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Review: Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court – edited by Kcasey McLoughlin, Rosemary Grey, Louise Chappell & Suzanne Varrall (Cambridge University Press)
Some say the law / ought not to bend. // That it should be a neutral, / certain thing. // But there are reasons / judgement and interpretation / are bequeathed / to human / – humane – / hearts, and heads.
– Excerpt from The Hope of a Thousand Small Lights, Maxine Beneba Clarke
On January 23 2025, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor applied for arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and Afghanistan’s chief justice, charging them with the persecution of women, a crime against humanity. It was a long overdue decision.
These arrest warrants, said Amnesty International, gave
hope, inside and outside the country to Afghan women, girls, as well as those persecuted on the basis of gender identity or expression.
And hope in justice is important.
The ICC is a Hague-based court with the power to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Today, it explicitly recognises sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilisation and gender-based persecution as distinct crimes.
But the recognition of gender-based abuses as distinct crimes under international law is relatively recent. The ICC has been widely criticised for its slow and lengthy processes, with an abysmal rate of convictions.
In its 23-year history of operation, only 11 ICC cases have resulted in convictions. Just two of those, relating to crimes in Congo and Uganda, included successful convictions for sexual and gender-based crimes.
What would it take for more of these cases to result in successful prosecutions of gender-based crimes? What would be required to bring “gender-sensitive judging” into practice? And might it be possible to imagine a world where laws are written with a specific focus on benefiting women and people of diverse genders?
Well its official woman have pass the elderly. A mothet and her daughtet refused to let an elderly. And am talking 80 to 90s elderly man pass, cuz he should let them walk first...
Am just messy with you people the old guy let them walk all over him
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Fun fact a kike actor can pretend to be White and pretend to be Protestant or Roman Catholic or Atheist or whatever religion is required for the acting scene
He can then say whatever lines he wants claiming to represent that religion as a clergy person or a scientist even if he does not do science experiments nor have a science degree nor do math or statistiics or data analysis with science models or data and has not read the religious texts but simply made stuff up as being history
A lot of people just want some Superior Force to torture all the people who piss them off and they dress it up as a religion or political ideology, etc.
It'd be cool to be able to test individuals by giving them absolute power over their home country in some hyper realistic induced dream state for what will seem like a year to them and see how their faculties adapt to it. Then you wake them up and have a talk.
"You made Pol Pot look like CA Governor Gray Davis."
There is a video series about this by the famous DarkMatter2525 who is famous for Atheist Animation called Power Corrupts in which people in the future are put in a god simulator but made to forget they are in a simulator to judge their character as a leader
I am not sayimg I agreevwith DarkMatter2525 on relogious matters but I will say it is entertaining and gives you another perspective to think about
President Xi Jinping on Monday proposed the Global Governance Initiative (GGI), calling on countries to work in concert for a more just and equitable global governance system.
Xi highlighted five principles of the GGI -- adhering to sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating the people-centered approach, and focusing on taking real actions.
A lot of people dont know this but the reason why September is when the UN General Assembly meets and a lot of UN confabs occur is because WW1 and WW2 kinetic hostilities both began in September.
It's also why the entire month of August many legislatures are in recess. And following that, many people take vacations in the private sector as well.
In the modern UK, removing rainbow flags from lampposts is treated by the police as a hate crime!
Hanging the Union Jack or the cross of St George on lampposts is said to be racist, but Pride flags are fine, and pulling them down from lampposts means that in this country, the police will launch an investigation.
Hanging the Union jack or cross of St George on lampposts is said to be racist, but Pride flags are fine, and pulling them down from lampposts means in this ...
As of August 1st, 2025, the EU’s Radio Equipment Directive enforces new cybersecurity requirements. For the first time, broad categories of everyday devices , not just critical infrastructure or niche tech, must meet mandatory security standards.
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So, I did the same workout on Friday as today. But Friday I did it in the afternoon when the workshop was about 96°, today I did it in the morning when it was about 76°.
The caloric burn was off by about 100. I figured the might be some diff, but not _that_ much.
Once you end up on a few of their blocklists you hardly ever see them. Anytime Ive fired up a new instance I make sure to make some obnoxious hastags so they'll block me and I can post in peace.
@ins0mniak You will end up blocked by a good chunk of their side, that's inevitable. Don't care about it, and enjoy your stay. fedi-mastodon-all-blocked.png
This is an oddity of fediverse, because normally no one wants to "be blocked" because it feels like you're being rejected and low value...
BUT, here, you WANT to be blocked, because there is a large subsection of more or less mentally ill people who will create endless drama if you interact with them.
It's impossible to really find all of them and block them, and you do NOT want to start blocking everyone that's on Some Guy's List because Some Guy's List always means everyone who HE doesn't like, and that's more drama and bullshit. But the hack is you just hang out, be fun, be yourself, and the losers will block YOU.
Super counter-intuitive, but that's how things work here...
