Also, because I love you, here’s me doing my best Zoolander impression.

Which should I go with?

So I need a new headshot for a conference I’m speaking at in June and I’m short on time so I fooled around with my camera last night (ooh-err, missus) and narrowed it down to three options…

Also, gotta love “your money or your data.”

Brexit: the gift that keeps on giving.

https://mas.to/@timwaterman/116464080355561059

RE: https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/116462569187774673

Fucking barbarians.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/116459049191900624

Friends in Gaza, please tell people you might know who could take advantage of this.

#Gaza #GazaVerified #Palestine #physics #astrophysics #science #research #university

The mediocrity of well-paid people whose only job is to make the line go up is really something to behold.

#KLM #inspirationalUpsellHeader #inspirationalUpsellToggle

Hey everyone,

@casey and @rania40 had the honour of speaking to two families from Gaza today and we’d like to welcome them to Gaza Verified.

They are:

• Motaz Family 🍉🇵🇸 (@ArchMotaz)
• olfat Tayyam (@reemosama)

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and to the fediverse, follow their accounts, and donate to their fundraisers if you can (and please share this so others can do the same).

Also, remember that you can find all our families who have fundraisers listed at the following page, ordered by those who have received the least in donations over the last week (on a rolling basis):

https://gaza-verified.org/donate/

Thank you for making Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for our friends in Gaza and for your support.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #Mastodon #fediverse #newMembers #verification

The cloud is a data centre.

And data centres have addresses.

#justSayin

RE: https://mastodon.social/@greenpeace/116458645973735401

The planet will recover.

Our species? Not so certain.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116454017121705714

Needless to say, if it’s “ingesting your code”, it is, by definition, *NOT* a “clean-room version”.

If words have any meaning anymore, of course.

RE: https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/116459000729786794

Nice. Can we add Israeli soldiers to that list?

Me: I’ll sit next to that guy instead of leaving an empty table at the cafe, I have to stop thinking everyone has some contagious disease and is out anyway.

A minute later: *hears sniffles*

Three minutes later: *huge coughing fit*

Three and a half minutes later: *I get up and move to a different part of the cafe*

Why don’t you fucking stay home if you’re that ill? Seriously? You don’t need that latte and I don’t need your germs. Ffs!

#ireland #germTheory #whatWasCovidAgain #RFKJrWouldBeProud

Yes, this is about Israel.

I used the example of the puppy getting kicked as I’m painfully aware that, at least for some people, the thought of a puppy in distress is unbearable whereas tens of thousands of murdered Brown kids is just another Wednesday. (You’d have a hard time getting a politician who regularly kicks puppies to death elected but folks who consider themselves otherwise decent have not, so far at least, had an issue with voting for people who fund and arm Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.)

Stop trying to make simple things sound complex – either because you like hearing the sound of your own voice or because of whatever insecurities drive you. If I’m kicking a puppy in the street, it’s because I’m an asshole. You don’t need to know my motivations. You just need to know I’m an asshole. And stop me.

In our next epistemological paper, we will be examining the complex philosophical unknowability behind genocide. We are very smart. And in no way complicit.

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116458516999245541

“How Nazi Germany’s history has shaped the way it wages war. Why has Nazi Germany chosen such brutal military aggression?”

Are we even serious right now?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/116458442461704301

Almost as if there’s a pattern here or something: liars lie, murderers murder, thieves stealing people’s land and homes steal people’s land and homes, monsters committing genocide commit genocide…

Almost as if this is who they are.

And they’re shouting it in our faces.

While the donkeys leading us piss in our ears and tell us it’s raining.

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116456384815944783

Alternative maths.