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A great FB post from Iskra Khan, with a verified donation page that goes to the New Zealand Islamic Information Centre, all proceeds to go to the immediate needs of the victims’ families (thanks @inexorablist): https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2308009402811358&id=100008069628445 …

I've asked rank and file right wing extremists who rant and rave about Islam what they propose to do about their Muslim neighbours, their fellow citizens. They're invariably silent because they dare not speak the logical conclusion of their hatred. Today's gunmen did.

What has happened in Christchurch today, a city that already knows too much recent sorrow, has broken my heart--and set it aflame. Every time this happens we see clear links to the extremists who've fomented bigotry online for years. They are the authors of this bloodshed.

I remember being 13 and parroting 4chan jokes I'd heard from friends without understanding what they fed into. You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago. You can just stop being part of the problem right now. You can just stop.

Hello fellow medievalists, this terrorist just invoked Constantinople in his manifesto. If your history is not actively countering white supremacy, you are aiding terrorist talking points. There is no such thing as apolitical history. Which side are you on?

And if it's not enough that they've helped completely normalise that and amplified the views of extremists for years now, they go the next step and explicitly share the propaganda of terrorist. It's genuinely unfathomable.

It's hard to comprehend how the Aus media have manage to plumb new depths in the aftermath of this massacre. Shooter's manifesto full of stuff about "anti-white" racism, high-breeding rates for Muslims, anti-immigrant sentiment - all things that are now normal discourse here.

Journalists happy to report every utterance made by Fraser Anning all of a sudden taking a ‘principled’ stand to not cover his comments blaming Muslim migration for an act of terrorism against Muslims. What happened to “He’s an elected rep, we have to give him coverage”?

I feel so sad. We begged you to stop amplifying and normalising hatred and racism. But you told us we were 'politically correct' and 'freedom of speech' was more important. The more you gave the far-right a platform, the more powerful they got. We begged you.

The Christchurch shooter posted a manifesto on 8chan and shouted "subscribe to PewDiePie" before opening fire on the mosque, livestreaming the whole thing. The internet is 1000% a vehicle for right-wing radicalisation.

• That's why some folks prefer local over organic- the realities of plant healthcare mean organic crops from far-away deserts can be cheaper than locally-grown organic crops. So "buying organic" can clash with eating local, and some people feel that they'd rather have local.

• You *can* grow organic crops outside of deserts (& many do). • But for most crops the yield/quality will be lower than organic crops grown somewhere dry.

People had a lot of questions about this one, so • Nearly every crop grows better in irrigated deserts • bc there aren't as many weeds, insects, fungal & bacterial diseases, etc as there are in humid places • so, farms in not-deserts tend to use more chemicals to compensatehttps://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1106283786206105601 …

Love and solidarity to Muslims worldwide today. Here is a donation page, for anyone hoping for a concrete way to help.https://twitter.com/weimingkam/status/1106460024971259904 …