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Jesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026

Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.)

Image headlined "WHAT YOUR FAVORITE OBSOLETE ENGLISH LETTER SAYS ABOUT YOU", with thumbnails of MSS focusing on thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, insular G, and long S; each one has the label "You are a nerd."

al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

@highcountrynews.org absolutely loved this feature on the potential evolutionary adaptability of monkey flowers in this latest issue!

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I got a lot out of this documentary on the Algerian Civil War and I m grateful to whoever put the whole damn thing up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s-M...

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Algérie, 1988-2000 : Comment le pays a sombré dans la guerre civile et l’horreur ? Documentaire CLPB

YouTube video by Notre Histoire

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Extractive States is out now! "With rare ethnographic depth and conceptual force, Umut Yıldırım offers a profoundly original account of Kurdish endurance, partisan critique, and the difficult, wounded labors of imagining peace." —Nadje Al-Ali, Brown University ow.ly/hXfb50ZStHs

Book cover of Extractive States: War and Resistance in Turkey’s Kurdish Heartland by Umut Yıldırım

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026

awoke this morning with a Vision

that diagram showing the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate

Learn more about our history of racial injustice

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Sarah Burke Cahalan @sarahbc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Middlemarch” really does have mind-altering properties. ( @ohioan49.bsky.social )

First paragraph of chapter 19 of George Eliot’s Middlemarch

“When George the Fourth was still reigning over the privacies of Wind-sor, when the Duke of Wellington was prime minister and Mr. Vincy was mayor of the old corporation in Middlemarch, Mrs. Casaubon, born Dorothea Brooke, had taken her wedding journey to Rome. In those days the world in general was more ignorant of good and evil by forty years than it is at present. Travellers did not often carry full information on Christian art either in their heads or their pockets, and even the most brilliant English critic of the day mistook the flower-flushed tomb of the ascended Virgin for an ornamental vase due to the painter's fancy. Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven and entered into everybody's food; it was fermenting still as a distin-guishable, vigorous enthusiasm in certain long-haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near them were sometimes caught in the spreading movement.”

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am going to a showing of fifth element tonight and I want to come up with Colin response and prop reactions like for Rocky horror picture show, any ideas?

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Albuquerque undefeated

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

whenever I have to do annoying, rote tasks at work I always picture myself as this guy from the Stephen Biesty book

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ethiopia is on my list of countries that are just completely invisible to the US media. 600,000 died between 2020-22 in the Civil War and not 1 in 50 people could tell you why it happened

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

if you had anything to do with building one of those immaculate log cabin bathrooms they have in state parks, you'd be deprogrammed for life

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

gosh, thanks for writing this academic work specifically for my own personal interest!

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I hope to one day visit a remembrance museum for the victims of Arab authoritarianism

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

كتير بحب لما اتعلم انني كمان بعرف شوية من السورياني

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

he who signs the big stunt check has the mandate of heaven

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"The government’s current perspectives and actual governance give no hint of democratic transformation. They are best understood as a set of selective nonaggression pacts under a wider authoritarianism..relaxing one historic axis of coercion while intensifying another." jacobin.com/2026/09/turk...

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The Foundations of Turkey’s Peace With the Kurds Are Shaky

The disarmament of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and promised release of its prisoners offers a path to pacifying conflict in Turkey. It’s less clear if the Turkish state is ready to compromise with Ku...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Private schools come in exactly two forms: (a) absolute trash, detrimental to society and to students themselves (b) Privilege-Platinum subscription*, detrimental to society * Offer only available to those who already have Privilege-Gold status, school reserves right to reject based on vibes.

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

still aesthetically my favorite writing system

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

For two millennia, the ancestral Maya of Mexico & Central America created a rich legacy of image and text. In Vital Signs, Stephen Houston explains how this graphic system worked, shedding new light on its design, intent, & authorship. Available 13 October. Preorder yours: buff.ly/J4KlTgC

Vital Signs: The Visual Culture of Maya Writing by Stephen Houston. How scribes of the ancient Maya pictured sound and meaning through inventive hieroglyphic writing that pulsed with vitality and wit.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

"To do such organizing work, however, we must first actually see these workers." Ashley Dawson reviews Kohei Saito’s "Capital From Zero" and Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker: lareviewofbooks.org/article/kohei-s…

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I feel so deeply honored to have been there in person for the world historical meeting where we spent two hours horizontally deciding on how to properly use Patti Smith's donation for hot beverages

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

an orange crowned warbler in our tomatoes today en route from Canada to Guatemala! #addbirder 🪶

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every day there are so many password authorization steps I forget what I was originally trying to do

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Grand Continent @grandcontinent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

L’armée américaine reste la plus puissante du monde. Mais sait-elle encore transformer cette puissance en victoire ? Alexander Clarkson décrit trente ans d’érosion institutionnelle qui ont creusé l’écart entre supériorité technologique et efficacité militaire réelle.

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L’armée américaine ne sait plus faire la guerre

Comprendre la longue érosion de la première puissance militaire mondiale

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

there are so many normal people underneath all of this war and chaos to worry about :(

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm looking forward to staying at the El Aurassi hotel: tt's not every day you get to stay in a living museum of post-colonial modernism www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxv_...

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El Aurassi Hotel – Algeria’s Iconic Luxury Overlooking the Bay of Algiers

YouTube video by Delcare Inc Concierge

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can’t stop thinking about the crab vessel

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Found an incredible treasure trove at the used bookstore yesterday, all for $15!!

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In our latest issue, @lorenzo-feltrin.bsky.social previews his new book, Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within, from @versobooks.bsky.social 🌎 www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

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Book Release | Workers and the World: Fighting Ecological Crisis from Within — Brief Ecology

by Lorenzo Feltrin

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Brief Ecology @briefecology.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In our Notes From A Radical Ecologist column, Ariane Solwell writes about the work of Degrowth California and how the group is pushing for an actually sustainable economy 🌎 www.briefecology.com/the-eco-upda...

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Degrowth California | Notes From a Radical Ecologist — Brief Ecology

by Ariane Solwell

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Vincent Bevins @vincentbevins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pride and Dependency -- in a new letter from Cairo, reflections on the deep causes of a painful national paralysis. North South Notes : www.northsouthnotes.org/p/pride-and-...

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Pride and Dependency -- in a new letter from Cairo, reflections on the deep causes of a painful national paralysis. North South Notes : https://t.co/SXMhyaHqZ9

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The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We asked Molly Crabapple to recommend five books on the Jewish Bund, here's what she picked. Listen to Molly's episodes on The Dig now. pod.fo/e/507d32

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I would like to know how much work there is actually still to be done since the people chattering about this seem to be blind to the ocean of tending, care, restoration, and preservation that sustains them.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/09/2026

A poem by Wendell Berry, who died yesterday at age 92. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/vVxSyn

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Alex's great essay, adapted from his new book "Syrians in the Shadow of War," captures the hopes, fears, ambiguities, and contradictions in Syria after Assad. The regime and its police state are gone, but what comes next? Can Syrians fully break from that past? www.hidden-cities.com/p/into-syria...

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Into Syria’s Day After

Much has changed since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and much has not.

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al-Mutaghatris @al-mutaghatris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

”The spirit of a commercial people will be... essentially mean and slavish wherever public spirit is not cultivated by an extensive participation of the people in the business of government.” -JS Mill

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