Notices by sheislaurence (sheislaurence@mastodon.social)

Two #goodhabits for the #newyear that are surprisingly easy to do and are already #makingadifference:
- muting (large) accounts in the #trending section that are doing various forms of clickbait, because even in the #fediverse #ragebaiting #cutevideos #AIslop (AI slop with a leftist slant still is AI slop) are rife.
- ignoring #comments from people who keep missing the point willfully or from sheer ignorance. My time is sacred.

#mentalhealth #resolutions

The #Somali #trolling of #Trump is really next level 😅. When I see that, I realise the kids are really alright, they see through all the bullshit and master the codes in their sleep. https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/promised-land-somali-americans-flip-trumps-attack-global-meme

#Somalia #Minnesota

RE: https://mastodon.social/@outsiderhope/115368770586801530

I have just been working away at launching a new #media channel about #hope. It features interviews of #activists finding hope in action, as well as non-activists simply having an instinct for what they need to do to generate hope for themselves, their loved ones, and their #community. Thanks for your #reposts, #boosts and #follows 🙏🏽

Welcome me on mastodon.social🥳 ! I migrated from mastodon.green after a number of disagreements there, including the refusal to cover non-Western #languages (the excuse was technical but many #serveradmins believe it is ideological -even blocking it- & I am starting to believe it). The last straw was when my post about the pro #Palestinian #demo in #London was struck down, when I dared mention many #Jews were not #zionists. I will therefore repost it here right away 😀

@aral it is a massive shift, given how repugnant the #EBU has been year after year, penalising anyone that showed solidarity, ignoring boycott requests, pretending #Russia was any different and layering it all with a fake peace message. #Israel know it's big too. My concern now is BECAUSE Israel know the tide is turning, they are rushing to finish the job.

Follow Novaramedia or anyone on the #flotilla for live updates. #FrancescaAlbanese (#UN special rapporteur) happened to be on site in #Tunisia, she is on the verge of tears. If you are in #London on Tuesday 9th (today), head to #DowningStreet at 6pm, where #Palestine Solidarity campaign will protest the presence of Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president wanted by the #ICJ.

#BREAKING 🚨!! A #drone just hit the #sumud #flotilla boat #gretathunberg and #novaramedia #journalist Kieran Andrieu are staying on. This happened in #Tunis, as the flotilla was moored. The fact #Israel is left to target #civilians outside its jurisdiction with impunity is wild. Demonstrate wherever you are!

#freepalestine #gaza #breakingnews

🧵3/3: please help share that #Palestinian song far and wide, #repost #retoot. While it talks about #Jamal, Ahmed posted it straight after the killing of #Anas & #Aljazeera journalists & dedicated it "to #truth". To support Ahmed, #GazaBirdsSing and #music in #Gaza, please consider giving to his GoFundMe. Given the price of a bag of flour is between $300 to $700, his total currently covers less than one loaf of bread a day for 6 months. https://www.gofundme.com/f/hello-peace-help-innocent-people-to-survive

#FreePalestine @Palestine

🧵2/3: Ahmed is using the sound of an incessant #Israeli #drone over #Gaza to pitch his #singing. Miraculously, it remains stable for the entire song, when they usually change pitch making their presence unbearable.The song is about #Jamal carrying a load, a direct reference to a 14 y.o. boy who defied gunfire at a #GHF food distribution point to carry a bag of flour half his weight for 2 hours to feed his sisters https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestine/comments/1mln8f1/jamal_the_14_yearold_boy_who_walked_152_hours/. Ahmed's last notes, mixed drone-free, are haunting

🧵1/3: It is increasingly difficult to watch #Palestinian #musician Ahmed Muin Abu Amsha from #GazaBirdsSinging getting more emaciated every time he posts a new video, where he will yet again give his all to make children of #Gaza forget the horrors of #genocide through the beauty of #music. And the fact that in spite of everything he is succeeding is a testament to the extraordinary resilience & beauty of the Palestinian people. This particular song completely broke me and here is why...

@fesshole though it totally makes sense, i never realised male cats had nipples. Glad to die less ignorant now.

@aral I think that's the aim of Aug 9th from #DefendOurJuries https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i8_mrhdM3EtVnvK0uBxFWyJrt8NcR8JorlOBJTS97nQ/edit?tab=t.0

3/3🧵: as #graduation season is in full swing, #UK #students from top #universities are staging #protests in support of #Palestine. On Thursday #Cambridge #university students waved #Palestinian flags and/or #keffiyeh, wearing traditional dress at their graduation ceremony and demanded their uni follow Kings' example and #divest from #Israel & #genocide.

2/3🧵: a couple of hours later, an even larger #walkout was staged by the under/post grad #students of political & social science of #Edinburgh #university, leaving the #graduation ceremony hall mostly empty. The #uni now has a stark choice: the money from its financial entanglement with #Israel and companies that actively enable #genocide in #Gaza, or the money and the brains of its students. ✊🏽🇵🇸

1/3🧵: This is how #protest movements reach a #tippingpoint 🥲. #Edinburgh #university, a #uni that was named in the #UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's report about #Gaza #genocide enablers, saw its PhD #students walk out en masse from their own #graduation ceremony on Friday. Hear those who think they are the majority shout "shut up" until they come to realise the majority is loudly, clearly and beautifully supporting #Palestine and #divestment.
https://www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/7nhe6nfect3a9djkczclnakgp6m9zc

If you wonder what you can do for #Palestine, your time will come sooner than you are ready for. Dock #workers in #France, #Greece & #Italy are refusing to load military equipment destined for #Israel. A #genocide requires a lot of logistics/resources, so much so that all levels of society are involved. Be there and be counted when it creeps into your meetings, your procurement reviews, your accounting, orders, shifts, artistic opportunities...

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/10/workers-in-europe-refuse-cargo-to-israel-our-solidarity-is-with-the-oppressed-not-with-war-criminals/

#Gaza #Maersk #F35

🧵1/2: It's legally incomprehensible the #UK #SupremeCourt should have upheld the government's decision to outlaw #PalestineAction as a #terrorist organisation: it's unenforceable. I don't believe the chilling effect will work & the arrest of 25 citizens holding signs today proves it. There are too many people alienated by #Labour's hostile & #austerity policies who have a lot of time on their hands & nothing left to lose, incl. 1000s of #pensioners screwed over by the #winterfuel payment cuts

10 days after appearing in court for #terrorism charges, and 2 days before their #Glastonbury performance, which still faces threats of being cancelled (as other #festivals have done) and/or removed from #BBC broadcast, #Kneecap have just cocreated and released a video: "we are not the story", proceeding to illustrate the legal definition of #genocide with testimonies from medical staff and #Palestinian casualties in #Gaza. ✊🏽#Repost #retoot #boycott #divest #bds

https://stopthegenocide.info/

🧵 2/4: Unsurprisingly, the main theme of the #Palestine Solidarity march in #London today was around the murder of #children in #Gaza, with death toll, standing at least at over 15k according to Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-has-israels-gaza-offensive-killed-2025-01-15/

More than any other conflicts together. Let that sink in: 15,000 to 18,500 children killed.

#genocide #Israel

🧵 1/4: Today was the largest UK #Palestine Solidary Campaign #demonstration I have attended since October 23. It marked 77 years since the #Nakba. I estimated 380/400k, organisers half a million and the police... 20k, the most egrarious figure I've ever heard. That would mean previous rainy demos were around 5k, which is violently deranged. There's ZERO #media coverage bar ONE Independent article quoting 20k. This blanket silence is deafening.

#Gaza #righttoprotest #genocide #london