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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

[queues up Ween playlist anyway, for pedagogical reasons]

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

that's a lot of CO2, not to mention the other toll - search the Web for Juan Cole's Informed Comment to see the whole essay dlvr.it/TSQbDF

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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

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Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Vacancy for a three-year post-doc position at the Universiteit van Amsterdam! This postdoc position, part of the European Research Council (ERC)-sponsored 𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐀𝐃𝐄 project, seeks to understand the long legacies of blockades on the post-war order.

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It's like they 1:1 mixed up the second coming traits with the Antichrist traits but just ran with it anyway

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The urge to know that my loved ones are alive keeps clashing with my knowledge that they have far better things to do than assuage my petty anxieties amid yet another absolute atrocity. I know you are not okay and that nobody is safe, but I really want you and yours to be both right now.

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Israel hit all over Beirut. Strikes were in nearly all the neighborhoods surrounding my house. Reports saying many injured and dead. Israel seems to be intensifying before a ceasefire is implemented

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

There is no pivoting from genocide. There's no refocusing on kitchen table issues--a madman with an itching to drop nukes is threatening to eradicate a country. There is no planning session for this, there is only action.

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Reza H. Akbari @rezahakbari.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

American and Israeli missiles hit Sharif University in Tehran tonight. Often called #Iran’s MIT, the institution has been home to some of the country’s best and brightest minds in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since 1966. 1/2

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I will repeat this again and again: Israel’s goal in Lebanon is to destroy the country itself. Israel is targeting Lebanese Shias - a war crime - to push for civil war in Lebanon

Israel's Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shites Must Go
1 day ago • Israel has issued sweeping evacuation warnings, and pressed some Christian and Druse leaders to expel Shite Muslims from southern towns, the leade...

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 02/04/2026

finally, Wendell Berry's standards for technological innovation--truly as relevant now as they were in 1987 #othernetworks

The new tool should be cheaper than the one
it replaces.
2 It should be at least as small in scale as the
one it replaces.
3 It should do work that is clearly and demonstrably
better than the one it replaces.
4 It should use less energy than the one it
replaces.
5 If possible, it should use some form of solar
energy, such as that of the body.
6 It should be repairable by a person of ordinary
intelligence, provided that he or she has
the necessary tools.
7 It should be purchasable and repairable as near
to home as possible.
8 It should come from a small, privately
owned shop or store that will take it back for
maintenance and repair.
9 It should not replace or disrupt anything
good that already exists, and this includes
family and community relationships.

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Attention historians of medicine and/or France: according to the @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social email list, moves are underway to dismantle the incredible Medica-Histoire de la santé digital collection (BIU Santé Médicine). Oppose this move by filling out the "Enquête de satisfaction" at the link🗃️

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Numerabilis · Numerabilis · Université Paris Cité

Numerabilis est la nouvelle bibliothèque numérique patrimoniale des archives, bibliothèques et musées de l’Université Paris Cité. Ses corpus numérisés sont issus des collections de ces services et de plusieurs partenaires.

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I make a butterbean salad that is very similar to that (except I put a teeny bit of soy sauce too)

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Jesus, does everything have to be phallic with this guy? At least they don't have to account for the weight of the books in this "library"

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

'Only 490 patients were evacuated during... February, which Wahidi describes as a "negligible" number of people. "We need to evacuate 400 daily, and at least 200 at the minimum, which would end the file of patients and wounded within six months..."' www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-pa...

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Gaza: Up to 10 Palestinians die daily due to Israeli restrictions on medical evacuations

Around 1,400 Palestinians have died whilst awaiting medical transfers abroad since May 2024, Gaza's health ministry has said

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

"eugenics and scientific or medical racism etc wasn't real science™" Be for real, come on. Science has always been part of heinous things, was implicated in and facilitated colonization, slavery, the Holocaust more. All of this IS part of the story of science. WHY are you sanitizing this?

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The escalation comes after Israel threatened to take control of a "security zone" in south Lebanon up to the Litani River, raising fears of a deeper and prolonged occupation of the country

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

How awful. We had a scare when Zellie was very lightly hit by a car today. Fortunately she seems to be okay, if a bit cuddlier than usual.

