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Israel’s genocide isn’t just murdering Palestinians en masse, it’s also destroying any semblance of morality or ethics the West might have purported to possess. International law? Bullshit. European values? Trash. Western democracy? A joke.
I see it as "The Big Unmasking". It looks to me as if the elites had always been classist, racist and prone to violence, but they had just been hiding, after the horrors of WW2 ("It's not polite now"). Let's not forget that fascism, although it took power "only" in 3 European countries, it had sympathies in many, even from Churchill, as I read somewhere, all to defend against "the threat" of Communism. To me WW2 in Europe was not a war against fascism, although it's portrayed as such, but against a nation who became too expansionist in the wrong direction. I guess there would have been no problem if Hitler had decided to expand only eastwards. I guess that Mussolini would have been left untouched had him not allied with Hitler (as Franco was left untouched). In the Spanish Civil War, the Republicans received very few help from abroad (unlike the fascist uprising), I guess because Anarchists and Communists were having too much power for the elites, so fascism was clearly a much better option to them.
I think/hope that most of Europeans do not approve the support our countries offer to Israel, nor the absurd enmity against Russia (being that an attitude of absolute submission to US' interests and completely contrary to ours). We citizens however are not showing any strength in preventing our governments' actions, though. I myself am not very active, in this regard...
Well, I was intending to write a small response, but I ended up with a long one... 🤷
@eudaimon We don’t have to go so far that we wrap around the other side: there’s nothing absurd about being opposed to Putin’s Russia and its war of aggression on the Ukrainian people and its regressive stance on human rights. More than one actor can be bad.
The overt, blatant, high-stepping fascism with lots of speeches and aggressive conquering is just not very sustainable.
After WWII we made an example of some of the Nazis, but hired many others and improved on their methods.
There's a whole other level of evil, in people who know how to talk as if they know how bad evil really is, and know how to pretend to be better than that while they're really just building a more sustainable, sophisticated form of oppression.
It hasn't done anything to discredit democracy. Not enough people cared. The NDP is the only major Canadian party that supports Palestine. Of all the candidates that pledged to support a two-way arms embargo, an end to Canadian complicity in illegal settlements, recognise anti-Palestinian racism, recognise a Palestinian state, and increase funding for humanitarian aid, the vast majority were with the NDP. (in fact, I think there's a good chance all the NDP's candidates took that pledge, but I haven't checked)
One of those candidates was Joel Harden of Ottawa Centre. He had won this same riding twice in the last two provincial elections he ran in. In the previous provincial election earlier this year, the NDP candidate, Catherine McKenney, won 55.7% of the vote, leaving the Liberal candidate, Thomas Simpson, in the dust with 23.3%. If any riding was a shoe-in for the NDP or Palestine, it was this one.
Joel Harden lost this riding with 19.6% of the vote. His Liberal opponent, Yasir Naqvi, got 62.7%. Elsewhere, across the whole country, the NDP only won 7 seats. They won 25 in 2021.
The genocide has shown us the uselessness of international law and the hypocrisy of "Western values", absolutely. But democracy is working as it's supposed to. As sad as I am to admit it, people just don't care.
@LittleTom Just to report in I really wanted to get to the Judge Cleric boss in Lords of the Fallen because it was like fighting 8 foot tall FGO Jeanne with feet and then she transforms into Jeanne Alter in phase two but this fucking game is just complete Unreal engine slop and I've put in a heroic effort to try to have fun with it but it's just crap. I am tapping out fuck this game.
After a protest breached the Jawlan barrier, Druze from both sides rushed to see relatives as police stood by — a glimpse of what the land was and could be.
The Meteosat Third Generation sounder satellite, hosting the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has reached its orbit and has been placed under the control of Eumetsat. It is now ready to start commissioning before beginning operations to monitor Earth’s atmosphere from a distance of 36 000 km.
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. -- Voltairine de Cleyre
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During the final night of Il Trovatore's 11-night run, a performer unfurled a Palestinian flag on stage, which the Royal Ballet and Opera later said was "unauthorised".
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Consiglio comunale decisivo oggi dopo che la metropoli è finita sui giornali per l'inchiesta della procura sulla gestione dei giganteschi progetti immobiliari che in questi anni hanno cambiato il volto della città. Non essendo degli amanti della "via giudiziaria al comunismo" ci piace concentrarci sugli aspetti politici. Il cosiddetto Modello Milano con la sua ideologia del profitto (da cui derivano, tra l'altro, oneri di urbanizzazione bassissimi) è un modello per ricchi ed estremamente escludente come tra l'altro la conversazione tra Boeri e Sala sugli "homeless" dimostra. Negli ultimi giorni pare si sia ricomposto un consenso bipartisan sul fatto che Sala non deve dimettersi. Troppi gli interessi in gioco: dalla vendita di San Siro alle Olimpiadi Invernali 2026.
