No one is mentioning that #Bluesky is becoming more popular compared to Fedi/Mastodon in the US because it is created by a US company and that it is very uncommon for Americans to embrace tech initiatives from outside their country. TikTok is the only exception.
Someone in Egypt is taking notes. X blocks access to more than 100 journalist, activist accounts in Turkey
Turkish Minute
X blocks access to more than 100 journalist, activist accounts in Turkey - Turkish Minute
Social media platform X has blocked access to over 100 accounts belonging to Turkish journalists, activists and media organizations run by journali...
Updates from the #FreeAlaa campaign and an event in London on 22 October celebrating the launch of a new edition of Alaa Abdel Fattah's book.
Updates from the Campaign to Free Alaa - October 14th - Miniflux
Just saw people burn alive on my phone
G A N Z E E R . T O D A Y
Just saw people burn alive on my phone.
None of this would be happening without unquestionable US support. The world needs to stand up to the US and Israel in ways it never has before. Sp...
Netanyahu warns Lebanon of 'destruction like Gaza'
Netanyahu warns Lebanon of 'destruction like Gaza'
Benjamin Netanyahu's appeal came as Israel expanded its ground invasion against Hezbollah.
 BDS is the appropriate response to a rogue state.
More than 1,000 people in #Lebanon have been killed in the past two weeks, while up to a million have been displaced.
The Queer Arab Glossary —A Review https://themarkaz.org/the-queer-arab-glossary-a-review/
The Guardian view on Israel’s booby-trap war: illegal and unacceptable
the Guardian
The Guardian view on Israel’s booby-trap war: illegal and unacceptable | Editorial
Editorial: Benjamin Netanyahu’s hold on power depends on his nation being at war. The region is paying a high price
Two children killed & thousands of people, including civilians, were maimed in the Israeli terrorist attack on #Lebanon. Lots of people had serious injuries to their eyes and others had to undergo amputations following the explosion of booby trapped pagers. The UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons prohibits or restricts the use of weapons that can be particularly injurious or indiscriminate such as mines, booby traps and plastic explosives. #Israel signed and ratified this convention.
Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah @Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Britain Must Call for Release of British-Egyptian Activist and Coder Alaa Abd El Fattah
As British-Egyptian coder, blogger, and activist Alaa Abd El Fattah enters his fifth year in a maximum security prison outside Cairo, unjustly char...
 #FreeAlaa