@majdal@social.coop

· 1w ago

Israel accidentally publishes 15cm/pixel resolution aerial imagery of northern Gaza. Usually, high quality satellite imagery is at 30cm. The savagery and brutality of the genocide machine, in high resolution. Nothing but destruction. Nobody can look at these images and think "this is justifiable". If someone tries to justify this destruction, then there is only one meaning: this person sees one category of humans as inferior to another. This is textbook definition of racist, and such a person must be stripped of any power they have over any person's life. This is true for your colleagues at work, politicians, academics, or anyone with power in our society. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-accidentally-exposes-gaza-military-bases-and-widespread-destruction-official-map #gaza #palestine #genocide

Israel accidentally exposes Gaza military bases and widespread destruction on official map

Middle East Eye

Israel accidentally exposes Gaza military bases and widespread destruction on official map

Israel’s mapping service briefly publishes high-resolution satellite imagery of Gaza before blurring it again

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· 1mo ago

One of the many upsetting things about the Ford government's attack on bike lanes: Prabmeet Sarkaria is the minister of transportation. He keeps saying that the bike lanes are unused and cause congestion. He is also the first turban-wearing Sikh to be appointed to cabinet. Any casual user of Toronto's bike lanes immediately notices that the most frequent year-round uses of the bike lanes are delivery drivers, many of whom are of Punjabi origins, just like Sarkaria. If Sarkaria doesn't want to hear "downtown activists", maybe he should hear from his own community. The people who will be most harmed by the bike lane removal are the delivery drivers. When a Punjabi delivery driver is killed in a car accident because he was cycling in a car lane, his blood will be is on Sarkaria's hands. I haven't seen cycling activists trying to organize Punjabi delivery guys. Probably has to do with race and class. #TOpoli #ONpoli

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· 6mo ago

Replying to

There is a slightly funny and surreal #Beirut moment from that Israeli terror strike video. Adjacent to the struck building, there's a gorgeous heritage building with an unobstructed view to the Mediterranean, looking over the Ayn elMrayseh old mosque. Perfect location. Since the early 2010s, there has been an ongoing epic battle between the urbanists and heritage activists vs the owner of the building. He wants to demolish to build a massive high rise in its place. He managed to evict the old tenants, drill a massive hole in the floor of two of the floors to render it uninhabitable. But the activists got a court injunction to stop the demolition, and the developer was forced to build external scaffolding to prevent additional structural damage. Well, after today's strike, the videos show that the building is still standing perfectly. I'm sure that the owner would have loved for the strike to demolish it too, but alas, that's not how fate works. #urbanism

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· 8mo ago

Last night's full moon, shot on an iPhone with 8x zoom. It's shocking how quickly the moon moves in the sky. It was only there for a few moments, then it hid behind the tall building.

The tallest building to the right is at Yonge and Bloor, the shorter buildings closer to me are Honest Ed's at Bathurst and Bloor. The pigeons are the permanent residents of my street corner.

#Tkaronto #Toronto #photography #fullmoon #sunset #بدر #تصوير #غروب

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· 2mo ago

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@Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social I like this question :) So far, I've been able to align the stars in my life in order to be able feel fulfilled and satisfied by my work most of the time. That said, not a lot of things give me a feeling of job. But when I do feel joy, it's usually around live music. Attending a live music concert, dancing to a really good beat, sensing the journey that the musician is taking us on, sensing it in my spinal chord, not in my brain. That's when I feel joy.

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· 6mo ago

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@liaizon@social.wake.st My solace is that everyone is finally feeling the heartbreak that we in the region have been saying for a century. The heartbreak the background hum of our lives, just as persistent as the hum of the terror drones flying over Beirut, whose sound I hear in every voice recording that they send me. But you know what is more persistent? Our will to live. We live through, around, and despite the heartbreak, with tenderness and love. I'm reminded of a poem by Rafeef Ziadah, she wrote it more than 14 years ago, during another Israeli invasion of Gaza. "We teach life, sir" I hope that we manage to persist in our tenderness after this nightmare is over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKucPh9xHtM

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· 4mo ago

Nothing makes you feel at home in a city like randomly bumping into people you know on the streets.

I arrived in Milano yesterday. I took the train from the airport to the city centre to pick up the house keys from my partner, then took the metro to his place. On the metro, I bumped into a friend who I haven't seen in years.

What a small world

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· 5mo ago

The Dig podcast just launched their website for their Thawra series on Arab radicalism in the 20th century.

I learned SO MUCH about radical history in the region through this podcast, and I consider myself to be relatively well-informed.

Very highly recommended listen:

https://thawraproject.com/

#TheDig #Palestine #Syria #Lebanon #Thawra

thawraproject.com

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· 3mo ago

Any Canadian urban planning nerds know why perimeter blocks are non-existent in Canada? I assume they're against zoning bylaws across the country, but has there been any experiments in building them? They solve so many problems, I don't understand why they are not the default form here. #urbanism #urbanplanning #TOpoli #ONpoli #CApoli

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· 5mo ago

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Thoughts percolating from yesterday's wonderful conversation with @nasser@merveilles.town in Brooklyn, who pointed me to the writings of Zoe Baker on radical theory and history.

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· 5mo ago

I'm so impressed with the latest @zotero@fosstodon.org updates. I love seeing useful features added to software in a way that is responsive to users' needs.

I would have liked to see more explanation of the privacy implications of using third party text-to-speech services though.

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· 8mo ago

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@pandoc@fosstodon.org incredible work! I'll definitely be using this extensively :)

May I report a bug? It seems like files with names in Arabic (or other Unicode non-ASCII characters) gives this error: ERROR: Unexpected end-of-input while parsing string literal

Changing the file name to ASCII characters fixes the problem.

Thanks again for your work 🙏

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· 8mo ago

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@gekitsu@toot.cat Yes! It's even more surreal if you think of it as a massive rock that's flying above us and moving so quickly.

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· 9mo ago

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@gbargoud this is both delightful and horrifying at the same time 😳

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· 8mo ago

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@SeismoAllegra@mastodon.social that's the new One Bloor West that's under construction. One Bloor East 9s the shorter skyscraper behind it. I had a partner who lived in that skyscraper and it was *awful*. It felt like living in a hotel, bad construction quality, and we were being gaslit that it was "luxury". These buildings are money launderin machines.

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