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jargoggles

@jargoggles@kolektiva.social

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renegadejade , to random
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“It’s is crucial that that the audience know which is the girl wolf and which is the boy wolf, because God forbid someone thinks they’re gay.”

jargoggles ,
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@alice @renegadejade
I was flabbergasted when I heard someone say something like those first two paragraphs in real life. Like... dude... you listened to somebody feed you all of that nonsense and didn't immediately think, "maybe I should double check this real quick and see if anyone who studies this for realsies came to the same conclusion?"

It had that extra 😚👌 of racism, because of course they were talking about how Michelle Obama was a transwoman.

Long story short, my brother is a real piece of shit.

jargoggles ,
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@alice @renegadejade
It wasn't terribly surprising because he's always been a complete asshole. What I'm mainly sorry about is that he has three kids.

mondoweiss , to palestine group
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The Biden administration is playing a shell game with the Gaza ceasefire that aims to trick the Democratic base into thinking meaningful action is taking place to end fighting while still allowing Israel to continue its genocidal campaign.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/blinkens-lies-about-hamas-rejecting-a-ceasefire-reveal-the-biden-administrations-true-intentions/


@palestine @israel

jargoggles ,
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@MisterMoo @mondoweiss @palestine @israel
Biden needs to be held to a higher standard than Donald fucking Trump.

If my evaluations at work compared me to the absolute least competent person to do my job, I wouldn't really have much incentive to listen to any feedback, much less act on it. I don't get to justify myself by saying "I'm a better employee than Donald Trump would be." Oh, and it's worth noting that my job has a vastly smaller impact on people's lives than the goddamn President of the United States.

And here's the painfully obvious irony about what you're saying - if Biden were to actually get his head out of his ass regarding the atrocities that Israel is committing with US support, it would help his chances of reelection. Do you want Trump to win? If not, why are you so against the idea of trying to stop US involvement in the mass murder of innocent people?

jargoggles ,
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@housepanther @benfell @palestine @israel
I am very much in favor of everyone voting in every election they can (even though it seems like Democrats are doing a lot to keep people from wanting to). Voting is not sufficient by itself, but if voting made any difference, it would be illegal... and Republicans are trying very hard to make it illegal for many people to vote.

If having to make the trip yourself is a hurdle, then there may be people or organizations in your area who help people get rides to their polling place.

MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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jargoggles ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor
There's a huge discrepancy in what people mean when they say "freedom" in this country which makes these conversations difficult.

When conservatives talk about "freedom" they're generally talking about being free of responsibility for their actions and free of the obligations that are inherent in being part of a society.

I'm much more interested in this kind of freedom - freedom from want and fear.

NickEast , to librarians group
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I reject the idea that dogs would try to ban books, only people are that petty 😆

@libraries @librarians @bookstodon @bookbubble @books

#BookBans #Dogs #AreBetterThanPeople #Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

jargoggles ,
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@NickEast @libraries @librarians @bookstodon @bookbubble @books
Besides, they generally get excited about cats and squirrels.

If dogs were to ban books, I'd imagine they'd choose topics like vacuum cleaners, thunderstorms, and fireworks.

futurebird , to random
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“We see you haven’t voted yet. Your voting record is public,” a recent mailer to Texas Republicans says. “Your neighbors are watching and will know if you miss this critical runoff election. We will notify President Trump if you don’t vote. You can’t afford to have that on your record.”

The thing about a "strong" "leader"? Eventually you'll be the one targeted when things get desperate enough. No matter how much you think you are the kind of person who wouldn't be.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-supporters-are-now-sending-threatening-letters-to-get-people-to-vote-for-him/ar-BB1mV1XP

jargoggles ,
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@futurebird
They do that shit all the time with fundraising, too.

"Donate and we'll tell Trump you're a TOP SUPPORTER!"

"Trump looked at the list of donors and asked why YOU aren't on it."

The fact that it actually works says everything you need to know about his base.

MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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Today in Labor History May 4, 1970: Ohio National Guards murdered four students at Kent State University. They also injured nine others, including one who was permanently paralyzed. During the massacre, they fired 67 rounds in 13 seconds at the unarmed crowd. The students were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia. With the current wave of student protests against the Israeli genocide in Gaza, the government’s response is looking sickeningly similar to its response to student protests in the early 70s: Violent repression, use of chemical agents, snipers on rooftops. If the vitriolic rhetoric of politicians and pundits continues, another student massacre seems imminent.

#students #KentState #massacre #NationalGuard #cambodia #bombing #USImperialism #MayTheFourth #freepalestine #EndTheOccupation #genocide #gaza #studentprotests #freespeech

jargoggles ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor
Very shortly after the National Guard murdered these students, Americans were asked who was more at fault for the tragedy. Roughly 60% said that the students were to blame and only about 10% blamed the National Guard.

Nothing ever fucking changes.

CultureDesk , to bookstodon group
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AI-generated books on Amazon now have the potential to kill people, as they've moved into the realm of mushroom foraging. Guides have popped up like, well, mushrooms, packed with information that makes no sense and could easily be dangerous, illustrated with structures that are "the mycological equivalent of a picture of a hot blond with six fingers and too many teeth," writes Vox's Constance Grady. Here's more.

https://flip.it/ekbDMe

#Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Science #Foraging #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

jargoggles ,
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@CultureDesk @bookstodon
The first usage of an LLM that might make the user hallucinate, too.

faab64 , to israel group

Some 52 years ago, when I was in 4th grade of primary school, I found a book "who put glasses on the kid's eyes" in a small book shop in open bazaar of my hometown Ahvaz in khuzestan province of Iran.

A few days later, we had to bring a book to school and read it in front of the class. Happy as I was to have found a great book, I took it to school and read it in front of the class.

I couldn't understand why my teacher was acting so scared and stopped me before I had finished the book and sent me to the principals office.
I was nervous, didn't know what I had done wrong and our principal, who was a really nice man, and went to the same university as my oldest sister took the book and asked me where I had bought it. I knew something was wrong, so I said I bought it at the book store of our local mosque, to protect the guy who was my source of cheap and lovely books and would buy back my old ones to help me afford buying new ones.

In the evening my father came home, agitated and clearly upset. Asked me what I have done and I explained the situation, including the fact that I lied about wher I had bought the book. Told him the highlight of the book about a happy child who was living in a town with happy people who were all wearing glasses.

He was seeing flowers, colorful houses. Nice people and happy children all around him, birds flying in the sky and everyone were so friendly to him.

Until one day he fell of and his glasses broke. He couldn't believe his eyes, the flowers, colorful houses and happy people were all gone. All he could see was a run down city, with piles of garbage everywhere, people wearing worn out clothes, looking hungry and sick.

He was nece happy after that, he couldn't believe that everyone were walking around with glasses and we're happy all the time. But he was sad and miserable, because he had seen his town without those glasses.

Anyway. My father took me to a building close to the main police station on the other side of the Karun river, he spent almost entire day in a room where I could people screaming at him and a few times someone his the table very hard. But couldn't hear what they were saying.
My dad came out. Pulled my hand without saying a word, we walked for an hour to get home, didn't take taxi as we used to do.

He didn't say a word during the whole day and told me to go over my books and bring all the books I had bought from that shop, he through them in a metal bucket and poured some fuel over it, set them on fire and waited until they were completely burned, mixed the ashes to turn them into dust, filled the bucket with water and through it in the toilet.

He told me to never go back to that shop and be careful to take any books to school from now on.

That' was my first interaction with the notorious Savak police of Shah of Iran. In the next days, all the 4 book stores in our town were raided. Books confiscated and doors locked. Never heard about any of them again.

Reading the comments of pro Israeli accounts on mastodon reminded me of that book and that experience that changed my life when I was only 8 years old.

This post specially triggered those memories. Unlike the kid in my book and the people living in the town, these people know very well tat what they are posting is not true, they have seen the horror of the past 76 years of occupation, they have seen the 66 times they were subject to UNSC charges, and 45 that were vetoed by the US..

But they don't care, they see themselves as victims. They don't see the millions of starving palestinians, or the millions living in refuge camps around the world as worthy of their empathy or cause of why Palestinians and some of the world is fed up with their out of control criminal behavior

They don't have glasses on their eyes, they have chosen to be selective and above the laws of the world.

@palestine @israel

jargoggles ,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel
Also, what kind of alt history bullshit is this? Iran attacked Israeli military targets after Israel bombed their embassy in Syria.

gerrymcgovern , to random
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In a city called The Dalles, in Oregon, USA, local people were worried that Google’s water use was soaring. As is so often the case, the city officials, who had given Google hundreds of millions in tax breaks, had no intention of letting anyone know how much water Google was using. It was up to a local paper, The Oregonian, to try and find out. They were forced to bring a case to court. City officials were ordered by Google to claim that Google’s use of scarce pubic water was a “trade secret”.

jargoggles ,
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@Kierkegaanks @gerrymcgovern
"Our water use is a trade secret" is a goddamn audacious take. How do people pull shit like that and still think of themselves as decent people?

ElleGray , to random

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    jargoggles ,
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    @ElleGray
    Poor little guy's getting electrocuted too.

    futurebird , to random
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    He is out.

    I repeat. He is OUT.

    Please stay in your homes until further notice.

    (via tumblr:
    https://www.tumblr.com/sleepy-bebby/707382709025128448?source=share)

    jargoggles ,
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    @futurebird
    "XAVIER! FACE ME YOU COWARD!"

    MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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    jargoggles ,
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    @MikeDunnAuthor
    Someone photoshopped this picture. His face is too big.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Things I learned this morning:

    -The bridge is woke.
    -The ship that crashed into the bridge is woke.
    -It was a Russian or Chinese cyber attack.
    -But it was also a false flag.
    -Yesterday's legal experts are now structural engineers.
    -It will take somewhere between one day and ten years to build a new bridge.

    jargoggles ,
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    @lowqualityfacts
    I can't believe you gullible idiots believe in bridges.

    rbreich , to random
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    Follow the money, folks. The biggest institutional investor in the Truth Social SPAC is Susquehanna Int’l Group. It was co-founded by GOP billionaire Jeffrey Yass, who is also a major investor in the parent of TikTok. Trump recently did a 180 on banning TikTok. Wonder why?

    jargoggles ,
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    @rbreich
    Literally every time a conservative stumbles across the right conclusion, you can bet that they did so for the wrong reasons.

    HeavenlyPossum , to random
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    I remember being pretty young and asking my parents—is this it? We go to school every day and then we get a job and go to work every day and this is our lives, forever? Just living each day according to someone else’s schedule, at someone else’s command? This is life?

    And they were pretty flummoxed. Yeah, they said, this is life. What did you expect? This is what you do and then you die.

    These are the same people who showed my Koyaanisqatsi when I was like six and encouraged me to internalize its message that capitalist modernity is catastrophically, irrevocably broken and unsustainable.

    And I just think…a lot of people hold pretty good beliefs in the abstract but it doesn’t occur to them to live as if they were actually true.

    jargoggles ,
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    @HeavenlyPossum
    It's what happens when society renders it virtually impossible for most people to meet their basic human needs without participating in the system. Capitalism doesn't really let you opt-out, because capitalists have decided they own the land itself.

    breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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    So-called 'biofuels' are NOT a climate solution. They are capitalist industrialist greenwashing at its worst.

    Below is a statement posted Friday by Greta Thunberg. She and a group of activists are protesting in Sundsvall, Sweden, outside the annual general meeting of Svenska Cellulosa.

    Here is what Greta wrote...

    Forestry is Sweden's single largest emitter of greenhouse gases and the main driving factor behind loss of habitat and species.

    Svenska Cellulosa (SCA) is Europe’s largest private forest owner, and we are demanding an end to their systematic clear-cutting of irreplaceable natural forests with high importance for climate and biodiversity. After the demonstration, some of us went inside the meeting to demand accountability.

    SCA's logging is built on systematically expanding into the last remaining natural forests, forests whose conditions are vital for many species and which have stored carbon for up to thousands of years, and thus both slow down and act as protection against the climate crisis.

