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Susan Kiddie 🍉

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Pro-humanity. Anti-fascist. Anti-genocide. Human Rights. Covid conscious, history, social justice, disability rights. She/Her. Keep your mental health stigma off my feed. Dystopian living is not as much fun as people led me to believe.

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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 8d

"There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people.
And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend.
But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice."

#GazaGenocide

Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 8d

This is the kind of poetry that should never have had to be written. Tweet from Gaza doctor Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzinggaza).

Two years ago, on a Friday that now stands outside of time, my father prepared a feast. It was meant to honor life, my graduation, my return, the promise of a future. The table was full, not only with food, but with faith: the quiet, unspoken faith that tomorrow would exist. How easily we believe in continuity, in the mercy of another morning.

We gathered as one family, laughing, speaking over one another, breaking bread with careless joy, pouring juice into glasses as though it were the wine of peace itself. Each gesture was a prayer, though none of us knew it. My father’s hands moved as Christ’s once did, blessing the bread, dividing it among those he loved. And somewhere, though no one could name it, there hung in the air that same fragile foreboding that filled the upper room in Jerusalem, when love spoke its last words before betrayal.

The air trembled with that kind of happiness which only later reveals itself as farewell.

And then, silence.
The silence that only the dead can teach.

When I look now at the photographs, I see the faces of the condemned, though they did not know it. More than half of them are gone, devoured by what men call war and what truth calls murder. The homes that once contained our breathing, our prayers, our smallest tenderness, crushed. The gardens that smelled of oranges and evening, erased. I walk in memory as one walks through ruins, touching the stones of vanished laughter.

October 7 was not the birth of a war; it was the death of illusion. On that day, history tore itself open, and the wound has not closed. It bleeds through every surviving soul. And in that blood I see not only the crime of one nation against another, but the crime of humanity against itself, the old, endless betrayal that men repeat while invoking God.

If justice still exists, it must weep.
If God still looks upon this earth, He must avert His eyes.

This day should be marked forever, not as an event of politics, but as a revelation of the human abyss. Let every flag descend into silence. Let every tongue fall still. Because what was taken from us was not only life, but the very rhythm of being alive, the rustle of bread torn by a father’s hand, the sound of a child laughing before she learns what grief is.

They took from us the ordinary, and left us with eternity.

And yet, I remain. I, who ate with them, who still taste that bread in my mouth as though it were guilt itself. I live, and I do not know why. Perhaps only to remember. Perhaps only to tell the world that history is not written in treaties or speeches, but in the trembling of hands that once passed a dish across a table, in the laughter that did not know it was bidding farewell to the world.

There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people.
And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend.
But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice.

#GazaGenocide

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 7h

Disturbing video of an RCMP arrest in Cape Breton raises concerns over the tasering of a 58-year-old Mi’kmaw man.

Hear more on APTN News Brief:

APTN News Brief: October 15, 2025—Disturbing video shows RCMP tasering Mi’kmaw man twice after refusing breathalyzer

Our lead story: disturbing video of an RCMP arrest in Cape Breton raises concerns over the tasering of a 58-year-old Mi’kmaw man charged on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after refusing a...

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 4h

Military intervention should be a last resort when all other means of stopping atrocities are exhausted. In Gaza, they haven’t been. States can do more, before forces are deployed: suspend trade w Israel, issue sanctions, & prosecute perpetrators.

My take justiceinconflict.org/2025/10/15/w...

We need to talk about the “International Stabilization Force”: Canada and others say they’ll support a military intervention to ‘enforce peace’ and protect civilians in Gaza

Displaced civilians return to the North of the Gaza Strip (Photo: Mahmoud Issa/Reuters) As the first stage of the peace plan for Gaza takes shape amidst reported breaches of the fragile agreement b…

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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 3h

If this is how the Israelis are willing to treat someone like Greta, who has an international spotlight on her, it says a great deal about how they will treat the thousands of Palestinians they hold hostage without charge in "administrative detention".

Lisa Röstlund @lisarostlund.bsky.social · 9h

We’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame.

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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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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 3h

"Peace"

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4h

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at a religious event in Sderot: "There will be Jewish settlement in Gaza! Because without settlement there is no security… For the glory of Israel! Because it is ours."

Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 3h

JFC, now I can be gaslit by AI telling me I'm not in pain.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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EC Hamilton (Siobhan O'Leary) @siobhanftb.bsky.social · 7h

Idk man, when I see nominal progressives engaging in this sort of unsolicited posturing flakking disability activists and long COVID survivors for wanting buy-in on public health, it kinda just looks like someone wanting moral permission to be a reckless driver on the road.

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 18h

All seven obstetrician-gynecologists at Kamloops hospital resign

“It is fairly unprecedented for an entire group of physicians to depart, but with the state of obstetrics in our community…we see no viable way forward.”
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

Seven OB/GYNs at B.C. hospital resign, citing unsafe workloads, lack of support

Years of challenges have made the situation untenable, doctors say in letter obtained by The Globe

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6h

Israel returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians, all marked with numbers rather than names.

The bodies reportedly arrived with their hands and legs cuffed. Some were still blindfolded. Some had been shot. Others appear to have been run over by tanks.

www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Bodies of 45 deceased Palestinians transferred from Israel to Gaza remain unidentified, Nasser hospital says
From CNN's Abeer Salman and Mohammed Tawfeeq

[photo of Red Cross refrigerator truck]

A truck carrying the bodies of Palestinians who had been held in Israel during the war, arrives at Nasser hospital on Tuesday.

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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 16h

Israel is still not allowing International Media back into Gaza, despite the Ceasefire

By Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University (The Conversation) – The world’s media are currently busy recording the tales of released Israeli hostages, freed Palestinian prisoners and their families after a ceasefire came into effect for the war in Gaza. But they are doing so while still being held at a distance from the centre of […]

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 23h

I’m very very tired of “living in fear” being lobbed at maskwearers by people who frequently say they can’t wear one because no one else around them is.

Living in fear is ignoring science and endangering lives and your own health because you’re terrified of not fitting in.

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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 5h

Good luck!

Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 5h

Yikes! Hope you heal quickly. 💜

If you will forgive a suggestion, you might want to see an eye doctor just to make sure the impact to your eye hasn't caused any retinal damage.

Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely loved this when I read it a couple of years ago. My favorite of this series.

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mcewanmorton.bsky.social @mcewanmorton.bsky.social · 1d

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Cruelest forms of torture’: freed Palestinians describe horrors of Israeli jail

Men who were held in Nafha prison say they were brutally beaten, bound at the hands and feet, verbally abused, allowed to contract fungal and skin diseases, and assaulted with loud music for up to two...

www.theguardian.com

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🫧DiscordⒶntMuse🫧 @discordantmuse.bsky.social · 7h

The global majority, folks. More humanity in a hair follicle than the west as a whole.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 10h

#BREAKING | Colombian President Gustavo Petro:

“We have decided to send all the gold confiscated from drug traffickers to provide medical care for injured children in Gaza.”

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 9h

In a new violation of the ceasefire (You Cease, I Fire) agreement, two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting the Shujaiyya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City.

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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 5h

Now that is how to spend a holiday! Looks glorious.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 22h

The answer to "is Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal?" is "yes, but he's also a genocider," and this should not be controversial.

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 9h

Two years into the war in #Gaza, our colleague shares a powerful reflection on pain and hope as news of the #ceasefire brings cautious optimism.

Listen to her message.

#UNRWAworks

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The Haunted Bookshop @bookshopghost.bsky.social · 16h

No.

Our mask requirement is not "virtue signalling".

It's protecting a) the cancer patient and b) the child who is still too small to wear a mask.

And also--and I can't emphasize this strongly enough--you.

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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 6h

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 8h

The current deal states that Israel will return 15 bodies of Palestinians for each deceased Israeli captive. Estimates of the number of bodies of deceased Palestinians that Israel is currently holding range from 600-720+.

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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 7h

In the latest episode of There is a List, we follow the money that fuels the targeting and shaping of pro-Israel narratives in #Canadian newsrooms. We trace where their millions come from and whose footing the bill.

Following this #investigation? Pls support us!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3R...

There is a List, Episode 4: The Charity Loophole

YouTube video by Ricochet Media

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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 11h

We thought we had survived the genocide but then we found ourselves slowly dying..

Everything collapsed: our beautiful city our home, our lives, my office,my car & the dreams I had built with years of effort.

Survival is no longer easy, but our hope is in you.
Donate:❤️👇🏼
tinyurl.com/HelpAdhamsFa...

Donate to Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza, organized by Adham madi

Dear donor and supporter, this is a brief overview of me and my family, I want to be a… Adham madi needs your support for Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza

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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 11h

We are in dire need of restoring our dignity and humanity, and of finding a safe place to gather what remains of us after the war of extermination that destroyed everything.

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