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I was in the neighborhood and decided to stop by Greeklivesmatter1970's restaurant. It's a fantastic spot with delicious food! The patrons were all raving about the wings and Greg’s soup. When I arrived, Greg was hard at work behind the stove, exactly as I imagined it. The place was bustling with his regulars, all of whom clearly love the atmosphere and the food! I also met his older brother, John who was busy at the bar!
Those (not us) who thought they were escaping Twitter/X by joining BlueSky might usefully note that a third of the money raised so far to run it was raised as a cross investment from.... Twitter/X.
So while they might be 'safe' from Musk right now, behind the scenes he's hardly disconnected.... oh dear.
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Female Prisoners FORCED to SHARE Showers with Male Inmates Irene BritUSA youtu.be/3pINrQkP8fM
"Female inmates at MCF-Shakopee are speaking out a year after five transgender inmates were moved to Minnesota's only al- women's prison. This came after a change in policy by the Department of Corrections and after Tim Walz signed three bills for reproductive rights and access to gender-affirming care for inmates. The female inmates revealed they have to share a shower with male inmates. These showers are unlocked! The women say they are in fear for their safety."
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I’ve been playing with Expect lately. Expect is an extension of the TCL scripting language developed in the 1990s. Its main purpose in life is to automate terminal interactions and it does that job very well.
I spend most of my day in a shell and automate as much as humanly possible so that I can be as lazy as humanly possible. Using tools like ssh and scp it’s very easy to automate simple commands and simple file transfers. But when these tasks become complex enough that they need to respond to terminal prompts, or provide arbitrary changing input, those tools fall apart.
My particular use case was a need to grep through logs on multiple Linux servers. This would be a trivial task to achieve using plain old ssh except for the fact that I use a Yubi key to log on to the servers. I need to interactively provide the PIN for my Yubi at each login. The same problem exists for encrypted public keys. For a while I just copied the PIN and pasted it at every prompt, but that became a pain pretty quickly so I started casting around for other options.
There’s a few solutions that specifically address the ssh password problem such as sshpass and ssh-agent, but I wanted something more generic that I could continue to use once logged in to do complex things. Enter expect.
Expect can handle some very complex interactions, but at its core is a very simple game of catch. Tell your script to “expect” some output and then “send” the appropriate input. Here’s a very simple example of SSH-into a server with a password.
#!/usr/bin/expect -f set host [lindex $argv 1] set password "password" spawn ssh "$host" expect "password: " send "$password\r" interact
You can chmod this script to make it executable chmod +x script and run it using the format ./script host.com
The interact command is important. It tells expect to release the terminal so you can type things and do things. Without the interact command, you won’t be able to…well…interact. If you’re just planning on executing a lot of commands without any interaction that is fine.
This little snippet is meant as an example and as such it stores the password in the script. Obviously, that’s crap security and you should not do that, but what options are there? One option is to store the credential in a separate file that does not comprise the codebase. Expect can read external files using this format (assuming a file named PASS with just one single line it, your password):
set fp [open "PASS" r] set PASS [read $fp]
This will store the contents of the file PASS in the variable $PASS. You can then replace the send "$password\r" with send "$PASS\r".
Another useful feature is Expect’s logging function. In my case, I am running a bunch of greps on log files and I want to save the output locally to my machine so I can review it later. The expect command log_file works perfectly for this.
Using the command log_file by itself will write a log file into the current directory on your local machine. You can also specify a log file using the format log_file output.log
To start logging, you simply put the log_file command in the script where you'd like the logging to start. If you want to end logging at some point, put log_file by itself again (regardless of whether you specified at log file name or not when you began logging). Expect is smart enough to know it already has a log file open and knows to close it when it encounters a single log_file all by itself.
Let’s put this all together to log into a machine, grep the Apache log file for something, and then save the log for review.
Now run ./script host.com and sit back. In a few seconds you should have a file named website_logins.log in the script directory that contains the output of your grep.
There’s a lot more to learn, but these basic building blocks will get you started.
