Notices by morachbeag (morachbeag@aus.social), page 3

The fun thing about talking about western euro parochialism is all the western euro parochialists who get up in my mentions thinking I care about their views.

Newsflash: your opinions mean nothing to me.

You mean the Hugo awards are problematic? Well, golly gee, an award that only one Black woman has ever received for a full novel (cause N.K. Jemisin is fuckin amazing), that was fine with Harlon fuckin Ellison sexually assaulting Connie Willis onstage to laughter, that allowed that hack George "clout initials" Martin to carry on like the racist transphobe he is (look it up), that has given more to that right-wing shithead Heinlein to anybody (and Orson Scott Card? Oh pls), once nominated L. Ron Hubbard (okay, he lost, but still, I remember pickin up one of his books off the street when I was homeless and thinking "Well, I'm desperate, but not that desperate" and ended up with a big supply of toilet paper - there's your literary criticism, fuckers), and a list mainly that looks like Cecil McBigot IV OBE is a bit not great?

Well, damn.

"Ah, but there have been women..."

Yeah. Le Guin could shit on most of these guys from the upper fuckin stratosphere (like McCaffrey, first woman to get it), which is the only way she could get that thing. Same with NK Jemisin (tho god forbid you accept a Black woman until 2016, and where's Octavia Butler's novel award? She got em for short story and novelette, but she wrote more than that. And better than a lot of the chucklefucks on that list). Rowling? Ugh. Plenty more deserving than her. But less rich and privileged, right?

See that's the thing. People like Heinlein and Card are all "Oh, I hate affirmative action" but these fuckers managed to ride on the wings of mediocrity, buoyed up by their very privilege to get praised for what, exactly?

I'm sorry. They just ain't very good.

And I mean, Iain M Banks might've been a yt cishet man, but I guess socialist sci fi that made my nonbinary butt cheer was too much for em as well. Specially in the 80s.

That's why Larry what's his fuckin name, the Sad Puppies dickhead was all up in arms, cause "Noo...it must only be right-wing yt cishet men winning or..."

Or maybe you're a shit author, Larry, if even with the odds stacked that heavily in your favour, you still can't get one. Ha. I'm sure you're good at accountancy, tho. Maybe. Or maybe not.

"You can't just criticise the art, only the arti..."

Yeah. I fuckin can. Cause that's part of the point. It's historically been fuckers called Cecil and fuckin whatever who ain't really that good who get published, and get awards over better writers.

And what about writers who ain't from the US or UK? Well? Says it's allowed to be a translation. Plenty of good writers out there.

Tho not enough have been published, cause the publishing houses are bigots too.

And fuckin Martin, praising Lovecraft.

Lovecraft was a racist, and also, couldn't write for shit. Most ppl can write better than Lovecraft, and he got a retrospective short story one.

Mary Shelley shits over his trash.

And now R.F Kuang and Xiran Jay Zhao excluded for speakin up about Palestine etc?

Fuck that.

Pissed off I gotta ruin this nice new phone of mine by puttin crap like watsapp on it so I can communicate with my family across the planet.

I'm doin this shit under duress, Zuck.

Eh, it's either that, or a downloading a bloatload of other apps that don't communicate with one another which would leave us all confused and annoyed.

I need more energy to be this tired.

There. Created a paradox. Now them fancy philomasofical societies gotta let me into their fuckin dinner parties.

(trashes table) "hegel was a fuckin protofascist and you're a buncha fuckin pompous windbags, yeah, you wanna fight, professor, you fuckin got it"

I'd be very fun.

The Israeli government continues its genocide.

Some news is coming out again.

