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I have a website about bisexual books now! ❤💜💙
I'm covering books which usually don't make it onto lists of bi representation so if you're underwhelmed by YA or tired of reading exclusively US literature, this might be the site for you!
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Every Palestinian reporter I follow is posting about how last night was possibly the worst assault Gaza has EVER seen. When I open mainstream media, all the top headlines are about Eurovision. This is not a coincidence - israel uses media spectacles to cover up their crimes.
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Eurovision is removing booing and adding fake cheers for israel. They're warping reality in favour of propaganda. Really dystopian shit
#eurovision
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Israeli government official: "it is true that we as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs worked among friendly audiences to increase voting"
And now they're using the televote result to claim Europeans support israeli violence. How is this not instrumentalising Eurovision
@EBU_HQ
?
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Australian backing singer revealed that Eurovision is patting down participants to make sure they don't bring any Palestinian symbols on stage
BOYCOTT EUROVISION, FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
#UnitedByGenocide
#BoycottEurovision
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If Eurovision is hosted in israel, countries will drop out, contestants will refuse to go, the israeli police will brutalise protesters. Let's see if the EBU wants to go there or if they'll finally kick out the apartheid ethnostate.
It's very likely that israel will win Eurovision. Don't budge on your boycott. Israel winning would bring the contest into even bigger controversy than it is now, they would loose viewers, they would loose sponsors, which is what they deserve. KEEP BOYCOTTING LET IT ALL CRASH
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Eurovision disqualified a contestant because he's being investigated by the police and "While the legal process takes its course, it would not be appropriate for him to continue in the Contest." but a country on trial FOR A FULL BLOWN GENOCIDE is fine. I don't have words anymore.
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It's very likely that israel will win Eurovision. Don't budge on your boycott. Israel winning would bring the contest into even bigger controversy than it is now, they would loose viewers, they would loose sponsors, which is what they deserve. KEEP BOYCOTTING LET IT ALL CRASH
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@verilybitchie
If this goes through, all the broadcasters who've immediately asked for Russia to be banned but have been staying silent and saying "the decision is up to the EBU" will now have to decide whether they're willing to officially support Israel or not.
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If you've ever doubted the toxic and addictive nature of social media look at billionaires like musk and JKR who could be doing anything in the world and instead of laying on the beach they're spending their time fighting randos on twitter
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I've seen a lot of "fanfiction is only tolerated because it's not monetised" takes recently and they're completely missing the point of why IP owners tolerate fan works. 🧵
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"Bambie Thug’s attempts at showing solidarity, and Alexander’s hopes that artists competing might be able to use their platform to advocate for peace, have ultimately proved useless. [...] the only effective way to protest would have been to withdraw."
This year, Eurovision has chosen to support violence over advocating for peace
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Source:
The Slovenian national broadcaster is also reporting about this:
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And the rest of the week is Eurovision
the met gala is tonight, which if we have learned anything in the last few months means that this will be a horrifying night in gaza. please don't forget palestine during this distraction.
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"We were used in a propaganda machine 😥"
PALESTINIANS ASKED YOU MONTHS AGO TO WITHDRAW
Gåte about Eurovision:
We experienced that the artists were forced into a political role. We were used in a propaganda machine. It seemed like there was one set of rules for Israel, another for the rest.
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@verilybitchie
@EBU_HQ
The Israeli broadcaster said their performance "needs to tell the Israeli narrative". They're literally announcing their intent to politicise and instrumentalise Eurovision.
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Fanfiction inherently breaches copyright, whether you make money off of it or not. The reason why copyright owners tolerate fanfic is not because fanfiction writers don't make any money for writing it but because fandom is insanely profitable for IP owners.
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TV is not activism. "Representation" is a business choice, not a political choice for big American corporations. Fandom is consumerism, not activism.
Let's keep the material reality of American pop culture in mind.
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Fandom gives the original works value those corporations could never dream off creating on their own. Why is Skyrim the one video game that won't die? Because Bethesda enables and encourages modding, releasing modding tools and even enabling mods on playstation, [...]
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His chapters have weird titles cause he's desperately trying to avoid normal, established terminology like "playersexuality" that we use in our chapter titles and our video in general. So instead he invents words like "homo-optional" and arbitrarily uses "the glass ceiling"🙃
also, at one point
@theliterarybi
says "and also, his chapters just have weird titles that don't make any sense" JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THANK YOU
@VERILYBITCHIE
'S COWRITER ADA THIS DROVE ME FUCKING CRAZY
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If israel wins eurovision, it will be the fault of the people NOT boycotting. if you did your part, israel couldn't win because they wouldn't be in the competition anymore. imagine if 9 artists had dropped out and all of fan media turned on eurovision.
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If you watch an obscure TV show that doesn't have a fandom, how invested are you going to stay long term when there are no gifs for you to retweet and no fics to read? And in contrast, how invested are you going to stay if you watch a show with endless fan content to consume?
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Here's why I think putting sources on screen in a youtube video is more helpful than leaving them in the video description, a google doc, tweet, pastebin or any other external place. ⬇️
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israeli delegation: proudly sharing articles about how their Eurovision song is political and about October 7
EBU: 🙈🙉🙊
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Fandom is only "non profit" for the fans. For IPs, fandom is free labour that generates absurd monetary value - that's the real reason they allow or even encourage it. Disney and Netflix won't suddenly start going after AO3 because some people made $15 on kofi lol.
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Fan works keep media relevant, generate free promotion and create deeply invested consumers. Why can Bethesda keep releasing full price Skyrim reworks for every conceivable platform - that people keep paying for? Because mods keep people invested in Skyrim.
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Fanfiction does exactly the same for other mediums: it lets fans fix whatever they perceive as mistakes, personalise the content to their preferences and it adds endless new content.
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This could have been Eurovision if the artists weren't morally bankrupt 🙃
BREAKING: Latitude Festival cuts ties with sponsor Barclays after acts pull out
Read more 🔗
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"Being bisexual is easy, you're half straight straight anyway"
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And here are the academic works we used as sources:
"Exploiting Fandom: How the Media Industry Seeks to Manipulate Fans"
"Fandom as Free Labor"
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something basically unheard of. This allows gamers to change anything they don't like about Skyrim, personalise it to their preferences and add endless new content so it never gets boring.
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If you want to learn more, here's a video essay about copyright and fandom I co-wrote:
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Oh so it was indeed possible to smuggle in flags and have them displayed on TV, all these "pro-Palestinian" artists just chose to do nothing.
When asked by Eurovoix about the non-binary flag they brought on stage, Nemo says:
“I had to smuggle my flag in because
#Eurovision
said no. Maybe
#Eurovision
needs a little bit of fixing.”
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And this is how you build an entire career on a "pro-Palestinian" brand while rejecting the one request Palestinians had for you.
Of course these artists refused to boycott Eurovision, they had to think of their pockets.
It’s happening 😈
Tix on sale Tuesday 28th May
Find links to all the shows in the footer of my website
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AO3 is making them way too much money. Also, going after fandom in the age where internet fandom drives media consumption would be a PR disaster. Harry Potter was the first big fandom to be born into the internet era and Warner Brothers learned very quickly to stop [...]
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I made this website as my personal alternative to social media - I don't like spending a lot of time endlessly scrolling through short form content so instead I taught myself how to code🤓
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They allow fanfic because it's fucking profitable for them and they don't care if fan writers make some change along the way.
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cease and deceasing fansites when the fandom boycotted their HP products in return. Don't delude yourself into thinking that multi-billion corporations wouldn't have fanfic sites shut down in a second if fanfic was inconvenient for them in any way.
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Why are people buying stupid official merch for ancient franchises like Harry Potter? Because fandom keeps those franchises alive.
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All the Eurovision artists saying "withdrawing wouldn't do anything" - YES IT WOULD. You could bring this whole thing down but you choose to prioritise your careers over protesting genocide.
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Every day I think about historian Ilan Pappe saying this is the beginning of the end of israel because israel can't exist without the moral and material support of the west
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I worked with the Palestinian movement in Slovenia to create this open letter demanding Israel's expulsion from Eurovision. The letter was signed by Slovenian NGOs and musicians, including some former Eurovision contestants.
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He doesn't even talk about the glass ceiling in the glass ceiling chapter and when he mentions it in a different chapter he says it's not a real glass ceiling lmao
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The only way to achieve peace is by putting TANGIBLE pressure on Israel, including cultural boycott. You have actual power to do that. Boycotting now and getting Israel kicked out is more powerful than anything you could do during Eurovision.
Queers for Palestine sent me their letter asking me to withdraw from the ESC earlier this week and I responded to them directly, I’m sharing my response here alongside this mornings collective artist statement 🩷
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To be clear, they all needed to withdraw and boycott but they justified their participation by saying pro-Palestinian voices needed to be heard... and then proceeded to not use their voices.
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That's exactly what it means. You wouldn't stop buying McDonald's but keep tweeting about how much you love their various products. Why would the EBU ban israel when they can see that even if they keep them in the fandom will still engage positively with Eurovision?
I find this idea that boycotting is “giving up” harmful. If something is on a boycott list, it’s what Palestinians want us to do to support them. As far as I’m aware, you can still be active & loud in the ESC community, just don’t watch the official channel & broadcasts.
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The Slovenian broadcaster has responded to us and said that they're going to ask the EBU to open a consultation about Israel's participation in Eurovision with all the broadcasters!
I worked with the Palestinian movement in Slovenia to create this open letter demanding Israel's expulsion from Eurovision. The letter was signed by Slovenian NGOs and musicians, including some former Eurovision contestants.
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Even if the israeli government hadn't admitted to astroturfing the Eurovision televote it would still be obvious from the fact that no one is listening to their stupid song
Most-streamed
#Eurovision
2024 songs on Spotify (May 15):
🇳🇱 Europapa - 3,305,954
🇨🇭 The Code - 2,734,572
🇫🇷 Mon amour - 1,774,331
🇭🇷 Rim Tim Tagi Dim - 1,615,802
🇺🇦 Teresa & Maria - 1,193,221
🇮🇹 La noia - 1,093,957
🇸🇪 Unforgettable - 886,706
🇮🇪 Doomsday Blue - 886,664
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Mainstream for-profit companies will always try to sanitise queerness and turn it into a product.
Singer Patrick Wolf never managed to work with major record labels because they tried to police his gender and sexuality. "Be less queer, be more gay" they told him 🧵
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LOVE closing 70 tabs of research once a video is done 😌
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New video! 🏰🔮💰
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If your sources are on screen then your video can even outlive youtube and be reuploaded to a different platform!
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The letter is addressed to the Slovenian public broadcaster as they have the power to demand this from Eurovision
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Remember, Russia wasn't banned from Eurovision because they invaded Ukraine, they were only banned after several participating broadcasters demanded it. Here's a way to email your national broadcaster about Israel's participation in Eurovision ⬇
For any Eurovision fans who would like to email their country’s broadcaster to put pressure on the EBU to ban Israel, I’ve set up an email (in English) which you can translate in your own language and send to your broadcaster
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@SariboCook
We made a grass lounger (with cat grass) and our cats are OBSESSED with it!
(Pic from this post about how to make one:
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Countries that recognise the State of Palestine (green)
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1. Clear on screen citations allow viewers to quickly judge the quality of your citation. If you only put a surname or a number on screen it's easy to assume you're citing a peer reviewed paper even when it's really a substack.
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2. By not integrating citations into the video you're making the video disposable. I don't want to click on a "sources" link and not be able to view it because it's been deleted or it demands I log in to a different platform.
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We've got a new video! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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It lets your viewers see your sources alongside your statements and decide how they feel about an academic paper vs a news article vs a tweet. It lets them see the dates of your sources as well.
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"This is a text-book case of genocide. The European, ethno-nationalist, settler colonial project in Palestine has entered its final phase, toward the expedited destruction of the last remnants of indigenous Palestinian life in Palestine."
The Director of the UN's New York office just resigned after thirty years at the organisation over the UN's handling of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
The entirety of his resignation letter is a necessary read but this first page blew me away.
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Why do you think Eurovision is going out of their way to defend these cowards and say we shouldn't "harass" them on social media? Do you really think nothing would change if those 9 artists withdrew instead of just posting instagram platitudes?
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As a youtuber I find this appalling. Aggressive algorithmic monetisation might be more profitable for
@YouTube
in the short run, but in the long run it will alienate both creators, who are losing control of their channels, and viewers, who will end up switching to other platforms
Hey YouTubers, how we feeling about
@YouTube
removing our ability to decide what ad formats run on our videos? Possibly I am old and stodgy but I do not like it.
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Boycott doesn't just mean don't give them money. It means don't give them any positive attention, period. The only way you should be engaging with Eurovision this year is putting pressure on the EBU, artists and broadcasters to ban israel.
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No Slovenian media has reported anything about this and the original tweet has no source. As far as I can tell, RTVSLO complaining is a rumor at best and a complete fabrication at worst.
Recriminations continue amongst broadcasters.