Expect #scripting has been around a long time, but many #Linux #SysAdmins have never used it. It’s a great tool to use for tasks that…wait for it…expect input! Here’s a (really) quick primer.
expect is what kept me sane at different times during my 30 year IT career. Most of the cool kids today though have moved-on to ansible and similar tools I would expect.
When I got my #NM drivers' license I had to get a NM #auto #insurance policy and of course that means #Progressive insisted I sign back up for "#Snapshot", their #app or #ODB2 dongle that measures your #driving. Honestly I'm not worried about any of the privacy implications of that. I already drive like an old grandmother and if that means I get a #discount on my insurance #premiums then great!
But here's the thing though. I got my #policy in November. It's December 16th, and I'm in my truck every single day running errands and shit.
And the Snapshot app ... their Snapshot app ... has only recorded 3 trips in total. Out of maybe 50 or more since I re-activated the Snapshot thing.
I don't know whether to be happy or nervous. Haha.
The good news is driving a #diesel #Ford #F250 there's no way I'm flooring it to take off or slamming on my breaks suddenly. (I do have a turbo so I could if I really wanted to. I was able to go from 0-85mph in less than 1/4 mile once which for a 7500lb truck ain't half bad.
And here in Albuquerque, unless I'm on the Interstate the speed limit is pretty much 35mph throughout most of the city.
Americans spend more years being unhealthy than people in any other country. The gap between US lifespan and health span was 12.4 years, the world's largest.
Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are the earliest ones found in East Asia in terms of the evolution process towards homo sapiens.
A reckoning is coming. #democrats #obama #clinton #biden #soros #harris 'The people that are responsible for this s**tshow are the Obama people. They're just grifters,' a well-connected Democratic donor exclusively told Daily Mail. He singled out Jen O'Malley Dillon, who went from Biden 2024 campaign chair to serve in the same role for Harris's camp, and David Plouffe, an ex-Obama 2008 campaign manager turned top Kamala adviser. Democrat 'knife fight' for control after $1.5B Kamala 'circus of lies dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
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par FFShukke Sans l'avoir vraiment choisi, j'ai voué ma vie à l'art du clown. Je me suis plongé dans cette figure quasi archétypale. J'ai rencontré ses ancêtres et ses cousins, les fous, les idiots du village, les bouffons, les morosophes, les maîtres du désordre. J'ai pris conscience de Carnaval, ce culte archaïque de l'inversion des valeurs qui nivelle les rapports de pouvoir et crée un simulacre de révolution dans une dissipation-dérision-purgation (selon les termes d'Henri Michaux)
Ça fait 25 ans maintenant que ma vie est articulée autour de cette fonction, cette activité, ce métier, de fripon divin, de tricheur sacré, d'amuseur de trouble, de fauteur public. 25 ans c'est court pour faire le tour de ce que porte cette posture du clown, à la fois sociale et spirituelle, qui profane le sacré et sacralise le profane. 25 ans ça commence à être long du point de vue de ma petite personne, ça représente selon les statistiques, plus ou moins un tiers de son espérance de vie. 25 ans c'est suffisant pour se faire une idée, une opinion et une vision d'un idéal. C'est aussi suffisant pour observer une évolution dans les conditions d'exercice de la fonction, dans le comment elle est perçue, reçue et admise (ou pas) dans la société. Au risque de passer pour un vieux con, j'oserais dire que c'était plus facile avant.
Aujourd'hui, si le besoin individuel et social de divertissement est totalement reconnu et admis, celui de bousculer et de dénoncer est dénié et combattu. Lorsque j'étais enfant, dans le village de Marlhes, il y avait Zouzou l'idiot du village. Tout le monde lui demandait “Zouzou, combien t'as de fesses ?” Et Zouzou répondait “CINQ”, et tout le monde riait, c'était comme un rituel. Zouzou déambulait de maison en maison, il était accueilli partout, il donnait un coup de main par-ci par-là et apportait une espèce de lumière, de fantaisie et de candeur au quotidien. Aujourd'hui, il n'y a plus de personnes comme Zouzou dans les villages. Lorsque j'ai commencé à jongler et dans la rue, les gens s'arrêtaient quelques instants, souriaient, ce qui nous invitait à bonimenter, on était peu nombreux, les chapeaux pouvaient presque nous donner l'équivalent d'un salaire.
Aujourd'hui, il est difficile pour les artistes de la rue de ne pas être assimilés à des punkachiens, des mendiants, des exclus. Au mieux, iels sont ignoré.e.s. Le divertissement virtuel individuel et numérique de nos écrans de poche est tellement plus captivant. Lorsque je suis sorti de l'école de cirque avec mon premier spectacle, nous étions une poignée à entrer dans la profession auréolés des formations des toutes nouvelles écoles de cirque reconnues. Nous jouions sur tous les festivals et ailleurs. Il suffisait qu'on envoie notre dossier papier et qu'on passe un coup de fil et on était programmé. Aujourd'hui les écoles ont formé et forment encore plein d'artistes et c'est la foire d'empoigne sur le marché du spectacle. L'offre est immense.
On nous a rangés quelque part, nous qui échappons aux cases.
Lorsque j'étais enfant, il existait sur une des trois seules chaînes de télévision un programme quotidien où quelqu'un pouvait avoir 5 minutes pour dire, faire et filmer n'importe quoi,auquel personne comprenait rien mais beaucoup de gens regardaient. Cette personne commençait ses spectacles par “on m'a dit qu'il y a des Juifs dans la salle...”, et ça passait. Aujourd'hui, les poètes ont été supplantés par les influenceurs. Là aussi, l'offre est immense, et le discours autrement balisé. Parfois je me dis que plus personne veut de nous, les clowns et tous les dérangés-dérangeurs, qu'on nous a réhabilité en nous donnant une place à l'hôpital, soit soignés, soit soignants. On nous a rangés quelque part, nous qui échappons aux cases. Nos communautés ont oublié Carnaval, le désordre n'est plus admis pour ce qu'il est. Nous vivons une époque tellement vertigineusement instable que la possibilité de s'affranchir des règles et des repères devient inenvisageable pour beaucoup. Aujourd'hui, toutes les sensibilités sont exacerbées dans leur instinct de survie et plus personne n'est prêt à voir son cadre de références malmené par des bouffons.
On veut bien des clowns, tant qu'ils ne dérangent personne.
La monstration n'a plus sa place. Le monstre doit rester caché. Les tenants du pouvoir, conscients de leurs pieds d'argile, ont tout intérêt à museler celleux qui les raillent et à ramener à la norme celleux qui y échappent, à grands renforts d'étiquettes, de diagnostics et de traitements adaptés. Le pouvoir a pris l'habitude d'attaquer et/ou d'invisibiliser celleux qui le tournent en dérision. Il ne veut plus de clowns et de bouffons. Ces appellations sont maintenant fréquemment utilisées comme des injures pour disqualifier les politiques, dans l'ignorance assumée de ce qu'elles définissent en réalité. Par ailleurs, les individus, insécurisés par un environnement social, politique et écologique anxiogène, se cramponnent à leurs valeurs, celles qui font sens à leurs yeux. S'ils ressentent le besoin légitime de rire et de se divertir pour les aider à ne pas sombrer, ils refusent que leurs systèmes de pensée, quels qu'ils soient, soient écorchés par les farces de quelques trublions. Toutes les susceptibilités sont à fleur de peau, et la liste des sujets avec lesquels “on ne rigole pas” s'allonge d'année en année. Le champ des possibles de l'expression des clowns en est ainsi de plus en plus restreint On veut bien des clowns, tant qu'ils ne dérangent personne. Ok si vous apportez du sourire aux enfants malades, vade retro si vous commencez à pointer la vanité de nos misérables existences. En cantonnant ainsi le rôle des clowns au divertissement des malheureux, qui leur permet, par le rire, de dépasser ou d'oublier pour un temps leur misère, on éloigne les clowns de leur fonction primaire, à savoir l'incarnation de Carnaval, qui honore la remise en question de l'ordre établi. On leur interdit le pas de côté qui est à l'origine de leur existence.
