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Hi @dwazou@lemm.ee, please keep the original title as much as possible, and edit in any other context or commentary in the post body. Alternatively, you can make a regular text post with any title and add the links and context/commentary in the body as you see fit.

If you can edit the post that would be great, else a mod will remove it at some point

I saw this on another post earlier: https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email

Former members of UK Special Forces have broken years of silence to give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged war crimes committed by colleagues in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Giving their accounts publicly for the first time, the veterans described seeing members of the SAS murder unarmed people in their sleep and execute handcuffed detainees, including children.

"They handcuffed a young boy and shot him," recalled one veteran who served with the SAS in Afghanistan. "He was clearly a child, not even close to fighting age."

Killing of detainees "became routine", the veteran said. "They'd search someone, handcuff them, then shoot them", before cutting off the plastic handcuffs used to restrain people and "planting a pistol" by the body, he said.

The new testimony includes allegations of war crimes stretching over more than a decade, far longer than the three years currently being examined by a judge-led public inquiry in the UK.

The SBS, the Royal Navy's elite special forces regiment, is also implicated for the first time in the most serious allegations - executions of unarmed and wounded people.

A veteran who served with the SBS said some troops had a "mob mentality", describing their behaviour on operations as "barbaric".

"I saw the quietest guys switch, show serious psychopathic traits," he said. "They were lawless. They felt untouchable."

Special Forces were deployed to Afghanistan to protect British troops from Taliban fighters and bombmakers. The conflict was a deadly one for members of the UK's armed forces – 457 lost their lives and thousands more were wounded.

Asked by the BBC about the new eyewitness testimony, the Ministry of Defence said that it was "fully committed" to supporting the ongoing public inquiry into the alleged war crimes and that it urged all veterans with relevant information to come forward. It said that it was "not appropriate for the MoD to comment on allegations" which may be in the inquiry's scope.

Thanks for checking, the ban was in error and it was reversed sometime yesterday. We have since discussed it with the other admins as well

Sorry about that @southsamurai@sh.itjust.works

Can people survive being lifted by their hair? I'm unsure.

Coincidentally, I saw this from a few days ago

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/5/circus-performer-hangs-by-her-hair-for-over-25-minutes-to-take-decade-old-record

A circus performer with seriously strong locks has broken a hair-hanging record that went unchallenged for more than a decade.

In the picturesque setting of Redwood National and State Parks in California, USA, Leila Noone spent 25 min 11.30 sec hanging by her ponytail to claim the record for longest time suspended by the hair.

The American took on the challenge in June 2024, breaking the previous record of 23 min 19 sec, that had been set by Suthakaran Sivagnanathurai (Australia) all the way back in 2011.

Having a national pharmacare system would make it easier for us to negotiate regardless of what they get up to. Instead of many independent provinces, health authorities, and private insurance providers negotiating separately

I see !perchance@lemmy.world, maybe you can post there and ask?

I'll also tag @perchance@lemmy.world in case that is the developer

Oh, my bad

Since this app used to be for Reddit and got restructured over, I'm not sure if there's as much configuration for embedded images in comments (you couldn't do that on reddit iirc)

I think you want to play with Appearance > Default View

There's also a toggle on that page for full height images :)

I read this as 'car' and it almost made sense that way too

This was a UI bug a while back, and it might still be present in cases like account imports. Maybe someone can make a bug report / GitHub issue about it

There is no other method from what I can tell. Until it's fixed, I guess someone can write a script that does the same action to quickly go through your list and fix it

No problem, I've seen it happen a few times so I thought I'd ask 😄