tobychev @tobychev@social.cleverlibre.org

🇪🇸 Spain decides to continue its support for the UNRWA, joining Norway and Ireland

#UNRWA #Spain #Palestine #FreePalestine

https://elpais.com/espana/2024-01-29/espana-se-desmarca-de-los-paises-que-han-cortado-la-financiacion-a-la-agencia-de-la-onu-para-palestina.html

@Markatt07 Det där med yttrandefrihet är roligt. Genom att berätta att Halla-aho polisanmält två personer som kallat honom för fascist hotar jag yttrandefriheten. Logiken är... inte helt uppenbar.

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This is such plain, petty, open & obvious retribution for the ICJ daring to hold Netanyahu & his right wing Kahanist coalition to any kind of accountability at all for the nearly 30,000 Palestinians they have killed in #Gaza, the #WestBank, and #Israel itself, in 2023.

"The Biden administration’s announcement comes on the same day that the UN’s top court ordered Israel to prevent genocidal acts Gaza & a U.S. court began hearing a lawsuit accusing Israel of genocide"

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/biden-cuts-off-life-saving-aid-to-palestinians-based-on-israeli-allegations-against-unrwa/

I was going to google "It's a wonderful life" but google had other ideas.

Thank you for 12k downloads. I've just released docx2tex version 1.9:
https://github.com/transpect/docx2tex/releases/tag/v.1.9 #texlatex #docx #ooxml #msword

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Jan 2020 NYT headline: "U.N.Court Orders Myanmar to Protect Rohingya Muslims"
Subhead: "The injunction was issued by the International Court of Justice at The Hague, where accusations of genocide have been brought against the Southeast Asian country."

Jan 2024 NYT headline: "U.N.Court Declines to Demand That Israel Stop Its Military Campaign"
Subhead: "The International Court of Justice ruled that Israel must take action to ensure that its military doesn't violate the Genocide Convention, and to let more aid in to Gaza."

Funny how the wording is almost the same across both orders, except one emphasized "with immediate effect" and it's not the one against Myanmar.

#Israel #Palestine #Myanmar #genocide #ceasefire

The other side of the misunderstanding of fascism is the misunderstanding of Leninism. This political party which formed governments in USSR and China wasn't something that Lenin made in a laboratory.

As a historical phenomenon 'Leninism' really refers to Lenin's skill in opportunistically making use of the enormous forces that the Russian popular revolution unleashed. His party successfully channeled, dominated and then destroyed these popular forces.

I propose the idiom “leave the wolf,” possibly accompanied by “Why do we need a wolf?,” after this comic:
https://xkcd.com/1134/

Not kidding about SLIM landing on its head... here is picture! This was taken by LEV-2 (SORA-Q) that adorbs transformer robot carried by SLIM that looks like a ball and then springs open to roll wild across the lunar surface and take photos as the mood takes it.

Clearly, it found this pretty funny and it autonomously selected this shot to send back to Earth.

There's a press release here that HQ can't be bothered to post the English.

https://www.jaxa.jp/press/2024/01/20240125-4_j.html

We have two new adopted missions!

#LISA will capture the ripples of spacetime, all the way from from supermassive black holes colliding to the gravitational ‘ringing’ from the initial moments of our Universe ▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Capturing_the_ripples_of_spacetime_LISA_gets_go-ahead

And #EnVision will head to #Venus, to study it from the atmosphere to the inner core: ▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/We_re_heading_for_Venus_ESA_approves_EnVision

#astrodon #astronomy #ESA #space

Massive wave hits Marshall Islands.

"Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/23/marshall-islands-rogue-wave-video/72323059007/

#climatechange

Ukraine’s Main Intel Directorate officially comments on today’s failed prisoner exchange, saying it did its part and delivered Russian POWs to the swap location but Moscow never told Kyiv to hold its fire against transport planes in Belgorod’s airspace. https://t.me/DIUkraine/3356

Just like human beings are simply the only remaining example of what used to be a whole variety of hominids, 'Nazism' and fascism are just the most successful of a whole range of racist national-conservative movements with socialist and liberal elements that rose throughout the 100 years between the revolutions of 1848 and their defeat in 1945.

So when we try to understand current racist national-conservative politics we're hamstrung, because we're constantly comparing it to some ultimate form.

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If every Arab, Palestinian, and Muslim voter stayed home on election day, Trump should still not win. But he would win.

If every Black voter joined the Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian voters in staying home on election day, Trump should still not win. But he would win, by a landslide.

Please stop angrily telling people whose families are being killed, that "Trump is worse!" Please focus that energy on your own family members who you know will vote for Trump, and who outnumber those that won't.

An update from the JAXA SLIM team (on twitter):

- SLIM was indeed powered down at 17:57 UTC (which is exactly when AMSAT-DL reported loss of signal; see post 27 in this thread). Battery level was 12% at that time.

- Telemetry shows that the solar panels are facing west and there is hope that later in the lunar day, the system may revive. Many of us concluded that from the webcast images.

- No mention of SLIM being upside down.

- Lots of data received before shutdown.

#JAXA #SLIM
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"I have inherited tons of money from Nazis and that gives me a unique understanding of antisemitism in the way that its victims don't" wasn't on my bingo card but here we are.

https://portside.org/2024-01-20/german-elites-are-redefining-antisemitism-so-they-can-be-victims