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i have fangirled over tan man neel o neel on two other platforms and it hasn't been enough so now i have come here

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I knew the TikTok ban would backfire, but the extent to which has been wild. Lots of users moved to an actual Chinese app as a form of ironic protest. But a side effect is now they’re being exposed to Chinese culture and realizing China isn’t the 3rd world communist shithole the US told them it was.

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Red Note is genuinely a blast, the cross-cultural exchange going on is one of the most wholesome things I’ve seen in years

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amazing stuff is happening on rednote

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ok what are your fav overnight oats recipes

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This is a very big announcement. #FreeOurFeeds promises to be the future of social media, and it will be, when more folks stop focusing on Twitter as the model, or fretting over VCs who knew projects like this were inevitable. www.threads.net

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While President Biden has consistently blamed Hamas for the failure of ceasefire talks, his failure to hold Netanyahu accountable has let the conflict drag on. Now he's trying to hide this failure by absolving Netanyahu of any blame, argues Muhammed Shehad internationalpolicy.org/publications...

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Why is it that Brazil is one of the few countries around that remembers it is, in fact, a state with state capacity

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A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates more than 64,000 deaths in Gaza due to traumatic injury between Oct. 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024 — a figure 41% higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s official count. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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“This is about being accountable to the law.” The Hind Rajab Foundation is using Israeli soldiers’ own social media footage in Gaza as evidence for war crimes investigations aje.io/cihcb4

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the thing is like…did meta employees think they were doing something good before this week?

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Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu is sending senior negotiators to Qatar for a ceasefire and captive exchange talks. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/z6usl1

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Meta is now completely censoring searches for the terms "trans" and "transgender" etc. on Threads. So much for free speech and free expression.

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Breaking: The Lancet has just published a study which found that Gaza death toll was underreported by 41% (as of Jun) due to Israel’s attacks on healthcare & disruption to record keeping. This study suggests that the current death toll is 76,820 instead of MoH’s current 46k no.

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gosh I just don't know where the youth might get the idea that vigilante justice is the only thing left

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This is so goddamn dark that I had to stop and question what reality I was in. WHAT?!?!? You think this person would stand being abused by bigots so other bigots learn compassion? Proximity to power corrupts like a motherfucker.

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what daawat was mira sethi at yesterday omg i want IN

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This is a top tier insurance client perk www.google.com/amp/s/www.ar...

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HMPV infections are spreading in China, while cases of flu-like disease have also been found in India and the UK. Here's what you need to know about the virus aje.io/zkrv4d

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Meta CEO and dog fucker Mark Zuckerberg has said that his platforms don’t need fact-checkers. So to celebrate this win for free speech, here are some of his best quotes: chaser.com.au/general-news...

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I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

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NEW: On the same day Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's new commitment to "Free Expression," internal employee dissent and criticism is being censored www.404media.co/facebook-del...

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Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking thehardtimes.net/culture/mark...

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Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

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Black Mirror is starting to look a bit over optimistic

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The tech industry needs to be smashed into dust.

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Israel is blocking the UN from investigating claims of sexual violence on October 7 because they’re worried it might lead to an investigation into all the sexual violence the IDF is currently inflicting on Palestinians they kidnapped from Gaza.

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Been fascinating to watch America take the "slowly, then all at once" approach to fascism

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BREAKING: After Carrefour’s closure in Jordan due to sustained BDS pressure, Majid Al Futtaim Group, the partner of the French Group Carrefour in most of the Arab region, announces “Carrefour will cease operations in Oman” as of January 7, 2025. #BoycottCarrefour

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terrible beatboxing noises “My name is Mark Z and I’m here to say that i’m letting people use slurs in a different way!”

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a good PDF will have a computer gasping for air when you open it

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“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

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NEW: Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.

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my insta filled with people selling their coldplay tix bec no one got their visas hahahahahhh

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Shrinking trees and tuskless elephants: the strange ways species are adapting to humans

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none of these words are in the bible

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Since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3M Palestinians in Gaza, the impact of the BDS movement has grown substantially across the globe and has begun to influence some states’ policies. Read the indicators of the #BDS movement's global impact: July - Dec 2024. tinyurl.com/BDSimpacts

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By twisted they just mean watched

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Confirming what many observers have concluded, Israeli paper Israel Hayom says Israel may decide to stay in south Lebanon beyond the 60-day withdrawal period specified in a ceasefire. 🔗:

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lol. lmao.

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A hero's welcome for Raghid Ahmed Al-Tatari, Syria's longest serving political prisoner. A former military pilot he was imprisoned by Hafez Al Assad in 1981 for refusing to bomb civilians in Hama. He was recently freed.

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A key international food insecurity monitor retracted a report warning of imminent famine in Israeli-sieged north Gaza after the Biden administration pressured the group to do so, new reporting finds.

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