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Why all this? Why does this never end? Why????

every time there's a new notification on this post I come here to see it again and I laugh like I'm seeing it for the first time

Accidentally caught literally 5 seconds of my country's biggest channel on TV talking about the Al Jazeera journalists that were killed and I'm shaking with anger. Literally 5 seconds while YouTube loaded on my TV. Legacy media will always embrace fascism hard and tight, fucking piece of shit ghouls

ikr I looks so good and fresh

Banner says book launch Thomas Ha in conversation with Brian Evenson Uncertain Sons and Other Stories

Hey! I'm doing a small Uncertain Sons event at North Fig Bookshop next month. Brian Evenson will be there, which is wild and very nice of him! I think there will be tacos. Maybe we'll talk about Wolfe and weird horror. If you live in LA stop by. Will be chill and mainly my cousins. 9/20, 7 pm.

Perhaps the pancakes are the friends we made along the way 🤝

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs This is my will and my final message. If my words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace, mercy, and blessings be upon you. God knows that I have given all my effort and strength to be a support and a voice for my people since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that God would grant me life to return with my family and loved ones to our original town of Ashkelon (Al-Majdal), occupied land. But God's will was swifter, and His decree is binding. I lived pain in all its details, tasted grief and loss repeatedly, yet I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is—-without distortion or falsification— hoping God would bear witness against those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, those who besieged our breaths, and whose hearts were not moved by the shattered bodies of our children and women, nor did they stop the massacre our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine, the jewel of the Muslim world and the pulse of every free heart in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its innocent children who were not granted the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart, their remains scattered on the walls. l urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward liberating the land and the people until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you with my family. I entrust you with the apple of my eye, my beloved daughter, Sham, whom fate did not allow me to see grow as I dreamed. I entrust you with my dear son, Salah, whom I wished to support and accompany until he grew strong, carrying my burden and continuing the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose prayers were the reason I reached where I did. Her supplications were my fortress, and her light my path. I pray God to ease her heart and reward her abundantly on my behalf. I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah Bayan, from whom war separated us for long days and months, but who remained faithful, steadfast like an olive tree trunk that never bends, patient and devout, carrying the trust in my absence with strength and faith. I urge you to gather around them and be their support after God Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast on my principles, bearing witness to God that I am satisfied with His decree, believing in meeting Him, and certain that what is with God is better and everlasting. O God, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path to freedom for my people and family.

Forgive me if I fell short, and pray for me mercy, for I have remained true to the covenant, never changing or betraying it. Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your good prayers for forgiveness and acceptance. Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025 This is what Anas ordered to be published upon his martyrdom.

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

Ears hurting and tingly pins and needles sounds like a nerve thing. It could be muscle tension pressing the trigeminal nerve, or a sign of TMJ!

Writers should internalize Lao Tzu's lesson about how the emptiness at the center of a wheel is what makes it useful, and how a pot is valuable because of where the clay *isn't*. Corporate geek culture has warped us into thinking that negative spaces are flaws that need to be fixed.

Vajra Chandrasekera : Rakesfall Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry · Episode

This interview with Vajra is really really good open.spotify.com/episode/5JBn...

Hossam still needs help, please share

Vajra Chandrasekera ☝️

I hope Jeff Vandermeer saw it, I hope he had a good chuckle

A tweet of a breakfast that says "Buttermilk pancakes with blueberry lavender compote topped with whipped maple butter and local heather honey" and a picture of these ingredients. A quote retweet that says "Going to Denny’s and ordering the Annihilation breakfast", because the picture looks like the scene where there's a person spread on the wall full of colorful fungi.

please I'm dying lmaoooo

do you have a cigarette and a goddamn lighter

☎️ SH CRITICISM HOTLINE NOW OPEN

In mid-August, thoughts naturally turn to the end of next January: the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special.

What spec fic essays, roundtables, interviews, song-and-dance routines have you got for us? Go broad!

⚾️ Pitch us: danwhartland at gmail dot com

3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a young man in a sleeveless shirt sits in a cluttered room, saying "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." Second, a group of friends gather around a table, one explaining "Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history." Third, the same group listens as another person adds, "Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988."

Aug 10th 1988 - Zero Cool was in the New York Times for crashing 1,507 computer systems.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

Ruaa has had her bank account in limbo (hopefully it will be resolved) which has led to a lot of the money she raised not currently being accessible- luckily her organizer is able to send it in another way anything she is raising now- and there is food in the market

I think I actually got into a pretty shit burnout
sigh

Nice!!!!!! Eu nem fui comprar o meu ainda huahauahah

A thin Palestinian man kneeling in a tent with his arms clasped around his young son. They are both dressed for cold weather.

It is Ramadan, and my friend Yousef, an engineer, struggles to house and provide food for his family, including his young son. If you ate today, can you spare a few dollars?

He has been verified in person. He's a real person struggling.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-my...

#Oscars #Oscars2025

I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. My gas mask paid for itself within the first minute the ice agents came out of the building. They escalated to this immediately, like it was a war zone- flash bombs, various gasses…

#fightfascism #fuckice

can't wait for this AI bubble to burst already, fucking tired of it

very unfortunate how much accessibility an e-reader provides but I only have access to Amazon's Kindle

boneless hands 🥀

Realizing the hard way my hypermobile hands can't hold thick hardcover books well lmaooo

The number of Palestinian children in Gaza who have died from famine and malnutrition alone has surpassed 100

It's great!!!!

Someone should make a Disco Elysium portrait of her