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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 1d

A final appeal...

Rafah crossing will open soon. We only dream of safety and of leaving this endless suffering behind.

Your help could be our last chance to live, not just survive. Please, don't let this be the end..

Donate now as much as you can and Share please. ❤️🫂👇🏼
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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2h

And like, even if this one article was satire, you KNOW that statistically there are MANY such cases out there

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2h

I am in undescribable pain after reading this. "Situationship with a coworker", "mainly use AI to message" please put me out of my misery, make it quick

Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social · 2d

'They recently started talking on LinkedIn.' LOL

"For the past three months, 28-year-old social worker Holly from Kent has been navigating a “situationship” with a co-worker. Though they knew each other from the office, they initially started speaking via LinkedIn. Now, they see each other sporadically – “I wouldn’t call them dates,” Holly deadpans – but speak often via WhatsApp. “I mainly use AI because I tend to write really long messages,” she says, “so I’ll put them into ChatGPT and say, ‘Please make this softer and more clear’, or, ‘I need to sound harsher here so he understands I’m upset.’” She doesn’t feel that it’s misleading – “I’m not trying to manipulate anyone,” she says."

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2h

Conflicting information whether Dr Hussam Abu Safiya will be released today, as it pleases the genocidal entity to see people squirm. I've been following his story since he was abducted and I'm anxiously waiting to see him free. I hope he does get released today.

natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · Jul 19

He's been there for over 200 days

Gaza doctor given two spoonfuls of rice a day in Israeli jail

middleeasteye
A lawyer representing Palestinian Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has raised concerns over his deteriorating health and routine torture in Israeli detention, where inmates are given only two spoonfuls of rice a day.⁠
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In an interview with Arab48, published Thursday, lawyer Gheed Kassem said that the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital had faced severe physical assault that resulted in bruising to his head, neck, rib cage, and back. ⁠
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When Dr Abu Safiya requested medical assistance for complications stemming from the beatings, including an irregular heartbeat, his request was denied.⁠
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Medical neglect and abuse in Israeli-run prisons have been well-documented, with such practices reportedly intensifying since the events of 7 October 2023.⁠
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Abu Safya, who remains in solitary confinement at the Ofer military prison - which houses 450 detainees from the Gaza Strip - weighs no more than 60 kilograms, according to his lawyer. ⁠
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She said that since his detention in late December, the senior paediatrician and neonatologist had lost 40 kilograms, describing his body as "emaciated." ⁠
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Additionally, Dr Abu Safiya is held in an underground cell that is completely isolated and receives no natural light.⁠
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"He knows nothing about the outside world, and he is still wearing winter clothes," Kassem explained.⁠
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The lawyer described how Palestinians imprisoned there are allowed only two spoonfuls of rice a day, while both sugar and salt are completely banned "to prevent any rise in the happiness hormone, even a small one, from eating sugar".⁠
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"This is in addition to the frequent cell raids, the torture, and the constant searches that prisoners are subjected to."⁠
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Abu Safiya has been categorised as an "unlawful combatant" by Israeli authorities, despite him being a civilian doctor. This classification means there is no formal indictment against him.⁠

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 21h

Ruba is very desperate, & has asked that I share this video of her destroyed home again, so people can understand what Israel has left most Palestinians with--rubble and devastation. Please share & give if you can, her family's starving, exhausted, & needs funds to rebuild. No donations for 5 days:

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2h

finally the "unhinged literary opinion" post reached the people with juicy things to say

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2h

No ceasefire is ever a ceasefire when you're dealing with a genocidal occupying state with the support of the world's powers.

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: The death toll has risen to five after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to medical sources.

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2h

Quds News Network reported quadcopters are firing at people. At least three dead.
Warplanes also just bombed people trying to return to their homes in Gaza City. 5 dead.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2h

Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians in Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza

Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians in Gaza

<article data-history-node-id="430162" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-opened-fire-suspects-gaza" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians in Gaza </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p style="margin-bottom:11px">The Israeli army issued a statement stating that Israeli soldiers opened fire at Palestinians calling them "several suspects" who came closer to troops stationed in northern Gaza on Tuesday morning.</p> <p>"Attempts were made to distance the suspects. The suspects did not comply and continued approaching the troops, who opened fire to remove the threat," the statement said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

www.middleeasteye.net

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HELL WIZARD @pyramidmaster.bsky.social · 8h

second thought: people use dunking on shit as indicators of taste but if you ask them to discuss works they love and why, you will hear a very small repeating pool because they don’t actually have taste or a grounding in the field beyond dunk material

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2h

I can kinda reach Tamino's notes in "Habibi" but it sounds uhh excruciating. However it means I could do it well if I practiced it (which I will not do as it is more comfortable to simply live with the delusion of "well if I wanted I would!!")

natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 3h

the vocal range sounds wild but I am hypermobile and it's just a thing that happens. It also gave me vocal cord dysfunction tho

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 3h

I lied. My biggest delusion is thinking I can sing a Mariah Carey song without cracking my voice (not as high pitch as her because I'm not THAT delusional)

natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 2d

my biggest delusion is that I think I can sound like Galadriel in the beginning of fellowship of the ring

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 3h

we all dead-dove ourselves with something, zero judgement tbh

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 3h

“They saw him take his last breath, yet he was killed during torture,”

Recounts a freed Palestinian detainee, exposing the lethal conditions faced by Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

He also warns that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya remains in Israeli prisons, subjected to ongoing torture.

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 3h

For the first time in two years, I noticed the sound of birds chirping because of the sound of the drone zzzzzzzz.

#GAZA

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 3h

Just a little over a decade ago we were having what seemed to be the biggest surveillance scandal of the century with Snowden whistleblowing on the NSA. Not even a decade later and we've normalized surveillance so aggressively most people don't even think about it as surveillance

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 3h

The Aadhar was made to expand India's digital surveillance state, disenfranchise the poor and oppressed, and adding another obstacle to proving you're a citizen. Aadhar, passport, voter's card, PAN card, ration card, birth certificate, none of it is enough.

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 6h

Excellent Guardian piece on Aadhar, India's digital ID system, that captures the dilemma extremely well. Digital-by-default methods create huge convenience for some, double-down on social exclusion for others, and it is easy for their scope to rapidly expand www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Your basis to live is checked at each and every step’: India’s ID system divides opinion

Keir Starmer is considering Aadhaar as model for UK, but detractors warn of ‘digital coercion’ and security breaches

www.theguardian.com

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 14h

so many Palestinian hostages released after being in dungeons for decades. There are people that stayed locked up for as long as I am alive. This is so heartbreaking

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 14h

not sure how to feel about you not being a literal human-sized clementine, something shook in my world

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 14h

Clem those are so hot what the hell

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JBR @jetblackraider.itch.io · 17h

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 15h

You're sitting on a kicksled, whizzing through the snow. A warm, kind presence is guiding the sled behind you, her mittened hand resting on your back. You feel very, very loved -- and very, very safe.

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 1d

you have to kill the devil's advocate in your brain when you're writing, you have to smother the imaginary bad faith reader that lives in your head. Trying to please the voice that tells you the person reading your work is ignorant/malicious is a mind-killer. There are better ways to create cohesion

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 20h

ICYMI, my horror short 'You Will Survive This Night' (1st pub COME JOIN US BY THE FIRE s2, Nightfire), now free to read as a reprint. A woman in her 30s is dragged to a late night winter house party in the poshest part of Kolkata & regrets it even more than expected. Here be monsters, mundane & not:

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natasha @natasharedmane.bsky.social · 19h

There are people who would argue that pirating it is the moral thing to do but I don't even know how to pirate games lmao
(Are you aware of the absolute mess around DE?)

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