Ayman Makarem
@aymanmak.bsky.social
Anarcho-anxious. Writer and Video Essay Maker from Beirut.
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Queer Mutual Aid Lebanon: https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon
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Ayman Makarem
@aymanmak.bsky.social
· Oct 8
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tw: su*c*de
re the story of the person who was pushed to unalive themselves by chatgpt, I read the last message that the chat box sent them. jfc. idk how to describe it but sent chills down my spine.
re the story of the person who was pushed to unalive themselves by chatgpt, I read the last message that the chat box sent them. jfc. idk how to describe it but sent chills down my spine.
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
tw: su*c*de
re the story of the person who was pushed to unalive themselves by chatgpt, I read the last message that the chat box sent them. jfc. idk how to describe it but sent chills down my spine.
re the story of the person who was pushed to unalive themselves by chatgpt, I read the last message that the chat box sent them. jfc. idk how to describe it but sent chills down my spine.
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Any Palestinian who thinks they have to "give it to Candace owens" is a useful idiot. Yes yes lets align with the far right at a time when the issue is essentially mainstreamed in normal circles. I wonder who benefits from this re-alignment
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Any Palestinian who thinks they have to "give it to Candace owens" is a useful idiot. Yes yes lets align with the far right at a time when the issue is essentially mainstreamed in normal circles. I wonder who benefits from this re-alignment
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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SOAS University, of which Hamdi is an alumnus, urge 'US authorities to ensure full transparency and due process'.
SOAS University ‘concerned’ by reports of Sami Hamdi’s detention in the US
SOAS University, of which Hamdi is an alumnus, urge 'US authorities to ensure full transparency and due process'.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
SOAS University, of which Hamdi is an alumnus, urge 'US authorities to ensure full transparency and due process'.
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After Israel’s Arabic language spokesman threatened two villages in south Lebanon to evacuate before strikes, the drone is hovering loudly over Beirut.
We live in dystopia.
We live in dystopia.
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
After Israel’s Arabic language spokesman threatened two villages in south Lebanon to evacuate before strikes, the drone is hovering loudly over Beirut.
We live in dystopia.
We live in dystopia.
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Democrats know what wins campaigns but to build a better world would require moving away from assembling with supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, etc. you can’t assemble with systemic oppression and liberation, no matter how much you lie to yourself. Are y’all not tired of worshipping capitalism?
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Democrats know what wins campaigns but to build a better world would require moving away from assembling with supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, etc. you can’t assemble with systemic oppression and liberation, no matter how much you lie to yourself. Are y’all not tired of worshipping capitalism?
Long-ish read but super essential. The inability for the Western Left to stand in solidarity with the Syrian Revolution presents a rupture that is still widening. There needs to be a reckoning if we're ever to build a real, tangible internationalism.
spectrejournal.com/rethinking-t...
spectrejournal.com/rethinking-t...
Rethinking the Syrian Revolution – Spectre Journal
Robert Francis challenges the exclusive geopolitical focus fueling skepticism on the Western left towards the Syrian Revolution, arguing for an anti-imperialism built on solidarity.
spectrejournal.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Long-ish read but super essential. The inability for the Western Left to stand in solidarity with the Syrian Revolution presents a rupture that is still widening. There needs to be a reckoning if we're ever to build a real, tangible internationalism.
spectrejournal.com/rethinking-t...
spectrejournal.com/rethinking-t...
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I watched this yesterday and I found this a good starting point. The author of this video also made a summarizing comic which links to resources which seem useful to gain insight into this war: unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolut...
November 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I watched this yesterday and I found this a good starting point. The author of this video also made a summarizing comic which links to resources which seem useful to gain insight into this war: unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolut...
My favourite Dick Cheney moment is when he shot a guy in the face, and then said guy went on tv to apologize to Cheney for the inconvenience he caused.
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
My favourite Dick Cheney moment is when he shot a guy in the face, and then said guy went on tv to apologize to Cheney for the inconvenience he caused.
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Sami Hamdi's family are urging the British government to secure his release amid concerns about his medical condition inside an ICE detention facility ⬇️
UK journalist Sami Hamdi suffers medical emergency in US custody
Sami Hamdi’s family are urging the British government to secure his release amid concerns about his medical condition inside an ICE detention facility.
www.newarab.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Sami Hamdi's family are urging the British government to secure his release amid concerns about his medical condition inside an ICE detention facility ⬇️
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With a lot of attention rightfully turning to the genocide in Sudan, @aymanmak.bsky.social has a helpful video on how (and how not) to advocate for Sudan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...
How to Advocate for Sudan (and how not to)
YouTube video by Politically Depressed
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
With a lot of attention rightfully turning to the genocide in Sudan, @aymanmak.bsky.social has a helpful video on how (and how not) to advocate for Sudan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...
Has anyone else seen these? Seems like AI-Generated youtube videos that are so ubiquitous that they just match search quiries. The future is here and its dumb af.
November 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Has anyone else seen these? Seems like AI-Generated youtube videos that are so ubiquitous that they just match search quiries. The future is here and its dumb af.
top-down taken so literally it becomes satire
Cuomo is running the laziest, most top-down campaign I've seen in my entire life
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 AM
top-down taken so literally it becomes satire
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What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."
Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital
Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity H...
www.democracynow.org
November 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What is unfolding in Sudan, where the armed group RSF has taken control of the key city of El Fasher, is "the sum of all our fears," says human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond. "RSF is killing at a scale and a velocity that I haven’t seen since Rwanda."
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An urgent starting point — what to do, what not to do in advocating for Sudan, @aymanmak.bsky.social provides a link between Lebanese voices and activism as I’ve been sharing and the essential Sudanese voices to listen to now more than ever.
How to Advocate for Sudan (and how not to)
YouTube video by Politically Depressed
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
An urgent starting point — what to do, what not to do in advocating for Sudan, @aymanmak.bsky.social provides a link between Lebanese voices and activism as I’ve been sharing and the essential Sudanese voices to listen to now more than ever.
Just released another video on Sudan. This is directed at people who've been horrified by the capture of al-Fasher and the massacres by the RSF militia, but don't know enough about Sudan, who are a bit late to the game (but its fine, its better late than never).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...
How to Advocate for Sudan (and how not to)
YouTube video by Politically Depressed
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Just released another video on Sudan. This is directed at people who've been horrified by the capture of al-Fasher and the massacres by the RSF militia, but don't know enough about Sudan, who are a bit late to the game (but its fine, its better late than never).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...
"islamo-communism" i've also heard it described as the "red-green alliance". please don't make me do a video essay dissecting wtf that even is.
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
"islamo-communism" i've also heard it described as the "red-green alliance". please don't make me do a video essay dissecting wtf that even is.
I think Manufacturing Consent is now largely an irrelevant model for Trump's regime. They aren't even trying to build a case, or convince anyone of anything, they are just doing what they want. Full-on, brazen imperialist violence.
Department of Defense officials told Democratic lawmakers in a brief on the U.S. military’s strikes against boats off the coast of northern South America that the military is not identifying the occupants of the boats before they bomb them. The Trump administration has killed at least 61 people.
Pentagon Admits to Striking Caribbean Boats Without Identifying Victims’ Purported Drug Links
The White House cannot “satisfy the evidentiary burden” to prosecute those they have been killing, one lawmaker said.
truthout.org
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I think Manufacturing Consent is now largely an irrelevant model for Trump's regime. They aren't even trying to build a case, or convince anyone of anything, they are just doing what they want. Full-on, brazen imperialist violence.
again, never have I seen someone lose an election so hard even before the votes have been counted.
a campaigns closing message is “he might kill you but you should vote for him” is insane and i’m pretty convinced zohran will easily clear 50% of the vote at this point
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
again, never have I seen someone lose an election so hard even before the votes have been counted.
gna do another short video tonight on sudan, but i did this a few months ago where I talk a lot about the revolution, the resistance committees, and how this current war started.
My latest video essay. Learn about the Sudanese revolution. Learn about the war in Sudan. Learn about Sudan.
youtu.be/_HECDb7iDUA
youtu.be/_HECDb7iDUA
The Sudanese Revolution (and War)
YouTube video by From the Periphery
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
gna do another short video tonight on sudan, but i did this a few months ago where I talk a lot about the revolution, the resistance committees, and how this current war started.
From Vienna, Austria
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
From Vienna, Austria
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The RSF is backed by the UAE and is still committing genocide in Sudan, including through mass executions
Bellingcat has geolocated footage of a mass killing outside the recently captured Sudanese city of El Fasher. In the video, which has circulated widely online, RSF commander Abu Lulu can be seen firing his weapon at what appears to be ten unarmed men sitting on the ground. Image: @vantortech
October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The RSF is backed by the UAE and is still committing genocide in Sudan, including through mass executions
Im really glad more ppl are talking and advocating for Sudan. I hope this is actually a turning point in international solidarity, which up until now has been seriously lacking.
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Im really glad more ppl are talking and advocating for Sudan. I hope this is actually a turning point in international solidarity, which up until now has been seriously lacking.
The situation in Sudan is horrifying. But it didn't start yesterday. I made this comic 3 years ago, which talks about the revolution and the counter-revolutionary forces. Check it out if you want a new way of understanding what is happening. unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolut...
Revolution in Every Country Comic Series: Episode 2 - Sudan: Building Power from Below - UNICORN RIOT
Four years into the Sudanese Revolution, we take an intimate look into how Resistance Committees are working to form new social compacts that overturn the old order.
unicornriot.ninja
October 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The situation in Sudan is horrifying. But it didn't start yesterday. I made this comic 3 years ago, which talks about the revolution and the counter-revolutionary forces. Check it out if you want a new way of understanding what is happening. unicornriot.ninja/2022/revolut...
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I go to a 6 am gym class and on my way back there were folks already lined up outside our local food pantry. Four people who looked in their 70s — among them a man listening to the radio about the Mets. They pushed carts ahead of them.
I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.
October 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I go to a 6 am gym class and on my way back there were folks already lined up outside our local food pantry. Four people who looked in their 70s — among them a man listening to the radio about the Mets. They pushed carts ahead of them.