Mastodawn

"On one side of the world the US and Israel are pursuing an ill-conceived attack on Iran that has hugely impacted the flow of fossil fuel in the region. This is already having a grim impact on daily life in many nations, jacking up the price of oil and gasoline, and threatening the availability of fossil-fuel-based fertilizer for spring planting."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #FossilFuels #environment #ClimateChange #ecology
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/if-fossil-fuels-are-war-renewables-can-bring-peace/

If Fossil Fuels Are War, Renewables Can Bring Peace

On one side of the world the US and Israel are pursuing an ill-conceived attack on Iran that has hugely impacted the flow of fossil fuel in the region. This is already having a grim impact on daily life in many nations, jacking up the price of oil and gasoline,

Meditations in an Emergency

Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿14h ago

RealJournalism 15h ago

GB News seems to have become Reform TV—and Ofcom hasn’t stopped it https://app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/content.html #UK

GB News seems to have become Reform TV—and Ofcom hasn’t stopped it

Whether they are charged with keeping our news impartial, our water clean or our elections fair, Britain’s regulators are dozing

Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿1d ago

elia ayoub 1d ago

"The US-Israel war on Iran is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in ju...

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

The Guardian

Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿1d ago

Axel Wicke 1d ago

Verhalen over buren met ruggengraat moeten verteld blijven worden, ook na 40 jaar. Om waakzaam te blijven en als voorbeeld. Opdat we “de moed hebben om voor elkaar op te staan, juist in de afwezigheid van de ander.” Een prachtige column en Eid-wens van Naeeda Aurangzeb in @Trouw:

Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿2d ago

GroundUp Unofficial 2d ago

Sharpeville forgotten by government https://groundup.org.za/article/sharpeville-forgotten-by-government/

#GroundUp #News #Journalism #Africa #SouthAfrica

Sharpeville forgotten by government

Memorials honouring the victims of the 1960 massacre are falling into ruin, but local activists are stepping up to improve the township

GroundUp News

Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿2d ago

elia ayoub 2d ago

Israel banned Palestinian Muslims from praying at Al-Aqsa for the first time since 1967. They fired stun grenades and teargas at worshippers trying to get to their mosque. Congrats to Jordan and to all Muslim-majority states that continue to be Israel’s allies. www.instagram.com/reel/DWGYoTv...

‎Megaphone | ميغافون‎ on Instagram‎: "للمرّة الأولى منذ احتلال القدس عام 1967، منع جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي إقامة صلاة عيد الفطر في المسجد الأقصى. ومنع عناصر من شرطة وجيش الاحتلال حشود المصلّين من الوصول إلى المسجد، وأطلقوا القنابل الصوتية والغاز المسيّل للدموع لتفريق الجموع، ما اضطرّ الفلسطينيّين إلى تأدية الصلاة في الشوارع المحيطة بالأقصى. ويُذكر أنّ الاحتلال يواصل إغلاق المسجد الأقصى منذ بدء العدوان الأميركي-الإسرائيلي على إيران، في 28 شباط الماضي، وذلك بذريعة منع التجمّعات. - - - - For the first time since the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, Israeli forces prevented Eid al-Fitr prayers from being held at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Police and soldiers blocked worshippers from reaching the site, firing stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds, forcing Palestinians to pray in the surrounding streets. The mosque has remained closed since the start of the US-Israeli aggression against Iran on February 28, with authorities citing the prevention of gatherings as a pretext."‎

399 likes, 4 comments - megaphonenews on March 20, 2026‎: "للمرّة الأولى منذ احتلال القدس عام 1967، منع جيش الاحتلال الإسرائيلي إقامة صلاة عيد الفطر في المسجد الأقصى. ومنع عناصر من شرطة وجيش الاحتلال حشود المصلّين من الوصول إلى المسجد، وأطلقوا القنابل الصوتية والغاز المسيّل للدموع لتفريق الجموع، ما اضطرّ الفلسطينيّين إلى تأدية الصلاة في الشوارع المحيطة بالأقصى. ويُذكر أنّ الاحتلال يواصل إغلاق المسجد الأقصى منذ بدء العدوان الأميركي-الإسرائيلي على إيران، في 28 شباط الماضي، وذلك بذريعة منع التجمّعات. - - - - For the first time since the occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, Israeli forces prevented Eid al-Fitr prayers from being held at Al-Aqsa Mosque. Police and soldiers blocked worshippers from reaching the site, firing stun grenades and tear gas to disperse crowds, forcing Palestinians to pray in the surrounding streets. The mosque has remained closed since the start of the US-Israeli aggression against Iran on February 28, with authorities citing the prevention of gatherings as a pretext.". ‎

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Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿2d ago

galaxyproject 2d ago

Interested in digital analysis but not sure where to start?
This DHxPresso session will introduce Galaxy for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, covering practical use cases, reproducible workflows, and training resources from the Galaxy Training Network.

https://galaxyproject.org/events/2026-05-08-dhxpresso/

Enter the Galaxy: How to leverage the open source platform Galaxy for the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences

Galaxy Community Hub

Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿2d ago

GroundUp Unofficial 2d ago

Durban police brutality case: magistrate and defence face off https://groundup.org.za/article/durban-police-brutality-case-magistrate-and-defence-face-off/

#GroundUp #News #Journalism #Africa #SouthAfrica

Durban police brutality case: magistrate and defence face off

Sudden request to change lawyers prompts magistrate to ask if it is a deliberate tactic to delay the case

GroundUp News

Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿2d ago

Peter Cock 2d ago

Now I'm second guessing new potential contributors on GitHub, asking myself "Are you Human, or is this a #MerdeRequest - just #slop written by an #AIAgent?" 😢

Today's smells were usually quick replies & taking my reference to an almost completely unrelated PR at face value - I'd flipped the last two digits in a typo 🤦‍♂️

Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿2d ago

Joanna Bryson, blathering 3d ago

“This is what we have warned against time and time again,” said Emirati businessman Omar Al Busaidy, president for UAE and Oman of Future Pipe Industries, a Dubai-based company that makes fiberglass pipes for infrastructure projects. “Both sides are trying to strong-arm the other to surrender by going after the lifeline of the economy. They are hitting where it hurts the most … and U.S. interests are being hurt.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/19/us-iran-war-trump-gas-prices-qatar/

Iran hits Gulf energy sites, escalating war, as U.S. mulls sanctions rollback

As attacks rattled markets, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration might lift restrictions on Iranian oil already loaded onto vessels.

The Washington Post