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We can only hope (because that's as close as we'll get in this awful world). But you've seen far more of this than I have...

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

So many of the people I care about most in this world are at Israel's mercy and all I can do is limply ask them to stay safe knowing that are no brakes and no limits at this point. But please be safe.

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This is barbarous. Especially for Eid.

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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

NEW: Our editors collected 11 short essays on the war on Iran and the region from our contributors and members of our editorial committee. They encompass the political turmoil in Iran to the role of Christian nationalism in the US drive for dominance in the region. READ NOW

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War Across Boundaries–Perspectives on Iran and a Region Under Siege

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, initiating a war with wide-ranging consequences for Iran and the broader region and devastating effects for their…

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

You know, I could probably just consult the Bible about that

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I can't figure out the roast cuts here. I used to do a fantastic roast beef, but everything here is either slow and low or excruciatingly expensive rib cuts.

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

So... do you have to wait to do an episode on this guy or...

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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

A reckless and insane war by the dumbest and most powerful climate change denier in the world leading to an acceleration of global electrification is very darkly funny.

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This is the truest thing ever written

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

These people should be aware that if there is a god, it won't be Capitalist America Jesus™️, so by this point their wicked asses already have reservations in the deepest depths of hell

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I was recently in a meeting where one aristocratic person made the earnest point that perhaps unspectacular poors should just be content with their places in lesser institutions (after I made the point that I wouldn't even be there without community college and scholarships)

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

A pretty clear demonstration here of how the lies told to sell the destruction of the Gaza Strip to the public helped to create the structure of impunity required to destroy as much as possible of other countries too

Asked if the US attacked a desalination plant in Iran, Pres. Trump says Iranians are "among the most evil people ever on earth."
"They cut babies' heads off—they chop women in half..."
"I know nothing about a desalinization plant, other than to say, if they're complaining about a desalinization plant, we complain about the fact they shouldn't be chopping babies' heads off."
Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can be seen nodding in agreement.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

In their lawsuit against NEH, ACLS, AHA, MLA, etc., include as an exhibit the AI-produced DOGE spreadsheet that determined if a project was too DEI for Trump. Here is the spreadsheet www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

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Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Three days ago, Israel ordered the south evacuated. Two days ago, they did the same to the southern suburbs. That’s more than one million people. Some, the most vulnerable, are sleeping rough by the sea or on sidewalks. Today, it is raining. War harms the poor the most.

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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I often wonder how average Americans go about their day-to-day lives with absolutely no shame or sense of moral responsibility for what their regime has been doing to the world.

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Scott @smadin.net · 05/03/2026

an LLM chatbot cannot "implicate itself" in anything, it is a category error to imagine that it can. It does not "know" or "understand" anything (such as what words mean or whether its output is true or false) because it is not a being and does not have a mind.

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is true in a sense, but our papers of record have always been complicit in our imperialism. The best way to find out what is happening is to follow good local journalists who actually know what they are talking about and aren't compromised by US politics or racist editorial policies

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Tylor Brand @khayyat.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Israel is eradicating entire sections of Lebanon's society, like it did in Gaza before. It is erasing the living memories of places that it has no right to touch and destroying countless lives in the process.

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Annia Ciezadlo @anniaciezadlo.com · 05/03/2026

Israel, with America's blessing, just issued evacuation orders to the entire southern suburbs of Beirut, home to nearly a million people. At this point, Israel & the US have forcibly displaced at least a million people in Lebanon—i.e., ONE IN SIX. Imagine this in your town. We cannot accept this.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 04/03/2026

All the Trump administration’s complaints about “woke AI” aside, the idea that Anthropic is a company run by a bunch of peaceniks that had somehow backed into the role of pulling down massive Pentagon contracts does considerable violence to the reality of the situation. bit.ly/4cycevT

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Garbage In, Carnage Out

The harrowing lessons of the Pentagon’s recently dissolved partnership with Anthropic.

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

This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.

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