IOF raiding Gaza City and Nuseirat Refugee Camp. Again.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2024/28-january-40-dead-in-israeli-raids-on-homes-and-apartments

IOF is also bombing Nuseirat Refugee Camp. Again.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2024/28-january-23-dead-in-an-israeli-bombing-that-targeted-a

Gaza City itself is under every kind of IOF military strike.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2024/28-january-airplanes-launch-a-series-of-violent-raids-on

Khan Yunis a damn mess. Constant bombardment has annihilated infrastructure. Nasser Hospital is without power.
https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=1162158

And was already operating on damn near no supply. 95% of staff have fled to Rafah.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/1/27/israels-war-on-gaza-live-hospital-blackout-amid-khan-younis-assault

Rafah, where they are fleeing to, itself is immensely overcrowded.
https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/world/gazas-rafah-is-dangerously-overcrowded-as-israel-pushes-people-south/video/d21c2a1db9d05cde1af39918e1ce949b

Al Shifa Medical Complex has to operate under dire conditions, as IOF concentrates on Gaza City after the wholesale destruction of Khan Yunis.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2024/28-january-an-israeli-warplane-raid-near-alshifa-medical

This is the largest hospital in Gaza, and was the one under siege by IOF late last year.
Under false pretences.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/17/idf-evidence-so-far-falls-well-short-of-al-shifa-hospital-being-hamas-hq

The WHO reported there were no functional hospitals in Gaza as of the week before Christmas last year.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/22/world/society/gaza-hospitals-function-stop/

The situation is *worse* than this now.

Just outside the Bethlehem area in the West Bank, IOF raids are ongoing.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2024/28-january-israeli-security-forces-storm-the-town-of-husan

This is *not* a conclusive and comprehensive report.

This is just a fraction of what is going on down there.

To cover all of it, impossible.

The streets are flooded. Sewage systems failing. Water shortages. Lack of food. Lack of medical facilities.

While Palestinians sleep in the damn streets cause the so-called safe spaces ain't even safe.

Most of Gaza's population was already displaced at the end of last year.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/most-gazas-population-remains-displaced-and-harms-way

And. It. Is. *Worse*. Now.

And *still* Netanyahu's forces attack people who have less than nothing. Brutally attacking refugee camps, hospitals, people in damn tents. WIth mortars and bombs and bullets and shells.

And this ain't just in Gaza.
Last year, personal attacks on Palestinians in tents in the West Banks as well. Bedouin gatherings under attack from settlers. Still ongoing? Who damn well knows? It's hard enough to get info out, let alone cover everything.
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231228-israeli-settlers-pour-nitric-acid-on-palestinian-tent-in-occupied-west-bank/

And more. Always more.

12 Israeli government ministers from Likud and 15 coalition lawmakers are calling for settlements in the Gaza Strip, not seen since 2005.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/12-ministers-call-to-resettle-gaza-encourage-gazans-to-leave-at-jubilant-conference/

The Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir is pushing hard for this takeover.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-settlers-hold-conference-resettlement-gaza-2024-01-28/

While the bombs fall, the tanks fire, the bullets fly, the artillery shells, and more, and more, and more rain down on Gaza.

*This* is the state of affairs.

*This* is a genocide.

Free Palestine.

(If criticism of a major political party upsets you, maybe stop reading)

Well, the Dem not-really-a-primary-but-kinda is um...interesting, ain't it?

Lessee, we got:

- Joe "You have to be this yt and also a US citizen to count as a human being" Biden

- Marianne "I sure hope nobody remembers the medical misinformation I was spreadin in the 90s" Williamson

- RFK "If it weren't for nepotism I'd just be trolling 4chan or some shit" Jr (dropped out in October)

aaand

- Dean "Nobody even knows who I am except I'm very very rich" Phillips

I mean...it's not a great lineup, is it?

Me: "This big box. It's gotta go. It's been here for months, it takes up half the room, and I can't keep lookin for somewhere to stash it when we got inspection and..."

Cat: (stares)

Me: "You have all these things to play with and big towers and..."

Cat: (stares, puts paw on box)

Me: (turns to my partner) "You seein this?"

My partner: (laughing her ass off)

Me: (turning to the cat) "Look. It's gotta be done. I am, after all one take-no-shit, tough..."

Cat: (still looking at me)

Me: (sighs) "The box stays."

My partner: (absolutely losing her shit laughing and rolling off the couch)

This ain't exhaustive. It never is. It's just an idea of what goes on.

And you know, a lot of stuff involving IOF bombing refugee camps, hospitals and so on has done the rounds Cause They Keep Doing It.

Well, even when it ain't marked as a refugee camp, so many are displaced (most of the population of Gaza - look it up), that the whole damn place is pretty much a refugee camp now.

