justanotherdude🍸

Late 30's; father; Tech Enthusiast. Doing what I can to make the world a better place.
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[justanotherdude🍸 @justanother30yo]

I count my blessings that I've met wonderful, kind, inspirational people everywhere I've been - even in Web3. Starting a 🧵 to recognise them: 1 every Sunday for whole 2023. Some I know personally, others may be profiles in Web3; all make me smile & inspire me to be better ❤️.

[justanotherdude🍸 @justanother30yo]

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[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

So many ways that Israel finds to kill children…

Wadieh was killed after finding an Israeli explosive resembling a food can near his home in Gaza.

When he opened the object, it exploded.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Five Palestinians have been killed and 49 wounded in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past 48 hours, the Palestinian health ministry says.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/hJUkVDUayL

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Who were the Israeli politicians, some accused of war crimes, marching on Fifth Avenue this past weekend?

While legacy media spent days scrutinizing Zohran Mamdani's decision to skip the Israel Day Parade, far less attention was paid to the Israeli officials who flew in for it — including a minister who stormed the Sde Teiman detention center to defend soldiers accused of raping Palestinian detainees, a Kahanist who blessed IDF soldiers to "seize babies and dash them against the rocks," and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who has called for the "total annihilation" of Gaza.

Some of America's most prominent politicians were also in attendance — Senator Chuck Schumer, Governor Kathy Hochul, Attorney General Letitia James, and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who led the parade as grand marshal.

Report by Drop Site's @maysamustafa

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If 9 Israelis had been burnt alive yesterday, they’d have called it a barbaric & savage antisemitic massacre.

When Israel burns alive 9 Palestinians to death, they call it a ceasefire.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

We will all be asked about the Holocaust of the Palestinians. Every single one of us.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They watched Iraq burn on television and called it Shock and Awe.

Shock and Awe.

They named the massacre of a civilian population after the experience of watching it from a safe distance.

Not "the bombing campaign."

Not even the sanitized military euphemism.

Shock. And. Awe.

The aesthetic experience of the people watching.

Not the physical experience of the people dying.

This is what empire does to the psychology of its citizens.

It turns atrocity into spectacle.

It turns the suffering of distant people into a viewing experience with a brand name.

And the people watching from their living rooms were not monsters.

That's the point.

They were ordinary people whose entire psychological architecture had trained them to receive distant violence as entertainment, as proof of power, as reassurance.

The monsters are the architecture.

[Jen Zhu @jenzhuscott]

RANT: mentored a young genetic scientist who complained abt how hard it is “being a woman in STEM” & how she & I were the only women in a recent meeting/dinner we met.

I said - the difference is I didn’t notice we were the only women in the room until you mentioned.

This is where I get angry at identity politics. It makes young people so focus on their happenstance - race, gender, colour.. instead of their curiosity, drive, things they can make a difference w their agency + talents.

It’s paralysing. It’s fake liberalism. It’s regressive.

If you constantly put yourself into a sub category based on your happenstances, guess what, you’d be measured in the subcategory. Be in THE CATEGORY, and fucking own it. You are a top genetic scientist who happens to be a woman or Asian. You could also prefer short hair, riding bicycles, and write with left hand. Who the fuck care?

Listen, I’m not diminishing the glass ceilings and real challenges. But the woke left is fighting this battle backwards.

Rant finishes. Woke army, feel free to attack me. 💅

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Their crimes are always mistakes.

This word is doing extraordinary work.

A mistake is when you miscalculate.

When you act in good faith and the outcome is bad.

Three million dead in Vietnam: mistake.

A million dead in Iraq based on fabricated intelligence: mistake.

Decades of funding death squads across Latin America: mistake. Or complicated. Or a different time.

The word "mistake" contains an entire theology.

It preserves the intention.

It says: we meant well, it went wrong, we are still the people who mean well.

The alternative word, "crime," does something the theology cannot survive.

Crime implies a perpetrator.

Crime implies a victim with standing.

Crime implies accountability.

So it is never a crime.

It is always a mistake.

Always.

Across every administration. Every decade. Every continent.

