Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

LOL. NYU would never have admitted Donald Trump with his shit academic record.

"When a historian wrote an essay the other day warning that the election of former President Donald Trump next year could lead to dictatorship, one of Mr. Trump’s allies quickly responded by calling for the historian to be sent to prison."
https://politicalwire.com/2023/12/10/talk-of-a-trump-dictatorship-charges-the-campaign/

Panera introduces “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger” line of arsenic-laced breakfast pastries.

@RollingStone

Fuck Texas.

This whole Kate Cox case is exactly what so many said would happen.

Anyone who can give birth should have complete autonomy over their own body.

Unjust laws such as these will not stand forever & should not be obeyed now.

Abortion is healthcare.
Abortion is a human right.
Abortion Will Never Be Eradicated.

Criminalising abortion does not stop abortions, it just makes abortion less safe.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/sexual-and-reproductive-rights/abortion-facts/

Clippy is starting to think that wasn’t an aspirin.

On my way to help the elves form a union

hell is overhearing other people talk politics at a cafe

#NeverAgain means Never Again. "How could we have become what we opposed? That's the big question."

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"When my grandmother arrived here, after the Holocaust, the Jewish Agency promised her a house. She had nothing, her entire family was exterminated. She waited for a long time in a tent, in an extremely precarious situation. They then took her to Ajami, in Jaffa, in a beautiful beach house. She saw that on the table there were still dishes of Arabs who lived there and who had been kicked away. So she went back to the agency and said, take me back to the tent, I will never do to anyone else what was done to me. This is my legacy, but not everyone made that choice. How could we have become what we opposed? That's the big question."

Hadar Morag, Israeli Filmmaker

(the original quote was shared with Hadar’s consent via difficult.conversations.lab on Instagram)

#Palestine

When I got to San Francisco in 2010, I really wanted to do it all

Build a startup, create change through technology.

But the more I learned of the culture, the less I wanted to succeed according to its rubric. The turning point for me was Airbnb

Around 2011, Airbnb was REALLY taking off. All the benefits of a software business, none of the drawbacks of a real estate business. The best of all worlds.

Except…

“Half of the population are starving, nine out of 10 are not eating every day.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2023/12/09/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip-latest-news/

#israel #palestine #gaza #genocide #ethnicCleansing #CeasefireNow

Surprising no one, #ElonMusk will bring back Alex Jones to the Dead Bird Site.

I guess when he tweeted this, he was lying.
Again.
#twittermigration

Okay. Fess up. Who did this?

Post-Brexit and under Conservative rule though, it is fair comment.

Well, you'll never guess what but this week Republicans are suddenly and without warning opposed to antisemitism. This comes as something of a surprise to me, and maybe to you too, if you've been listening to Republicans over the last several decades or so.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/bully-tactics

Alex Jones is back on #Twitter/X, at the personal decision of Musk.

Any advertiser on Twitter/X, no matter how their ad was submitted, including Google or other ad exchanges (after they've been warned of the connection if they continue the ads) should be boycotted. Any firm/organization that continues to do business with any of Musk's companies -- including the U.S. government -- should cease doing so as soon as practicable taking existing contracts and supply chains into account.

In particular, firms like #Google who are now reportedly providing ad services to Twitter/X should be the focus of particular condemnation since they are actively providing a workaround for the collapse of Twitter/X major advertiser sales.

https://www.engadget.com/alex-jones-and-his-conspiracy-theories-are-allowed-back-on-x-160419044.html

When cities run gun buyback programs, they pay a vendor to run the program and destroy the guns. Despite their marketing to the contrary, those vendors turn out to have been reselling the guns, as a matter of course, minus the receiver. 98% are resold. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/us/guns-disposal-recycling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E00.JnYH.TqkHjf6uP1oW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

@Gwyntaglaw
Yes that's exactly what #Netanyahu wants to do. Move ppl south. Claim the North (just like Putin in Crimea and Donbas) then bomb the south and claim that as well. Nobody is offering safe haven to the #Palestinians.

This is a land grab as well as #ethniccleansing.

Then he'll try the same in #Westbank if #Hezbollah so much as squeak.

Im not especially happy with any nation that gives unconditional support to Israeli govt over this: USA and Aus included. What is #Albanese thinking ?

These two things are simultaneously true:
• The richest Americans are the richest in the world
• Food poverty is more severe in America than in any other developed country

'Silence is complicity.' Many thanks Greta Thunberg & colleagues for highlighting that climate justice advocacy comes from 'a place of caring about people & their human rights.'

I wonder if Fridays For Future
Germany, Der Spiegel, Scholz, Habeck et al still this is anti-semitic?

#CeasefireNOW #FreePalestine #ClimateJustice

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/05/gaza-climate-justice-human-rights-greta-thunberg