The murder of 15 people at Bondi Beach was a vile antisemitic attack and is rightfully being condemned.

The Irish Times

Bondi Beach shooting: Australia vows stricter gun laws after 15 killed

Gunman wounded during attack on Jewish celebration ‘is likely to survive’ his injuries with second killed at scene

Meanwhile, at least 14 people died in Gaza in the last 24 hours in a storm because they’re being forced to live in inhumane conditions by Israel. Where is the international outrage and condemnation?

Al Jazeera

Updates: At least 14 people die in Gaza in past 24 hours amid storm

Storm Byron has caused a number of houses, walls and tents to collapse across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, Israel has murdered ~400 Palestinians since the “ceasefire” was announced on October 10. That’s roughly one Bondi Beach every three days. Where is the international outrage and condemnation?

Le Monde.fr

Gaza's grim death toll after two months of so-called 'ceasefire'

COLUMN. Since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, nearly 400 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, where the majority of the p...

Meanwhile, Israel was murdering roughly 250 Palestinians a day during the height of its ongoing genocide. That’s 16 Bondi Beaches every day. Where is the international outrage and condemnation?

Oxfam International

Daily death rate in Gaza higher than any other major 21st Century conflict - Oxfam | Oxfam International

Every life is precious, yes. But it seems some lives are far more precious than others for people in the West. The blame for the horrific and antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach lies solely with the perpetrators. However, no one can deny that Israel and Zionists are making Jewish people everywhere less safe by conflating support of Israel and the settler-colonial and genocidal ideology of Zionism with being Jewish, and going so far as to call those who oppose Israel’s genocide and Zionism – many of them Jews – “antisemitic.” Stopping Israel and its genocide of the Palestinian people is not just the morally correct thing to do but it is the best thing the world could do to protect Jews everywhere from those who would perpetuate the great antisemitic conflation of being Jewish with support for settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and genocide. That is, of course, if our so-called world leaders, who are quick to arm and support Israel’s genocide, actually care about the welfare of Jewish people instead of sharing in the spoils of genocide. #BondiBeach #BondiBeachAttack #Australia #antisemitism #israel #genocide #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Gaza #Palestine

“How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wordless, knowing the world they shared has vanished? … I stood among the ruins, breath caught in my chest, searching for any trace of what once was. I felt the ache in every stone, every corner, every fragment of memory. But beneath it, I sensed something small and unbroken: my own heart, still beating. And a faint, stubborn light—a quiet voice within: I am still here. I can still walk. I can still love this life, despite everything. … I am Aseel, a writer from Gaza, living amid genocide and famine. Your support can help my family survive.

Chuffed

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment

I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult strug...

– @npub1a9z0...zedp,

aseelsehwel

Two years had passed since my feet last touched the ground of Salah Al-Din...

shimmering memories welled up inside me: laughter shared with friends under dappled shadows along the road, children chasing light-hearted dreams w...

#AseelSehwel #Gaza #Palestine #author #witness #survivor #israel #genocide

I’ve spoken with my boss (he’s a bit of a dickhead but his heart’s in the right place) and confirmed that I won’t be getting fired for opposing Israel’s ongoing genocide and supporting the human rights of the Palestinian people to live with freedom and dignity like the rest of us but not everyone is as lucky.

Mondoweiss

Pro-Palestinian influencer Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj fired following Zionist smear campaign

Dr. Nahla Al-Sarraj gained hundreds of thousands of social media followers by discussing the Gaza genocide. She was fired after a pressure campaign...

#israel #zionism #genocide #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #smearCampaigns #canada #complicity #censorship #humanRights #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

“EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps … Officials insist they do not intend to compromise encryption or read private messages. What they want is the so-called metadata: who contacted whom, from where, at what time, and through which service.” –

Reclaim The Net

EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps

A rewrite of Europe’s privacy rules could turn every click, call, and login into a year-long entry in a government ledger.

(via @npub1gt9p...5mtl) “As NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said, ‘metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.’ When I quoted Baker at a recent debate at Johns Hopkins University, my opponent, General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, called Baker’s comment ‘absolutely correct,’ and raised him one, asserting, ‘We kill people based on metadata.’” – 📄.pdf #dataRetention #surveillance #governmentSurveillance #EU #metadata #EuropeanCouncil #BigBrother

In a world with kings, our only agency is to beg “please, sir, be kind.”

hey.paris

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectivel...

#apple #BigTech #technomonarchy #sovereignty #humanRights #democracy

So I’m teaching a friend who doesn’t have any development knowledge how to get started with Small Web development and I thought it would be a good opportunity to start creating and sharing the course on the Kitten web site, one lesson at a time. So here’s the link:

Kitten: Course

It’s a work in progress that I’ll be adding to along with our lessons but the draft of the first one, on setting up your development environment (which I whipped up in the pub last night, so expect typos) is here: https://kitten.small-web.org/course/setting-up/ Please feel free to follow along and file issues if you have thoughts for improvements, etc. The Setting Up lesson will actually likely end up being the second one with the first being a theoretical one on Small (peer-to-peer) Web development and how it is similar to and differs from Big (centralised) Web development. Enjoy! 💕 #SmallWeb #Kitten #SmallTech #web #dev #course #education #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #NodeJS

Very nicely done, Der Spiegel. Now do Merz and Netanyahu.

Mastodon 🐘

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@noelreports@mstdn.social)

Attached: 1 image Two villains, one goal - the cover of the latest issue of German magazine Der Spiegel.

“It rained heavily last night. Our clothes, blankets, mattresses, everything got soaked. We were freezing… truly freezing. Living in a tent has become unbearable… feels like a disaster every day. We try to protect ourselves from the rain, but we still end up sitting in water inside the tent. We are a family of seven and the tent can’t hold us but we keep trying. We keep holding on. Please, we need your help to move somewhere safer.” – @npub1pryq...223m

Vimeo

Aseel Alturk on the dire situation in Gaza with the rains and life in a tent

Aseel and her family of seven people are, like so many Gazans, struggling to survive the winter months – with the cold, and the heavy rains/f...

Aseel’s part of the Gaza Verified team and has been – like so many in Gaza – having a very tough time of time lately (her phone is also broken so she’s using her dad’s when she can and cannot help us with verification calls until the phone is fixed or she can afford a new one – neither of which look likely without your support). You can donate to her directly via PayPal (this is easier for her to withdraw funds from):

Donate to mohammed turk

Help support mohammed turk by donating or sharing with your friends.

Or support her and her family via her GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-aseel-and-family-leave-gaza-before-its-too-late/cl/s Thank you! 💕 #Gaza #Palestine #AseelAlturk #winter #rains #GazaVerified #israel #genocide #StopIsrael #FreePalestine #mutualAid #fediAid