Posts by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AuCm1mTgSFrUVnONXs by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T21:32:25Z
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🧵 3/4: The #Palestine Solidarity march today in #London also had many chants targeting #KeirStarmer & #DavidLammy and their role in arming #Israel, making the UK complicit in #genocide. There were also many #students & #teachers supporting the #disarmeducation campaign to "stop the collaboration of places of #education with #arms companies and #weapons manufacturers". https://www.disarmeducation.org/.Finally sadly the #Arab world itself is no better than the UK, bankrolling #Trump & ignoring #Gaza
(DIR) Post #AuCm1syOIzzQelnzF2 by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-05-17T21:51:46Z
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🧵 4/4: The #Palestine Solidarity #demonstration in #London today marked 77 years since the #Nakba or 'great catastrophe' that saw 750k #Palestinians forcibly displaced from their homes & land. Many Palestinians carry #keys of their ancestral homes, or symbolic keys, dubbed 'key of return'. Seeing 'architects for Gaza' against the backdrop of the #British Parliament made the contrast with the scale of destruction in #Gaza all the more obvious.
(DIR) Post #Aw0EAFPvMD24tCl6Uy by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-07-10T20:38:27Z
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If you wonder what you can do for #Palestine, your time will come sooner than you are ready for. Dock #workers in #France, #Greece & #Italy are refusing to load military equipment destined for #Israel. A #genocide requires a lot of logistics/resources, so much so that all levels of society are involved. Be there and be counted when it creeps into your meetings, your procurement reviews, your accounting, orders, shifts, artistic opportunities...https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/workers-in-europe-refuse-cargo-to-israel-our-solidarity-is-with-the-oppressed-not-with-war-criminals/#Gaza #Maersk #F35
(DIR) Post #AxDkZS1FsPm4XWCW00 by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-08-14T22:38:07Z
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🧵1/3: It is increasingly difficult to watch #Palestinian #musician Ahmed Muin Abu Amsha from #GazaBirdsSinging getting more emaciated every time he posts a new video, where he will yet again give his all to make children of #Gaza forget the horrors of #genocide through the beauty of #music. And the fact that in spite of everything he is succeeding is a testament to the extraordinary resilience & beauty of the Palestinian people. This particular song completely broke me and here is why...
(DIR) Post #AxDkZY8v6pTFX1pimO by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-08-14T22:43:01Z
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🧵2/3: Ahmed is using the sound of an incessant #Israeli #drone over #Gaza to pitch his #singing. Miraculously, it remains stable for the entire song, when they usually change pitch making their presence unbearable.The song is about #Jamal carrying a load, a direct reference to a 14 y.o. boy who defied gunfire at a #GHF food distribution point to carry a bag of flour half his weight for 2 hours to feed his sisters https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/1mln8f1/jamal_the_14_yearold_boy_who_walked_152_hours/. Ahmed's last notes, mixed drone-free, are haunting
(DIR) Post #AxDkZdWV6aIuDbu7jE by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-08-14T22:44:22Z
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🧵3/3: please help share that #Palestinian song far and wide, #repost #retoot. While it talks about #Jamal, Ahmed posted it straight after the killing of #Anas & #Aljazeera journalists & dedicated it "to #truth". To support Ahmed, #GazaBirdsSing and #music in #Gaza, please consider giving to his GoFundMe. Given the price of a bag of flour is between $300 to $700, his total currently covers less than one loaf of bread a day for 6 months. https://www.gofundme.com/f/hello-peace-help-innocent-people-to-survive#FreePalestine @Palestine
(DIR) Post #Ay1cay3DBXFERZKBdo by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-09-09T01:27:25Z
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#BREAKING 🚨!! A #drone just hit the #sumud #flotilla boat #gretathunberg and #novaramedia #journalist Kieran Andrieu are staying on. This happened in #Tunis, as the flotilla was moored. The fact #Israel is left to target #civilians outside its jurisdiction with impunity is wild. Demonstrate wherever you are! #freepalestine #gaza #breakingnews
(DIR) Post #Ay1cb2agJ2OUWX0yMi by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-09-09T01:39:46Z
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Follow Novaramedia or anyone on the #flotilla for live updates. #FrancescaAlbanese (#UN special rapporteur) happened to be on site in #Tunisia, she is on the verge of tears. If you are in #London on Tuesday 9th (today), head to #DowningStreet at 6pm, where #Palestine Solidarity campaign will protest the presence of Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president wanted by the #ICJ.
(DIR) Post #Ay1cb775UUh0YCCuQq by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-09-09T01:59:37Z
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#Reuters and others report coastguards say there was no #drone and the fire was "internal". Here is more footage from the boat. Unless the entire world is paid to act, looks to be coming from up to me. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/flotilla-gaza-says-boat-struck-by-drone-tunisian-waters-2025-09-08/ #sumud #flotilla #gaza #tunis
(DIR) Post #AyGx3Bbi2Sgiw8E9XE by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-09-16T18:45:04Z
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@aral it is a massive shift, given how repugnant the #EBU has been year after year, penalising anyone that showed solidarity, ignoring boycott requests, pretending #Russia was any different and layering it all with a fake peace message. #Israel know it's big too. My concern now is BECAUSE Israel know the tide is turning, they are rushing to finish the job.
