f800gecko

f800gecko, 5 months ago to Israel

I'm serializing here an open letter to Canada's prime minister on the situation in Gaza, mailed last night.

Should you wish to follow suit with a message of your own, free free to use whatever you wish in crafting it. Or simply boost—that, too, is taking a tangible, meaningful step.

We're a small community here on mastodon - we need to reach further; direct contact with decision makers is an excellent method, especially when it's personalized.

#gaza #israel #genocide #cdnpoli

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dbsalk, 2 days ago to books

My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.

The cruelty is the point.

https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/

#Books #BookBans #Bookstodon #Libraries @bookstodon on@a.gup.pe

f800gecko, 10 months ago to Canada

Think about this:

We searched a vast ocean for years for any sign of MH-370, but we can’t take a few weeks to sift a #Winnipeg landfill for two #MMIW victims we know are in there. We’re not even going to try on a limited basis.

This country is still racist as fuck.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brady-road-injuction-hearing-friday-1.6906939

#shame #Canada

f800gecko, 3 months ago to random

It’s excruciating listening to #Trudeau on the #Bell layoffs today. They’re reprehensible. But JT sounds out of control. Shrill. He’s using schoolyard language. We’re doomed. Liberalism is doomed. Fascism has become more relevant and fashionable to people who’ve never seen how truly ugly people like Poilievre will be once they have power.

Heaven help us.

#cdnpoli

f800gecko, 7 months ago to apple

Whenever I connect to a bluetooth speaker intending to find and play a piece, Apple decides to just start playing whatever was on before. It’s driving me fucking mental and there’s seemingly no way to turn this pencil-neck geek bullshit let-me-guess-what-you’re-thinking garbage feature off—I’ve tried everything and the fact there’s no simple switch for this is disgraceful. FUCK YOU #apple

msquebanh, 1 day ago to Canada

👍👏

#NDP Leader #JagmeetSingh says #Canada should not only support decisions by the #InternationalCriminalCourt, it should also execute its arrest warrants. This comes as the #ICC is seeking arrest warrants against #Israeli and #Hamas leaders

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4231663

#CDNpoli #Palestine

f800gecko, 5 months ago to Israel

This #CBC story—one guaranteed to inflame ethnic hatred—was posted Dec 5, has not been updated since Dec 5, and has not been thoroughly independently verified, yet it continues appearing prominently with lead stories on the Israeli campaign of destruction in Gaza that has killed or mutilated tens of thousands.

Why?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-hamas-sexual-violence-1.7050237

Please join me in asking to the CBC Ombudsman (ombud@cbc.ca) to investigate.

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#gaza #israel #genocide

f800gecko, 8 months ago to mastodon

Why can I see alt text on any platform except my iphone?

#mastodon #alttext #iphone #fail

f800gecko, 8 months ago to mastodon

I’d really love to see the #ONstorm hashtag take root here on #mastodon

I miss the breadth and variety of up-to-the-minute posts available on the sinking fascist platform I can no longer bring myself to use (account deleted). We are under a severe weather watch here in Stratford this evening.

Pls boost if you feel the same.

#Ontario #Canada #weather #wx #ONstorm

f800gecko, 5 months ago to religion

I’ve been having a chat with a devout r/l Christian friend about prayer, further to a quote from a Rabbi about prayer representing a lack of faith in the Creator’s designs.

It’s been illuminating.

Here’s where it’s led.

More thoughts while walking today on our chat about prayer…

I’m still of the mind that praying for something is like that Rabbi said - kind of a wish to God that your will prevails over Hers (or His, as you prefer).

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#religion #prayer

f800gecko, 6 months ago to Guns

Imagine aircraft going down and killing people at the rate America sees them slaughtered in mass murders.

No sane person would ever board a plane.

#guns #maine #lewiston #usa

f800gecko, 1 month ago to environment

One man’s awakening:

Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

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#environment #climatechange #politics

f800gecko, 10 months ago to mastodon

Not enough #mastonauts mention the #glory of being able to #edit posts on this system. This alone is sufficient justification for moving off the #fascist #birdshit #Nazi #puke site.

#mastodon

f800gecko, 7 months ago to physics

So, I’m reading some light physics again (Brian Cox & Jeff Forshaw on the origin of Einstein’s E = mc^2), and once again have bumped into the ubiquitous statement in such books that time, unlike space, has an arrow and appears to be unidirectional (which strikes me as little more than a restating of the principle of causality).

I’m interested in any physicist’s perspective on the following thought I have whenever I read this proposition…

#physics #space #time #relativity #spacetime

f800gecko, 22 days ago to ontario

Meanwhile, in Canada, police will be investigating whether police pigheadedness led to deaths on Canada’s busiest highway.

