Every country that decided to participate instead of joining these countries in their protest should be ashamed of itself and it should be a career ending event for every artist taking part.

the edmonton police are working with an israeli company whose facial recognition technology was used in the gaza genocide. here it's being used in the eps' illegal ai bodycam facial recognition "pilot project" cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/…

I read a lot, it's escapism. I prefer physical books but I have the Kindle app on an old tablet. My rule is that I only buy ebooks if that's the only format, or it's less than 1/5 price. And if I love what I've read, I'll aim to buy a copy to keep. Can't beat physical media.

This is the smartest tweet in the history of tweets...

Whatever, let him believe this, who cares is it’s deluded and obviously false. We’re managing the world’s thinnest ego, if throwing a gold-plated victory parade will end the mass bombing and killing then let’s do that. He’s a baby who needs his binky, let’s just roll with the lie

Judge rules that 17-year-old Walid Ahmad likely starved to death in Israeli military detention, but closes the case anyway. Israel never charged him with a crime and still holds his body. Here’s how he died, as reported by his cellmate, 16-year-old American Mohammed Ibrahim:

#paperbacksfromhell Bari Wood's The Tribe with step back cover. Found today at a local used book store

Roots Of My Fears, edited by Gemma Amor @manylittlewords is an impressively consistent collection. And I would say that the lesser known authors outshine the bigger names.

Most of you know I was kidnapped a few months ago and dumped in K’ziot prison in Israel. This article by human rights advocate Miral Askar chills me to the bone. It shows how broken the prison system is and how broken and messed Israelis are: “The Israeli Prison Service has begun preparing an execution plan, following the approval of a death penalty law that feels like it belongs to a different century. The Prison Service is already moving ahead with the logistics. They’re setting up a dedicated execution complex (!!) and have settled on hanging as the method. To keep the guards from feeling the psychological weight of what they’re doing, they’ve designed a system where three people press buttons at the same time—making it impossible to know who actually triggered the floor. They are even looking for "specialized volunteers" to form these teams. There is something so deeply broken about a society that recruits volunteers to hang people. A delegation is even expected to travel to an East Asian country to study their administrative and legal mechanisms for execution. They are turning the prison system into a place where ending a life is just another administrative task to be refined. While most legal systems involve years of appeals, these executions are set to happen within 90 days of a verdict. The plan is to start with "elite" prisoners from the October 7 events and then expand the law to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Those held in the execution complex will be kept in complete isolation, severed from any human contact before their time is up. The bill is written so broadly that it allows for the death penalty even in cases where a death wasn't intentional, but is interpreted as being motivated by "hostility" toward Israelis. In practice, this framework only applies to Palestinians. It ignores the dual legal structure where settlers fall under civilian law while Palestinians are prosecuted in military courts with a 99% conviction rate. This double standard is even more disturbing given the recent surge in settler violence, with over 1,300 attacks recorded in the last year alone. We already know this settler terrorism is almost never charged, creating a system where one group is granted total impunity while the other is being prepared for the gallows. What is most terrifying is who this will actually kill. We already know that thousands of Palestinians are held in "administrative detention"—meaning they are in prison indefinitely with no charges, no trial, and no conviction. As of late 2024, there were over 3,300 Palestinians held this way. When you combine a system that already imprisons people without evidence with a law that allows for rapid executions, you are looking at a system that is prepared to execute innocent people. UN experts have warned that this is a violation of the most basic right to life. But when a system has already decided a group of people aren’t fully human, the law just becomes a way to organize the violence.”

Every time you “ask ChatGPT” a butterfly dies a horrible death. Every time you “ask Grok” two butterflies die. And when you die, the ghosts of those butterflies are waiting to eat you.

Just finished the whole of @OborneTweets book, Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza. A major achievement and must-read. Peter’s conclusion strikes a chord, I’m sure, with millions.

If you want to make a real difference, donate directly to your local Food Bank. When you buy food at a grocery store to place in a donation bin, you’re paying full retail prices. Food Banks don't. The Food Bank can stretch donations much further by purchasing food in bulk or at wholesale prices, and by buying exactly what’s needed most. When you donate at the till, you don’t get the tax receipt, and the store gets the public credit for the donation. Direct donations to the Food Bank are more efficient, more transparent, and put more food on the table for people who need it. Please donate directly.

I used to support MAID because I totally understand not wanting to ride Alzheimer’s out until the tragic end but seeing the reality of its application has totally flipped me

They buried starving people alive. And Israel has not been kicked out of any international institution or competition so far. Shame on humanity. What kind of world are we rasing children in? How is no one demanding an end to this?

Murdered for crossing an imaginary yellow line imposed by the Israeli ghetto masters

We drowned in blood for more than two years, and no one moved a finger. Do you think they’ll react if we drown in rainwater? A filthy world.

Two former Israeli prison workers testified that prisoners at Sde Teiman were kept in chains until their limbs rotted, beaten for speaking or moving, left to piss and shit on themselves, and dying so often the staff called it a “graveyard.”

this has all happened against a backdrop of the ucp actively destroying the concept of public health and being openly contemptuous of vaccination. the blame for the outbreaks of medieval era diseases on alberta lies squarely on the shoulders of danielle smith.

⚠️: Mahmoud Abu-Musallam is a cyber security engineer in Gaza right now writing so significantly about @SamsungMobile breaching the privacy of users and collecting information for the Israeli army So many in Gaza hold Samsung devices. Samsung is complicit in the genocide in Gaza

Who gave the orders for Israeli soldiers to viciously rape Palestinian captives? How high up does this scandal go?