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2026-04-20 14:15:21 UTC

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There's no word to describe the level of rogue state terrorist behaviours Israel has been engaging in, all over the middle-east, over the past few years. 😡
But that latest wave of destruction they've unleashed on a country barely managing to stay afloat, is particularly disgusting.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/437/451/224/775/265/original/49a8106e07b82a9e.jpeg

2026-04-20 14:08:13 UTC

Last Summer, walking around Badaro, we'd regularly see this dapper older man playing the oud outside restaurants…
Due to Israel's indiscriminate bombing of south beirut, he's been displaced and now lives out of a van… 💔
He still plays music…
#beirut #lebanon #israel
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1503880/abed-sabagh-sits-in-his-van-in-a-tuxedo-playing-his-oud-surviving-once-again.html

2026-04-08 17:35:45 UTC

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There is something particularly revolting in the way the Israeli army is explicitly and purposely targeting displaced refugees across Lebanon (accused of "hiding" military targets):
In addition to the usual indiscriminate killing of civilians, these bombings are clearly intended to stir up more sectarian violence and mistreatment of refugees…
I sincerely can't think of many war behaviours of the past century, that could compare to what Israel is doing and did not end up in a tribunal.

2026-04-08 13:41:42 UTC

Remember the quaint old days of 2025, when some western govts took offence at anyone calling Israel an apartheid state, or called "antisemitism" at any suggestion that there was an ongoing genocide in Gaza?
Over the past few weeks #Israel has:
1. voted a law essentially allowing it to summarily execute Palestinian prisoners
2. doubled-down on its ethnic cleansing of both #Gaza *and* the West Bank
3. relentlessly bombed out civilians in Lebanon, dropping ~100 bombs on Beirut today
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/369/346/973/344/732/original/ed189d0cc09d5801.png

2026-02-04 08:09:53 UTC

Looking for a very specific set of data and somehow failing to locate it:
I am interested in wealth *quantiles* per country per year (ideally for a number of past years).
Ie how much wealth each quantile has in that specific country. The more fine-grained the quantile, the better, but would manage with centiles.
Have checked WID, statista etc, but closest I can get, is bottom 50%, top 1%. I need the full quantisation.
Anyone?
#statistics #economics

2026-01-19 12:04:34 UTC

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I quite like @npub1fdr…lvhs 's line in one of his recent post (paraphrased): "optimism is a poison, hope is not"

2025-08-21 09:09:20 UTC

As always, @npub1fdr…lvhs summing it up nice and tidy, with a dash of rightful anger:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/billionaireism/

2025-07-27 07:37:19 UTC

This is not the first genocide I live through.
It is, however, the first genocide in my lifetime where I can grab a newspaper or turn on the radio, and hear people defend it and question the victims’ humanity, in a language I speak.
#gaza #genocide

2025-07-23 16:22:14 UTC

Are we ready to call it a genocide yet? Or do we maybe want to wait a few more months?
Every last Western political party who openly supported this, deserves to lose every elections until the end of times (and they probably will)…
And yes: this very much includes UK Labour, France's "centre right" [lol] coalition, and pretty much everyone in Germany…
#ukpol #gaza #israel #genocide
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/903/445/951/379/305/original/01b55bd23b20dd5e.png

2025-07-06 09:12:13 UTC

Being subscribed to the #London hashtag means that (along with a billion very random barely-london related posts), I get to read indignant reactions to the pro-palestine #Pride protest that read like science-fiction:
"extremists deface queer symbols to defend a regime that murders gays"… or thereabouts. 😐
The sad part is: I am sure these people are in good faith. And Starmer's policy of criminalising opposition to genocide isn't helping.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-pride-palestine-protest-youth-demand-b2783254.html
#ukpol #palestine

2025-07-02 06:47:56 UTC

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At this stage, we are NOT discussing getting 20th century climate back (it's gone for our lifetime). Or even keeping it at 2025 levels.
What we are (barely) talking about here, when we discuss "curbing emissions", is our vanishing chance of preventing AMOC collapse or full ice cap meltdown.
The most optimistic (and increasingly unrealistic) scenario here, is one where half the planet is not underwater.

2025-07-02 06:39:43 UTC

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Occasionally, some of the more progressive media will casually throw a mention of climate change: "this highlights the need to curb our emissions to prevent such occurrences in the future"
😂🤣😂
"The future" (the next 10 years) *will* make this ongoing heatwave feel like the pleasant late Spring weather that it is.
Drastically cutting all emissions (by levels that current Western governments would not even dream of), *may* prevent it getting even worse 10 years later…
#climate #climatecrisis

2025-07-02 06:34:21 UTC

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"The country is reeling under its 10th day of unbearable heat, the PM has called an emergency crisis meeting"…
… while they're at it, they might want to discuss how they will deal with this becoming 10x worse in the coming few years…

2025-07-01 20:35:02 UTC

The weird thing about being in the middle of Europe's latest scorching heatwave… is that it's also one of those rare moments where the ongoing media freakout at sustained 40C weather, is vaguely in tune with my own sense of our impending climate doom.
Though I have no doubt come next week, people will happily go back to ignoring the climate crisis, while papers switch back to recommending the best flights to Marbella for a weekend getaway.
#climate #heatwave

2025-06-04 05:21:30 UTC

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When seen as the spicy autocorrect that it is, this LLM behaviour makes so much sense on every level: it has doubtless been trained on zillions examples of people getting called out on BS and rationalising or trying to present the most PR-friendly damage control answer they could. We're basically seeing a somewhat-weighted average of every single fibber confession on the internet… 😐

2025-05-18 06:43:56 UTC

Don't worry Israel, you may have finished second, but in our hearts, you are the undisputed number 1 in genocide and indiscriminate killing of children.
#eurovision #israel #gaza

2025-05-08 07:16:21 UTC

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Billionaires should not exist.
We can always argue to eternity about the finer points of economic justice beyond that , but if we could just at least focus on that one part of the programme, we’d likely solve most of the urgent issues all at once.
As for the “how”: I naively think that merely enforcing aggressive and effective taxation that goes asymptotically to 100%, would do most the work. But admittedly we are fast reaching a point where a bit of guillotine-based coercion might help.

2025-05-08 07:10:26 UTC

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Lots of replies pointing out that the “convincing” might require some coercion. And maybe even a fair bit of violence. I don’t necessarily disagree.
It gets a bit dicier when we get to the specifics of who should be on the receiving end of that coercive violence: call me old-fashioned but I get a little uneasy whenever people come up with the one case where maybe we can just do away with democracy “for the greater good”. End, means, all that.
My proposal is a lot more modest:

2025-05-07 04:01:41 UTC

If I hear one more person talk about “putting our brightest people toward solving climate change”, I will scream.
Climate change is not some deep mystery waiting for a scientific breakthrough: we know exactly what causes it and how we address that. We have SOLVED climate change.
The problem is not “finding the solution”, the problem is convincing literally anyone in power that the solution is better than building billionaire bunkers in new zealand.
#climate #climatechange

2025-03-31 09:44:23 UTC

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I'd wait a bit to rejoice: the relevant bit (whether it applies with immediate effect and will result in her not running at the next election) is still up in the air.
Also worth noting that her being out of the picture arguably *increases* the chances of her party winning the next presidential election (her name carries a certain electoral ceiling with it, whereas Mr Bardella has all the trappings of a friendly fascist with none of the legacy).

2025-03-27 21:24:30 UTC

Seeing the widespread denial surrounding the US' increasingly quick descent into bona fide fascism, makes me wonder whether I'll be able to tell if/when it happens closer to home.
What would be the measurable threshold that would prompt me to take drastic personal actions?

2025-03-12 10:44:03 UTC

What is up with Japan and still lighting their homes with neons lights (the regular hospital kind, not the fun red-light-district kind)…?!
Surely Japan has access to regular LED technology nowadays?

2025-02-27 11:33:08 UTC

Give me a search engine that provides a "Blacklist domain" button right on the search result page.
If that button glows red whenever AI slop is detected on that page, I'll pay you money for it.

2025-02-12 10:25:35 UTC

Britain's fast slide into the kind of collapsed society that the US has been for a few decades:
Where a thin slice of the population can afford decent (private) healthcare, and the rest basically lives with pre-industrial standards of medicine.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/12/the-seven-year-wait-for-a-dentist-why-linda-colla-pulled-out-her-own-teeth
(copy-paste that point and replace "healthcare" by "education", "justice" etc.)
To make things even worse: it is blindingly obvious that mild centrists like Starmer will do absolutely nothing to reverse that course.

