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nadiaalbelushi

@nadiaalbelushi@mastodon.social

Half British, half Kuwaiti. Multiracial. Female. 34 years old. Married. Physician.

Love interactive 3D scientific visualizations & simulations, maps, exoplanets, & astronomy/astrophysics/planetarium software.

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nadiaalbelushi, to France
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's Macron is right. / the should have its own army. should be supplanted by a European army. American strategists (e.g. George Friedman) make no secret of their desire to ensure German technology and Russian resources don't come together, and that Europe remains fragmented/divided. These hawks aren't friends of Europeans, nor do they want the EU to trade with etc. They even support Islamists in Central Asia to hamper trade between the two.

https://www.ispsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/440_Lin.pdf

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nadiaalbelushi, to Japan
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Lately I've been binge watching videos of on . Literally everything about Japan. Honest to God, I'm kinda jealous of that country now. Seriously what's up with their food vending machines and capsule toy vendors on every street corner? And their airports have observation decks for non-travelers, and they have tons of hobby model shops in Tokyo, etc. And those bullet trains!!! What on Earth have we been missing? The world's gotta emulate Japan.

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nadiaalbelushi, to Ukraine
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On the occasion of the Armenian remembrance day, let us not forget that , , , , Pakistan, Georgia, the , and / the are ALL guilty of helping Azerbaijan commit genocide against Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenian Christians in 2020-2023.

Israeli, Turkish and Ukrainian weapons were delivered to Azerbaijan via Georgia. Moscow greenlighted it to punish Armenia, and the West made sure its Israeli and Turkish allies got away with it.

nadiaalbelushi, to politics
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The ugly truth that very few like to admit is that countries are like organisms with minds of their own, at least metaphorically. They oftentimes cooperate with or fight one another for survival, and try to rationalize their actions by invoking nationalism, religion, (anti) fascism, communism, capitalism and a plethora of other ideologies to justify their decisions. In reality, it's a lawless jungle, refereed only by the laws of nature.

nadiaalbelushi, to news
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Wonderful #news. Another country in #Africa has decided to expel US troops. A huge blow for America, France and the West.

I'd love to see the day when American/Western troops are also expelled from Kuwait, Bahrain, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Iraq and many other Islamic countries.

The US Empire must be resolutely defeated and crushed. The world is bigger than a few White-majority countries that are still functioning as empires.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/us/politics/us-niger-military-withdrawal.html

#politics #Israel #Gaza #Palestine

nadiaalbelushi, to twitter
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Another alternative bites the dust. Post News was by far the worst Twitter alternative. Imagine a platform where only mainstream DC-vetted voices are amplified. Imagine a place where you can get banned for voicing opposition to the US Empire's DC consensus. Screw that. This isn't what the internet was all about. The internet was always about free speech. Anyone who goes against free speech will lose.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

nadiaalbelushi, to Israel
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America's sending billions of dollars to so that it could continue its against / under the guise of fighting .

It wants the world to respect 's territorial integrity, yet it sends billions of dollars to Taiwan, a territory that is part of according to international law.

It wants the world to stand up against , yet it aids and abets genocidal wars.

No one buys the West's deception any more.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/us-house-approves-61bn-aid-ukraine

nadiaalbelushi, to news
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's IRGC warns if strikes Iran's nuclear sites, then Iran would also strike Israel's nuclear sites, abandon its non-proliferation policy & build nuclear warheads.

Iran warns any Israeli attack on its soil would lead to harsher Iranian retaliatory strikes on Israeli soil. This comes days after Iran successfully struck military bases in Israel in response to Israel's illegal attack on the Iranian embassy in Syria.

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/18/723910/IRGC-warns-of-tit-for-tat-retaliation-if-Israel-attacks-Iran-s-nuclear-facilities-

nadiaalbelushi, to Ukraine
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I don't wish to upset Ukrainians but they surely must realize by now that the war in is between 2 empires: the US Empire & the Russian Empire. Ukraine is cursed by geography. It'll never have true independence or sovereignty. It's destined to become part of either Greater or Greater (cough cough), the latter of which is currently a US vassal, but won't be forever. In any case, Ukraine has no good option. It'll always be under foreign suzerainty.

nadiaalbelushi, to Israel
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How many people even know that helped Azerbaijan commit genocide against the Armenian Christians of Nagorno-Karabakh just weeks before the October 7 attack by ?

The people of / are not the only victims of Israeli crimes. Israel literally has the blood of innocent Armenian Christians, Yemenis, Lebanese people, Kurds and Sahrawis on its hands.

is ironically the country that's protecting the Armenian Christians.

