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"We, as the government of Spain, need to suspend diplomatic relations with Israel..."The Spanish Minister of Social Rights speaks out against Israel's "planned genocide" in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/PhWNeBAUUQ— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) October 18, 2023

This week, I called Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a physician from Gaza who now lives in Canada, to check in on him. During Israel’s 2008-9 war on Gaza, three of his daughters were killed when an Israeli tank struck their home. This time, I had to offer my condolences again, when he…— איימן עודה أيمن عودة Ayman Odeh (@AyOdeh) October 19, 2023

i think it’s important to note that Gaza would not be able to build water infrastructure because Israeli Military Order 158 explicitly prevents that https://t.co/CRUFgZqJVM— abram (@abram_facts) October 19, 2023

Russia had no human rights norms during its Afghan campaign and still lost. This 4chan worldview doesn’t map onto the world. https://t.co/5M2xYmPjC6— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 19, 2023

I watched Barbie thrice to come up with this idea: What stops most people from living out their true selves is not ignorance of their own mortality but an inability to distinguish between wants and oughts. Most are too busy going through the motions (ie. planned choreography):

About the #Gaza #hospital blast, The version saying it would have been caused by Palestinian rocket (mis)fire is gaining traction online and among #OSINT communities. A thread showing weaknesses in this version, and why an Israeli bombing is highly more plausible.⬇️ 1/x

[1] These days in Israel, in response to Hamas’ brutal massacre, calls to ethnically cleanse Gaza, deliberately targeting civilians on a mass scale, and other dehumanizing language, have become common.Here are a few examples of this discourse over the last few days.THREAD— Yehuda Shaul (@YehudaShaul) October 17, 2023

wish studios would take notes. posters can be subtle works of real art they dont need to be obnoxious https://t.co/M80XL6v6eF— laura 🦠 (@ecto_fun) October 17, 2023

New look at the live-action ‘AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER’ series.Coming to Netflix in 2024. pic.twitter.com/eKzmfJeaaA— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) October 17, 2023

Powerful take on Killers from the guy who taught Lily Gladstone to speak Osage. https://t.co/f84K3r2SMb— Radheyan Simonpillai (@JustSayRad) October 17, 2023

Who gives a fuck is some of the best advice you can receive— swag (@chillextremist) October 16, 2023

Tell us your favorite female horror performance.My pick (always): https://t.co/SvaPqDuwSj pic.twitter.com/fJMpSEGhmY— DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) October 17, 2023

so very much appreciate these words from Ilana Glazer pic.twitter.com/XWn9gz2IkI— Franchesca Ramsey (@chescaleigh) October 17, 2023

This is the first @threejs based implementation of Gaussian Splats that I'm aware of.Incoming official example me thinks... 🤓 https://t.co/bMVg2eAv1E— mrdoob (@mrdoob) October 16, 2023

The absolute gall of banishing any books mentioning gay people or racism to an optional bundle called "Share Every Story" specifically to allow customers to opt out of sharing those stories https://t.co/mIoencmPBK pic.twitter.com/be7rB82y35— Jenny Nicholson (@JennyENicholson) October 16, 2023

Millie Bobby Brown talks about frequent criticism on her while promoting Stranger Things:“We’re kids—we talk over each other I was just penalized for overtalking and oversharing and being too loud. (...) In interviews I couldn’t help but think of all the comments. So I just… pic.twitter.com/Z1Zfj19hhc— Pop Base (@PopBase) October 16, 2023

Feels so broken that we've created an ecosystem where the few people left with staff jobs are just waiting for them to disappear; the freelancers are struggling to get by on roughly $10k a year; and yet there are endless publicists in my inbox who largely seem to be living stably— Ted Davis (@tddvsss) October 16, 2023

This is a pretty large effect!TL;DR: People whose work is graded later tend to be graded more harshly.If your grading order is alphabetical, that'll unduly penalize people with alphabetically-later surnames. https://t.co/Af7prAV7rx— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 16, 2023

🧵I see a lot of socialists pointing out that Israel "created" Hamas. While there is truth to that, it's reductionist and counterproductive to bring up in most cases when discussing this conflict with people.The rise of religious nationalism within the Palestinian...— Koba ☭ (@RedPrecariat) October 12, 2023

obsessed with this paper that has this many authors because 48 of them did the 350,757 coin flips pic.twitter.com/wO2Qu2makD— “paula” (@paularambles) October 12, 2023

We've officially moved on from retro-style mascots to "weird little guys" pic.twitter.com/WTT0JGK4sT— Elizabeth Goodspeed (@domesticetch) October 12, 2023