Police to have right to seize mobile phones without a warrant, use IDF tech to search data, under new legislation brought to NSW Parliament
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we don’t need to halve the population. thats eco facism. we need to get rid of militaries (responsible for 70% of emissions), data centers, companies that produce single use plastic, and switch out of fossil fuels to clean energy. but they’d rather let people die than do that
4 women have been killed in 3 days by male violence.
This is a national emergency
42 women this year.
227 women have been killed since January 2024
More than all Australians killed by one punch, terrorism, sharks, home invasions, knife, arson, and machete attacks combined
Too far away to recognise genocide but close enough for our weapons parts to reach them, close enough for hundreds of Australians to join the IDF on murder holidays, close enough for billions to flow from here to there, supporting the apartheid state's daily massacres.
This is the precursor to socialists, academics, journalists, artists and unionists ending up in concentration camps. Understand what is happening and protect yourself and your community. America is sick, and its sickness will spread.
A Coptic magical spell from London Oriental MS 6794 (late 6th–early 7th c. CE) for obtaining a beautiful singing voice. Written for Severos, son of Ioanna, it invokes Davithe Eleleth, the seven archangels, and the Holy Father.
A very annoying thing that happens now is that people who know nothing about a subject will "consult" AI, get the wrong information, and then try to "correct" you on a subject you actually know something about. They treat AI like the Oracle of Delphi
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.
The American empire survives not because its crimes are hidden, but because millions of Americans have made peace with being the passive shareholders of atrocity.
That is the part no one wants to say plainly.
They do not have to pilot the drone.
They do not have to interrogate the prisoner.
They do not have to starve the child.
They only have to keep believing the old fairy tale that their comfort is somehow detachable from the machinery that produced it.
It is not.
The suburb is connected to the sanction.
The pension is connected to the plunder.
The national myth is connected to the mass grave.
And every time you point that out, they call you "extreme."
Of course they do.
Truth sounds extreme inside a civilization built on denial.