Hi all. I have decided to shut down the unofficial kbin guide magazine (https://kbin.social/m/unofficial_kbin_guide) as well as shut down the unofficial docs page: https://unofficial-kbin-guide.surge.sh/....
What if the IDF is pursuing a strategy of plausible deniability? What might that look like? The current violence is seeing Israel losing support throughout the world. If the IDF were to start a straight-up Holocaust, those countries that are protesting now might take direct military action to stop it. Plausible deniability might include, say, fostering the creation of a radical militant group, and directing funds to them in order to create a Big Bad to fight against as cover for genocidal land theft.
With Microsoft pushing their supercharged spyware soon, today is - like any other day - perfect to make the switch to #OpenBSD. The sane, well-documented, secure OS that isn't bloated and doesn't spy on you.
#OpenBSD has one of the best man pages out there - period. I always enjoy reading them. Mostly, answers are found in the Examples section or just straight by reading a bit. :openbsd:
This video pretty much sums up this:
The Prime Minister has been heavily criticised after documents from his government criticising Australia and New Zealand against China were leaked to media. The leaked document from Tonga’s Foreign Affairs Ministry shows that kingdom’s officials sharply criticised Australia and New Zealand’s response to the security pact...
I know Isreal is doing worse shit but… employer specific visa are modern indentured servitude - it deprives the laborer of all their negotiating power. Most countries have these (America hands out an insane number of H1Bs) but usually they’re tied to skilled positions. Either skilled or unskilled they fucking suck and shouldn’t exist… if you’re an attractive immigrant you should just get a regular old working visa.
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011
#Columbia Students Arrested Over Campus Rally May Face Other Consequences -
Students who camped in tents to protest the war in #Gaza, including the daughter of Representative #IlhanOmar, may be barred from finishing the semester.
#Germany#Israel#Palestine#HumanRights#Gaza#Genocide: "Loren Balhorn: Both your pan-European alliance, DiEM25, and the political party MeRA25 that is contesting the European elections in a number of countries, have campaigned against the war in Gaza a lot in recent months. Why has Palestine become such a priority for you in the run-up to the European elections? Do European voters care?
Yanis Varoufakis: Look, if we lived in the 1930s, we would have made the persecution of the Jews our number-one priority as Europeans. If this were the time of the genocide in Rwanda or Bosnia, we would have made them the number-one priority. This is our duty.
Do European voters care? I don’t care. We do not operate on the cynical basis of working through focus groups to find out what kind of narrative is going to maximize our vote. We do what we think is right because it is right. That kind of politics is missing in Europe, and that is the kind of politics that our MeRA25 parties across Europe are pushing for.
We’re in the business of educating the public about the fact that a genocide is happening in our name, with our complicity. It is not only morally reprehensible, but it also prepares the ground for our own incarceration. Because a climate of fear like the one German authorities are trying to create now is what Europe’s corrupt and unviable socioeconomic business model needs to perpetuate itself. Before you know it, there is no democracy left."
An Italian judge on Friday cleared three migrant sea rescue charities that had been accused of abetting irregular immigration in complicity with human traffickers, throwing out a case opened more than seven years ago.
Supporting plausible acts of genocide: Red lines and the failure of German Middle Eastern Studies (Benjamin Schuetze | POMEPS, April 2024)
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“… if an ICJ decision about the plausibility of Israel committing genocide does not make a scholar publicly speak out against unconditional German support for Israel, what will? What purpose does a state-funded expert in Arabic language have, who remains stuck in the ivory tower when politicians representing that state contemplate the generic prohibition of Arabic slogans at public protests? What purpose has a renowned scholar of Ottoman and/or Arab history who fails to publicly speak out against the open distortion and/or negation of simple historical facts in state-funded exhibitions? … There is no lack of expertise, there is a lack of courage to take a principled stance against the large-scale dehumanisation of Arabs and Muslims, and the ongoing mass murder of Palestinians.”
Some 52 years ago, when I was in 4th grade of primary school, I found a book "who put glasses on the kid's eyes" in a small book shop in open bazaar of my hometown Ahvaz in khuzestan province of Iran.
A few days later, we had to bring a book to school and read it in front of the class. Happy as I was to have found a great book, I took it to school and read it in front of the class.
I couldn't understand why my teacher was acting so scared and stopped me before I had finished the book and sent me to the principals office.
I was nervous, didn't know what I had done wrong and our principal, who was a really nice man, and went to the same university as my oldest sister took the book and asked me where I had bought it. I knew something was wrong, so I said I bought it at the book store of our local mosque, to protect the guy who was my source of cheap and lovely books and would buy back my old ones to help me afford buying new ones.
In the evening my father came home, agitated and clearly upset. Asked me what I have done and I explained the situation, including the fact that I lied about wher I had bought the book. Told him the highlight of the book about a happy child who was living in a town with happy people who were all wearing glasses.
He was seeing flowers, colorful houses. Nice people and happy children all around him, birds flying in the sky and everyone were so friendly to him.
Until one day he fell of and his glasses broke. He couldn't believe his eyes, the flowers, colorful houses and happy people were all gone. All he could see was a run down city, with piles of garbage everywhere, people wearing worn out clothes, looking hungry and sick.
He was nece happy after that, he couldn't believe that everyone were walking around with glasses and we're happy all the time. But he was sad and miserable, because he had seen his town without those glasses.
Anyway. My father took me to a building close to the main police station on the other side of the Karun river, he spent almost entire day in a room where I could people screaming at him and a few times someone his the table very hard. But couldn't hear what they were saying.
My dad came out. Pulled my hand without saying a word, we walked for an hour to get home, didn't take taxi as we used to do.
He didn't say a word during the whole day and told me to go over my books and bring all the books I had bought from that shop, he through them in a metal bucket and poured some fuel over it, set them on fire and waited until they were completely burned, mixed the ashes to turn them into dust, filled the bucket with water and through it in the toilet.
He told me to never go back to that shop and be careful to take any books to school from now on.
That' was my first interaction with the notorious Savak police of Shah of Iran. In the next days, all the 4 book stores in our town were raided. Books confiscated and doors locked. Never heard about any of them again.
Reading the comments of pro Israeli accounts on mastodon reminded me of that book and that experience that changed my life when I was only 8 years old.
This post specially triggered those memories. Unlike the kid in my book and the people living in the town, these people know very well tat what they are posting is not true, they have seen the horror of the past 76 years of occupation, they have seen the 66 times they were subject to UNSC charges, and 45 that were vetoed by the US..
But they don't care, they see themselves as victims. They don't see the millions of starving palestinians, or the millions living in refuge camps around the world as worthy of their empathy or cause of why Palestinians and some of the world is fed up with their out of control criminal behavior
They don't have glasses on their eyes, they have chosen to be selective and above the laws of the world.
“#Nicaragua is asking the court to issue immediate provisional measures ordering Germany to end its ‘participation in the ongoing plausible genocide and serious breaches of international humanitarian law’ in the Gaza Strip.
This would include suspending military aid to Israel and ensuring that already delivered German weapons are not used to commit genocide. Nicaragua also asked the court to require that Germany comply with international humanitarian law, and resume its funding to #UNRWA.”
Lichen moths occur throughout the world. In Australia there are over 200 species, mostly endemic. They often have bright colours and are sometimes called tiger moths.
They feed on lichens, some algae and their appearance can be considered an indication of a lack of pollutants in a region, as this would harm the environment affecting lichens etc.
So apart from being pretty, this Spotted Lichen Moth suggests that the region I visited today was environmentally sound 🙂
unofficial kbin guide shutting down (kbin.social)
Hi all. I have decided to shut down the unofficial kbin guide magazine (https://kbin.social/m/unofficial_kbin_guide) as well as shut down the unofficial docs page: https://unofficial-kbin-guide.surge.sh/....
Biden: What's happening in Gaza is not genocide (www.gmanetwork.com)
“What’s happening in Gaza is not genocide. We reject that,” Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month event at the White House....
New Caledonia: Kanak revolt confronts French state and settler militias - Freedom News (freedomnews.org.uk)
Tongan diaspora blasts PM Hu‘akavameiliku over leaked document supporting China against Australia, NZ over involvement in Solomon Islands (www.kanivatonga.co.nz)
The Prime Minister has been heavily criticised after documents from his government criticising Australia and New Zealand against China were leaked to media. The leaked document from Tonga’s Foreign Affairs Ministry shows that kingdom’s officials sharply criticised Australia and New Zealand’s response to the security pact...
Malawians who abandoned Israeli farms deported (www.bbc.com)
Twelve Malawians have been deported from Israel after leaving the farms where they were working, to get higher salaries elsewhere....
The future of kbin.earth... (kbin.earth)
This post doesn't directly affect kbin.social users, but it is relevant. It discusses some of the potential pros/cons of Kbin and Mbin, and also the direction the kbin.earth server is heading.
Review of UN agency helping Palestinian refugees found Israel did not express concern about staff (abcnews.go.com)
An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011
Italian judge throws out case against migrant NGOs after seven years (www.reuters.com)
An Italian judge on Friday cleared three migrant sea rescue charities that had been accused of abetting irregular immigration in complicity with human traffickers, throwing out a case opened more than seven years ago.
Maternal mortality: Pregnancy is 'shockingly dangerous' (www.dw.com)
Almost 300,000 people died during pregnancy or childbirth in 2020. That includes the US, where maternal death rates are up. But India's MMR is down.
Iran attacks alleged militant bases in Pakistan; Islamabad says 'unprovoked' strikes kill 2 children (apnews.com)
The attack further raises tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip.