#vigil — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #vigil, aggregated by home.social.
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The more you read this piece of excellent work the more you realize how much energy we, as the Open Source community, the programma's and the users, shall need to put in another to get a proper Balance Again
Read the section here.
Sources:
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
#Power #User #Walled #Garden #programming #InfoSec #privilege #feature #parameters #control #OpenSource #against #Meta #FB #Alphabet #Enshittification #Google #Elon #Musk #Twitter #Facebook #WTF
#Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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The agonizing slow death of the power user
This is a fascinating article to read. The facts are nailed to the wall in clear and easy to comprehend jargon, even for the non-grey beards
Some quotes
Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level. Ask them to tell you the difference between their router’s public IP and the local IP of their laptop. Ask them to open a terminal and list the contents of a directory. These are not advanced topics. Twenty years ago these were things you learned in the first week of any serious engagement with computers. Today they’re exotic knowledge that even a lot of working software developers don’t have, because you can go a long way in modern development without ever leaving the managed abstractions your platform provides.
And that’s the real damage. It’s not just end users who don’t know this stuff. It’s developers. People who write software for a living who’ve never had to think about what happens between their API call and the response. Who’ve never had to debug something at the network layer. Who’ve never had to read a full stack trace and understand every frame of it. Because the frameworks handle all of that, and the frameworks are good enough, and figuring out how things actually work is optional.
iOS set the template. Apple shipped a device in 2007 that was, by any reasonable technical measure, a computer. It had a CPU, RAM, persistent storage, a network stack, and a real operating system descended from BSD Unix. By every cultural and legal measure, however, Apple treated it as something else entirely: an appliance that you licensed rather than owned, that ran software only Apple approved, that couldn’t be meaningfully modified, and that communicated only through channels Apple controlled. No filesystem access. No inter-app communication beyond what Apple chose to expose. No background processes without explicit, limited, grudging permission. No ability to install software from any source other than the App Store — which Apple created, controls, taxes at thirty percent, and can pull your app from at any time for any reason with no meaningful appeals process.
Some facts
Power User
A power user is a user of computers, software and other electronic devices who uses advanced features of computer hardware,[1][2][3] operating systems,[4] programs, or websites[5] which are not used by the average user. A power user might not have extensive technical knowledge of the systems they use[6] but is rather characterized by competence or desire to make the most intensive use of computer programs or systems.
Term use
The term came into use in the 1980s, as advocates for computing developed special skills for working with or customizing existing hardware and software. Power users knew the best ways to perform common tasks and find advanced information before the arrival of the commercial Internet. On PC platforms, power users read magazines like Byte or PC Magazine, and knew enough about operating systems to create and edit batch files, write short programs in BASIC, and adjust system settings. They tended to customize or "supercharge" existing systems, rather than create new software.[7]
Notes
This is systematically done by the factories of technology. I am baffled that a 41 year old litterate person, with secondary school and partial tertiary school, cant tell the difference between an email account, a FB account, a local machine account, a table, notebook and Android phone, from the basic technological perspective. This happened a couple of hours ago, which makes this article very relevant to me.
This person was born two generations ago!
WTF happened to reading manuals!?
I read all manuals I get with hardware I buy, go online to fetch and read, PRINT IF I HAVE TO!
Power Users are a sub-species of homosapiens which is in the greybeard stage.
Eventually we will drop our current corpus and move on to other energy levels of existence
Power users will become extinct in the next generation or two
A bleak future for those left
Z
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_User
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
#Power #User #Death #Vigil #Eulogy #Abstraction #API #IDE #programming #DNS #networking #File #System #FileSystem #sadness #bleak #future #lisp
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Mexico City, Mexico
A woman takes part in a vigil to demand justice for people who have been disappeared."¡Vivos se los llevaron, vivos los queremos!" (They were taken alive, we want them back alive!)."
