@xaxat

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Observer of the follies.
What's what"Never has any people endured it's own tragedy with so little sense of the tragic." - Nelson Algren
Maybe there will be... maybe there won't be. In the meantime, let's please do what we can to help each other along the way. ๐Ÿ’›

Maureen Lipman writes in the Jewish Chronicle - "Does the world have any idea of how tired the people of Israel are?

A dear friend told me that his grandchildren have needed to enter their safe room more than 200 times since the current battle began."

I wonder if Ms Lipman has ever stopped to consider where the 'safe rooms' are for the Palestinian people?
What an unfeeling cow.

#Gaza
#WestBank
#FromTheRiverToTheSea
#Israel

A privacy notice is not consent. Reading a multi-page document written by corporate lawyers just to find out how you're being tracked isn't "agreeing" to anything. It is a digital ransom note.

True consent is:

Granular: I choose exactly what you see.

Revocable: I can take it back at any time.

Opt-in: Off by default, always.

Stop confusing notifying us with asking us.

#Privacy #DigitalSovereignty #Fediverse #TechEthics #TerminalTilt

From the folks at Writers for Democratic Action, co-sponsor of the upcoming #NoKings rallies.

"We are joining with allies from across the US to mobilize against autocracy and for democracy. We encourage you to protest on March 28th, to use signage from WDA and to bring your family, friends, and neighbors."

https://us17.campaign-archive.com/?u=dfde70ed47a0c85d3204d797e&id=ef443601d9

March 28 โ€” Find Your Local No Kings Event

JFC. This is so flagrantly awful that the US Attorney is openly throwing ICEโ€™s lawyers under the bus and asking the judge to blame them for the misrepresentation.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dxu25p5fmfrngmjr5iawpr4d/post/3mhvpk32vxc2e
โ€œ"I just find him personally objectionable," commented Bourdain. "And from people I know who have had to endure dinner with him, if you enjoy sitting there listening to him talk about himself, you know, great, God bless you."โ€
https://www.tastingtable.com/2128192/anthony-bourdain-wouldnt-eat-with-trump/
Why Anthony Bourdain Said He Wouldn't Have Shared A Meal With Trump - Tasting Table

Anthony Bourdain broke bread with many different folks over the years; here's why President Donald Trump was never invited to his table.

Tasting Table

Delta suspends VIP airport treatment for Congress as shutdown chaos grows

TSA agents unpaid with lines stretching HOURS
400+ officers quitting

Lawmakers canโ€™t skip the line anymore. Maybe now Washington will fix what they broke.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/delta-suspends-special-treatment-congress-shutdown-sows-chaos-airports-2026-03-24/ #press

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/116281343752661759

I saw this in the wild. The Google discover feed showed me a headline for a 4h-old Guardian article where the Google link/headline said the Iranian leader Khamenei had been killed by a US bomb strike and I thought "Wow! Already? He's only just taken over for his dead dad!"

And that really would have been news except that wasn't what the article was about at all. It was about the US not knowing who to negotiate with now that they've overturned the anthill. It only referenced the killing of the _elder_ Khamenei at the start of the war a few weeks ago, and that reference was more than 3/4 of the way through the article, in background information. I was gob-smacked that Google would do such a thing. It's awful, a full betrayal.

Dear Europe: Germany has shown the way forward, by making the Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory within its sovereign digital infrastructure. Now it's time for other countries to do the same! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/23/dear-europe/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware #openstandards