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Ashiq Khondker

@alternateash.bsky.social
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Trying to find the balance between expressing and impressing myself.. Spurred by a positive review in the Wire, yet took another 20 years before music became my profession. Made some docs in between. Let’s exchange recipes.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
FEC records show Elizabeth Fago donated $1M to Trump's super PAC in April. What happened next? Three weeks later Trump pardoned her son, a nursing home executive who pleaded guilty to withholding millions from his workers' paychecks (while buying a luxury yacht). Everything is for sale.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Brilliant.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23/01/2025
A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.
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VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional
In a landmark ruling, a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant. Congress sho...
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
SLIPPING INTO MADNESS IS GOOD FOR THE SAKE OF COMPARISON
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Slate @slate.com · 10/01/2025
A judge finally faced down Donald Trump’s disdain for the legal system.
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A Judge Finally Faced Down Donald Trump’s Disdain for the Legal System
In less than 40 minutes, it was over.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025
I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Awesome! Congrats! Important message to share.. part of the battle to eradicate sexual shame and all of its related ills in society and around the world. 👏🏽🔥
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
IT'S IMPORTANT TO STAY CLEAN ON ALL LEVELS
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Prescient..
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Prescient..
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I guess we forget that Reaganomics and that whole yuppie period was partially a response to the oil crisis. Now compare that to a drug dependency (oil, oil money) and it might show us a path out, except the dealers have practically been owning us for a while now.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Why are we ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment-Section 3? #NeverForgetJanuary6th
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Woke up to the new year at a bungalow in the hills of Sri Lanka. A breeze had blown the top off a stack of newspapers leaving this one on top, from Dec 2, in case anybody wants to zoom in and read it. #news #snapshot #anthropology #culture #srilanka
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This week I learned about Menstrual Stem Cells and how this is a breakthrough in medicine.. but why do they have to be called “MenSCs”?? Why not take the men out of this one and just call them MSCs?
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Very excited to listen to the new 38 track album from Limerick born artist Aphex Twin open.spotify.com/album/72pxRH...
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Music From The Merch Desk (2016 - 2023)
Aphex Twin · Album · 2024 · 38 songs
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 18/12/2024
So how can we negotiate turbulent conversations as they evolve this Christmas? Is there a way to keep the peace while also addressing some of the content or is it better to simply avoid the problem all together? www.iflscience.com/how-to-deal-...
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How To Deal With The Misinformation-Spreading Conspiracy Theorist In Your Life This Holiday
Conspiracies over the Christmas cake? Misinformation with your mince pies? Here are ways to deal with difficult conversations this holiday season.
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I mean, if you’re not being sarcastic here, you’re literally supporting internationally recognized war crimes. A little empathy with the oppressed wouldn’t hurt.
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sure, I’m enjoying this, thank you.
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It just seems to me the logic espoused here is to not empathize and to bomb anyways. I dunno if that’s better or worse than Kissinger. My go-to is to assume everybody is a thinking-feeling person worthy of dignity even if their actions aren’t. I prefer to judge actions. People are works-in-progress.
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I never said he wasn’t. I’m not so black and white about everything, more-so yin-yang. He was a horrible war criminal. My family suffered in Bangladesh due to his policy. But he was an evil genius, and one of the only good takeaways from him was this method of thinking. Do with it as you will.
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Is that supposed to be sarcastic? Cos if not, please go back to X or Truth Social or wherever you came from. This is a place for civilized discourse amongst adults.
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Godless Gardener @godlessgardener.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
To all the people upset about Luigi Mangione being made into a folk hero. Now you know how we felt when you made Kyle Rittenhouse into a hero.
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’m sorry but a society can’t herald this type of moral position when the violence of the health insurance industry is fully normalised. All of the violence is enmeshed together when an exploiting human suffering for profit industry exists. Stop
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I am once again recommending this fantastic book. It’s about how the Tans and Auxies ended up doing the same shit in Palestine after fleeing Ireland in 1922
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
.. which is to put yourself in the opponents mind (without reducing their humanity), then think deeply and emphatically about their motivations and stakes
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Maybe it’s not so easy when this military force backed by the biggest military force has been occupying, taking hostages and torturing Palestinians as young as children for decades without impunity. Your statement doesn’t seem to try to understand their logic. Try Kissinger’s thought experiment..
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Have you seen all the dead in Luigi’s Haunted Mansion? There might have even been a haunted bread..
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Ashiq Khondker @alternateash.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Have to correct the corrections a little.. in the US one can already enlist for boot camp at 17 on their own, and even at 16 with a parent’s/legal guardian’s permission. (This includes Space Force.)
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Secret Agent Number Six @designationsix.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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