Oct. 29th, 2023

frandroid: A key enters the map of Palestine (palestine)
The Electronic Intifada - Day 17 roundtable on Israel's attacks on Gaza
The Electronic Intifada - Day 20 roundtable on Israel's attacks on Gaza

I'm getting more and more fascinated by Jon Elmer's description of Hamas' tunnel network. The length and the depth of these things seems phenomenal, along with the claimed complexity of infrastructure. At some point I'm wondering, is he fabulating? But even if half of what he mentions is true, this is going to be worse than fighting in the jungle. The flipside is that crimes committee by Israel in there could also stray buried in there.

There's also the flipside to this, that all this infrstructure has been built at civilians' expense, as expressed in this Xhitter thread.

Otherwise the EI livestreams are a phenomenal source to get a sense of what people are living on the ground and getting some Palestinian analysis. Ali Abunimah can be a bit much sometimes but in these current circumstances, I can't think of a way he could be too much. The situation is critical.

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The second bonus episode is a hilarious tale of Kristaps and Ukraine w/o Hype's Anthony Bartaway getting threatened at gunpoint by a drunk Ukrainian in his skivvies at the Transnistria border. (Well, hilarious because nothing bad happened, of course...)

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Finally, a really sucky thing. Learning that Sacha Baron Cohen, Taika Waititi and Jordan Peele have shittier politics than you would imagine, in light of their previous commitments. How many of them (the overall list of signatories) don't grok that this letter is supporting genocide? I don't know. But this sure ain't a call for a cease-fire.

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Oct. 29th, 2023 04:47 am
frandroid: Lotte Ritter from Babylon Berlin (lotte)
I clicked on one of my more clever tags here and hit upon an old livejournal post with 45 comments, which is A LOT for me. Turns out some weird yorku phd relativist came to argue about veganism. I wonder if I ever got to know them personally--I don't recognize their alias. But what was salient in the thread was some friends I used to chat with, and have now drifted away. One I was really close to, too close...

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