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Farah Ahmed

@farzja.bsky.social
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Climate justice and art. Lover of karaoke, gossip, cats, and liberation. Deeply committed to being unserious. Free Palestine, Free Kashmir

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No Games For Genocide @nogamesforgenocide.com · 23/09/2026
To build the boycott of COD: Modern Warfare 4, join us for our first political education & action session! ‘Modern Warfare: Understanding & Strategically Boycotting Militarism in Games’ ONLINE, Sat 10 October, 10am-12pm PDT/6-8pm BST. topaz-hovercraft-d43.notion.site/3dbe13486e5a...
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Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The clappy emoji is currently being so over used by a lot of people who are - unaffected by current government actions - won’t be bothered that Burnham will do nothing but tinker around the edges for the next 3 yrs - be thoroughly disappointed when Burnham/Labour fail to follow through in 2029
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Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A reminder that this exists and that it is, verifiably, very cool: www.surveillancewatch.io
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Surveillance Watch: They Know Who You Are
Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
HUGE UPDATE: we halted Amazon's panel at Climate Week. We shut it down so hard that every guest and every speaker had to leave the premises. No one was able to return. Their whole event lasted less time than their warehouse workers' pee break.
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I would like the men who swim at my local pool to know that they do not need to swim like a baby seal trying to attract a shark. The pool didn't insult your ma, no need to punch the water. Please, there's like 20 other people in here. Chill.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Andy Burnham had said more about PUBS and DRINKING than he has about racist pogroms and transphobia combined
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Forgot about bluesky for a while cuz I've been telling everyone my opinions irl
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
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giulia 🍂🎃🔮☆⋆。𖦹°‧★ @giuliaisamirrorball.swifties.social · 14/09/2026
with ALT text because everyone should read this!!!
I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.
The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.
Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.
Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged in a way it never had been before. He told me that the words
"Free Palestine" and the image of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood and where I stood. But he couldn't get past his public facing, "I don't take sides."
And I get why people don't. Taking a side can cost you. Money, brand deals, sponsorships, festivals, private shows, relationships and access. I've lost all of those things. But there is no neutral position between the oppressor and the oppressed. When one side has the bombs and bottomless financial and military support from America, refusing to take a side doesn't leave you in the middle.What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.
And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.
I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.
Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people being displaced, starved and killed while the world debates which words we are allowed to use to describe it, how those words make us feel, and whether our discomfort matters more than the people living through a genocide.
I didn't need 10 shows from Ed. I needed 2. Two chances to stand in front of 90,000 people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say.
Free Palestine.
But if those words cost me the stage, while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it was the most successful tour l've ever been on.
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fantastic news! Buy Back Brixton has been named as preferred buyer of Brixton Village and Market Row with up to 6 months to raise funds and complete the sale. It's not a done deal but we are one step closer to making history by bringing the market under community ownership.
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EXCLUSIVE: Buy Back Brixton campaigners celebrate landmark victory in battle for Brixton Village  - Voice Online
Brixton Village victory puts traders and residents within reach of bringing the historic markets into community ownership after their bid secured preferred-buyer status
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Reflector Lich 📡 🇵🇸 @eccentricks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
For many years people have said that politicians should wear uniforms with the logos of those who give them money, and here we are.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/08/2026
Rescue teams are rushing to find hundreds of people still missing after flash floods near Nepal's border with China.
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Over 160 killed, 800 missing in Nepal after devastating Himalayan floods
Rescue teams are rushing to find hundreds of people still missing after flash floods near Nepal's border with China.
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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 24/08/2026
With a paintbrush in his hand until his final days, Palestinian visual artist and sculptor Sliman Mansour died in Jerusalem at the age of 79.
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
ALT: Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Aaron Bastani and Novara media: - boosted images of Gaza protestor wearing paraglider badges leading to terrorism charges (two Black women, one Asian) - Said that protests outside homes of asylum seekers were justified as one was accused of sexual assault - joined the Jason Arday pile on
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If anyone ever doubts the reality of ADHD, I have been searching for my tent for over an hour. It was in the back of my shoe cupboard, because of course that's where you keep a tent. I have yet to recall which ridiculous place I tidied my camping backpack away to.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Thank you for writing this, @polphilpod.bsky.social - thank you. “Living through a global resurgence of fascism, the greatest difficulty has proved to be not arguing against it, but convincing non-fascists that fascism’s adherents really mean it.“
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse Mubarak to anyone who is celebrating.
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Birmingham Friends of the Earth @birminghamfoe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Protect the Warehouse Open Day Join us Sat 22nd August, 12-3pm for activities and fun to showcase the amazing community at @inthewarehouse.bsky.social and Digbeth Community Garden. Celebrate our home and find out how to help save it. birminghamfoe.org.uk/open-day-22n...
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Protect The Warehouse Open Day 22nd August – Birmingham Friends of The Earth
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/08/2026
The head of Norway's oil fund is going to flip out when someone tells him what fossil fuels do 🧐🧐🧐🧐
Nicolai Tangen in . Following
Chief Executive Officer at Norges Bank Investment Management 2h 0
TERRIBLE: Belatedly I watched 'Dopesick', unbelievable that a company can cut lives short for profits.
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PETER
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KAITLYN
ROSARIO
KEATON SARSGAARD STUHLBARG WITH
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The largest funeral in Gaza history is being held today as the remains of 112 people from a single clan are laid to rest after being buried in rubble for three years. More than 300 people were killed in the strike by Israel, including 44 children and 37 women. The others were vaporized.
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Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes
Remains recovered from beneath the rubble renew grief for families still searching for thousands missing in Gaza
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
When we say that the Israeli gov is cruel at its core, and that it in fact finds joy in its cruelty, we are talking about things like wishing to surround Palestinian prisoners with literal crocodiles. There is no end to this if Israel itself never faces political and economic consequences.
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/08/2026
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
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My father was a Conservative...