I’ve often wondered why the French Revolution was far more violent than the American Revolution. Maybe one factor was that French babies were routinely raised by extremely negligent wet-nurses; often more than half didn’t survive and the rest were severely traumatized. It apparently was accepted that the odds were grim.
Meanwhile, American children were generally raised by their parents and breastfed by their mothers, so likely were far more socially stable than the French. 🧐
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@MountainJay That was my thought. It seems to be a deep running theme across humanity. Which I can't really explain without appealing to religious language.
In the world of construction, the efficiency and quality of concrete production are crucial to meeting project timelines and structural integrity. But have you ever wondered what a typical day looks like inside a ready mix concrete plant? From receiving raw materials to discharging finished concrete, every step is designed for precision, speed, and safety. Whether it’s a large concrete batching plant or a portable concrete plant on-site, the process follows a coordinated workflow that ensures consistent output.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – British authorities have arrested over 100 demonstrators across the UK as part of an escalating campaign to suppress voices opposing Israel’s war crimes, following the controversial designation of Palestine Action as a “terrorist or…
JD Vance is vacationing soon in the Cotswalds and Scotland, where if there is any justice, no one will give him a break the entire time that shitbag is there in places he denigrated months earlier.
"Police in the United Kingdom have arrested more than 100 people at protests across the country calling for a ban on campaign group Palestine Action to be reversed."
Altman and other executives never brought up the data centers’ environmental toll in company-wide meetings. As OpenAI trained GPT-4 in Iowa, the state was two years into a drought. The Associated Press later reported that during a single month of the model’s training, Microsoft’s data centers had consumed around 11.5 million gallons, or 6 percent, of the district’s water. GPT-4 had trained there for three months. — Karen Hao, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI #openai
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Before there is form — there is a boundary. Formwork is intention shaped into a rigid outline. It is temporary, yet without it — eternity cannot arise. It takes the first pressure of raw concrete, but disappears before the wall becomes solid. Formwork teaches a principle: For something to be born — something must depart. It holds structure while meaning is still fluid. The bunker doesn’t just teach survival. It teaches understanding: Every strong form is preceded by invisible discipline.
The odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking stretch
The starvation and genocide in Gaza and Israel's unconstrained colonial and imperial arrogance have reached a point beyond redemption. Benjamin Netanyahu's endless wars now bleed into Syria, attacking the heart of Damascus with absolute impunity.
Russia Today: Declassified documents show that senior Obama-era officials ignored intelligence findings to fabricate the “Russiagate” narrative, Gabbard claims.
Peep Show, a British tv series running from 2003 to 2015, starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb as a pair of miserable, co-dependent roommates living in Croydon, London, is the most realistic por…
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I've been taking old Windows laptops that can't be upgraded to Windows 11 and converting them to Linux. If you don't have one - you can get one fairly cheap from woot.com (Amazon outlet). IMHO, Lenovo ThinkPad's are best for this.
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"Since the attached article was published on May 2, 2025, Trump has made matters worse by having his Congressional Republicans shred America’s historic social safety net in one big, savage, cruel, and vicious bill. He also gave more power, privileges, and tax escapes to giant corporations
Laith Marouf and Hadi Hotait travel to the village of Qabrikha close to the borders of Lebanon and occupied Palestine to inspect the seen of a Zionist attack on the Hijazi family, where 9 years old Zaynab Hijazi watched as her parents took their last…
Did you know this iconic ska silhouette is a trans woman and ska singer named Brigitte Bond? The English Beat were inspired to draw her from a photo of her dancing with Prince Buster and it ended up being the inspiration for the now iconic “Rude Girl” silhouette. We’ve always been around and we’ve always been creative icons 💜🏳️⚧️🤘🏻
Update: Apparently my post has gone so viral that the woman who dug up the research reached out to thank me and ask if I could post her documentary on Brigitte which is so good!!!! Joanna Wallace I am so honored to post this, thank you so much for sharing a story of ours that was lost to history, please watch it if you haven’t 💜
The Beat Girl has been representative of ska, ska subculture, and women in ska since 1979, but little has been known about the real woman who inspired the ic...
I did know this! I love this. I've been a Beat fan since 1981, and she used to show up on the margins of almost every textbook I ever doodled in. Now I know she's trans like me, I have a plan to get her tattooed on my arm, with trans flag programmer socks instead of black tights. 😁
apparently i cannot help myself: yes i DID know this! (my masto handle used to be skaficionado: mastodon.sdf.org/@skaficianado… ).
but i am also always delighted to see this surface again!
incidentally, if you want to know more about Brigitte, because she was* an iconic badass, or other ska history, check out Heather Augustyn, whose work i've followed since 1999.
*(is? she sort of disappeared in the 70's, and was probably born around 1944, so may still be alive....)
thinking of getting a new #mastodon handle. several petty reasons.
1. it's technically misspelled, should be "skaficionado."
2. ends in "o" which vaguely suggests the masculine (since it's a portmanteau of spanish words).
3.
@buffyleigh #AltText two panels, the first is album cover art for ska band The Beat, featuring a checkerboard and a stylized graphic of a woman dancing. The second is the original photo of the actual woman dancing with another person.
I did know this! And, I used to wear a Beat shirt way back in 1981-ish when I bought it at one of the shows I saw. And, I recently bought my daughter the same shirt off eBay. =)
Hello all, #MutualAidRequest from Ross, who needs help with April rent and bills. Ross is a trans man who has been struggling with severe illness, lost both his jobs, and has been struggling to find work. He needs help avoiding eviction and debts getting sent to collections!
#MutualAidRequest from Ross, who needs help with April rent and bills. Ross is a trans man who has been struggling with severe illness, lost both his jobs, and has been struggling to find work!
Ongoing #MutualAidRequest for Ross, a trans man living with #bipolar, who lost both his jobs, and has been struggling to find work ever since. He still needs help paying April rent.
Any amount helps! If you can only boost that is okay, thank you. You never know who may see this and be able to donate. Thanks for all the support thus far!
Ongoing #MutualAidRequest for Ross, a trans man living with #bipolar, who lost both his jobs, and has been struggling to find work ever since. He still needs help paying April rent, and will need help with May rent soon.
Hello 👋🏻 updated #MutualAidRequest for Ross, a trans man with bipolar who has been struggling for a while now. He needs a bit more financial help with May rent and bills.
Ross needs $250 to pay May rent + the late fee! The May goal asks for slightly more than this, for bills and other costs of living. But the $250 is the most urgently needed in order for Ross to remain housed. Please continue to boost this and/or the above post!
update: Ross’s Internet just got shut off. He needs an additional $70 to get his Internet turned back on! see above post for Venmo and Cash app details. Please boost! Thank you. #MutualAid #TransMutualAid #Urgent
update 2: Ross got a $70 donation that covered this, thank you!
Ross update: he was able to pay May rent (except for the late fee) and his internet bill with the combined help of donations and a loan from a friend. But then Ross was broke, and more bills were due, so his mom tried to loan him some money to help, but "she's definitely gotten scammed and now I'm on the hook for that because the check bounced."
Ross's credit union said he has until June 8th to pay them, or they send the bill to collections. And he still doesn't have enough to pay June rent.
Because of this (see the previous threaded post), here is the current #MutualAidRequest for Ross, a trans man with bipolar who has been super ill on and off, and has been struggling to find a job:
$0/550 for bank and late fees $0/750 for June rent (might add additional goal for Ross to pay back a friend)
Cash app: $22rossforless Venmo: @rossforless_
Ross is in trouble, please boost! Every/anything helps!!
Ross is a trans man who struggles with bipolar, and is trying to get back on his feet. He has June rent coming due, and a situation with a bounced check he has to pay off ASAP to avoid the bill going to collections.
Please boost to help Ross. If you can donate, even $5 makes a difference!
#MutualAidRequest from Ross, a trans man who has been struggling with severe illness, and has not been able to work. He urgently needs help paying upcoming rent and bills. His electric is going to be SHUT OFF if he doesn't make a payment before 7/21!
#MutualAidRequest from Ross, a trans man who has been struggling with severe illness, and has not been able to work. He was just admitted to the hospital, but his landlord issued a 5 day eviction notice - Ross needs to pay him before the 17th. And his electric is going to be SHUT OFF if he doesn't make a payment before 7/21!
#MutualAidRequest from Ross, a trans man who has been struggling with severe illness. He has been in and out of the hospital and is behind on rent and bills.
He needs $5 TODAY to be able to pay his rent.
He has a few more days to raise $270 more so his electricity doesn't get shut off.
Please boost: Ross is a disabled trans man who has been in and out of the hospital and is behind on bills. He needs to pay the electric company $221 by 7/21 or his electricity will be shut off!
Urgent ‼️ #MutualAidRequest for Ross, a trans man who has been struggling with severe illness, lost both his jobs, and has been struggling to find work. He needs help with upcoming rent and bills. Please boost!
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Urgent ‼️ #MutualAidRequest for Ross, a trans man who has been struggling with severe illness, lost both his jobs, and has been struggling to find work. He needs help with upcoming rent and bills. Please boost!
Progress/Goal: https://disabled.
Ross is a disabled trans man who was recently in hospital for a pulmonary embolism, and is now back in hospital for extreme vertigo. Asking for $256 to pay landlord and electric company so power does not get cut off!
Update from Ross: "My electric won't be shut off until tomorrow unless I can pay them $90 by midnight. I also owe my landlord $35 and I have no idea if he is going to still try to process an eviction or not since I did pay him most of what I owed."
If just 18 people donated $5 each, Ross could keep his power on!
2 years ago, I lodged petition e-4268, to the federal government, requesting that they suspend the Safe Third Country agreement for the US and UK, because it was clear that trans and nonbinary people were under oppressive attack by both countries.
We gathered 167k signatures, the third highest number in Canadian Parliamentary history (at the time). The government responded that "Look, we have a Safe Third Country Agreement, we can't violate it, they're designated, and besides, we already do this."
I checked. They do it, alright. 640 applicants in eight years. TWO granted.
So...petition failed.
And here we are, two years and a couple of months later, and now a federal court Judge (and bless her, she's Indigenous, Canada's (shamefully) first Indigenous judge on the federal court) has said, "Yes, you were right, this immigration officer who decided to deport this person had clearly failed to take into account the current status of anti-LGBTQ repression in the US. And the government needs to quickly revisit the Safe Third Country Agreement, to see whether it should be given an exemption for trans and nonbinary people."
So. If the government appeals, it will take months for this to be resolved. Probably, if usual timelines hold, into next year. That's important to note.
And then the government will, almost certainly, have to decide what to do. Publicly. They will either have to produce evidence that trans and nonbinary people are safe in the US (which is like saying "prove that the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny aren't having an affair", and equally as likely), or accept the court's recommendation and carve out an exemption for trans and nonbinary people in the S3CA.
A non-binary person, with U.S. citizenship, will temporarily remain in Canada after their deportation order was paused citing potential dangers facing LGBTQ+ people in the U.S.
I say almost certainly, because they will probably take it to the Supreme Court, where they will probably lose, due to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms' explicit protection of us. Thus leading to the outcome above.
The upshot, then, is that this is the door handle turning. The door is not yet open. It likely will not be for months. But when it does come open, we're likely to see a veritable flood of trans and nb folk showing up at the border, claiming asylum.
Practically, if this is granted, they will receive monthly support and a right to work and healthcare. It won't be an easy life, but it should take years for the flood of applications to work through the courts. While that's all held up, they will all be safe in Canada.
I will def be keeping an eye on this as it develops. I know a lot of young queer and NB people who are not necessarily tied down by family and other obligations (as I am, with an aging mom to look out for) who may very well choose to seek a place in Canada.
This is really the only hope I've felt for the last six months. Thank you.
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Lindsey German on the authoritarian clampdown and why Diane Abbott is right about racism
Every week now we see more evidence of harassment and criminalisation of protest, especially round the Palestine movement.
Trump is caught between his power base and the neo-cons in the Epstein scandal, explains Chris Bambery
When Donald Trump was campaigning for office he described the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as ‘Biden’s wars’, and pledged to end them and spend the …
@JoBlakely (Ran out of characters but probably fair to add he DID lose his job when Apple fired him last year, but obviously that was after this quip.)
@JoBlakely I looked it up because this did feel like missing the moment, but it’s from the 2022 Twain Awards for American Comedy - under Biden in an era when most of us reasonably hoped sendings-away would not be happening, and although I can’t pull a video of the speech it sounds like it was pretty tongue in cheek. He’d left Daily Show to Noah before the 45th administration happened, so he didn’t even lose his job.
It’s Colbert and the other 200+ people working on his show losing theirs.
@cwicseolfor @JoBlakely What worries me a bit more, frankly, than the black-bagging, is the nerfing.
People who are definitely smart enough to know better, and surely see more, that start pulling their punches and never quiiiiite crossing certain lines with their jokes anymore and seamlessly somehow most people don't seem to notice and the hairs on the back of my neck are itching....
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