The most consistent mistake-makers in modern history.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Israel is now threatening to bomb the Christian Quarter in the city of Tyre, South Lebanon.

There are no military targets.

This is one of the oldest continuously inhabited Christian areas in southern Lebanon — over 2,000 years old.

Not a peep from Western governments

[SARA 𓂆 @ZaqoutMe]

Quick video.. massacres are still happening till this moment.

My question is ..
Can we ever rebuild a life that has been stolen from us?
Comment with ur thoughts to support me🤍

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

BREAKING: ISRAELI forces RAIDED the women’s dormitory at Birzeit University near Ramallah and ABDUCTED FOUR Palestinian FEMALE STUDENTS.

The students were identified as:

• Jolan Abu Awwad
• Natali Abu Dayya
• Laila Nael Khalil
• Sama Safi

The arrests came during an Israeli military raid on the town of Birzeit in the occupied West Bank.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Today, the Israeli terrorist authorities abducted and held hostage Dr. Mahmoud Talal al-Najjar, a Palestinian doctor and academic, at the Kerem Abu Salem crossing.
Dr. al-Najjar is the sole survivor of his immediate family. In October 2024, an Israeli terrorist airstrike on their home in Jabalia killed his wife, Alaa Salem, and their four children: Rinat, Yazan, Mohammed, and Amr, along with several other relatives.

After enduring unimaginable loss, he spent months trying to secure a travel permit to continue his advanced medical specialization at the University of Tor Vergata in Italy.
Today he was kidnapped by the murderers of his family.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

"Let me read the @guardian's analysis directly:

1,100 Palestinian civilians. Over 275 children. Murdered executed, shot, beaten, run over & not a single Israeli, not 1 soldier, not 1 settler, not 1 police officer, has been prosecuted. 0. Nothing.

This is not a failure of the justice system. This is the justice system.

Because when Palestinians submit complaints, and they do, they file thousands of them, less than 1% end in indictments.

Let me put that in perspective. If you are a Palestinian in the West Bank and an Israeli settler shoots your father in front of you, you have a 1% chance of even seeing an investigation. You have a 0% chance of seeing a conviction.

Now, imagine the opposite. If a Palestinian throws a stone at an Israeli soldier, military court, indefinite detention, possibly death, that is not a conflict. That is a racial hierarchy. That is aparthied."

This is what the genocide apologists were so proud about yesterday in New York. Apartheid.

Full video: https://t.co/V801ZEL2ZA via @TGYKOfficial

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This morning in Palestine, Israel took four Palestinian female students hostage during a raid on the town of Birzeit in Ramallah.
The four female are students at the renowned Birzeit University. Three of them were kidnapped from their homes

[Aaron Regunberg @AaronRegunberg]

The thing about libel is it has to be untrue.

A Jewish baby born today in a West Bank community will have full rights in Israel, a vote in national elections, and access to civilian courts; a Palestinian baby born in that same community will have no democratic rights, tight restrictions on their movement, frequent harassment from settlers, and no access to justice beyond what Israel’s unaccountable military courts mete out.

That’s apartheid. It’s just literally apartheid.

If you think apartheid is really evil, such that it’s a terrible thing to say about a country, well, you’re right, it is. That’s why we have an issue here.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Absolutely hilarious for the FT to argue the West is losing to China because "liberal market democracies operate with greater accountability to voters."

Hilarious and, of course, absurdly wrong. China is winning precisely because it's obsessively focused on delivering for its people: infrastructure, improving living standards, reducing poverty, etc.

"Liberal market democracies" are losing precisely because they forgot who democracies are supposed to be accountable to.

Src: https://t.co/tQjkt6OSg4

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

What @Arsenal did to Mark Bonnick should concern every British citizen.

He worked at the club for 22 years.
They fired him for tweets supporting Palestine and opposing mass murder and supremacy.

Mark is back to labouring at the age of 62 to make a living.

[Global Sumud Flotilla @gbsumudflotilla]

“They kept kicking until I had no breath.”

Arno recounts the brutal assault he endured after israeli forces illegally intercepted their boats in international waters. Beaten so severely that he suffered broken ribs and a collapsed lung, his testimony is one of many describing the extreme violence participants faced during the interception.