...my mother voted Labour...

...so suppose, by rights, ought
to be a Liberal Democrat...

...but in actual fact, I'm a Nazi!
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Drove six hours to my dead grandmother's house and forgot my Muslim clothes.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/07/2026
Rights group says India continues to support the Israeli military despite genocide 'broadcast worldwide on daily basis'.
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India's arms sale to Israel risks complicity in Gaza genocide, Amnesty says
Rights group says India continues to support the Israeli military despite genocide 'broadcast worldwide on daily basis'.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/07/2026
Protest group says 30 dead in Pakistan-administered Kashmir vote unrest aje.news/xzn6zs
Protest group says 30 dead in Pakistan-administered Kashmir vote unrest
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This is why the main problem has never been whether people ‘believe’ in global warming. ‘Soft’ climate denial is as dangerous as the more stereotypical kind. There are people who will welcome thousands and tens of thousands of deaths if it means they can keep being contrarians online.
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Fossil Free London @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
BREAKING: Shell made a staggering £7.4BN in profits over just the last 3 months. Those are three months where we have been hit by one heatwave after another as the world burns under wildfires 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥This is not normal 🔥The heat is not normal 🔥The fires are not normal
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Al Jazeera, owned by the extremely rich Qatar, just dumped 25 of the most at-risk journalists in the world during a genocide that has directly targeted more journalists than most states since WWII combined.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Kashmiris call India's rule settler-colonialism - and we should listen to them - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/kashm…
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Kashmiris call India's rule settler-colonialism - and we should listen to them
Such analysis reflects their lived realities, amid ongoing shifts in the region's land, law and demography
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 25/07/2026
Palestine, and genocide / ethnic cleansing in Palestine, is a pretty easy litmus test for literally anything. And just in case y'all still don't get it, let me say it without mincing my words: IF IT'S BAD FOR PALESTINE, THEN IT'S BAD FOR WORKING CLASS PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD.
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Muslims are under relentless attack in the UK, but we are never offered the humanity to be treated as innocent victims in this fascist hellhole.
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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about it, or if you went away. - Sara Ahmed
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
How my cat sleeps knowing his rent is paid and his bowl is full
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Farah Ahmed @farzja.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hitting the "visually over 25" button too quickly is actually offensive
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22/07/2026
Hey, so as a Jew I would consider it a personal favor if the "world's oldest Jewish newspaper" could avoid writing articles implying one can quantify Jewishness... ... let alone those that seem to imply the formula for quantification hinges on vocal support for the Israeli government's policies.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We do not have to live this way. The billionaires think they own all land. All air. All water. All thought. They don’t.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
These diversity takes. I refer you to Audre Lorde
picture of Audre Lorde, a black woman with short Afro wearing an open neck loose shirt 

underneath the quote:

“For the master’s tool will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.”
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philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 15/07/2026
Two years ago the ICJ issued its finding that Israel must "rapidly" end its presence in the occupied territories and that all states should not render aid to that occupation. The UK hasn't even bothered to respond to it, despite numerous calls. icj-cij.org/case/186
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hmmmm, that's weird. This seems to have been buried in the news cycle. When this kind of thing has happened to other religious minorities in the UK, there have usually been instant COBR meetings and the prime minister has addressed the nation on TV. I'm sure they are getting round to it, though.
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Dozen arrested by counter terror police over suspected threat to Islamic event
The 11 men and one woman arrested are from the South East, East and Greater Manchester areas. The allegations included three suspects who were taken into custody on suspicion of conspiracy to commit m...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026
shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Did you get a breaking news alert for this? Seems extremely serious
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/07/2026
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My longstanding policy preference has been to torture zero souls, for zero days. My colleague Satan preferred to torture all souls, for eternity. I appreciated his willingness to negotiate, which led to the historic Torture One Million Souls act of 2014 and the Torture A Bunch More Souls act of 2018
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
How do I know the murderer wasn’t a person of colour without needing to read the story? It’s not the only news story. It’s not dominating X. There are no debates about the inherent humanity of the murderer in the press. No debates about the crisis of white male violence in the UK.
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