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Arafi has been a member of the Guardian Council since 2019. Its members are appointed by the supreme leader. It is an Islamic legal authority that vets Iran’s laws and policies to make sure they conform to Islamic principles. It approves election candidates, has veto power over legislation passed by parliament and supervises elections.

Arafi also serves as the deputy chairman of the Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for overseeing the selection of the supreme leader. He leads Friday prayers in Qom, Iran’s most important religious centre, and heads the seminary system, overseeing education for religious leaders nationwide.

Masoud Pezeshkian

Pezeshkian, 71, is a reformist politician and heart surgeon who served in the army during the Iran-Iraq War. He was elected president in the 2024 elections.

He previously served as health minister under President Mohammad Khatami and, after 2005, as a member of parliament representing the northwestern city of Tabriz.

Pezeshkian ran unsuccessfully for president earlier but in 2024 won on a reform-oriented platform and has since navigated economic pressures and regional tensions.

He earlier campaigned on economic stabilisation, easing social restrictions and pursuing constructive engagement abroad while affirming loyalty to the Islamic Republic’s constitutional framework.

Reacting to Khamenei’s assassination, Pezeshkian said in a statement that Iran now considers “it its legitimate duty and right to avenge the perpetrators and masterminds of this historic crime”.

Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei

Mohseni-Ejei is a senior religious leader and has headed the judiciary since Khamenei appointed him to the post in July 2021.

He previously served as intelligence minister from 2005 to 2009 and later as prosecutor-general and first deputy chief justice. He is regarded as a hardline figure aligned with the conservative wing of the government.

In January, when the collapsing rial triggered protests across Iran, Mohseni-Ejei promised “no leniency” towards what he called “rioters”.

Mohseni-Ejei said the US and Israel “openly and explicitly supported the unrest” in the country after Trump called on Iranians to take to the streets.

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mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 3d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLyGVJAT02A

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mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 3d ago

If you don't need to be able to collaborate professionally Affinity works well enough. Canva bought it, which sucks, but it works and the UI isn't complete shit like a lot of alternatives. Iirc it will open psd and idml files without issue (idml not indd tho). The RAW editor is not great though

Otherwise rutracker has several options

mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Lol, I added a space so its not a link anymore.

mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 5d ago

The Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark tells Ezra Klein what he sees coming in the new era of A.I. agents.

Oh okay, so it's a long ad. Great journalism.

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mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 5d ago

Its amazing how this is actually what happened:

Identity .md, scratchpad, chat history, git log — these are memory and biography. Memory loss is partial death.

mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 6d ago

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mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 1w ago

mercury poisoning caused by a diet high in tuna.

How much tuna was he eating?

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mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 1w ago

Read the section from Capital, its short and likely the most straightforward part of the chapter: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S4

(I like the penguin edition translation better, but this one is still fine)

Edit: the comment by Cori in the second image is correct btw. It is very much a concept about how all commodities in a capitalist economy are mystified, and are read as objective relations between things (other commodities and money) rather than as social relations of their production. It has nothing to do with how nice a jacket is or how high its price is.

mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 1w ago

ShelfMark

This has been my new favorite service, it works so well with calibre

mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 1w ago

In addition to the other comment, the PDF reflow function is great. No other ereader software compares. Its not perfect, but its still really useful when I can't get an epub version of something.

Also Idk if kobo has the function built in, but I use koreader to connect to my self hosted calibre opds catalog to download books to it.

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mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 1w ago

I like my kobo with koreader installed. Really easy to install koreader on it, just drag and drop, and restart. The only thing that doesn't work is Bluetooth.

mayakovsky [any] @hexbear.net 1w ago

You heard Venetian Snares and you said, "That's freaky"

Detrimentalist is a 10/10 album