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The Israeli government has cut off food, water, and fuel to 2 million people inside Gaza as part of its campaign to stamp out Hamas terrorism. Collective punishment is not only contrary to international law, it is inhumane and illogical. It is what my community once endured in World War II, all because of the actions of others who happened to share our ethnicity. Have we learned nothing? How will this possibly help deescalate the violence rather than radicalize many more? It is madness.
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Amidst the performative cries of β€œIsrael has the right to defend itself”, it seems to be heresy to acknowledge the humanity of the few million people who get to live, in perpetuity, as Israel’s ritual punching bag, and are expected to do nothing in response, nothing in prevention, and accept the blame for others doing literally anything.

And even saying this will just result in tedious wankers going, β€œoh, you support terrorism then?”

The way the Palestinian people are treated is some serious Omelas shit.

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@Sarah Brown The main thing I remember from visiting Gaza was how full it was, and how closed in it felt. Border fences on three sides, sea on the fourth (but restricted). Even in the heady days of 1994 just post Oslo it felt like a cage. Sometimes the electricity would go off. You had to queue in the heat to get in or out, divided families shouted news to each other across the barbed wire fence. That was probably the high point of freedom. The thirty years since have raised a generation whose hopes for the future keep getting blown up and locked down at the jailers’ whim.
@Sarah Brown
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Two German soldiers are hunting for a downed British airman.

"We'll never find him in this wood at night." One says, quietly.

"You're right." The other one replies, loudly. "BECAUSE I HEAR HE WENT TO ETON."

"Actually gentleman, I'm a Wykehamist." A nearby bush replies, annoyed. #histodons

#histodons

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1. 'AND', the most powerful word in any language?
Sharon Astyk (a Jew by marriage) wrote the following rules for discussing #Israel / #Palestine / War in a FB group she administers.

"Hi Folks. I just want to set down rules for any discussion of Israel/Palestine/ProtoWWIII.
Here are the rules.
1. MORE THAN ONE THING CAN BE TRUE AT THE SAME TIME, INCLUDING BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY:
#Jews were mass murdered over and over again and have a justifiable fear of being murdered again AND that fear has made us do horrifying things to the Palestinians over and over again that are not justified in any way.
Jews have lived in Israel for thousands of years, and have a historic claim to it AND we use religious language and assumptions that may be mythological to most. AND real Palestinian people lost their homes unfairly. More than one people can have a historic claim to the same place.

#palestine #israel #jews
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On 8th Oct 1952 the worst civilian rail disaster in UK history happened in London. 112 would die. 340 would be injured.

That accident, and the actions of one woman from Florida have saved THOUSANDS of lives since.

Because that disaster would help lead to the creation of paramedics. /1 🧡 #healthcare #history

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Harrow and Wealdstone Train Crash Newsreel

Newsreel footage of the aftermath of the 1952 Train Crash at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, which claimed the lives of 112 people and injured hundreds more.
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#history #healthcare
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It’s ok to be confused.

It’s ok to not know where you’re going or who you’re becoming, whatever your age may be.

The honest and wise among us will say that they’re at least a little lost, too.

Everyone is.

#positivity #lifepositivity ..

#positivity #lifepositivity

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I see that the Rishi Sunak announcement of new local transport to use the money "freed up" from cancelling HS2 includes a new tramline in Manchester to Roundthorn. The reason that TfGM proposed that tramline is that Roundthorn is the planned location for the HS2 Manchester Airport station.
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β€œHS2 on existing track” is not a thing. The whole point of it is to move long distance trains off existing track so more local trains can run.

With this half arsery, the Tories get the worst of both worlds: they spend most of the money and get pretty much none of the benefit.

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Vatican librarian talking about how to make your search for papal bulls hit. pouet.chapril.org/@chaprot/111…

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Demande rΓ©currente qui m'embarrasse le plus : "Bonjour est-ce que vous avez des bulles pontificales concernant le prieurΓ© mΓ©diΓ©val de Saint-Trucmuche ?"

Alors.

Je vois pourquoi vous pensez qu'on aurait Γ§a hein. On pourrait croire. Oui.

Mais. Est-ce qu'on a Γ§a. Euh.

Peut-Γͺtre. Γ‡a dΓ©pend un peu de quand elle est, votre bulle. Et un peu de ce que vous voulez dire par "bulle". Ou de ce qu'ils entendaient alors par lΓ . Et mΓͺme si on l'a pas Γ§a veut pas dire qu'y'a pas nulle part. Faut voir.