2024-12-02 07:03:25 UTC

Had you told me 20y ago that French news kiosk would one day openly promote fascism at the till… I wouldn’t have been that surprised. 🤷
Now if you’d told me this was the result of a few openly fascist French billionaires successfully buying up all news kiosk chains, and a large chunk of all print and broadcast media… I probably wouldn’t have been that surprised either.
#france #bardella #frenchpol #politique
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/581/914/497/347/840/original/6c56ad774efefa93.jpeg

2024-11-27 10:43:08 UTC

Achieve #nihongo conversational fluency in 30 seconds, thanks to this helpful flowchart.
#japanese
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/554/496/288/527/581/original/f33f344197c815b1.jpeg

2024-11-27 06:42:34 UTC

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*This*. So much *this*.
When people crow proudly about Mastodon's complete absence of algorithmic feed, all I hear is "I don't mind only reading from the loudest people in my feed"

2024-11-24 06:46:07 UTC

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So happy to hear that this stupid lack of local health policy masquerading as Instagram tourist trap, has finally been addressed…

2024-11-06 10:44:48 UTC

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In the end, don't worry, we are all equally fucked: just like that, the #climatecrisis went from bad, to terminal.
Courtesy of the very oligarchs who brought us here, we now have the guy who will *always* pick "betray" in a Prisoner's Dilemma, as one of the main player in that stupid planetary game.
With every passing year, and every passing disaster, everyone will be more eager to insulate themselves at all cost, mainly by stepping over each other. Be it at a national or individual level…

2024-11-06 10:37:29 UTC

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Make sure *your* country gets serious about guillotining a few billionaires before they get a chance to pull what they successfully pulled in the US.
Lobby for Twitter and Facebook to get held to such levels of scrutiny and fines, that they effectively cease operating where you live.
Hug your friends who need it (the ones whose existence immediately became much more difficult as a result of this) and punch the next relative who tells you "there's just too much wokism around"…

2024-11-06 10:30:51 UTC

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And yea, if you can do something about the very long list of people and countries who are going to immediately suffer from the US population's deficient education system: help in any way possible.
Punch the next Euro politician who whines about "antisemitism" while defending Israel's ongoing genocide (and trust me: Bibi is already ramping up the camps, as we speak).
Piss on any Amazon packages you spot in a porch, key any Tesla you walk by, take a dump in an aisle at Home Depot…

2024-11-06 10:25:27 UTC

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I am NOT saying we should all just sit and cry our eyes out (well, maybe for a little bit). Just that the only sane reaction to this, is to treat it like 1933 Germany:
If you live in a red state, get out. If you live in a blue state, consider getting out. If you live in anywhere else in the world: scream at your elected officials every single time they talk about normalising relations with the US. [Starmer "looking forward to a fruitful collaboration" in 3… 2…]

2024-11-06 10:21:12 UTC

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As the past decade has shown: once you start allowing fascist and oligarchs to infiltrate the political system, each election becomes harder to win than the last.
By now, it takes significantly more effort, money, votes, for the sane side to just be level with the populist fascist side. And this is about to get a lot worse: look at what SCOTUS approved *under* Biden, do you think they'll hold back anything under Trump? Watch as every future US election slides more and more to the right.

2024-11-06 10:16:08 UTC

"Let's not be overdramatic, you win some, you lose some. Nothing much is gonna ch…" FUCK THE FUCK OFF.
Those people annoyed the hell out of me 8y ago. This time around, they'll get physical violence as an immediate reply.
The US is now at best 3 years from something between Gilead and late 1930s Europe. Things won't get better before getting worse, and without some (violent) crisis in the middle.
Don't give me any of that "time to roll up our sleeves and win it back": it won't happen.
#uspol

2024-11-06 07:03:55 UTC

Turns out milquetoast establishment centrism is not that good at beating back well-oiled fascism. Who would have thought?
#uspol #electionnight

2024-10-26 22:08:38 UTC

Was reminded yesterday of this thing I posted on the Hellsite, a few emperors ago, and thought I'd repost it here for safekeeping.
#Japan
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/375/997/542/585/745/original/0acbce57c518b810.jpeg

2024-10-25 02:31:00 UTC

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[Internet] "Wow, Japan is so future technology flying cars robots blade runners!!! 😍"
[Reality] ship your photo negatives to some company with a 1997-looking website, that will scan them at 800x600px resolution and burn them onto CDs (one roll per CD) that it mails back to you. 😐

2024-10-25 02:20:19 UTC

Yo, #famichiki friends (and beyond)
Know of a good service in #Japan to mass-digitise photos from negatives, that will *not* insist on sending the files back on CDs/Minidisc/Carrier Pigeon, but will instead make them available through some cloud service like normal 2024 people?
(the best I found so far, was services that would do Cloud *and charge the same fee as for CDs*)…
[also: same question, but for print scanning]

2024-10-19 07:49:37 UTC

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“fruit-flavoured”… 🤨

2024-09-17 22:02:40 UTC

In what world does indiscriminately detonating 3000 devices scattered across a civilian population not constitute plain. simple. state-sponsored terrorism?!
At what point do milquetoast hardcore-centrist western media outlets drop the "explosions were had, children were unalived" phrasing and call it for what it is??
#israel