thank you

was this… not how it worked before?

hopefully someday people understand that hamas is not palestine and being in favor of israel not committing genocide is not being pro-hamas. also, israel has long since shown that this is not about hamas, but rather about ethnic cleansing.

on the whole, palestinians just want what we all want: to be free, and to know that their next meal is secure.

United States format is very different from the european format and often the apple maps algorithm makes some boneheaded assuptions to translate from a US address to something OSM understands. i contribute, too, but the next time i have an example of apple maps fucking up… i’ll have already forgot this convo happened, but i’ll try

my problem with apple maps is how frequently it has something’s location completely wrong because osm addresses use the European addressing system everywhere when i don’t live in europe

the bulk of its search results come from bing. only its instant answers and ai features aren’t bing

which is to say: terrible

that’s why the broligarchs are buddying up to the dictators. the bottom is falling out of the surveillance capitalism market for advertising because it was never as effective as the ad marketplace brokers said it was. so the broligarchs need to sell their spying on us service to someone else and they’ve elected for the police state

oh they for sure are. also FOIA is probably dead forever. so. you know. be ready for that little announcement.

mailbox.org and posteo are my recs

Forever.

be patient. read thoroughly. be open to a learning experience

i think it has more to do with dialect than anything. i speak appalachian dialect so sometimes i’ll use an archaic word. the irony is she usually figures it out faster than most other english speakers since our archaics are largely eastern european in origin, but to her in that moment it feels like “oh, i don’t know what this native english speaker is saying, i guess english is still a skill i’m working on”

i always am like “oh no, i talk funny” but it’s been happening more as she’s become closer friends with me and my fiance and we all talk on metaphysics and shit

my ukrainian coworker always apologizes for her bad english. meanwhile she can, and does, write poetry in all four languages she speaks

peace without justice isn’t peace. justice without peace isn’t justice.

appeasement doesn’t work because you attempt to trade justice for peace, but that just erodes your peace. the justice system claims to provide us justice, but violence is sown all throughout it, meaning it cannot give us justice as true justice is restoration from this system

they have lost all credibility.

yeah i tried looking up what that would even be a symbol of and how that, historically, could be justified, and found absolutely nothing. not even in their “yo, tha’s anti-semitic” claim.

i’ve been really disappointed in the ADL. the world doesn’t need a second AIPAC, and it does need more organizations like the SPLC to keep track of racist dog whistles, and i think the ADL used to be that, but now they’re fully subservient to the will of the nation of israel, which is… deeply upsetting as someone whose great great grandmother fled what is today Ukraine after russia decided outward expressions of non-russian identities within the russian empire was unacceptable, and they’d start with the Ashkenazi because getting people to hate jews is real easy for some reason.

zion is a concept, not a place. Palestine was only selected to be the location for zion after it became clear Lwów (today Lviv) was going to remain under soviet control following WWII, so somewhere else needed to be zion. modern day israel is where it is not out of the deep value of the holy land as a home for the Jewish people, but as a political expedient that also helped the UK and US with a colonization project they had in mind.

it bothers me that for so many zionists, the actual location of zion doesn’t apparently matter, but it does matter that they get to inflict suffering on others. why are they so certain a city they left 1800 years ago is more suitable for their livelihoods than cities they left 140 years ago? because i can’t help but notice indigenous Palestinians (who have been through every wave of suffering with us and more, by the way, they are our brothers) have darker skin than indigenous Ukrainians and Poles. it makes me think zionist israel is a project of white supremacy, not of Jewish survival

what’s this now about octopi?

oh man. we’re the og fascists. our policies inspired european fascism. we’ve done all the key components of a fascist regime before: the forced labor, the death camps, the mass surveilance, the overt militarism, the desperate need to expand and get rid of the people who were already there

“uh uh. you aren’t doing that shit to me again”

meanwhile, on the other side of the atlantic

“spy on me daddy”