It will be a nuanced report, you may be assured. With dash of excuse and a pinch of exoneration.

Wait for it (do not hold breath).

#401 #cdnpoli #onpoli #police #chase #wrongway #durham #ontario #canada

f800gecko, 6 months ago to Canada

Peacekeeping nation now reduced to placating genocidal authoritarian maniac after he responds badly to criticism over levelling of Gaza.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-mps-israel-trip-1.7033291

#Canada #Trudeau #Isreal #Gaza #ethniccleansing #genocide

f800gecko, 5 months ago to Israel

“Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened.”

The bloodshed now is all about giving Israelis a ‘victory’ after this dismal failure of Netanyahu’s violent fascistic administration.

https://digbysblog.net/2023/12/01/youve-covered-your-ass-2/

#gaza #israel #genocide #ethniccleansing

f800gecko, 7 months ago to literature

Found this little gem in a book lend this morning.

#edwood #literature #Stratford #Ontario #canada #books

Back flap of same paperback with photo of a youthful Ed Wood on one knee outdoors somewhere urban in short sleeves with a cigarette in one hand, the other hand resting on his trouser leg. The accompanying notes read: "TO ME, ED WOOD WAS A CRAZY GENIUS. HE COULD WRITE BETTER DRUNK THAN MOST WRITERS COULD SOBER." - BERNIE_BLOOM, MAGAZINE PUBLISHER A RENEGADE BY ANY ESTIMATION, EDWARD D. WOOD, JR. WAS THE DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, AND SCREENWRITER BEHIND BRIDE OF THE MONSTER, PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (FAMOUSLY CALLED "ONE OF THE UNBEST FILMS EVER MADE"), AND OTHER CAMP CLASSICS. THE AUTHOR OF ORGY OF THE DEAD, KILLER IN DRAG, DEVIL GIRLS, DEATH OF A TRANSVESTITE, AND MANY OTHER NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES, HE ENLISTED IN THE MARINES AFTER THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, AND PURPORTEDLY LATER STATED THAT HE FEARED BEING WOUNDED MORE THAN KILLED BECAUSE HE WORE A BRA AND PANTIES UNDER HIS UNIFORM. HE WAS AWARDED A SILVER STAR FOR HIS ACTIONS AT THE BATTLE OF TARAWA. HE DIED IN 1978 AT AGE 54. OR BOOKS WWW.ORBOOKS.COM COVER DESIGN: BATHCAT LTD.

f800gecko, 4 hours ago to Canada

Money talks.

This is literally money talking and feeling it has been disrespected by someone expressing their opposition to further killing after 35,000+ Gazans (at least half women and children) have already been slaughtered and seen their open air confinement zone razed in reply to the Oct 7 loss of 1,200 Israelis.

We have here a picture of exactly the calculus our politicians are using to assess their larger interests in relation to Gaza.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ernest-rady-letter-valedictorian-speech-university-manitoba-1.7211096

#gaza #canada #media

f800gecko, 8 months ago to environment

What’s sickening about this, and at the core of it, is that plenty of land outside the greenbelt is sits waiting approved use for development. But Doug Ford ‘s developer friends know he is dumb enough and owned enough to let them buy protected land at fire-sale prices, then simply unprotect it for them and take the heat like a good political lackey.

Ontarians are right to be furious and to demand the giveaway be reversed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hamilton-greenbelt-book-road-1.6946129

#ONpoil #environment #climatechange

f800gecko, 3 months ago to Ottawa

The Canadian 'Civil Liberties' organization has just won a hard fought battle to see that out-of-towners can congregate to block roads, make any amount of disturbing noise, defecate and urinate on your property at will, and generally make your city unlivable.

The feds plan to appeal.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-federal-court-1.7091891

#freedomconvoy #ottawa

Sherifazuhur, 2 days ago to israel

Israel Tries to Contain Fallout Over ICC Warrant Requests After Allies Voice Support for the Move @israel @palestine

https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5022896-israel-tries-contain-fallout-over-icc-warrant-requests-after-allies-voice

f800gecko, 8 months ago to ontario

Geezers and their radio-controlled boats at Victoria Lake, Stratford, Ontario.

Details in the alt text. Where you can type a ton, by the way.

#Stratford #Ontario #Canada #photography #RC #boats #ships #fishing #trawlers #saltwater #highseas #alttext

f800gecko, 1 day ago to journalism

A subtle change in #CBC phrasing here:

"Israel is retaliating against Hamas in Gaza — an enclave of 2.3 million people — over the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian militants where more than 1,200 people were killed and over 150 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies."

("According to Israeli tallies" is new.)

Will it last?

"Enclave" is unhelpful though; it's a confinement zone.

Complaining & writing to politicians helps. That's the only reason this might be changing.

#gaza #media #canada