Nous devons réadmettre le ridicule et le dérisoire dans nos existences
Et ce, alors même que nos sociétés humaines atteignent des sommets de non-sens et d'absurdité dans le rapport au vivant. Je crois que le retour de Carnaval est une nécessité pour la survie de notre humanité, que le point de vue des fous, des marginaux, des neuro-atypiques, des morosophes, des poètes, doit être mis dans la lumière et considéré, qu'en cela il peut être un facteur d'équilibre pour contrebalancer une norme toujours plus ubuesque.« Est-ce que ce monde est vraiment sérieux ? »Comme le demandait un chansonnier moustachu du sud-ouest... Nous devons réadmettre le ridicule et le dérisoire dans nos existences, comme les maîtres du désordre chez les peuples premiers redonnaient, par la transgression des règles, du sens aux rituels, et de par ce fait renforçaient l'ordre social. Dans un monde qui marche sur la tête, le fou devient le sage, c'est en cela qu'on le perçoit comme dangereux. Il déchire le voile de l'illusion collective. Il incarne la liberté et la légitimité d'exister en dehors des clous , en dehors des normes. En ouvrant la possibilité de voir autrement, d'envisager l'inenvisageable, de sortir des carcans du soi-disant raisonnable, de rire de l'injustice et de l'abjection, il offre de nouvelles perspectives. Alors, bien que leurs espaces d'expression et leurs moyens de subsistance se soient drastiquement réduits, la présence des clowns dans la société me semble aujourd'hui plus vitale que jamais. C'est pourquoi j'honore celleux qui entreprennent maintenant de consacrer leur existence à cette fonction que je qualifierais de quasi christique (dans La planète des clowns, Alfred Simon la décrivait comme une crucifixion en rose), en dépit d'un monde qui les rejette. Je leur souhaite bon courage. Qu'iels soient assez fous pour poursuivre ce sacerdoce qui nécessite abnégation, humour, humilité, détermination et moult prouts.
A Venezuelan migrant is accused of attempted murder after allegedly setting a Fulshear, Texas, home on fire intentionally with three children trapped inside.
Pedro Luis Parra Pulgar, a 46-year-old Venezuelan migrant, was charged this month with three counts of attempted murder and one count of arson following the house fire.
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The thing is about reporting on people like #BillGates, and what they have to say about #OpenAI and #MachineLearning. Is that they have direct financial interest in people getting on the #AI hype train. Reporting on their words at face value, like it's news; is journalistic malpractice.
Not only that, I suspect the reason "anti-Semitism" is increasing is due to the goat fuckers that Switzerland has allowed in, which, to my surprise, is a number greater than zero.
Right now my follower count here is heading down, which means I’m getting closer and closer to just blissfully posting only on Bluesky. Also, fuck you, Zuckerberg.
Google thinks they're too big to be put in their place by a boycott against using them. Show them otherwise. There are lots of good search engines. I can list a bunch if you like, but stop supporting a company that hates what you stand for, namely: freedom, free speech, secure borders and America first! If you're not willing to take a stand, you're part of the problem. thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/g…
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compatible with #pfSense for firewall management or #OpenWrt for customizable routing
pre-installed #CasaOS (compatible with Linux, Windows, Android, OpenWRT, and more)
#deal #delete I don't know, looks prosumerish but if you're playing with a Raspberry Pi pricetag it's a practical alternative to get pfSense running I guess.
Here’s a sad statistic for you: In the #UnitedStates, we have a whopping 1.4 million people employed with the job of DENYING #HEALTHCARE, vs only 1 million #doctors in the entire #country! That’s all you need to know about #America. We pay more people to deny care than to give it. 1 million doctors to give care, 1.4 million brutes in cubicles doing their best to stop doctors from giving that care. If the purpose of “health care” is to keep people alive, then what is the purpose of DENYING PEOPLE HEALTH CARE? Other than to kill them? I definitely condemn that kind of murder. And in fact, I already did. In 2007, I made a #film – #SICKO – about America’s bloodthirsty, profit-driven and murderous health insurance system. It was nominated for an Oscar. It’s the second-largest grossing film of my career (after Fahrenheit 9/11). And over the past 15 years, millions upon millions of people have watched it including, apparently, #LuigiMangione.
