katze

@katze@dresden.network
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Komputer, Humanismus, Antifaschismus.
Websitehttps://kunfoo.org
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katze7h ago
Tadonic the Flautulent1d ago
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Harld1d ago
Koffie.
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Show threadKris7h ago
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Kris7h ago

Panorama Hotel, Vysoké Tatry, Slovakia

Der #FotoVorschlag ist "Geometrie im Alltag" (https://photog.social/@FotoVorschlag/114719824349457981).

Das

Hotel Panorama Resort
https://maps.app.goo.gl/JysscAyZ66grMGSMA

passt da ganz gut. Hier am 28-Jan-2011 mit einer Lumix DMC-TZ2.

katze7h ago
AutonomeGeschichte7h ago
21.06.1933: Köpenicker Blutwoche. 500 Antifaschist*innen werden von der SA verschleppt, mindestens 24 von ihnen werden ermordet: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6penicker_Blutwoche
katze7h ago
Julia Evans19h ago

here's the final version of the "redirects cheat sheet" draft I posted a while back!

("The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is finished! 95 beta readers have read it! the copy editor is done! technical review is done! the illustrator has made the cover! It's going to be out on *****Tuesday June 24*****")

katze7h ago
Matthew Garrett1d ago

My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.

Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.

Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.

katze10h ago
Show threadwemeze10h ago
Was sagt Söder? „Wir müssen mehr Leute haben, die uns nutzen – und nicht umgekehrt.“ Ein Satz wie aus der Betriebsanleitung eines autoritären Staates, der Menschen nicht als Subjekte mit Rechten, sondern als Werkstücke mit Sollwerten behandelt. Kein Fauxpas.
katze1d ago
Subcömandante ♠️ Midas 🦄2d ago
Weil J.D. #Vance jetzt auch #BlueSky bespielt, sind gerade viele User damit beschäftigt mit Blockaufrufen noch mehr User damit zu beschäftigen sich mit J.D. Vance und der Frage ob sie ihn blocken wollen (oder nicht) zu beschäftigen. 🫣

Zu diesem Anlass möchte ich allen Instanzen-Admins und Moderationsteams aller Fedi-Plattformen im coolen Teil des Fediverse  ganz herzlich dafür danken, daß sie einen wirklich großartigen Job machen, und uns den rechten Schmuddelkram auf Instanzebenen und per #fediblock weitesgehend vom Hals halten, und wir uns so auf die guten Dinge konzentri... Oh, ein 🐿️! 😍
katze1d ago
David August ❌👑1d ago

Someone's gonna commit First Degree Glitter with Intent to Sparkle.

#USpol #ice #glitter

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Coach Pāṇini ®6d ago

In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry.

(1/11)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago
For decades, British Petroleum (then the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) had extracted Iran’s wealth, leaving the Iranian people with little to show for it. Mossadegh’s move was a bid for sovereignty, dignity, and the right of a nation to control its own resources. The response from the so-called “free world” was swift and brutal: a joint CIA-MI6 operation, code-named Operation Ajax, orchestrated a coup to overthrow Mossadegh, using black propaganda, bribed politicians, manufactured riots, (2/11)
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago

and false flag attacks to create chaos and justify intervention. Hundreds died in the streets of Tehran as the Shah—an autocratic monarch—was reinstalled with #American and British backing.

(3/11)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago
This single act of imperial violence shattered Iran’s democracy and set the stage for everything that followed: decades of dictatorship under the authoritarian Shah, the rise of the secret police (trained and armed by the CIA), the deepening of anti-Western sentiment, and ultimately the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It’s not a stretch to say that the roots of today’s tensions, the cycles of violence, and the specter of war all trace back to this original sin. The aftershocks of that coup are (4/11)
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago

still being felt, not only in Iran, but across the entire Middle East.

