བོད་པ་ नेपाली Canadian | hype-man for @kalsangdolmaTO | host @goodrefugeepod | he/him | gelekwrites@gmail.com | gelek.bsky.social

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མི་ནག་ཚེས་སྲོག་རྩ་ཆེན། this was my attempt at trying to translate “Black Lives Matter” in Tibetan. it actually says “Black lives are precious.” tried to strike that balance between being accurate in translation but also achieving resonance in Tibetan (in my view).
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Palestine would be in the World Cup if Israel didn’t kill all its players
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you can’t form an original opinion of your own without referencing other takes? grow a spine.
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16 Montreal police officers are under investigation for keeping the locs of apprehended Black men as trophies. No, this isn't the U.S. It's Canada. The depths of racism never cease to shock, turning human beings into targets and their identities into souvenirs.
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Activists in Toronto. “Kick Israel out of FIFA.” 👇
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RT @KindaHagi: in the same week gwyneth paltrow can post an interview with the founder of an AI weapons manufacturer and star in an ad camp…
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The girl in your freshman social studies class who raised her hand to ask why there’s no white history month is running half the major news outlets.
CBS News boss Bari Weiss poised to oversee CNN editorial operations: report trib.al/5NN3tcd
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The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:
CBS News boss Bari Weiss poised to oversee CNN editorial operations: report trib.al/5NN3tcd
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The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals. This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.

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This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.
Replying to @DaleJohnsonBBC
"FIFA is not involved in host country immigration processes, including visa adjudications, and has been informed by authorities that Mr Artan’s status will not be changed at present. 2/3
Community note
FIFA removed Indonesia as host of the 2023 U-20 World Cup after officials refused to allow Israel's participation. bbc.com/sport/football… inside.fifa.com/organisation/m…
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Can someone forward me Luke Kornet’s blog post about the Knicks hosting a sexual abuser? I think I missed it!
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Israel in Toronto. It’s expensive. Not only are Canadian taxpayers subsidizing the donations for this event to raise funds for genocidal Israel, but we’re also paying billions to turn TPS into the Zionist police force.

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Brad Bradford continues to campaign against things that *he* supported under Tory's mayoralty, before Chow stepped foot into office. This time its the world cup deal that Tory negotiated and signed. Brad happily supported Tory in this awful deal at the time.
We’re all excited and proud that Toronto is hosting the World Cup; but as taxpayers continue to foot the bill, Mayor Chow couldn’t even bother to negotiate with FIFA to give back to our city’s residents. New Yorkers got $50 World Cup tickets. Torontonians? A $380 million bill.
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Just to be clear, if this was the other way around, a Palestinian filmmaker mocking the sexual assault of Israelis, they would be banned from the festival for life
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The Liberal government might as well have called its AI strategy “All in for AI”. This is a document that is heavy on hype, but light on the right guardrails that we need to protect people – and to ensure that the benefits of the technology don’t just flow to a handful of tech giants and investors. It proposes a massive boost to business adoption of AI, with no concern for the consequences this will have for workers, especially young workers who are already watching careers vanish before their eyes. This government is imposing a world-changing technology on all of us without any public debate. Instead of putting in place strong regulations to safeguard workers, youth, privacy, and our water and energy supply, they prefer to “move fast and break things” as the Silicon Valley motto goes. That’s why before rushing ahead, with no brakes, we need a robust regulatory framework. Every other industry in this country, from forestry to banking, is regulated. Yet somehow, when it comes to generative AI that is controlled by MAGA-aligned billionaires, the usual rules don’t apply. New Democrats support the development of cutting edge technology. For AI, that looks like responsible machine learning with small, contained datasets and targeted applications. We’re calling for a humans-first AI strategy. One that protects Canadian jobs, data and natural resources. Not a strategy that mimics the worst tendencies of AI chatbots: hallucinating benefits and flattering big tech CEOs by telling them exactly what they want to hear.
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Israel has killed more LGBTQ people in the Middle-East in the last 3 years than any other country on Earth.
You don’t have to agree with every Israeli policy to acknowledge a basic fact: for LGBTQ people, Israel offers protections, rights, and care that don’t exist anywhere else in the Middle East. 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈
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Not a single peep from the likes of the BBC or CNN, the same outlets that were reporting on the Iranian women’s football team three times a day. Western media doesn’t care about women’s freedom in Iran, Palestine or Lebanon unless it can be weaponised to serve their narrative.
Israel has arrested two Palestinian women’s national team players, Natalie Abu Dayyeh & Rand Al Halawini. The Palestine FA described it as part of the systematic targeting of their athletes. Will the same media who were concerned about Iran’s women footballers say anything now?
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"I received no response, not even a word of support, from anyone at any level of our government."
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RT @KindaHagi: hey guys i am quitting my job and moving countries bc of islamophobia. no, i don’t have any specific examples of anything th…
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In the middle of a live streamed genocide the Canadian Prime Minister is making speeches in front of an Israeli flag, telling us that the real victims are those who’s feelings are hurt by criticism of the offending state. This picture was taken yesterday.
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