(DIR) Post #AyqZOmLlQDErWYw4QK by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-10-03T20:05:44Z
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The #UK #GreenParty leader #ZackPolanski is the only #British politician who was stately today following the attack on a synagogue in #Manchester. His very being, as a #gay #Jew who's eloquently vocal about the rights of #Palestine, makes the point of #antisemitism and #islamophobia being 2 sides of the same coin. Meanwhile, the so-called #Labour government says it would be "unbritish" to demonstrate for #PalestineAction tomorrow given the attack: irresponsible conflation.#UKpol
(DIR) Post #AzH79fJljXfnvDvRaq by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2025-10-16T18:04:53Z
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Extraordinary account from #GretaThunberg of #Israeli abuse of the #flotilla & #Sweden's diplomats indifference."Several participants reported that a female activist became enraged & kicked the trash can where the guards had thrown their water bottles. Bottles spilled onto the floor, & #Greta & the others threw themselves on the floor & hurried to open the bottles & drink the water left behind by the guards.The embassy staff see this but continue walking anyway.” https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face
(DIR) Post #B2Wk6wonzt8zSRTHXs by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T22:30:41Z
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🧵1/7: A #longthread on #bluesky / #bridge / #echochambers.Following @Gargron's decision to opt out of the Bluesky bridge, most likely driven by the platform's official verification of the #ICE account, and one last pointless interaction with a Bluesky account holder,I decided to follow suit & sever my own Bluesky ties. I realised the idea of echo chambers was probably a myth invented by the giant #socialmedia platforms to prevent users from fleeing. Let me explain. https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115912977448929626
(DIR) Post #B2Wk728UE8rFwviZPs by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T22:31:26Z
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🧵2/7: I adopted @bsky.brid.gy early on, when I was still recovering from having left #Twitter & was concerned about critical mass & engagement.Now? There's only 2 #bluesky accounts I'd miss & stand to lose a handful of followers. Nothing that justifies staying. The nail in the coffin was a recent interaction with a Bluesky user who identified as " a bleeding-heart #liberal and compulsive speculator rambling about saving the world" ...
(DIR) Post #B2Wk77LQrRBU6WoTmy by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T22:32:09Z
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🧵3/7:... who chose #Bluesky because "it is a #community who care about others with a lot of #cooperative energy". When I suggested Bluesky might not quite be that, he answered he was "not concerned with ownership structures" and didn't "see validating a government department as facilitating #fascism." And that's when it hit me: must I really contend with that level of reflection?Staying bridged to Bluesky is often seen as an effort to step out of the #echochamber & reaching across the aisle.
(DIR) Post #B2Wk7Cgsz6JegVtBQG by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T22:32:42Z
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🧵4/7: But who said that a personal #socialmedia account was the only route to engage with people "who don't agree with you"?Before the age of either #Mastodon or #Bluesky or even #Facebook, I only had to contend with the odd #racist cabbie or the random drunk City banker lecturing me on Malthus. Now they are IN MY FUCKING FACE every day, several times a day. Since when has that become the norm?I'll tell you about another place where this wasn't the norm...
(DIR) Post #B2Wk7I1d9OsfEIdJx2 by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T22:33:18Z
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🧵5/7: ...#Home. As far as I am aware, nobody is expecting me to open my door to #nazis, genocidal #zionists, #antivaxxers, nor invite #obscurantism champions for dinner to ensure they can share "their side of the story". So why should I invite them in the palm of my hand in every room in my home? The reason why #polarisation has exploded isn't because we don't engage on #socialmedia, it's BECAUSE we engage with #algorithms that favour conflict ("it bleeds, it leads" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01538-4)
(DIR) Post #B2Wk7NDrpKdjLhOfDc by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T22:33:48Z
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🧵6/7: If the #home remained the sanctuary it is supposed to be, if we didn't willingly accept an invasion of our private spaces by #techbros, we would have more energy to engage #IRL as we used to, using the physical third spaces that wouldn't have been commodified by #billionaires, so we could keep on meeting a #diversity of people.
(DIR) Post #B2Wk7S95WWmucKCPxo by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2026-01-21T22:34:18Z
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🧵7/7: So no, I am not afraid of being stuck in an #echochamber by choosing to cut my #bluesky bridge and choosing to live exclusively in the #fediverse. If/when I decide to do an undercover stint, I'll do it at work or as part of a #campaigning project (where I maintain observation accounts on major platforms). In the meantime, I'll reclaim dominion over my #home, my brain & my #mentalhealth.
(DIR) Post #B2cpgSXBjfakg3k8WW by sheislaurence@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T21:40:18Z
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You might think it is meaningless. For me, that's pure #hope, the demonstration that the human spirit cannot be crushed and always moves towards #creativity and #community. #drummers against #ICE in #Minneapolis , by minus 25⁰c.Via Jillian Ray (Music).#minnesota #music #protest