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Faizan

@thoraoffbeat.bsky.social
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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/04/2025
Apple quickly shipped 600 tons of iPhones to ‘beat’ the new tariffs
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Apple quickly shipped 600 tons of iPhones to ‘beat’ the new tariffs
That’s about 1.5 million iPhones.
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Faizan @thoraoffbeat.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
i have fangirled over tan man neel o neel on two other platforms and it hasn't been enough so now i have come here
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Honest question, @InternetHippo
I'm not a political expert but if you eliminated hamas but killed my whole family in the process my first move would be to start hamas 2
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Jerry Iannelli @jerryiannelli.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Red Note is genuinely a blast, the cross-cultural exchange going on is one of the most wholesome things I’ve seen in years
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/01/2025
amazing stuff is happening on rednote
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Faizan @thoraoffbeat.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
ok what are your fav overnight oats recipes
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
This is a very big announcement. #FreeOurFeeds promises to be the future of social media, and it will be, when more folks stop focusing on Twitter as the model, or fretting over VCs who knew projects like this were inevitable. www.threads.net
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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
While President Biden has consistently blamed Hamas for the failure of ceasefire talks, his failure to hold Netanyahu accountable has let the conflict drag on. Now he's trying to hide this failure by absolving Netanyahu of any blame, argues Muhammed Shehad internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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The Biden Administration’s False History of Ceasefire Negotiations - CIP
Muhammad Shehada is a Gazan writer and analyst Over the past months, outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken has given several interviews in which he repeatedly claims that Hamas, rather than Israe...
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Why is it that Brazil is one of the few countries around that remembers it is, in fact, a state with state capacity
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onion person @junlper.beer · 12/01/2025
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Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Gaza war toll likely significantly undercounts deaths, says study
An official Palestinian tally of direct deaths in the Israel-Hamas war likely undercounted the number of casualties by 41% through the middle of 2024 as the Gaza Strip's healthcare infrastructure unravelled, according to the study.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/01/2025
“This is about being accountable to the law.” The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli soldiers’ own social media footage in Gaza as evidence for war crimes investigations aje.io/cihcb4
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The Onion @theonion.com · 11/01/2025
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Mark Zuckerberg Defends Decision To Fly Confederate Flag At Facebook Headquarters
MENLO PARK, CA—Claiming that the banner embodied the spirit of the company’s values, Mark Zuckerberg defended his controversial decision Friday to fly a Confederate flag at the Facebook headquarters. ...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
the thing is like…did meta employees think they were doing something good before this week?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12/01/2025
Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu is sending senior negotiators to Qatar for a ceasefire and captive exchange talks. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/z6usl1
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/01/2025
Meta is now completely censoring searches for the terms "trans" and "transgender" etc. on Threads. So much for free speech and free expression.
The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!

The images appear to show search results on a platform for the terms "Trans" and "Transgender" under different tabs such as "Top" or "Recent." Both searches result in "No results" being displayed, indicating that no content or profiles matching these terms were found or are being displayed in the respective sections. If you need further assistance or analysis regarding these images, let me know!
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Falastin Flip @tameeolivefern.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Breaking: The Lancet has just published a study which found that Gaza death toll was *underreported by 41%* (as of Jun) due to Israel’s attacks on healthcare & disruption to record keeping. This study suggests that the current death toll is 76,820 instead of MoH’s current 46k no.
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
gosh I just don't know where the youth might get the idea that vigilante justice is the only thing left
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Akela Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This is so goddamn dark that I had to stop and question what reality I was in. WHAT?!?!? You think this person would stand being abused by bigots so other bigots learn compassion? Proximity to power corrupts like a motherfucker.
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Faizan @thoraoffbeat.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
what daawat was mira sethi at yesterday omg i want IN
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DesiLady @uzmab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This is a top tier insurance client perk www.google.com/amp/s/www.ar...
google.com
Celebrities are using private firefighters to save their neighborhoods
Private firefighting is making a comeback, as Kanye West and Kim Kardashian demonstrated over the weekend. Their home was saved, but at what cost?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/01/2025
HMPV infections are spreading in China, while cases of flu-like disease have also been found in India and the UK. Here's what you need to know about the virus aje.io/zkrv4d
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 08/01/2025
Meta CEO and dog fucker Mark Zuckerberg has said that his platforms don’t need fact-checkers. So to celebrate this win for free speech, here are some of his best quotes: chaser.com.au/general-news...
“I killed Jeffery Epstein but still miss him everyday.” – Mark Zuckerberg, 2023.
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...
But in its panicked retreat from the system it spent years building, Meta may now be putting billions of users at risk. Just because Meta deleted that line about hateful speech causing offline violence doesn't mean it isn't true. And now the company has all but declared open season on immigrants, transgender people and whatever other targets that Trump and his allies find useful in their fascist project.

"I can't tell you how much harm comes from non-illegal but harmful content," a longtime former trust and safety employee at the company told me. The classifiers that the company is now switching off meaningfully reduced the spread of hate movements on Meta's platforms, they said. "This is not the climate change debate, or pro-life vs. pro-choice. This is degrading, horrible content that leads to violence and that has the intent to harm other people."
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
NEW: On the same day Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new commitment to "Free Expression," internal employee dissent and criticism is being censored www.404media.co/facebook-del...
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Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White
"Insulting, criticizing, or antagonizing our colleagues or Board members is not aligned with the CEE."
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The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking thehardtimes.net/culture/mark...
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Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025
Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.
The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 08/01/2025
Black Mirror is starting to look a bit over optimistic
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 07/01/2025
The tech industry needs to be smashed into dust.
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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 08/01/2025
Israel is blocking the UN from investigating claims of sexual violence on October 7 because they’re worried it might lead to an investigation into all the sexual violence the IDF is currently inflicting on Palestinians they kidnapped from Gaza.
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Israel blocks UN Hamas sexual crimes probe to avoid inquiry into abuse of Palestinians
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Been fascinating to watch America take the "slowly, then all at once" approach to fascism
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
BREAKING: After Carrefour’s closure in Jordan due to sustained BDS pressure, Majid Al Futtaim Group, the partner of the French Group Carrefour in most of the Arab region, announces “Carrefour will cease operations in Oman” as of January 7, 2025. #BoycottCarrefour
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oak blanco @abomination.computer · 07/01/2025
a good PDF will have a computer gasping for air when you open it
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
Keith Wasserman: Does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors houses burning. Will pay any amount. Thank you.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/01/2025
NEW: Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
wired.com
Meta's Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were 'Blindsided' by Decision to Axe Them
Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.
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Faizan @thoraoffbeat.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
my insta filled with people selling their coldplay tix bec no one got their visas hahahahahhh
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/01/2025
Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans
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Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans
As people have shaped the natural world, so wildlife – from mahoganies to magpies – has had to evolve to survive From the highest mountains to the depths of the ocean, humanity’s influence has touched every part of planet Earth. Many plants and animals…
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
none of these words are in the bible
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3M Palestinians in Gaza, the impact of the BDS movement has grown substantially across the globe and has begun to influence some states’ policies. Read the indicators of the #BDS movement's global impact: July - Dec 2024. tinyurl.com/BDSimpacts
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/01/2025
Confirming what many observers have concluded, Israeli paper Israel Hayom says Israel may decide to stay in south Lebanon beyond the 60-day withdrawal period specified in a ceasefire. 🔗:
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Is Israel backing out of the Lebanon ceasefire terms?
Israeli media announced the army may stay past the 60-day agreed upon withdrawal date.
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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
lol. lmao.
advocate.com
President Joe Biden signs into law first federal anti-LGBTQ+ bill in decades
The National Defense Authorization Act has a provision barring the military's insurance from covering gender-affirming care for service members' children.
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Leila @leilashami.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
A hero's welcome for Raghid Ahmed Al-Tatari, Syria's longest serving political prisoner. A former military pilot he was imprisoned by Hafez Al Assad in 1981 for refusing to bomb civilians in Hama. He was recently freed.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 27/12/2024
A key international food insecurity monitor retracted a report warning of imminent famine in Israeli-sieged north Gaza after the Biden administration pressured the group to do so, new reporting finds.
truthout.org
Biden Officials Pressured US-Funded Food Monitor to Retract Gaza Famine Warning
The findings of famine conditions in north Gaza have been corroborated by myriad experts and aid groups.
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Save Nidal & Najla and their Families @nidalnajla.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Against nearly insurmountable odds, Jamal completed his university education 🎓🥳
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Faizan @thoraoffbeat.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
internet is so fucked today 😭😭
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Faizan @thoraoffbeat.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
the new jazzcash transaction success sound is SO YUMM
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Faizan @thoraoffbeat.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
chand ko pata nahii tera hai ya mera haiiii
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