Photograph: Raquel Cunha/Reuters
#photography
#Mexico
#vigil
#Desaparecidos
#NosFaltanEllos
#HastaEncontrarlos
#AltText
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4619 AR: Whiteblade War
#Vigil #Lastwall #Whiteblade #JescaMalvaney #4619AR
https://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Vigil
The entire city was ravaged by fire during the abortive coup of the zealous Iomedaean priest Jesca Malvaney. It is memorialized every 10 years through the … -
War, war, war
Hostilities continue with little sign of lasting peace let alone reconciliation
April 2026
There is a ceasefire in Gaza/killings continue; the straight of Hormuz is open/the straight of Hormuz is closed; the Iranians have agreed to hand over their nuclear material; the Iranians will not hand over their nuclear material; there is a ceasefire in southern Lebanon; homes continue to be demolished in southern Lebanon. Welcome to the now you see it, now you don’t world of Middle East warfare.
At one level it is bizarre. Largely stemming from Washington, it seems to represent a desperate desire by the Americans and President Trump to claim some kind of victory for the ill-considered and catastrophic war they were persuaded into by the Israelis. At another level it is a disaster in which death, destruction and human misery is foisted on the peoples of Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. The killing is wanton. The pretence that the bombing and killing is directed at terrorists and because innocent people are human shields seems no longer to be the story in town.
In addition to the visible destruction there is the treatment of Palestinians in prisons around Israel which the latest UN report discusses. In exposing this practice, Francesca Albanese has been atrociously treated by the Americans as we discussed in our previous post.
Any Questions? and Danny Kruger
It is disappointing to listen to some of our politicians speaking in support of this continuing violence and carnage in the region as some kind of solution to the problems there. One such is the Reform politician Danny Kruger, the MP For East Wiltshire, a constituency touching on Salisbury. In a BBC radio programme called ‘Any Questions?’ where members of the audience put questions to a panel of – for the most part – politicians, he said in answer to a question on the Pope’s comments about Donald Trump:
“[It is] important that the Americans and Israelis win this war (audience demurs) and it is important the right side comes out on top. The Americans and Israelis were right to recognise that Iran poses and existential threat to its own region and to the safety of the world. One day we are going to have to take on the challenge of defeating the Iranian regime, the most evil regime in the world and I recognise why so many people are appalled at how President Trump conducts himself. […]
“But guys, you’ve got to be on the right side of this conflict. […] Fundamentally, the Iranians are the bad guys in this conflict and it’s really important that their power to develop nuclear weapons and their power to support terrorist organisations around the region – and in this country – [are] degraded. So I really, really hope that the outcome of this conflict is a weaker Iran.” (our italics)
Noticeable in this one-sided approach to the conflict is the absence of balance. No one would claim that the Iranian regime is other than a violent and unpleasant one, but the language of ‘winning’, ‘defeat’ and the desire to see a ‘weaker Iran’ is disappointing to say the least. Since it is Israel which has been engaged in bombing and assassinations, the absence of any mention of their activities – the killing of over 70,000 in Gaza for example, and the current process of demolitions in south Lebanon – is questionable. Is it only Iran posing an ‘existential threat to the region?’. Israel is the only nuclear power after all. One wonders if Mr Kruger has ever read the speeches of Ben Gvir or Bezalel Smotrich?
Caterpillar Tractors
On the subject of demolitions, our attention has been drawn to a YouTube post on the activities of the American plant company Caterpillar which provides the armoured machines enabling the demolitions in south Lebanon and Gaza to be carried out. See ‘How Caterpillar profits from the genocide in Gaza and [US citizens] pay for it.‘
124th v igil
Yes, they continue with over 30 yesterday (18 April) with around 40 passing motorists sounding their horns.
No sign of another local MP, Mr John Glen, who is a ‘proud’ member of Conservatives Friends of Israel the biggest lobby organisation in Parliament. Along with some Labour ministers like Peter Kyle and David Lammy, they are part of a large contingent of around 150 MPs who promote the interests of Israel in parliament.
- War, war, war
- UN rapporteur sanctioned by the US
- Will peace talks succeed?
