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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · May 25

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 9m

If you need to ask why the ICC are credible on judging genocide, and you support Israel, I think you might be either vile, a troll, or both.

In brief: credible because all but a handful of countries have promised not to commit genocide, and that their own people can be imprisoned for a violation.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 14m

By that logic, China, Russia and Hamas (who have not completely eliminated the victims of their genocide, and aren't yet even close) are also not committing one.

Anyway, I am not the person to convince either way. The really important people to sway in this are all ICC judges.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1h

Corruption? Maybe.

Could incompetence, especially from leaders, explain the situation better?

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 10h

Honestly I want a lot more ATprotocol ideas applied to email. A domain move to another provider should be as simple as a PDS switch. Junk reputation lists could be a public firehose.

EU Data Act (Regulation 2023/2854) might even help this become real.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 10h

I'm only wrong about some things. I hope.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 10h

I do hope the USA doesn't plan and commit a modern genocide.

(Ukraine and Israel have both been invaded by attackers sworn to genocide, but with vastly different losses; Ukraine has not credibly been accused of committing its own genocide in revenge).

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 23h

Technically this would be an example of decessor bias.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 23h

Remarkable how they all picked the same luggage.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

I daresay Mr Putin is loth to attack China, another country with both a history of repelling invaders and world-class expertise in manufacturing drones.

Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1d

No one other than Ukraine ever had the combined factors of willpower, population, and strategic depth to defeat Russia’s contemporary empire.

Ukraine is the shield of the world, by default.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

Keep the White House; move the president to a different residence.

How about where the golf club is at Rock Creek? It's an easy commute.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, very much so.

Why not improve the PIP claim experience and also fund more tax collectors? It's not an either / or choice.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe Sir Ed is right.
A double whammy – not only do genuine claimants still face barriers, but crooks are taking money by pretending to be someone they are not.

I think it's ironic that there wasn't much fraud until politicians and media put it in the public eye.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Polanski offering to help someone who doesn't like how their body looks, that part is believable.

He's said that the original article "did not accurately reflect the situation".

The Sun has a reputation for dishonesty and connections to organised crime; Mr Polanski has neither.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

Councils can't afford to do even that.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

I read what seemed like a plausible estimate of deaths in Gaza during the last 2 years.

Above half a million. I believed it.

I can't see Hamas having the motive or the means – they have little presence outside of Gaza; they wouldn't have the bullets; over 5 murders per second is infeasible.

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

Hypnotist, yes. He said that he did this for a living.

Hypnotist who claimed to make people have larger boobs, [citation needed].

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 1d

Did he say that?

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 2d

"was"?

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 2d

Ed Davey, opposed to people with disabilities?

I don't see it.

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 2d

Today, GD arrested over a dozen people who attended yesterday’s protest — some for wearing scarves while walking away, others for standing on the sidewalk, and the rest for blocking Rustaveli Avenue in peaceful resistance.

Still, even more people showed up tonight. Day 326. 🇬🇪

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isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 2d

Insanity? There's a lot of it about.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 2d

I've got credible evidence that France could launch nuclear weapons at ★random pick★ Réunion.

But so what? It doesn't mean they will.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 2d

I quite like how this has been a thing for so long that 3G, once the problem, is now the legacy technology and 5G is the issue.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 2d

“Noe Dispensation by Non obstante of or to any Statute or any part thereof shall be allowed but the same shall be held void and of noe effect Except a Dispensation be allowed of in such Statute”

Wondering what this is? It's the surviving text of the 1688 Bill of Rights, in English law, as amended.

isoma @isoma.bsky.social · 3d

A woman with a penis? They'll probably try to use he/him pronouns.

(the penis in question is the size of a standard Frog Army inflatable)

dinger.bsky.social @dinger.bsky.social · 3d

I have a sinking feeling they are going to try and get some sort of felony level charges against her