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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 3h

When you're applying for an ESTA & you get directed to read the Terrorist Prevention Act Q&A page because of your travelling 🙃

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 6h

This is the best schweppes flavour & everytime I land in Egypt I consume litres of it.

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Megaphone News @megaphone.news · 7h

Travelling through South Lebanon was difficult during the recent fighting. But what if you had a herd of goats with you? Shepherd Qassem Turkiyeh recounts his journey between southern villages in search of safety after Israel bombed his home and displaced him.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I cannot overstate how egregious it is for Egyptian authorities to arrest the ENTIRE NEWSROOM of an investigative journalism platform. We're witnessing one of the most serious press freedom escalations in Egypt in years. @timep.bsky.social + 54 partners in solidarity with @matsadaash.bsky.social ⤵️

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

Time for this classic again.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026

Rema Hammami, an anthropologist at Birzeit University who has researched checkpoints, calls the current situation unprecedented. “Every single community, village, every single Palestinian city is going to be a separate prison.”

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Ticia Verveer @ticiaverveer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Researchers led by Julia Gresky of the German Archaeological Institute have discovered the first-ever intact burials at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Türkiye, dating back to between about 8700 and 8000 BC.

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The First Human Burials Have Been Excavated At Göbekli Tepe, Challenging Old Theories About The 11,500-Year-Old Site

Until now, only scattered and smashed bones had been found at the site.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you are, in the Year of Our Lord 2026, still trotting out the "Israel unilaterally disengaged from Gaza in 2006 and that proves it's not an occupier," you're either very committed to the bit or you're quite dim

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not that it counts for much now but Rafah had been inhabited for over 3000 years and appears in the book of Maccabees. Now it's just gone.

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Masked fascist blackshirts get to block roads with no arrests but yeah, let's arrest the pensioner peacefully supporting Palestine Action.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)

A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hehe. My favourite pyramid. Sneferu4eva.

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

'and though she be but little, she is fucking fierce' **though, I still want to complain about the poster saying the cringey toddler-esque 'f-bomb'.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Can AI feel pain and what should we do about—" you know we literally ground up billions of male baby chicks every year for being unproductive, right?

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I listened to this podcast on Rawls earlier in the week (it's a decent listen) but all I can think about when seeing this visual of it, is that time when my Egyptian friend turned to me & was like: Jess, all white people look the same.

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

LOL. She's 6. She doesn't have goals. '"Zhizhi used to envy children who had more playtime, her mother said, “but she later told me she no longer envied them, because pursuing her own goals made her truly happy too”.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Specialist coaches and hours of practice a day: the making of China’s six-year-old Rubik’s Cube prodigy

Mother of Lian Yunzhi says world record a ‘dream come true’ for child who now gets autograph requests from fellow students

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I mean... 🤷 As they've stationed themselves at the front door, do you think they want to come in.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 25/09/2026

More broadly I think "how much time do you spend affirmatively championing your cause versus using it as a permission structure to abuse those you disagree with," is a revealing question well beyond the statue pfp bros.

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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘Naza exposed dark truths about mainstream Israeli society, from the far right to the supposedly enlightened centre and left, where no criticism of the Israeli military is tolerated.’

middleeasteye.net

As elections loom, Naza controversy strikes at the heart of Israel's crisis

The film exposes dark truths about mainstream Israeli society, from the far right to the supposedly enlightened centre and left

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Iza Miszczak @izamiszczak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Archaeologists in central Türkiye are bringing to light the remains of a roughly nine-century-old madrasa in Kayseri that officials believe may be Anatolia's earliest known Islamic school, with walls of the structure now emerging as excavations move forward. www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/900-...

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900-years-old madrasa believed to be Anatolia's earliest emerges in Türkiye - Türkiye Today

900-year-old madrasa believed to be Anatolia's earliest emerges in Kayseri, where excavators have uncovered around 30% of the site

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The balloon 'Zénith' during a long distance flight from Paris to Arcachon in March, 1875. Probably drawn by Albert Tissandier

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is functionally what it means to proclaim the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state.

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JamesInTurkey.com @jamesinturkey.com · 23/09/2026

Ankara’s mayor has made his move. He leaves the CHP – the party that embraced him more than 16 years ago – and vows to sit as an independent, saying his first responsibility is to the voters who elected him.

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I seem to have grown some kittens

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're calling Yassitepe, Izmir's Troy* *except unlike Troy, this archaeological site is hilariously just across the road from Izmir's Forum mall & the big Ikea so you can get some Bronze Age culture & flat-pack bookcases on the same outing. www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/anci...

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Ancient Yassitepe uncovers roots of Izmir's trade and wealth - Türkiye Today

Yassitepe excavations reveal 5,000-year-old walled city in Izmir with trade links, Mycenaean graves, workshops and rich agricultural production

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My God, I just remembered that we die. But---me too? --Clarice Lispector

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Time for my annual booker prediction (I have only ever been correct once & that was last year): I want to win: Black Bag Everyone thinks will win: The Disappearers What will win: The End of Everything

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Video of the fascist Danny Tommo slashing a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) boat rescuing migrants at sea www.instagram.com/reel/DdmJaD4...

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Tom Freeman @tomfreeman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Headline: "‘Outright racist’ Daniel Thomas will face full force of law over any crimes, says home secretary"

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

& this isn't even starting to dig into all the normal tourist visas they just say 'yeah, nah' on for rediculous reasons after gobbling up the application fee.

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Iona Craig @ionacraig.com · 22/09/2026

And let’s not forget, that “defensive support” for Trump’s air war ended in RAF fighter jets carrying out direct strikes in Yemen.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are so many things wrong in this article, let me focus on two: on the perverse logic argument against sanctions, and on the betrayal of Israel's human rights and anti-occupation activists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan Freedland

Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026

I first wrote about dicamba back in 2017 when most of the coverage was limited to farming publications. And there's something that I think is missed in the Guardian piece that I think it's important to note about why Bayer is doing this.

popsci.com

A chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreading

New formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Local story takes quite a swerve just before the page turn.

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Jessica Lee @jessofarabia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The only one on this list I'm surprised about is Germany.

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james, but scary. @abacadabber.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This thread is incredible. You shouldnt skip it.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Lost in Translation. Two Americans get culture shock from staying at an American chain hotel and make no attempt to speak Japanese but send up how the Japanese pronounce English.

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