@Velveteen Tyvm! :alice_wine:

Ugh is there like a way to hide that silly mic button in #Firefox for #Android's address bar? I keep pressing it accidentally :koishtare:

Wishing everyone a lazy relaxing Sunday. You deserve it.

@notsle Huh wait you're right :sagume_think:

Of all the things that taste like chicken, why are eggs not one of them? #showerthoughts #today

@yakumo_izuru lol whoops, probably should've toned down the boosts, just got carried away :P

@thor

Note that this is merely a hesitation, not a censure. I am NOT telling you to go fediblock infosec.exchange. I don't see any reason to do so at this moment.

But I can't just let this stand as long as this unwarranted fediblock post stays up unretracted. Fediblock posts should not be taken lightly; while I don't personally watch the tag closely (but that is not to say I don't take it seriously, I have suspended a remote user for a transphobic mention spam, as well as used the tag to call for the suspension of a bot harassing users with #nobot in their bio, which eventually led to us completely blocking the instance as a whole after a hostile response by the admin), other admins do, and it would really be bad if anyone could just post to that tag and expect not to get any consequences for it at all. Defederation is a BIG DEAL for small instances like us. #FediblockMeta

@vyr@infosec.exchange how unfortunate, you should have told me, the instance admin (of Makai, since he's [mima] admin of Kishinjou) about those blocks

https://infosec.exchange/@vyr/111188763271758534

Updates to #TheBadSpace have fixed one concern (how many sources?) but surfaced another: the supposed independence of the "trusted sources". Here for example: @lunasother dared .art to block them, which they did. Fine.

But apparently, so did 3-4 other (supposedly unrelated) admins as well.

What good is a "consensus" system if half the voters are acting in lock-step?

#FediBlockMeta

@yakumo_izuru Maybe I shouldn't have done that follow bot

https://infosec.exchange/@vyr/111188763271758534

@lina @devious :marispaghet:

@lina Dammit I can't add the marispaghet here in Kishinjou because apparently GTS doesn't support uploading JPEGs as custom emojis :marisad:

@devious

@yakumo_izuru Lol I'm a bit surprised it took this long before we got defedded by an instance :kyou:

I wonder what pushed them tho :sagume_think:

@EU_Commission please, condemn also Israeli killings of Palestinian families through the bombing of hospitals or this sounds quite hypocrit.

New custom emojis in Kishinjou! :reimunch: :pc98_reimunch:

:pc98_reimunch: by @devious :3

@devious Nah I just boosted it twice, first from my yamabi.co account lol, then just now

I love it :P

I always had the feeling about #Israel funding #Hamas at some point, or at least being dependent on each other for justifying their existence. Kinda like the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the CPP-NPA-NDF rebels. And yep, turns out my gut feeling was right.

"How Israel helped create Hamas", @washingtonpost article by Ishaan Tharoor in July 30, 2014:

Israel's military-led administration in Gaza looked favorably on the paraplegic cleric, who set up a wide network of schools, clinics, a library and kindergartens. Sheikh Yassin formed the Islamist group Mujama al-Islamiya, which was officially recognized by Israel as a charity and then, in 1979, as an association. Israel also endorsed the establishment of the Islamic University of Gaza, which it now regards as a hotbed of militancy. The university was one of the first targets hit by Israeli warplanes in the [2008-9 Operation Cast Lead].

Yassin's Mujama would become Hamas, which, it can be argued, was Israel's Taliban: an Islamist group whose antecedents had been laid down by the West in a battle against a leftist enemy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/07/30/how-israel-helped-create-hamas/

#Israel #Hamas #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank