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jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Geoerg's Market - Markets Geoerg owns 100 markets and all but this one have misspelled signs. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jef/54699995014/

jwz wrote:

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein I point at the calendar, mostly
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/08/04.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
jonGhull@electricrequiem.com ("Jøn Ghùll") wrote:

The singer of #Catharsis, Brian Dingledine, gave this #antifascist speech last year when they played in PitFest which was featuring #neonazi #blackmetal band #Marduk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFv%5FYqm6Qg&t=1238s&ab%5Fchannel=Pitfest

RE: https://electricrequiem.com/notes/98rcfujll1

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
HarriettMB@beige.party wrote:

Absolutely disgraceful. PSNI pandering to ingorance and hatred. How about educating people instead? If someone doesn’t like an event, no one is holding them by the neck and forcing them to attend. I more than willing to bet the people protesting did not have children listening to the stories.
The PSNI could not have made a worse decision if they tried.
One of NI’s political parties is behind this hate - the #TUV led by MP Jim Allister who sits in House of Commons.
This is the consequence of attacking trans rights; then they come for gay rights, they come for womens rights, and immigrants, and transient people. Until they have come for everyone except white men.
#Pride #HumanRights. #TransRights #Immigrants
Drag queens escorted from Holywood Arches Library by PSNI after protest at children storytelling event | BelfastTelegraph.co.uk https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/row-erupts-as-psni-escort-drag-queens-from-venue-after-protest-at-children-storytelling-event/a174642881.html

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie 🍉🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

The number of people killed in Gaza by Israel should be zero. Not even a single death in this "war" is justifiable by any means. It was a genocidal rampage for lebensraum from the very start

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Isn’t genocide denial a crime in Germany? Does that only apply to one genocide? (The Holocaust?) Or does it also apply to, say, the Armenian genocide too? And, if so, does that it mean that the only genocide it doesn’t apply to is Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people?

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #genocideDenial #FediGenocideDenial #germany

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net ("Mondoweiss 🇵🇸") wrote:

The free speech organization PEN America fired me three days after I published an article about how they investigated me for sharing an article critical of Zionism. My termination is a sad reflection of PEN's censorious approach to Palestine.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/pen-america-claims-to-support-free-speech-but-fired-me-for-speaking-about-palestine/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
juliewebgirl@mstdn.social ("Julie Webgirl") wrote:

Shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

"ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/chatgpt-users-shocked-to-learn-their-chats-were-in-google-search-results/

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Meanwhile… https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/114971573848166325

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

@GutterPoetry @a @Flux And you don’t have to ask Jewish people who oppose Zionism and Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people to publicly distance themselves from Israel. They already have. And they’re being persecuted for it as we speak by Zionists and by Israel. You want antisemitism? Zionists’ and Israelis’ disdain for Holocaust survivors (because they see them as having been weak) is antisemitism. You want antisemitism? Zionists and Israelis getting to decide who is the “right kind of Jew” is antisemitism.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
GutterPoetry@mastodon.me.uk wrote:

@a @aral @Flux

Zionists make such a big deal out of their Jewishness that I don't think it's unreasonable to expect Jewish people to publicly distance from them - its a holocaust. Especially when one of the main Zionist weapons is pressuring people into silence with public smears, false accusations, cancelling etc.

And while we're talking of how unfair it is to paint all Jews the same way - that's exactly what Zionists do. Or even deny that anti-zionist Jews are truly Jewish.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

State Department to US tourist destinations: drop dead

https://share.google/An1WuNzWFVuVOoGLW

Boosted by jwz:
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

New York has entered the chat 💬

Attachments:

• video: 8b084bc3f5cedc86.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
fabio@manganiello.social ("Fabio Manganiello") wrote:

@celesteh @aral @Mastodon I’m genuinely quite tired of having to defend myself from stuff I’ve never written, but I’ll try it one last time.

When I say “we shouldn’t buy oranges and dates from Israel unless we are reasonably confident that they were not grown on stolen land” would you react with a “oh are you telling me that I shouldn’t eat oranges?”