- April minutes and newsletter
- Government deceit concerning arms exports
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“Culture is not only a victim of war, it is also a source of resilience, dignity and hope.”
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Giving the closing benediction at the Patriots Vigil at Minute Man National Historical Park on Friday night. The vigil is an annual lantern-light walk across the North Bridge with re-enactors, music, poetry, and a recitation of the names of the 122 who died in the battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1776.
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#Houston, please attend A Moment of Silence on Sunday April 19, 2026 | Houston City Hall @ 901 Bagby St | 6:30pm - 8:30pm CT if you can. Immigrating Youth Texas is leading a #vigil to honor the detained and displaced immigrant youth across our communities. #HTX #immigrants #immigration #ICE #detainees #displacement #refugees
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#Houston, please attend A Moment of Silence on Sunday April 19, 2026 | Houston City Hall @ 901 Bagby St | 6:30pm - 8:30pm CT if you can. Immigrating Youth Texas is leading a #vigil to honor the detained and displaced immigrant youth across our communities. #HTX #immigrants #immigration #ICE #detainees #displacement #refugees
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#Houston, please attend A Moment of Silence on Sunday April 19, 2026 | Houston City Hall @ 901 Bagby St | 6:30pm - 8:30pm CT if you can. Immigrating Youth Texas is leading a #vigil to honor the detained and displaced immigrant youth across our communities. #HTX #immigrants #immigration #ICE #detainees #displacement #refugees
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#Houston, please attend A Moment of Silence on Sunday April 19, 2026 | Houston City Hall @ 901 Bagby St | 6:30pm - 8:30pm CT if you can. Immigrating Youth Texas is leading a #vigil to honor the detained and displaced immigrant youth across our communities. #HTX #immigrants #immigration #ICE #detainees #displacement #refugees
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#Houston, please attend A Moment of Silence on Sunday April 19, 2026 | Houston City Hall @ 901 Bagby St | 6:30pm - 8:30pm CT if you can. Immigrating Youth Texas is leading a #vigil to honor the detained and displaced immigrant youth across our communities. #HTX #immigrants #immigration #ICE #detainees #displacement #refugees
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ESA-Raumsonde Vigil soll vor Sonnenstürmen warnen
Die ESA-Sonde Vigil soll die Vorwarnzeit vor gefährlichen Sonnenstürmen deutlich verkürzen. Am MPS entsteht eines der Instrumente der Mission. Eine Nachricht des Max-Planck-Instituts für Sonnensystemforschung MPS. #vigil #pmi
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“In minutes lives were shattered”
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/11/in-minutes-lives-were-shattered/
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If you will be in the #winnipeg area on Saturday, April 11/26, please consider attending the #vigil for #leahkeeper .
From Leah's aunt, Marilyn Courchene (with permisson):
"Bring your drums, your songs and #AMC will be supporting our family with flowers 🌹 and Candles 🕯️ Love and Light for Leah 🫶🏽♥️🙏🏽⭕️💘"
#mmiwg2s #justiceforleahkeeper #nomorestolensisters #indigenous #winnipeg #manitoba #firstnations #treaty1 #littlegrandrapids #sagkeeng
Please share.
Meegwetch
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Shit's pretty Biblical, and definitely beyond the comprehension and control of any of us alone. I will be doing some kind of #prayerful #vigil to hope there's #nonukes tonight if anyone is doing the same or would like to join. I, at least, will not be immanentizing the eschaton tonight.
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👉 People will be holding a #vigil tonight at 5pm in front of the City Hall in #Worcester #Massachusetts
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Violence becomes the message
Peter Hegseth’ message in one of violence with a religious justification
April 2026
The message of our vigils, the 122nd of which was held on Saturday 4th, is one of peace in the region not violence which seems to be never ending. This is set against the speech (sermon?) given by the Secretary of State for Defense, Peter Hegseth, last week in the Pentagon. Hegseth belongs to the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a conservative network co-founded by the self-described Christian nationalist Doug Wilson. CREC pastors have appeared at Hegseth’s Pentagon services at least three times, including Wilson who preached there in February.