Yet, in the American imagination, #history often starts with the hostage crisis, or with the latest missile launch, or with the rhetoric of “rogue states.” We’re taught to see Iran as an irrational enemy, a threat to “our” interests, never as a nation whose modern history was violently derailed by foreign powers seeking oil and geopolitical dominance. The coup became a blueprint for U.S. and British interventions (5/11)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago

around the world, fueling a legacy of distrust, blowback, and endless war.

This is not ancient #history. The U.S. government only formally admitted its role in the coup in 2013, after decades of denial and the destruction of key documents. The British government’s involvement was only acknowledged even more recently. The details are staggering: CIA operatives posing as communists bombing mosques to stir up religious opposition, paying mobsters to riot in the streets, and bribing editors (6/11)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago

to print fake news-long before “fake news” became a household phrase.

So when Americans beat the drums of war with Iran, or wonder aloud “why do they hate us?”, we have to reckon with the fact that the U.S. and U.K. destroyed Iran’s best chance at democracy for the sake of oil profits and imperial power.

(7/11)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago

Imagine if a foreign power overthrew your #government, installed a dictator, and then lectured you for decades about freedom and democracy. Imagine if, every time you tried to chart your own course, you were met with sanctions, threats, and military intervention.

(8/11)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago

The story of Iran is not unique. It’s a microcosm of the broader pattern of Western interventionism: democracy is celebrated only when it aligns with the interests of empire. When democracy threatens those interests—when a nation dares to control its own resources, or refuses to play by the rules of the global order—it is crushed, and the consequences are borne by ordinary people for generations.

(9/11)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago

This is not about excusing the crimes or authoritarianism of the Iranian regime. It’s about understanding the context that gave rise to it, and the role that Western powers played in destroying the possibility of a different, more peaceful future. It’s about recognizing that the seeds of today’s conflicts were planted by yesterday’s coups, sanctions, and covert operations.

(10/11)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago

If we truly want peace, if we want to avoid another catastrophic war, the first step is #honesty. We have to confront our own history, acknowledge the violence committed in our name, and reject the amnesia that allows us to repeat the same mistakes over and over. Until we do, every new crisis will be haunted by the ghosts of 1953—and the world will continue to pay the price for our refusal to learn from the past.

- Tim Hjersted | Films For Action
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1NKcVeA9Cb/
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Show threadրուփեն, 4րդ բառը Րտառով սկսվող6d ago
@paninid thanks for existing us, didn't know this
Show threadրուփեն, 4րդ բառը Րտառով սկսվող6d ago
@paninid found a comprehensive video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqMsTsF0qgY
How the US Turned Iran Into a Dictatorship (Documentary)

YouTube
Show threadLudwig Vielfrass6d ago
@paninid the same people who go around saying “9/11 never forget!” are the same ones who say “Mossadegh was so long ago!” despite the difference between Mossadegh and the hostage crisis being only a couple years more than 9/11 and now.
Show threadViolet Madder6d ago

@paninid

Iran and Afghanistan were wearing miniskirts along with everybody else in the 60s.

Secular democracies are just not allowed to happen in the Middle East, we've always gotta have somebody hating us for our freedoms etc as an excuse.

War profiteers farm violence like a crop.

Show threadMarcos Dione6d ago
@paninid the other half of the history can be traced even further back: the 1915 Zionist inclusion in the Ottoman War, the 1917 Balfour Declaration for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, the 1918 Britain and France's conquest of the Middle East and UK's takeover of Palestine, the 1946-47 Jewish insurgency in Palestine, the 1948 end of British mandate and evacuation, and the creation of the State of Israel one day before that.
Show threadGeri ❤️6d ago
@mdione @paninid Did the turks force the Jews to fight for them in WW1 - were they promised anything, or was it threatening that made them act?
Show threadSilkester6d ago

@mdione @paninid

Stalin and his planning of a 2nd Holocaust in Russia is missing in this story.

