Tristan Felix B.
@tristiger.bsky.social
Emily Balistrieri, Japanese translator: Shihodo Stationery, People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice, Tatami Galaxy, Until I Love Myself, Soul Lanterns, Kiki. he/him 日本語では: @tristora.bsky.social
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Black Friday demo @ Apple Store in NYC:
Earlier today, activists unfurled banners and called on Apple customers to skip buying new tech this year, noting the gear they’re ogling is made from minerals mined with child & slave labor. They also pointed out Apple’s subservience/contributions to Trump.
Earlier today, activists unfurled banners and called on Apple customers to skip buying new tech this year, noting the gear they’re ogling is made from minerals mined with child & slave labor. They also pointed out Apple’s subservience/contributions to Trump.
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Black Friday demo @ Apple Store in NYC:
Earlier today, activists unfurled banners and called on Apple customers to skip buying new tech this year, noting the gear they’re ogling is made from minerals mined with child & slave labor. They also pointed out Apple’s subservience/contributions to Trump.
Earlier today, activists unfurled banners and called on Apple customers to skip buying new tech this year, noting the gear they’re ogling is made from minerals mined with child & slave labor. They also pointed out Apple’s subservience/contributions to Trump.
TOKYO: We do not want the Ministry of Defense to buy drones from Israel. Please attend if you can.
EVERYONE: Please sign AND SHARE the petition now if you haven't. It's getting submitted very soon: chng.it/j5GcksCn87
EVERYONE: Please sign AND SHARE the petition now if you haven't. It's getting submitted very soon: chng.it/j5GcksCn87
November 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
TOKYO: We do not want the Ministry of Defense to buy drones from Israel. Please attend if you can.
EVERYONE: Please sign AND SHARE the petition now if you haven't. It's getting submitted very soon: chng.it/j5GcksCn87
EVERYONE: Please sign AND SHARE the petition now if you haven't. It's getting submitted very soon: chng.it/j5GcksCn87
(I remember reading that article when it came out. We should all probably read it again.)
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
(I remember reading that article when it came out. We should all probably read it again.)
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I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
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Osaka peeps >>
November 29 is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People 🍉 Kansai Gaza Emergency Action has planned a standing demo 🙌🏻
Place: JR Osaka Station by the city bus terminal
Time: Nov. 29 (Sat.) 6-7 p.m. JST
Place: JR Osaka Station by the city bus terminal
Time: Nov. 29 (Sat.) 6-7 p.m. JST
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Osaka peeps >>
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town
Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.
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"didn't sign up for this" "just following orders" listen to yourself
November 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"didn't sign up for this" "just following orders" listen to yourself
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“… coerced infection—the complete lack of mitigation and the normalization of mass and repeated infection of a debilitating virus—is ubiquitous throughout society.“
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
Our Culture of Coerced Infection
“You Do You”—unless you are trying to protect yourself from Covid
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
“… coerced infection—the complete lack of mitigation and the normalization of mass and repeated infection of a debilitating virus—is ubiquitous throughout society.“
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
open.substack.com/pub/jacobsch...
Israel is killing so many people all the fucking time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At least 12 Syrians killed in Israeli attacks after two unarmed Palestinians murdered in occupied West Bank's Jenin.
Israel bombs Syria, Gaza after extrajudicial killings in occupied West Bank
At least 12 Syrians killed in Israeli attacks after two unarmed Palestinians murdered in occupied West Bank's Jenin.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Israel is killing so many people all the fucking time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is so so weird 😅
They explained how all the other 5 rulings essentially answer the shortcomings of today's ruling.
November 28, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is so so weird 😅
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Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
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This company absolutely hates their customers and the product they sell. Nobody should give them money. They should not be in business.
These are their autogenerated subs on magic knight rayearth and they’re absolutely horrible. Cant get the name of the country/world right
November 28, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This company absolutely hates their customers and the product they sell. Nobody should give them money. They should not be in business.
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If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.
As machine translation tools under the banner of AI become increasingly accessible and easy to use, the light novel landscape is at a crossroads. Do light novel publishers compromise their product for more speed, and if so, by how much?
Does the Light Novel Translation Process Need AI?
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.
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This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.
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Plaintiff Shinya Yamagata speaks about how he didn't expect this ruling at all. "I imagine many of you feel anger. Please share that anger with others. (...) It's taking too much time; we want to get married already."
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Plaintiff Shinya Yamagata speaks about how he didn't expect this ruling at all. "I imagine many of you feel anger. Please share that anger with others. (...) It's taking too much time; we want to get married already."
Family friend: “There are hundreds of children like Mohammed, unjustly trapped in an Israeli military prison, being subjected to Israel’s abuse and torture" (stat from the same article: "as of September, 350 Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 17"). Free them all.
A 16 year old American citizen has spent the last 9 months in an Israel prison.
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Tonight he’s finally free.
Mohammed Ibrahim is a Palestinian-American from Florida.
He was arrested during an Israeli raid of his family’s home in the West Bank.
He had double digit weight loss & developed scabies
Palestinian-American teenager held in Israeli prison freed after nine months
Israeli soldiers had taken Mohammed Ibrahim from his home in a night raid when he was only 15 years old
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Family friend: “There are hundreds of children like Mohammed, unjustly trapped in an Israeli military prison, being subjected to Israel’s abuse and torture" (stat from the same article: "as of September, 350 Palestinian children between the ages of 12 and 17"). Free them all.
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"Irish author Sally Rooney has told the High Court it is 'almost certain' she cannot publish new novels in the UK and may have to withdraw her current books because of the banning of Palestine Action under terrorism laws."
Sally Rooney books may be withdrawn from UK sale over Palestine Action ban, court told
Rooney has said she intended to use royalties from her work "to go on supporting Palestine Action."
www.bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"Irish author Sally Rooney has told the High Court it is 'almost certain' she cannot publish new novels in the UK and may have to withdraw her current books because of the banning of Palestine Action under terrorism laws."
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Jesus christ this question. For shame.
Malley and Daniel Levy (who I think is a British Israeli?) are the only Westerners who seem to have actually learned anything from having been involved in the peace process themselves as negotiators.
![In a discussion at Harvard, host Tarek Masoud asked former U.S. diplomat and longtime Middle East peace negotiator Rob Malley [
@Rob_Malley
] why Americans should “invest in the Palestinian cause” when Palestinians reject what Masoud called the only “realistic” outcomes available under Israel’s overwhelming power.
Malley responded that weakness does not create an obligation to “surrender,” saying “dignity, pride [and] national self-determination matter. You don’t simply say we’re weaker, therefore we’re going to give everything up.”
Under the logic Masoud proposed, Malley pointed out, “the Israelis could say: we’re going to give you 10% of the West Bank, you’re going to live in Bantustans… and why shouldn’t the Palestinians accept it?”
Malley, who took part in negotiations in the 1990s and early 2000s, said the U.S. peace team “was not that diverse in terms of understanding why a Palestinian may not react as enthusiastically to what some people call a ‘generous’ offer.”
He said decades of talks were shaped by a “major discrepancy of narratives”: “The Israelis believe that the original sin was Palestinian rejection of ’48. The Palestinians think it was the partition plan which took away the majority of their land.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlpy6zuqqum5tumv7b6dw5fp/bafkreibgsay7mhsuv2miolitb5ez7vghp6lek74kvqjmb6oof527oouvrq@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Jesus christ this question. For shame.
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"I DNF first-person books if I can't relate to the protagonist" is a kind of illiteracy.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"I DNF first-person books if I can't relate to the protagonist" is a kind of illiteracy.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
The point of first person is not to insert yourself into a narrative. You are supposed to experience and empathize with the perspective of a character that is intended to be fully fleshed out.
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I once saw someone on Reddit justify pirating my book as "a tax on the golden elite."
I had no other employment at that point in time, and hadn't received an advance on my book. I literally had no money.
Those words made me want to cry, and to never write another word for publication.
I had no other employment at that point in time, and hadn't received an advance on my book. I literally had no money.
Those words made me want to cry, and to never write another word for publication.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I once saw someone on Reddit justify pirating my book as "a tax on the golden elite."
I had no other employment at that point in time, and hadn't received an advance on my book. I literally had no money.
Those words made me want to cry, and to never write another word for publication.
I had no other employment at that point in time, and hadn't received an advance on my book. I literally had no money.
Those words made me want to cry, and to never write another word for publication.
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We are drowning again and again
It will be a harsh, long, bitterly cold winter.
And between every storm and the next… another massacre, new displacement, lethal suffering, and bleeding grief.
If you have any spare i beg you i’am in dire need to evacuate 😣
chuffed.org/project/help...
It will be a harsh, long, bitterly cold winter.
And between every storm and the next… another massacre, new displacement, lethal suffering, and bleeding grief.
If you have any spare i beg you i’am in dire need to evacuate 😣
chuffed.org/project/help...
November 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We are drowning again and again
It will be a harsh, long, bitterly cold winter.
And between every storm and the next… another massacre, new displacement, lethal suffering, and bleeding grief.
If you have any spare i beg you i’am in dire need to evacuate 😣
chuffed.org/project/help...
It will be a harsh, long, bitterly cold winter.
And between every storm and the next… another massacre, new displacement, lethal suffering, and bleeding grief.
If you have any spare i beg you i’am in dire need to evacuate 😣
chuffed.org/project/help...
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Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.
It occurred to me that Google and other web/tech jerks have zero incentive to not enshittify search etc. but every incentive to make it so (or at least so that it feels like) the only way to get information is to ask their shitty AI.
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It occurred to me that Google and other web/tech jerks have zero incentive to not enshittify search etc. but every incentive to make it so (or at least so that it feels like) the only way to get information is to ask their shitty AI.