to be silent is to be complicit

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[moonlayl]

This is the message Anas Al Sharif instructed to be published should he be martyred.

[angryratt]

my boy 🥹

[moonlayl]

— William C. Hannan

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAISY JOHNSON

[monstrous-femme]

as a regular donor to Gaza Soup Kitchen I get their email updates, and they said today that while they've continued to be able to expand, donations are slowing down as Gaza gets less coverage. If you have a few dollars to spare, I encourage you to send them here to continue the amazing work that Hani and his team are doing.

[paper-wounds]

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[myrloe]

[cedence]

"Just on the other side, safety- not freedom. I'm leaving freedom behind, and I can feel the earth's grief when I get out of the car. The tired weeds try to encircle my ankles, begging me to stay. They murmur stories about my ancestors. The ones who stood right where I stand. The ones whose discoveries and civilization encompassed the whole world. The one whose blood runs through my veins. My footprints sink deep into the soil where theirs have long since been washed away. They plead with me: It's your country. This earth belongs to me and my children.” ― Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (2022)

[deafening-garden]

[rubypomegranates]

“With all the destruction happening down there, it's so easy to forget the beauty that's up here. The sky is so beautiful after rainfall.”

Zoulfa Katouh "As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow”

[razreads]

You don't have to stop living just because we might die.

Zoulfa Katouh, As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow

[02virgos]

To them, the idea of freedom is infectious, and we need to be put down before it spreads.

as long as the lemon trees grow / zoulfa katouh

[wellsysgarrett]

as long as the lemon trees grow by zoulfa katouh

every lemon will bring forth a child, and the lemons will never die out.

playlist.

[moonlayl]

I finished reading As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow and my heart is shattered. Spoilers below

Even though they’re fictional, I’m happy the characters were able to survive and get to Europe. But I can’t help but think of all the real Syrians who drowned at sea, forced to risk their lives for a chance at a better life because the only option back home was death. I can’t help but think of all the real Syrians in prisons like Hamza, who were tortured in the most unspeakable ways before their deaths. I can’t help but think of the thousands of pregnant Syrian women that were murdered like Layla. Or the thousands of Syrian children that were killed like 6 year old Ahmad. The millions of Syrians who like Salamah, lost their entire family 💔

and not just in Syria but in Gaza, in Sudan, in Lebanon, in Iraq, in Kashmir, in East Turkistan, everywhere.

there’s a scenes in the book where the hospital is bombed and the doctors are trying to save the babies in the incubators. I can’t help but think of the real doctors who were put in that position. How do you choose?

Every page of this beautiful book haunts me. I’ve been crying nonstop for hours. Millions of real life people have suffered like this. It just breaks my heart that although it’s a fictional story, for so many people it was reality. And unfortunately for millions of people that reality didn’t include a happy ending. My heart is just broken for Syria. For my home country. For Gaza, and for everywhere that there is suffering.

there is a line in the book about how the world wouldn’t care about Syrian refugees drowning at sea. That it would make headlines for a day but that the people would be forgotten, and ignored. That they’d be reduced to just numbers, never to be thought of again. I can’t help but think that we’re all guilty of that. That no matter how much we try, we end up thinking of real life people who are suffering in this way.

but those people who drowned at sea, those people who were murdered in cold blood, all of them had dreams. All of them tried to survive. All of them fought.

I wish I can remember them all, I wish I can remember every single one. I wish I can share their story, and the memories of every last martyr. I wish everyone can know what happened to their missing loved ones, and find that closure. Wallah my heart is breaking.

O Allah you are the Most Merciful. Please have Mercy on them and on us.

[mournfulroses]

Nigar Hamm, from a poem titled "Tell Me Again," featured in Nightingales and Pleasure Gardens: Turkish Love Poems

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).