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Tired Arab dad. Queer Muzo. Poetry: These Wild Houses (Cordite Books), The Lost Arabs (UQP), Non-Essential Work (UQP, 2023). Novel: Son of Sin (Affirm Press).
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"Kohler can access data and pictures from toilet camera"

It's amazing what passes for a totally normal sentence in 2025

https://varlogsimon.leaflet.pub/3m6zrw6k2bs2p

Kohler Can Access Data and Pictures from Toilet Camera It Describes as “End-to-End Encrypted” - /var/log/simon

Claimed end-to-end privacy doesn’t fully conceal your rear-end data

I should also note, that it is @omarsakrpoet

I am going to have a Green to vote for in my seat for once!!!

#ausvote2025

Ultra love

A police officer jumps on a demonstrator's back as Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against joining the army, outside the military recruitment bureau in Jerusalem. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

@photography
@palestine
#Israel

‘They forced me to stand for hours in the cold, arms raised and shackled’: eight Gaza doctors on their Israeli prison ordeal
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/feb/26/testimony-of-gaza-doctors-israel-prison
@palestine
‘They forced me to stand for hours in the cold, arms raised and shackled’: eight Gaza doctors on their Israeli prison ordeal

Senior doctors and surgeons describe the torture, starvation, humiliation and denial of medical care they endured while being held without charge

The Guardian
Ramadan in the genocide by poet Omar Sakr @omarsakrpoet

This piece by @omarsakrpoet is both excellent and heartbreaking, and a highly recommended rundown of where things are at in Palestine:
https://sakr.substack.com/p/as-i-write-this

It is genocide, and we are all bearing witness to it. Please do what you can to stand against it, and contact your local MPs to make it clear they must say more and do more. https://apan.org.au/israel_stop/

As I write this

in protest of genocide and Western imperialism

Omar Sakr Presents

The frame of ‘vaccine fatigue’ and ‘mask fatigue’ is trying to make us think we’re tired of prevention rather than the vicious way capital tried to exploit us during the pandemic.

It’s like telling us we have ‘protecting your face fatigue’ when they’re punching us.

just listened to @pluralistic's How To Think About Scraping, which is a REALLY good summary of the (imo) correct view of scraping and training in relation to AI. you should check it out

https://craphound.com/news/2023/09/24/how-to-think-about-scraping/

How To Think About Scraping | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

New Stack. Not a fan of listicles but if you’re gonna do it, do it right. There’s a growing cohort of women writers from the MENA region in Aus and they all deserve to be recognised. https://sakr.substack.com/p/120823
12/08/23

On upcoming events and the real wave of writing from MENA women in Australia

Omar Sakr Presents