Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

I suppose I might as well re-share my #Twitter-to-#Fediverse journey seeing as others are celebrating their #Fediversary (mine's on November 8 back on mas.to)!

I used to be a prolific Tweeter, but Tuesday marked three months since I made my last Tweet on "#X"!

I started there in January 2020 to share my music, and spent hours trying to find the best ways to outsmart its algorithm and get my music heard. I met some amazing artists there who haven't switched to a Fediverse alternative yet! (1/2)

Awesome guide by @geekmom@twit.social on "Getting Started With Mastodon and the Fediverse"!

Unlike other guides out there that simply focus on the registration process, she goes the extra mile by providing tips on finding interesting people to follow and discovering fresh new content.

https://geekmom.com/2023/10/getting-started-with-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

@kev I have a 70-year old Omega that I paid to get serviced a couple of years ago. The repairman was able to source original replacement parts.

Not sure he’d have been so successful with an Apple Watch 2

“International law has been laid waste in Palestine this month. The United Nations stands in ignominy as founding states abandon its purpose and vote for war, or abstain on efforts for peace.”
~Andrée Murphy @ATownNews

☕️🥐

I'm really hoping The Beatles' "last song" (released later today) is actually good. "Real Love" and "Free as a Bird" were sub-standard, and the grotesque production by Jeff Lynne (while George Martin was still alive FFS!) made them sludgey and turgid - the antithesis of Beatles.

@RD4Anarchy @MiriShuli @chiraag @skaly @passenger @aral

Gaza is subject to occupation. Gaza is a subject territory. It is the world’s largest concentration camp, and the fact that the Egyptian military dictatorship helps the Israeli state guard the fence line is not the proof otherwise that so many people seem to assume.

Israel controls Gaza’s land borders; its airspace and air access; its sea access; its fuel, food, water, electricity, and medicine access; and its customs revenue.

Israel not only controls Gaza’s border itself but established a buffer zone within Gaza that Palestinians cannot enter. In 2018, when Palestinians attempted to protest peacefully, Israeli forces shot more than 13,000 people.

Israeli forces could do this because, like any prison, Israel can deploy forces into it to kill Palestinians at will, and does so annually—shooting and bombing anyone it pleases.

Gaza is a prison and it’s absolutely under Israeli occupation. It is a duplicate of the Bantustans that the apartheid South African government created in order to pretend that Black South Africans were actually citizens of separate countries, to excuse their lack of political rights.

As with the Bantustans, the farce is so obvious that the only people who could defend them were either absolute fools or true believers in apartheid.

Martin Kettle on the wider lesson(s) of the #CovidInquiry:

'The problem is not whether Britain’s civil servants or politicians are up to the task of dealing with the challenges of the 21st century.... [but] that one of the great lessons of the Covid pandemic is that the British state was not up to the job'!

The decline of the capacity to govern is a key aspect in the decline of the UK both on its own merits & as a state with international ambitions or influence

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/02/covid-inquiry-more-than-just-few-bad-apples-state-unprepared-pandemic

The lovely village of Fortingall in Perthshire, home to what may be the oldest living thing on Earth, the Fortingall Yew, and believed by some to be the birthplace of Pontius Pilate. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/fortingall/fortingall/index.html

#Scotland #Clachtoll #Assynt #Sutherland #UndiscoveredScotland

Latte Dock Departs as XeroLinux 2023.11 Arrives
https://debugpointnews.com/xerolinux-2023-11/

#linux #opensource #arch #kde

Study reveals how #SARSCoV2 alters mitochondria, leading to energy outages and organ failure

> An interdisciplinary #COVID19 International Research Team found that SARS-CoV-2 alters mitochondria on a genetic level, leading to widespread "energy outages" throughout the body and its major organs.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20231031/Study-reveals-how-SARS-CoV-2-alters-mitochondria-leading-to-energy-outages-and-organ-failure.aspx

Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts

https://science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abq1533

#SARS2