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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

they called our ancestors demons so we learned to fear the footsteps that gave us life. now every night the dead leave flowers at our door kiss our foreheads and whisper: “you were never meant to be afraid of us” — from my new collection of dark gothic anti-colonial poetry

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If your empathy is based off of race, ethnicity, religion or identity, then it is not empathy.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They say they hate “wokeness,” but what they really hate is empathy. Because once you start caring about other people’s experiences, inequalities become harder to ignore, and privilege becomes harder to defend.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nolan Wells. That’s it. That’s the message.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Capitalism wants you to pick one interest and choose a niche. Your spirit wants you to express every aspect of your being because authenticity cannot be contained in one box. Unapologetic expression is liberation.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do not be afraid to feel. To feel in this world that is hell-bent on making you lose your empathy is one of the most courageous things you could ever do.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The people who say politics has nothing to do with ordinary life are often describing the privilege of not having to notice where power touches theirs.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The world has enough spectators. Become someone’s evidence that goodness still exists.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we emptied the rivers to hydrate data centers while humanity died of thirst

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If your compassion has a nationality, a religion, a culture, or a race, it is worth asking what you actually mean when you say compassion.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Funny how many of those saying “I don’t take sides” only say so pertaining to Palestine, but they willingly took sides when it came to Ukraine. It’s nothing but selective empathy. You’re neutral when it’s convenient, and you only show solidarity when it’s socially acceptable.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Power fears empathy because empathy refuses to rank human worth.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I have come to the conclusion that people who are not concerned or angry at the current state of the world have been successfully stripped of their empathy as well as any remaining sliver of humanity because how can you witness the removal of all life on earth and not bat an eye?

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s always the countries that contribute the least to climate change that have to bear the brunt of its consequences.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The planet is overheating because greed has no natural predator.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Every empire convinces people that exhaustion is noble.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don’t want data centres. I want trees and nature. I want bees and biodiversity. I want clean drinking water. I want to go back to the way things were when we were one small step closer to nature. Without water we have no life on earth. I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to understand.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you’re not mad, exhausted, or radicalized right now: congrats on the privilege. The rest of us are just trying to survive the simulation without losing our minds.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ICE agents of today are the Klansmen of yesterday.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We taught machines to imitate human voices. Now we must teach humans to stop speaking like machines.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Yes however it’s a good reminder to get people reading again 🤣

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Reading is the greatest act of resistance in an age designed to destroy attention. We are currently witnessing the biggest war over human attention in recorded history.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Jason Arday is yet another painful example of how academia is still a tool of empire used to protect and defend white supremacy. We’ve been warning for years that the system can offer us a seat at the table without ever surrendering the pillars of injustice used to build it.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

What’s one book that everyone raves about that you read but just didn’t get the hype?

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nature does not need saving from us nearly as much as we need saving from the outrageous illusion that we somehow stand outside of it.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The problem with the world is that the oppressed are constantly asked to explain their pain in ways that make the comfortable feel comfortable.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

A society obsessed with productivity eventually forgets how to recognize humanity outside of performance because everything in society has to be trendy, profitable or turn into content. This is not sustainable.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The problem with the ‘modern world’ is that people romanticize Indigenous cultures while actively participating in the very same systems that destroy Indigenous lands and ways of life.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Modern life moves so fast because if people ever slowed down long enough to think, the entire system would collapse under questioning.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Fascism begins when comfort matters more than someone else’s freedom.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The world will call you dramatic for crying over people you’ve never met. But empathy isn’t the problem and it never has been. A world that teaches us not to care is the real sickness. Don’t let them take your heart and make you believe that your compassion is a weakness.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Healing becomes less mysterious when you realize the body is not a machine asking for efficiency but an ecosystem asking for a relationship.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If your politics require children to die quietly overseas so stock prices stay calm, your politics are garbage.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Thank you for remembering! I always forget 😭

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The data centres I support are libraries.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

August will be good to us. Let it be filled with not just love and joy, but also healing and rest. May this month offer us so much of what we need. May it bring the world closer to freedom and justice. May goodness prevail. May we heal and grow. May we find everything we need.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Books are time machines made of trees and ink.

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I went to the mall today. Did I need to buy anything? No. Did I leave with bags full of books and notebooks? You bet. Welcome to the world of a full-time writer and reader.

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