In Khan Yunis, again, IOF continues airstrikes.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-january-planes-launch-a-series-of-air-strikes-on-khan

Do you know there are tent camps there?
https://apnews.com/article/palestinians-refugees-israel-gaza-hamas-civilians-siege-3f55618a0672c839afe961c8aaa2b7ea

And a lot of tents have already been bulldozed. While IOF were bulldozing hospitals.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-bulldozes-gaza-refugee-tents-buries-alive-dozens

The reporter on that story, btw, Anas Al-Sharif, his father was killed by IOF. When they blew up a refugee camp. After that reporter was continually threatened by IOF for Doing. His. Job. As. A. Journalist.
https://cpj.org/2023/12/father-of-al-jazeeras-anas-al-sharif-killed-in-gaza-after-journalist-receives-threats/

There's reports these tents are gettin bombed and shit, if you're blanket bombing the damn place, of course that's gonna happen.

This ordnance can take out buildings.

How much fuckin chance do ya think some poor bastard in a tent has?

And there's folks who've been all "Well, might as well stay in the ruins of my bombed out home, cause the alternative is a tent in a camp.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/20/better-than-a-tent-the-family-living-in-ruins-of-their-home-in-gaza

That was in November. Is that house still standing? Are these ppl still around? Who knows?

And it ain't all in Gaza. look at Nablus, look at Hebron, etc.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2024/14-january-palestinian-ministry-of-health-two-young-palestinians

And Netanyahu's government has vowed 'not to stop' the genocide on Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/14/israel-vows-not-to-stop-as-gaza-death-toll-nears-24000-on-day-100-of-war

Usin young conscripted Israelis to commit war crimes on Palestinians.

And that guy, even when he was winnin elections, didn't even get a quarter of the vote. Then there's his coalition.

And there's ppl riskin it all to refuse to participate in this.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/27/who-are-the-israeli-refuseniks-picking-jail-over-the-gaza-war

Shit, there are Jewish folks who get arrested just for visitin family in Israel cause they didn't enlist with the damn IOF.

How do I know this? *Cause I know Jewish ppl this has happened to*. From ppl visitin Ma then gettin locked up over the holidays to young naive lefties all "Hey, maybe I work a kibbutz. Wait, this is an illegal settlement? Fuck this, I'm out, no wait, I'm bein arrested"

And tryin to protest national service? Yeah. Good luck with that.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/dozens-arrested-as-hundreds-of-ultra-orthodox-jews-oppose-conscription/2minuz4dg

And there's Palestinians who get arrested by the Palestinian Authority only to get handed over to Israeli forces.

How do I know this? *Cause I know Palestinians this has happened to.*

Why the fuck do ya think the US is so buddy-buddy with the PA?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/17/pipe-dream-why-is-the-us-pushing-the-palestinian-authority-to-lead-gaza

And that's when they ain't bein 'arrested' and 'jailed' (Read: tortured) by Israeli forces direct.

And these folks get along with each other. I know this, cause I see it.

Folks round here are from everywhere. And we're all broke.

And most of the time, they don't wanna talk about it, so I don't ask. But sometimes they speak.

And when they speak, listen.

And free Palestine.

Able-bodied ppl need to understand that fightin for disabled ppl's rights is in their own interest too.

This "Must be productive and hussle and gain worth from it" crap is fuckin you up as well.

Oh, it's good to do stuff, but the expectation of "Put in a zillion hours per week or you don't get to eat" nonsense, it ain't no good. It's the shit they expect from you so powerful bastards can keep buildin their empires.

And fuck that shit.

Once again: if I see somebody bodyshaming or resorting to attacks on psychiatric issues (or equating them to evilness) instead of pointing out that Some Famous Asshole is, I dunno, a heinous shitgoblining crudfucker, here's what I think.

"Oh. You don't care about the content of someone's character, just the package that character comes in"

M'kay?

M'kay.

Yours,

Disabled person with brain that don't work too good who wants you to use your imagination for 5 goddamned minutes instead of buyin into lazy ableist eugenical rhetoric.

