as much as I have. In a ...
www.thousandworlds.ca
November 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This is the final episode in the limited run series, a re-release of the conversations that became Bad Indians Book Club. In it we return to where we started, the knowledge that our stories matter because we matter.
www.thousandworlds.ca/baamaapii/
www.thousandworlds.ca/baamaapii/
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My solution was to not make arguments in favor of Israel, but I guess I'm just built different
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My solution was to not make arguments in favor of Israel, but I guess I'm just built different
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Warning: This is a very difficult read.
This is one of the most horrific and evil things I have ever read. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Warning: This is a very difficult read.
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There is a weird disconnect in people's brain when they call Trump a fascist like Hitler in one moment and then praise a person who shook his hand and laughed with him in the next.
November 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
There is a weird disconnect in people's brain when they call Trump a fascist like Hitler in one moment and then praise a person who shook his hand and laughed with him in the next.
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yes! I started out making worldbuilding notes and uh got carried away 😅 into "what if actual world building" and it's been a good mental buoy lately, to expressly dream of people not left behind.
November 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
yes! I started out making worldbuilding notes and uh got carried away 😅 into "what if actual world building" and it's been a good mental buoy lately, to expressly dream of people not left behind.