Apothetes (he / him)
@apothetes.bsky.social
Erik reads a lot, and puzzles about how culture works & sometimes doesn’t, but he is no scholar let alone scientist and seldom tests hypotheses. 🏳️🌈 Non-Indigenous, living on unceded Widjabul Wia-Bal | Bundjalung Country
A journalist covering events was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers, while locals were also attacked.
Israeli forces detain Palestinians during raid in occupied West Bank
A journalist covering events was severely beaten by Israeli soldiers, while locals were also attacked.
aljazeera.com
Every indication is that they’re going to destroy Qalandiya refugee camp, displacing everyone… We need international action, now.
Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 9h agoIsraeli army launches large-scale assault in East Jerusalem refugee camp - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-launches-large-scale-assault-east-jerusalem-refugee-camp
Abdul El Sayed's open-mindedness on the question of how to actually resolve the question of Palestine is one of the best indicators of his overall intelligence and sincerity. Policymakers in DC should adopt a rights-based approach which prioritizes ending the occupation and apartheid systems.
Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · yesterdayEl-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
Americans across the political spectrum, including clear majorities of independents and Democrats, don’t just want to end weapons giveaways to Israel, but want to end our ruinous alliance with Israel itself. Read more from IMEU Policy Project’s policy director Josh Ruebner:
Israel Is Losing Support But Ending Taxpayer-Funded Weapons Isn’t Enough
From enjoying a once seemingly unassailable position of broad bipartisan support in the United States, the American people have decisively soured on Israel, horrified and repelled by the reality that ...
joshruebner.substack.com
If Australians cannot object to a blatant genocide then we have lost all semblance of humanity....
“Australians are not being investigated for hating Jews. They are being investigated for objecting to a genocide.” Andrew Brown on the Royal Commission into #Antisemitism #auspol michaelwest.com.au/royal-commis...
Royal Commission into Antisemitism a "$131 Million Whinge" - Michael West
Royal Commission into Antisemitism will not defeat antisemitism. It is a government buying absolution with $131m of public money
michaelwest.com.au
“The Lower Pecos Canyonlands contains thousands of archaeological sites dating back more than 10,000 years, including hundreds of sacred murals painted by the ancestors of the Indigenous communities that continue to occupy the region. The oldest surviving paintings are about 6,000 years old”
IFLScience@iflscience.com · yesterdayUS Government waives laws protecting Native American graves to build border wall. www.iflscience.com/us-governmen...
“Weizman shows how Israel’s invasion of Gaza included an intentional, systematic plan of destroying the conditions for Palestinian life and rebuilding the land into something available for Israeli resettlement.” I review Eyal Weizman’s new book @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/g...
The Architecture of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
A new book describes the destruction of Palestinian life street by street.
foreignpolicy.com
When we say that the Israeli gov is cruel at its core, and that it in fact finds joy in its cruelty, we are talking about things like wishing to surround Palestinian prisoners with literal crocodiles. There is no end to this if Israel itself never faces political and economic consequences.
Megaphone News@megaphone.news · 2d agoItamar Ben Gvir attacked an Israeli court and accused it of “siding with terrorists” after it ruled on Sunday to freeze a plan to dig moats around prisons and fill them with crocodiles to terrorize Palestinian prisoners.
Really good piece. "You used to be able to be poor in a city and still live in it." A city dies when its working people cannot afford living there.
Eoghan Sweeney@eoghan.eurosky.social · 3d agoSuperb piece on the death of Dublin, killed by greed. It's not immigrants who wielded the blade; it's our own, developers and property owners obsessed with squeezing every penny of profit out of the city, on the backs of stressed, overworked people they've priced out of living in it #spéirġorm
August 2026 Staff Picks Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep Pelin Tan, Anton Vidokle 2022 A meditation on life, death, friendship, love, and immortality. The 47 minute film is in Kurdish & Turkish and features an all-woman cast of actors from Amed Theater in Diyarbakır. www.e-flux.com/film/6736234...
Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep - Film - e-flux
Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep. August 2026 edition of Staff Picks.
e-flux.com
"Israel has continued what Palestinian authorities describe as daily violations of the ceasefire agreement, which has been in force since 10 October 2025. As of Monday, the reported violations had killed 1,250 Palestinians and injured 4,110 others."
Middle East Monitor@middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · yesterdayUN: Israel killed more than 150 Palestinians in Gaza during July
The Arab League has said Israel must not be allowed to achieve its objective of expanding its occupation of the Gaza Strip, warning against attempts to derail efforts to move to the second phase of the ceasefire agreement. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-ara...
"He said Israeli war crimes were being documented... to be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. Individual Lebanese citizens have the right to bring cases against Israel before European courts, and some have already begun exercising that right."
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · yesterdayAs Israeli strikes and home demolitions continue in southern Lebanon, a government official outlined the country's options for legally pursuing Israel:
EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter on Monday encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to veto Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to
EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter
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"At a media event, which the ABC was denied access to, Mr Pickering told reporters One Nation intended to govern in Victoria."
Andy Fleming@slackbastard.bsky.social · 2d agoPHONy is holding a $120 fundraiser at The Tower Hotel (686 Burwood Road, Hawthorn East) tonight & some nogoodniks have turned up to say "Gidday!" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
"In Jerusalem’s Old City, Israeli teenagers recently banged on the door of the headquarters of the Armenian Apostolic Church and asked if there were Christians inside it. They wanted to spit at them.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Spitting Attacks Show Rise of Anti-Christian Hate in Israel
Negative attitudes toward Christianity are becoming more common among young Israelis.
wsj.com
not just buried in Australia, but buried in every foreign jurisdiction that is taking the same ugly shortcuts to avoid real regulation of tech. Hello Norway :)
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
“”Children need play to recover. In Gaza, that right has almost disappeared. Any safe space where children can laugh, interact with others and express themselves becomes an essential part of psychological recovery."”
The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 2d agoA Palestinian therapist is using rescued animals to help Gaza's displaced children heal from war trauma and find moments of joy amid ongoing destruction:
"Ash told ABC that the female perpetrator entered the site filming on her phone, while the male started to pull pieces of the wood out of the sacred fire and throw them around. "I was sitting with one of our sisters who was pregnant and one of our aunties who is elderly, so I got up to respond.""
Andy Fleming@slackbastard.bsky.social · 2d ago'On Sunday night, Ash Ni Mara, 37, was allegedly attacked by two strangers attempting to extinguish the campfire' at Camp Sovereignty (which a group of nazis, led by Tom Sewell, allegedly attacked following the March for White Australia in AUG last year): www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
The Geneva-based Association of Victims of Torture (AVTT) has issued an international appeal demanding the immediate and unconditional release of opposition leader Rached Ghannouchi and other political prisoners in Tunisia. www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260803-rig...
With less than three months until Israelis head to the polls, Netanyahu is using the same political trick that put him in the Prime Minister's Office in the first place: Keeping the general public in a constant state of fear and anxiety www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Haaretz Today • Netanyahu needs Israelis to live in fear, lest they start thinking rationally
With less than three months until Israelis head to the polls, Netanyahu is using the same political trick that put him in the Prime Minister's Office in the first place: Keeping the general public in ...
haaretz.com
Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...
Inside Britain's university crisis
As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter
democracyforsale.substack.com
“Israel seeks to continue the killing, starvation and siege in the Strip, and to obstruct any actual, practical progress in the second phase of the agreement, without explicitly announcing its rejection of the roadmap.”
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 2d agoIsrael defies Trump’s peace plan as it escalates deadly attacks on Gaza https://aje.news/7gl7wi
An Israeli court halted Ben Gvir's crocodile prison plan after an animal rights challenge, not over the treatment of Palestinian prisoners:
Israel halts crocodile plan over animal, not Palestinian rights
An Israeli court halted Ben Gvir’s crocodile prison plan after an animal rights challenge, not over the treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
newarab.com
it's a low key thermonuclear bomb of truth that some polls show that a majority of Dem voters would support war reparations to Iran
Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · 3d agoA growing number of Americans, including 58% of Democrats, say the US should be responsible for some reparations to Iran for war damage - a measurable increase from the previous week.
100% yes on the social dimension, many people can't/won't run images through watermark-checking systems in many contexts i just also want to point out that engineers love antisocial puzzles, and engineers have been working on this particular "generate a watermark defeater" puzzle for some time now.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoGoogle's statement that it includes a watermark that can identify them as AI-generated is completely braindead as to how disinformation works. You think people spending literally three seconds to derail a discussion give a shit about that? This is so easy to abuse www.404media.co/google-earth...
