So excited to see #Amenra with #PrimitiveMan and #SlowCrush at #TheFactory in #DeepEllum #Dallas! #Music #Metal #TX

Today's gender is distractibility and the sound of a dial-up modem.

the actual, abject horror of being perceived in any way...

CDC says you can manually position the beryllium sphere, as long as you have steady hands.
#CDCsays

Solved it!

My coffee maker will now be referred to as "The Hungry Little Bean Slut"

Interested in having me draw you something? I like doing digital character illustrations for folks. :] You can claim yourself a slot by either of the links below.

For commercial work, please reach out directly to tombofnull[dot]gmail[dot]com

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#MastoArt #FediArt #FurryArt #ArtistForHire #commissionsOpen

@shplink Yes, very much so. I haven't heard that one before. It's a banger. I especially like the "dilla-dilla-di"s towards the end.

@shplink yet quite danceable 🕺

Listening to #MementoMori by #DepecheMode and continuing to trudge through this existential crisis I can't seem to shake. 😣 #Music

@rcpierce I haven't finished the first season yet, but based on the episodes I've watched so far, I'm optimistic they'll do a great job. Episode 3 in particular was phenomenal.

I've been playing #TheLastOfUs Part II lately and it's really good. #gaming

BREAKING NEWS.

South Africa invokes genocide convention.

SOUTH AFRICA APPROACHES THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE UNDER THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION WITH RESPECT TO ACTS COMMITTED BY ISRAEL IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS ATTACKS ON GAZA

"South Africa is gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip due to the indiscriminate use of force and forcible removal of inhabitants.

Furthermore, there are ongoing reports of international crimes, such as crimes against humanity and war crimes, being committed as well as reports that acts meeting the threshold of genocide or related crimes as defined in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, have been and may still be committed in the context of the ongoing massacres in Gaza."

The Republic of South Africa institutes proceedings against the State of Israel.

and requests the Court to indicate provisional measures/

THE HAGUE, 29 December 2023. South Africa today filed an application instituting
proceedings against Israel before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ
of the United Nations, concerning alleged violations by Israel of its obligations under the Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the “Genocide Convention”) in relation
to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
According to the Application, “acts and omissions by Israel . . . are genocidal in character, as
they are committed with the requisite specific intent . . . to destroy Palestinians in Gaza as a part of
the broader Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group” and that “the conduct of Israel — through
its State organs, State agents, and other persons and entities acting on its instructions or under its
direction, control or influence — in relation to Palestinians in Gaza, is in violation of its obligations
under the Genocide Convention”.
The Applicant further states that “Israel, since 7 October 2023 in particular, has failed to
prevent genocide and has failed to prosecute the direct and public incitement to genocide” and that
“Israel has engaged in, is engaging in and risks further engaging in genocidal acts against the
Palestinian people in Gaza”.
South Africa seeks to found the Court’s jurisdiction on Article 36, paragraph 1, of the Statute
of the Court and on Article IX of the Genocide Convention, to which both South Africa and Israel
are parties.
The Application also contains a Request for the indication of provisional measures, pursuant
to Article 41 of the Statute of the Court and Articles 73, 74 and 75 of the Rules of Court. The
Applicant requests the Court to indicate provisional measures in order to “protect against further,
severe and irreparable harm to the rights of the Palestinian people under the Genocide Convention”
and “to ensure Israel’s compliance with its obligations under the Genocide Convention not to engage
in genocide, and to prevent and to punish genocide”.
Pursuant to Article 74 of the Rules of Court, “[a] request for the indication of provisional
measures shall have priority over all other cases”.

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The Application instituting proceedings, which includes the Request for the indication of
provisional measures, is available on the Court’s website.
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Note: The Court’s press releases are prepared by its Registry for information purposes only
and do not constitute official documents.
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.
It was established by the United Nations Charter in June 1945 and began its activities in April 1946.
The Court is composed of 15 judges elected for a nine-year term by the General Assembly and the
Security Council of the United Nations. The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague
(Netherlands). The Court has a twofold role: first, to settle, in accordance with international law,
legal disputes submitted to it by States; and, second, to give advisory opinions on legal questions
referred to it by duly authorized United Nations organs and agencies of the system.

ICJ source doc. https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192/192-20231229-pre-01-00-en.pdf

#gazagenocide #Palestine #SouthAfrica #breakingnews #genocideconvention #internationalcriminalcourt

Our director of research @alex
at yesterday's #NoTechForApartheid & #NoTechForGenocide rally at Google's San Francisco offices.

👉🏽 Join the movement: https://www.notechforapartheid.com/

👉🏽 Read our #CeasefireNOW statement: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/palestine-10-25-23/

👉🏽 Watch our #NoTechForApartheid event with Haymarket Books: https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/NoTechForApartheid/

👉🏽 Sign the open letter by members of the responsible AI community: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SAfEjfl2KxTSdvibAs7mqPUI7WPECVUkaog3ZwV3Z1c/edit

Palestine’s and Turtle Island’s liberation are entwined - Mohamed Abdou

> Palestinian-Indigenous solidarity must move beyond tokenism and mobilisation towards transformational solidarity and organisation.

http://archive.today/VMJr7

#Palestine #Gaza #TurtleIsland #Landback #Decolonize

The US government is on the wrong side of history, on the wrong side of morality — and the wrong side of their own stated policies!
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Eight months before the Biden administration approved a massive arms deal for Israel amid its war in Gaza, President Joe Biden signed a directive prohibiting such deals for countries likely to use the weapons to attack civilian targets or direct violence against children.

Last week, multiple news organizations reported that the Biden administration approved a $320 million deal for precision-guided bomb equipment for Israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government continues to bombard civilian targets in Gaza. The Israeli military’s siege has reportedly killed more than 10,000 Palestinians, including more than 4,000 children.

“Given the death and destruction documented in Gaza, and the well-documented abuses in the West Bank, it is increasingly hard to see how the Biden administration can continue providing arms without violating its own conventional arms transfer policy,” said Seth Binder, director of advocacy for the Project on Middle East Democracy.

The administration’s arms transfer decision — and its concurrent push for billions of dollars of additional arms sales to Israel — came less than a year after Biden issued a formal order to federal agencies forbidding weapons transfers to countries where it is “more likely than not” that the weapons will be used to engage in “attacks intentionally directed against civilian objects or civilians” or used to commit “serious acts of violence against children.”
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It says a lot about the failed state of US politics when Joe Biden, an aging imperialist warmonger fully controlled by Zionist lobbying and the military-industrial complex, is somehow the *better* of two choices we are given for President. 🤦‍♂️

FULL STORY -- https://www.levernews.com/biden-approves-israel-arms-deal-despite-his-own-security-order/

#USA #Politics #Gaza #Israel

@JessTheUnstill Uff. I wish I got to 80%. I usually stop at around 1/3, when it's like "this actually involves a challenge and isn't just pure dopamine".

Thanks to advances in medicine, we'll soon be able to have politicians who are more than a century old.

holy shit, new Ea-Nasir tablet dropped:
https://mostlydeadlanguages.tumblr.com/post/656166624810991616/ea-na%E1%B9%A3ir-reassures-two-men-uet-v-72