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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

The Green Party conference has concluded its debate on this motion, titled 'Zionism is Racism'. The result will be announced shortly. Well informed observers anticipate it is likely to pass.

Green Party Motion A105
Proposer: Lubna Speitan
Title: Zionism is Racism
Type: E Motion (Policy)
ZIONISM IS RACISM
SYNOPSIS:
This motion defines Zionism, recognises its continued harm to Palestinians, and seeks to clarify
that the Green Party is opposed to Zionism. It further affirms the right to self-determination and
liberation of the Palestinian people and supports the establishment of a single democratic
Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine.
MOTION TEXT:
Zionism is a political ideology which called for the creation – and, now it exists, the continuity –
of an ethnonationalist Jewish State in historic Palestine to the exclusion and/or domination of
the non-Jewish population. The real, material manifestation of Zionism has been the historic and
ongoing dehumanisation, displacement, dispossession, disenfranchisement and destruction of
Palestinians. This is based upon European settler-colonial systems of domination and
oppression, which has also created racial hierarchies between Jews of different ethnicities in
Palestine.
The practice of Zionist ideology, promoting ethnonationalism, privileges one ethnic group on the
basis of the subjugation of others. Zionism is Israel's foundational ideology.
Zionism has created and seeks to maintain – and where possible – expand, an apartheid
regime between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, designed to cement the
supremacy of one group, Jews, over another, Palestinians. As such, Zionism is racist.
This motion is aimed at the political ideology and practice of Zionism, as defined, and not at the
religious or ethnic background of those who may identify as Zionists. Not all Jews are Zionists
and not all Zionists are Jews.
Rejecting Zionism and supporting the liberation of the Palestinian people is not discriminatory
against Jewish people. Nor is it discriminatory to support the establishment of a single
democratic Palestinian State between the Jordan river and the Me…

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 2h

I normally like Hitchcock but I tried watching The Lady Vanishes the other day and gave up after about 10–15 minutes; absolute amateur hour

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 2h

The Velvet Underground & Nico only sold 1000 copies but everyone who bought one took up the viola

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 6h

ok so remember some time ago on here we were talking about how pikachu doesn't free himself even though he could and one of you said "he lived in a poke ball of the mind"? well that's how i feel when i see decorative pumpkins in woolworths in australia in october

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 8h

My statement on the "Zionism is Racism" motion.

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 8h

I haven't been able to find the text of the motion to read beyond its title but passing a motion titled "Zionism is racism" seems like a pretty terrible idea to me

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enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social · 14h

If journal submissions are going up, ppl are using AI wrong. By all means use it to stress-test your arguments. Publish fewer, better things. Sloppy substantially AI-generated research papers will soon lose most of their value anyway. Quantity-heavy CVs will be suspect. Citations metrics will change

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 23h

eli5bench, evaluate models on actually explaining ideas to 5 year olds. the model gets graded by aggregating the 5 year olds' grades on a test a week later

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking forward to seeing Harry get his 100th England goal in about half an hour's time

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Missed Bellingham's goal when the ITV website cut out so I switched to watching on the TV, and then missed Gordon's goal when I went to the loo. Still, nice to be winning

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

'i love this objector'—ned block

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I thought old man Modrić had retired

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Swords United" meme, where on the table is the quoted tween and the knights are labled "Pragmatists", "Hume", "Kant", "The Vienna Circle", "Ordinary Language Philosophers"

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If only we hadn't wasted our time nailing all those other issues

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Grace @gracekind.net · 03/10/2026

Just found out the Pope doesn’t believe in computational theory of mind. My day is ruined

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is my version of the Tom Holland "Umbrella" video--I have to repost it every time I see it here.

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Plum Thief Sluggo @plumthief.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When I try to rap

Two Bluesky posts. The top one from Mara Wilson says "Anyway, who wants to see pictures of my gay car 1/4)." The one below says "five my days of hat."

