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Riyo Steszyn
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carceralabolition.bsky.social
Palestinian communism poster "Liberation," "Victory," "Freedom" 1970s www.reddit.com/r/Propaganda...
December 27, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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mondoweiss.net
READ: What Palestinians actually mean by “one democratic state,” and what liberation can look like when the settler society refuses to leave.
mondoweiss.net/2025/12/the-...
The Settlers Are Not Leaving: Decolonization, not coexistence
What Palestinians actually mean by “one democratic state,” and what liberation can look like when the settler society refuses to leave.
mondoweiss.net
December 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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hoots.bsky.social
Premiering in 10 minutes
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
Happy to talk to @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social at @404media.co about this issue of Instagram adding weird sometimes inaccurate headlines and summaries for Google searches. I find it troubling. www.404media.co/instagram-is...
Instagram Is Generating Inaccurate SEO Bait for Your Posts
Instagram is generating headlines for Instagram posts that appear on Google Search results. Users say they are misrepresenting them.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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strangetea.bsky.social
So they DO reduce your visibility in people's notifications with an algorithm. Given Bluesky's treatment of Palestinians on this site, it's not a stretch to think that they use this to reduce engagement for people whose politics and beliefs they do not like.
numb.comfortab.ly Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Oct 31
Hey remember that whole "Bluesky doesn't have algorithms" thing
Improved toxicity detection Our latest model aims to do a better job of detecting replies that are toxic, spammy, off-topic, or posted in bad faith. Posts that cross the line are down-ranked in reply threads, search results, and notifications, reducing their visibility while keeping conversations open for good-faith discussion.
December 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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dropsitenews.com
🇸🇦🇵🇸 Drop Site News listened closely as the FMs of Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, Norway, Spain, the EU, & Saudi Arabia laid out their positions on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire at the Doha Forum. One thing that stood out: the only official pushing a hard line on urgent disarmament of the Palestinian...
🇸🇦🇵🇸 Drop Site News listened closely as the foreign ministers of Turkey, Qatar, Egypt, Norway, Spain, the EU, and Saudi Arabia laid out their positions on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire at the Doha Forum. One thing that stood out: the only official pushing a hard line on urgent disarmament of the Palestinian resistance was the representative from the Saudi Foreign Ministry. That official, Dr. Manal Radwan, a Minister Plenipotentiary, warned there must be no “redefining” of what disarmament means under the UN Security Council–backed plan and dismissed debates over logistics, what she called the “who, what, when.” Her position directly clashed with Norway and Turkey, both of whom warned that forced disarmament up front is fundamentally unrealistic. Norway’s foreign minister said it is “very unlikely” there would ever be consensus for an international force to physically disarm Hamas against its will, stressing that any weapons process must be Palestinian-led and politically sequenced. He warned that if the “who, what, when” is not settled quickly — with governance institutions and a monitoring force put in place first — the ceasefire will collapse back into war and “total anarchy.” Turkey’s foreign minister was even more blunt: “We should not expect from the ISF work that has not been completed by the Israeli security forces.” He explicitly dismissed disarmament as the ISF’s first task, saying decommissioning of arms can realistically only occur after ISF establishes a security presence between the two forces, governance structures are restored in Gaza, aid begins to flow unrestricted, and there is some normalization of civilian life inside Gaza.
December 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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dropsitenews.com
Also see:

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dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21d
⭕️ Nathaniel Raymond, Yale Humanitarian Lab:

“The people who are dying right now in Sudan are dying because the United States, Europe, and other allies have made a choice that our diplomatic, economic, and security relations with the United Arab Emirates matters more than their lives.”

“This is...
December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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kenklippenstein.bsky.social
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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gothamgirlblue.com
I know people want to frame everything through the most villainous and monstrous political entity of the 20th century, but the second Trump regime and the Republican Party architecture that supports it are best understood as a neo-Confederate project.
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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inthesetimes.com
What if the stories we’ve been told about socialism are incomplete — or strategically incomplete?

Kristen R. Ghodsee revisits her early fieldwork in Bulgaria and makes a powerful case: even flawed socialist systems got some things right.

inthesetimes.com/article/what...
A mother and her children beg in a pedestrian underpass as a picture of Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov is featured on a building in Dushanbe, 23 October 2006. At the time, the post-Soviet nation owed 830 million US dollars to foreign creditors. Photo by VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP via Getty Images
December 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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hoots.bsky.social
reading a couple pop science/pop psych books for an upcoming video and these things have way fewer citations than the average post-hbomberguy video essay. lots of "many people are saying this". who though who is saying it "a study found" what was the name of the study
November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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carceralabolition.bsky.social
Sex Work and Sexual Victimization: A Comparative Study of Students’ and Police Officers’ Perceptions of Sex-Working Rape Victims

...police officers attributed more blame when the victim was identified as a sex worker onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Sex Work and Sexual Victimization: A Comparative Study of Students’ and Police Officers’ Perceptions of Sex‐Working Rape Victims
Attitudes toward sexual violence and victim-blaming are culturally dependent and should be examined within specific social and legal contexts. The present study sought to compare Israeli police offic...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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laughinglemon.bsky.social
A very good interview with Oliver Eagleton by @versobooks.bsky.social on his recent book and the potential futures of @thisisyourparty.bsky.social
Your Party: Beyond the factionalism | Oliver Eagleton
YouTube video by Verso Books
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November 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
If you're looking for a sincere, nicely written and improv'd holiday movie, The Baltimorons is a great, sweet and surprisingly deep movie. A nice antidote to the hyper-commercial holiday film.
the two leads at the end of a pier, man in brown overcoat and woman in red, against a white backdrop.
November 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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plutopress.bsky.social
Living histories and testimonies from first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, shared by contributors the book Voices of the Nakba

Listen to the conversation with the Mosaic Rooms:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v...
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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carceralabolition.bsky.social
Banished Citizens
A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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garin.bsky.social
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August 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ceedavies.bsky.social
The Captain.

#inktober #drypoint #art #traditionalart #knight #ink #armour #helmet #medieval #print #artprint
A sepia dry point illustration of a knight in profile, down to his waist. He wears a decorated German sallet helmet with the visor down. Only his eyes are visible.
October 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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sorenhaxan.bsky.social
shout out to some of my favorite works from my ornament series, all of which are partly why my arm is so fucked up 😎
THE RUFF - KNIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR - KNIGHT OF THE TAPESTRY - SHIVERING (ST. SEBASTIAN)
THE RUFF - b&w pen and ink drawing of a beautiful 1570-90s dude (i can't remember sry), the subject is looking away from the viewer and we can see his magnificent lace-trimmed ruff, the askew cloak, and a hat with three trailing pheasant feathers KNIGHT OF THE MORNING STAR - a close-up of a knight from behind. he is in resplendent armor from roughly the mid-16th century with a lovely sun and lots of italian filigree. He is looking over his right shoulder, his sword aloft, the moon looming large behind him. KNIGHT OF THE TAPESTRY - a knight in late gothic armor from the waist down. he stands upon a tiled floor, his sabotons are crazy pointed and he's got the spurs. a heavily patterned cloak trails on the floor behind him. SHIVERING - ST. SEBASTIAN - st sebastian tied up to a tree,innit. really tumultuous clouds with a lot of heavy shading roll in the background over a dark, dense line of mountains.
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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aaliyahxx.bsky.social
Breaking | Israeli occupation authorities approve the construction of 1,300 new illegal settlement units in Gush Etzion, south of occupied Jerusalem.
The image shows a large cluster of beige apartment-style buildings sprawling across a hilltop, surrounded by patches of green vegetation and rocky terrain. The uniform architecture and layout indicate a planned settlement area.
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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adampknave.com
They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.
doomboy.bsky.social doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · Oct 28
the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever
October 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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aljazeera.com
From streets to supermarkets, global boycotts for Gaza have grown as a fragile ceasefire holds for now.
The rise of global boycotts against Israel’s genocide in Gaza
From streets to supermarkets, global boycotts for Gaza have grown as a fragile ceasefire holds for now.
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
October 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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socialistboat.dad
"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · Oct 8
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM