Editor’s Note: Annelle Sheline, PhD, served for a year as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. The views expressed here are her own....
no shade against the author, except for an obligatory “what took you this long” platitude, but I just gotta highlight this one bit of the article:
So many of my colleagues feel betrayed. I write for myself but speak for many others, including Feds United for Peace, a group mobilizing for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza that represents federal workers in their personal capacities across the country, and across 30 federal agencies and departments.
Everyone who has spent the last six months organizing, protesting, harassing zionist ghouls, and calling out Genocide Joe has a part in this. The US would never, ever allow something like this to pass without the large, persistent, and threatening popular movement that has demanded a ceasefire and Palestinian liberation.
if I were a genocidal state attached to a decaying empire I would simply not attempt to actively make enemies with nations not currently focusing on me shrug-outta-hecks
the logic that 15% of your state’s party base actively voting for “no one you are offering, fuck you” being more optimistic than a divided electorate between candidates, one of which will inevitably fold and endorse the other upon which their broader voter base will be absorbed, is entirely unserious motivated reasoning
active networking is the 10th circle of hell,never in my life have I felt so actively disgusted with myself in a social context. how do you do this without the urge to partiotism or how do you tamp down that urge because oh my god I cannot stomach it, it feels so fucking slimy to do. i can’t even do it at events where the sole...
“purge the soy gay weak bacteria in your gut microbiome by microdosing penicillin. I’m on 20mg constantly, 3 per day, every day, each meal. biomemaxxing. buy my course. 99$ monthly” lathe-of-heaven
so, background, I’m currently workshopping a Disco Elysium/Touhou Project fusion fanfic (Disco concept, Gensokyo setting) and, since I already pay for NovelAI for recreational purposes, I figured I’d generate some character/skill portraits for it to accentuate the presentation of it....
tfw not allowed to repress a popular democratic movement (hexbear.net)
Forget the paycheck, employees really want a raise in emotional salary - Fast Company (archive.is)
had a sleep study last night
couldn’t fucking sleep during it hypersus...
"I am haunted by the final social media post of Aaron Bushnell, the 25-year-old US Air Force serviceman who self-immolated in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington on February 25." (www.cnn.com)
Editor’s Note: Annelle Sheline, PhD, served for a year as a foreign affairs officer at the Office of Near Eastern Affairs in the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. The views expressed here are her own....
so true king (hexbear.net)
UN Security Council adopts resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire (US abstains) (www.aljazeera.com)
Everyone who has spent the last six months organizing, protesting, harassing zionist ghouls, and calling out Genocide Joe has a part in this. The US would never, ever allow something like this to pass without the large, persistent, and threatening popular movement that has demanded a ceasefire and Palestinian liberation.
(they'd rather not be there) (hexbear.net)
"it's basic science!!!" | the basic science in question: (hexbear.net)
local twitter user forgets how the sun works makima-think
four months ago I had a Destiny fan advise me to focus my ire on what Israel's doing in the West Bank since it was "comparatively uncomplicated" and "obviously bad" (hexbear.net)
someone didn’t get the memo debatejak
therapist told me her husband checks the news at the crack of dawn every morning specifically to update her on whether Joe Biden is still alive
top tier bit data-laughing
It's been quite a week. (hexbear.net)
Nitter...
Israel turns against Russia (hexbear.net)
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/06b131b1-c188-4211-b050-26916a8d9349.jpeg
of the belief that if the option “Uncommitted” or an adjacent “fuck you” wins a general election all of the candidates running in it should be ceremonially executed
electoralism would be infinitely more engaging if kind-vladimir-ilyich was an actionable option...
Give your energy to Uncommitted (hexbear.net)
LETS FUCKING GOOOOO...
I, a white American person, need help proving to my Chinese husband that the Uygher genocide is real (hexbear.net)
They’re from Portland, Oregon you can’t make this shit up lol....
how the fuck do you network (hexbear.net)
active networking is the 10th circle of hell,never in my life have I felt so actively disgusted with myself in a social context. how do you do this without the urge to partiotism or how do you tamp down that urge because oh my god I cannot stomach it, it feels so fucking slimy to do. i can’t even do it at events where the sole...
it's nice out, in an existentially horrifying way (hexbear.net)
I like 70ºF weather....
ttiittllee (hexbear.net)
Epic Rap Battles of History! Accredited humanities scholar vs. Guy who reads Wikipedia articles with unrepentant self-confidence
many such cases recently very-smart
one day the influencer collective consciousness grift-of-the-week roulette wheels will simultaneously land on the words "microdosing" and "antibiotics"
“purge the soy gay weak bacteria in your gut microbiome by microdosing penicillin. I’m on 20mg constantly, 3 per day, every day, each meal. biomemaxxing. buy my course. 99$ monthly” lathe-of-heaven
What's the vibe regarding using AI images in the context of a non-commercial project? (hexbear.net)
so, background, I’m currently workshopping a Disco Elysium/Touhou Project fusion fanfic (Disco concept, Gensokyo setting) and, since I already pay for NovelAI for recreational purposes, I figured I’d generate some character/skill portraits for it to accentuate the presentation of it....
ops think I fell out a coconut tree. this shit ain't even exist in the context of all in which I live and what came before me, man (hexbear.net)
kermit and elmo are beefing (hexbear.net)
tweet deleted unfortunately fake but he is still at it with elmo...
Time for different monkey torture (hexbear.net)
ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza but not to end war (and write a report about it) (www.bbc.com)
Summary of the ways Israel is still not allowed to do genocide:...