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[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

WATCH THIS! Engineers storm the stage in protest against Amazon's use of AI in the ongoing 🇵🇸 genocide

"When Amazon employees say something against project Nimbus you fire them!"

Watch how his face drops! He's there to promote AI yet goes into screensaver mode when confronted

[Ahmad Chamseddine @Achamsedine]

Cet automne, pour la première fois depuis 250 ans, ma famille ne récoltera pas d'olives au Liban.

Nos 600 oliviers ont été arrachés du sol par l'armée israélienne, racines comprises, et emportés. Les plus vieux avaient 500 ans !

Cette terre, mon grand-père la tenait de son arrière-grand-père. En deux siècles et demi, ma famille a acheté de la terre. Elle n'en a jamais vendu un mètre, pas un seul jour. Chez nous, on ne construit pas sur la terre. On y plante. Ces arbres ont survécu à plusieurs guerres. Ils ont survécu à tout.

Regardez les deux photos. À gauche, notre terre le 25 juin, la veille de la signature de l'accord entre le Liban et Israël. À droite, la même terre le 20 juillet.

Il ne reste rien. Et c’est justement ça, la preuve. Un incendie laisse des troncs noirs debout. Une frappe laisse des cratères. Ici, pas un tronc calciné, pas une souche, pas un débris. Une terre nue, raclée, griffée par les chenilles des engins. Déterrer un olivier de 500 ans sans le tuer demande des pelleteuses, un savoir-faire, des camions et une destination. Ce n’est pas un dégât de guerre. C’est une opération, sur une terre où il n’y avait ni armes, ni combattants, ni présence militaire. Ma famille n'a jamais été liée de près ou de loin au Hezbollah, et elle ne le sera jamais. Il n'y avait que des arbres, et des gens qui les taillent depuis huit générations.

D'après les témoignages qui nous parviennent, ces arbres auraient été emportés de l'autre côté de la frontière, vers Israël.

L'accord signé entre le Liban et Israël, censé préparer la paix, protège les biens des civils. Je demande simplement qu'il soit appliqué : que le sort des arbres déterrés soit établi, que ceux qui sont encore vivants soient rendus. Si nos arbres sont vivants quelque part, ils peuvent revenir. Je ne cherche pas une vengeance. Je cherche une adresse !

J'ai hésité à écrire ces lignes, pour ne pas provoquer des réactions d'un côté comme de l'autre. Mais je refuse de faire le deuil de ces oliviers. Dans ces arbres vit l'âme de mon grand-père, ancien général de la police libanaise, un homme qui a toujours cru dans la paix, dans les humains et dans la lumière. Il taillait ces arbres à mains nues. Il répétait : “on ne vend pas la terre, on la transmet”
Je lui dois de ne pas me taire.

[Shadow @ShadowElg]

@MyNintendoNews As a Switch 2 owner:

[Shadow @ShadowElg]

@RPGSite Why the hell was that remaster so garbage then?! 😭

[Shadow @ShadowElg]

@Heatherjw11 There's a handful of Big Finish CDs I'm still trying to add to the collection, and those also go for ridiculous prices. Genuinely and utter insanity :(

[Yorick @YorickB]

Nederlandse IMAX schermen...

Tsja... ze noemen het niet voor niets 'LieMAX'.

Het IMAX doek van Kinepolis Almere past zelfs 2x (!) in de 'gewone' zaal van Kinepolis Utrecht.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

The Palestinian Authority is trying to have Sebastia recognized by UNESCO as a Palestinian heritage site.

Because when you don't have your own ancient heritage, you steal someone else's.

The city was founded as Shomron (Samaria), the capital of the Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BCE, and was renamed Sebastia by Herod, King of Judea, in the 1st century BCE.

[Shadow @ShadowElg]

Salina really thought she had it in the bag until Silky managed to outplay her so hard. The editors continually cutting back to her to display her complete and utter desperation in the moment was some TV gold.

[drag.c.u.n.t @drag_c_u_n_t]

Let's not forget. We have @ApriLcarrion to thank. 🫶🏾 #AllStars11 #DragRace

[Shadow @ShadowElg]

The @bigfinish app on Android is so badly broken. Constant crashes, downloads (not) starting and never finishing, if it does finish it can't be played, incorrect or no covers, and some some reason hogs space, but nothing is download since it can't be played. Rather big mess :(

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Gaza is worse than the Nazi holocaust because the mass killing wasn't hidden, it was proudly announced, captured in hd, documented in real time and gleefully aided and abetted by the entire western political and media establishment

[Shadow @ShadowElg]

Just here to once again praise the absolute and utter success that is the Doctor Who 4k Blu-ray. @PaulVanezis @MarkAyresRWS and everyone else that has worked on this. Really still can not believe that this release exists and looks as good as it does!

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

Never forget when an Israeli settler
literally dragged the body of a lifeless
child with a rope behind his golf court.

He can even be seen touching the body later.

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Israel is maniacally bombing Palestinians in tattered tents again tonight. Every. Single. Day. Not a single shot from Hamas for more than 10 months & Israel has killed more than a thousand Palestinians since — including more than 200 children.

[Hammam Farah @HumHum83]

I searched a Gaza war crimes archive for my family.

I quickly realized I wasn’t using it the way most people would. I wasn’t browsing it as an activist, researcher or journalist.

I was looking for my family.

My heart sank as I filtered the archive by the dates we lost them and searched for someone I loved.

I found footage I hadn’t seen before of the bombing of the Church of St. Porphyrius, where my cousin Soliman was killed.

I searched for the day my great aunt Elham was murdered, and the day Nahida and Samar Anton were killed by Israeli snipers at the Holy Family Catholic Church.

Eyewitnesses told us Elham was crushed by an Israeli tank. I have graphic photographs of her body that were sent to me by church workers in Gaza, but I found no footage of what happened.

It made me wonder how many people died without leaving behind any visual record.

The realization stayed with me.

Here was a digital graveyard where pieces of my own family history are preserved for journalists, historians, truth seekers and, undoubtedly, those seeking to exploit or consume human suffering.

I know I won’t be the only person to experience this. Other Palestinians searching for loved ones almost certainly will too. But it struck me that this is a form of grief that could scarcely have existed before our time.

It’s a form of grief I never imagined could exist.

[Shadow @ShadowElg]

@myheaven_mysky The real crime is the fact that the extended intro was never included in any official release :(

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Utterly shocking but not a surprise. Impunity breeds hubris.

All states and people who care for Freedom must rise up in defense of the ICC and int'l justice now, before it's too late.

It's rule of law or barbarism.

[Spaceborgar :3c @cat_spoiler]

I wish I could be myself again

[Shadow @ShadowElg]

@legotrillermoth Snipperclips is absolute fire however :(

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

Movement restrictions are one of the main ways the IDF uses to turn Palestinian life in the West Bank into living hell.

Metal gates block many roads and village entrances and are closed arbitrarily, sometimes for several days.