#ink.journalism

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Tonight (5+ hours ago) there was an attack on the Shifa hospital in Gaza again, 80 arrested, some people shot and killed (nrk.no). And according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 30,000 people – including displaced civilians, wounded patients and medical staff – are trapped inside the hospital (Al Jazeera).

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Isnotreal attacked the Iranian consulate in Syria, killing an important general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, among others (1) (2). Isnotreal hasn't confirmed or denied blame for this attack (2).

Iran declared, Wednesday last week, that it would respond (1) (3).

my sources disagree (slightly):(NRK: The Iranian response was sending over 300 missiles and drones (3). ) (Reuters: over 200 drones and missiles, according to Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari(2))

Most of them got cut off, according to isnotreal (3). Iran also said it was a response to multiple crimes by Israel (not just the criminal attack on the consulate) (3).

Iran's allies, including Hizbollah (according to themselves) and the Houthies (according to media), are also supposed to have attacked isnotreal (3).

The USA (Biden) is saying they are assisting isnotreals defence and side with Isnotreal strongly against Iran (3) (2) (link to statement). Donald Trump says he thinks the USA is not doing enough to support isnotreal (2). The Norwegian foreign minister condemned isnotreals attack on Iran (3). Iranians celebrate Irans attack on Isnotreal, saying "death to Israel", "death to usa", according to AFP (4). Iran warns isnotreal not to commit further crimes, or else they will respond stronger, but say they consider the matter concluded (2). Isnotreal wants the UN to move to condemn Iran's retaliation (3). Isnotreal says they will retaliate grandly (2).

Multiple news bureaus report having seen drones from Iraq (3).

The British, Usamerican and Jordanian defenses all report having shot down Iranian drones that were heading to isnotreal (3).

The NRK correspondent in Jerusalem reports having seen missiles being shot down, this being the first time in a while there's been any bombing in the area, videos from Hareetz also show this (3).

For most of the bombing isnotrealis were told to sit in bomb rooms (3). The bombings we're warned about in the app Red Alert (3).

slight disagreement between my sources here, but: (NRK: According to isnotreali ambulances there has been one injury, a ten year old was critically hurt (3).) (Reuters: According to isnotreali authorities there has been one injury, a seven year old girl was critically hurt (2))

edit: Addition that Norwegian newspaper The Class Struggle (Klassekampen) made a two pager on the attack on Iran (published Saturday 13.04.2024), predicting Irans attack and supporting the claim that 7 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They also added that the UK David Cameron said it would be a misstep for Iran to retaliate. (5)

Sources:

1 NRK link published april 1 2024 18:59 (Norwegian time). No author listed. language: Norwegian bokmål. Accessed April 14 11:12.

2 Reuters link . Published April 14 2024 10:45 GMT+2 (edited 3 hours ago). Written by Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Parisa Hafezi in Dubai, Timur Azhari in Baghdad, Jeff Mason, Eric Beech and Doina Chiacu in Washington and Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman and Lidia Kelly in Lisbon; Writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Daniel Wallis, Chizu Nomiyama, Howard Goller and William Mallard. Accessed April 14 13:54.

3 NRK link published april 14 2024 13:18. Written by Øyvind Bye Skille, Åse Marit Befring, Milana Kenžević, Julia Kirsebom Thomassen, Aud Darrud, Hedda Kurseth and Eivind Molde. language: Norwegian bokmål. Accessed April 14 13:20.

4 NRK link published april 14 2024 12:37. Written by Ida Kristin Rønning, Aid Darrud and Amanda Iversen Orlich. Language: Norwegian bokmål. Accessed April 14 13:22.

edit:

5 Klassekampen. Published April 13 2024. Written by Amal A Wahab. language: Norwegian bokmål. Accessed April 17 2024.

Note about the quality of sources:

NRK generally seem a lot more critical of isnotreal and don't seem to fit the criticisms that have been raised about "western media", I mean I assume most of the people complaining don't even speak Norwegian so yeah, I trust NRK, NRK is btw Norway's official news agency "Norsk rikskringkasting", which is free. NRK doesn't have a rating, but Norway is considered to have "excellent freedom" of press, ranking first globally (MBFC).

Reuters is English language Western media, so I assume they are more biased in favor of isnotreal, however they have a relatively high factuality score and are said to have low bias, though with being from the UK they are only mostly free media (MBFC). Their trust principles are linked here.

Also note about this post, I am mostly translating the NRK article, I skipped some parts (mostly to make this more strictly news) and restructured some parts. This is mostly the work of the journalists in source 3.

edit:

Klassekampen is a left wing paper that I personally consider fairly reliable for Palestine. They have from the start just written more about Palestine, simply enough. Again there's no MBFC score for this paper. This article has not been debunked in the Norwegian fact checker Faktisk.no. Klassekampen has failed fact check before (at faktisk.no), usually about Norwegian politics.

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The Palestinian football/soccer team won their first game in the Asia cup today! It was against Hong Kong.