After the #killing of the #CEO of #UnitedHealthCare, the largest of these billion dollar insurance companies, there was an immediate OUTPOURING of anger toward the #HealthInsurance industry. Some people have stepped forward to condemn this #anger.
I hereby give you my Oscar-nominated Documentary on the Killer Health Insurance companies like United HealthCare —SICKO — for FREE… and let’s end and replace this so-called “health care system” NOW
Sadly, we’re no longer able to reliably update Mammoth or operate moth.social at the level we want. Therefore we will be removing Mammoth from sale on the App Store. By the end of the January, we will also shut down Moth.social along with our other project, sub.club. If a community member would like to take over maintaining any of these projects, pls let us know.
I have a PowerMac G4 graphite. DVI to hdmi doesn’t output to a 4K monitor (I guess that should have been obvious). Anyone know what sort of monitor I can hook it up to? I’m trying to build a retro Mac rig for my retro film scanning workflow (I need to run a piece of software from that era)
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Back when I was poking around with filesystem fuzzing stuff years back, I noticed something odd:
An EXT filesystem can tell the Linux OS how it should behave "if" the filesystem is corrupt, including triggering a kernel panic. In a world where USB thumb drives exist, this seems... not ideal.
Let's see what happens if we plug such a mass storage device into a fully patched Chromebook in 2024...
The man page for tune2fs is pretty clear about this capability.
The person who writes the data to the USB mass storage device can specify that both: 1) The OS that reads the device should panic if the filesystem has an error. 2) The filesystem has an error.
It's funny (and rather cringe-inducing) to us infosec folks, but to 99% of developers they will always say "why would anyone do that?"
The vast majority just truly have no concept that anyone might want to act maliciously. If the engineer themself wouldn't perform a malicious action, they cannot conceive that anyone else would.
I have run into this issue so many times during my career. I now assume that no engineer will ever consider possible malicious actions taken against their code. To the extent that they do consider malicious actions, it will only be things that they themselves would do.
Modern Linux distros aren't really affected by this. At least in a drive-by sense. Auto-mounting is handled in a safer way than simply telling the kernel to mount the filesystem you just plugged in.
For example, compare the Ubuntu 22.04 behavior (complain that the filesystem is corrupt) vs. Ubuntu 20.04 (panic and reboot). For modern Linux to see the panic, you'd have to manually mount the filesystem (as root/sudo).
ChromeOS, on the other hand, chooses the more YOLO route of auto-mounting via the kernel.
weirdly enough, I foresaw the "logic flaw" due to weird issues with VMs and moving disks around where the policy of the source would affect the destination
I just forgot that "cause a kernel panic" was an option instead of "fail to mount/lazy unmount"
dies that mean unless the device is removed (or fixed by fsck on boot), the system will be stuck on a reboot -> kernel panic loop, or does it only work like that on first plugin?
I can even see the use case for such a feature - if filesystem integrity is more critical than availability
but honestly, I see very little use case for a desktop operating system respecting -e panic, and almost no use case for anything to respect it on removable media unless explicitly opted into by the user - fall back to -e remount-ro or unmount it IMO, but not a panic.
ext filesystems also have file ownership, suid capability, etc. The worst of this can be mitigated with mount options (maybe panic on error can too?) but ultimately it's not a suitable fs for external media and should not be auto mounted by anything unless you have a sandboxed FUSE driver for it in place of the kernel one.
I remember testing that feature before I had a computer with USB. It also works with floppies.
There is a mount option which can override that behavior. If that mount option is specified the value specified on the file system itself has no effect.
It's a questionable feature. I think it would make sense to remove the ability to specify it on the file system. Having the mount option makes some kind of sense.
damn. I was waiting for the video to loop or precisely: the notebook stay in a panic-reboot-loop. Some minutes later: Chrome OS isnt rebooting that slowly, right?...
