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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 31/10/2026

Getting ready for Wednesday morning

Satirical newspaper headline: Joe Biden Must Come Back

Subhead: No Democrat has won the White House in living memory without Joe Biden on their ticket. Here's what that means for 2028.

By the Editorial Board

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 30/10/2026

Can't believe I missed #NationalCatDay. This is ~11th-13th century, likely made in Cairo. The text on the side is Judaeo-Arabic.

About three quarters of a badly torn light brown paper fragment showing a sketch of a reclining cat in brown ink. The background is blue and a yellow label reads T-S Ar.44.220 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AR-00044-00220/2).

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 29/10/2026

Solomon ben Judah, the head of the Palestinian Yeshiva in Jerusalem (and thus all the Jews in the Fatimid Caliphate), wrote this letter in the 11th century. His friend, a Muslim named Qayn ibn 'Abd al-Qadir, has fallen foul of the governor of Ramla and a warrant is out for his arrest. Solomon calls

Vertical rectangular brown paper folio with about 20 lines of text in Judaeo-Arabic written with black ink, some of it badly rubbed. The background is white and a small red caption reads T-S 13J14.5.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 28/10/2026

I'm so tired of statements like this and people acting like it's reasonable discourse. This is genocide apology. It is rationalization for supporting genocidal policy. If this is your true, deeply held belief, I guess you're entitled to that. Just don't be surprised when nobody wants to talk to you.

L. Russell Allen, IV
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No you have genocide either way (was not
Clear back then) and support the pro trans candidate. Then you wait five years and primary his ass.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 26/10/2026

Have you met the Pink Qur'an? www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

4 lines of formal Maghrebi-script Arabic with blue diacritics, gold vowels signs, and gold section dividers on pink rag paper. Horizontal laid lines are faintly visible.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 25/10/2026

Why yes, I would like to learn more. invisibleeast.site.ox.ac.uk/article/docu...

Document of the Month 5/26: Trade Letters from the Indian Ocean
26 May 2026

Jewish Trade Letters with Blessings for Muḥammad
by Alan Elbaum

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 24/10/2026

You said it's "quite possible" that Israel has been displacing Palestinians since the 40s. "Possible" in that context means "not certain." What hair are you trying to split?

Triority Interactive Novels
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They've been doing that since the 1980's

jimmbuzz.bsky.social @jimmbuzz.bsky.social · 4h
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the 40's....

Triority Interactive Novels @skute.bsky.social · 4h
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Quite possible.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 24/10/2026

Al-Khalil (aka Hebron) is the largest city in the southern West Bank and the heart of the Palestinian economy in the area. Most WB cities are part of Oslo Area A, placed under the nominal control of the Palestinian Authority, but Israel kept the H2 area and still controls it like Oslo C.

Map of the 'Hebron Redeployment' protocol from 1997, showing the H1 (the western ~80% of the city) and H2 (eastern ~20%) areas of the city of Hebron, surrounded by the Oslo A and C areas of the West Bank. H2 and Oslo C are under full IDF control. H1 and Oslo A are under nominal Palestinian Authority control. East of the city, within Area C, are two large Israeli settlements (Givat Harsina and Kiryat Arba). The original map is from the Wikipedia article "Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron" and I have modified it with additional labels to designate the Oslo areas.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 23/10/2026

I can't believe Ken Paxton would say this

Articel heading from here: https://theblackwallsttimes.com/2026/09/10/james-talarico-says-he-opposes-trans-athletes-in-girls-sports-if-it-risks-safety-or-fairness/

Politics

James Talarico says he opposes trans athletes in girls’ sports ‘if it risks safety or fairness’

Talarico’s comments on Fox News are a reversal from positions he took in the Texas House opposing GOP restrictions on trans student-athletes.

by The 19th News
September 10, 2026

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 22/10/2026

TIL the SPD always forms a coalition with the right, especially when the alternative is forming a coalition with the left

Text from the Wikipedia article "Grand coalition (Germany)"

Merkel cabinets (2005–2009, 2013–2021)
After the inconclusive result of the 2005 German federal election, neither of the traditional coalitions could form a majority government. A larger centre-left coalition was possible, comprising the SPD, Greens, and the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS); but the SPD desired to exclude the PDS, the successor party to East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party, from government (i.e. a cordon sanitaire). Consequently, the leaders of the SPD and the CDU/CSU agreed to form a grand coalition, with CDU leader Angela Merkel as chancellor and an equal number of cabinet seats for each party. The chancellor was elected on 22 November, and the 1st Merkel Cabinet took office.[11] The grand coalition lasted until the 2009 federal election, when a coalition was agreed between the CDU/CSU and the FDP.[12]

Following the 2013 election, a third grand coalition was formed by the CDU/CSU and the SPD.[8] Again it would have been numerically possible to form a center-left government with the SPD, Greens, and The Left (the successor party to the PDS), but a grand coalition was formed instead. The term GroKo (shortening for Große Koalition) was named 2013 word of the year in Germany.[13] After the 2017 election, the CDU/CSU initially entered talks with the FDP and Greens (a Jamaica coalition);[14] however, negotiations failed, and the CDU/CSU and SPD ultimately agreed to a fourth grand coalition.[15]

Merz cabinet (2025–present)
The Merz cabinet was signed in April 2025 thus marking a fifth time a coalition has happened between the CDU/CSU and the SPD despite the SPD becoming the third largest party in the Bundestag after the federal election held in February where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the second largest party. Because the SPD had fallen to third place, some sources defined the coalition as a red–black coalition rather than the traditional grand coalition.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 22/10/2026

Why don't German liberals like it when you describe their party

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It was a joke because the SPD formed a coalition with the right

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 22/10/2026

This thread on the bottom right is from the original sewing (or an original repair) that held the pages of the roll together. Not bad for the 8th century.

Close-up of a dark thread zig-zagging through tiny holes the join two bits of brown-yellow vellum together. Some Hebrew text is visible on the right and left.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 22/10/2026

This is a Genesis 47-50 from one of the two oldest Torah scrolls in existence. Pieces of it are now scattered in libraries around the world, and one has been carbon-dated to approximately 700 CE. I'm pretty sure the grey splotches are drips of candle wax, which is pretty cool. @theul.bsky.social

Dark brown vellum scroll fragment with 4 columns of Hebrew text in black ink. The page was ruled with a straightedge. It sits on a blue background with a yellow label that reads T-S AS 37.1

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 21/10/2026

I am concerned that you may have just experienced a stroke

Geoff Brock @geoffbrock.bsky.social - 1h

Both the Democrats and the Republicans are scared of their Jewish supports and will do anything to appease them. Hence sending

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 20/10/2026

I had to block this guy but for context:

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Given that the GOP is now a fascist movement crossed with a religious cult crossed with a Mafia crime family run by neurodivergent psychopaths, I can't say I'm surprised.

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In the case of Musk, Zuckerberg, Altman, et. al. it's factually correct.

Their particular neurodivergence IS a form of fascism -- or at least, has led them to fascism.

Not all neurodivergences are good, or even neutral.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 20/10/2026

Actual footage of cops when someone tries to de-escalate

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 19/10/2026

Damn bro you don't have to brag like that

BABYLONIAN TABLETS, PAPYRI, OSTRACA
AND ORIENTAL MSS.

1409 AN ORIGINAL CLAY CONE (MEASURING 4 INCHES
FROM THE .APEX TO THE BASE)

Containing an inscription of 10 lines in the Sumerian language.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 19/10/2026

The "Gaza model" is genocide. It's killing civilians, leveling every building, and blocking food from anyone who has the gall to survive. And he's not saying that this is what they will do, he's saying it's what they've already done. His "intent" statement was 4 months ago: bsky.app/profile/cata...

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the forces will remain in Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza “indefinitely” following the announcement of a ceasefire between the US and Iran, adding that the areas under Israeli control will be “cleared of local residents” and that “houses will be destroyed”

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 19/10/2026

FGP says 274 Genizah classmarks tagged as "Talmud Yerushalmi," including a good chunk of the T-S F17 folder (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-F...), though I can't verify those identifications. Out of curiosity, do you know why people call it Yerushalmi when it was produced in the Galilee?

Screencap of a list of classmarks from a Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society search result page.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 19/10/2026

This is an 8th-century Georgian translation of Jeremiah 12, probably copied at an Orthodox monastery in Palestine. Around the 10th century, it was overwritten with Aramaic passages from the Palestinian Talmud (Bava Qama 9), which is the smaller perpendicular text in the image. @theul.bsky.social

Badly torn yellowish parchment bifolium fragment, oriented verically, showing two layers of text. About 15 lines of Old Georgian in large capital and brown ink are overwritten by about 30 lines of smaller, perpendicular Aramaic text in 2 columns. The background is blue with bits of white fluff or mold around the edges. A yellow label reads T-S 12.183 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00012-00183/2).

