Asteris Masouras

Yesterday I asked Claude for 5 quotes by Israeli officials that could be interpreted as genocidal. I already had the quotes, but was curious to see. 2 of them were either sourced incorrectly and 2 were just made up.

I got the quotes by just looking them up.

Can’t explain what it’s like to see, on live TV, the genocidal Israeli army’s tanks gathering at the border of my country

US-Israel war on Iran: A brief history of mission creep and false promises

US-Israel war on Iran: A brief history of mission creep and false promises https://aje.news/7if4lj

Trump will only get worse.

Donald J. Trump & @realDonaldTrump There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER! After that, and the selection of a GREAT & ACCEPTABLE Leader(s), we, and many of our wonderful and very brave allies and partners, will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. "MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!)." Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP 281 ReTruths 938 Likes 3/6/26, 7:50 AM

⚠️ Trump:

“There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL
SURRENDER!”

He is totally disconnected from reality.

We thought that those silly movies plots about a rich maniac trying to conquer the world were unrealistic. Apparently someone mistook them for foreign policy lessons.

absolute sociopaths

My 89 yo Lebanese-Palestinian-Italian grandmother, who fled the Nakba in 48 as a child to Lebanon, has essentially never lived more than a few years at a time in nearly a century of existence without being impacted by Israeli state violence.

And then they call this 'crisis in the middle east.'

Last hours for this! 📚💙

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Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The Minab school was struck deliberately.
Twice.
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What if your next favorite read came from a region rarely translated—and your purchase helped fund multilingual journalism at Global Voices? You have 1 day left to celebrate the power of translations!

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Παρότι θα έπρεπε να είναι μία τρομοκρατική οργάνωση, να το θυμόμαστε αυτό. Να το θυμόμαστε ΚΑΛΑ αυτό.

StoryBundle's In Translation bundle to benefit Global Voices Lingua: Interview My primary goal was that the bundle be representative of our broader world, without a focus on the regions most already represented in collections of translation.

How would you like to read 12 books from across the Global Majority—some newly translated just for this project—while contributing to Global Voices? 7 days left to get the In Translation StoryBundle for GV Lingua!

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"We've finally created the WOPR from the 1983 movie "whatever you do don't create the WOPR" aka Wargames."

The Age of Stupid turbocharged by AI fascism. Humanity is apparently too stupid to live.

The goddamn genocide never stops x.com/AbujomaaGaza...

I appreciate that @bsky.app has released this, but without full transparency about what constitutes "rude" content (which, btw, is hidden or shadowbanned, while more harmful content is merely labeled), you're not hitting the mark with this.

StoryBundle's In Translation bundle to benefit Global Voices Lingua: Interview My primary goal was that the bundle be representative of our broader world, without a focus on the regions most already represented in collections of translation.

Every purchase helps keep @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social active, enabling volunteers to translate community-driven journalism into dozens of languages.
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Most translation funding still goes to bestsellers or colonial languages.
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StoryBundle Pay what you like and get a bundle of awesome ebooks and more!

These books aren’t written to explain or exoticize their cultures—they come from within, offering loving, critical, and nuanced perspectives.
Reading them helps us see that while our struggles are shared, our experiences are uniquely powerful.

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This project was built by a worldwide community of writers, editors, and translators.
It shows what happens when global storytellers collaborate: they share, build, and learn across languages—just like the mission of @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social.

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StoryBundle's In Translation bundle to benefit Global Voices Lingua: Interview My primary goal was that the bundle be representative of our broader world, without a focus on the regions most already represented in collections of translation.

Translation Is Political. Translation decides whose stories travel, whose are preserved, and whose are ignored.

By supporting this campaign, you help fight the inequity of whose voices get translated—supporting writers from cultures often overlooked in mainstream publishing.

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This donation campaign works on a sliding scale:
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Buyers also choose whether 10% goes to Global Voices.
Affordable for readers, life-changing for translators.

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StoryBundle for Global Voices Lingua

Several books in this bundle are brand-new translations, created exclusively for this project—especially works from marginalized languages and regions where long-form translation rarely receives funding.

Your purchase helps bring these voices to the world.

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The campaign celebrates the power of translation: fiction, journalism, and global storytelling that cross borders.

Your support helps fund @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social, keeping multilingual publishing open, community-driven, and accessible to all.

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This campaign brings together 12 books from 12 regions: Zimbabwe, Korea, Palestine, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Thailand, Malaysia/Singapore, Brazil, Wiikwemkoong, Canada, and Ukraine.

A global bookshelf—translated into English for the first time (And 10% of the donations goes to GV Lingua!)

StoryBundle's In Translation bundle to benefit Global Voices Lingua: Interview My primary goal was that the bundle be representative of our broader world, without a focus on the regions most already represented in collections of translation.

Last week, @storybundle.bsky.social launched a global storytelling bundle focused on translated books which will support @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social, our network of volunteer translators who bring underreported stories into dozens of languages.


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