The US Constitution was clear that church and state should be separate. George Washington was himself a devout Anglican and was keen for religious tolerance to be available to all faiths. He and the founding fathers were also keen for the state to be distinct from religion – a lesson they had learned from Europe. Hegseth’s bringing his faith into the political sphere is alarming. In his latest speech he speaks of ‘ … overwhelming violence of action to those who deserve no mercy’ a quote from the Psalms.
Critics such as Ronit Stahl, author of “Enlisting Faith: How the Military Chaplaincy Shaped Religion and State in Modern America,” said referring to God in broad language is not unusual in this context. “But the shift towards the specificity of Jesus Christ and therefore Christianity and in Hegseth’s case, a particular form of Protestant Christianity, is new, especially coming from the defense secretary.”
The tone of his speech is troubling and couching it in religious justification especially so. It can be seen here. For many, Christians or no, the appropriation of religious faith to justify the killing and destruction of country which is now largely defenceless is profoundly saddening. The Christian message is based partly on forgiveness not vengeance. The Guardian reported that Pope Leo spoke for many beyond the Catholic church at a Palm Sunday mass in Rome in forcefully rejecting attempts by zealots such as Hegseth to conscript Christianity. “No one can use [Jesus] to justify war,” he said, quoting Isaiah. War-makers’ prayers would go unanswered. “Your hands are full of blood.”
Over 30 attended the vigil and there was a pleasing number of ‘honks’ from passing motorists. A video can be viewed here courtesy of Peter Gloyns.
Sources: PBS, CNN, Air Force Magazine (US), Guardian, HuffPost, The Independent.
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Some #islanders in #Orkney attend weekly #vigil on #Kirk Green in #Kirkwall every Saturday between 1 and 2pm
hey have been doing so since the end of October 2023. #Photographs & #films are made which are seen by #Palestinians in #refugee camps, and those who have been displaced. It gives them hope when they find that even as far away from them as Orkney is, that there are people who know of their #suffering, and who care.
https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/04/people-as-things-thats-where-it-starts/
#humanity #humanism #morals #compassion
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“People as things, that’s where it starts.”
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/04/people-as-things-thats-where-it-starts/
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Well attended vigil
Strong attendance at 121st vigil
March 2026
Around 36 attended the 121st vigil and it was pleasing to welcome some passers-by who stopped to join in. Nearly half the cars sounded their horns. The vigils started because of the horrific events on October 7th and the ensuing violence in Gaza. The violence continues and around 4 weeks ago, both Israel and the US have started a bombing campaign in Iran and very recently, Israel has started a ground and bombing campaign in Lebanon. In the past few days, the Houthis in Yemen have recommenced their campaign sending missiles towards Israel.
There has never been a sign of the local MP Mr John Glen at any of the vigils nor any mention of them in his weekly column afforded to him by the Salisbury Journal. Mr Glen has claimed in the paper to be a proud member of the Conservative Friends of Israel group. Another member of the Labour party version is the Trade Minister highlighted in our previous post (see link below).
Use of white phosphorus
The violence seems set to continue with civilian casualties mounting on all sides but mostly in Iran and Lebanon. A particularly troubling development last week was a report by Human Rights Watch producing evidence that Israel is using white phosphorus in southern Lebanon. White phosphorus is a chemical substance dispersed in artillery shells, bombs, and rockets which ignites when exposed to oxygen. It can set homes, agricultural areas, and other civilian objects on fire. Technically, it is not a chemical weapon.
Under international humanitarian law, the use of airburst white phosphorus is unlawfully indiscriminate in populated areas and does not meet the legal requirement to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian harm. The effects on humans is fearful. Biology Insights report ‘direct contact with white phosphorus leads to severe and immediate localized damage, primarily through chemical and thermal injuries. White phosphorus ignites spontaneously when exposed to air, typically at temperatures ranging from 30 to 50 degrees Celsius. This ignition initiates a highly exothermic reaction, releasing significant heat and causing the substance to burn fiercely at temperatures between 800 and 2500 degrees Celsius. The burning continues until the phosphorus is consumed or deprived of oxygen.
