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livus, 11 days ago

Their harrassment of Ms Bensouda is super creepy, first they sent an envelope of money to her house and then Mossad came to her in a hotel room:

In one of the earliest encounters, Cohen surprised Bensouda when he made an unexpected appearance at an official meeting the prosecutor was holding with the then DRC president, Joseph Kabila, in a New York hotel suite.

Sources familiar with the meeting said that after Bensouda’s staff were asked to leave the room, the director of the Mossad suddenly appeared from behind a door in a carefully choreographed “ambush”.

livus, 11 days ago

Staten Island.

livus, 11 days ago

Honestly one of my favourite things in the fediverse.

livus, 11 days ago

Despite the lack of a national definition of femicide and standardised data, Tanzania’s Director of Criminal Investigation (DCI) report, cited in the LHRC report, highlights a concerning trend. Over the past five years (2018 – September 2022), 2,438 women were tragically killed, averaging 492 women per year and 43 women per month. 

Shockingly, the data from September 2022 indicates a distressing increase, with 53 women killed per month, marking a significant rise from previous years.

Also, in its 2023 Human Rights Report, LHRC documented 50 intimate partner homicides (IPH) in 2023. The IPH incidents documented by LHRC in 2023 were reported in Tanga, Kilimanjaro, Arusha, Geita, Mbeya, Tabora, Kagera, Mwanza, Simiyu, Dar es Salaam, Songwe, Mara, Dodoma, Manyara, Iringa, Rukwa, Njombe, and Morogoro. Half of the incidents were reported in the Northern Zone and Lake Zone, while the remaining half were reported in other zones.

livus, 11 days ago

Because neither side is America's aIly of course.

I went on tiktok yesterday and noticed a bunch of Gen Z mentioning Sudan and DRC as well as the Gaza Genocide. So that was better than usual.

livus, 11 days ago

Doesn't really explain it, I mean the underlying Palestine/Israel thing has been going on for decades too.

The current Sudanese Civil War has only been going on for 6 months longer than the current Israel vs Gaza hostilities.

livus, 11 days ago

It does seem to be. The juxtaposition of Russia invading Ukraine and Israel invading Gaza is pretty stark.

livus, 11 days ago

Definitely. Formic acid.

livus, 11 days ago

If there's a food source they're all over, it will smell like that even when they leave.

livus, 11 days ago

Oh that's interesting.

Collections is useful, I use it regularly.

livus, 11 days ago

Ouch I just tried that and it hurt me. Impressed.

livus, 11 days ago

I used to be able to do the thumb one but now I can't.

You can probably also cross the end joint of your thumb back over the first knuckle of your index finger so that it sort of sits on the back of your hand.

livus, 11 days ago

The term for that is wall-eyed.

livus, 11 days ago

Probably witchcraft spam. We get it regularly in the fediverse for some reason.

livus, 11 days ago

I can do this with hiccups. Will have to try it with goosebumps.

livus, 11 days ago

No, not after we heard what they had to say.

Me "could you please get a job to help pay for catfood?"

Her "nope. I don't feel like it. I'd rather just move into the bushes and live off rare native birds".

livus, 11 days ago

What the actual fuck?????

In my country you have to have been a barrister for at least 5 years and in practice it's longer.

I can't get my head around this system of having laypersons voting randoms into a position that requires a high level of skill.

livus, 11 days ago

Part of a wider pattern. The US is losing soft power in many places, I think.

livus, 11 days ago

Hmm the US isn't a particularly good example of a democracy.

livus, 11 days ago

Allright Landlord

livus, 11 days ago

Thanks for your comment. Fwiw I get most of my information from credible NGOs, and even if UNRWA was magically 100% terrorists (implausible. I've met an Israeli woman who worked as a humanitarian in Gaza and I think she had a pretty good idea of that space) I wouldn't feel any differently about the Gaza Genocide. Nothing excuses it.

Similarly, preventing civilians losing their lives will always take precedence over preventing civilians losing their jobs.

I'm from a former colony myself, and history has taught that the only ways Israel can avoid being attacked by the people it has dispossessed would be if it either:

• stops colonizing/settling/occupying/blockading and makes reparations or

• genocides and displaces the population to a tiny fraction.

It's disappointing that in this day and age most Israeli citizens prefer either option 2 or else the status quo of ongoing occupation and violence, but it's not that unusual.

Personally, I think Israel is highly unlikely to turn back from genocide now. The only hope is for international intervention.

livus, 11 days ago

They would select for skills needed for that film eg running underfoot on cue. They would also likely be trying to match cats with doppelgangers.

For example, here's Ian McKellan talking about 4 identical cats on the set of Apt Pupil each of whom had particular skills needed for the scene where he kills a cat:

This was the day of the Cats - there were four identical ginger toms. The docile cat which could be thrown and shaken and swung in the air and just miaowed for more. The cat which could move to order. A third who could eat on cue. Then there was the feral cat only to be approached by its trainer, wearing an armoured glove! All feline manouevres were achieved by the bribe of edible paste, overseen by an animal rights official, who was on set to protect the 4 pussies.