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The person who is holding it is really indecisive about where it should go and keeps pulling it out of view.

Text reads "Don't stop talking about Palestine"

Unusual view of a watermelon and not one I've seen before in the context of Palestine.

From Al Jazeera's livestream https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=gCNeDWCI0vo https://www.aljazeera.com/live/

Edit: I guess Al Jazeera also thinks it is a great sign because they're really highlighting it. So I replace the original with a better screenshot.

Motherboard was not able to replicate the search using only the term “ICJ,” but was able to find the ad when searching “ICJ Israel.” The ad’s descriptive text reads in full, “SA’s claim is meaningless—the malicious blood libel advanced by South Africa seeks to slander the State of israel. South Africa’s claim lacks any factual or legal basis and renders meaningless.” icj.png

I watched the whole Hague hearing from start to finish and a lot of really egregious things were said on behalf of Israel. Lies of such outrageous proportion. But I would like to draw attention to this little line by Co-Agent of Israel, Tal Becker's Opening statement in defense of Israel:

7. We live at a time when words are cheap. In an age of social media and identity politics, the temptation to reach for the most outrageous term, to vilify and demonize, has become for many irresistible. But if there is a place where words should still matter, where truth should still matter, it is surely a court of law.

How can anyone take this seriously. Who is still complaining about identity politics in 2024. At the fucking hague.

I feel like this guy was sort of there to draw heat because he was so strikingly obnoxious everything he said was flippant as fuck and made it difficult to continue watching.

Source: Transcript of Israel's submissions regarding provisional measures

(I feel compelled to also include this link Transcript of South Africa's submissions regarding provisional measures)

I have heard that it is anti semetic to "deny israel has a right to exist"

Which makes me curious. Is it a generally accepted premise either in law or just by people that countries have "rights"?

I think of rights as something people have.

If countries do have rights, is exisiting one of them?

My friend gave me their old laptop before they left town. I was going to install linux on it and use it for a server.

I have basically given up doing anything because the BIOS is locked with a Secure Boot supervisor password which I guess they forgot about being there.

I've sent a message asking if they happen to remember it and would feel comfortable sharing it if it is not one they use for anything else. But the odds of both those things being the case are slim and I don't feel good about trying to get someone to share any password. Especially since it was so kind to just give me the machine in the first place. It's not practical to physically get the device and the person together in the near future.

It's impossible (or past my skill level) to install linux on this thing without the freaking password. I did manage to install windows. Last time I did that it was win2k. It will boot OK but I can't use that to circumvent the lock. But Ubuntu and a couple other distros are no gos.

It is so fucked that computers can be rendered bricks like this. Obviously yet another way to design in obsolescence disguised as a security feature. Encryption is one thing; this is independent of any data.

Gaaaaaah I spent most of the weekend trying to install linux on this otherwise perfectly functional machine. I think it's toast though.

I didn't circumvent the paywall so I don't know what the actual article consists of.

I am really bad at doing anything consistently including fun things like watching online drama.

Last I checked, the lemmyverse was defending itself against an influx of users from the newly-federated www.hexbear.net who's users were superior in numbers and commitment to posting. While the lemmy users were superior in, well, just getting there from reddit a few weeks ago.

Lemmers, recognized it as existential threat on par with Threads/IG federation. (Off topic but whatever happened to that invasion?) Hexbeargers were wondering if they would get bored after a while.

Did everybody get bored? Popular lemmy sites do not seem to be taken over by pro putin Trotsky-lenonists bots.

Did everything just become normal?

Shared June 5, 2023

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:11 Before Stonewall-Trans history and Magnus Hirshfeld
• 14:00 Berlin Queer Subculture
• 22:54 Nazis goes after LBGTQ+ community
• 28:20 Laws used against trans people
• 38:17 Trans survival
• 48:06 Q+A

In the 1920s, Berlin was home to a thriving transgender community, with trans-focused magazines, famous drag clubs, and Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science, where some trans people went for gender-affirming care. Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 changed everything. In this talk, Laurie Marhoefer (he/they) explores what happened trans people under the Nazi state, beginning with pre-war Berlin and then under the repressive Nazi regime. Marhoefer will look specifically at violence against trans women that was recorded in police files from the era.

Laurie Marhoefer is the Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington. His work has been influential in international debates about the Nazi State and lesbians and transgender people, and in the public memory of the early gay rights movement, Magnus Hirschfeld, and the Weimar Republic. He is the author of two books, most recently a biography of Hirschfeld and his student Li Shiu Tong, Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love, and of a number of essays and articles on queer and trans histories.