Royce Kurmelovs
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Journalist. Author of The Death of Holden (2016), Just Money (2020) and others. Pre-order Slick (2024): https://t.co/0rReWLhY6v BlueSky: @roycerk2
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Joined February 2012
Yeah-nah. Just a heads up that if you want to follow any of my work, I'll be over on BlueSky under the same handle. The best you'll get here is retweets and bare links to my stuff.
if you saw that notice about a Terms of Service update, this is the main clause it changed. it explicitly lets twitter use your posts and any attached media — including images, videos, and their audio — for the training of AI models like Grok. it will be in effect November 15.
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RT @pulitzercenter: Documents obtained by @WeAreDrilled reveal that the COP process has been moulded by the fossil fuel industry since its….
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RT @our_yesterdays: That's @RDNS_TAI in a blistering article by @RoyceRk2 that you should defo read right now. 2/2.
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This will also likely be the last major post I make to Twitter. If you want to talk about this more, join BlueSky. If you want to roll up on my thread to vent hatred, professionalism means I can't respond but I will happily ignore you knowing I made you so mad I wasted your time.
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I will finish saying that I don't speak for Cypriots and though I've tried to inject some nuance, I defer entirely to correction/insight from Cypriots who actually know and live this stuff, and whose thoughts are very much welcome, as I am probably very wrong about a bunch.
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The past is distant enough today that people want reunification but that's a whole thing. The point is that all the hostility people think of is really from the last 50 years. Before that Cypriots were taking pot shots at British soldiers and burning down British court houses.
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But - and this is important - for the most part, Cypriots, I found, are a pragmatic people who know they have to play the best game possible with a bad hand. They're in a tough spot in the middle of everything and if something goes wrong, the effect is immediate.
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And, you know, try waking up every day to this shit - that is the flag of the Turkish puppet state that occupies the north, carved into the side of a mountain above the capital, Nicosia but that is a different propostion to hating Turks and Turkish Cypriots *as a people*.
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Yes, people don't like Turkey bc the country is still under occupation, it's capital still divided and the British are still using the country as a military launching pad - which is the only thing stopping Turkey from continuing its invasion. People also remember the lost.
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There are also practical implications of this stuff. I once heard a story about a Greek and Turkish Cypriot involved with an Australian political party who were being pushed around to satisfy a Turkish rep. They overcame this as they both realised what was up and worked together.
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His was an old village in the rural west, and the people who live there might not have spoken to these families, who were Muslims, delicately but they were taking care of them because it was the hospitable thing to do.
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To focus on the loud nationalists also ignores how Cyprus today is often a waystation and refuge for people fleeing natural disasters and wars. For example when I went back to my grandfathers village late last year, refugee families living there
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To be clear, the invasion took place in *1974*. It was an act of Turkish militarism made possible by a fascist military junta in Greece, ratfuckery by Kissinger and a legacy of British colonialism that actively cultivated divide and rule ethnic division.
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In fact the very idea that there is some "essential" Greek nation with an "ancient", endless hatred against the Turks and Muslims is very much nationalist thought. When you repeat this you're playing their game, letting them, and the real culprits, off the hook.
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For every arsehole, you also had people in Athens running squats and safe houses for refugees. You also have people organising similar, smaller scale efforts in places like Nicosia. The idea these fascist ideas dominate is like thinking Pauline Hanson represents Australia.
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There is also the *recent* legacy of The Golden Dawn, a fascist group from around 2008 but the Athenians held riots to resist them - people died fighting them. That said, those guys and austerity did have an effect on national discourse - I don't know enough to comment more tho.
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Yes, there are people in the diaspora community whose families may have been refugees or who lost someone who can still get really worked up about this stuff, similar to other diaspora communities like Cubans in Miami but that does not make them representative.
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First and foremost: the idea of an "ancient hatred" is largely nonsense and is useful to conservatives who want to weaponise these divisions. I, personally, take the view that Turkish and Greek Cypriots have more in common with each other than they do Greeks or Turks.
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I have largely moved to BlueSky now, but I clocked this discussion and there are a couple things I think are important to say - I'm also not having a go at @stranger here, but the broader points raised by some others in response to @RonniSalt's OP.
@RonniSalt Further to this is, i guess as an ‘FYI’, the people of Cyprus share same values, culture, religion with Greece. Cyprus was invaded in 1974 by Turkey who still hasn’t handed back the land they stole. My mum is a refugee from Cyprus & the pain she felt in 1974 is still there today.
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Any French or French-language freelancers out there working in print/online? There's a US organisation looking to collaborate on a project. Looking for names of anyone with experience and good relationships with French media to pass along.
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