‘The resulting burns are profoundly painful and can be full-thickness, extending through all layers of the skin. White phosphorus particles readily adhere to skin and clothing. Because the substance is highly lipid-soluble, it can penetrate deeply into underlying fatty tissues, muscles, and even bone. This deep penetration leads to extensive tissue necrosis [death of cells] at the point of contact‘.
Inhalation is also extremely painful and causes lung damage and possibly renal failure.
‘Beyond horrific‘
A 2023 Amnesty report described its use then as ‘beyond horrific’. The weapon also contaminates the ground and makes its future use problematic for agriculture. Since most villages in the area are dependent on agriculture it has profound economic effects as well.
Hastings protest by Jewish people
This short moving video taken by Hastings Jews for Justice is a protest against Israel’s planned execution law for Palestinians only. Palestinians in Israeli prisons are already tortured, abused, starved and raped. They will be hanged if this law is enacted. There is no appeal. They claim it is state-sanctioned murder. HJJ calls on all MPs to condemn this vile law. Please add your name to the HJJ letter here: https://forms.gle/gnEgkRs553z5Yi617 HJJ Website: https://www.hastingsjewsforjustice.org/ This Guardian article provides an update on the progress through the Knesset.
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- Well attended vigil
- Trade Minister a member of Friends of Israel
- Palantir and the threats to our rights
- Is a two state solution possible?
- Vigil No 120 attracts strong support
Photo: Peter Gloyns
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💥Announcement! Thursday 26.03.2026💥
🔥✊🏾Vigil against homelessness✊🏾🔥
Thursday, 26.03.2026 | 12:00 | Rotes Rathaus, Rathausstraße 15, 10178 Berlin
Arrival: U5, Bus 200, 300 to Rotes Rathaus | Tram M4, M5, M6, Bus 100 to Spandauer Straße/Marienkirche | U2, U8, RB23, RE1, RE2, RE7, RE8, S3, S5, S7, S9 Alexanderplatz | Bus 248 Jüdenstraße
📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=16253 - @goerli_24_7
#b2603 #b2703 #Homeless #Vigil
We’ll be there too 😊
8th Vigil against Homelessness & Evictions
In front of the Rotes Rathaus, Berlin
Because profit takes precedence over human dignity, some people are being made homeless.
We commemorate those who have died in Hamburg and other cities.
Housing First and homes for all!
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“We’re living in a time of brutality, impunity and indifference.”
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Fly the Flag For Palestine - Dundrum Bridge
William Dargan Bridge (Dundrum Luas Bridge), Thursday, March 12 at 05:00 PM GMT
Join us this Thursday from 5 pm on the Dundrum Luas bridge.
https://ainriail.org/event/fly-the-flag-for-palestine-dundrum-bridge-34
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UPDATE: The spare ticket is taken! Thx for your boosts, all.
Late notice: would anyone out here in the North Texas Fediverse like to join me tomorrow night for the George Saunders Interview at the DMA Arts & Letters Live? My wife can't go and it's a sold out event. 📚 ✨ 🎟️
https://dma.org/programs/event/arts-letters-live-george-saunders
Boosts welcome!
#Dallas #GeorgeSaunders #KrysBoyd #Vigil #Bookstodon #KERA #Texas #Books
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“The Jerusalem we speak of, and the Palestine we defend, are not merely holy sites and inanimate stones; they are people.”
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TONIGHT (January 28, 2026) 5:30 PM Dept. of Veterans Affairs HQ (810 Vermont Ave NW, DC 20420) Federal Unionist Network, and at least one nurses association is a co-sponsoring a vigil for Alex Pretti.