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All over the news in Norway today: our first (openly) nonbinary priest: Alex Ramstad Døsvik (hen/de på norsk, they/them in English)

photo by Erlend Lånke Solbu via NRK

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It seems like a weird choice the norwegian government made to call extra paternal leave for men "men's rights". It's a feminist issue, this is a policy that will lead to more gender equality in the home, it will lead to less of the child rearing work going to the mother.

(includes some stuff about money as well, but the details are unclear to me so I won't try to explain that)

**this is currently only a suggestion

nrk news about it (in Norwegian)

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this is so stupid

Den økonomiske situasjonen hennes er svært presset. Hun vil jobbe mer, men dersom hun jobber over 20 timer i uka kan hun bli kastet ut av landet.

Her economic situation is very pressed. She wants to work more, but if she works more than 20 hours per week she can be thrown out of the country

[about a Serbian student in Norway, who now has to pay money for school, unlike Norwegian students]

article on NRK, January 11 2024, Phillip Kollstrøm

And to be clear the rules are the same for every international student outside the EU/EEA (source: regjeringen). (edited, also thanks to 8-bitdyke for pointing my mistake out)

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Norway is apparently requesting the ability to give humanitarian aid to Sudan.i think. "humanitarian access", never heard that term. sounds good though

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most Norwegians, except the christians, want a boycott of isnotreal. A total of 47% says they want Norway to, 27% say they're unsure and 27% say they don't want it.

the question: are you positive to Norway doing a boycott of Israeli wares and services.

the red lines means they said yes and the blue line that they said no

this is lined up by party ranged by how many yesses, red party (R) / socialist left (SV) / centre party (SP) / workers' party (AP) / Left (V) / Right (H) / progress Party (FrP) / christian people's party (KrF). data gathered between 3rd and 7th of January. They asked 1000 Norwegians.

link to the article on VG.no updated 16. January

by christians I'm referring to the Christian People's Party and Progress Party. Though I'm sure the progress Party has more reasons than religion for not supporting BDS.

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things are going.... well

translation:

has "store detective"

- people steal basic wares like milk and butter

article link (Norwegian book-language)

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wait this is pretty cool

the EU forbids destroying unused clothes. (source: nrk)

Norway will also follow this (same source)

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same link

original:

Norges formelle anerkjennelse av Palestina vil tre i kraft tirsdag 28. mai 2024, som er samme dato som flere nærstående europeiske land vil anerkjenne Palestina. Disse landene vil selv annonsere sin kommende anerkjennelse. Fra før har 143 land anerkjent Palestina.

my translation:

Norway's formal recognition of Palestine will take effect Tuesday the 28th of May 2024, the same day as several close European countries will recognize Palestine. These countries will announce their upcoming recognition on their own. Up till now 143 countries have recognized Palestine.

Norway has recognized Palestine as a state as of yesterday (regjeringen, 22.05.2024)

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Intro post

[last updated: 10 October 2024]

sideblogs: @curious-etc and @music-fan (++ longer Tumblr post of sideblogs)

Hi, I'm Ink. [external link] My pronouns are: he/him or lee/lem/lis/lemself. My orientation is AroAce (though I'm currently still experimenting a bit). I live in Norway and I'm an atheist.

find me elsewhere: neocities (accessible), @/ink@/turtle.garden on mastodon. I'm also aro-with-music on cohost.org. (more in this Tumblr post).

fuck jkr. fans of Harry Potter and the Wizarding World in general (the intellectual Property, not wizards in general) DNI.

Do interact: romance repulsed folks, aromantics, library fans, xenogender folks, trans people in general, nonpartnering people, people who strive to make their blogs or tumblr accessible, people interested in the entire world (not just their own country)

Trans unity! Trans women, trans men, nonbinary people, outherine people, xenogender people and any other trans and adjacent people are incredibly important. Do complain to me if I ever say or reblog something you think harms any of these groups.

DMs open. If you have questions or are looking for a chat. inbox temporarily closed until I can catch up.

Under the cut: avatar and header description. plus tags & interests & byf. AKA get to know the blogger (you don't have to read the byf).

descriptions

Avatar: The sunset aroace flag with an aro-colored headset, an ace of spade card (aroace symbol) and a flag that says I stand with Palestine. end description

Header: parts of lyrics, some artists include Lemon Demon, car seat headrest and Los Campesinos, and the topics are freedom and music and some more. one of them goes "no more songs about sex drugs and rock and roll, it's boring", which is from an art brut song. [outdated]

Music

This used to be a music blog. Mostly moved to @music-fan . The old stuff is tagged #musicblogging or #music or #ink.music

(credit: burntoutuserboxes)

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Referring to me

Pronouns

he/him, lee/lem/lis/lems/lemself, xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself, xy/xyr/xyrs/xyrs/xyrself, ink/ink/inks/inks/inkself.

You can switch it up, or just use lee/lem, xe/xem or he/him.

I have more sets on my Notion (note: some details are outdated)

If you ever see any sets that make you think of me, feel free to tag/DM me.

