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British Foreign Secretary David Lammy has been warned that the UK as a state, "alongside individual ministers and government officials as individuals", is at "significant risk of future legal action for complicity in acts of genocide".

In a letter to Lammy on Monday, seen by MEE, Scottish National Party MP Chris Law accused the foreign secretary of failing to "demonstrate any responsibility of the UK government to prevent genocide".

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Nice to see that MacOS Sequoia continues the fine tradition of not being able to toggle between dark and light modes on cue.


Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data)...

• about 550,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,070,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,760,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,240,000 km² below the 1980s mean

More plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-ex…

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Petite info, Barnier a écrit ce sms à ses ministres: "J'ai décidé d'engager la responsabilité du gouvernement cet après-midi, après avoir cherché jusqu'au bout des compromis", déclare le Premier ministre. Des compromis principalement avec le RN et sans entendre les demandes de la gauche...

#Off #Barnier #Gouvernement #Censure #DirectAN #RN #MarineLePen

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Ça veut pas dire qu'il s'attend à ce que le socle chouine ?

Après, même parmi les moins cyniques de la macronie, je pense qu'aucun n'est capable de renverser la majorité du texte.
Ceux qui ont bougé l'avaient déjà fait pour la loi immigration, et... ils étaient peu.

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C'est vrai que la dessus il ne peut pas dire qu'il a essayé. Peut être avait il une porte de sortie de ce côté allez savoir...


Oh hell no!!

Oil and gas drilling activity to reach 10-year high in 2025: industry group

"CAOEC expects a total of 6,604 wells to be drilled in Western Canada in 2025. That represents a 7.3 per cent increase from 2024 and would be the most activity in the Western Canadian oilpatch since the commodity price crash of 2014/15, which led to years of industry contraction."

#News #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #Canada #Politics #Alberta

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Raising money for Dec rent + bills! We survived the bomb cyclone + will head home to Seattle today reasonably sure that our power is back on. Had a couple days of quality family time in Tacoma.

Assata turns 3 months old tomorrow 🎂 tysm for supporting family leave for @nullagent and me to focus on parenting this lil treasure!

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URGENT MUTUAL AID

We need help with Dec rent + bills! #Queer + #neurodivergent / #disabled couple w 3 month old baby. @nullagent is an activist who recently survived a vicious racist attack, I'm a #genderfluid writer/coach who had a very rough pregnancy w limited capacity to work.

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rent is due today + we still need about $2k! there is a few days grace period but it also takes time to transfer funds w/o excess fees.

plz boost the heck out of this thread, + donate if you're able to help out! so so grateful for what we've received + all your support during this difficult season.

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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has collected more evidence and information in the past 18 months than it has in the 20 years since it was founded, its chief prosecutor said on Monday.

The ICC has received the most evidence and documents in its history in the last year, with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and victims submitting a large number of documents and evidence under Article 15 of the Rome Statute, he noted.

aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/icc-c…

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Virginia Tech researchers developing portable COVID tests

Imagine being able to walk into a crowded store, restaurant or even movie theater and be able to detect if there’s COVID-19 in the air.

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Bet those businesses would hate ppl knowing if covid was in the air, and making an educated choice TO LEAVE.

Expect a backlash.

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we can already do this in america. You walk into a crowded public space and check your watch. Unless it's purple thirty or the hands are spinning backwards, there's covid in the air in there.
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There's a lot of what might be read as Vending Machine Theology in Deuteronomy, things that seem to say: If you're a good goober and do your homework and chores, if you don't swear or scuff your shoes, you’ll get cookies! If, however, you are a naughty noodle, you will be sent to bed without dinner and you will not like that at all. (1/)
in reply to Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

The only problem is – I don't actually believe that this is how the world works. Do you? You don’t insert deeds or prayer into the divine vending machine and genuinely expect to get exactly the candy you’re hoping for, do you? (3/)

www.lifeisasacredtext.com/vending/

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I first heard the great Rabbi Arthur Waskow teach his approach to that set of verses almost 25 years ago – what he, many years ago, called the "acid rain" approach. (4/)
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Perhaps an individual person gets cancer less because they personally have done something wrong, but because we as a nation and a globe have poisoned our air, our water, and our food with toxic chemicals and negligence? (5/)
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We are part of not only the great interconnected Everythingness, but to complex systems and structures – and we are tangled up, inextricably, in both problematic and in hopeful ways, with the collective actions of our community, with the nations in which we live, with all people. (6/)
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How we connect to the great Breath of Life – the Big Bigness that binds us and unites us, that ties us to the earth, the skies, to one another, to the passage of time – it all matters. (7/)
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It’s upon each of us, in the ways that we can, to attend to our role in the collective political, economic, environmental and social well-being — and to not pass the theological buck to a deity who has done nothing if not give us the power of free will. (8/)
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May we all fight to care for one another and to create a more whole future for tomorrow. To get the full piece — with all of the nuance, the text, and the history — go to lifeisasacredtext.com/vending/
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I am so glad to have found you on fedi! I used to follow you on Twitter & missed reading your work when I left a few years ago. I am a (mostly) non-observant Jew whose main ethos is embodied in tikun olam & I struggle every day in a world where too many people actively reject common humanity with their neighbors. Thank you for your vision & writing.
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double marked this to read later today as i’ve been stalled on a prayer cycle i had planned to start yesterday .
One of the big roadblocks has been the abuses of prayer I have witnessed from Prosperity Spirituality/Religion and certain sects praying for vengence.
Hopefully your insights will help resolve this issue i am experiencing.
Cultural aside: there are Prayer-o-Matics in at least 1-2 Philip K. Dick novels.
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This reading of Deuteronomy as an exhortation to the impacts of the actions of an entire people and not just of individuals fits well with my atheist animist worldview. Whether you call it a deity or the inevitable consequences of society’s successes and failures, it makes clear that “rewards” and “punishments” stem directly from how we treat each other and nature, from whether the society we form respects, nurtures, or exploits the powerless.
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in reply to Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

No, I do not think that "life" as we know it can be controlled by a deity who pulls lever and pushes buttons to our benefit or detriment. My prayers to my deities or my actions are not going to swing the needle to stop my genetic makeup from making me be more ore less likely to develop an illness.
in reply to Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

this is the best description of the general sense I got from the Alexandrian Greek and Qumran Hebrew versions.


I just washed and conditioned the other day! My hair hates winter. #dryAF


States cannot avoid their legal obligations under the Rome Statute to implement International Criminal Court (ICC) decisions, including the arrest of individuals facing warrants, a former UN official said.

“For 77 years, Israel has enjoyed unbroken impunity for a chain of horrific international crimes,” Craig Mokhiber, former Director of the New York Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told Anadolu.

middleeastmonitor.com/20241202…

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Why They Lost -- In the past few days, four of the senior officials who directed Kamala ... (Ronald Brownstein/The Atlantic)

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📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@sarahbmyers, @davidthewid & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41586-024…

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ll a osé le dire: "L'heure est grave", déclare Attal. "Notre pays a besoin d'un personnel politique à la hauteur de ce moment", ajoute, sans rire, le patron des macronistes à l'Assemblée, visant le PS... avec Prisca Thévenot juste derrière lui (j'essaye de ne pas rire). Qui a précipité le pays dans le mur en pratiquant la politique du pire depuis 7 ans?

#Politique #Macron #Attal #Gouvernement #Censure #Barnier #DirectAN

in reply to Nils Wilcke

il est doué pour les numéros de clowns, le jeune Gabriel ...
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On se croirait dans un épisode de la 7ème compagnie...
« Si j'connaissais l'con qu'a dissout l'Assemblée ! »
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Inside: All the books I reviewed in 2024; and more!

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Bought "Cahokia Jazz" and "A Natural History of Empty Lots" off Bookshop.org from this... thanks for the reviews.

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The man killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon’s Marjayoun on 2 December has been identified as a Lebanese security officer, authorities said, as Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced over 50 violations of the ceasefire by Israel.

“An Israeli drone targeted a State Security officer, Corporal Mahdi Khreis, with a guided missile while he was performing his national duty,” Lebanon’s State Security service said.

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