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Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.

He has seen his birth and death many times, he says, and pays random visits to all the events in between.

  • HP is in the rent-a-printer business now

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  • GitHub - j-fbriere/squawker: An open-source privacy oriented Twitter/X client

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  • they have not blocked it and they probably won't block it bc it involves signing in with your twitter and since it's just an android app it's not gonna get as big as nitter, I don't think it's really helpful to tell people to "just accept it" as an individual you're not gonna be able to successfully lobby everything you follow to change to bluesky (which I think you can get rss feeds from) or masto (which you can get rss feeds from), like for example your city's local government/services only posts on facebook and twitter, no rss, this is still useful for things like that

  • The growing controversy over Israel’s Eurovision song entry

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  • IDK nothing indicated they would be booted, they pretty prominently announced they wouldn't be restricting Israel from competing, to much controversy at that

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Israel Made False Claims About Its Own Evidence in ICJ Defense, Analysis Finds

    truthout.org /articles/israel-made-false-claims-about-its-own-evidence-in-icj-defense-analysis-finds/

  • China has raided seven American businesses in Beijing and arrested employees on suspicion of espionage, ambassador Nicholas Burns reveals

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  • I don't disbelieve it, but I'm gonna wait to read about it not in the daily mail and I don't think other serious sources have reported on it yet, unless google has just ceased working as a search engine which is very possible.

  • The growing controversy over Israel’s Eurovision song entry

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  • It only has to do with being an ebu/sister org member which many arab states are eligible to compete, but refuse to do so since Israel is in it/ in some cases having laws preventing the broadcasting of anything Israel was involved in making.

  • The growing controversy over Israel’s Eurovision song entry

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  • To be fair to the euros they tried to both sides it and let arab/north african countries in, but those countries refused for obvious reasons.

  • Saudi Arabia puts seven men to death in largest execution in years

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  • I'm personally against sentencing death regardless of what they did, especially in cases like Saudi Arabia where they have more than enough money to handle imprisoning people for life. Call me a crypto-catholic, but I don't think killing people is good if it can be avoided, which in this case it definitely could have been.

  • Israeli soldiers chow on McDonald's while carrying out genocide

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  • Employees "You have to not say anything about your politics or else you'll lose your job"

    Franchisees "Glory to the state, all hail death and destruction and swing by for a BigMac TM"

  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    NYC Housing Authority Paid $708 to Replace a Lightbulb

    www.truthdig.com /articles/nyc-housing-authority-paid-out-708-for-replacing-a-single-lightbulb/

  • US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War

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  • God, an unironic "you mad bro" go back to reddit lmao

  • US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War

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  • OMG THEY HAVE AN ARTICLE OMG THAT WAS TOTALLY MY POINT, I QUITE LITERALLY TALKED ABOUT REDISTRIBUTING THINGS FROM PRESS AGENCIES JFC, HOW CAN YOU READ WHAT I WROTE AND GET TO THIS, IS THERE ANYTHING RESIDING IN BETWEEN YOUR EARS ???

  • US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War

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  • fact check! deboonked!

  • US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War

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  • you managed so thoroughly to miss the point I was making, I'm impressed

  • Palestinians call for China to step up pressure on Israel as they seek an end to ‘collective punishment’ on Gazans

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  • I'm not hopeful when they won't even impose sanctions on Israel, only undeclared "bureaucratic obstacles" at most, not that sanctions are the be all end all of diplomacy, but if anything merited them this would be it. You may counter "oh they have to be neutral so they can negotiate", but I would say to that, what they have publicly said the furthest they are willing to negotiate is a two state solution, which is impossible to achieve. Not to mention the obvious problems with the Gaza strip and the west bank physically being separated and what problems that would entail, the Israelis will never accept a Palestine that gets a seat at the UN, a country that has it's own air space, a country that has it's own rights to nearby oil reserves, a country that has a right to assemble a standing military, a country that could offer a right to return to all of the millions of displaced Palestinian diaspora around the world.

    All of these things are a non starter for Israel, there is nothing to negotiate, diplomacy will never compel Israel to entertain a Palestinian state. Unless countries do meaningful things like sanction/divest-from Israel, cut off the supply of weapons, oil, etc. and as long as the US is willing to veto any meaningful UN resolution, nothing will come of any kind of soft pressure, in regards to this offensive or in general. There is nothing to mediate, both the US and Israel have made it clear that Israel will stop when Israel has decided it's in their interest to do so and no time sooner and no amount of arbitration will change that unless more direct meaningful pressure is applied to the state carrying out the genocide.

    And meaningful pressure has basically only been applied by states like Iran and groups like the Houthis and Hezbollah no state with any significant leverage over Israel has done anything outside of Iran, including Russia, China, Turkey, etc. who all talk a big game supporting UN resolutions for a ceasefire and making public statements in support of Palestinians, but who refuse to take actions that would actually compel that to happen like divestment/sanctions due to the correct fear that states like the US/UK/etc. would respond in kind with massive sanctions that could hurt economic stability at home.

  • US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War

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  • Yeah, I've seen some discourse that things like this when done by an individual as opposed to a group effort like the Tibetan monks are primarily to take their own life and the message is secondary/additional, but I would like to think that on some level something positive will come out of someone doing something as drastic and sad as this. Dying or taking your own life is not something positive or to be glorified, but when someone feels so hopeless to the point that they turn to this, I hope it's at least a wake up call for some people to take this seriously and not just ignore/tune out one of the biggest genocides in recent history.

  • US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War

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  • It's a bit of a beleaguered point, but it's very telling that this will assuredly get almost no coverage on big news networks like abc, cbs, fox, etc. and virtually no coverage in the larger papers like the NYT, sure the press agencies like Reuters and the AP will cover it and then redistributors like your source will publish this, but little thought among the media class/commentariet will be given to the man who decided there was so little hope of being able to do anything through legal/electoral means to stop a genocide that he could no longer stand idly by and had to do something to protest the sheer inhumanity of what's going on. Barely anyone probably still remembers the person who did the same thing and died in 2022 on earth day protesting inaction on climate change/destruction, that story was absolutely buried. I don't support any kind of self harm, but doing something as drastic as this requires a pretty compelling reason, most people remember Tibetan monks doing the same thing, but the same importance was not extended to that person in 2022 and will almost definitely not be extended to this person now. I may end up being wrong, but I expect this to be out of the news cycle/discourse in days at most.

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    Exclusive: ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past - The Grayzone

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  • I get you like this article but posting it 5x is a bit much, you can just post it to lemmy.ml if you want everyone to see it almost everyone is federated with them.

  • Eurovision confirms Israel can compete

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  • The technical reason is that Israel is part of the European Broadcasting Union which runs Eurovision which for example Australia has been a part of for the past decade or so, I'm actually not sure if Palestine or any part of Palestine has ever attempted to join this organization, but it does complicate things when you're being occupied in joining organizations. Lebanon is eligible to enter Eurovision because it belongs to a related org to the EBU, but has never chosen to do so because Israel is in the contest. Israel shouldn't be allowed because it's genocidal and a illegitimate settler colonial state, not because of the location. If Israel had never been created, I imagine most of the MENA states in the Arab States Broadcasting Union would have joined the contest.

  • Eurovision confirms Israel can compete

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  • This is a list of nobodies lmao, they really couldn't do better than this?

  • PSA: ExpressVPN, PIA, and Cyberghost are all run by Israeli intelligence

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  • Have you seen their mastodon account?

    https://home.speakfree.social/@torguard

    Surprised anyone in this instance would use their service since they use their social media account to more or less do NAFO posting.