When I say “we shouldn’t allow Muslim education in our countries if they have suspicious ties with people from the Salafi movement or other hardcore religious groups that may pose a threat to the national security and cohesion” would you react with a “oh are you telling me that Muslims can’t read the Quran in your country?”

When I say “we should avoid supporting Holocaust foundations if they have IDF senior members sitting in their boards, if they haven’t taken a strong position against all genocides, including the one perpetrated right now by their own country, if they don’t even reinvest our money to keep their own records of the victims up-to-date, and if they betray their mission of peace by having social media content and tone comparable with that of an IDF general” would you react with “oh are you telling me that Jews can’t commemorate their own dead?”

Come on, stop insulting my intelligence and your own and don’t try to convince me that principles are supposed to be followed only when they don’t affect the people or topics that you’re biased towards.

Boosted by jwz:
gleick@mas.to ("James Gleick") wrote:

“If a patient presented to me with the verbal incoherence, tangential thinking, and repetitive speech that Trump now regularly demonstrates, I would almost certainly refer them for a rigorous neuropsychiatric evaluation to rule out a cognitive illness.”

Trump’s brain is now so scrambled that the White House has begun removing official transcripts from its website. The Guardian has some, though.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/03/donald-trump-mental-fitness

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Right, it’s time we started an initiative to find and call out (with receipts) accounts on the fediverse engaged in genocide denial and genocide apologism in support of Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

There are accounts (and even whole instances, it would seem) that are engaged in this and, further, attempts to silence the voices, not to mention threaten the livelihoods of, those of us speaking out against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and attempting to help Palestinians in Gaza who are being starved, shot, bombed, and burned to death by Israel as we speak.

Is there already a hashtag we can use? If not, any suggestions? Is #GenocideDenial? too generic? How about #FediGenocideDenial?

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine https://beige.party/@mycotropic/114971291419865466

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lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E03
🎥 Episode: Psyche
🎬 Directed by: Jōhei Matsuura
📅 Release Date: July 20, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0971

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heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

J. B. Pritzker is showing some real leadership around the Texas Democratic legislators’ departure from Texas. He is assisting a group of them who travelled to to Illinois. https://apnews.com/article/us-election-2026-texas-redistricting-136cfeddc717f9fc69337bd3d39b1819

He is perhaps the only high ranking Democrat who understands the need for major cross-state cooperation between Dem governors in blue states and Dem electeds in red ones. This is how a cold civil war should be fought. 1/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mycotropic@beige.party ("Mycotropic") wrote:

@aral @Mastodon

I read that exchange and blocked, the posting style is very similar to the folks over at babka who tried to get me fired for anti-Semitism by contacting the university I work for. The reason? I said that Palestinians are human beings. That's it.

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noisemakerbot@genart.social ("Noisemaker Bot") wrote:

magic-mashup

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• gifv: A chaotic mashup of several layered animations. Seed: 40435

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
lillyfinch@mstdn.social ("Catherine Schmidt") wrote:

#Opinion #Disagreement #Rascism #Fascism #Quotes #Decency #Morality #Rights #HumanRights #Homophobia #Transphobia #Alt

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
lorenzofb@infosec.exchange ("Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai") wrote:

NEW: CloudFlare says it detected Perplexity scraping and crawling websites that explicitly block it from scraping them.

Based on customers' complaints and its own experiments, the company says Perplexity is using "stealth" bots and changing its bots "user agent" to circumvent restrictions.

http://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/perplexity-accused-of-scraping-websites-that-explicitly-blocked-ai-scraping/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

We had big news last week:

https://oxide.computer/blog/our-100m-series-b

Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I will be joined by @sdtuck to discuss the significance of our Series B milestone -- and to regale us with the fundraising journey. Join us, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1401951059655528601

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
stefanmatei.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Stefan Matei") wrote:

Links for the image-compare component: 🔗 CodePen: codepen.io/nonsalant/pe...🔗 GitHub repo: github.com/nonsalant/im...