... no. The video just stopped. Feels like bamboozled on 9gag.
While the security implications are bad, the practical joke implications are amazing. Right up there with palming a small neodymium magnet to trigger the lid sensor on coworkers' laptops.
I had an external hard drive that did that when plugged into my Macbook Pro, back when people still used Apple stuff. But only if I used USB 3.0. So by using a USB 2.0 cable I could avoid the panic and access my data. That was most likely a USB host bug though rather than a filesystem feature (it was using HFS+ anyways).
This kind of thing is why my personal CI engine uses tar archives to get data out of the virtual machine where the CI run happens. The tar archive may be corrupt, but it it's really difficult for that to corrupt or crash the kernel.
(I know there's ways to trick software that extracts tar archives to overwrite files, and other problems, but I rely on the system tar, which is usually the GNU one, to do this well. If the system tar is vulnerable, that's a whole world of pain in itself.)
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AI Art Director, amateur comedian, band-aid specialist, DEI hire, and street researcher Chris Waites returns to Heterodorx — now with 10% more white! After disclosing some shattering news from 23&Me, Chris shares his expertise on AI generated visual art (please follow along on his Instagram page). Is AI art actually art? Does it threaten human art jobs? What are the differences between models such as Midjourney and DALL-E? Are there hot redheaded men? Is AI a tool, or a medium? Why can’t AI imitate Nina’s style? Can redheads have souls? Who produces more crap: humans or AI? What’s the best way to write an AI visual prompt? Can a Pokemon consent? From Tumblr fursona artists to Google Gemini, the time of scarce content is over and a new era of head-spinning disorientation has begun. Bleeeep!
An ADP report found a significant number of Americans in every major city earn at least $500,000. San Francisco has the highest concentration of hefty earners.
the Serious Request fundraiser is nearing. The DJs lock themselves up in just under two weeks and on the 16th I start a week long working on metabolic disease related pathways, joined by already three others: sr24.wikipathways.org/
But the preparation has already started. I have spoken with researchers from @reactome, our TGX group doing research on mitochondria, and researchers in our university hospital.
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the Serious Request fundraiser is nearing. The DJs lock themselves up in just under two weeks and on the 16th I start a week long working on metabolic disease related pathways, joined by already three others: https://sr24.
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Government building storming attempt in Abkhazia (breakaway from Georgia intended to be subjugated or annexed to Russia) as the people demand withdrawal of an "Investment Treaty" with Russia which seems to mean Russia's capitalists could just buy up Abkhazia piecemeal in yet another step towards the subjugation/annexation.
The people broke through the fence and threw eggs at the repression forces who threw chemical grenades at the people who then threw those back. At least 8 people injured. Reportedly the speaker and vice-speaker fled. After that the people demand resignation of the Putinist president.
The parliament building of Abkhazia (see previous toot) then succeeded. Apparently the protesters then met opposition, the remaining parliament members refused to "work under such conditions" (were you "working" before or dysfunctional?) and then the Putinist president whose resignation the protesters now also demanded announced preparing paperwork to withdraw the "Investment Treaty" with Russia which the protests sparked through opposition to (specifically sparked by that opponents to the treaty had been arrested).
Finally an article in English from an acceptable source. Until now I only saw English articles on this event from government-media of Russia (RIA Novosti & TASS) or government-media of USA (RFE/RL & VoA) and none of those should ever be used as they're thereby promoted and normalized, is my policy.
"Aslan Bzhania, the leader of the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, has resigned following negotiations with the opposition [...]" reuters.com/world/europe/leade…
Il 15 novembre il Parlamento dell'autoproclamata Repubblica caucasica dovrà ratificare l'accordo sugli "investimenti" russi. L'opposizione intende organizzare per quel giorno una grande manifestazione a Sukhumi
@ilfabbro Oh, I've seen reporting on the events leading up to this since hmm, I think the protests started latest Monday (?) and also saw reports on events leading up to that previously, but that was in Russian (opposition) and it wasn't until the storming that I deemed it of potential "worldwide interest" importance. I see a LOT more news than I toot. Like, more than a thousand headlines per average day. I choose subjectively what I think is likely of interest all the time.
