Journalist, writer, researcher and historian — but mostly her dad Host @thefirethesetimes.com & @thestartrekpod.bsky.social Newsletter: http://hauntologies.net Archives: https://eliaayoub.com From Lebanon, in Brighton, via London, Edinburgh and Geneva
Just watched the BBC 10 O'clock news @bbcnewsunofficial.bsky.social Two stories - one on the Suffolk wildfire and another on the countrywide Welsh drought - with not a SINGLE mention of the climate Just beyond belief www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drought declared for whole of Wales amid sustained high temperaturesWales is on course for its driest July on record in almost 190 years.www.bbc.co.uk
NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...
Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – againSeven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.gillianbrockell.com
you don't have to let this guy walk free among you
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material"
Oliver Willisminnesota state senator directly taking on musk and his big pockets PRECISELY HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE DOING IT
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of DebtAI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.futurism.com
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.www.nytimes.com
Infantino risks destroying the World Cup itself just a few years before its centenary www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Fifa World Cup: Uefa to boycott tournament if Gianni Infantino's investment plans go throughUefa's 55 member associations vote to boycott the World Cup if Fifa proceeds with its plan to sell stakes in its competitions.www.bbc.co.uk
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NEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tribunal rules woman not unlawfully discriminated against over beliefsSara Morrison claimed she was forced out of her job at Belfast Film Festival for her views on sex and gender.www.bbc.co.ukThis is why the main problem has never been whether people ‘believe’ in global warming. ‘Soft’ climate denial is as dangerous as the more stereotypical kind. There are people who will welcome thousands and tens of thousands of deaths if it means they can keep being contrarians online.
Roland SmithNighty night.
I wrote a whole book about this! And it wasn’t hard to find people to include; it was hard to narrow the list down from *OVER A HUNDRED* early gamedevs
.chantal//RYANmany of the early and most successful game designers and developers were women most people don't remember their names today, or recall that video game history started before the Boys Toys era funny that many of the games I grew up loving most were designed by women and I never knew til years later
Why care about a serious debate when you can get the editor of one of the most influential newspapers in the US, who seemingly forgot journalistic standards and basic info of academic research, to publish a defamatory piece? Time and again, zero engagement. It is silence or attacks.
elia ayoubIncredible that the WSJ actually published a piece by someone called Adam Louis-Klein in which he smeared the Journal of Genocide Research as "Hamas defenders" whose thinking provides a “prelude to violence against Israelis." Intellectual dishonesty is so widespread. archive.ph/2026.07.29-0...