Jewish communities are living in fear amid rising antisemitism, including these appalling arson attacks. We must confront this.

At the same time, antisemitism is being weaponised to shut down criticism of the Israeli government.

Both are true. Both deeply concerning. Both Antisemitic.

I’m old I participated and voted for change for 50 years. I watched women get some rights and the extraordinary changes we made. LA used to be so smoggy you couldn’t breathe. I saw real change only to see Trump & Musk take a wrecking ball to it all, and fill his cabinet with unqualified Reeks.

#slowwormoftheday

Hier so.

Does that go for violence against men too?Or the Quran? No pages torn, no crime?

No Bones Broken, No Crime Committed: Inside the Taliban’s New Rules on Violence Against Women KABUL, April 21 (IPS) - The Taliban have announced new laws that effectively legalise domestic violence against women and children. Afghanistan’s supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, signed a decree introducing a new criminal code in January. It contains three parts, ten chapters, and 119 articles that legalise violence, codify social inequality, and introduce punitive measures widely condemned as a return to slavery.

No Bones Broken, No Crime Committed: Inside the #Taliban’s New Rules on Violence Against Women

Taliban laws legalize domestic violence and criminalize women's speech about it.

They systematically deny women justice, punishing them for seeking help from their own families. They think this is normal

The sign said
straight ahead
but we still walked
a crooked path

finding side roads
where there
were none,
winding our way
around mountains
of our own making,
ignoring all
the markers
of danger

knowing in the end,
it mattered more
that we'd made
the journey  
together.

#mpprompt

Sex bias against women skews government violence statistics The extent of violence in England and Wales, especially against women, is obscured by official government statistics, a new study reveals. Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, and La...

"Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, and Lancaster University, have found that government statistics on violent crime underestimate the extent and severity of #violence against #women by as much as 39%, and underestimate violent crime against #men by 26%." phys.org/news/2026-04...

xAI promised to cut “whatever was unnecessary” to make delivery of AI as efficient + cost-effective as possible

Apparently, people's drinking water is considered "unnecessary"

In the billionaire mindset, people's survival is secondary to relentless pursuit of profit

Tiny #slowwormoftheday

#stopviolenceagainnstwomen
#StopptdieGewaltanFrauenundMädchen #Ukraine #niunamenos
#Ulm
#crochet #microactivism

Und das, obwohl die Hemmschwelle, sexualisierte Gewalt anzuzeigen (hoffentlich jedenfalls) gesunken ist.

97,7 % aller Deutschen haben im vergangenen Jahr keine Straftat begangen – und 95,2 % aller Ausländer auch nicht, wenn man ausländerrechtliche Verstöße herausrechnet. Der Unterschied verschwindet, wenn man bedenkt, dass etwa ein Viertel aller Tatverdächtigen Ausländer gar nicht in Deutschland lebt.

Ich hasse das Geräusch, wenn unsere sauer verdienten Steuermillionen auch durch die Auspuffrohre von Porsche- Ulfs purzeln. Kann das Deutschlandticket stattdessen nicht wieder neun Euro kosten?

#spotofcolouronagreyday
#ulm #nolongerthehighestchurchspireintheworld ...

Unless you want this:
#streetart #ulm

#Stopbombingcivilians!!!
Can't say this often enough!

#thicktrunktuesday by the canal for @stef2ulm.bsky.social

#lifeinthecracks

#viewfromthetrain

Amnesty International Jahresbericht 2025/26 | Amnesty International Österreich 2025 war das Jahr, in dem die Welt an den Rand einer neuen, gefährlichen Ära gekommen ist. Auch in Österreich kam es zu einer schleichenden Erosion von Grundwerten. Leisten wir Widerstand!

Wie steht es heute um die Menschenrechte weltweit?

Der Amnesty-Jahresbericht 2025/26 zeigt:
Immer mehr Staaten setzen auf das „Recht des Stärkeren“ mit Krieg, Unterdrückung und wachsender Straflosigkeit.

Doch Widerstand wächst.✊

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Picasso’s Guernica is the ultimate emblem of the horrors of war. It has no place in Spain's partisan squabbles | María Ramírez Forty years after the 1937 masterpiece returned to Madrid from its Franco-era exile in New York, it is again embroiled in politics, says Spanish journalist María Ramírez

This piece by @mariaramirez.bsky.social tells the incredible journey of Picasso's 'Guernica', from fundraising tool to global piece icon. A painting that's travelled thousands of miles, hung behind a bulletproof glass and been embraced in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan
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Der Beratungsstelle ZARA, die Opfern von Hass im Netz hilft, wird die staatliche Förderung gestrichen. Das ist verständlich, schließlich ist das Internet in den letzten Jahren zu einem Ort der Herzenswärme geworden, alle setzen sich nun für Fairness ein, besonders US-Techmilliardäre und ihre Firmen.

Good morning for this weeks #ThickTrunkTuesday
a tree being given a helping hand. Seen at Killerton, Devon #Trees

A thick trunk sitting amid the Bluebells. Happy Tuesday to you all. #ThickTrunkTuesday.

Tatsächliche Stromkosten: Trotz Netzausbaukosten sind Erneuerbare am günstigsten - Golem.de Berücksichtigt man Speicher- und Stabilisierungskosten sowie den Netzausbau, bleiben Erneuerbare dennoch am günstigsten - unter einer Bedingung.

www.golem.de/news/tatsaec...

#thicktrunkTuesday

Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

1984 ...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...