Stalin drove Russian Zionists to migrate to Israel and the desire of Zionists to have their own realm safe from dictators hell bent on wiping them out, when they were just as much the national identity as they were their religious identity.

Context not excuse for the current genocide!

Show threadMarcos Dione6d ago
@silkester @paninid The context I tried to add was how colonialism has fscked up this area so many times. Of course, the conflict is way older :(
Show threadSchafstelze 🎗🖤1d ago
@silkester @mdione @paninid And, Jews were living in the mandate area for ages, actually it was where they originated in the first place. Later waves of Ashkenazi jews were just an addition to the original jewish people there. Also, jews were driven out from arab countries from Marokko to Iran. They didn't come purely out of free will as 'colonizers' but because they HAD to.
A lot of arabs who are calling themselves palestines today also didn't live there before 1948 but came later.
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®1d ago

@Dingsextrem @silkester @mdione

Everybody came from somewhere.

I don’t make the rules 🤷🏻‍♂️

Show threadSchafstelze 🎗🖤1d ago

@mdione @paninid a thread about the history of Iran and the US, and how is "the other half" of the story about Israel? There are two other big countries in between Israel and Iran.
Until Iran decided to make the erasure of Israel their main goal, there was no reason for animosities between them.

The Shi'ites wage war not only against jews but also against Sunni, Christians and every other religion (and atheists). For them there are shi'ite countries and countries to be invaded and converted.

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®1d ago

@Dingsextrem @mdione

Why did you think this would be a productive use of your time? 🤨

Show threadMarcos Dione1d ago
@Dingsextrem @paninid this is why: https://en.osm.town/@mdione/114686600682372978 While technically Israel has nothing to do with US/Iran in the '60s, I wanted to give a bigger view of colonialism in the area. True, "the other half"are the wrong words.
Marcos Dione (@mdione@en.osm.town)

@silkester@mastodon.social @paninid@mastodon.world The context I tried to add was how colonialism has fscked up this area so many times. Of course, the conflict is way older :(

OSM Town | Mapstodon for OpenStreetMap
Show threadShadedlady6d ago
@paninid this was news to me. I only knew the history from when the shah was toppled. Just a bit too young i guess 😂
Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®5d ago

@Shadedlady

Highly recommended Turning Point series on Netflix covering the Cold War: https://youtu.be/0cYs7IYN9qg

Noam Chomsky on the heresy of liberation theology

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Show threadPaul Healey6d ago
@paninid It is blowback. Given all the historical evidence that supports the #CIA and U.K. intelligence operatives advancing the growth of authoritarian regimes, is it not inevitable it has an interest in the U.S. becoming one? By working to raise the profits and enhance control of capital by the non-renewable interests of U.S. and U.K. transnational corporations, they have always been at war with civil rights. Corporate Sovereignty, not Republic Sovereignty has been sowing hell on Earth. It must be defeated, before the grim reaper gets its ecocide. There is still a chance to live long and prosper and secure the wellbeing and flourishing of an ethically sustainable morality. Choose the non-renewable death cults of a totalitarian world order or the democratic rights of diverse interests! #blowback #Authoritarian #dictators #TheFederation #EmpiresEnd #ecocide #FascistCults #WorldRevolution #FascistCultsHell #OligarchsEcocide #inequality #injustice #RubbleNations
Show threadtuban_muzuru5d ago

@paninid

,,, you and I both know this is so much simplistic crapola. You don't like the MAGA Christians ? - well neither do I. Now imagine these theocratic assholes were constantly trying to overthrown your government and install - surprise! surprise! - a theocracy.

The Shah was well within his right to act as he did. And when he let up on these bastards, we know what happened.

And when Saddam did the same, we know what happened to him, too.

The more things change.,,,

Show threadUrban Hermit2d ago

@paninid thank you for the reminder. This is stuff I knew, but it certainly seems like the rhetoric in the US is ignorant of this history. The general public, seemingly willing to say, "why don't we nuke that whole area, they seem all crazy" seems deeply ignorant of the role the CIA played in setting up modern Iran.