It's so funny when Canadian men are angry because it's so non-threatening, I've never seen a muscular Canadian man or heard one with a deep voice, they're mostly all lanky, pale and don't have beards, they look like Redditors mostly
@ins0mniak @Humpleupagus @cjd @NonPlayableClown @Owl @jeffcliff There’s a lot of subliminal body language in that picture. Trudeau is sitting back in the chair with his legs tightly together and the shape of his hand simulates holding his penis. The literal cuckold position. Trump meanwhile is sitting forward at the edge of the chair with his legs open and his crotch pointed at his hands which mimic the shape of a spread-open vagina, as if pounding a broad in the doggy style position, and he looks at Trudeau as if to say he is fucking Trudeau’s wife in front of him. And that it is the truest expression of the relationship between the US and Canada.
@ins0mniak @cjd Do as cjd said "just hang out, be fun, be yourself". Don't care about them. Talk to anyone you want and these blocking people will gradually disassociate themselves from you. It's just a nature of this network, there a basically two sides of it that barely talk to eachother due to fundemental differences and being the string in the middle that maintains connections on both sides is almost impossible.
I've tried to be the middle guy for over year. It's almost impossible. You'll get blocked without you ever knowing, you won't know the reason why either.
I wouldn't say it's 2 sides, it's more like a gradient because the big instances like Eugene's and Stux's stake out centrist positions and defend them based on just having a crapton of users, so blocky instances are hesitant to block them.
@ins0mniak @cjd I ran Nekos at Work for over a year and a half neutrally and still ended up on a few blocklists because of my blockbot so I just don't bother about maintaining appearances anymore and just post what I want
Alright niggers, I have now finished adding up the points! The poll results are here, but remember, the girls also went into the poll with different amounts of points from the Nomination Thread, while the Wild Cards went in with 0 points and that did indeed prove decisive in a number of cases:
Speaking of things that proved decisive, a reminder about the Franchise Cap, because it sure ended up playing a big role here: a single franchise can potentially have as many as 4 girls enter the tournament, should that many reps manage to qualify, while all other franchises will operate with a 3-girl cap. If multiple franchises exceed the 3 girl-limit, the one girl who gets in will simply be the one who netted the most points, no greater estimate of overall franchise strength will factor into it. Before the Qualifier Poll began, only Blue Archive and Zelda could potentially hit the 4-girl cap, so those two series were fighting for the chance to enter an extra rep.
Now, onto the rankings – and I gotta say, I underestimated just what a bloodbath this would be…
@verita84 No. I was out in the afternoon, Came back home in the evening after drinking, and went to sleep. I did sleep more than usual, but I wasn't passed out drunk for a full 24 hours.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11513038… pluralistic@mamot.fr - William Gibson famously said "Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion." But for every tech leader fantasizing about lobotomizing their enemies with Black Ice, there's 10 who wish they were Darth Vader, force-choking you while grating out, "I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
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William Gibson famously said "Cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion." But for every tech leader fantasizing about lobotomizing their enemies with Black Ice, there's 10 who wish they were Darth Vader, force-choking you while grating out, "I'm altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."
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I shout "don't do business with companies that support Nazis--moral issues aside, the people willing to support the far right honestly believe it's not only okay but ethical to screw you over."
I shout about disintermediation.
People nod and tell me they hear me and pat me on the head and keep on doing business with Nazi-supporting companies.
So damn frustrating.
My only consolation? I've had my books in public for 33 years, and I'm still in business.
@pluralistic has a long advised people to never use anything that we'll stop them from leaving, even if that involves making sacrifices because it's always worth it
with the unignorable history of Substack's behavior and the resounding chorus cautioning against remaining there, anybody still on there doesn't get a great deal of sympathy from me.
I have a crazy idea that I can 3D print a D-sub connector. Specifically, the unobtainable 23-pin variety found on the Amiga. So I bought someone else’s DigiKey leftovers to give it a shot.
Surprisingly and helpfully, the printed engineering drawing was included. (Unhelpfully, it is in inches)
These are crimp contacts even though for the Spite Sprite they’ll be soldered directly to the board. TE actually does make push-in solder cup contacts, but they’re very hard to find these days.
I printed one with a series of increasing diameter holes. Turns out 2.3mm is a snug fit. The holes have a chamfer but it all got kind of squished during printing so I had to ream them out. I couldn’t find anything that specified the corner radius, so I guessed. It’s a bit too tight. Second version is printing now.
I definitely don’t have the precision to make these actually snap in, so I might just retain them with a bit of glue? I dunno. Maybe I’ll figure something out.
Third version looks quite good. The tolerance on the holes is garbage, of course. But I’m thinking now that’s not actually important for my application because I can mechanically retain the housing by coupling it to the case.
Prototype of the 23 pin version. This one has a lip to hold it in, which prints without supports and slots into the same place the metal plug did. I’m printing another case right now, then we’ll build another Spite Sprite and see how we’re doing.
Not all of the pins are connected in the Spite Sprite, so I’m not populating the whole connector. But I am adding the outermost ones for stability. Fit looks good, let’s see if it survives soldering.
Success! It’s only wired for S-Video right now (these boards still have the swapped composite so that’ll take more doing), but this proves all the connections are good.
Nice! I have a modded Commodore A520 that outputs S-Video, but I'd appreciate something smaller as the real estate on my desk is limited. Great print for the connector. I once printed the support of a Hirshmann WIST-9 connector for a Revox B77 remote. With PLA, you needed to be very careful to solder the wires, though.
@davbucci Oh, well done! I think the saving grace on these was that they’re crimp connectors and there isn’t much metal transferring heat to the part inside the housing.
I've 3D printed my own design of NES controller sockets, so I've solved this problem before. The solution I found was to screw the printed part directly to the PCB either side of the pins. You could glue or melt it together.
I'd also suggest not worrying too much about getting the perfect clearance for the pins in the printed part - once you get within 0.25mm it so, the length of the channel you make for the pin will mean it has nowhere much to flex around.
i struggled with the same issue back in the day, and did lot of experiments and measurements. The result is that it won't work - the diameter error in holes depends on the plastic used, temperature, humidity and moon phase.
I found it's best to print a bit too small holes and drill them to correct diameter.
This is referencing the rules change to F1/J1/L1 visas making them temporary by default. It's a limitation/restriction to current way things are done.
1500 comments in the federal register so far, mostly from China.
If you are worried about your employer seeing your comment you can comment anonymously. But please remember to comment. Foreign countries should not overwhelm our voices. Keep it clean, avoid racial slurs and such.
Contre Attaque: "INSURRECTION EN INDONÉSIE L'Indonésie est en flammes. Dans cet archipel, qui compte 270 millions d’habitants, de grandes manifestations et émeutes s’opposent au gouvernement d'extrême droite. Notre article à lire ici : contre-attaque.net/2025/09/01/i..." — Bluesky
i've heard that in some jurisdictions they'll ask the store that sold the ticket to pull up CCTV footage to verify the person claiming to win actually bought the ticket.
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After they took power, the Nazis infamously did almost exactly the same thing with what they called "degenerate" art, putting it on mocking display in Munich. (Naturally, it included works by some of Germany's greatest contemporary artists, because fascists have terrible taste and limited capacity for imagination).
Trump and his team are doing many terrible things, some of which (the mass deportations and street abductions, etc) are immediately dangerous. Those are emergencies. But the relentless attacks on culture, art, and to our ability to express dissent or simply not conform to increasingly regressive norms, are equally pernicious and corrosive.
Hitler’s hatred of “degenerate art” stemmed from his failed artistic career -he despised its form, not its message. China’s regime censors art for its content, silencing anything that challenges its ideology. Trump’s administration, however, targets art that merely appears “woke,” regardless of its actual meaning. This resembles a witch hunt: driven by superstition, ignorance, and fear, it seeks to punish what it doesn’t understand.
"HEY BABY (THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG)"peaked at #12 in 1967. Since 1982, original Buckingham Carl Giammarese has been the lead singer and guitarist for the gr...
#1981 Hang on, help is on its way I'll be there as fast as I can "Hang on, " a tiny voice did say Somewhere deep inside the inner man Riccardo "Ric" Formosa, Italian-Australian guitarist (Little River Band) is 71 youtu.be/7tcutmdnFvk?si=LT89W3…
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The largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the United States is calling on U.S. lawmakers to follow in the footsteps of Sens. Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen, who on Saturday shared a video about their unsuccessful attempts to visit — or even just fly over — the Gaza Strip during Israel’s ongoing assault.
“Sens. Van Hollen and Merkley have taken a bold and necessary step by confronting the Israeli-manufactured and U.S.-backed humanitarian calamity in Gaza head-on,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said in a statement late Saturday. “Their mission must not stand alone.” “Israel’s barring them entry to Gaza underscores the urgency of taking decisive steps to end its rampage of death, violence, and destruction,” CAIR continued. “Members of Congress must utilize every tool — diplomatic, legal, and legislative — to ensure that our nation’s values and laws demand an end to civilian suffering. The crisis in Gaza is not abstract — it is a matter of life and death. We call on our representatives to act urgently and courageously.” truthout.org/articles/cair-pre…
@LittleTom Walls are real even in Team Ninja's action sandbox unlike CERTAIN CHINKS. I can't even call it a jank sandbox, Team Ninja polished it to a beautiful sheen
I speak from experience that if you used the free preorder goodies (You started with more than just the single style) your saves won't be able to be transferred over but the game plays pretty quick to get back to Yokohama once you know what you're doing.
Having access to online characters is nice so you can pickpocket them for free silver and murder them for usually good tier loot for your level, not that loot is a problem.
Also even UNARMED is really good, even if it fucks you on stamina for not having blade flash. Because I did so much sandbox content I was overleveled for the story, I did pretty much all of Act 2 unarmed to max its stats until I hit the endgame plateau and my stats didn't quite dwarf everything else. You could probably do most of the game using it as a slight challenge run.
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