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Many in our media are finally waking up to the unspeakable horrors that Palestinians are enduring in Gaza. It is too late. Israel inflicted these horrors because they were encouraged to do so, in part by a media class that failed to treat all human life with equal worth.

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Palestine is the rock on which the West will break itself. Put yourself in the shoes of people in the global South. For nearly two years they have watched how Western leaders, who love to talk about human rights and the rule of law, are happy to shred all these values in the most spectacular displays of hypocrisy in order to prop up their military proxy-state as it openly conducts genocide and ethnic cleansing against an occupied people, even in the face of *overwhelming* international condemnation. What do you think people in the South are supposed to conclude from this? What would *you* conclude from this in their position? Decades of Western propaganda have been shattered, this time in full technicolour. Western governments have made it clear that they do not care about human rights and the rule of law when it comes to people of colour, the global majority. They spit on humanity. 500 years on from the beginning of the European colonial project and they have hardly changed in this regard. If you think people will be willing to tolerate this going forward, you are mistaken. As Southern states begin to develop the capacity to reject Western hegemony, they will not hesitate to do so. In the 21st century, the West will find itself isolated from the world majority, and the world will move on without them. If Western governments had any sense they would realise this fact, work to re-establish the rule of law, and try to establish the moral basis for mutual respect and cooperation with the rest of the world.

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Share widely please. This is where mainstream media is now.

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The beer is bought, the pizza is ordered, now it's time to introduce our two speakers for tomorrow's meetup! ⏲️7pm 📅Thurs 29th August 📍Vault Artist Studios - Marlborough House There'll be food, drink and merch, courtesy of our wonderful sponsors @supabase!

* @belfastjs Meetup - Thursday 7pm, Belfast * @belfastjs is one of my favourite tech meetups, it makes a welcome return this week Pizza, beer & talks about dashboards, @PostgreSQL & @supabase Sure, what else could be better on a Thursday evening? meetup.com/belfast-js/eve…

Belfast JS Meetup is this one week away! Next Thursday, 7pm at @VaultArtistsNI. There'll be pizza, beer and some sweet @supabase swag to take home with you! ✨ We're still on the look out for another speaker, so if you're interested, get in touch! tinyurl.com/yt9wprra

We're looking for one final speaker for our @supabase sponsored Belfast Javascript meetup event - interested? Feel free to get in touch. More event info below: meetup.com/belfast-js/eve…

📢CALL OUT FOR SPEAKERS📢 Have you played with a PostgreSQL Dashboard project? Are you an expert in edge functions? We wanna hear about it! Whilst topics about @supabase's platform are preferred this is not a requirement. Interested? DM us or email belfastjsmeetup@gmail.com

Having fun with Chrome extensions this week. Blog post and example repo if it helps anyone: productiveprogrammer.io/getting-starte… github.com/conorw/browser…

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@_thunk_ cheers andy! I owe a lot to @belfastjs and @supabase, so it was great to give something back

Really enjoyed your talk Conor 👍🏻 @productiveprog

📢SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Our third speaker at the upcoming #jsmeetup is Conor woods, who will be giving us a talk on how to utilize @supabase webhooks to trigger 3rd party services when something happens in your app/website. Hope to see you all there!