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Medieval history podcast following the medieval world's most interesting travellers. On now: Pedro Tafur. https://teapaw.org/t.co/4BtiMBVtBO

Vancouver, BC
Joined January 2017
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All set up at the @BellPressBooks table at @WORD_Vancouver! Come by and say hi if you’re here.
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All set up at the @BellPressBooks table at @WORD_Vancouver! Come by and say hi if you’re here.
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What bait is recommended to induce a @UPS driver to actually approach and engage with the door? Peanut butter? Cheese? Should I wait in the bushes?
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The cool thing about being a Postmedia columnist is you get paid to say the most ignorant things imaginable and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
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There is no event at which it is “inappropriate” to spotlight Gaza right now. Not a book launch. Not a concert. And certainly not a political rally. Through our taxes, we have all been made complicit in a generational horror. It’s our duty to disrupt EVERYTHING until it stops
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#sff #scifi #books It seems I have again forgotten to post this: My most recent newsletter, on some favourite reads for the year so far (my year, not necessarily the year in publishing). Featuring @premeesaurus, @bcmerchant, @WTalabi, and @_vajra. open.substack.com/pub/androi…
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Correct. The “ceasefire negotiations” have always been a charade on the part of Israel and the US to buy time to continue the destruction of Gaza.
THREAD: I’ve been making the argument that the ongoing negotiations for a Gaza ceasefire are a diversionary US-Israeli charade and shouldn’t be taken particularly seriously. Initially, their primary purpose was to serve as a fig leaf for Israel to continue with its genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. In other words, their purpose is process, and their objective has therefore been to avoid reaching a ceasefire agreement rather than concluding one.
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#sff #scifi #books It seems I have again forgotten to post this: My most recent newsletter, on some favourite reads for the year so far (my year, not necessarily the year in publishing). Featuring @premeesaurus, @bcmerchant, @WTalabi, and @_vajra. open.substack.com/pub/androi…
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Took this @_Zeets book camping and it was absolutely excellent. Only downside is now I want to be in Venice.
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We are “all in this together” until it comes to Palestinian journalists. Al Jazeera has repeatedly asked mainstream news outlets to issue statements condemning the attacks on their journalists and still it’s just utter silence. A bloody, shameful stain on our industry.
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This is the image. The cover of Arab Lit Quarterly that covers the violence in Palestine. Don’t look for resistance to genocide from academia.
Yesterday, we removed a post highlighting a student’s summer internship that included an image that was offensive to some in our community. Out of respect for those views and for the safety of the student, the post has been removed from all Barnard social media.
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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) retweeted
It might not feel like it, but autumn is on the way...
In many early medieval calendars, 7 August - halfway between midsummer and the autumnal equinox - marks the beginning of a new season. It's the first day of autumn, when the earth is rich with the abundance of the harvest. Some Anglo-Saxon harvest poetry: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/…
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If you say you want a ceasefire while sending the bombs that keep shredding children, you don't really want a ceasefire. That's all there is to it.
Breaking: Israeli occupation forces have just targeted another school in Gaza City early this morning. So far, 100 people have been killed, mostly women and children.
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The scenes coming out of Gaza are horrific. Meanwhile, the US is getting ready to send Israel 3.5 billion dollars so that the genocide can continue.
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we are watching the genocide and ethnic cleansing of a people live-streamed right before our eyes and not one of our political leaders have the guts to say unequivocally they will put a stop to this
Happening now in my city, Khan Younis, again...
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“…containers full of dead bodies of inmates.”
After my Tweet about Sde Teiman, two people who work at the military base there, one in the holding facility and one outside the facility contacted me. I verified their identity and have their permission to say what they saw. I will refer to them as holding facility source and IDF source. The IDF source is quite high up. The other source is not but works there every day. Here is what they had to say. Facility Source: "Sometimes I wonder who this is worse for. Them or us. We are guarding the worst people in the world. The worst scum. We see them and we stew in hatred. Some people here lost family, loved ones on October 7th. Then you see the person who did it. Things happen. Bad things. People have been beaten. People have been killed. I saw one person die. People have been sexually assaulted. Yes. Nothing compared to what they did. But we all know we shouldn't be doing it. They all tell us they are innocent. So we don't believe any of them. But yeah, some probably did nothing wrong. It should end. There should be supervision. No one cares what we do. No one got arrested or disciplines until just now. Every day is a nightmare. For us. For them. We all want to get out of this hell. I am a soldier. Not a fucking warden." IDF Source: "I don't even know where to start. The rot is everywhere and is systematic. It all starts with the office in charge of this. Prisoners should be under the prison service and not the army. But the prison service is making the rules and the IDF is guarding them. That is the worst of all possible worlds. The 100 unit has been assigned to guard the prisoners. Their job is supposed to be to intervene when there is disorder. They are roguth people. So they are guarding the prisoners. You are letting animals guard animals without supervision and in nightmarish conditions. When the army tried to create an oversight system, it was dismantled for political reasons. Just look at what happened with MK Zvi Sukkot. He brags that he is tricking the army and courts into torturing prisoners and is happy he makes this kosher with his political appointment. Its so bad. There is not a single security officer on sight to oversee. So that even if there is a major event no one is responsible. Everyone who served in Gaza is full of hatred. They have an urge to release the animal in them. Anyone who is put in a room with those who raped their girlfriends or killed their friends without supervision - will get whatever we got. The problem isn't (just) our soldiers who are hurt and abused but that there is nobody to prevent this. On the contrary, many in the government see this as a blessing. This is the key. The soldiers are just a symptom. Another thing nobody talks about is all the bodies in fridges near the holding pens. There is no place to store them. Just containers full of dead bodies of inmates." The two sources paint a gruesome picture of a facility that is hell on earth. It must be closed. Now.
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Devon (Human Circus Podcast) retweeted
Israel has killed at least 157 journalists in Gaza since 7 October 2023 Intentional killing of journalists is a war crime.
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US Secretary of State Blinken: The Middle East is heading towards a major conflict.
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