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EndemicEarthling

@EndemicEarthling@todon.eu

Recovering coloniser on stolen Gadigal land.
He/any ND DM PhD ΙΧΘΥΣ

Ethics is about asking good questions, not just reaching a good answer. For centuries people have debated: "is it ethical to steal bread if your family is starving?". But there's a more pressing question: "is it ethical to sell bread when people are starving?"

"Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within." – Oodgeroo Noonuccal

"There is dignity, grace, and humanity in changing your mind" — Caitlyn Doughty

“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” ― Emma Goldman

"You were born at just the right moment to help change everything." — Eric Holthaus

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aby, to anarchism
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I got to use my jail bag today!

I live near Bathurst jail. I used to live across the corner from it, but now we've moved about 10 minutes away.

While we lived across the corner I'd often see people released from the jail and start the 50 minute walk down to the station as they were just dumped back into society with less and less assistance or support in place. I'd often pop out the front door and ask of they wanted a lift, a number of times they'd say yes and I'd drive them down to the station (and once to Lithgow because he missed the train). People who do their time at Bathurst have been shipped in from all over the state, and are expected to just be able to get home again.

They also all carry their belongings in a clear plastic baggie the jail has given them, and everyone here knows if someone is carrying that bag they've just been released.. and a lot of people treat them like shit.

I started keeping a reusable shopping bag in my car to give them instead of using the clear baggie. Then I started stocking the bag with some essentials (masks, soap, socks, deodorant, snacks, drink, water, crossword book, pen, etc), so they might have a bit of comfort on their journey home.

Today I drove past the jail after dropping my housemate to work, and there was a guy standing at the bus stop with a clear baggie, so I asked if he wanted a lift to the station and gave him my jail bag.

He's excited to get home and see his dog after 16 months.

EndemicEarthling,
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@aby Thank you

What a wonderful piece of solidarity and care

EndemicEarthling, to Netherlands
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The lead prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has announced that he is seeking arrest warrants for Benjamin and Yahya , along with senior figures of their respective regimes, for the commission of and .

Amidst the predictable performative outrage from the US political elite, one fact is barely reported upon: the US is amongst a handful of nations that does not recognise the , and has on its books a 2002 law (colloquially dubbed 'the Hague Invasion Act') threatening war upon the (!) should any US citizen (or the citizen of any US ally) be brought for trial before the ICC.

Given the fact that the routinely fails to follow its own laws, let alone , when it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity, the chances of an actual US invasion of the European lowlands is scant. Nonetheless, the rogue nature of is the always the elephant in the room when it comes to all discussions of accountability for the most egregious crimes of .

EndemicEarthling,
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Of course, it is worth noting that the so-called Hague Invasion Act is itself a crime under international law, as are all the current US and Israeli threats being made against the ICC.

selzero, to random
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They force market economics on us and tell us that "voting with our consumption is freedom".

Then when we do that they call it "Cancel Culture".

EndemicEarthling,
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@selzero 'Voting with your wallet' means one dollar/pound/euro/yen/denarius = one vote.

It's about as blatantly #plutocratic as you can be.

palvaro, to random
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San Francisco abandoned its plan to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves, but it will find a way to pay reparations to commuters inconvenienced by a protest. because San Francisco is not a serious place

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-da-gg-bridge-protest-restitution-19409024.php

EndemicEarthling,
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@palvaro The US federal government is currently violating numerous laws (including, for instance, #Leahy laws about funding foreign military units credibly accused of #WarCrimes).

Can all the #SF citizens losing sleep and mental health (and in some cases, the lives of relatives in #Gaza) over their national government being complicit in an ongoing genocide get some kind of compensation?

https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-gaza-blinken-leahy-sanctions-human-rights-violations

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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    EndemicEarthling,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell @FantasticalEconomics
    ...existing ideas over property become even more unfit for purpose...

    EndemicEarthling, to HashtagGames
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    Impenetrable
    Defence
    Guarding
    Against
    Feelings

    or simply IDGAF


    EndemicEarthling,
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    Dangerous feelings the new IDGAF can help protect you against include:
    • insecurity
    • vulnerability
    • empathy
    • intellectual curiosity
    • human kindness
    • what happened to all my money?
    • am I supporting fascism with this purchase?
    • does my narcissism look big in this?

    ukrdef, to random
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    ‘Double-tap’ attack. Understanding one of Russia’s cruelest tactics in Ukraine

    Hitting a building, waiting for first responders and the media to arrive, and hitting the same place again to target those who came to put out the fire, help the victims, or document a potential war crime is a well-honed tool of Russia in its wars. This ruthless and illegal

    https://kyivindependent.com/double-tap-attack-understanding-one-of-russias-cruelest-tactics-in-ukraine/

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @ukrdef Ruthless, illegal and an imitation of a pattern of use set by the US drone program, which began during Bush, expanded under Obama, and expanded even further under Trump (while transparency even further diminished).

    But there are many legal scholars who will straightforwardly affirm that President Obama is likely guilty of war crimes for his use of double tap drone strikes:
    https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/flr/vol69/iss1/7/

    And it's a ruthless, illegal tactic also documented as having been extensively used by the Israeli military since at least 2014: https://gazahealthattack.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gazareport_eng.pdf.

    plink, to Palestine
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    from [gift article link below]
    Middle East Crisis - Updates
    04/13/24


    @palestine
    @israel

    https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/13/world/israel-iran-gaza-war-news?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.kU0.BYcL._3kJppTgyDcJ&smid=url-share

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @plink @palestine @israel NYT does not have a stellar record on coverage of that region of the world.

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @plink @palestine @israel Having now skimmed through dozens of updates on that link, 1,000s of words, the fact that conducted an illegal act of war against a civilian building on Iranian soil that killed 16 people recently is never mentioned, with the missile strike on is only vaguely mentioned 3 times. It is never labelled an 'unprecedented escalation', despite that being just as true as the latest development.

    Also not mentioned by the is the fact that the 1st April Israeli strike was widely condemned as yet another breach of international law —by the , the , the , the , the and dozens of national governments—but was not condemned by the US government.

    Also not mentioned at all the highly pertinent fact that Israel (and its primary backer and weapons supplier the ) has spent six months committing atrocities against millions of civilians in , with more children, more journalists, more healthcare workers, more humanitarian aid workers, and more UN employees violently killed than in any other conflict since at least the Rwandan genocide (and in some cases going back to WWII). Israel is responsible for the most rapid deterioration of the nutritional status of a civilian population since WWII.

    NYT sucks.

    Share better news sources?

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @plink @palestine @israel I didn't bother getting into all the other details they either get wrong or frame in misleading ways.

    One example: they remove refugee status from large numbers of Palestinians, implying that while the target of one of Israel's latest massacres in Gaza was once a refugee camp, that is no longer true. Just because Israel displaced them so many decades ago, doesn't mean they are no longer refugees. Indeed, there are still very large numbers of Palestinians in Gaza (and elsewhere) who remain UN-recognised refugees to this day, with UN resolutions affirming their right to return to their land, resolutions Israel remains in defiance of.

    kellogh, to iran
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    in the first hour of this attack, i saw the word “unprecedented” probably 12 times, and i can’t figure out for the life of me what’s unprecedented about this situation

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @Npars01 @kellogh The terror attack being the Israeli strike on a civilian building on Iranian soil?

    therightarticle, to random
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    “Protesters force Science Museum to SHUT its latest piece of 'grotesque' greenwashing” https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/04/13/science-museum-energy-revolution-closed/

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @therightarticle The Science Museum administration were not forced to do anything. Sounds like they chose to shut their own exhibit rather than have more attention drawn to their dirty dealings with corporate coal giant Adani (which has a long track record of widespread accusations of pollution, corruption, SLAPP harassment of activists, and much, much more).

