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Albert Chu

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I write speculative fiction. Works appearing in Fusion Fragment, Podcastle, F&SF, and more. albertchuwrites.com

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While people on here and Twitter go back and forth over whether or not to suck Trump or Biden or both or neither's dicks, it's worth noting that this plan is strikingly similar to the Biden-Blinken one, is strikingly bad in many of the same ways, and is not likely to be fully enforced at any rate.

09.10.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

In 1839, during the early days of The Great Game (between England and Tsarist Russia), the British East India Company invaded Afghanistan and deposed the popular leader Dost Muhammad Khan to put the British puppet the exiled king Shah Shuja on the throne.
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Moon looks beautiful tonighr

07.10.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 105    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I have seen hundreds of full moons in my lifetime & yet this one has brought me to tears for no discernible reason.

Life is so fucking fragile. We have this one singular life on this one beautiful place. But we tear it apart. We care more abt imaginary lives than the ones here, now, that NEED us.

07.10.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Refaat Alareer Camp - by The Sameer Project The Sameer Project, a mutual aid organization led by three Palestinians in the diaspora, are the proud directors and funders of a tent encampment in Central Gaza that provides shelter and specialized ...

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone. During this year's celebration of reunion, I'm still praying for justice and for a reunited Palestine, from the river to the sea.

The Refaat Alareer camp provides critical services to displaced people in Gaza. Donation link below. chuffed.org/project/1133...

06.10.2025 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The full moon over Gaza.

The full moon over Gaza.

Last September, Ibrahim Lafi took this picture of the full moon over Gaza.

After a year of pictures from the genocide, this one sticks with me the most. It's of the Mid-Autumn Festival moon. While I was at home, gathering with friends and admiring the moon myself, Ibrahim took this picture.

17.09.2024 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Breaking: Zukiswa Wanner Among South Africans Detained on Gaza-Bound Flotilla South African author and editor Zukiswa Wanner is among several South Africans detained after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza on October 2. In a statement, the So...

I was in the UAE with Zuks just a few months ago, talking, laughing, reading. She's such a force of life and creativity. Her abduction, like so much else, is heartbreaking.
"South African writer & activist Zukiswa Wanner Among Those Detained on Gaza-Bound Flotilla" brittlepaper.com/2025/10/brea...

05.10.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 3
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2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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My partner: "just put a fucking sprayed edge on it"

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24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza.

A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters.

Israel intends to violate international law once again.

www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

01.10.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 532    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 13

Do these people think Palestinians have grievances because an islamist group told them so? So palestinian grievances have nothing to do with the camps and the displacement and the bombardment and the no political rights thing? Huh, how interesting πŸ€”

01.10.2025 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 115    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
NYT editorial board calls for deradicalizing the surviving Palestinians in Gaza The multinational authority should have an ambitious agenda. It would span the restoration of basic services, the feeding of the population, the reconstruction of neighborhoods and the creation of a police force. Crucially, as experts at the Wilson Center in Washington have argued, this authority should create a program in schools, the media and elsewhere "to remove Hamas's pervasive radicalizing influence over Gazan society." Another task would be disarming any Hamas fighters who keep fighting. Qatar, given its longtime relationship with Hamas, can help pressure the group, much as the United States can pressure Israel. There are historical antecedents for an international mission along these lines. Deradicalization programs succeeded in Germany and Japan after World War II, and multinational police forces have operated in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and elsewhere. Of course, these efforts come with dangers. Participating countries would risk having their personnel become targets for Hamas.

NYT editorial board calls for deradicalizing the surviving Palestinians in Gaza The multinational authority should have an ambitious agenda. It would span the restoration of basic services, the feeding of the population, the reconstruction of neighborhoods and the creation of a police force. Crucially, as experts at the Wilson Center in Washington have argued, this authority should create a program in schools, the media and elsewhere "to remove Hamas's pervasive radicalizing influence over Gazan society." Another task would be disarming any Hamas fighters who keep fighting. Qatar, given its longtime relationship with Hamas, can help pressure the group, much as the United States can pressure Israel. There are historical antecedents for an international mission along these lines. Deradicalization programs succeeded in Germany and Japan after World War II, and multinational police forces have operated in Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti and elsewhere. Of course, these efforts come with dangers. Participating countries would risk having their personnel become targets for Hamas.

I struggle to think of an editorial board that's been more overtly racist and genocidal that the NY Times one.

This is on the level of Putinist bullshit about denazifying Ukraine.

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⛡️Breaking: The Global Sumud Flotilla says the Italian naval frigate shadowing their ships will soon issue a radio call urging participants to abandon the mission and return to shore before reaching Gaza’s β€œcritical zone,” where Israeli interception is most likely. Instead of escorting the flotilla…

30.09.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 9

Whenever I feel nervous about how my life changed for standing with student protestors and for Palestine at my university, I think of Mahmoud's steadfast courage in the face of every violent thing the war machine has thrown at himβ€”and I buck up and feel less afraid

29.09.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 161    πŸ” 44    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Italy, Spain and Turkey.

Shame on the UK government

#gaza #sumudflotilla #freepalestine #genocide

29.09.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 4
Flotilla Tracker - Global Movement to Gaza

Forty-five vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla are approaching Gaza to break the Israeli siege. Resistance *is happening*, and when I need a boost of morale and courage, I think about projects like these.

globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/#help

29.09.2025 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nobody brought me cookies because I was working on the kill all the Arabs portfolio.

29.09.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 513    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

the shooter was an online gamer. it's important for newsrooms to understand video games more than ever. that's where i step in. so umamusume: pretty derby (γ‚¦γƒžε¨˜ γƒ—γƒͺティーダービー) is a gacha horse racing simulator based on real life japanese race horses. in the world of umamusume, anime girls replace horses,

12.09.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 4804    πŸ” 914    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 11

And from the dog-brained clout chasers insinuating it was the Mossad who killed the far-right Zionist activist. Shocking that Nazis were spreading the exact same lie. Probably means nothing!

12.09.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 204    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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cheering and celebrating after assassinations is by no means new. what has changed is that social media gives us greater access to a greater number of people

a few accounts from immediately after the kennedy assassination

11.09.2025 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 253    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 7

Interesting to note that many, many of the reporters and anchors and influences holding up India's Hindu supremacist regime were once the Indian equivalent of liberals, and they all happily sold out to preach hatred once the BJP/RSS cemented their power. We're now 11 years into the regime.

11.09.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?

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Oh yes, everyone is very concerned about marginalized groups... #gtfoh

10.09.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine if everyone who shared posts about the genocide also put in the time and effort to boycott companies that participate in it; imagine how different our world would look.

03.09.2025 19:37 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A picture of Uncertain Sons and a lot of arrows from words that say a variation of short stories pointing at the book

A picture of Uncertain Sons and a lot of arrows from words that say a variation of short stories pointing at the book

did a breakdown

03.09.2025 02:30 β€” πŸ‘ 176    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 11

I have a new story coming up! 😍

01.09.2025 17:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Labour Day! Little thread on how organizing and mobilizing have become part of my life, somewhat late in life. 1/

01.09.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sending lots of good vibes to you and this kitty cat.

31.08.2025 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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