Slovenia's RTV files a complaint about the behaviour of the Israeli delegation at Eurovision 2024.
Serbia's RTS raising concerns about the disqualification of the Netherlands.
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@EBU_HQ
@CoEMediaFreedom
Oh but you're okay with KAN journalists signing bombs which kill Gazan civilians?
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New video, this one is about sex work!
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and/or derided as frivolous and campy.
“I guess it meant, ‘Be more asexual’,” he said. “Be more Elton John; be more a gay that we can understand as a product, not something that is unquantifiable and would quite terrify the public."
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"Perhaps most frustrating were those adjectives that couched Wolf’s perceived effeminacy–his “flamboyance”–as a marketable quirk. Wolf revealed that there were times when his record label had asked him to be “more gay”, a non-threatening type which could be both promoted [...]
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Ban your member country doing this then, you fucking ghouls
Tweets don't mean anything, sanctions do
The EBU is supporting more than 50 prominent UK and US journalists calling for “free and unhindered” access to Gaza for foreign media
"Failure to grant access undermines credible reporting and jeopardizes the safety of
#journalists
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Full statement
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Every single musician participaring this year is complicit in artwashing genocide.
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CGI was a mistake, it's time to go back to practical effects
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The israeli officials are now scared of traveling to South Korea! Every country needs to do this so that israel becomes a complete pariah state
According to Israeli media reports, a lawsuit for war crimes and crimes against humanity has been filed in South Korea against seven senior Israeli officials.
The lawsuit includes: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi,
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They're not "wholesome", every single one of them is an opportunist who's decided to prioritise their career when the BDS movement explicitly asked them to withdraw and boycott.
What breaks my heart is that the majority of the Eurovision class of 2024 is wholesome af, yet the contest is currently being ruined by a *certain* participant and a *certain* broadcasting union caring more about money than people's well-being and safety. C'mon, do better
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If nothing else, all the broadcasters who've immediately asked for Russia to be banned but have now been staying silent and saying "the decision is up to the EBU" will now have to decide whether they're willing to officially support Israel or not.
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"restricting abortion rights and blocking transgender people’s access to health care are two sides of the same coin [...] In both cases, we see the protection of a fantasized imperiled child justifying heavy-handed police state policies"
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Also featuring a discussion of "Cam" by
@isaiswrong
which you should watch instead of "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande"
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Kidnapped Palestinian about israeli prison: "I was given electric shocks by one of the officers yesterday, for exceeding the allotted time in the toilet. You would be exposed to electricity if you spent more than four minutes in the toilet"
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Very pleased with how this turned out
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When popular youtube channels don't have subtitles
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I'm very excited to unleash this into the world!
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@esc_play
Where is this information from? I can't see any slovenian media reporting about this
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From LGBT in Britain: Bi Report (Stonewall, 2020).
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Apparently the restoration is currently in the midst of a theatrical roadshow as well 😭
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@Saribeaux
We finished your video in the morning and then read Laura Mulvey's essay about the male gaze... It's been a day lol
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EUROVISION IS PATTING DOWN PERFORMERS TO MAKE SURE THEY DON'T BRING PALESTINIAN FLAGS TO THE STAGE
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Source:
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We just cut this from the new video script so I'm posting it here.
Quote from here:
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Ali bomo ostali samo pri besedah ali bo Slovenija končno prekinila diplomatske odnose z izraelom?
Slovenia welcomes the Advisory opinion issued by
@CIJ_ICJ
on Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.
Slovenia calls on Israel to comply with its duties and obligations under
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@EurovisionTom
Great video! Very thorough analysis and I love that you ended it on a positive note. :)
(Also thank you for the shout out of our video!)
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Thank you to everyone who left translations of the protest email in the comments of our new video! We've added them to the document.
✉️
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@jessiegender
"The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS" by Simon Garfield has been one of the most illuminating LGBT non-fiction books I've ever read. It covers everything from the early denial in the community to the later political action and a broader context as well.
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New video! 🧛
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The top billed Malena Ernman signed a petition to ban Israel from Eurovision all the way back in January (and she's also Greta Thunberg's mum). I hope she's the next one to cancel.
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thinks you should watch our video!
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The Mattel CEO is an israeli zionist who donates money to the israeli military
There’ll be some company that sells cute kids toys, and then it’ll come out their CEO heavily invests in AI drones that murder children in the Middle East, and it happens again and again and again, and so you have to understand: capitalism and imperialism are intimately connected
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