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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

welcome to fire season - and then some

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org wrote:

There are but a few people from #Gaza on the #Fediverse that somehow manage (I don't know how) to report what they see and experience, every few days.

Out of them, I'm currently following these accounts whose posts I have come to trust in:

• Aseel Sehwel, at @Aseelsehwel
• Nouran Ghaboun, at @NouranKhaledGh and on Medium

Please follow them, and educate yourself via their first-hand accounts on what people are enduring in Gaza.

If you take offense at them and others asking for donations, to feed and save their own and other families, consider what you'd do yourself if you had to pay $60 / 50€ for a single kilogram of flour.

Or, alternatively, again and again, had to fear for the life of a family member that's away, walking miles and miles to queue up at an "aid distribution" site where soldiers have killed more than a thousand desperate people already, merely for trying to get hold of something to eat.

Yes, there are many fraudulent people trying to exploit your sympathy, on the back of the #Palestinians in Gaza. No, its not impossible to find at least one trustworthy human being in need, and to help them survive.

[Update 2: Upon further interaction, the removed account proved to be fraudulent, it'll stay removed]

[Update: temporarily removed one of the accounts mentioned, since it needs further verification]

// @palestine @israel

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
miiamustang@eliitin-some.fi ("Miia Mustang") wrote:

Hackers in 2003: "Hey look, I hooked up my fridge to the internet!"

Hackers in 2025: "phew, finally got my fridge off the internet! 💪"

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

The BBC World Service said it compiled evidence on over 160 cases where children were shot by Israeli forces in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases, the child was shot in the head or chest.

Most of the victims were under the age of 12, according to the investigation.

The cases, which stretch from the opening weeks of the conflict through to July this year, paint a grim picture of the war’s toll on Gazan children.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/investigation-finds-israeli-forces-shot-95-gaza-children-in-head-or-chest-in-over-160-examined-cases/3649091

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Sherifazuhur@sfba.social ("Sherifa Zuhur") wrote:

“I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump” Rashid Khalidi
@palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"The debate over whether or not Gaza is a genocide is, effectively, over. So can we now also stop pretending that we are mere bystanders to this genocide? That our sin is one only of omission rather than commission? Because the inconvenient truth is that the US has not just looked the other way, as tens of thousands of Palestinians have been besieged and bombed, starved and slaughtered, but helped Israel pull the trigger."

~ Mehdi Hasan

#Israel #Gaza #genocide
/5

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/02/the-us-complicit-genocide-israel-gaza

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"What Israel is pursuing, in the words of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, is 'indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians,' not from 'some disproportionate outburst by some soldiers in some unit' but through 'government policy—knowingly, evilly, irresponsibly dictated.'

Growing up, every aspect of my Jewish identity was connected to the Holocaust…."

And to the insistence that Jews could not let this happen to anyone...

#Israel #Gaza #starvation #genocide
/4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"Gaza now has the highest number of amputee children per capita in the world, Gazan children are being purposely targeted by IDF snipers, all civilian infrastructure across the region is being systematically leveled, Gazans are being regularly massacred at Israeli-run food distribution sites, and mass starvation is underway. This isn’t a war Israel is prosecuting, and hasn’t been for a long time, if it ever was."

#Israel #Gaza #starvation #genocide
/3

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

Aaron Regunberg writes a letter to his Jewish American mother, who refuses to oppose Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza:

"Dear Mom,

It’s time for us to talk about Israel. …

I need to express what it’s doing to my heart to see you—and much of your generation—fail to grapple with Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Because that is what we’re talking about here."

#Israel #Gaza #starvation #genocide
/2

https://newrepublic.com/article/198202/israel-gaza-genocide-never-again-happening-again

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"All I can tell the world is that we are dying slowly, save us from this tragedy."

~ Gaza resident Jamil Mughari, quoted by Malak A Tantesh and Julian Borger

#Israel #Gaza #starvation #genocide
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/02/gaza-famine-starvation-crisis-israel

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
unir@chaos.social ("hope") wrote:

Blue whales are falling silent from hunger. The krill are gone. The sea is too warm. Their songs fade away.

This is no anomaly. Humanity is deaf to a symphony of grief and warnings.

Blue whales are going eerily silent—& scientists say it’s a warning sign

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/ocean-heat-wave-blob-whale-songs

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

Join us on August 17th show the #university administration that they can’t do this without any resistance! Share and invite your friends!

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #ICE #MartialLaw #NationalGuard #Protest #Activism #Protesters #AbolishICE #Kentucky #KY

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

We want to start off this #semester by making it clear that #students at #EKU make up the very demographics that are targeted by these policies, & that we do not stand for it. They can’t keep pushing us & expect us to be idle!

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #Trump #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Protest #Activism #Protesters #Kentucky #KY

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

These policies are clearly #racist and #sexist and part of the #US’ decline into fascism and complicity in #genocide.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #ICE #MartialLaw #NationalGuard #Protest #Activism #Protesters #AbolishICE #Kentucky #KY

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

Starting with the repealing of all #DEI policies & specifically attacking #programs & #spaces on #campus meant to promote #diversity, the administration is trying to limit the ability of #nonwhite & #LGBTQ #students to express themselves or feel welcome on campus.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #USA #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #KY #Kentucky

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Faithslayer202 ("Nathaniel Gregory") wrote:

This year Eastern #Kentucky #University has went through some tremendous changes.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #GOP #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #Harris #TimWalz #Walz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #Sanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #Progressives #ICE #MartialLaw #NationalGuard #Protest #Activism #Protesters #AbolishICE #KY

Boosted by jwz:
xinitrc@social.tchncs.de ("Martin") wrote:

You don't say!

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jamesbritt ("James Britt") wrote:

https://leavesubstack.com/

You should *definitely* leave #Substack

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digiron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Phase One XT camera (vertically shifted -12mm).

White-Gravenor Hall, completed in 1933, represents Georgetown trying its best to look like Princeton, which, in turn, tries its best to look like Cambridge. Built to house science labs, it's currently a general academic building with classrooms and administrative offices.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

happy html day to my fellow html sickos

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

White-Gravenor Hall (Main Entrance), Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 2025.

All the pixels, none of the learning or research, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54481192198

#photography

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
mzedp@mas.to ("mau 🏳️‍🌈#EndFossilFuels") wrote:

@startmail
They settled.

https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-07-21/meta-investors-settlement-with-zuckerberg-takes-heat-off-delaware

Boosted by jwz:
realhackhistory@chaos.social ("[realhackhistory@home]#") wrote:

"They were intimidated by the computer"

This whole news segment is gold, honestly. Every sentence is quotable.

And we get the cop in sunglasses and a cream suit giving a press conference in a darkened room in front of BBSes and boxes of floppy disks.

Just incredible #hacker #history.

Attachments:

• video: 53408d310b3fa5dd.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
realhackhistory@chaos.social ("[realhackhistory@home]#") wrote:

From a CBS news segment from July of 1985 discussing the busting of various #hackers and BBS operators in New Jersey.

Ouch, but also 💀

Will be uploading the entire segment to Internet Archive later today.

Attachments:

• video: 7aadf82aede8f85f.mp4

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
startmail ("StartMail") wrote:

Meta investors are suing Mark Zuckerberg and other current and former Facebook executives, alleging that they operated Facebook as "an illegal enterprise that allowed users' data to be harvested without their consent." https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/meta-investors-zuckerberg-square-off-8-billion-trial-over-alleged-privacy-2025-07-14/

Boosted by jwz:
MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk ("Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)") wrote:

Boosted by jwz:
leebennett ("A. Lee Bennett Jr.") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
archeaids@mastodon.online ("James Green") wrote:

My retired underwater archaeologist wants to sell his old land magnetometer & Trimble survey instrument. The land mag, one of the 1st, dates to ca. 1975. No data collection. No GPS. We had to walk transects & stop every 3 m to write down the reading. In the office we then plotted & contoured them.

The Trimble instrument is ca. late 1980s. I told him to set a price & I would put the word out, but those are so old that only an archaeologist wanting to play with ancient technology would buy them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LilHulkQ@mstdn.social ("John C. Varner III") wrote:

Biden left with record low black unemployment.

Black unemployment under Trump reaches its highest rate since the pandemic.
https://thegrio.com/2025/08/02/black-unemployment-under-trump-reaches-its-highest-rate-since-pandemic/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
adamparkhomenko.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Adam Parkhomenko") wrote:

So let me get this straight: Jack Smith investigates a guy who tried to overturn an election and incited an insurrection… and he’s the one being investigated? We’re not a serious country. We’re a banana republic with better branding…but that’s going to shit, too.