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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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QasimRashid, to random
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If the US saw lack of ICC jurisdiction as a valid defense that exempts Israel from ICC prosecution, then US would not have welcomed ICC arrest warrants for Putin—who also rejects ICC jurisdiction. But instead the US happily welcomed ICC warrants against Putin, and stands by those warrants to this day.

International rules based order mandates consistency in law and the application of law—for opponents & allies alike. That's how justice is supposed to work.

Infoseepage,
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@QasimRashid He wants an international rules based order where the US is the only one setting the rules. That isn't a rules based order where all parties are equal before it, it is the appearance of law, but with unequal application. It is a tool of US hegemony or nothing.

You see the same thing at the UN, with the major security council players repeatedly vetoing widely desired attempts to establish some sort of international law with actual teeth.

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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The bald eagle could have easily gone extinct. But we did all sorts of "woke" things protecting it legally, ran conservation and study programs, banned DDT (that was good for other reasons too) and in 2007 they were removed from the endangered species list.

Likewise pine forests could be dead from acid rain.

The ozone could have a huge hole.

We CAN take care of nature when we want to. And the successes have been worth it.

I feel like we forget this, you know?

lanartri, (edited ) to random
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BenjaminHCCarr, to google
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's call-scanning could dial up by default, experts warn
This is essentially
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/googles-call-scanning-ai-could-dial-up-censorship-by-default-privacy-experts-warn/

Right now (kidding) Google is going after calls, but what about in repressive countries or our own?

What happens when they come to find the , , rights leaders?

CandaceRobbAuthor, (edited ) to climate
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I am going to be pondering this quote for a long while:
"She fears that present-day deforestation might result in the loss of that traditional knowledge.
"'The forests have always been our pharmacy, but they’re killing them as if they were people,” Pachaka said of the nearby settlers."

from: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/5/19/nothing-left-how-climate-change-pushes-indigenous-people-from-their-land

WrenArcher, to random
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Going to the restroom for a trans woman can be so anxiety inducing. I know for me it can be anyway. All I wanna do is get in and get out without any issues, hassles or problems.

But I had something happen while I was at lunch with my mother in-law that was rather affirming as a woman. It’s the opposite of what I’ve imagined could happen to me going to the women’s restroom.

I was washing my hands when a woman about my age came out of the other stall. She looked at me, straight in the face and asked if I could zip up the back of her dress. She didn’t even wait for a response. She just turned around and pulled up her hair. Then said, “It’s so hard to do this by yourself. So much easier when you have help. Thanks.”

She didn’t see me as a predator. Didn’t see me as someone who shouldn’t be in there. She saw me as another woman who simply would understand the need to have help zipping up the back of her dress.

I almost started crying.

I, a trans girl, went into the women’s restroom and nothing happened, except for another woman asked for my help.

aral, to ireland
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Capitalism: a social system where the rich live and the poor die.

Ireland’s two-tier cancer drug system: ‘I can give one drug to one lot of patients, not to another’

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/05/20/irelands-two-tier-cancer-drug-system-i-can-give-one-drug-to-one-lot-of-patients-not-to-another/

#capitalism #ireland #cancer #healthcare

smallcircles,
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@Vallaferescense @catarinac @aral

Prime example is the guy, Ronald Plasterk, who almost became Prime Minister of the Netherlands.. patented under his name the cancer medicine he didn't invent, then earned 32 million Euro when selling his company. Amsterdam Medical Center and researcher who did the work, got nothing.

Now he resigned his candidacy with a "I did nothing wrong, acted with integrity". And under hypercapitalism what he did is indeed normal, the norm. 😡

https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/05/ethical-queries-cast-doubt-over-plasterks-hopes-of-becoming-pm/

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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With everything that's going on in the world, at least Birdseye - a self-proclaimed ethical fishing business, owned by a massive conglomerate, previously fined billions for fraud, artificially inflating the value of produce, price fixing, overturning ethical standards, discrimination, hazardous working conditions, destroying culturally significant land for offices and public health violations - but apart from all that (and all of the product recalls for E.coli, Salmonella and fatal bronchiolitis), an ethical fishing company who use the highly destructive bottom trawlers (responsible for damaging up to half of Norway’s cold water corals reefs), but apart from that an ethical fishing company who buy a third of their produce from pirates who deal in illegal catches and over-fishing.....have commissioned someone to spend 100 hours to make a cute miniature sandwich! Aah, sweet!

World's smallest fish finger sandwich measures under 1cm tall
https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/15/worlds-smallest-fish-finger-sandwich-measures-1cm-tall-20844820/?ico=mosaic_weird

b9AcE, to random
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"Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes in mountains, official says"
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/helicopter-iranian-presidents-convoy-accident-says-strate-tv-2024-05-19/

No comment.

b9AcE,
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Thank you for your sacrifice, Martyr Helicopter.

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b9AcE,
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...and here's a song to play you out, dead Prez Raisi.

"I'm a Woman"/"Song/Anthem of Equality"

video/mp4

yatil, to random
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Love that we here in Germany are basically prohibited from getting vaccinations, even voluntarily, unless we meet certain condition – mostly age and existing illness.

“You first have to get LongCOVID before we allow you vaccinations to avoid the thing you got” is bad policy. https://zirk.us/@AlexKourvo/112469763159775160

Captain_Jack_Sparrow, to Palestine
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Benjamin Netanyahu arrest warrant sought for Gaza ‘war crimes’

Hey
Supplying Weapons of Mass Murder to a known War Criminal is NOT a good look

The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/20/benjamin-netanyahu-war-crimes-arrest-warrant-sought/

jtmuehlberg, to random
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"The International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza, the court’s chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an exclusive interview on Monday."
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/20/middleeast/icc-israel-hamas-arrest-warrant-war-crimes-intl/index.html

stefan, (edited ) to fediverse
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Hey everyone! I recently posted about my latest project, a universal fediverse sharing button: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-sharing-button/

Is this something that you'd find useful for your website or blog?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for sharing and trying this out! I fixed an issue on iOS some of you might have run into, just FYI.

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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Israeli soldiers rounded up Ahmad Safi and his male family members in Khan Younis and made them stand atop a sand dune for 12 hours as the soldiers took cover behind them during a firefight with Palestinian resistance fighters. This is their story.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/what-its-like-to-be-used-as-a-human-shield-by-the-israeli-army/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Captain_Jack_Sparrow, to iran
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How can we encourage and to take more helicopter flights..

elduvelle, to newhampshire
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Missing person report in
Please share!

“Kexin Cai
~115 lbs, ~25 years old, 5.7 feet
Last seen 15 may 2024 with Biktrix white electric bike with fat tyres and front rack.
For any information that can help us find her please call Lebanon police dispatch at 603 448 1212”

penny, to random
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I…am running low…

penny,
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would take any couch to crash on or room to rent practically anywhere in New York or Vermont at this point please boost or inquire within to help a queer couple doing very very bad

radiofreefedi, to random
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Our pop-up channel for the FediVision 2024 voting period is live.

It's an alternative way you can hear the entrants if a linear format. It's on our main site below our regular channels.

Keep an eye on @announce and #Fedivision2024 for info, fun and light hearted lobbying.

To kickoff the voting period we'll have chat on for a bit as we are simulcasting our pop-up to the video/chat channel. The community will announce more hangouts fo the week.

https://party.radiofreefedi.net

https://fedivision.party/vote

geekysteven, to random
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Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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People still acting like Biden's personal pep squad.

"Don't you dare speak ill of the Biden...he may hear and then people won't vote for him! For shame!"

TCMuffin, to random
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Thank god we live in Wales :cymru_baner:

Schools in England send police to homes of absent pupils with threats to jail their parents

‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/may/19/schools-england-police-homes-absent-pupils

18+ leighelse, to random
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is an annual contest between amateur songwriters with ActivityPub accounts. It's loosely modeled on Eurovision. This year there are 72 entries, and voting is now open until next Sunday.

Anyone with an ActivityPub account (that's you, dear reader) can vote for up to three entries. Learn how to vote at https://fedivision.party/vote/

You can hear the songs at https://fedivision.party and there's a popup channel on Radio Free Fedi playing entries: https://party.radiofreefedi.net/

sarajw, to random
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GRAAAARGGLEFLARBLEGRAAGGHAAARGGG

sarajw,
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This pepper has now been immortalised by @andycarolan as an emoji that I've also had printed as little stickers :happy_pepper:

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