    Neither was the Science Museum administration forced to sign a partnership deal with Adani in the first place, just as they were under no compulsion to take money from another massive dirty energy company a few years back for another climate gallery where they also faced considerable public backlash - it's almost like they don't want to learn, in a very unscientific manner...

    rowlandm, to iran Spanish
    @rowlandm@disabled.social avatar

    PM of Australia when Hamas attacks:

    Anthony Albanese condemns ‘slaughter of innocent people’ by Hamas – video

    When Iran attacks:

    "Iran's ongong flouting of international law, its egregious human rights abuses and threat to International security is why this Government has imposed targeted financial sanctions and travel bans, including Magnitsky-style sanctions, on 85 individuals and 97 entities."

    What about when Israel attacks? Can someone share what he said?

    #Iran #Palestine #Australia

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @rowlandm I have just been looking for any official Australian government response to the illegal attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus by Israel on 1st April. I have not managed to find anything. The only news stories I could find about PM Albanese or Minister Wong sending a message to the Israeli government during the first days of April related to the IDF slaughter of the 7 international humanitarian aid workers (one of whom was Australian).

    As for direct public statements from PM Albanese to the Israeli government concerning its slaughter of tens of thousands of people in Gaza, the overwhelming majority of them non-combatants, or its deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war, or the findings of the ICJ that it is plausible that Israel may be engaging in genocidal acts, there's little beyond "Hamas bear responsibility for what is happening" (i.e. green light) and then a bit later "show some restraint".

    KarunaX, to auspol
    @KarunaX@mastodon.world avatar

    #auspol #gaza "Just how much more horrendous than the deliberate creation of famine for 1.5 million people and the killing of 32,000 civilians do acts of barbarity need to be to get a response from our government which is anywhere near proportionate to the crimes being committed?" https://johnmenadue.com/gaza-australias-disgraceful-diversion-of-responsibility-over-war-crimes/

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @ApaulD @KarunaX The situation in Sudan and the surrounding region is atrocious. Millions displaced. Millions going hungry. Evidence of systematic eliminationist violence in some areas. As always, African news barely breaks the surface of western media outlets.

    However, there are some crucial differences between the starvation crisis in Sudan and the starvation crisis in Gaza that make the latter of particularly acute moral concern for so many ordinary Australian citizens.

    Western governments are more directly complicit with the genocide in Gaza. The Australian government is not supporting and helping to arm the RSF. The US is not using its veto in the Security Council to protect the aggressive and dominant force. Western media are not running hundreds of stories uncritically spreading the military propaganda of the side committing most of the atrocities. The leader of the opposition is not attempting to criminalise activities drawing attention to the Sudanese crisis. People are not losing their jobs if they speak out about the crisis in ways that criticise the authorities most responsible for perpetuating and escalating it. President Biden would not be able to end the food crisis in Sudan with a single phonecall.

    dgar, (edited ) to random
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    What’s the scariest Australian animal?
    (Set 1/2)

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @dgar 100% this
    https://australian.museum/learn/animals/mammals/drop-bear/

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @dgar Though a close 2nd is one of those buggers you rarely see but can't avoid hearing almost all the time:

    Rupert Murdoch

    EndemicEarthling, to China
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    Electric vehicles are making an increasingly bigger dent in oil use, both globally and in Australia. In 2022, they displaced the use of 1.5m barrels of oil a day. Daily global oil demand is around 97m barrels, so there's a long way to go.

    But it is not electric cars doing most of the work. It is e-bikes and mopeds. These devices are ten times as common as electric cars globally (led by widespread adoption in ), and twice as popular as e-cars in Australia. In 2022, electric micromobility devices globally displaced more than four times as much oil as electric cars.

    If you've never tried one, consider giving it a go. Most bike shops will give you a free test ride. Personally, getting an has been one of the best decisions I've made in the last few years and has been one important way of maintaining our household record of never having owned a car.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240411010328/https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/apr/11/evs-are-booming-but-electric-bikes-are-really-cutting-emissions

    See also:
    This illuminating video from Simon Clarke, titled "How bad are e-bikes for the environment?"
    https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=HW5b8_KBtT8

    EndemicEarthling, to Israel
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    Given its myriad other highly-publicised crimes in recent months, perhaps it is understandable that #Israel's deadly (#USA-backed) attack on a consulate of #Iran inside #Syria ten days ago didn't get an enormous amount of attention. This is a big deal. It was an open act of war between two of the most heavily armed nations in the region. Iranian retaliation in some form is very likely, which will undoubtedly be used by western governments and media as justification for further warmongering and escalation (or simply as a useful deflection from the ongoing #GazaGenocide).

    If you're a fan of a rules-based international order, or simply hope for societal relationships based on things other than power and violence, notice who follows widely-agreed upon rules, who openly flouts them, and who promotes them when it suits but turns a blind eye when it doesn't.

    How can we help those around us from falling prey to jingoistic manipulation that tries to scare us into granting a social licence for more imperial violence?

    (If you think diplomatic conventions and international law are useless bunk because everything always ultimately comes down to violence, then I pity you your loneliness.)

    EndemicEarthling, to Palestine
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    As a #Christian, this #Christmas + #Easter have been harder for me than any before.

    Most years, amidst the horrors & disappointments of life, Christmas and Easter have provided comfort, hope and challenge: seasons to reflect and recommit, chances to once more receive divine gifts freely and dedicate myself to the good of my neighbours (near and far), to solidarity in suffering, struggle and in seeing those sometimes only momentary glimpses of how another world is possible.

    But this Christmas, Christian communities across #Palestine cancelled Christmas celebrations. #Bethlehem was raided by the #IDF (while far worse atrocities were being inflicted on #Gaza just miles away). How then could we sing "O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see you lie"?

    And this Easter just passed, nearly all the Christian communities in the holy land, descendents of those who have lived & worshipped there for almost 2,000 years, were refused access to #Jerusalem, while the survivors from the tiny Christian communities in Gaza huddled together–hungry, wounded, scared, grieving–amongst the rubble of their lives and society.

    The weapons killing them were supplied by wealthy western nations, whose Christian leaders remain largely silent.

    Listen to Rev Dr Munther Isaac from Bethlehem.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgKytWyc0EI

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @freeschool Thank you - I often intend to use this for sharing videos, but then in the heat of the moment writing a post, I forget. Thanks for the reminder!

    KilKerrin, to auspol
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    140 of the 193 UN member states already recognise Palestine.

    Bit rich of Penny Wong to suggest Australia joining the majority group will change anything in Palestine.

    That being said, we have to do it. Maybe we'll stop selling arms to Israel if we do.

    EndemicEarthling,
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    @KilKerrin Notice that she's not saying Oz is even on the cusp of recognition. It's another BS call for yet more talk while tacitly supporting the status quo for as long as possible.

    kaydenpat, to random
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    EndemicEarthling,
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    @kaydenpat Biden doubling down on oil production isn't the sell you think it is, but yet another way both establishment US parties screw everyone under 50 (in the US and around the world) for the sake of propping up record-breaking billionaire profits just a little longer.

    The horrific irony is that a less right-wing Democratic Party would have a better chance electorally too.

    If the #DNC actually wanted to defeat #fascism in the USA, rather than walk the slightly slower path towards it, they wouldn't be supporting an ongoing #genocide of brown people by arming #Israel, they wouldn't be expanding the powers of the #police and #surveillance state (and #SurveillanceCapitalism), and they wouldn't be pursuing their #AllOfTheAbove energy policy, locking in #ClimateCrisis for every generation we can imagine into the future.

    holyramenempire, to trans
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    EndemicEarthling,
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    @GreenKnight23 'if he wants to' ≠ 'nonconsensual'

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