    These ecosystems are destroyed to make place for the replanting of environmentally harmful monoculture tree plantations. Often, these monocultures consist of invasive lodgepole pine, which is devastating for indigenous Sámi reindeer herding.

    Forest companies, despite their claims, don't consult with Sámi villages on equal terms, and can more or less freely log due to loopholes in laws that they use to their advantage. The Sámi are heavily affected by both the climate crisis & industries like mining and forestry.

    All these factors are extensions of the colonialism that has been going on in Sweden for centuries.

    Clear-cutting is also a climate bomb. The carbon emitted during clearcuts takes many decades for the replanted trees to reabsorb. This is time we do not have.

    After harvesting, the majority of the biomass goes to short-lived products and bioenergy with a higher carbon footprint than burning fossil fuels. Biofuels are nevertheless seen by many as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, much to the delight of the forest lobby. They are the ones who have largely created and spread this greenwashed narrative, due to enormous financial interests.

    The burning of biomass leads to more carbon dioxide emissions per unit of energy than other fossil fuels. But, thanks to loopholes in international climate frameworks, it is counted as "climate neutral," so these emissions are not counted in the statistics. Many countries' climate policies, including Sweden's, are completely dependent on these loopholes which actually do more harm than good, not only for the climate but also for the environment and biological diversity.

    The level of awareness around these issues is almost non-existent. In this knowledge gap, false solutions to the climate and environmental crisis flourish. False solutions that lead to increased exploitation of nature, continued emissions of greenhouse gases that destabilise the planet and cause the death and suffering of countless people, and continued colonisation and destruction of lands that we all depend on.

    We demand protection and restoration of forest ecosystems, an end to clear-cutting and the planting of lodgepole pine as well as a transition to making long-lived products.

    jargoggles ,
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    @breadandcircuses
    The fossil fuel industry has been verifiably behind the campaign to shift the blame for pollution and climate change from large, industrial operations to individuals and the vast majority of people have continued to deeply internalize that lie.

    ElleGray , to random

    tesla owners finally complaining about some of the cars' features bc apparently your spouse can watch your car's progress on the app at home and see where you stop. you can even see which seats are being used so "both backseats" suddenly registering on the "heat map" is giving away the cheating lol

    jargoggles ,
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    @ElleGray
    The self-respect issues someone must have to not only be a Tesla owner's side piece, but to also do it in their Tesla. Yikes.

    ElleGray , to random

    confusing the cops by googling "how to live a perfect sin-free life", "how to make sure you never ever do a murder", and "garden tools to avoid because they might help with crimes"

    jargoggles ,
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    @ElleGray
    "Which household products should I be careful of because they could kill me without leaving a trace?"

    FediTips , (edited ) to random
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    If you're a Fediverse admin, this is a plea for you to defederate threads.net

    is part of Meta/Facebook, and their track record on moderation is as horrific as it is possible to be:

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

    https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

    https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/.

    The victims of prejudice, violence and genocide cannot "block" attackers that were radicalised online. Victims of bigotry and hatred cannot opt out of being beaten up or murdered.

    Please defederate Threads/Meta/Facebook 🙏

    jargoggles ,
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    @MisterMoo @FediTips
    What threshold does an instance need to cross before you'd agree that it needs to be defederated? Or is there no threshold and should every instance be allowed to federate, no matter how toxic?

    If you agree that there is a line that can be crossed, why doesn't an organization that has facilitated genocide violate that standard?

    jargoggles ,
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    @FediTips @MisterMoo
    As I said in another convo about this, the only meaningful difference between Threads and a fedi instance that would be universally defederated on the spot is the fucking user count.

    All of the hand-wringing about this issue is a thin veneer over the underlying desire to crank the numbers up and, understandably, nobody wants to admit it to themselves or others.

    rbreich , to random
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    Don't sleep on this story: Trump is looking to rehire convicted felon Paul Manafort, who shared campaign polling data directly with Kremlin agents in the 2016 election and worked to undermine Ukrainian independence. Trump remains Putin's willing and loyal servant.

    jargoggles ,
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    @rbreich
    Particularly of note - Manafort was Putin's fixer to undermine democracy in Ukraine and install a pro-Putin puppet leader: https://time.com/5003623/paul-manafort-mueller-indictment-ukraine-russia/

    A pretty clear sign that Trump fully intends to use the US government to hand Ukraine to Russia.

    bifouba , to palestine group
    @bifouba@kolektiva.social avatar

    Let's be clear on what it means that a famine in the technical sense is imminent for 1.1 million people in Gaza according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).

