saghira efendi
@taalluq.bsky.social
sir/ma'am they/them, mütemâdiyen seyyâl, prone to awe, yoghurt purist.
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new recession indicator, we can't even afford colors anymore
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
new recession indicator, we can't even afford colors anymore
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In memory of:
Amir Ihab Rafiq Abu Mousameh / أمير ايهاب رفيق ابو مسامح
Age: 1
We will not forget you.
Amir Ihab Rafiq Abu Mousameh / أمير ايهاب رفيق ابو مسامح
Age: 1
We will not forget you.
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
In memory of:
Amir Ihab Rafiq Abu Mousameh / أمير ايهاب رفيق ابو مسامح
Age: 1
We will not forget you.
Amir Ihab Rafiq Abu Mousameh / أمير ايهاب رفيق ابو مسامح
Age: 1
We will not forget you.
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Some deep irony to China questioning Japan’s sovereignty over Okinawa over Japan’s support for Taiwan. As for me, I ask, why not self-determination for Okinawans? And also Taiwanese, Tibetans, and Uyghurs, and whoever? None of us are free until we all are, lol
"China Raises Okinawan Self-Determination to Challenge Japan, But Why Not Self-Determination for All?" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
China Raises Okinawan Self-Determination to Challenge Japan, But Why Not Self-Determination for All? | New Bloom Magazine
Comments by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seen as expressing support for Taiwan have led to a large response from China. One has seen flights canceled, bans on Japanese imports…
newbloommag.net
December 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Some deep irony to China questioning Japan’s sovereignty over Okinawa over Japan’s support for Taiwan. As for me, I ask, why not self-determination for Okinawans? And also Taiwanese, Tibetans, and Uyghurs, and whoever? None of us are free until we all are, lol
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
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discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either
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Evil corporation saying war crimes are good for business is something from the Onion.
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Evil corporation saying war crimes are good for business is something from the Onion.
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"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds reut.rs/3MFJWnW
Billionaires are inheriting record levels of wealth, UBS report finds
The spouses and children of billionaires inherited more wealth in 2025 than in any previous year since reporting began in 2015, according to UBS's Billionaire Ambitions Report published on Thursday.
reut.rs
December 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM
"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."
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In memory of:
Naji Subhi Mahmoud Al-Shrafi / ناجي صبحي محمود الشرافي
Age: 70
We will not forget you.
Naji Subhi Mahmoud Al-Shrafi / ناجي صبحي محمود الشرافي
Age: 70
We will not forget you.
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In memory of:
Naji Subhi Mahmoud Al-Shrafi / ناجي صبحي محمود الشرافي
Age: 70
We will not forget you.
Naji Subhi Mahmoud Al-Shrafi / ناجي صبحي محمود الشرافي
Age: 70
We will not forget you.
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The west's favourite genocidal army, the IDF, has sent out the usual maps again, meaning they're going to bomb southern Lebanon any minute now
Your daily reminder that Israel does not care about ceasefires it commits itself to
Your daily reminder that Israel does not care about ceasefires it commits itself to
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The west's favourite genocidal army, the IDF, has sent out the usual maps again, meaning they're going to bomb southern Lebanon any minute now
Your daily reminder that Israel does not care about ceasefires it commits itself to
Your daily reminder that Israel does not care about ceasefires it commits itself to
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Netanyahu's candidate for the new head of Mossad, General Roman Gupman, was the person who built and coordinated the infamous "Gaza Humanitarian Fund". The GHF "hunger games" model of aid supply led to the killing of at least a thousand Palestinians seeking food, and the wounding of many more.
December 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Netanyahu's candidate for the new head of Mossad, General Roman Gupman, was the person who built and coordinated the infamous "Gaza Humanitarian Fund". The GHF "hunger games" model of aid supply led to the killing of at least a thousand Palestinians seeking food, and the wounding of many more.
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Philly-area grad students (regardless of institution) -- I have 1-2 spots in my spring seminar, Readings in the History of Capitalism. We'll meet on Wednesdays from 2-4:20. Email or DM if you're interested.
