A helicopter carrying President #EbrahimRaisi of #Iran & his foreign minister crashed on Sunday in the country’s mountainous northwest, acc/to state media, deepening the turmoil that has gripped the nation on both the international & domestic fronts in recent months.
#Raisi, 63, was traveling from Iran’s border w/ Azerbaijan to inaugurate a joint dam project.
#Raisi is a hard-line religious cleric who came of age during the #Islamic revolution. Under #Iran’s #theocracy, Raisi, as president, is the 2nd most powerful individual in Iran’s #political structure after… #Khamenei.
After becoming president in 2021, Raisi consolidated power & marginalized reformists who wanted to defuse tensions w/the #West. He repeatedly said he pursued a policy of “strong diplomacy,” forging closer #economic & #security ties w/ #Russia & #China.
Here's wishing #EidMubarak to all those celebrating today.
As the month of #Ramadan (#Islamic fasting month) comes to an end, #Muslims worldwide thank the Almighty by offering prayers at Mosques & #Eid celebrations.
IS-K consider most of the world to be their enemies. Russia is high up on their list, along with the US, Europe, Israel, Jews, Christians, Shia Muslims, the Taliban and all rulers of Muslim-majority states, who they consider to be "apostates". #islamic #terrorism #russia
Islamic State's hostility to Russia goes back to the Chechen wars in the 1990s and early 2000s, when Moscow's forces devastated the Chechen capital Grozny. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68660050
@BigJesusTrashcan It is an awful shame that this poor soul gave up his life in support of lies about #genocide and #colonizing. This is what happens, sadly, when radical #Islamic#terrorism and the rewriting of history is adopted - without question or fact checking - by Western minds.
I hope more won’t end their lives over these barbaric atrocities by #hamas#iran and others.
No one'd care abt my development projects that only I have knowledge/context of lol but I'm documenting this anyway.
I have a project I regrettably named Rizz which tracks an #RSS feed and posts update on #Mastodon.
I have another project named WaktuSolat that tracks "local" #Islamic prayer times and posts them daily on Mastodon.
Both of them are separate projects, with 2 different code bases, but largely share the same code. Updating them can be tedious, fortunately, they're simple projects hence, very stable so updating them need not be frequent. But as the projects grew, I have more ideas of feature enhancements so I thought to create a "framework" (I'm SUPER bad with programming terminology so idk if this is even appropriate) of sort that I could build these 2 projects on so that updates to said framework would benefit both of these projects automatically.
So I created a new project, again, cringingly named Mango (Mastodon-#Django). I then merged both of Rizz's and WaktuSolat's code bases into it and reworked it almost in its entirety in order to somewhat set a "standard" the 2 projects (and future ones) could/should conform to for everything to work. Caused me more gray hair than I thought it would and finally, its 0.1.0release is done and ready.
So now both Rizz (example: @lowyat) and WaktuSolat (example: @waktusolat) have been upgraded and ported to use Mango version 0.1.0. On the surface, things should largely be the same but with some added features:
Both projects now support posting to multiple Mastodon accounts. Useful if I'd want to mirror an account for whatever reason such as if 1 instance gets blocked (i.e. mastodon.social), I could mirror future posting to another backup account (i.e. botsin.space).
Both projects now support tracking multiple feeds. Useful for cases such as, for Rizz, if I want it to post news from a particular news site from both its English and Malay feeds - or if I want to create a "general" Tech account that posts news from multiple sites specific to tech.
Both projects now support updating its Mastodon accounts' profiles such as its name, bio, links, etc. This is especially helpful for my future plans of letting my friends on the #Fediverse to provide their own Masto accounts for me to deploy Rizz/WaktuSolat for them on my #Kubernetes cluster.
Other boring/reliability stuffs such as better implementation of ensuring to adhere to Masto's 500 char limit, more reliable parsing of feed tags, slightly better algo at mimicking a more organic rate of posting (i.e. post some instead of all existing updates), and so on.
Other things worth noting:
WaktuSolat actually supports updating/posting prayer times of everywhere in #Malaysia, and also in #Indonesia, but my account posts only for #KL for now.
Since #COVID19's hot again, I'm planning to start a new project for it, also based on Mango. That would likely only include Malaysian numbers.
#MehdiHasan isn't perfect but he's been supportive of the Palestinians. He's leaving, after losing his show right after #October7th. #MSNBC is the cable news outlet of the corporate Dems and since they will not be standing up to Israel, he was no longer welcome to having a prominent voice on the platform. I'd love to know how that went down.
This is why we have to decentralize and find a new direct support system for all media. The #fediverse is just the start. I wish people could see that.
I see that many opinions are welcome in the #fediverse
Even the chaos agents and terrorists who support Hamas.
Death threats and harassment is common here.
Careful what you wish for. #islamic #jihad #rapeisnotresistance
"Wednesday’s deadly bombing in southern #Iran of a memorial service for a senior #Iranian general was actually carried out under the orders of #Israel, despite claims by the #IslamicState terrorist group that it carried out the attack, a website affiliated with Iran’s #Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said Friday.
According to an unsourced account on the #IRGC’s Tasnim news site, “the #Zionist regime ordered the #ISIS caliphate to accept the responsibility for this action,” using a reference to Israel."
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during a meeting with #Arab and #Islamic countries' foreign ministers at the #UNheadquarters in New York on Wednesday.
hint > (they are all fanatical fascists, with different names but identical goals
'ONLYs' want to impose their 'ONLY' on EVERYONE
and where their 'ONLY' wins,
EVERYONE suffer).
Yesterday, I posted a reply to the, IMHO, unbalanced view of respected German philosopher, #JürgenHabermas*.
As he chiefly saw the #Jewish side of the conflict, I tried to balance this, taking all sides legitimate interests into account, while adding the civilian Palestinian perspective.
Today, I came across an excellent recent op'ed in the #NYT by #ThomasLFriedman, who--
...are no longer organized as small bands of militiamen but as modern armies with brigades, battalions, cybercapabilities, long-range rockets, drones and technical support...#Hamas, #Hezbollah, #Islamic militias in #Iraq and the #Houthis in #Yemen...and #VladimirPutin."
"...the only conceivable way that #Israel can generate the legitimacy, resources, time and allies to fight such a difficult war with so many enemies is if it has unwavering...
#ArabLeaders and #Iran 's president are in the #Saudi capital Saturday for a #summit meeting expected to underscore demands that fighting in #Gaza end before the #Israel#Hamas war draws in other countries.
The #EmergencyMeeting of the #ArabLeague and the Organisation of #Islamic Cooperation #OIC comes after Hamas #militants bloody October 7 attacks that #Israeli officials say left about 1,200 people dead, mostly civilians, and 239 taken hostage.