If you know people on social.cologne who aren’t Zionists/genocide supporters please let them know that they cannot see posts by me and others who oppose Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people as our instances and accounts are blocked by their Zionist/pro-genocide server.

I can only assume Zionist/pro-genocide servers will not be allowed according to mastodon.social’s new server covenant and suggested as safe spaces to newcomers to the fediverse (including Palestinians suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid) but it would be good to have official confirmation of this.

It’s time for people (and mastodon servers) to be unapologetically unambiguous about which side of history they stand on.

CC @staff

#socialCologne #cologne #germany #fediverse #mastodon #serverCovenant #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #fediblock #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine

Up by St Paul's again the other day and stuck my phone in a puddle to get this at Queens Head Passage 😂

#london #stpaulscathedral #touristythings #touristystuff #sightseeing #stpauls #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #mono #monochrome #monochromemonday #reflections

“Why care about belonging? Because it is fundamentally useful. It lets us predict a huge slice of the variance in developer productivity. Why care about psychological affordances around teams? Because it is useful. It lets us predict where we will find more effective teams and design for them.”

Gold like this is why I will never stop recommending @grimalkina to software developers. Mind-opening stuff about how to foster a learning culture in yourself and others.

https://www.fightforthehuman.com/science-at-the-edge-of-the-world/

Filmmaker Maya Deren, intellectual powerhouse, herself the possible progenitor of the concept of the double bind, in notes to herself in 1947 regarding a presentation on cybernetic circular feedback loops:

“But there is no society or organization *designed to change itself* and this is what the whole hitch is. Either he [humans] builds in both error and governor, or he builds in just the error and gets a revolution.”

The #israeli army is calling for the evacuation and destruction of nearly 85% of Gaza’s land.
What kind of homeland is left for its people when they are driven out of it?

We are exhausted.
Tired of searching every day for a “safe place” in a land where no safety exists.

Where are we supposed to go? What is left for us?
Displacement after displacement… humiliation on top of injustice… a cycle of suffering that repeats every single day.
We want life — just life.
Is that too much to ask?
#gaza

The state of California is warning 23andMe customers to delete their data because odds are good that the company is going to go bankrupt.

If I were you I would prioritize doing this.

https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-urgently-issues-consumer-alert-23andme-customers