December 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Philly-area grad students (regardless of institution) -- I have 1-2 spots in my spring seminar, Readings in the History of Capitalism. We'll meet on Wednesdays from 2-4:20. Email or DM if you're interested.
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
Why must everything be gambling
Wtf are we doing?
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
December 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Why must everything be gambling
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Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
December 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Today in “Marginal income & wealth taxes are too low & this poses an existential threat to the Republic”
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i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Review: Yes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
Political journalist Olivia Nuzzi has dazzled the media with scandals, but her prose is less sparkling. Her much-anticipated new memoir is rife with arrogance and thin on sourcing.
www.latimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
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Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers | CNN
Ammar Wadi knew he was risking his life when he set out to get a bag of flour for his family from an aid truck near the Zikim crossing into Gaza in June.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
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No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.
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« Durant toute la réalisation de ce projet, à chaque choix, on se demandait si on en avait besoin ou si on savait faire avec moins »
...alors qu'ici j'ai l'impression q'avec chaque choix on se demande comment on pourrait gonfler davantage la facture...
www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
...alors qu'ici j'ai l'impression q'avec chaque choix on se demande comment on pourrait gonfler davantage la facture...
www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
La Presse en France | Un tramway 10 fois moins cher qu’à Québec ou à Montréal
Il ressemble à n’importe quel autre tramway, roule comme n’importe quel autre tramway et transporte des passagers comme n’importe quel autre tramway. Seule différence : son coût.
www.lapresse.ca
December 2, 2025 at 1:37 PM
« Durant toute la réalisation de ce projet, à chaque choix, on se demandait si on en avait besoin ou si on savait faire avec moins »
...alors qu'ici j'ai l'impression q'avec chaque choix on se demande comment on pourrait gonfler davantage la facture...
www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
...alors qu'ici j'ai l'impression q'avec chaque choix on se demande comment on pourrait gonfler davantage la facture...
www.lapresse.ca/internationa...
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In memory of:
Diaa Kamel Mahmoud Mustafa / ضياء كامل محمود مصطفى
Age: 12
We will not forget you.
Diaa Kamel Mahmoud Mustafa / ضياء كامل محمود مصطفى
Age: 12
We will not forget you.
December 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In memory of:
Diaa Kamel Mahmoud Mustafa / ضياء كامل محمود مصطفى
Age: 12
We will not forget you.
Diaa Kamel Mahmoud Mustafa / ضياء كامل محمود مصطفى
Age: 12
We will not forget you.
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a lot of people on here don't want to admit it but anti-arab racism is a load bearing pillar of US liberal foreign policy consensus
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
a lot of people on here don't want to admit it but anti-arab racism is a load bearing pillar of US liberal foreign policy consensus
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personally I preferred the Atlantic's review
December 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
personally I preferred the Atlantic's review
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Trump DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon describes the crackdown on schools & speech in response to alleged antisemitism.
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
December 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Trump DOJ official Harmeet Dhillon describes the crackdown on schools & speech in response to alleged antisemitism.
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
Minutes later, asked about Nick Fuentes, she says: “the antidote to speech that you don't like is more speech. It isn't shutting down speech.”
There are theocracies in the world without this kind of heavenly mandated supernatural king belief. Wild things continue to happen in the US of A.
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
There are theocracies in the world without this kind of heavenly mandated supernatural king belief. Wild things continue to happen in the US of A.
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It’s gonna be so weird to tell your kids in the 2040’s like “Yeah Boomers and Gen Xers, even liberal boomers/gen xers, had a strange parasocial attachment to this middle eastern pariah state. Yeah *that* one.”
lol at her positively talking about going on CBS in the Weiss era
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It’s gonna be so weird to tell your kids in the 2040’s like “Yeah Boomers and Gen Xers, even liberal boomers/gen xers, had a strange parasocial attachment to this middle eastern pariah state. Yeah *that* one.”