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Sufyan Abbasi

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Just trying to survive climate change and late stage capitalism. Posts, likes, and thoughts are my own. AWU-gler working on Earth Engine he/him | http://sufy.me | sufsters@ on that one site we don’t talk about anymore

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · Nov 9

"The idea of a hierarchy of human value is a very well-marketed idea in our media and our politics, and things will really start to change when we place our blame more on those who are selling it for their own gain than those who are desperate enough to buy it."

~ Heather McGhee

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 20h

Northwest Flight 188 is when you have an important meeting at 2pm but you decide to start doing something quick at 1:50 and then you check the time and it’s 2:22.

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 1d

“Every day when you’re walking down the street

And your shoes melt to your feet

And the mosquitos are enjoying a feast…” 🎶

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 1d

Hey now, let them cook…

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 1d

“GG 2 EZ”

- Climate Change

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 1d

USB A 1.0 could do 12psi but when the 3.0 standard came out, they realized that people needed at least 36psi for their daily needs, which is slightly higher than the USB C 35psi cap, but plugging it in the wrong way kept wearing down the connection causing leaks, so I think the tradeoff is fine.

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Dr Javid Abdelmoneim @intlpresident.msf.org · 1d

Many world leaders will get a letter from me today, demanding overdue concrete action to save Palestinian lives.

They must increase the number of medical evacuations from Gaza. Patients with life-threatening conditions cannot wait any longer:

A letter to world leaders from MSF's International President | MSF

Dr Javid Abdelmoneim, our International President, appeals to the humanity of world leaders, asking them to facilitate medical evacuations from Gaza, Palestine.

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 2d

“Starting with lost pets” is so telling. The implication I’m reading is that they want to treat people like animals.

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WIRED @wired.com · 2d

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on making public transit accessible: "I think the way that you move around the city, it influences the way in which you see the city. Too often if you're riding around only in a car with tinted windows, the only New Yorker you might see is a reflection of yourself."

Zohran Mamdani, the Internet’s Mayor

Mere months ago, New York’s mayoral front-runner was polling right next to “Someone Else.” He spoke to WIRED about building a social media machine, Big Tech capitulation, and learning from Eric Adams.

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 2d

It’s what our very obviously closeted-atheist Founding Fathers would have wanted 😌

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 2d

America is a DEIST nation, built on the FUNDAMENTAL belief that God is a WATCHMAKER that set the universe in MOTION and has been CHILLIN’ ever since

(joke standing, laws should be based on plastic, universal moral principles and not moored in any one, static religious moral code)

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 3d

We read a book in our bookclub called “Why We Sleep” and the number one takeaway from it was that knowing about how crucial it is for brain function has made sleeping more difficult, because you get stressed out about lack of sleep ahah.

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 3d

“Hey boss, I got the poop pictures you wanted, hot off the ass”

“THE MACHINE LEARNING MODEL NEEDS MORE! I NEED MORE POOP PICTURES, AND NOT JUST FROM ONE, WELL-REPRESENTED DEMOGRAPHIC!”

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 3d

Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power!

*shows early 2000’s flip phone alarm set to a voice recording of Linkin Park’s “In the End”*

Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 3d

1930s Phonograph Doubled as an Alarm Clock, Letting People Start Their Day with Their Favorite Record

The Deutsches Uhrensmuseum introduces the French-made Peter Pan clock above as follows: Even as early as 1930, people were trying to find a way to replace the unpleasant sound of the alarm clock. The ...

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 4d

You are brilliant!!! The trumpet solo in the middle is *chefs kiss*

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 4d

And of course, @molleindustria.org has a ton of games that fit this category—McDonald’s Simulator being the most radicalizing game of my youth. I remember plowing down forests for cattle grazing and having to pay off activists for it… it doesn’t feel good!

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 4d

Of course, there’s also Paper’s Please—there is nothing more radicalizing than making you perform the bureaucracy of fascists.

Both games might have some nuance about the need for content moderation and/or border control, but they paint an overall narrative of how fucked up the job is.

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 4d

I guess another way is to build mechanics around the tools of fascism, leading the player into rethinking their existence.

Hypnospace Outlaw comes to mind where you play as a censorship police, and coming back to the sites you’ve censored, you can see the emotional toll it’s had.

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 4d

Hmmm… I guess it’s not entirely co-opt proof… that’s tough! But hopefully the complexity of weaving narrative and mechanic makes building a white supremacist versions of the game too difficult for the opposition to even try.

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 4d

… that help you deal with encounters from the gestapo, hiding your thoughtcrime, and schmoozing with party leaders to gain access to the privileged elite, or perhaps lead an underground revolution.

I see it less like a beat’em up, and more like Disco Elysium, and a tad bit of V for Vendetta?

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 4d

I’ve been playing a ton of Hades II, I’m thinking a Roguelike where you work your way through a fascist regime to eventually lead to its downfall. You start out oppressed, not having the vocabulary due to suppression (1984), but you stumble upon real pages from radical literature that imbues skills…

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 5d

For sure, OP was very clear that they were being intentionally inflammatory in their phrasing but of course, BlueSky gotta BlueSky.

And, technically speaking, OP is not wrong: Mamdani is a trained performer… Have they not seen his rap game???

Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 5d

Did the article mention that Alcatraz is an important site for Indigenous People and was the site of an occupation movement to reclaim the island? There, you can still see graffiti from when 89 people held down the island. I would rather they give the land back!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupat...

Occupation of Alcatraz - Wikipedia

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 6d

If the government doesn’t show up in the next 15 minutes, do I legally get to skip my civic duties?

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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 6d

If this is how one of the world's most famous people is treated, we can only begin to imagine* what captive Palestinians have experienced.

* We don't actually need to imagine. There are countless, corroborated accounts from Palestinians and Israelis.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Sufyan Abbasi @sufy.me · 6d

It’s interesting when you consider that both things, ICE and lack of ice, are two sides of the same coin.