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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h

Can the world instead accept some bad things happening to Sam Altman

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h

Agnostics above atheists is kinda funny

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h

October 7 is a very serious date and mocking or downplaying it is really insensitive Anyway, here’s Netanyahu with an AI Lego video about October 7 x.com/israelipm/st...

Lego showing 3 lego men with green headbands killing lego people

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 7h

My PhD was on authoritarianism and sectarianism and it would be very awkward for me to be an authoritarian sectarian

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Behind the Bastards is apparently eligible for a Golden Globe this year I can't imagine we'll win, given the number of podcasts by famous Hollywood people on the list. But it's nice to be considered eligible! goldenglobes.com/articles/bes...

goldenglobes.com

Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed - Golden Globes

Best Podcasts Eligible for the 84th Golden Globes® Revealed The Golden Globes announced the 30 podcasts that are eligible to submit for consideration in the Best Podcast category for the 84th Golden G...

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weloveallthat @weloveallthat.bsky.social · 7h

Maricarmen - the 87-year old woman whose eviction from her Madrid flat for not paying rent that had been bumped up to three times more than she was paying previously after the building was allegedly purchased by a vulture fund sparked the occupation of the Puerta del Sol - has died in hospital.

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Spanish pensioner whose eviction sparked nationwide protests dies, union says

Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was forcibly removed on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years in September.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 8h

‘His family fled places like Syria and Venezuela’ Are those places Syria and Venezuela?

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13h

"Go subscribe to Elia's Patreon" wow thank you your highness!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13h

Hamas is a shell of its former self after 3 years of a war of annihilation and genocide against Palestinian civilians, but that has made no difference to pro-Israel apologists who continue to accuse everyone of being supporters or even members of Hamas

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 06/10/2026

Latest: Two charities associated with the world’s largest far-right Hindu group have raised more than US$24.4 million over a five-year period through US grants that allow the donor to be anonymous, Bellingcat can reveal: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/10...

bellingcat.com

US DAFs Donate Millions to Groups Linked to India’s Far-Right

Donor-advised funds allow individuals and foundations to give money to charities while remaining anonymous.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 05/10/2026

it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA

theguardian.com

Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman

Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

And to be clear, he was like this before Oct 7. Too many people remain in denial of the fact that this openly genocidal ideology has been the norm in Israel for a while. I covered the 2014 war and it was already like that then. It just got worse.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just because I was asked: No, I won’t comment on the ‘Zionism is racism’ motion here I’ve seen how often such ‘discussions’ devolve into a shit show. It needs a slower pace so I might do a pod episode - or if someone wants to host me to talk about it, my DMs are open.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s not just dishonesty. Andrew is saying it’s okay for this kind of violence to occur as long as it’s his side doing it. It’s a normalisation of violence that’s just one step away from calling for - or at least excusing - mass violence with actual deaths and injuries

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you don’t already subscribe to @thefirethesetimes.com you really should. It is one of the best English language podcasts covering a whole plethora of ideas and issues that rarely reach the mainstream discourse.

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As we approach the third anniversary of this genocide of children, of parents, of childhoods, of kids who are our kids, I rambled with Elia about our feelings of hurt, of connection and disconnection from other parents, of inadequacy. This is a raw one, grateful for the space to chat

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the latest episode of @thefirethesetimes.com, I spoke with @hebagowayed.bsky.social about what it’s been like to raise our respective kids - both around 3 years old - as diasporic (US and UK) Arab parents since the Gaza genocide started. Wherever you get your podcasts: pod.link/1503094935/e...

