This is the second time I’m hearing stark criticism of The Canary. Thanks for the info, I’ll try to be more critical with their stories.

Lmao, longer than my longest relationship ever.

I’ve felt more intense connection in more open relationships with massive breaks and stuff than “being together” ones.
I’ve made out with random people on the street, had short flings, one-sided relationships, etc. all these experiences helped in a crazy number of ways. I definitely have a very clear idea of what works for me and what doesn’t now, which I didn’t have back then.

It actually disgusts me to think of someone having a side-piece. I think it’s dehumanizing.

But I’m not here to tell you what to do :)

Yeah, visibility/exposure carries risks. But it also provides protection.

I decided not to care. It’s a risk I’m willing to take, and whatever may come, I won’t regret it.

All I wanted to do was make people feel some fun and giggles.

To keep people down, they literally have algorithms to make people miserable and hateful. So in a way, you can become a target, and I’m not even joking. Also, people just wanting to kill light, I guess.

If you decide to keep this account, I’d suggest not deleting it in the event that something should happen, and then document everything. There’s more motivation for a crime in darkness than one in broad daylight.

I’m sorry if this is a bit rough to read. I don’t think anything will happen, and certainly hope so. But I thought I’d share some basic security I believe in, for the rather open way in which you engage with this platform, to maybe make you feel safer.

Thanks for the heads up. That’s good to know.

You accuse me of phobia.

No, I don’t. That was referring to the parent post.
Thanks for the lesson in not engaging in arguments unless absolutely necessary. What a fucking shit show.

Then can you, please, extend your respect and kindness to not indulge the actual transphobic misinformation there? As well as not stoking the flames over a single downvote? This shit is derailing the fun thread.

Saw a thread about putting together your favorite food and a diagnosis to make up a name. So I used that when asked for a username, but miss-typed ‘taco’. At the time I thought I was cis, so it’s kinda nice to have a more nb fitting username carry over.

In the name of the hiss, the scratch, and the holy meow, I hereby assign you a cat at birth, postnatally.

Ooooooooom

(>^‎ _^)><(‎ ^‎ _‎ ^‎ )><(^‎ _‎^<)

🧙🐱🐈🧙

It’s done. You’re ACAB now.

By noticing people complaining about it :) Also being aware of certain biases and such, and looking for the existence of posts that would be deleted if the bias was heavy, etc.

Sure, some stuff might fall under the radar or stay for a long time, definitely a thing.

I think many people feel this way, and I think in many cases another thing that plays into it is not realising the amount of good moderators, because good moderation usually doesn’t make as much noise as when it’s bad.

If I think of all the communities in lemmy/piefed I like, the perfect/near perfect moderation from my browsing heavily outweighs anything problematic.

KMFDM - I get it now
FLØRE - super cringe and lacking depth, but I still love it 😊

Getting pissed at the noise kids make outside, playing.

Depends on the situation. But generally agree with the top comment.

Recently a cop help me with something not so super legal. Was kinda hilarious as neither of us knew about the other until we casually talked about work and he showed his badge. He was really sweet, and just hated his job. Lost soul. Hope he finds a better way. But he’s still a cop, so I ultimately wouldn’t trust him.

Also living in the ME, so I have some personal interest. After what I’ve heard and looked at, I personally put the risk of escalating regionally at extremely low right now.

I heard people I respect talk about it in ways I enjoyed :)

The public feed, rules, etc. also looked like a good match for me. And I’m absolutely grateful to be able to post from here!

We have the same evidence, I can’t really add anything concrete to it.

What’s your point? That it’s more likely this was a self-sabotage? Or that it’s still a possibility? Without concrete evidence, I don’t know. And I don’t really wanna theorize, but having focused on this story, I care about the girls and the people at the school and their relatives. They are not just numbers. So I’ve thought about this a bit as well.

If they [the aggressors] missed that there is a fucking school with very young school girls as part of the compound, then it’s an intelligence failure and still the aggressor’s responsibility to have caused this tragedy through their shit senseless offensive. And if they did know, they failed a moral test by attack anyway.

I don’t accept that they needed to kill them as part of war strategies. Expect some damn accountability. That includes if Iran self-struck, but even that, as you claim being a rumoured strategy, is also something the aggressors should’ve known about.

I apologize, and thank you for your patience. I didn’t quite get your point about origin of strike.