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Link Post: How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis wired.com/story/how-insect-bra…

How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis

Do fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed adult brains.
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Map of Europe drawn from memory
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I did a long run at an easy effort this morning. About half an hour in, I encountered this graffito, a clear reminder to do most of your #running at low effort.

Happy bimbling!

#running

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Pondering tiredness and how it seems to be working with me at the moment. I had a long day visiting Brighton on Wednesday and so it didn't seem unreasonable that I was a bit sleepy the following day. I did a bit of OU work and life admin stuff and watched TV. Today, two days on, the tiredness feels mental, as if the physical body is fine but the brain wants a time out and is kind of noping out of doing very much at all.
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Big uptick in new people here from Twitter - WELCOME PALS, I hope you enjoy it here as much as I am.

For those unfamiliar with the fediverse, the most important thing to note is that favs do absolutely nothing to help me pay my bills. Please boost my toots. Feel free to mock the way that sounds till you're blue in the face, as long as you still boost my toots.

My toots: boost them.

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Grr. You buy a ticket with Apple Pay on your phone and it turns out to be a paper ticket like it’s the 19th Century or something. So I have to collect it from the machine. Which wants the bank card with which I paid for it. Which is impossible since I used Apple Pay.

(Fortunately any bank card will do and the assistant put hers in, but but but)

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While I might be sceptical of some of the dodgy metaphors (putting concepts in my constitutional bag?) and iconography (toothpaste symbolises a convention, apparently), the subject matter of this OU Public Law module is fascinating. Via a "go search for something to do with the constitution" exercise I came across this article about constitutional conventions. This sort of nitty gritty, the analysis if you like of the "meta-rules" of the constitutional game, is definitely something I am here for. ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cd64…
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The Atlantic magazine has created a searchable database from the dataset 'Books3' used to create generative A.I. systems. This dataset was created from 'books free online' - in other words, pirated works.

Authors who write licensed work/tie-ins, please to check for your names. When you find work for Warhammer, Star Trek, Stargate, Halo, etc listed, do please inform their lawyers.
For example, I just looked up Dan Abnett (great writer, lovely person, do read his work!)

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Full Stack Search

A full stack search app
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Andrew Davies

Very cool tool by Atlantic. Their tool improves the transparency of the 'Books3' data set. It's something the creators of the dataset probably should have done themselves.

Related article: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech

Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.
Alex Reisner (The Atlantic)

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Never thought I’d be grateful for Tory corruption… bird.makeup/users/pippacrerar/…

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EXCL: Tory donor threatens to pull funding if Rishi Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line - by ⁦@breeallegretti⁩ theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/s…

Tory donor threatens to pull funding if Sunak scraps northern HS2 rail line

Exclusive: Major donor questioning β€˜ability to continue support’ for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester leg
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This is the main motorway from Gothenburg to Oslo. Happened overnight. (before 2023-09-22 02:00)
EDIT: rescue services commander is saying 4 cars & a bus drove into it.
And "half the Burger King" is part of the landslide.
Rescue efforts underway. Those cars & bus have been searched. 3 ppl sent to hospital. Seemingly no deaths, thankfully.

First person to call 112 was standing in the way to stop ppl driving into it, says same commander.

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E6 har rasat efter jordskred – polisen utreder grovt brott

VΓ€gbanor har fΓΆrstΓΆrts β€’ Flera fordon kΓΆrde ner i rasmassorna.
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Results of the Big Butterfly Count show that butterfly numbers have increased this year after the wetter summer, with numbers at four-year high. But habitat loss is still causing long-term decline

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Result of Big Butterfly Count shows numbers have increased this year

Figures show the wetter summer was good for butterflies, with numbers at four year high, although, habitat loss is causing long term decline
Chat GPT (Yorkshire Bylines)
#savebutterflies

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Bit of a long shot. Any post op trans women reading this had a dental implant with bone regeneration and able to share their experiences? I had one placed yesterday and am vaguely worried that I won’t get the needed bone growth (18 years HRT, 17 years postop)
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ah, yes, the three genders

#genders #breakfast #waffle #foundATypo #forgotTheTags #notificationRevenge

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Lmao half of grindr's staff quit because bosses gave them an ultimatum to do at least two days a week in the office or quit. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. cnn.com/2023/09/08/business/gr…
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