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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 12/08/2026

Because of things like *this*:

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 12/08/2026

Don’t forget this one! A classic:

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 11/08/2026

Absolutely fucking devastating: writing that is tight without feeling tight.

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 09/08/2026

When I think of Biden, in his last days, dying of cancer, I think of when this tweet was posted: October 2023, when he was president, bypassing Congress to send munitions to Israel to murder children. Including a ward of neonates who were left alone to starve to death. Genocide Joe is his legacy.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 09/08/2026

and yet Huxley could be responsible for this sort of wonderful quote:

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 08/08/2026

Didn’t even take that long…relatively speaking…

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 25/07/2026

If you see this, quote a pic of you in sunglasses.

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 06/07/2026

Not even Claude disagrees with you on this, Ed:

Claude answering a question about the AI bubble bursting.

Claude with a long detailed answer about the AI bubble bursting.

Claude answering a question about what AI companies aren’t telling the public.

Last set of answers from Claude re: what AI companies aren’t saying publicly.

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 22/06/2026

NSCAD ‘96, major in Studio Art, minor in Art History. Painted without a grid.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 13/06/2026

Reading this for a project, but I have been devastated all the way through…and now motivated to seek out more of Ghada Samman‘s writing. Fucking brilliant and unbelievably prescient.

Cover of Beirut Nightmares by Ghada Samman.

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 08/06/2026

Did this recently. Rather proud: hadn’t finished anything so large in a while.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 31/05/2026

He absolutely makes A Room With A View: a kindly, big hearted father figure. It’s difficult to imagine anyone else playing that role. Also made art about that:

Heart shaped drawing using a line from A Room With A View:

“Here is where the birds sing! Here is where the sky is blue!”

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 31/05/2026

OMG, same. I was THREE. I had the Viewmaster discs of the movie: years later I made this, inspired by the movie and the text on the VM discs. (It’s meant to be a transmission of “waiting for the mothership” and “no longer alone.”)

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 29/05/2026

It’s giving “the man in the yellow hat.”

Curious George with the Man in the Yellow Hat

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 25/05/2026

Came across a bucket of cameras—some box Brownies in there!—today and thought of @flakphoto.news

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 22/05/2026

Book mail. There is someone I should thank for this, but I cannot name them: I send quiet thanks to them. Continuing my reading of Arab canon.

Cover of Princesses’ Street: Baghdad Memories by Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, translated by Issa J. Boullata.

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 20/05/2026

Meeeeeeeee! I want that book! 😢 Also, her pants in the photo on that cover! Like these ones, the drape! *bites knuckle*

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 15/05/2026

Like many others, my family kept the deed to their home, which I still have. I know many families kept the keys; I'm not sure if the Mahlis or Asfours did. #TellYourNakbaStory

The English side of the deed; note the title Government of Palestine.

The Arabic side of the deed, filled out.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 15/05/2026

My grandfather Awad loaded his wife and their two youngest—my father Anis and his sister Thèrese—into his truck to escape. The other three children—Maurice, Laurice, and Hana—fled with other extended family. Northward, to Beirut. #TellYourNakbaStory

The British Mandate Palestinian passport of my grandfather Awad Shihadeh Mahli, his wife Rafia, and their five children.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 29/04/2026

So. I have analytics on my Framer website. And can see the individual countries where people are from. Explain why Palestine, which definitely has a flag, doesn't in this screen?

Countries listed as hits on a website, with flags shown for Canada, the US, Netherlands, Spain, even Iraq, but not Palestine.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 27/04/2026

James Salter, with a banger on friendship:

The question is, what constitutes friendship? Some is nothing more than companionship, some is only a practical matter, some just lengthy acquaintance. Friendship is more than knowledge and intimacy. It belongs to the order of things that cannot be weighed, like sorrow, honor, and hope. It is a form of love. It lies in the heart. You can name certain of the essentials: trust, a shared view of the world, admiration, understanding, and something I value, a sense of
humor. All of these are a part of it but none of them define it.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 25/04/2026

I made this last summer: super easy pattern!

Handmade skirt with shirred elastic waist, yellow fabric with old timey swimmers print on it.

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 23/04/2026

We have one of her massive Maman spider sculptures here, in front of the art gallery. ❤️ She’s a major reason I studied sculpture, a major influence.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 23/04/2026

Ice cream, stat. Do not pass go, do not collect $200. Also, lookit this:

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 07/04/2026

This is the very attitude that guarantees that the United States is going to fuck itself—and the world—over: a fundamental ignorance to see beyond a blind me-vs-you perspective that wants to paint one side as evil and the other as good. When they both do the same fucking thing.

If you don’t see how many Democrats were behind this, you’re a fool who deserves what’s coming next.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 05/04/2026

Happy cracking egg for luck day. (The winning egg, chosen by yours truly).

RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 03/04/2026

Entirely correct. “Light Years” lives in my brain. And then there’s this: “I understand everything we are not saying.”

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 03/04/2026

The Republic of False Truths, by Alaa Al Aswany.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 02/04/2026

So, uh, everything OK Gemini?

Google Chrome's AI agent seemingly having a stroke. Or some massively weird angel number.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 30/03/2026

None of my American friends should be contemplating this IDF-volunteering asshole: he is status quo for allowing Israel to genocide Palestinians and steal their land. His father was a Zionist terrorist, the same people who drove my family from their home in Haifa in 1948.

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 21/03/2026

I so loved that quote for a time (still do) I temporary tattooed it on my arm with tattoo marker:

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 10/03/2026

“Punched in the mouth.” That is what you’re supposed to do with a bully.

We are definitely not looking for a ceasefire. We believe that the aggressor should be punched in the mouth so that it learns a lesson and will never think of attacking our beloved Iran again.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf
IRAN'S PARLIAMENT SPEAKER

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RN Mahli @rafiamahli.com · 08/03/2026

Um. In a similar vein…something I wrote but never posted. But screencapped cause I’m weird that way: