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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 11h

Please take care of yourself, take breaks from social media whenever you need to, and don't mistake posting for morality. You don't need to weigh in on everything, especially when that thing cuts into your personal traumas.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

Israel removed the direct presence of its soldiers and settlers but maintained control of airspace, sea and land crossings, the population registry, the ability to import food and medicine and building materials, etc, and the withdrawal was explicitly designed to prevent negotiations with the PLO

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Top PM aide: Gaza plan aims to freeze the peace process

"The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser Dov Weisglass has told Haaretz.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 29/09/2026

Israel's control of Gaza was maintained to such an extent that the ICJ's ruling in July 2024 declared that Gaza has been continuously occupied since 1967 according to the conventional legal definition.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A message from Kerala: I take back everything I've ever said about dried coconut. Dried coconut, here in the land of coconut, is a friend. It is USA dried coconut that is the problem.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A message from Kerala: I take back everything I've ever said about dried coconut. Dried coconut, here in the land of coconut, is a friend. It is USA dried coconut that is the problem.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Iran's "unacceptable" conditions that Trump rejected, by the way, were: 1. Unfreeze Iran's money. Which is Iran's. Not even all the money! Just some of it! 2. Lift some of the worst sanctions / end the naval blockade. Not even all the sanctions! Just some of them! 3. Stop bombing Lebanon

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Unless you have a tremendous platform, posting is not activism. Boycotting is activism; organizing is activism; having the hard conversations with people who don’t already agree with you is activism; putting your body on the line to disrupt means of production is activism. Posting is just posting.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A number of folk are responding with some variant of “there’s nothing wrong with posting!” Y’all I post like four times a day, no one’s saying you can’t or shouldn’t — just don’t mistake that for the real work (and for that matter, don’t mistake NOT posting for NOT doing the real work.)

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Some of the most dedicated activists I know aren’t posting a word, because they’re out there putting their bodies on the line. And they get flak from people who do nothing but reblog the outrage of the hour. The dilution of advocacy to personal branding is chilling; I’m writing a book about it.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hi, are you doomscrolling?

Max the dog rolling around in the grass. He is wearing a blue harness and a red leash.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fun fact murdering schoolchildren out of malice and murdering schoolchildren out of incompetence is still murdering schoolchildren and thus I literally do not care.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 19/09/2026

“as of late January 2026, a small group of women allegedly were creating fictitious online dating profiles with the purpose of attracting and then doxxing law enforcement participating in immigration enforcement” some heroes are catfish

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sigh I gave myself permission to Just Mess Around instead of drafting linearly and now suddenly there's a bird who shows love by eating his boyfriend's fingers (he is a vampire bird, he hungers for flesh)

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I devoured the opening of this while standing next to Iz at WorldCon and it is SO much fun.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am getting medical treatment in India and tomorrow the doctor has prescribed me an hour of screaming. I feel. Mortifyingly known.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I can vouch for Archita, a fellow writer in Kolkata who's sick & struggling with costs to support her mother through cancer treatment. Chemo is degrading her mother's blood cells, & she urgently needs expensive transfusions, & might need them every time. Please share & donate, Archita's all alone:

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you're knee-jerk boosting the grifters who are accusing Macklemore of antisemitism based on a 2012 Ringo Starr costume that he already apologized for & that multiple Jewish groups (including hilariously the ADL) publicly forgave him for, you need to take a good hard look at your own motivations.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The thing is, people have been losing opportunities (and jobs and visas and tenure and life and liberty and and and) for speaking about Palestine for decades and it's very recent that this has resulted in mass boycotts and/or quitting, which is a) genuinely heartening b) why I love Irish people

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 16/09/2026

if you think ed sheeran is a spineless shitheel (as you should) and have been celebrating the bands who've quat his tour, you can join them in an act of equally principled and much more direct action right here and now, by signing up to support the Sameer Project

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is what real solidarity looks like: being willing to sacrifice opportunities and to relentlessly recenter what actually matters.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 14/09/2026

Macklemore has this extremely Seattle earnestness that is pure cringe to 90% of the rest of the country, but I knew it would see him through in the end. What is cringe but earnestness persevering

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Movies have always claimed that if an external planet-destroying force were to attack Earth, humanity would temporarily unite to battle it. But I am getting the increasing impression that many of us would race to join the planet-destroying force, lest our rivals got there first.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Yes I KNOW the alien weapons will eventually destroy us all, but in the meantime we might make a LOT OF MONEY."

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"And what if we DON'T partner with the aliens to destroy humanity, and China does it first? Or Russia? Or GOD FORBID, IRAN?? Really, what's more important here???"

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

American sanctions have already destroyed Iran's economy several times over—many Iranians literally sell their own kidneys to afford food—so at this point the new sanctions are mind-boggling shit like destroying Iran's aviation & shipping and making it illegal for Iranian citizens to take the LSAT

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I dunno man, it's almost like if you spend decades bombing children, they grow up to not like you

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I dream of a day when the murder of thousands of civilians anywhere in the world is an unimaginable horror, to be remembered for decades because of how unimaginable it is.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

An Indian-Malaysian man struck up a conversation with me at the bus stop and he declared “USA, it’s a useless country with a terrible president“ and yeah not debating you there buddy.

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The euphoria of fellow Iranians identifying me as Iranian on sight 🥰

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Just keep in mind, as prices soar, as we bomb weddings and discuss nukes, that Iran’s “impossible“ “unreasonable“ demands essentially amounted to “leave us alone, leave Lebanon alone, and pay to repair the shit you broke.”

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 03/09/2026

56 left to meet this week's goal for Spark, a community center in Gaza, which we haven't met in weeks. I decreased it by over half, and we still can't make it. 244/300 by Sunday. The BEST way to help is to click “weekly/monthly" on something SMALL. chuffed.org/project/spar...

An artistic banner with an illustration of a white clay lamp with a yellow flame, against a deep magenta background. Title: Sparks for Spark Space. Text: Spark Space is a youth-led humanitarian project serving the community with internet, electricity, and resilience. Pledge a 5 to keep it open. linktr.ee/sparkworkspace

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Monsoon season in Malaysia 💕

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This was such a fun, fascinating WorldCon full of amazing conversations and awesome panels. I love this community so much 💕 And now I’m in Malaysia! And then I’ll be getting medical treatment in India. Might be much less responsive for a few weeks (or much more! Who can say!)

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Malaysia is great because the first thing they ask at a hawker stall is “spicy?” and the second is “pork or no?”

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The India visa application was the most brutal, detailed, glitchy process I have endured in a very long time. And then they approved my application within a few hours. Go figure. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Arendse @arend.se · 30/08/2026

I'm excited to chat about fairy tales in all their forms at WorldCon tonight with @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social, @jayhartlove.bsky.social, & @swingingstorm.bsky.social. At 6pm tonight, you can consider us a warm-up for the Hugo Awards ;)

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I am so incredibly lucky that geeking out about global monsters is literally part of my job

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Slight update to my WorldCon schedule! <3

Friday August 28
10:30 AM: Respectful Retellings

Saturday August 29
4:30 PM – Horror Writing as Resistance
6 PM – Global & Regional Horror: Monsters from Different Cultures

Sunday August 30
3 PM – Pantheons Around the World
5 PM - Fracturing Fairy Tales

Monday August 31
10:30 AM - An Improvisational
Storytelling Session

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The trouble with planning a horror movie fest based on my first name is it's obviously going to start with Sinners and then everything else will be a let down

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