sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

🧵3/3: please help share that #Palestinian song far and wide, #repost #retoot. While it talks about #Jamal, Ahmed posted it straight after the killing of #Anas & #Aljazeera journalists & dedicated it "to #truth". To support Ahmed, #GazaBirdsSing and #music in #Gaza, please consider giving to his GoFundMe. Given the price of a bag of flour is between $300 to $700, his total currently covers less than one loaf of bread a day for 6 months. https://www.gofundme.com/f/hello-peace-help-innocent-people-to-survive

#FreePalestine @Palestine
sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

🧵2/3: Ahmed is using the sound of an incessant #Israeli #drone over #Gaza to pitch his #singing. Miraculously, it remains stable for the entire song, when they usually change pitch making their presence unbearable.The song is about #Jamal carrying a load, a direct reference to a 14 y.o. boy who defied gunfire at a #GHF food distribution point to carry a bag of flour half his weight for 2 hours to feed his sisters https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/1mln8f1/jamal_the_14_yearold_boy_who_walked_152_hours/. Ahmed's last notes, mixed drone-free, are haunting
sheislaurence
@sheislaurence@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

🧵3/3: please help share that #Palestinian song far and wide, #repost #retoot. While it talks about #Jamal, Ahmed posted it straight after the killing of #Anas & #Aljazeera journalists & dedicated it "to #truth". To support Ahmed, #GazaBirdsSing and #music in #Gaza, please consider giving to his GoFundMe. Given the price of a bag of flour is between $300 to $700, his total currently covers less than one loaf of bread a day for 6 months. https://www.gofundme.com/f/hello-peace-help-innocent-people-to-survive

#FreePalestine @Palestine
Wen
@Wen@mastodon.scot  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

Starmer vs Starmer: a lot of opinions, so I might as well add mine.

The explanation is that Starmer is only interested in power - Human Rights were a ‘trendy’ subject as his career progressed and he is clearly an able lawyer. So he got on the bandwagon. But as we see with human rights, policing, privacy and much more, his real instincts and comfort zone lie with authoritarianism. Simple maybe, but close to the truth.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jul/29/keir-starmer-labour-party-human-rights-mixed-record-international-law

#Starmer#HumanRights#Law#UJPol#Labour#Truth
Wisdom in Space
@wisdom@c.im  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
-- Hannah Arendt

⬆ #Wisdom#Quotes #HannahArendt#Authoritarianism #Lies#Power#Propaganda#Truth

⬇ #Photography#Panorama#ChacoCanyon#PuebloBonito#Ruins#NewMexico
Wisdom in Space
@wisdom@c.im  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
-- Hannah Arendt

⬆ #Wisdom#Quotes #HannahArendt#Authoritarianism #Lies#Power#Propaganda#Truth

⬇ #Photography#Panorama#ChacoCanyon#PuebloBonito#Ruins#NewMexico