Waffles the #cat

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #tripawed #ThreeLeggedCat #catstodon

How can this be. How can the killing and destruction go on and on and on. How can a refugee camp be bombed and there be no outrage or reaction. How can US continue supplying arms when there is a new invasion. And what has happened to ceasefire negotiations after Israel’s latest rejections?

Israel pushes further into parts of north Gaza; new cracks in Netanyahu coalition | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-killed-wounded-israeli-forces-thrust-deeper-gazas-jabalia-rafah-2024-05-18/

Frozen Garlic reflects on Tsai Ing-wen's eight years in office with a focus on her relationship with the military

"I think one of the biggest changes over the last eight years has been how the DPP – party elites, party loyalists, and ordinary people with slight DPP sympathies – thinks about the military."

https://frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2024/05/19/tsais-legacy/

#Taiwan #military #DPP

Tsai’s legacy

As we come to the final days of the Tsai administration, I feel like I should write something for this blog. The biggest problem for me that there are too many good topics to write about. I could t…

^{Frozen Garlic}

A day of mourning will be declared in Kharkiv region tomorrow, May 20 - OVA

The occupiers killed 11 people as a result of shelling in the villages of Kivsharivka, Novoosynove Kupyansk and Malodanylivka. A pregnant woman is among the dead. 🕯

#RussiaIsATerroristState #StandWithUkraine #UkraineWar

"The United States and Europe are coalescing around a plan to use interest earned on frozen Russian central bank assets to provide Ukraine with a loan to be used for military and economic assistance."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/us/politics/russian-assets-help-ukraine.html

"However, using the interest as the basis for a loan could provide Ukraine with a much larger amount of money — potentially as much as $50 billion — up front. [...] It also remains unclear how the loan would be repaid if the war ended before the bond matured or if interest rates fell, making the proceeds on the assets insufficient to repay the loan."

Chris Grey, brilliant on why the Tories cannot/will not mention Brexit this year:

The Tory leadership 'can’t claim Brexit to be a success, because those who do not have a foundational belief in its rightness can clearly see it has failed, whilst those for whom its rightness is a foundational belief also believe that it has been betrayed. But it can’t denounce Brexit as a failure or a betrayal, since it is the Brexit the Tory leadership actually delivered'!

#brexit

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-hard-brexit-addiction.html

you can't set calendars to "repeat on the solstice" so I made a public calendar so folks can have @brainwane's Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day on their calendars every year, not just this year: https://cloud.strugee.net/remote.php/dav/public-calendars/BnEecc5pMWdzToMx?export #PyConUS #PyCon2024

(feel free to help me figure out how to compute the eclipses in Python so I don't have to fill it in manually!)