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Steve Suckington @stevesuckington.bsky.social · 13/07/2023

"Have some respect. This is a funeral" *slowly removes giant sombrero revealing smaller yet still pretty big sombrero*

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Billboard releases statement confirming that Choosin' Texas Georg, who streams "Choosin' Texas" 500 million times a week, is an outlier and should not have been included in the analysis

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

why does "oops I did it again" have a magical realist spoken interlude in which a guy gives Britney the necklace from the movie Titanic as she's boarding an old-timey train, and Britney references the events of the film as if they're both real and fictional

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

achieving Hegelian synthesis of presentism & eternalism by defining the absolute now as the transitive closure of space-like separation

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lot of people in the QTs saying breathing but I don't think you should sleep on kites and diurnal temperature smoothing

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

only a good guy with a thought experiment can stop a bad guy with a thought experiment

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor

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ren faire @lathrys.at · 02/10/2026

oh my god this *fucks*

toast with butter and smashed garlic confit topped with soft scrambled eggs in the confit oil and some parmesan and black pepper and salt

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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

never forget the original aunt bessie

the Brewess Crone from Witcher 3, stirring a cauldron filled with fire and human bones.

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Rachel Handley 🏳️‍🌈 @rachelahandley.com · 02/10/2026

It's national poetry day! Here is a poem of mine first published by Arlen House in Washing Windows II and then republished by Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann 's volume Vital Signs: Poems for Illness and Healing.

Remembrance

In my dream you were alive. I said I

loved you and you heard me. You knew it was

me, not just distance with a human shape.

You tell me I need to stay here, so I

do. I grab the thread of sewn pink petals

hanging tight between us, their wet edges

drip your soft thunder all over the floor,

liquid velvet slips between our fingers,

soaked; we campaign to walk against time. Come

see me, you said, before I forget. You

knew, before we knew, that the dementia

was slithering in, knocking out pieces

of you with its blunt mouth. I’d put you back

together if I could, click each petal

into its stem so that I could say I

love you and you could hear me.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

do I hate Harold Bloom? yes. do I think he's an awful snob, and that King has some unacknowledged literary merit? absolutely. does he have a point? yeah, man. he has a point.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Started a reread of Septology by Jon Fosse, translated with sublime skill by Damion Searls. The feeling I had when reading this for the first time (in three separate volumes) has never left me and in truth I've probably been seeking it in all the books I've read since.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I see a serial killer tv show advertised I think of this

My dad used to work with Ted Bundy at the University of Utah and every Friday my dad would say, "See ya Monday-Bundy" and I can't imagine how much Ted actually thought about murdering him for
it.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Serious Warhammer 40k spaceship vibes here in Cork.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 02/10/2026

no I'm sorry who told Le Monde we were calling it "Breturn", own up

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Love to discover a new artist and play another round of kindred spirit or guy with an old-fashioned synthesizer

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oh god the cat's copying famous pictures again

Andrew Wyeth, 'Christina's World' (1948)

Merrill the cat lying in an odd position

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Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

Celsius defenders when you point out that the notion of "atmospheric pressure" at "sea level" is physically arbitrary

Translated Kaiji manga panel: Kazuya betting his red life and yelling at Kaiji, "Shut the fuck up! Quit talking, you garbage! What the hell do you know?!"

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

via wiktionary

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

MIT! MIT!

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Ouch" and "oops" are primarily used egocentrically but can be used allocentrically; "Snap" (as in "ooh, snap!") is primarily used allocentrically, but can it be used egocentrically? Or is even the self-effacing usage by the ownee one in which they adopt a third person perspective on themselves

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medievalmvb @medievalmvb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

this will only cement the film’s popularity

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A now-retired Phil twitter legend once said to me ‘arguments are just to give people an excuse to agree with your view. The thing that actually *motivates* them to agree is showing them how things look nice from your view’

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Michael Bench-Dracula @mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula #ItsMorbinTime

Morbius poster featuring Jared Leto in a cowl, plus some other people all over whom he's doubtless about to morb

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Paul L. Franco @loadofbunk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Saw a large boulder the size of a large boulder on a hike yesterday.

A very large boulder set against some trees.

A very large boulder set against the trees with Lundin Peak in the background.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If you tank a lethal injection you should be free to go

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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 01/10/2026

The former (establishing that A, B, and C are inconsistent) is the philosophical advance, whereas the latter (e.g. learning that the author thinks A and B are compelling reason to deny C) is just autobiography

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