Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

We had some wonderful camping experiences at Bon Echo. But our last one was unenjoyable, because too many asshole campers occupy the park now. People that are just there to party, and don’t care about the camping experience.

Selfish people that ruin it for everyone.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/mazinaw-rock-bon-echo-indigenous-pictographs-vandalism-1.6970103

As someone old enough to remember the 1972 Olympic kidnappings of the Israeli athletes, I'm not surprised to hear this announcement. Hostages will not deter Israel - they will kill them as well if needed.. Sigh.

Israel has made a strategic decision - the attacks on Gaza will be conducted even if it costs the lives of the hostages.
#AureFreePress #News #Israel #gaza #Hamas

This joining of these two universes must happen. The Galactic Menagerie. https://youtu.be/d-8DT5Q8kzI #TheGalacticMenagerie

"While it is true that Israel’s intelligence failures allowed Hamas to catch them off guard, it is also the result of a failure of imagination, empathy, and basic decency. It is a failure to comprehend that a people cannot be expected to endure decades of occupation stoically and passively."

"It is essential to recognize that the siege itself is a provocation. Forcing people to live in an open-air prison — a deliberate act of keeping an entire population in a state of constant vulnerability — is itself a form of violence. What is driving the escalation that we are seeing now is the fact that we Palestinians are fed up with living under constant conditions of occupation and colonization. These are the issues that need to be addressed for any meaningful resolution to occur."

https://www.972mag.com/gaza-calm-facade-hamas/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza

We're thankful for this US humanitarian aid to the Palestinians, but with no water, power & protection from the military assault, it may not make a difference, ICYM: Under the radar, US approves release of $75M aid to Palestine:

#Palestine #israel

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231006-under-the-radar-us-approves-release-of-75m-aid-to-palestine/

As we suspected: Egyptian Intelligence Minister called Netanyahu ten days before Hamas attack and warned him of "something unusual, a terrible operation" that was about to take place from Gaza.

Egyptians were "surprised by the indifference shown by Netanyahu". — Yedioth Ahranoth

#Netanyahu #Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/egyptian-intelligence-official-says-israel-ignored-repeated-warnings-of-something-big/

"Bioluminescent Fungi"

Mushrooms that glow in dark, found in Brazil and Vietnam. Glow is result of an interaction between a compound called luciferin and luciferase enzyme in presence of oxygen. There are roughly 80 species of bioluminescent fungi scattered throughout the world.

History of fungal bioluminescence begins with Aristotle in 4th Century BC. For almost two millennia, this incredible phenomenon remained little studied in the literature. #Fungi

@archeohistories

The horrors coming out of Israel and anticipation of much more to come in Gaza leave me depressed and give me a sense of dread and I live thousands of miles away and won’t be directly impacted. I can’t even imagine the trauma that people in the region must be grappling with.

Braverman urges police chiefs to crack down on anti-Jewish hate

It’s right to crack down on all hate. She should start with her own incitement and hatred and also commit to cracking down on anti Palestinian hate.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/suella-braverman-community-security-trust-jewish-golders-green-british-transport-police-b2426765.html

got some beer stein pasta in lidl today, what do i do with it? https://www.diningandcooking.com/973965/got-some-beer-stein-pasta-in-lidl-today-what-do-i-do-with-it/

#Pasta

> The situation is so bad on X right now that even seasoned OSINT researchers are being duped by fake accounts, including one that shared a false claim about Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu being hospitalized over the weekend.

> “Any sort of ground truth, which was always hard to get on Twitter, is now entirely out of reach,” Brooking says.

https://www.wired.com/story/x-israel-hamas-war-disinformation/

This is just a preview of what's to come with Musk riding X into the 2024 election like Major Kong straddling an H-Bomb.

“The dread Israelis are feeling right now, myself included, is a sliver of what Palestinians have been feeling on a daily basis under the decades-long military regime in the West Bank, and under the siege and repeated assaults on Gaza,” writes the Israeli journalist Haggai Mattar in 972 Magazine. “The only solution, as it has always been, is to bring an end of apartheid, occupation, and siege, and promote a future based on justice and equality for all of us. "

What's happening in Gaza right now is a brutal, unequal conflict where both sides are committing atrocities and war crimes. The international community should be actively working towards an immediate ceasefire.

Why are governments taking sides? Do they think it's a football match?

#Ceasefire
#Gaza

I don't get. Why are we all raising flags? What's the use in picking a side in a murderous endless war which the people don't want and nobody has ever won?

I stand with anybody and everybody who wants an end to the cycle of violence and a peaceful solution in the Israel-Palestine conflict.

#Gaza

"Israel’s infrastructure minister, Israel Katz, said he had given an order to cut the supply of water to Gaza, a slim strip of land that houses an estimated 2.3 million people, almost half of whom are children. “What was in the past, will no longer be in the future,” he said"

Over a million children to be made to suffer for the crimes of Hamas. Is this not also a war crime?
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/09/fear-gaza-israel-vows-tighten-siege-civilians

Slashdot: Not Even the Ghost of Obsolescence Can Coerce Users Onto Windows 11 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/10/09/177254/not-even-the-ghost-of-obsolescence-can-coerce-users-onto-windows-11?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #Tech #slashdot #Technology #microsoft