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

Every new tech "wearable" is about sneaking around consent. Corpos know AI surveillance is incredibly unpopular, so their bugs (literally, it's called "Bee") are designed to be discreet. "No one knows you're recording" is a feature. If I catch you with one of these in my lecture, I will destroy it.

Amazon’s personal AI wearable maker, Bee, is announcing its first new products since being acquired by the retail giant last year. The tech company on Thursday introduced the Bee Frontier, the next generation of its device that can be worn on the wrist or pinned to clothes, along with Bee Eclipse, a credit-card-sized device that magnetically attaches to the back of your smartphone.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here's my Charter of Ethical AI Use in the Creative Industries. Feel free to copy it. nickposegay.com/publications/

Publications
100% organic, home-grown, slop-free, artisanal publications. No AI use now or ever.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

This is the other side. The green ink is wild. Whatever it is, I’ve seen it in early Arabic parchment manuscripts before, and it always seems to bleed straight through the page. @majnouna.com do you know what it’s made of?

Badly torn brown parchment bifolium with 8 paragraphs of Judaeo-Arabic text in black ink. Between the paragraphs are headings in a mix of Hebrew and Arabic script written in red and green ink, along with decorative symbols including floral rosettes. The background is blue and a yellow label reads T-S Ar.11.31 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AR-00011-00031/1).

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 14/10/2026

Arabic medical text from the 11th century, listing recipes for perfumes and ointments found in Ibn Sina's renowned "Canon of Medicine." The main text was copied in Hebrew characters (i.e. 'Judaeo-Arabic'), and a second hand added the red and green ornamentation in Arabic (and Hebrew) script.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

One of the tell-tale signs that a manuscript may have been used as an amulet is evidence of rolling or folding into a thin strip, which would have allowed it to fit into an amulet case and worn as a pendant. Such crease marks are visible across this leaf, which is only about 3 inches in width.

Light, stained, horizontal parchment folio from a Quran codex, showing 8 lines of Arabic text in black ink. Red dots mark some of the vowels in the text. The margins are wide and several creases are visible running vertically across the page. A pencil label in the bottom right reads T-S Ar.38.8. 6 vertical creases across the length of the page are marked by black arrows.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

The question, of course, is why did a Jew have this manuscript, and why did they store it in a genizah? Typically, a genizah is for storing manuscripts that are badly damaged, and we often find folios that are torn from their sewn bindings. By contrast, this one was carefully cut free.

Close-up of the gutter of a parchment manuscript folio, showing intact sewing stations and a straight, deliberate cut that removed the leaf from its bifolium

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you ask me, this is one of the most important manuscripts in the Cairo Genizah collections. It's a page from a 9th-century Quran with text from Sura 11 (Hud) about the prophet Noah (vv. 43-50). Despite this origin, it was found in a synagogue and likely owned by a Jew. @theul.bsky.social

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11/10/2026

remember when he was shilling for platner

Screencap of a Bluesky post featuring a black-and-white-but-mostly-white close-up picture of rapist Graham Platner, who appears to be removing a fake moustache:

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4mo
Joined Apr ’23

Very good interview with @grahamformaine.bsky.social Addresses all the issues. Worth a listen.

"Graham Platner Thinks a Political Revolution Is Coming
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 16 May · 1hr 17min
podcasts.apple.com"

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

like what are these guys even talking about

Screenshot of my timeline with 3 posts together that all have the file box/kaaba emoji

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is Rafah. Red dots are air/artillery strikes. Yellow are planted demolitions. Israel declared Rafah a "humanitarian zone" for people displaced from the north in November 2023. In May 2024, Israel invaded Rafah, took control of the Egyptian border crossing, and began levelling the city.

Plot of Israeli strikes in Rafah, 10/23-present. There is a marked decrease after May 2024, when the IDF occupied Rafah and expelled the Palestinian population.

Plot of Israeli strikes in Rafah, 10/23-present. There is a marked increase in June 2024 following the IDF invasion of Rafah

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

For example: this is a plot of reports of air/artillery strikes in Gaza Governate. The centre of the ring is October 2023. Each concentric ring is 1 month of reports. The effects of the 'ceasefires' in 01/25 and 10/25 are clearly visible, with the latter bringing the most significant relief.

