Shahid 💙 🇳🇿

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[Shahid 💙 🇳🇿 @ShahidDev]

One of my favourite photos I've ever taken. Over 10yrs ago using Pentax K20D with just the kit lens if I remember correctly. This is straight out of camera no processing or fake bokeh

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

There is no need for British Sikhs to be issuing these statements!

They have no more responsibility for Henry Nowak's hideous murder than any of us.

Hundreds of white Brits kill someone each year.

White people didn't have to issue statements disassociating themselves!

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.

Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.

The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.

[Craig Loewen @craigaloewen]

WSL now has built in Linux container support with both a CLI and an API, announced today and coming soon by the end of the month!

You can read more about it here (While our official docs are building :) )

https://t.co/o9RaROfswP

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Onion produced this as Satire less than 3 years ago.

It is now reality.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

I’ve been banned from the UK. I tried to get on a flight to London to attend SXSW London and give a speech at Oxford. I’ve been banned for criticizing Israel. Are we free anymore? This is oppression of Western citizens by our own governments on behalf of a different country!

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Dutch friends.
"If you tolerate this, then your children will be next" (cit)

[Catherine - Toitū te Tiriti ❤️🖤🤍 @CathKakariki]

Atlas Network fully entrenched in this government and are writing policies 😡

[Mark Ajzenstadt @mardehaym]

None of this is satire.

→ A company spent $500,000,000 on Claude in one month because nobody set usage limits

→ Uber ran leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used, not what they shipped

→ Uber burned their entire 2026 budget by April. Their COO said he can’t connect any of it to consumer features

→ A CTO told Axios employees were using enterprise AI to check the weather

→ Microsoft canceled most Claude Code licenses because the token bill spiraled

→ Companies are now laying people off to pay the AI bill. Not because AI replaced the work. Because the bill replaced the headcount.

[Clare K @AucklandIsland]

Why isn't this all over New Zealand media? If this had happened anywhere else it would be

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Has Nukes
🇮🇷 No(0)
🇮🇱 Yes (200-500)

Signed The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
🇮🇷 Yes
🇮🇱 No

Broke The Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty
🇮🇷 No
🇮🇱 Yes

Allows IAEA Inspections
🇮🇷 Yes
🇮🇱 No

Has engaged in nuclear blackmail against the US
🇮🇷 No
🇮🇱 Yes

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

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[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

unadulterated evil in one photo

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

The UK again condemns Israeli settlements while it:

❌refuses to ban trade with them
❌keeps military accord w/Israel
❌keeps trade & partnership accord
❌continues arms exports
❌refuses to mention Israeli nukes
❌refuses to respond to ICJ ruling on OPTs https://t.co/2UkE0LIxOH

[Donna Miles دانا مجاب @UnPressed]

Where has New Zealand’s proud tradition of an independent voice and moral clarity gone?

The Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain are now banning goods from illegal Israeli settlements. It is time for NZ to show real leadership and impose sanctions on Israel.

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Huraman, a paradise in western part of the beautiful Iran.

[Jen Gentleman 🌺 @JenMsft]

Did you know the clock app in Windows can compare time zones? 👀

[moose @mooseincrisis]

i lied.