Removed my chin goatee and
🎵 regreeeets, I have a few,
Where'd my fuckin chin go
Did I leave it with you
My Mr Bean ass
Is lackin class
I made it gooo awaaaaaay 🎵

Apparently Greenpeace member Susi Newborn has passed away.

She was one of the crew of the original Rainbow Warrior.

Now, some ppl might not know the story of that first ship, but it leads to a much broader story.

Among the various actions the ship was used for was protesting against nuclear testing.

The French government had been doing this in the Pacific since 1966.

The Rainbow Warrior was also used to evacuate ppl from Rongelap to Mejato and Ebeye in 1985, as the entire place had become a radioactive unliveable hell due to intense US nuclear testing.
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/victories/rongelap-the-exodus-project/

And many others were turned from paradises into hells. Including - but not limited to - decades earlier, the total destruction of Bokonijien, Aerokojlol, Nam in Bikini Atoll
https://www.bikiniatoll.com/facts.html
and Āllokļap by the US in Enewetak atoll.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elugelab

All of these areas were subjected to intense explosions and high radiation for decades, so many, there would not be enough room to cover it all, and the effects of which would be felt long after these events. The US would stop their Pacific testing in 1963, as a result of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Proving_Grounds#Operation_Dominic_(1962)

Tho the US would continue testing within the US, with its own atrocities and consequences on people there, until 1992, due to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Julin

Britain's final nuclear test was also in the US. Nevada, 1991
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_nuclear_testing_in_the_United_States#Testing

However, French nuclear tests continued in the Pacific.

In 1985, the Rainbow Warrior was in Aotearoa after protesting and monitoring further French nuclear tests.

Which is when French government agents committed a terrorist act that destroyed the Rainbow Warrior, which had 10 crew onboard at the time. One photographer, Fernando Pereira, was killed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior

Some of the agents were captured.

And the French government lied about it. And lied some more. And continued to lie, and threatened economic embargoes.

One French agent who was not captured, likely the ringleader, was Louis-Pierre Dillais, a businessman who would later sell Belgian arms to the US.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/may/25/usnews.france

Eventually, some damages were paid, including money to Pereira's wife, which don't bring the man back from this - and let's be real clear on this - terrorist act by the French government. One of many.

In the wake of atrocities committed by France, the US, and Britain, (In Australia https://www.sprep.org/attachments/2012SM23/english/officials/WP_9.3.4_Att.3_-_Summary_of_nuclear_testing_in_the_Pacific_Region_1946-1996.pdf and Kiritimati https://theconversation.com/the-atomic-history-of-kiritimati-a-tiny-island-where-humanity-realised-its-most-lethal-potential-114870) in the Pacific region in their absolute imperialist, colonial arrogance.

France would continue to bombard Pacific islands with nuclear weapons for another 11 years.

In all, the Pacific region suffered nearly 200 nuclear devices from France alone.
https://www.abc.net.au/pacific/nuclear-testing-french-polynesia-hina-cross/102585930

The French tests ended in 1996.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%E2%80%9396_French_nuclear_tests

The consequences, still ongoing.

Because the powerful treated marginalised people as expendable.

Got annoyed at a Tesla driver for not putting their turn signal on (cause they are in the BMW/Merc Driver Club of Riddles) and realised it was on, but the rear ones are so fuckin small it's damn useless in the daytime.

There's a reason why indicators are big now. See if you can guess why.

The amount of times Nuseirat Refugee Camp alone has been bombed by the IOF through this is horrific.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/21-december-7-dead-and-injured-in-an-israeli-bombing-that

And once was evil enough.

Over and over and over again, all these places. All these homes. All these camps. All these hospitals. All these mosques. All these *people*

Know acts of evil when you see em.

End the genocide.

Free Palestine.