Georgia, still protesting. Earlier some protesters peacefully walking down a street were attacked by two apparently civilian persons out of which one pulled a pistol, but then after a bunch of fighting they left.
The people have already gathered for today to start knocking on the steel barrier erected to keep the people out of the parliament of Georgia which supposedly exists for the purpose of representing the people:
Just, for those who missed it, these huge protests at parliament of Georgia aren't new.
The most recent time, AFAIK, they stormed parliament a bit todon.eu/@b9AcE/11236790095178… (thread) around May 1 but also similar before that too long back for me to want to go find among my old toots now.
Then there was also this storming of government building in Abkhazia, breakaway from Georgia for the intent of becoming subjugated or annexed to Russia, which lead to the president there resigning todon.eu/@b9AcE/11350551587253… in mid-November.
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After the center of parliament was secured with shields and that breach closed, the protesters in Georgia barricaded in the special forces so they are now ensieged and unable to retreat, reports SOTA
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For being declared as over by the government two days ago, the protest at the parliament of Georgia is very big... ...pretty much no change for several days. Now:
The continued severe battery of the TV cameraperson in Tbilisi.
I'm reminded of thug gangs deployed by dictators and other authoritarian groups in the "Middle East" when the people are too close to successful liberatory uprisings.
Press being hospitalized. Assailants still unknown, but are described by the label "titushki" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titushky), similar to what I described previously but different area.
The "Special Investigation Service" (sis.gov.ge/en/?lng=eng) launched an investigation against the battery on the press in Tbilisi earlier.
Police also made some claim that the area must be cleared for "security", but then it seems like everyone ignored the police's obvious exploitation of the attack for ulterior motives.
A video at that time reportedly showed what appeared to be police on duty near the scene of the attack then.
The protesters responded by gathering in a park where there was said to have been an attack, then splitting up to look for "titushki" attackers.
Apparently the police decided this was a good time to shoot a little at the people in Tbilisi, with "rubber" bullet (that usually means solid steel with rubber coating). I think the person dressed in a red jacket responds very appropriately.
Protester: "A man was almost killed, 30 people were beaten, and you say you didn't see?! Then why are you standing here?! How can we protect ourselves?! Then give me that weapon! Handcuffs, a gun, and a baton! And we will protect ourselves! We have nothing! There is you, your uniform! So protect us!"
Cop: "Okay, we'll definitely do it."
One of the battered, apparently a well known actor (actually an actor as their job, not saying this is an act...): "You just watched! 30 people beat me with batons, and you watched! And when I come to you and tell you about it, you answer that you passed on information. What did you pass on?! You allow a person to be killed, and then you pass on something?!"
Things certainly calmed down very, very much in the capital of Georgia. In spite of the repression forces apparently trying to escalate things by bringing the water cannons into view.
Free hot tea and coffee for the protesters, from the Stamba hotel (stambahotel.com) in Tbilisi, Georgia. It's currently 4°C (39°F), so hours outdoors, potentially after water cannoned, needs hot beverage...
Protest seems significantly smaller in Georgia this evening. In response to and to fend off future "titushki" attacks like the horrible attacks on press and protesters yesterday without any police intervention, volunteers have now formed their own security:
"Georgian journalists allege brutal beatings as protests rage against ending EU talks" apnews.com/article/georgia-pro… Allege? There were beating. They were brutal. They were journalists. See earlier in this thread. WTF, AP?
Tens of thousands of people joined an 11th straight day of protests in Georgia on Sunday after the governing party moved to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union.
Reportedly the protesters in Tbilisi are quitting for the night now, as well as the repression forces. Sorry, not much to post about it this time, following my previous standards and sources.
"Hundreds of arrests and mysterious beatings as Georgia cracks down on pro-EU protests" reuters.com/world/europe/hundr… More than 70 journalists injured as of yesterday.