Arab Parenthood and Genocide with our respective portraits

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The most obvious disaster waiting to happen

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

X is arguably the single most effective promoter of Nazism and yet remains the platform of choice for so many government institutions and officials

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The primary purpose of an Israeli ‘ceasefire’, whether in Gaza ir Lebanon, is decreased media coverage. And Israel was proven right on that.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Paper to read: Levidow, L. (2026). How pro-Palestine speech is discursively disciplined in UK universities: a typology of power-structural contexts de/agentializing voices. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/1476... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s been nice using the Stories feature on Signal. Ppl actually responding, sometimes triggering convos that wouldn’t have happened otherwise. It’s more like how IG stories were like before IG got enshittified

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Former spokesperson for the state of Israel Eylon Levy. They have murdered so many journalists that this counts as humour

Eylon Levy: “I'm quite happy to let Piers in. Out is another question.”

Quote tweeting Piers Morgan: “Forgive me I don't trust you guys to be entirely truthtul given your ongoing ban on international journalists reporting freely in Gaza. Let them in, and then we can discover the real facts about what you have done there.”

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Found this incredible project at the Green Party conference: Stitch their Names Hundreds of women stitching the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel. Red are women, Black are men, Green are kids. www.stitchtheirnamestogether.com

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Dr. Vytautas Malesh but Spooky for October @vytau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is probably the best thing I, you, or anybody else is going to read all day.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they somehow managed to make McCartyism 2.0 but stupider

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

nyt/sienna has had relatively bad numbers for Ds, but not in this one. Talarico by 6?! Peltola by 7?!

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Shoutout to the one hindutva lad who is here with a half India half Israel flag and is purely motivated by hatred of Muslims May we all have so much time to waste being dicks

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Highlights from the pro-Israel protest - Jews have been here for 5000 year - something about God - Israel is defending itself - the Greens are Hamas (bcs Hamas’ colour is green, get it?)

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Zionist apologists are here to oppose the Green motion describing Zionism as racist So they’re here being racists to prove everyone wrong

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A handful of pro-Israel ppl are outside the Green party conference. They’re outnumbered by the pro-Palestine side, which includes the Jewish Greens bloc It sucks that I still have to deal with pro-Israel ppl after everything that genocidal state has done to my ppl - but good to see the solidarity

Mostly Palestine flags, and some Israel ones

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

US more unpopular than China among Labour members. Although tbc China is also very unpopular. That’s how loathed the US is. Only two countries more unpopular than the US are Israel and Russia. labourlist.org/2026/09/us-c...

labourlist.org

Labour members see US as less friendly to Britain than China, poll reveals - LabourList

Labour members consider the United States to be less friendly to the UK than China, exclusive polling for LabourList has revealed.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My 3yo got dizzy bcs she kept on turning around. She then freaked out and told me to sit down bcs it’s not safe as the floor is moving

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Difficult to tell with ppl like her who seem utterly devoid of any substance. Ultimately the difference doesn’t matter

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Leila and I will be in Montreal, Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto and Hamilton in a few weeks Check the thread for the dates and places

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t think there’s any group of people I find most despicable than PoCs who are happy to tag along with white supremacy by convincing themselves that they’re being nuanced. She’s not sophisticated. She’s just a racist. It doesn’t matter that she’s not white. It just makes her more pathetic.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Setting aside the fact that this is obviously racist and idiotic, note how she says ‘English, Welsh, and Scottish’ but erases Northern Ireland. That’s because she’d have to awkwardly say Irish following the same ‘logic’, and that would be politically disastrous.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Vote Green, watch Labour move.” The argument here - which I think is true - is that Labour is understanding more and more that the real threat they face is to their Left, and the Greens are putting actual pressure on Labour

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Standing ovation for Polanski repeating the Green position against new fossil fuel extraction and for “a clean energy revolution now”

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now bringing up this summer’s heatwaves. “What shocked me the most? The silence from our government”

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Standing ovation for Polanski calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza and for the deproscription of Palestine Action

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Polanski’s speech was largely on cost of living crisis. He also condemned recent anti-migrant attacks and the ongoing attacks on trans people. “The Green party will always stand with our LGBTI communities, our migrant communities, our disabled communities. We stand with everyone under attack”

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