Also, calling the circumstances of the assassination of Al-Arouri "#Beirut blast" makes it sound like it was an accident, or divine intervention, which it wasn't.
It was a targeted assassination.
That is all.
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FYI drones are not laser beams from the skies, killing only one person, they rather tend to destroy the area around their target.
There's more damage done to the southern suburb of #Beirut than the Western media is proclaiming.
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Lebanon will not be destroyed simply because Europe needs it as a buffer zone to take on refugees from Palestine it has no intention to welcome. So they will be in Lebanon, and history will repeat itself, and by history, I mean Sabra and Shatila.
War and war and war and war and war and war and war.
"God is dead. So is Marx. I don't feel too good myself".
Eugène Ionesco
War and war and war and war and war and war and war and war
Hahahahahahahahaha please stay alive. No joke.
What's old is new again: left is 2023 and the right, 1901. A political campaign to create panic over refugee Jews coming to Vienna under the antisemitic mayor, Karl Lueger.
The reason there's a "christlich-soziale Partei" in Austria at all is that, when it was born in 1891, those words were code for: not the Jews in the socialist party.
Christianity as a weapon *against* the people - that's the ancestry of the #ÖVP. It must prove itself otherwise.
🥳 Out now: my book Feeling Lucky - The Production of #Gambling Experiences in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas in the 19th + 20th Century
If you are into urban history, history of consumption, or gambling, check it out ! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9
The Gender & Sexuality Studies program at Northwestern University is hiring a tenure-line Assistant Professor of Trans Studies! Please share far & wide with your academic networks. The deadline for applications is October 23. Happy to answer any questions. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Welcoming autumn with a brand new novel: "Tomb of Sand" by Geetanjali Shree.
#readtheworld #autumnvibes
Okay good news, L'Orfeo by Monteverdi is playing on Opera Vision. Yay! 🎉 🎉 🥳 🥳 👇🏽
operavision.eu/performance/...
Currently reading "Nevada" by Imogen Binnie.
Glorious work - Loving every single word of it.
The plant pot was painted by yours truly 🩷 💛
Monday night vibes:
-Just got home, exhausted.
-Waiting for food to be delivered.
-Can't wait to go to bed and read my novel.
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Wozzeck is one of my all-time favorite opere, so I was thrilled to see this newspaper excerpt at the Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna yesterday.
Berg ruffled many a feather in his lifetime 😈
Happy birthday to nobody other than Arnold Schönberg 💕💖💐🎉🥳
Nein Duden! Du darfst nicht "dekolonial" mit "kolonial" ersetzen! Fuck you very much.
Bitte den eigenen Wortschatz erweitern und herzlich willkommen in das Jahr 2023.
🤮😡 💢
“On Decolonizing Queerness,” an interview with @sandeepbakshi.bsky.social, is a concise, dense, and important read, so read it! I especially like his refusal to harvest to feed euro-knowledge systems. It’s harder than that 💁🏻♂️
The cross over event no-one wants, xenophobia and transphobia in one policy.
Hello from Vienna!
I want a video of the jam session, come on!
Today is Loujain Al-Hathloul's 34th birthday. A Saudi feminist activist and former political prisoner, Loujain has called for the abolition of the male guardianship system, a loose set of laws and practices that make women essentially second-class citizens in Saudi Arabia.
Breaking news: Former president Donald Trump and 18 others were criminally charged in Georgia on Monday in connection with efforts to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an indictment made public late Monday night.
https://wapo.st/3OyaN2F
African American history is now a “prohibited” topic of study for schoolchildren in the state of Arkansas while the population of Blacks in the state is at least 15% and they have been there as long as Europeans. European history remains permitted. *Clear* institutional racism.
Via Judd Legum
It's better than LSD.
Still on delightful hiatus, reading "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida" by Shehan Karunatilaka.
What are you reading on this fine Sunday? 🌺
Twitter was forced to hand over records from former president Donald Trump’s account to the special counsel investigating the events leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack and pay sanctions for failing to do so more quickly, as disclosed in an appellate court ruling unsealed. https://wapo.st/3QvJ7hy
Sounds absolutely fascinating, thank you so much!