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2023-09-27/ty-article-opinion/israels-fingerprints-are-all-over-the-ethnic-cleansing-in-nagorno-karabakh/0000018a-d331-d13d-a98f-dbb5028e0000

nadiaalbelushi, to Astronomy
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A Century of Sky, Digitized
The Harvard College Observatory’s glass plates, which record a century of changes in the sky, has now been converted into digital form.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/a-century-of-sky-digitized/

dasch.cfa.harvard.edu
starglass.cfa.harvard.edu

nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon
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Yesterday I wrote a post on about racism/fascism on . I deleted it coz I didn't want anyone here to get triggered by the screenshots I shared. I wrote a thread on Bluesky where I documented all the racism I've so far encountered:

https://bsky.app/profile/nadiaalbelushi.bsky.social/post/3kpoxesspx42p

Bluesky is allowing anti-Arab/Palestinian racism by Iranian accounts that are against their govt, which they accuse of being Arab-friendly.

nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon
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Yet another example why is better than .
Over the last day or so, I've come across a number of disgustingly racist comments made by Iranians on Bsky towards Palestinians, Arabs and immigrants. The irony is these Iranians are against their regime, primarily because they see the regime as being too pro-Arab. When confronting them about it, they pretended to be the victims. Bluesky allows this. Imagine sharing a platform with racist trash.

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nadiaalbelushi, to news
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Ever heard of terminal tourism?

I consider myself a terminal tourist lol. Basically, it's when people hang out at airport terminals even if they're not traveling. I used to do that a lot in Malta during my med school years. Used to spend hours at the observation deck, and would sometimes even eat and study there. Also used to do it a lot in Qatar. Apparently it has become a thing in America too. I used to think I was the only one who did this. 😅

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/10/03/airport-day-passes-orlando-seattle-new-orleans/

nadiaalbelushi, to Astronomy
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How Newborn Stars Prepare for the Birth of Planets
ALMA and VLA observe hundreds of planet-forming disks around infant stars

https://public.nrao.edu/news/how-newborn-stars-prepare-for-the-birth-of-planets/

nadiaalbelushi, to space
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An amateur astronomer by the name of Melina Thévenot has managed to process a number of images that were taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope of wide-orbit planetary-mass objects (i.e. exoplanets) orbiting around their host stars.

This is her website: https://isolatedplanetsarchive.wordpress.com/

nadiaalbelushi, to news
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A rare 11th-century Islamic astrolabe with both Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/science/astrolabe-hebrew-arabic.html

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nadiaalbelushi, to Astronomy
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Came across this cool astronomy software/tool that simulates how exoplanetary systems would look like when they're directly imaged by next-gen telescopes that will use starshade technology.

It's called "Starshade Imaging Simulation Toolkit for Exoplanet Reconnaissance (SISTER)".

http://sister.caltech.edu/

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nadiaalbelushi, to bluesky
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I don't for the life of me understand why doesn't just become a instance or an alternative. It should ditch ATProto and embrace the ActivityPub . It can't sustain itself this way without turning into another enshittified version of down the road. Just join ActivityPub so that we can have 5 mil more users; so that Bsky users can communicate with ppl on Lemmy, Mastodon, etc; and so that you can become crowdfunded a la Wikipedia and Mastodon, etc.

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nadiaalbelushi, to space
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NASA-funded scientist says ‘MEGA drive’ could enable interstellar travel
The drive would provide enough thrust for a spacecraft to travel near the speed of light using only electricity, says physicist Jim Woodward.
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/mach-effect-thruster/

nadiaalbelushi, to Russia
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wants to seize more land from . wants to establish a so-called "buffer zone" deep inside Ukrainian territory that's currently under Ukrainian control.

Do you know what this rhetoric reminds me of? It reminds me of member Turkey, which repeatedly invaded the Kurdish-inhabited regions of north Iraq and north Syria under the pretext of establishing a "buffer zone" against Kurdish "terrorists".

Ukraine repeatedly supported it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/03/18/putin-ukraine-buffer-zone-protect-russia-missile-attacks/

nadiaalbelushi, to opensource
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Planetariums tend to spend money on digital planetarium systems, but they don't have to. I came across a free Planetarium software that runs on .

It's called SpaceCrafter and its source code is on GitHub. I believe it can also run on Windows now. It comes with a fulldome projection mode. The core software is free, but there's also a paid plugin that enables extra features. The best part is you can run it on your own computer.

https://www.fddb.org/news/planetarium-software-spacecrafter-2023-has-been-released/

nadiaalbelushi, to Astronomy
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WorldWide Telescope is an visualization that acts as both an interactive planetarium & sky atlas. It's free & ( ). It also includes a 3D mode where you can fly to the solar system planets & even zoom out of the solar system & Milky Way galaxy & see a 3D map of all the galaxies in the "known" universe. That said, it's mostly used for zoomable astronomical surveys & images. You can zoom into distant protoplanetary disks, etc.

https://aasnova.org/2017/10/13/worldwide-telescope-hits-the-web/

nadiaalbelushi, to mastodon
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After moving away from twitter and embracing and , as well as replacing Google Search with DuckDuckGo, and embracing alternatives to Gmail and Google Chrome, I think I'm now ready for the biggest transition yet. I'm seriously thinking of embracing . Time to embrace computing and software. Windows doesn't feel right these days. Truthfully, it hasn't felt right for a while.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-why-desktop-linux-is-finally-growing-in-popularity/

nadiaalbelushi, to instagramreality
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What is the socio-political equivalent of decentralized ? What is the socio-political equivalent of / and the ?

Well, believe it or not, the Kurds of Syria have been experimenting with just that over the last 10+ years. It's called democratic confederalism. It's a leftist libertarian movement that wishes to replace the centralized nation-state model with decentralized democracy.

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/beyond-the-nation-state-in-the-middle-east/

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