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Ravens Flock holds vigil for Captain Dee-Fense
BALTIMORE — Mention Captain Dee-Fense to any die-hard ravens fan and they’ll know exactly who you’re talking about.…
#NFL #BaltimoreRavens #Baltimore #Ravens #baltimore #BaltimoreRavenssuperfan #CaptainDee-Fense #fansofthebaltimoreravens #Football #RavenPayne #RavensFlock #Vigil #vigilforcaptaindee-fense #WesHenson #WMAR
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Ravens Flock holds vigil for Captain Dee-Fense
BALTIMORE — Mention Captain Dee-Fense to any die-hard ravens fan and they’ll know exactly who you’re talking about.…
#NFL #BaltimoreRavens #Baltimore #Ravens #baltimore #BaltimoreRavenssuperfan #CaptainDee-Fense #fansofthebaltimoreravens #Football #RavenPayne #RavensFlock #Vigil #vigilforcaptaindee-fense #WesHenson #WMAR
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Ravens Flock holds vigil for Captain Dee-Fense https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/437094/ #baltimore #BaltimoreRavens #BaltimoreRavensSuperfan #BaltimoreRavens #CaptainDeeFense #FansOfTheBaltimoreRavens #Football #NFL #RavenPayne #Ravens #RavensFlock #Vigil #VigilForCaptainDeeFense #WesHenson #WMAR
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Ravens Flock holds vigil for Captain Dee-Fense https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/437094/ #baltimore #BaltimoreRavens #BaltimoreRavensSuperfan #BaltimoreRavens #CaptainDeeFense #FansOfTheBaltimoreRavens #Football #NFL #RavenPayne #Ravens #RavensFlock #Vigil #VigilForCaptainDeeFense #WesHenson #WMAR
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Video of Salisbury vigils
Video highlighting the 80+ vigils held in Salisbury and the exhibition
June 2025
We are delighted to attach a video* with clips from the 81 vigils so far held in Salisbury in aid of peace in Gaza. The bombing of Iran and the retaliation by them has distracted attention from the continuing misery which is taking place in Gaza. The death toll now stands at 56,000 including thousands of children. Many more have suffered terrible injuries with life long consequences.
The is an exhibition at Salisbury Methodist Church, St Edmunds St which is open from 9:30 clips of which
appear in the video.
The strangulation of Gaza continues with tightly restricted supplies of food and other goods allowed in. The war of words continues with an Israeli spokesman interviewed on Channel 4 saying there is no blockade. Foreign journalists are not allowed in so independent reporting of what is happening is difficult. The evidence seems to point to utter confusion at the aid distribution points with many being shot every day in a desperate attempt to get food.
Britain continues to supply weapons to Israel and to give them diplomatic cover. More attention is being paid to the role of the RAF, especially after the action by Palestine Action last week at Brize Norton. The RAF has overflown Gaza around 600 times now and the claims by the minister that they are to help find the remaining hostages is to be doubted in view of the government’s continued support for Israel and the supply of arms.
The local MP, Mr John Glen, has not visited any of the vigils and has not mentioned them in his weekly column in the local paper.
Previous posts:
- Video of Salisbury vigils
- Proscribing Palestine Action
- Evensong this evening
- Salisbury vigil and exhibition reminder
- Why Labour Leaders Are Pushing for ECHR Revisions: A Political Analysis
*The Exhibition and video are the work of Peter Glyns.
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Video of Salisbury vigils
Video highlighting the 80+ vigils held in Salisbury and the exhibition
June 2025
We are delighted to attach a video* with clips from the 81 vigils so far held in Salisbury in aid of peace in Gaza. The bombing of Iran and the retaliation by them has distracted attention from the continuing misery which is taking place in Gaza. The death toll now stands at 56,000 including thousands of children. Many more have suffered terrible injuries with life long consequences.
The is an exhibition at Salisbury Methodist Church, St Edmunds St which is open from 9:30 clips of which
appear in the video.