Jabalia Refugee Camp: again, heavily attacked by IOF.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/17/at-least-90-killed-in-latest-israeli-attacks-on-gazas-jabalia-refugee-camp

*They can't even move the fuckin rubble to bury dead ppl cause of the intensity of the IOF's firing*

Bureij Refugee camp: again, attacked by IOF, heavy artillery.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/17-december-palestinian-media-israeli-artillery-shelling

Nuseirat Refugee Camp:

- Entrance attacked by IOF.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/17-december-local-sources-an-army-targets-the-vicinity-of

- Houses in camp bombed by IOF.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/17-december-14-were-killed-in-an-israeli-bombing-that-targeted

- And hit with artillery.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/17-december-palestinian-media-israeli-artillery-shelling

Deir al-Balah and al-Maghazi refugee camps hit by artillery fire from IOF.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/17-december-israeli-artillery-shelling-on-deir-albalah-and

Rafah land crossing, the only exit, bombed by IOF - again.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/17-december-israeli-bombing-east-of-the-rafah-land-crossing

And there's ppl wantin to flee out that way, if they can raise the cash (and they sure ain't on this site, cause they'd get their accounts nixed by the big instances the moment they said "Pls help me get me and my family to safety in Egypt"), and if the damn border is even open, and even if that were to happen, they'd be fucked *cause the IOF is bombing the shit out of it*.

Which is largely academic, cause a hell of a lot of ppl down there don't even have the comms to be online.

They are kettled in.

That enough for you? Cause there's plenty more, as densely packed cities in Gaza are bein bombed, and refugee camps in the West Bank are bein raided.

And to every person down there, that's the whole world rn. That's their life.

There is no clean water (cause in Gaza, that's contingent on Israeli authorities and it gets cut off even at the 'best' of times https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/ ), there's no food, there's no facilities, medical, sanitary or otherwise. There's no sleep.

There is rampant disease. Cause a siege starves and infects on top of the loud brutality.
https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/gazas-water-crisis-puts-thousands-risk-preventable-death

And ppl who love them, family, friends, in a constant state of mourning.

Ffs, all it takes is to care about ppl. All it takes is to have some damn humanity in your soul to say "This is evil"

You might not be able to quantify evil, but you should know it when you damn well see it.

It's a damn genocide. It's mass murder.

There are no excuses for this.

Free Palestine.

@AnthonyJK Eyyyy! Glad to hear it!

School full of displaced ppl
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/4-december-the-bombing-of-salah-aldin-school-which-houses

Another school.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/4-december-victims-and-wounded-in-an-israeli-bombing-that

Hospital.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/4-december-artillery-targets-the-vicinity-of-kamal-adwan

Red Crescent unable to operate with what little resource they have already.
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/4-december-palestinian-red-crescent-we-were-completely-cut

Area round a hospital
https://israelpalestine.liveuamap.com/en/2023/4-december-violent-bombardment-around-nasser-hospital-in

Then there are all the civilian residences. All kettled in.

It's a genocide.

Free Palestine.

Nah nah I'm gonna go harder on this one, cause I saw some jerk all "If you ask for money, people are going to want to know why they should give it to you."

Fuk no.

I lived out on the street and y'know what we say?

"Spare some change?"

"Help a dude out?"

"Excuse me, could you possibly...?"

Man, people asking for your help are polite *enough* and givin you *enough* detail already.

You got a problem with that? Walk on by.

Then mind your business.

But don't go demanding someone's life story for some money you *might* think about giving em.

Cause you're the one wantin a free ride here with your demands for that info, not the person asking for a fraction of your humanity.

And this place...mm...and many places, there's a fuckin pecking order.

And there's a fuckin pecking order out on the street too.

Oh, I fuckin *know* this from experience.

I know *exactly* who gotta give their life story and fuckin evidence and receipts and fuckin pics of bills and photos and proof and all that shit.

Oh, I fuckin know. Cause I seen these privileged fucks crossin the road when they see someone they think ain't worthy enough of their fuckin buxx.

You can't bullshit me. I seen it *all*

I seen who gets money in their cap, in their tin, on their cardboard.

And I seen who ain't gettin shit.

So don't fuckin expect *no* fuckin explanation.

Unless someone volunteers that information.

And if you don't wanna give poeple nothin (or ya don't wanna give *certain* people nothin), that's between you and your conscience or your god or whatever.

But don't go makin excuses. Don't go saying "Oh, well, I thought they was *sus*..."

Cause I know what makes the privileged (and especially yt people) decide that shit.

Soak up that reality.

And fuckin do better.

Thank you and fuck that shit.