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activist scholar in a committed relationship w/ collective liberation. working towards a world where all worlds fit @fromtheperiphery.com @mutualaidpod.bsky.social @thefirethesetimes.com

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

🧵 I decided to take a look at how the chemical weapon denialists were responding to the latest news out of Syria about chemical weapons, and this reply from Aaron Mate says a lot about the credibility of the denialists positions.

Aaron Mate X post - "This article is misleading. Not surprising coming from an outlet that has pretended that the OPCW's Douma cover-up scandal and the dissenting inspectors who challenged it don't exist. 

Speaking of which, this discovery -- more than one year after Assad's ouster -- happens to come right after it emerged that dissenting inspector Dr. Brendan Whelan won his case against the OPCW. In the process, the OPCW admitted to suppressing a key finding that undermined its allegation that Syria used chemical weapons in Douma. Perhaps the timing is coincidental. 

In any event, Reuters says here that "hexamine, a stabilization agent known to have been used by Assad's forces in ​sarin production" was found. 

The OPCW doesn't even say that. But even if they did, the discovery doesn't necessarily mean it was for sarin production. Hexamine would be expected in a war zone: it's the basic ingredient for the explosive RDX. 

No matter how many "discoveries" follow, nothing will change the fundamental fact that the OPCW has refused to address the extensively documented suppression of the Douma investigation."

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I'm def not for Noem's replacement Mullin. and i'm also not for people using the fact that he does not have a degree above an Associate degree as the reason why he's not qualified. there's plenty other reasons to not like the dude without becoming elitists

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I also did an episode of @fromtheperiphery.com podcast with @aymanmak.bsky.social and @essssraaa.bsky.social. We talked about the news while also expressing our fears of what could come next. Very grateful to have such an awesome team in times like these bsky.app/profile/nons...

Non Serviam Media Collective@nonserviammedia.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New @fromtheperiphery.com The Weekend That Set The Middle East On Fire @ayoub.bsky.social @aymanmak.bsky.social @essssraaa.bsky.social

Rest in power and may justice be served "Mohammed has been recognised as one of the country’s leading activists for women's rights in the country, having dedicated her life to protecting the country’s women from violence and other forms of abuse and exploitation." www.newarab.com/news/iraq-wo...

Iraq: Women’s rights activist Yanar Mohammed killed by gunmen

Mohammed had returned to Iraq from Canada just a few days ago, prompting questions on whether her killing was a targeted assassination.

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The so-called West is built on genocide & colonization. to pin what is happening on 1 genocidal state erases the ongoing genocides that the West has partaken in since it first began to consolidate its power- including on its own lands. This isn't to protect 1 state, its to protect all of them

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 5mo ago

The West is marshalling all this effort and tearing any pretence of international law to shreads all to empower an apartheid state that has been openly committing genocide for the past several years. Any notion the West was some kind of moral arbiter of the world is dead and buried.

Absolutely brain dead take. Trans people did start with employment, housing, and healthcare. There are cases dating back decades such as Smith v. Salem in 2004 and Glenn v Brumby in 2011! Many states passed anti discrimination laws well over a decade ago. He has no idea what he's talking about.

A screenshot of a tweet thread by Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17). The main tweet reads: "FWIW the path forward for progressives is likely going to have to be on something people are broadly supportive of: preventing discrimination in hiring/housing. If you want to change public opinion, starting from favorable ground is important, even if it means ceding on sports."
He quotes a previous tweet stating that public opinion aligns with conservative views on most trans issues, accompanied by a stacked bar chart titled "How people feel about transgender policy issues." The chart displays polling data from "The Argument's national survey" (fielded Feb. 4-10, 2026) regarding support for national laws on specific policies:
 * Allow gender surgery for minors: 13% strongly support vs. 50% strongly oppose.
 * Allow puberty blockers for minors: 18% strongly support vs. 45% strongly oppose.
 * Prohibiting the teaching of gender identity in public elementary schools: 39% strongly support vs. 24% strongly oppose.
 * Require transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding with their birth sex: 39% strongly support vs. 22% strongly oppose.
 * Ban discrimination against transgender people in hiring and housing: 43% strongly support (plus 20% somewhat support) vs. 14% strongly oppose.
 * Require transgender K-12 athletes to compete with their birth sex: 47% strongly support vs. 15% strongly oppose.

soo true- something i'm still bitter about is not knowing the resources available to me when i was younger and not knowing where to look. i look back and i bitterly wonder what life could have been if i just knew there were options

Dana El Kurd@danaelkurd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It takes a type of upbringing to feel empowered enough, and some level of privilege to even know what options there are! I wish someone at my job had gotten some sense into me

At Whipple where expired dicks are being thrown at ICE vehicles and those believed to be agitators. The area has been a place of protest since thousands of federal agents arrived in the city. Near Minneapolis February 7, 2026

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The rehabilitation of pro Assad propagandists who literally took money from Russia, Iran, and Syria into the pro palestine movement offends me as a palestinian. And fyi, is such a disservice to the movement. Liberation for all of us or none of us.