Luc Dockendorf

It's the chap from the Porto bottle

Pol Pot v. Enver Hoxha sounds like a fight club fantasy cooked up in a dark recess of some Cold War subreddit

a close up of a cartoon sheep with big eyes making a face . Alt: a close up of a Timmy the tiny sheep from Shaun the Sheep giving thumbs up as if to say “GO MARIA AND ROBIN!”

What wonderful news! Ready to preorder!

Y u no tag @claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social

LinkedIn is where it’s at [would you like to have this post rewritten by AI]

Oh no we just missed each other

@who.int is appalled by the latest evacuation order, demanding 1 million people to move from Gaza City to a “humanitarian zone” in the south.

To civilians: WHO and partners remain in Gaza City.

To the intl. community: Act.

This catastrophe is human-made, & the responsibility rests with us all.

So this is how an LLM really works

"Death, destruction, starvation and displacement of Palestinian civilians are the result of choices that defy international law and ignore the international community."

"We continue to insist that this horror can be stopped."

Myanmar: Rights investigators reveal ‘systematic torture’, sexual violence UN-mandated independent investigators have uncovered “systematic torture” in Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including beatings, electric shocks, strangulations and gang rape – a pattern...

New UN investigation reveals “systematic torture” in #Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including electrocution, strangulation and gang rape. The Generals responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable under international law.🇲🇲

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Cognitive dissonance-induced malicious compliance is a beautiful thing

Very sad. That’s what people call “pulling up the ladder behind oneself”. On the other hand, a helpful reminder that simply being a member of a (formerly) marginalised community does not confer magical immunity to bigotry. Although I’d hope this is a minority of former immigrants.

Q&A on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s highest court, issued a landmark advisory opinion on climate change and international law. In clear legal terms, the Court confi...

The #ICJ delivered a historic Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange that cuts through decades of delay, denial, & legal ambiguity. It did so with moral & legal clarity that leaves no doubt: states must act to prevent climate harm or be held legally responsible.

Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...

Türk: Israel’s plan for complete military takeover of Gaza must be immediately halted The Israeli Government’s plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted. It runs contrary to the ruling of the International Court of Justice that Israel m...

Volker Türk:
Israel’s “plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted.”
If executed, it “will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes.”
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Wrote about this sort of thing in my chapter in our book on the Arab state— with Israeli surveillance of Palestine the most dystopian case of information collection and lethal deployment which still failed to deliver control.

Bless OCHA for continuing to try.

Systematically obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid is against international humanitarian law and can be a war crime but cautious, hypothetical diplomatic language, slap bang in the middle of the genocide against the Gazans, really doesn't seem appropriate.

Now, questioning power is good. But questioning the guardrails that we have built over decades against unaccountable power, that's really fucking bad.

Not being able to tell the difference between the two kinds of questioning – that's an open door to fascism.

There was a saying somewhere that one of the defining features of fascism is that it constantly questions established consensus on, say, democracy, human dignity, and equality; but I can't remember who said/wrote this and where. Does anyone know?

80 Years After Hiroshima, Nuclear Risks Are Rising New channels of communication and wider support for the IAEA can help prevent catastrophe.

As we mark 80 years since Hiroshima, the global nuclear order is under real stress. Escalation risks in Europe, South Asia, and the Korean Peninsula are intensifying. It’s time for bold, preventive action.

My piece in @foreignpolicy.com

foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/05/h...

Scenario idea: the Knokke Heist

For anyone with a faltering memory: the Tigray war was fought from 2020-2022 (although violence and deaths continued for quite some time afterwards) and it was monstrous, with hundreds of thousands of deaths. There was even an international Commission of Inquiry: www.ohchr.org/en/hr-bodies...

It would be really interesting to learn what role this realisation played in building the much more egalitarian society that Finland is today, also because Finland is arguably one of the (or the) most resistant societies/polities to malicious foreign influence/information manipulation.

My thoughts exactly
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One very compelling reason to tax billionaires until they’re millionaires is not only that the money can used to fight poverty and the climate crisis, but also to get that money out of politics.

I can't remember off the top of my head who used this formulation first ("If Russia stops fighting, the war will end; if Ukraine stops fighting, Ukraine will end."), so can't properly attribute it, but it remains 100% true today.

Death toll from Russian strikes on Kyiv rises to 31 as Ukraine calls for UN security council meeting – Europe live Over 150 injured making Thursday one of the deadliest days for the Ukraine capital since start of war

Russia is waging a monstrous war of aggression against Ukraine and it can't be repeated often enough that the war would end TODAY if Russia stopped fighting and withdrew all of its forces from Ukraine's territory.

If Ukraine stopped fighting, Ukraine would end.

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

States & @UN @UNFCCC @UNDP have #HumanRights obligations to tackle #ConflictOfInterest linked to #FossilFuels at #COP30 in #Brazil

particularly after @CIJ_ICJ Opinion shorturl.at/Z0KAD

👉 shorturl.at/xcEzE

@srenvironment.bsky.social @caadcoalition.bsky.social @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social

Yes here is a list of receipts research.un.org/en/docs/sc/q...

A UN peacekeeping force under Chapter VII of the UN Charter needs to be authorised by the UN Security Council and the resolution setting up the mandate would require 9 out of 15 votes and no dissenting vote from one of the Council's permanent members.

quoteinvestigator.com/2016/01/05/d...