The strangulation of Gaza continues with tightly restricted supplies of food and other goods allowed in. The war of words continues with an Israeli spokesman interviewed on Channel 4 saying there is no blockade. Foreign journalists are not allowed in so independent reporting of what is happening is difficult. The evidence seems to point to utter confusion at the aid distribution points with many being shot every day in a desperate attempt to get food.
Britain continues to supply weapons to Israel and to give them diplomatic cover. More attention is being paid to the role of the RAF, especially after the action by Palestine Action last week at Brize Norton. The RAF has overflown Gaza around 600 times now and the claims by the minister that they are to help find the remaining hostages is to be doubted in view of the government’s continued support for Israel and the supply of arms.
The local MP, Mr John Glen, has not visited any of the vigils and has not mentioned them in his weekly column in the local paper.
Previous posts:
- Video of Salisbury vigils
- Proscribing Palestine Action
- Evensong this evening
- Salisbury vigil and exhibition reminder
- Why Labour Leaders Are Pushing for ECHR Revisions: A Political Analysis
*The Exhibition and video are the work of Peter Glyns.
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Video of Salisbury vigils
Video highlighting the 80+ vigils held in Salisbury and the exhibition
June 2025
We are delighted to attach a video* with clips from the 81 vigils so far held in Salisbury in aid of peace in Gaza. The bombing of Iran and the retaliation by them has distracted attention from the continuing misery which is taking place in Gaza. The death toll now stands at 56,000 including thousands of children. Many more have suffered terrible injuries with life long consequences.
The is an exhibition at Salisbury Methodist Church, St Edmunds St which is open from 9:30 clips of which
appear in the video.
The strangulation of Gaza continues with tightly restricted supplies of food and other goods allowed in. The war of words continues with an Israeli spokesman interviewed on Channel 4 saying there is no blockade. Foreign journalists are not allowed in so independent reporting of what is happening is difficult. The evidence seems to point to utter confusion at the aid distribution points with many being shot every day in a desperate attempt to get food.
Britain continues to supply weapons to Israel and to give them diplomatic cover. More attention is being paid to the role of the RAF, especially after the action by Palestine Action last week at Brize Norton. The RAF has overflown Gaza around 600 times now and the claims by the minister that they are to help find the remaining hostages is to be doubted in view of the government’s continued support for Israel and the supply of arms.
The local MP, Mr John Glen, has not visited any of the vigils and has not mentioned them in his weekly column in the local paper.
Previous posts:
- Video of Salisbury vigils
- Proscribing Palestine Action
- Evensong this evening
- Salisbury vigil and exhibition reminder
- Why Labour Leaders Are Pushing for ECHR Revisions: A Political Analysis
*The Exhibition and video are the work of Peter Glyns.
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Video of Salisbury vigils
Video highlighting the 80+ vigils held in Salisbury and the exhibition
June 2025
We are delighted to attach a video* with clips from the 81 vigils so far held in Salisbury in aid of peace in Gaza. The bombing of Iran and the retaliation by them has distracted attention from the continuing misery which is taking place in Gaza. The death toll now stands at 56,000 including thousands of children. Many more have suffered terrible injuries with life long consequences.
The is an exhibition at Salisbury Methodist Church, St Edmunds St which is open from 9:30 clips of which
appear in the video.
The strangulation of Gaza continues with tightly restricted supplies of food and other goods allowed in. The war of words continues with an Israeli spokesman interviewed on Channel 4 saying there is no blockade. Foreign journalists are not allowed in so independent reporting of what is happening is difficult. The evidence seems to point to utter confusion at the aid distribution points with many being shot every day in a desperate attempt to get food.
Britain continues to supply weapons to Israel and to give them diplomatic cover. More attention is being paid to the role of the RAF, especially after the action by Palestine Action last week at Brize Norton. The RAF has overflown Gaza around 600 times now and the claims by the minister that they are to help find the remaining hostages is to be doubted in view of the government’s continued support for Israel and the supply of arms.
The local MP, Mr John Glen, has not visited any of the vigils and has not mentioned them in his weekly column in the local paper.
Previous posts:
- Eighty second vigil well attended
- Video of Salisbury vigils
- Proscribing Palestine Action
- Evensong this evening
- Salisbury vigil and exhibition reminder
*The Exhibition and video are the work of Peter Glyns.
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Vigils: photo exhibition
Exhibition of photographs of the vigils held in Salisbury for peace in Gaza
June 2025
We have posted many times concerning the vigils held in Salisbury Market Place each Saturday at 5pm. Nearly 80 have now been held and there is a regular attendance of around 40 who attend and never less than 30. There is an exhibition of photographs of these vigils starting on 23 June and ending on 19 July at the Methodist Church in St Edmunds Street, Salisbury. They are available to view from 09:30 to noon and at other times when the church is open. We attach a flyer below and if you live in the Salisbury/South Wilts area we ask that you consider displaying it please.
The horror continues with the Independent reporting that 30 were killed by Israeli fire at one of the food points yesterday 31 May. Israel will not allow independent journalists into Gaza so claims are often hard to verify.
The current estimate is that 54,000 have now died in Gaza including many women and children.
Vigil poster 2025 copyDownload#Exhibition #methodists #photoExhibition #Salisbury #SMC #vigil
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#Microsoft fires employees who organized #vigil for #Palestinians killed in #Gaza
By MATT O’BRIEN
Updated 11:19 PM EDT, October 25, 2024"Microsoft has fired two employees who organized an unauthorized vigil at the company’s headquarters for Palestinians killed in Gaza during #Israel’s war with Hamas.
"The two employees told The Associated Press they were fired by phone call late Thursday, several hours after a lunchtime event they organized at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Washington.
"Both workers were members of a coalition of employees called '#NoAzureForApartheid' that has opposed Microsoft’s sale of its cloud-computing technology to the #IsraeliGovernment. But they contended that Thursday’s event was similar to other Microsoft-sanctioned employee giving campaigns for people in need.
"'We have so many community members within Microsoft who have lost family, lost friends or loved ones,' said #AbdoMohamed, a researcher and data scientist. 'But Microsoft really failed to have the space for us where we can come together and share our grief and honor the memories of people who can no longer speak for themselves.'"
#CeasefireNow #FreePalestine #Genocide #Gaza #BibiIsAWarCriminal #WorldWarBibi #BigTech
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TV TONIGHT (February 15)
#YoungSheldon #Ghosts #SoHelpMeTodd #TheVinceStaplesShow #BoldAndBougie #SwampPeople #FarNorth #ReadySetLove #Vigil #TruthAndLies #JSFamilyVacation #SonOfACritch #TakingTheStand #SouthernHospitality #MarriedToRealEstate
http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2024/02/tv-tonight-february-15.html
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TV TONIGHT (February 15)
#YoungSheldon #Ghosts #SoHelpMeTodd #TheVinceStaplesShow #BoldAndBougie #SwampPeople #FarNorth #ReadySetLove #Vigil #TruthAndLies #JSFamilyVacation #SonOfACritch #TakingTheStand #SouthernHospitality #MarriedToRealEstate
http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2024/02/tv-tonight-february-15.html
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TV TONIGHT (February 15)
#YoungSheldon #Ghosts #SoHelpMeTodd #TheVinceStaplesShow #BoldAndBougie #SwampPeople #FarNorth #ReadySetLove #Vigil #TruthAndLies #JSFamilyVacation #SonOfACritch #TakingTheStand #SouthernHospitality #MarriedToRealEstate
http://www.tv-recaps-reviews.com/2024/02/tv-tonight-february-15.html
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#MetPolice #pays ‘#substantial’ #damages to #women #arrested at #SarahEverard #vigil.
In a statement the women’s #solicitor, #RachelHarger, said: “I am glad that the #Met have finally #acknowledged that those who attended the #vigil had the #fundamental #right to #protest the #murder of #SarahEverard by a serving #Met #officer
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #London #Police #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Misogyny #Homophobia NoPoliceAtPride