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23 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
How do you prefer to get informed, on a day-to-day basis?
- Threads
- Newsletters
- Podcasts
- Videos (Youtube, etc)
- Articles
- Books
- TV
- Other?
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I have to admit I am developing a preference for threads because they are compact. There's just *so* much information to consume daily that I no longer have the patience for long-form narrative/storytelling formats (except perhaps as a downtine activity)
In my case:
- Books (morning/night)
- Podcasts, audiobooks & short videos (while working out, cooking, etc)
- Threads (during the day, while commuting, etc)

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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
21 Sep
For some reason, over the past few weeks I've been fascinated by Flat Earther videos (did quite a number on my Youtube homepage). I guess I should write a bit about what I saw but here's a few quick thoughts
1. It's a modern movement. They aren't holdovers from a previous historical or traditional movement. This tells you something - if this is a modern movement then the reasons it exists are also modern issues
2. They actually *do* seem to obsess over "evidence". Only, they twist it around in a clever way. "Evidence" for them is redefined to "whatever can change my mind" (and since nothing can, then problem solved)
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
11 Sep
Optimism is not a plan. Anger is not power. Euphoria is not a national vision. Emotions are not a roadmap.
Mental prisons are more oppressive than physical prisons. And the worst prisons are those we build for ourselves
I'm a strategist. My job is to live in the future. To look at the big picture, to see everything as a trend, to think 20 moves ahead (and 20 years ahead). My brain is wired this way now.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
1 Sep
Should I lift weights at the end of a 48 hour fast? Assuming I'll eat right after
Ok, I won't. It's not a function of "energy" btw but of electrolytes + hydration. Easy way to get a cramp.
Maybe something softer today, like yoga or a stretching routine
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
30 Aug
Very quick stream of consciousness (again), apologies in advance for all the typos, mistakes, inaccuracies etc. Among Islamist militants there have been (generally) two models:
The Caliphate model calls for the establishment of a global empire (although they'll resent the word "empire"). The Emirate model calls for the establishment of local rule (a state with limited borders) and a governance model, sometimes as the goal, sometimes as a start.
ISIS generally represents the first model. The Taliban represents the second model. ISIS refers to itself as Dawlat al-Khilafa (the Caliphate state). The Taliban's official name for Afghanistan is "the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan".
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
29 Aug
I think it's time that Middle Eastern activists of a certain... ideological extraction realize that the US politicians will never save you, will never center you, will never exact justice for you, and will never put you first. Piggybacking off another's power is disempowering.
Inherent in their faith (and disappointment) in one US president after another is a belief that the US "rules the world", so all they must do is bend US power, however slightly, to our benefit. But this is based on an antiquated worldview. Even when it wasn't, it never worked.
(I'm tweeting this because something came up on my TL and I did not want to respond directly. Yes this is a subtweet.)
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي Profile picture
29 Aug
I literally described what happened and how I felt about, and for that I'm called "arrogant and bad faith". For describing how humiliated I felt, I'm being called "arrogant". Look, you can dislike what I'm saying, but you cannot argue my lived experience and how it made me feel.
To be Palestinian is not merely a nationality, it's also a lived experience. And since my people have been atomized and isolated from each other, this has become *multiple* lived experiences. I came face to face with that between 2014 and today.
Nobody should shy away from talking about their experiences because we're all equally valid as human beings. You cannot shut someone's lived experience with your opinion. You cannot argue other people's emotions. And you cannot become the arbiter for who does or doesn't matter.
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