John

Former journalist. Self-taught software developer. Former Head of Esoteric Programming @Twitter. Follow != endorsement.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

One of the most painful images to come out of Gaza.

A child struggles to process the unimaginable after seeing his parents killed before his eyes in Gaza.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The President of Palestine's football association has been banned from attending the World Cup.

He refused to shake hands with Israel's rep 6 weeks ago when Infantino tried to force him, instead shouting out "We are suffering"

Now the racist genocide supporters have banned him

[Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 @MuhammadSmiry]

Let’s not stop talking about Gaza!

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.

Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israel just kidnapped a 20yr old Palestinian student, taking her hostage. She won’t be called a hostage & she won’t be reported on in the US bc she’s Palestinian.

Had Palestinian forces took an Israeli civilian hostage — would be front page news in every mainstream media outlet.

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

This is barbaric. They were not permitted to explain to the jury why they carried out the attack on the Elbit factory - which makes the weapons that kill Palestinian children. And the jury was never told they would be sentenced as terrorists. /1

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

You can vehemently disagree with Palestine Action activists goals, whilst simultaneously be horrified a judge can decide AFTER a conviction if it was terrorism related amd double a sentence.

Being able to class an offense as terrorism AFTER conviction without charging them with terrorism should bother everyone.

Any protest action that is now determined as trying to "change government policy" can have this applied.

So today it's Palestine Action, but next it'll be immigration protests, farmers protests, NHS, tax etc etc.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Sick, sick world

[Marcos Feres 🇵🇸 @marcosvmf_]

Copa do Mundo é uma boa ocasião pra lembrar que "israel" exterminou ao menos 437 jogadores de futebol palestinos, mais de 800 atletas e que o presidente da FIFA é alvo de denúncia no Tribunal Penal Internacional como cúmplice de "israel" em crimes de guerra e de lesa-humanidade?

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

The connections in this one interview.

Virginia Giuffre reveals Epstein trafficked her to Andrew. She’s hit by a bus then “commits suicide.”

The interviewer’s mother gets kidnapped and is still being held for ransom.

Release the Epstein files.

[Madeleine @JournoMaddie]

This is the kind of thing the international community condemns China or North Korea for doing. Anyone who thinks we’re still a free country is completely deluded.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Ok I watched it. Screams. Little girls screaming in fear. This is your ally? These monsters?

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Canberra is running a genoside protection racket.

“Juliet Lamont came home from being raped and tortured by a foreign military..

“And her own country ransacked her luggage, seized her phone and laptop, and told her she was under arrest unless she surrendered her passcodes.

“Her government did not protect her. Her government investigated her.”

‘Israeli soldiers raped her. Australian customs threatened her’
https://t.co/Ha8BKZ4Sk8 via @MichaelWestBiz

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

"There is something absurd about being told that footage of your destroyed neighborhood violates community standards, while the destruction itself continues uninterrupted. Something darkly funny about an app warning you that your post about a massacre is “too violent,” as if the violence begins with the image and not the act. The platform is offended—not by death, but by its documentation." -Taqwa Ahmed Alwawi

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Just in: A video from inside a court in occupied Jerusalem shows Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya appearing via video link and attempting to speak with his attorney before Israeli court security blocked the screen and terminated the call, preventing journalists from filming the exchange or the video appearance.

I listened carefully to what the attorney was saying to Dr. Abu Safiya. It appeared that Dr. Abu Safiya could not hear him. The attorney repeatedly stated that he could neither see nor hear Dr. Abu Safiya after his “captors turned off the camera.” He also informed him that some people were present in the courtroom to show their support and that they were waiting for the judge to arrive so that he could be brought back on screen before the court addressed the appeal.

This is Israel’s democracy. Dr. Abu Safiya has been subjected to starvation, abuse, and cruel torture, and this latest development only adds to concerns about the conditions he has endured and the lack of public scrutiny surrounding his case.

[Alex Shams @alexshams_]

This is a war crime

[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

Whereas Israeli soldiers who participated in the genocide in Gaza.... are welcome.

[Ben Dickson @bendee983]

1- AI-generated code just creates more technical debt.
2- At the end of the day, you (the developer) are responsible for the code, not the LLM that generated it. So the less code you have, the easier it is for you to own it.
3- A good engineer knows what code to write, and equally importantly, what code not to write or to delete.

(BTW, this is what we old-school software engineers have been saying for a long time, and we've been called all sorts of names for it.)

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

What a weird way of saying ISRAEL KILLED Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil.