a major problem with bluesky is that i can offhandedly remark "i hate drawing, its too hard" and then a sweet old lady will gently encourage me and kindly point me to some useful resources to get started drawing and i dont know what to do with myself

Wall Street Journal headline: How to Work—and Love It—Into Your 80s and Beyond

Capitalist messaging just keeps getting more and more bleak.

هذا الكلام غير صحيح بالمرة أنا سعودية كيف قررت إن الأغلبية كذا؟ عملت إحصاء؟ قضيت فترة بين الناس وعرفتيهم ومعك قصص وشواهد حقيقية ؟ أو اعتمدت بسذاجة على السوشلميديا؟

If I ever again say something like "I thought we were better than this," hit me very hard with the largest object you can find within an arm's length.

i am no longer up for debating whether palestinians deserve to live. the answer is an emphatic yes, palestinians deserve to live with dignity and freedom. nothing will ever justify a genocide. killing more than 7,000 civilians who belong to a distinct ethnic group in less than a month is a genocide.

Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin · 1h Aljazeera says phone and internet lines in Gaza have gone dark. Unable to reach their reporters. People on here with family in Gaza saying they've suddenly lost contact as well. Coinciding with massive airstrikes over the last 20 minutes.

Horrific.

Typically a very bad sign of things to come in authoritarian countries

If you quote-tweet and comment positively or neutrally, that's great!

If you quote-tweet someone just to say "look at this asshole, please harass them", that's not ok here.

It was the norm on twitter.

فكرة اختفاء الناس اللي توثق الحقيقة هناك بالتدريج مرعبة

About 100,000 protesters join pro-Palestinian march through London About 100,000 people joined a pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London on Saturday, marching through the British capital to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza following the Hamas attack on Israel two weeks ago.

About 100,000 protesters join pro-Palestinian march through London

The Israeli occupation will end suddenly The strength of organizations working to end the occupation and their supporters is greater than we think.

I read this piece by the Israeli human rights lawyer Michael Sfard in 2016. I remember at the time thinking that he had nailed it, and I've thought about this piece often since then. I just googled to find it again this evening; it still rings so, so true. Even as far away as peace feels now.

Weird how the folks who spent the past 7 years turning "Cancel cCulture" into a political cudgel have no issues with a nation-state hiring PR firms to literally hunt down & get people fired & expelled for expressing beliefs on social media that are in opposition to their own.

هههه إلا فيه بس لازم نبحبش نطلعهم

ليش أحس إني في البر? مخيمنا القديم هههه