The US, as always, blocks progress and justice while the world moves towards a better future. The US is not a positive force in the world:
Norway, Spain and Ireland will soon be added to the UN document A/78/846 that contains all UN members that formally recognise the State of Palestine. ATM the document is also missing Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and The Bahamas, since the last update was 2020-04-09 and their letters arrived after that date. After the next update the list will have 146 entries of the 193 member states.
Ireland, Norway and Spain recognise Palestine as independent state | Sky News
Ireland, Norway and Spain have officially recognised Palestine as a separate state, prompting Israel to recall its ambassadors from two of the European states.
Speaking on Wednesday, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said: “Today Ireland, Norway and Spain are announcing that we recognise the state of Palestine, each of us will undertake whatever national steps are necessary to give effect to that decision.
“I am confident that further countries will join us in taking this important step in the coming weeks.”
I enjoyed reading this post by Apple Annie, a reflection on how she uses Mastodon and her difficulties with Micro.blog:
Micro.blog’s community approach is still a struggle for me. As I built my little communities across Mastodon instances I relied on the Local timelines of many instances to get a feel for their users and core conversations.
Reading this I realized that the micro.blog community timeline is just an overly restricted, locked-down and frustrating alternative to the more open experince of a Mastodon instance. I’ve been struggling for awhile to find “my people” on Micro.blog. The best solution is to stop struggling and follow and interact from my social.coop Mastodon account instead. And I follow most of those folks via RSS as well.
Annie describes this experience very well:
I also relied heavily on perusing follower lists of people I found interesting in order to find other interesting accounts to follow. Neither of those things are easy to accomplish on Micro.blog. There is no Local timeline, there is a hand-curated Discover timeline at the whims of one or more people’s preferences, inherent biases (whether conscious or not), and the rules set out by Micro.blog.
Yep. I’m not going to work around Manton’s choices to make discovery here more difficult. What he calls curation I call hostile.
We can search using the Discover timeline and search by emoji (the equivalent of hashtags) but even I find myself not using these emoji with my own content so I’m not sure others are using it with theirs. Finding my community on Micro.blog has been tedious! I sometimes feel I only go there to talk to myself by way of posting to my blog.
Yep. And sidenote. This morning as I browse my list of micro.blog folk via Mastodon that liking their posts is like pointless. I know that because I’m aware of Manton’s choice to not allow likes to display or even quietly notify users. But it irks me to no end that Mastodon users that might follow micro.blog accounts are unaware that their likes are not communicated in any way. It’s one person trying to offer something to another, just a friendly nod, and they have no way of knowing that it will not be received. It just seems like a hostile action, an interruption of communication. It’s a little thing but it pisses me off.