Honorifics

Ind. (individual) and Mr.

terms

take note that I do not tolerate being referred to by feminine terms, even with "gender neutral" behind them.

another term I am happy to be referred to with:

Kith. Derived from Old English kith, kinsmen, relations; Proto-Indo-European to know; knowledge, acquaintance. Some have suggested kythman/kithman or kythan/kithan. nonbinary term (from genderkoolaid)

formal terms: fidant, gentleman

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Before you follow / stances

I'm not often involved in very hot take discourse, nor much discourse in general, but you can just ask (by ask or DM) if there's anything, or if you disagree with anything i post/reblog. Well thought out arguments are appreciated /genuine.

I'm sure I don't have to say, but I support queer rights. I am strongly against terfs & other radfems. I obviously support xenogender people. but I don't identify with any named movement I'm aware of.

I guess I should say I have the somehow controversial opinion that trans men need liberation not just trans women (but don't disinterpret this, I cherish trans women and nonbinary people highly as well).

Queerness is about breaking away from gender norms/laws. It's about not performing gender like society says based on your (m/f, conforming) sex. About not fitting into the two boxes of cis perisex boy who likes girls and only girls romantically and sexually or cis perisex girl who likes boys and only boys romantically and sexually.

I'm very sex and kink positive (the political beliefs). In case it needs to be said sex and kink requires enthusiastic (informed) consent and communication. no one is obligated to have sex, ever.

I, as many others hate jkr and HP for a diverse set of reasons (transphobia & antisemitism especially). You can follow if you stopped being a fan. also DNI if you have HP url or similar or monetarily support the wizarding world and other stuff that support jkr.

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I hate ideologies not people, generally speaking.

I especially hate/post about: aphobia/amisia, transphobia/-misia, homophobia/-misia, intersexism, queerphobia/queermisia, queer infighting, anti-intellectualism, antisemitism, fascism, racism, colonialism, just oppression and bigotry in general

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I believe in restorative justice

as mentioned before you're free to ask about stuff and debate with me.

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Longest: queer history in Norway

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most popular posts: 1: (26.3 k) It's just Tuesday?? [fixed] 2: (20.4 k) Why do you boop? 3: (10k) Booping is inaccessible

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sideblogs: @music-fan (music posts) + @curious-etc (misc, fandom, interesting facts & stories, linguistics, hobbies) @et-afilt-individ (blog in Norwegian) + @bokmaal-norsk (me teaching you Norwegian blog) @mvr-ink-the-aro (aromantic blog, most is also here) + @bad-design-poorly-put-together (pain vents & painkiller talk) + ask

(not mine): media with aspec rep: spreadsheet (via aspeccharactersoftheday). note that characters may have small roles and the document doesn't specify.

You can also join my discord server, (link here, updated 20 April 2024, it shouldn't run out though)

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the quote:

(5. juni 2023 kl. 07:55). Politiet henlegger 96 prosent av anmeldte mobbesaker De siste seks årene har politiet mottatt 154 mobbe-anmeldelser. Hele 96 prosent av anmeldelsene henlegges.

translation (v.1, haven't translated the words I'm not that sure about / legal jargon)

(5 of june 2023 at 07:55). The police henlegger 96 % of anmeldte mobbesaker. The last six years the police has received 154 mobbe-anmeldelser. an entire 96 % of anmeldelsene henlegges.

mobbing/å mobbe = bullying/to bully

anmelde/anmeldelse/anmeldt ≈ file a formal complaint? "review" (different usage), send a complaint, report something to authorities/police

(legal jargon) henlegge ≈ not do anything about it, not giving punishment or anything, not judging it, not looking into it

literally, "put away", "lay down".

some website said, "to shelve", "to dismiss"

translation (v.2)

(5 of june 2023 at 07:55). The police dismiss 96 % of reported cases of bullying. The last six years the police has received 154 reports of bullying. an entire 96 % of reports are shelved.

mostly posting this so non-norwegians can have access to some level of fact checking here.

hi, I know I'm pretty negative today already, but (not so fun) fun fact time!

did you know the Norwegian police dismiss 96% of complaints of bullying at schools? (real stats, taken from nrk)

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@ wadeaa_.9 posted on Instagram about 5(+) hours ago (based on comment time stamps)

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4ozan6tgNn/ (original in arabic)

translated by hagarhesham28

"This might be my last video. We're now besieged inside Al-Shifa hospital. We're being heavily shot at. The occupation suddenly raided the hospital and its vicinity. As you can hear now, there are intense clashes in the vicinity of Al-Shifa hospital. We're hearing sounds coming from the gate. There are shrapnels falling over the hospital's yard.

This might be our last video. The whole world has let us down, however, Allah's Will will prevail, and He will grant us victory, God willing.

We're currently besieged. Pray for us to get out safely. These are clashes as you can hear.. we don't know what's going on outside Al-Shifa hospital, but the situation here is catastrophic."

Tonight (5+ hours ago) there was an attack on the Shifa hospital in Gaza again, 80 arrested, some people shot and killed (nrk.no). And according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 30,000 people – including displaced civilians, wounded patients and medical staff – are trapped inside the hospital (Al Jazeera).