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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 43m

As is genocide of course.

Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 43m

But you know what does play a role in International Law… apartheid, in that it’s specifically seen as illegal.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 45m

Being somewhere and being somewhere while insisting on your supremacy over everyone else who is there are different things entirely.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 2h

As an example I'd been away from most of the internet for a few days and only had occasional Bluesky access via very limited cell service and had no idea of all the politcal upheaval in Madagascar.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 3h

my biggest beef with bluesky is that I get way more updates on what Curtis Yarvin or Peter Thiel than anything on the African continent

Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 9h

What the Twitter takeover did so effectively was fracture the way we get our news. If, for example, I want to get in-depth updates on Sudan I still check in with Twitter as that's where a lot of the biggest accounts are. There's no one-stop shop anymore.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 7h

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 8h

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 7h

State power.

Mikey Brenndorfer XVX @mikeythenurse.bsky.social · 10h

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 8h

Ceasefire is the beginning not the end.

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 1d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 23h

When Jerome Flynn lost to Harrison Ford

The Boobarienne casting primitive hexes @thebarbarienne.bsky.social · 1d

I'm American and love lamb and I wondered about it too.

Turns out in typical American fashion, out west in the late 19th/early 20th century, the cattle ranchers and the shepherds had multiple violent battles (the "Range Wars") about grazing territory. The cow folks won.

Leah Jaclyn @leahjaclyn.bsky.social · 1d

It’s wild to me as an Australian that Americans just don’t eat lamb, it’s so good

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, this ain’t it babe

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 2d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

Photo of Zarah, Zack Polanski, Amna Abdullatif from We Deserve Better and Abubakr Nanabawa from The Muslim Vote

Zarah speaking to a packed room at The World Transformed

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 1d

I have no idea who you are but I can see that you’re an arsehole.

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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 1d

Non-ironically my favorite genre of writing these days is a syntactically awkward student paper that is nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 4d

incredible investigation by @972mag.com
– and an indictment of western media outlets who have disseminated fictionalized visualizations created by the Israeli army in order to justify the destruction of civilian infrastructure

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 4d

Because of Israel’s siege of Gaza imposed in 2006 where Dov Weissglas talked about putting Palestinians on a diet.

Yes some of us have been following this a long time, some of us (me) have even worked there, so nice try with your appeal to authority there.