I saw no reports of significant protest events yesterday or day before that. That may however only be because the police didn't attack (which was reportedly the case) so there were no... spectacular responses from the people which press saw fit to report on, but that is of course speculation.
ACAB Day and general human rights protest in Georgia by the clubbing scene outdoors as most nightclubs have been closed due to the protests, which then went on to join the other protesters to march at parliament of Georgia:
Just now from Amnesty International: "Georgia: Police committing shocking human rights violations amid ongoing crackdown on protesters" amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202…
Much love for the unterrified press. The journalist Maka Chikhladze of TV Pirveli was greeted on return by the protesters in Georgia's capital after being one of those severely assaulted cpj.org/2024/12/masked-men-ass… by apparent pro-government thugs.
New York, December 9, 2024 – The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Georgian authorities to conduct a full investigation after more than a dozen masked individuals assaulted a camera crew with pro-opposition broadcaster TV Pirveli during a liv…
First, a brief look at the current state of things at protest at the parliament of Georgia, which more than 400 people have been detained for participating in on its now 16th consecutive day, then also at the same protest: punk AF.
Another look at the crowd tonight at the protest which the lying, cheating and brutally oppressive Putinist government of Georgia said on TV was over about a week ago, but still... 16 days consecutively.
The clubbers' protest for ACAB Day, for equality, against the patriarchy, against the LGBTQ persecution law, etc as a part of the wider protest in Georgia's capital city continues.
I'm reminded of the Reclaim the Streets and similar temporary utopias mostly in the late 90s, early 00s. Excellent.
It is snowing in the capital of Georgia where the popular protests continue this morning. It is cold, but they have the balls to keep warm. In reference to the current single-candidate rubber-stamping of a new president by the illegitimate Putinist "Georgian Dream" who only managed to keep power by blatant cheating in the recent elections, where they will decide ex-footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili is president instead of the nowadays only high ranking politician actually legitimately elected by the people, President Salome, who does of course not recognize the illegitimate politicians' choosing of a replacement president.
The balls and the red cards are of course references to football (or "soccer" to those who think football is played mostly with hands), while people have also brought their higher education diplomas on display in reference to that the footballer was ineligible for the post of being president due to not being able to show having higher education as required by the constitution (same as Erdoğan of Turkey, by the way... unelectable due to unable to prove graduation from university as required by constitution, yet still rules).
The people have also been banned from covering their faces, while it's snowing and the repression forces can and do.
The counting of the votes for the politicians' own choosing of a new president over the people in Georgia has begun. With only one candidate and only politicians who are backers of the illegitimate regime voting at all... this will be a very interesting to see: will it be 100% or in favor of the far-right chosen, or will it be more than 100%? Could go either way.
Meanwhile, a "mothers' march" arrived at the brutal police's line at Georgia's parliament, with front banner and main slogan of "let him go, it's my child!", which I believe is a reference to a desperate mother's plea on heir knees to a police special forces on the street a couple of nights ago, to which the cop just swore at her and walked off, on camera. Other slogans include demanding they don't torture people.
Black smoke in front of parliament as the result came in, all of the participating politicians voted for the far-right footballer who was the only candidate to be the new president of Georgia, with the only exception being Abkhazia's vote being blank because technically (look up Abkhazia for more info) while also reportedly verbally stating the only candidate to be a "bad choice".
"Yeah! You're great for getting a presidency when you were the only candidate and only your backers voted in the rubber-stamping process!", the Putinist "Georgian Dream" and allies applaud as their just chosen far-right (anti-LGBTQ* and so on) footballer took the presidency of Georgia.
Oh. They diluted their initial headline's phrasing now I see. You can still see the initial headline being what I copy-pasted into my toot if you look at the website-address of the article, since that doesn't change even if they change the text.
Hello, people are so strong and I hope they persevere. I was sick again. It's been a bit much the last two weeks and I'm just getting old. Have a nice weekend. See you then.
#Georgia, #Sakartvelo , you are amazing and you have my solid support to join the #EU and #NATO. The door must be explicitly open, I.e. stated as so by the EU and NATO.
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That's definately another way. 😆