Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Ha, so Germany is obligated under EU rules to encourage non-EU members to execute ICC arrest warrants when a suspect enters its territory, and Palestine is an ICC member, and East Jerusalem has been confirmed by the ICJ to be sovereign Palestinian territory, so…

Technically, Germany is required to actively PUSH the Palestinian Authority to arrest Netanyahu if he goes to East Jerusalem!

#icc #palestine

Europe is under attack from russia. Why isn’t it fighting back?

Western countries have shied away from reacting to kremlin acts of sabotage and terror.

📎 https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-russia-hybrid-war-vladimir-putin-germany-cyberattacks-election-interference/

'Self-host it' is not the answer

From a couple of years ago, but my thinking has not changed.

Self-hosting is brilliant, for many reasons, and also a privilege not available to everyone, or, I suspect, many.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/

#selfhosting #FOSS

Streeting’s slimming drug already causing hospital ‘surge’. He wants to force it on millions despite appalling track record of manufacturer

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/23/streetings-slimming-drug-already-causing-hospital-surge-he-wants-to-force-it-on-millions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=streetings-slimming-drug-already-causing-hospital-surge-he-wants-to-force-it-on-millions

#Skwawkbox | #Labour is lying when it says there would have to be ‘legal processes’ before #Netanyahu’s extradition

#Cooper and co peddling utter nonsense. #ICC is higher court than any in #UK – the claim is a ruse and the ‘specific process’ would take 30 seconds

https://skwawkbox.org/2024/11/23/labour-is-lying-when-it-says-there-would-have-to-be-legal-processes-before-netanyahus-extradition/

#Gaza #Genocide

When I was born, my parents had a dog named Jamie, and Jamie took me on as a personal responsibility. When I got old enough to walk, if I went outside to play, Jamie would follow me the whole time. If I got near the edges of the yard, Jamie would grab my diaper and sit me on my butt, to let me know I wasn't allowed to leave the yard. She would also alert my parents if she thought I was getting into something, and they weren't paying enough attention. Later Jamie had one beautiful puppy we named JJ, and JJ thought that the diaper pulling was a hilarious game, and would chase me around the yard, and randomly sit me down, no matter where I was in the yard. Poor Jamie had to train both of us, she was such a sweet dog.

Tell me a nice pet story if you have one!

I might be a little crazy, but I like to browse news sites in a virtual machine, without a script or ad blocker. I've started doing this just to be reminded of how the other half lives.

E.g, when was the last time you visited Yahoo News without a script or ad blocker installed? Or MSNBC or WaPo or virtually any major news site w/out these things? It's a full frontal assault of loud videos that launch and play on their own, and pop-ups and pop-unders and 97 pieces of third-party Javascript.

So not only are they typically aiming a firehose of extraneous and distracting stuff at you, each one of those ad relationships offers the possibility of malicious ads running on your machine.

It kind of seems like we don't talk enough about how this aspect of news websites really does turn people off of reading the news from the original source.

Starmer under growing heat from MPs over ICC Netanyahu ruling
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2024/11/21/starmer-icc-netanyahu/?__s=43tdi5b96azmty2p7sbg

“More than 2 dozen associated protests were held in cities and towns across Britain & Ireland…Over 150 actions around the world are planned for what organizers are calling a Global Day of Action for #ClimateJustice on Saturday” #GazaGenocide
https://www.commondreams.org/news/london-march-climate

It's my birthday weekend. I believe boosts are customary. Up to you, no worries if not. It's OK. I don't mind either way. You do you.

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Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/22/sport-may-be-a-blunt-tool-of-social-change-but-its-time-to-take-action-against-israel?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Police in Britain are failing to meet the public's minimum standards of service, researchers find https://phys.org/news/2024-11-police-britain-minimum-standards.html #science

Manhattan DA tells judge Trump case should not be dismissed https://www.rawstory.com/trump-stormy-daniels-case-2669948072/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"A harrowing image captures two young girls trapped under rubble after an airstrike by occupying forces targeted their family’s home near Abu Hussein Schools in Jabalia refugee camp.

With no ambulance or civil defense teams available in northern Gaza, a massacre unfolded, claiming the lives of over thirty people and leaving dozens injured or missing beneath the debris."

https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1854566408484487403

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#AnasAlSharif
@palestine

Sad to learn that Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor (with John Kemeny) of the BASIC programming language, recently passed away on November 12.

I got my start with computers by programming in BASIC. My early days of computing were on the Apple II computer, and I taught myself how to write programs in AppleSoft BASIC.

Later, my family replaced the Apple with an IBM PC, and I learned IBM BASICA and GW-BASIC -- and much later, QBASIC on MS-DOS 5.

It’s amazing how much of the case against Lucy Letby is unadulterated speculation…mostly by senior men who feel exposed themselves for their own professional inadequacies

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/19/lucy-letby-likely-to-have-harmed-other-babies-doctor-tells-inquiry

That's the inside of the Virgo gravitational wave detectors in Pisa. It looks like a 3.5km long metal pipe, and it basically is, but together with Ligo in the US it detected a displacement of order 1e-18 meters due to the passage of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and it opened a whole new era in #astronomy #science

#NFL Week 11 Scores:

Ended Games:
#WSH 18 @ 26 #PHI
#GB 20 @ 19 #CHI
#JAX 6 @ 52 #DET
#MIN 23 @ 13 #TEN
#LV 19 @ 34 #MIA
#LAR 28 @ 22 #NE
#CLE 14 @ 35 #NO
#IND 28 @ 27 #NYJ
#BAL 16 @ 18 #PIT
#ATL 6 @ 38 #DEN
#SEA 20 @ 17 #SF
#KC 21 @ 30 #BUF
#CIN 27 @ 34 #LAC
Running Games:
13:51 - 1st #HOU 0 @ 0 #DAL

#nfl #nflfootball #football