Actually true, by the way. This isn't a shitpost. They were named Fadi and Jum’a Abu Assi, and they were 8 and 11 years old.

Found this in a listing, but I do love epigraphs for the stories they tell.

I just bought this! The original "Kathy Rain" has stuck with me, and I'm hoping for more Clifftop Games goodness. Nice character writing, nicely spooky atmosphere, mostly good puzzles. It's a favourite.

(I should play "Whispers of a Machine", which I bought years ago, but haven't had time for.)

Journalism. Funny thing is I met two Ukrainian girls today (and their adorable dog) who expressed this same frustration.

I actually burst out loud laughing.

With "The Jerusalem Post" stating that the IDF "confirms" that Hossam was a Hamas militant (dunno where he'd have scheduled that in?), a note from Hossam, murdered a few days ago.

I'm going to ease a little on genocide news for my sanity, but I'll reemphasise that supporting Israel is evil.

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The NYT has long dishonoured itself, but "development plan" is a callous euphemism by even a coloniser's standards. This is journalistic malpractice.

I'll post more joyful things going forward, but this was pertinent and powerful.

Examples provided. Birds of a feather will always goose-step together. Free us from all forms of fascism. *All* of them.

Punch a Nazi while you're wearing a watermelon pin and Jonathan Greenblatt will claw his eyes out.

I wonder how the people who hatch these euphemisms sleep at night.

When you're definitely the good guys.

It is obscene—*obscene*—that the Associated Press still tries to paint what's happening in Palestine as a struggle between "Jewish and Arab" voters. As if Zionism is inherent to Judaism, or the issue is split along ethnic lines and not apartheid, occupation, and genocide.

Also, the link between Netanyahu (Israel's longest-serving PM in a deep and thorough indictment of the country's national character) and the Lehi terror group is direct. It has been 75 years and 11 months since Israel's "long and complex" history began. Grandmas they burned in Gaza were older.

So as someone who is *very* well-informed on this, being both Palestinian and having read dozens of books + hundreds of articles on it in four languages, no, she's managed to obfuscate a straightforward situation under the guise of nuance. For example.

If Israel were a person.

NPR pulled a similar doozy.

See if you can add these puzzle pieces together. What was the "Midtown building"? Why did the woman do this?

The next day, Israel killed them.