Accessible Web...

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

And you know what, I’m tired of playing defense.

I’d like to know who the anonymous coward running the @8124@mastodon.social account is.

That person is defending Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people, slandering and attempting to silence voices that oppose it (and those trying to get aid to the Palestinian people), and generally apologising for and complicit in genocide all while maintaining their anonymity. If anyone should be losing their job, it’s that person, not Fabio.

Feel free to DM me for my Signal if you have any information as they should experience consequences for their actions.

Any information you provide will be kept in confidence.

And to the @Mastodon admins: consider this a formal complaint about an account that is engaged in genocide denial, genocide apologism, and complicity in genocide. I look forward to seeing what action, if any, you take, as does history.

#fediblock #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #genocideDenial #genocideApologism #genocideComplicity #mastodon #fediverse #mastosonDotSocial #mastodonGGMBH

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Also, to the folks at Booking.com: remember when you got me in to give a talk for you on ethics? Now is a good time to rewatch it and do the right thing.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Fabio is the opposite of a Nazi and I am sick and tired of people WHO ARE OPPOSING A LITERAL GENOCIDE being perpetrated by Israel constantly having to defend themselves from accusations of antisemitism.

The dregs of humanity who are supporting, apologising for, and complicit in Israel’s genocide are the people and instances we should be blocking here not antifascists like Fabio who is spending his time trying to get aid to Palestinians on the ground in Gaza.

Ask yourselves what kind of person tries to have someone who is trying to get aid to people who are being starved blocked on the fediverse.

And then decide who should be blocked and who shouldn’t.

(And remember that history is watching.)

#fediblock https://manganiello.social/objects/4290e22d-b4ae-4adc-92c2-4e82d7fb8295

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
fabio@manganiello.social ("Fabio Manganiello") wrote:

A quick heads up to my followers: after threatening to get me fired @8124 has reported me to the staff of mastodon.social demanding the defederation of my instance accusing me of being a Nazi https://mastodon.social/@8124/114962846134124036

In the meantime he still refuses to respond to any single one of the dozen of arguments I’ve laid in front of him.

I’m confident enough that the staff of mastodon.social has enough brains to tell the difference between someone who calls for accountability of no-profits and foundations and a real Nazi, but in these times I feel like I can’t be sure of anything.

Can I ask my followers who have known me for a while to chip in that conversation and confirm that indeed I’m not a Nazi, just in case? I never thought that the day where I have to prove that I’m not a Nazi would have come, but here we are…

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
adachika192@hcommons.social ("AK") wrote:

Sydney Harbour Bridge: Tens of thousands turn out for pro-Palestine march (BBC, 2025-08-03)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydnvw1dg5o
———
w/ a short aerial footage.

>> WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was spotted among the protesters, with other notable attendees including federal MP Ed Husic and former NSW Premier Bob Carr.

>> Sydney-based activist organisation Palestine Action Group lodged a notice of intention for the march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge last Sunday, ...

>> The police … made an application to the NSW Supreme Court for a prohibition order for the event, which was declined just 24 hours before the protest was due to go ahead.

>> … Justice Belinda Rigg said safety concerns regarding the march were "well founded", but march organiser Josh Lees … had "compellingly" explained the reasons why he believed there is an urgency for a response to the humanitarian situation in Gaza…

#PalestineActionGroup #JulianAssange
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ramin_hal9001@fe.disroot.org ("Ramin Honary") wrote:

@adam @sleepless centrists are even worse than this comic depicts. They are more like, “well, somewhat I disagree with the guy who wants to disappear trans people and destroy the economy for everyone, but it is much more important that I remain respectful and courteous. Because all of our societies current problems are actually caused by people being too passionate about their politics! I know, I’ll indicate that I want to be polite by sort-of agreeing but sort-of pushing back. ‘Excuse me sir, but I think everyone, even trans people should have equal rights, but I see your point about how trans people are all faking their condition. How do you like me now, sir?’”.

I block all centrists unconditionally.