It sounds pretty damn dodgy to me. But, yes, there is no verification of the strike’s origins to my knowledge.

Actually there is at least some verifying material:

From the last image of the Factmeh presentation

A map of the “Asef Guards Barracks” area shows that the Shajareh Tayyebeh IRGC Navy Girls’ School is located within the compound.

However, so far, the attacks of the US and Israel against Iran have been very precise and only legitimate military targets and personnel have been hit.

For that to be true, you’re gonna have to discount all this (more pending):

• school staff eye-witnesses speak of the strike, including of rescue efforts that match Revolutionary Guard footage shared on telegram.
• factchecking service used by major news org verifies video of the site-post impact.
• reuters verifies the same video
• Journalist in Iran aljazeera trusts enough to use his reporting ON IRAN, says there is more verification beyond the governmental statements.

Honestly, I shouldn’t even be listing these, when they are almost as concisely available in the linked updates.

https://piefed.social/comment/10332190

It’s also not unheard of that Israel targets schools, children, incubators, etc. on purpose and washes the narrative by targeting journalists and lying.

Like, has Germany even started calling it a genocide yet? You say it’s typical Iran. But do you acknowledge, it’s typical Israel that their horrors immediately get denied, put into question, etc.?

No, journalists allowed into the country do not count, as they only get to report what the regime allows them to.

Iran is not the US or Europe, and you won’t see much of reality if you only accept it on a silver-platter.

Do actual eye-witnesses count, at least?

God, this is complicated. Top-level comment of where I wanted to micro-update got deleted.

So, it will be here. Though, I don’t think there will be much more to say.

earlier update

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Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Vall said of the attack on the girls’ school, “There are new reports confirming the number of people killed in that strike has now gone above 40. […]”

Recent updates

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A staff member at the Minab school, who asked not to be named, told Middle East Eye she remains in shock at the intensity of the attack.

Through tears, she said she used to watch the young girls playing at school every day. After today’s strikes, however, she saw their bodies lying on classroom benches and in different corners of the school.

Pinging @[email protected] FYI

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Death toll rises to 85, according to Iranian judiciary.

At least 85 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, the Iranian judiciary said.

Also,

There were 170 female students at the school at the time of the attack. So far, at least 45 people have also been reported wounded.

The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran’s Tasnim and Fars news agencies.

UTC: 17:29 update

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Capt Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for US Central Command, said he was “aware of reports” that a girls’ school was struck and they were looking into them.

UTC: 18:15 update

Video circulating on social media of the site post-impact. I can’t verify the authenticity of this.

UTC: 19:43 update

The Guardian published an article with more information on this at 18.28 GMT.

Persian factchecking service Factnameh was able to cross-reference the video with other photographs of the school site, and concluded that the video was authentic. Reuters said it had also verified the footage as being from the school.

The school appears to be adjacent to a Revolutionary Guards barracks. If the death toll is confirmed, the school bombing would be the largest mass casualty event of the US-led attack so far.

UTC: 20:29 update

Here’s a imginn.com frontend link to the instagram post by Persian factchecking service Factnameh. It’s a mini presentation about the event.

Also

Middle East Eye has a more complete article now.

After hearing the blast, she [staff at the school MEE says they interviewed] ran back towards the school and was faced with a scene she says she would never forget.

“I felt like I had gone mute. I couldn’t speak,” the staff member told MEE. “You could hear the sound of children crying and screaming.”

When rescue teams arrived, she said, they began to understand the scale of the disaster.

“We still don’t know how many are under the rubble. Some are even saying more than 100. Some of these small children are severely injured. Their parents have come to the school, and this place has turned into a house of mourning.”

The air strike on the school left many inside the building trapped beneath the rubble.

There were 170 female students at the school at the time of the attack. So far, at least 45 people have also been reported wounded.

Footage posted by Telegram accounts affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps appeared to show people digging through the rubble.

Smoke could be seen rising from surrounding buildings, while a wrecked car lay in the street. People were heard screaming and wailing; others appeared to be in shock.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi denounced the attack on X and said the deaths of the children would “not go unanswered”.

“The destroyed building is a primary school for girls in the south of Iran. It was bombed in broad daylight, when packed with young pupils,” he wrote.

“Dozens of innocent children have been murdered at this site alone.”

UTC: 21:38 ending updates