    One of the criteria is 2 deaths per 10,000 people from outright starvation or the interaction of malnutrition and disease... PER DAY.

    The people who understand this stuff are saying that a situation is imminent where there are AT LEAST 200 starvation deaths every day.

    @palestine

    jargoggles ,
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    @Beeks @jeff @bifouba @palestine
    "It's okay to kill these children because they're evil."

    That's exactly the kind of take I'd expect from a genocide denier. Dehumanization like that is exactly what enables this kind of atrocity.

    Absolutely disgusting.

    jeffowski , to random
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    Eight year old meme still slammin'

    jargoggles ,
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    @jeffowski
    And yet, the dipshits who say we need to return to those times only ever seem to talk about the social policies and never the economic ones.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    That's crazy.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    jargoggles ,
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    @lowqualityfacts
    He's actually not even clear on what a movie is. Brad Pitt thinks he gets paid millions of dollars to play pretend in front of the crew.

    GottaLaff , to random
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    James Crumbley, father of Ethan Crumbley, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in son’s school shooting
    Crumbley was charged in connection with son Ethan's 2021 school shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan. His wife, Jennifer, was convicted on the same charge.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/verdict-james-crumbley-involuntary-manslaughter-trial-rcna143174

    jargoggles ,
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    @GottaLaff

    "His attorney, Mariell Lehman, said after the verdict that James Crumbley "did not know that his son could or would harm anyone or that he had obtained the means to do so.""

    "Prosecutors said James Crumbley had bought Ethan a 9 mm Sig Sauer as a gift a day after Thanksgiving, at a difficult time in his son's life when he was struggling emotionally"

    Uhhhh...

    "Crumbley later told investigators he hid the 9 mm handgun in an armoire and placed the ammunition underneath jeans in another drawer."

    Hmmmm...

    "“If [your] very first thought when you hear about an active shooter at your child’s school isn’t, ‘Is he OK?’ but to worry if your son is the shooter or to rush home to find out if the gun you irresponsibly left unsecure is still there, then you should’ve done something in advance,” Bouchard said."

    And doesn't that just sum it all up.

    oatmeal , to palestine group
    @oatmeal@kolektiva.social avatar

    #UNRWA / No evidence from Israel to back UNRWA accusations, says EU humanitarian chief

    […] Janez Lenarcic, the head of humanitarian aid and crisis management at the European Commission, said that neither he nor - according to his knowledge - anybody else at the EU executive, or any other UNRWA donor had been presented with evidence by Israel.

    […] "Even if those allegations, at the end of the day, prove to be true, that doesn't mean that UNRWA is the perpetrator," he told journalists.

    […] In that case, Lenarcic said individual accountability would be in order rather than summary justice - and the "irreplaceable" agency would be asked to clean up and carry on.

    See also: How the Biden Administration Kneecapped the Most Essential Aid Group in Gaza, and How the Pause May Become Permanent https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112088563336021633

    @israel
    @palestine
    #Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza
    #EU

    jargoggles ,
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    @oatmeal @israel @palestine
    Israel even tortured false confessions out of UNRWA staff: https://www.timesofisrael.com/unrwa-report-claims-some-agency-employees-admitted-hamas-ties-under-israel-coercion/

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Rep. Matt subpoenaed in defamation suit by woman he allegedly had sex with as minor: Sources

    Gaetz could be asked under oath about the allegations involving a minor.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/rep-matt-gaetz-subpoenaed-defamation-suit-woman-allegedly/story?id=108098265

    jargoggles ,
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    @GottaLaff
    It's about time. He needs to be held accountable.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    It's the technology's greatest flaw.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    jargoggles ,
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    @lowqualityfacts
    This is not a technical issue, but a built-in security feature. Do you want smoke on your home network? I don't think so.

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