The name Abdul El-Sayed never made sense to me (two ال?? And Sayed is not one of god's attributes as far as I know) only today I realised it's Abd ul-Rahman Al-sayyid

increasingly convinced that polanski will not survive as gpew leader until the next general election

A well screwed on head on her shoulders, good luck to all Michiganders

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2h ago

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

A reality in which a Palestinian citizen of Israel is assaulted and brutalized because he is Palestinian is one that no one can or should accept. Palestinians, like all people, must be able to go about their day without fearing for their lives. (4/4)

The last few years have seen an escalation in attacks on Palestinian bus drivers and sanitation workers, with Israeli labor union organization Koah LaOvdim citing 30% more attacks in 2025 compared to 2024. There were dozens of attacks in Jerusalem alone last year. (3/4)

considering that Abdul overall tanked in the rurals relative to polling it's funny that nobody told the UP about that

@andrewtheblueskier.bsky.social has told me about how massive Only Fools and Horses is/was in Serbia (though *unduly* is probably a bit unfair in this case)

Would you believe in a love at first sight? Yes I'm certain it happens all the time

there are three Jews living in Chelm currently according to the latest Polish census

the funny thing about people in the western world being angry at sikhs for taking all the trucking jobs is that people in India are also angry with them for taking all the trucking jobs. It's not you. It's what we do. We are the Truck Guys.

I hate the "embarassing person is fake" impulse

I have been going on about a Scots dub of Star Wars : The Phantom Menace for years. Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor can both redub their own lines in Scots.

Aw yes! Today in UK languages news BBC News - Star Wars dubbed in Welsh for the first time to celebrate landmark anniversary www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Star Wars dubbed in Welsh for the first time to celebrate landmark anniversary

The Welsh language version of the classic 1977 film will feature Matthew Rhys as Han Solo.

bbc.co.uk

oversharing implies the existence of undersharing, where you tell a complete stranger /too little/ about your private life

If you won't listen to anyone else and you can't think for yourself then listen to this

Meyada@melari.bsky.social · 15h ago

Yeah, I just really wish people would stop engaging in stupid bullshit that only serves to decenter Palestine in the conversation!

L Ron Hubbard has been dethroned

Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 19h ago

Elon Musk is the world’s best-compensated sci-fi novelist.

I wanna blow my damn head off reading some of the Discord messages I was posting in March 2017

that current affairs article is what people are talking about when they say that there's a kind of left wing commentary that's essentially attempting literary analysis on real life

Palpable hit

They also gave Haley a green one for transparency

First thing I saw when I opened my Instagram today

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

You could argue it took Caracalla to completely eclipse that grant of citizenships, Romans didn't give citizenship such heavily populated areas as Attica in one sweep, incorporation of Latin cities was steady, but gradual process that was slow enough that Romans had civil war over it.

> Uses force optimized for COIN operations against a poorly armed insurgency with no sustainment ability or long range fires > Runs out of materiel because you forgot mass industrial warfare against actual states was a thing Many such cases!

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · yesterday

"US has used 'virtually all' PrSM and ATACM munitions" we are out of ammo www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

Goldsworthy has an interesting reflection on Athens and Sparta in his book, in that they both achieved stability by two contrasting approaches, that Athens did it by including as many people as politically possible in their system and Sparta by excluding as many people as feasible in a Greek polity.

i wish i still believed in the frankly imo dubious idea that how healthy a civil society is depends entirely on institutional design

"Jews are not discriminated against" is only a belief worth protecting if you are literally a nazi

Bluesky is more antisemitic (and more any type of bigotry) than the median user thinks, yes, that's true

Bluesky does not have the same proportion of antisemitism as Twitter, do not be ridiculous, I am quite qualified to judge this roughly at least

If an individual has a fear of returning to their country of origin but that fear is based on the perception of the national government's reaction to the individual's initial decision to emigrate *and nothing else*, would a forced return of that individual be considered refoulement?