Plot of red dots in concentric rings showing the frequency of Israeli strikes in Gaza Governate over time

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

complain about the assault on the women's modesty. The writer insists that the congregation either evict Ibn al-Masmudi or seal the secret door. The letter is in Arabic and begins "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful." @theul.bsky.social

Text box from page 95 of "The Illustrated Cairo Genizah"

O ye Jews! How can you face God?! …You are inflicting disgrace upon your women through Ibn al-Masmudi… Your sense of honour has obviously gone altogether. Peace!

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Around the 12th century, the Iraqi synagogue in Cairo had a concealed back entrance that allowed women to enter the upper gallery in privacy. When the synagogue's charitable fund rented a house by this entrance to a Muslim man named Ibn al-Masmudi, an anonymous writer sent this public letter to

Long, thins brown paper manuscript with water staining and about 20 short lines of messy Arabic script in black ink. A small caption reads T-S 13J30.6 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00013-J-00030-00006/1).

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are even fake generated figures inside that aren't in the original. I didn't make this chart.

AI-generateed chart from a book with 3 arrows vaguely suggesting a timeline, labelled in Japanese

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh awesome. Not only has my book been scraped to train generative AI, but someone also used AI to translate it and is now selling it on Amazon. Unlucky for me, this is technically legal, as the book was published with a CC-BY 4.0 open access license.

Screenshot of an Amazon product page for Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew by Nick Posegay, except it's in Japanese and has a fake cover. Only 800 yen.

The bottom says "Sold by: Amazon Services International LLC"

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

Israel hasn't allowed any external investigation, so while we know the total casualty figures (from government records ofc), we still don't know exactly how many each side was responsible for. It's plausible that IDF air crews panicked and killed a few hundred of the 1163 by mistake.

Text from this article: https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hundreds-its-own-people-7-october/49216

Photos and drone footage of the scrapyard clearly showed many of the cars were completely flattened and twisted in a manner consistent with Israeli bombing from the air.

In short, the cars looked very similar to the Palestinian cars (of both civilians and fighters) habitually bombed by Israel from the air in Gaza over the years.

Today, it seems the scrapyard has become something of a tourist attraction for Israel and its supporters – a site they refer to as a “car burial ground.” In one video shot there this past summer, an Israeli army tour guide says that the scrapyard contains “1,650 vehicles that were brought here.”

In one ambulance alone, he says, from the ash and “human dust” they recovered, the remains of 18 people were found.

Whatever the true figure of the Israelis dead from “Hannibal” attacks by Israel, it does seem entirely plausible that Israel killed hundreds of the Israelis who died during the course of the offensive.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yeah exactly, the guy with close personal ties to Netanyahu who told him to "finish the job" bsky.app/profile/npos...

Text from this 2021 CNN article: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/01/politics/biden-netanyahu-relationship/

US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been friends, allies and partners in a relationship that has spanned nearly four decades. When they first met, Biden was a junior senator in his early 40s; Netanyahu was a fledgling diplomat nearly a decade younger. Now with their first phone call expected imminently, the two must decide how their relationship will evolve, at the height of their careers and the peak of their powers.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

For instance: this is a Yiddish letter (1 of 5) that Rachel Zusman wrote to her son Moses in the 1560s. They were from Prague, but he lived in Cairo and she lived in Jerusalem. She tries to persuade him to move closer, even saying "may God forgive you that you made me so sad." @theul.bsky.social

A small, badly torn and waterstained corner fragment of a paper folio. About 15 partial lines of Yiddish text in brown ink are visible. The background is blue and a yellow label reads T-S AS 205.53 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-AS-00205-00053/1)

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 06/10/2026

Another day, another page from a manuscript unique in world history. This is the "Cambridge Yiddish Codex," the earliest known collection of Yiddish texts (1382 CE). It preserves Jewish homilies, animal fables, and a lost poem of the German epic tradition, "Dukus Horant." It was discovered in Cairo.

Light brown waterstained paper folio with about 20 lines of Yiddish text in brown-black ink, much of which is faded. The background is white and a small red caption reads T-S 10K22 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-00010-K-00022/23).

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

Way to take a stand for something that matters

ThatsNotMyHorse @egyptttt.bsky.social · 12d
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Yeah...
I don't think Israel's barbarism amounts to genocide, because words mean things, but to say that everyone who does believes this is such horseshit.

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