This history should never be forgotten, it is the ultimate argument for non-interference. Unintended consequences when an administration tries to chose favored dictators.

Show threadAethon1d ago

@paninid
There was also the Iran Contra affair in the 80s, where America supplied Iran with arms, despite a sanction, I remember that one.

We constantly torment trouble if it benefits “us” then wonder why it comes back to bite us on the ass.

Show threadsamiamsam6d ago

@paninid

this

Show threadRaven6676d ago
@paninid the more I know about the world the more I wonder that if the USA lived up to its ideals post WWII and supported democracy and anti-colonialism, instead of short term authoritarian powers, if we'd be in a *much* more privileged position now with many many more friends across the world and not be staring at our own authoritarian coup because the sentiment to support that just wouldn't exist
Show threadmax oakland6d ago
@paninid What’s black propaganda?
Show threadHippie6d ago
@maxoakland @paninid
Propaganda with an unknown source, in contrary to official statements of political actors.
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Show threadRobin Barton6d ago
@paninid And the USA supported the Shah in Iran and his feared and brutal secret police who were the SAVAK if I remember correctly
Show threadgrumbledook6d ago

@paninid
This is how it starts ...

https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

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Show threadNeil E. Hodges6d ago
@paninid It's only a matter of time before karma comes for the West. :3
Show threadselje 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇮🇪6d ago
@paninid
Naomi Klein's book Shock Doctrine has a section on this. A very informative book.
Illuminates just exactly what the Oligarchs and the right wing fascists are trying to do right now.
Show threadLuna chan6d ago
@paninid They were scared theyd make deals with the USSR on the same terms as the US.
Show threadPete6d ago

@paninid The last Shah's son is trying to throw out the religious government and reclaim the "throne" but the USA and EU refuse to help him.

(I know that family well and we'd be wise to help.)

Show threadCoach Pāṇini ®6d ago
@philpetree Somebody hasn’t told Trump that there’s a deal to be made installing a king. Yet. Wait a couple Scaramuccis.
Show threadStarraven6d ago

@philpetree @paninid

Thrones should stay overthrown.

Show threadPete5d ago
@starraven @paninid There should never be an absolute.
Show threadStarraven5d ago

@philpetree @paninid

There should absolutely be no restoration of monarchies.

Show threadPete5d ago
@starraven @paninid What do you think the leadership of Iran is?
Show threadStarraven5d ago

@philpetree @paninid

No better than the last Shah was. They need to go back to what they were before the US interfered and reinstalled the Shah. There was a reason he was overthrown the first time.

Show threadsandywb146d ago
@paninid 😡💔
Show threadStephen Elliott~Buckley6d ago

@paninid

Why am I pondering ...

Venezuela
1998
Chavez
PDVSA

Hmmmmmm ...

Show threadPerspective6d ago
@paninid and some people still think 9/11 was an attack out of the blue - it was anything but. Resentment of constant American interference had been brewing for decades ... and they struck back.
Show threadStar12Mt6d ago
@paninid this was so well said and explained. I remember studying this in college in the 80s and even reading Kermit Roosevelts accounts. He was a CIA operator in Iran at the time and even talked about how they would throw money in the streets to get people to come out and then say they were rioting against Mossadegh. You are right most people here just think it all started with a hostage crisis. That would be a crisis that the US created
Show threadRock'n'Roll_φapy 🔻6d ago
@paninid
(dérouler le fil)
Les US et leur métastase sioniste sont depuis un siècle *LE* problème majeur de toute la planète.
Leur système de domination par le conditionnement des foules repose sur l'effacement en continu de la mémoire de l'Histoire, au profit du dernier évènement qui les victimise et justifie leurs exactions sans fin.
Show threadTom DB 🦣6d ago
@paninid It’s always about money and power…