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

Verify that you're human:
#GazaGenocide

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

You probably have one of these #apps on your phone right now.

But what if we told you that many of them were developed by former Israeli spies, fueling the occupation, surveillance, and #genocide in #gaza?

#facetune , #mamrai , #IAI , #playtika, #gett , #waze

📲 Video Al Mayadeen EN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enx3syAChWM

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

According to capitalists:

✅ Working for a company like Google or Microsoft that is complicit in genocide.

❌ Displaying images of the genocide.

Maybe if the consequences of your work are considered “Not Safe For Work”, you shouldn’t be doing that work in the first place.*

But, no, it’s just much easier to look away, isn’t it? After all, you’re just following orders, right?

* Update: because I just *know* that someone will pipe in maliciously with “oh, so you mean sex workers shouldn’t be doing that work?”, I just want to preemptively say “fuck off, you pernickety prat, you know exactly what I’m talking about and it isn’t that.”

#israel #genocide #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #FreePalestine #StopIsrael #stopTheGenocide https://freefree.ps/@faab64/114903988836528662

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
faab64@freefree.ps ("Farhad") wrote:

@hansbot @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml

My Vivaldi mastodon account was suspended, so was my pixelfed account after a campaign of reports by Zionist German and Americans reporting me for supporting terrorism and antisemitism and sharing NSFW images without CW.

This is why I put a note on my posts now

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
faab64@freefree.ps ("Farhad") wrote:

Israel is starving 10s of thousands of innocent children in Gaza.

And we watch silently doing nothing to stop them .

Where is humanity?
Where is compassion ?
Where is our dignity?

I AM ASHAMED OF LIVING IN THIS WORLD

PS. Block me if it makes you uncomfortable looking at them, but okay with ignoring it

#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #BDS
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide #PeaceNow #StopTheWar #CeasefireNow @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

Every Tuesday, we ask for your help to feed my family for a full week.

With the sharp rise in prices, even providing food has become a daily struggle.

We need $500 each week to feed my family of 6.

Every dollar you give helps us get through the week.

If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help.

Thank you for your continued support.
@palestine #gaza @mutualaid

25/500$
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

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

Please help Aseel and her family eat this week if you can.

(I have spoken with and am in touch with Aseel over Signal and I can vouch that the account and campaign are real and your donations go to a family in need in Gaza.)

#gaza #aid #mutualAid #Palestine #FreePalestine https://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/114975078916845930

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

“One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era. Also they’re worried I’m planning on firing all of them. That’s true, but not relevant here.” https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

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

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
eco-g@stroud.social ("Cllr Gareth Kitchen") wrote:

Greens call for end to Right to Buy which has ‘hollowed out’ council housing stock

Responding to a report by the Common Wealth thinktank which says that the sale of millions of council homes to tenants at steep discounts since 1980 has fuelled vast shortages in social housing and turbocharged inequality, Green MP Ellie Chowns said:

This report lays bare the devastation Right to Buy has wrought on communities up and down the country. Successive governments stood by while Right to Buy hollowed out our council housing stock, creating chronic shortages and deepening inequality.

We cannot allow this crisis to continue: it’s time to end Right to Buy, urgently reinvest in secure, affordable social housing that is fit for the future, and guarantee stability and opportunity for families across the UK.

#GreenParty #ukpol #SocialHousing

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

“Netanyahu decides on full occupation of Gaza Strip”

Just like Hitler decided “full occupation of Western Poland.” Oh, no, we called it “invasion” back then, didn’t we?

Then again, we also used to call genocide, “genocide.”

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-863225

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
abcfeeds@rssfeed.media ("ABC Feeds") wrote:

The vanguard of teen shepherds occupying more of the West Bank
By Eric Tlozek

In the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, teenage shepherds escorted by armed security guards are trying to push Palestinian villagers from their farms.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-04/occupied-west-bank-shepherds-settlers-israel-palestine/105595130

#UnrestConflictandWar #WorldPolitics #TerritorialDisputes #ForeignAffairs #EricTlozek

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
SusiArnott@mastodon.green ("Dr Susi Arnott") wrote:

Grim detail if you want it, but also this key point
"...while many children in Gaza now show signs of malnutrition, they’re also at high risk of being killed by Israeli shells and gunfire, which will be recorded as their primary cause of death"
https://aje.io/y93b66

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
stacey_campbell@aus.social ("Stacey Campbell") wrote:

Coming Sunday, 10 August 2025, is Open Gate Day at Barcroft Station, part of the White Mountain Research Center in California. This is the first open gate day at Barcroft since the pandemic arrived in 2020.

This is your one chance this year to shorten the hike to the 3rd highest mountain in California, the 14,252' (4,344 m) White Mountain Peak. (For the Australians that's roughly two Mount Kosciuszkos.) No permits required, and it's the easiest fourteener in California to summit.

The White Mountains are an amazing part of California, they contain the oldest verified living tree in the world, at 4,856 years, and a landscape that is incredibly harsh but beautiful.

https://www.wmrc.edu/event/barcroft-open-gate-day/

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Wabi tek sabi:

https://www.wabiteksabi.com/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org ("tom jennings") wrote:

Wee! I wrote a window manager for MP/M, four windows in the screen, dynamically resizeable, while program(s) are running.

Windows are virtually 24x80 "Heath H19" compatible, up to 30 x 90, so cursor ("curses") format windows shrunk to smallest visible, if dragged full size, draw the off-screen portions. Programs can be writing to the screen while resizing, the "VGA device" does the work.

The bottom line of each command line interpreter, I call the "hotspot", is always visible in a window; portions of the window larger than the box are virtually present, just not displayed.

The Z80 running MP/M or CP/M sees the screen as IO ports; one to write data to, one to specify the window. Magic keyboard keys (Fkeys) switch windows (MP/M: assigns keyboard to task window), arrow keys drag the "cursor" to resize all four at once, another key "maximizes" current screen (make largest; make 24x80; make tiny).

Lol, the cursor decided to not display for the video, there' still bugs to shake out etc.

You can resize the VGA display (480x640 to 1024x768) with program(s) running, and everything does exactly what you would expect. Can't do that with Xorg! Not that that's useful, lol, but the window buffering came out super clean.

This is event driven/task loop programming taken all the way; none of this is interrupt driven, it's all non-blocking task loops. Average task loop time (running through all dozen main tasks) is 5 - 10 uS, worst case 55 or so mS (large screen scrolling). I may unwind scrolling and drop that to a millisec or so but there's no downside I can determine.

MP/M will have four tasks, four "seats". on window per, and 48K per user/task, four running at once (and only four). MP/M performance will be very nice. Got the XIOS written, soon to test it...

#CP/M #cpm #mpm #MP/M #retrocomputing #z80

Attachments:

• video: A 22" LCD monitor on a desk, with four rectangular windows with different background and foreground colors. Four windows is not useful for CP/M! But it lets me thoroughly test windowing, and having four working windows, for the four running tasks ("seats" in MP/M parlance). The magic keyboard key that, here, selects active window, will select which task gets the keyboard, allowing you to run four CP/M programs at once.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

I don’t share this link often enough, but you can save 10% on a year of Fastmail at https://fastmail.com/omglol, and it helps out omg.lol a little bit!

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Fastmail’s UI just keeps getting more awesome!

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/better-themes-better-search/

jwz wrote:

The Mothership Vortex.

Some time ago I hypothesized that all Democratic Senators are using the same text-spam contractor, and wondered whether there was some way to block the entire network. This resulted in many, many replies from people incorrecting me and each other with their zero-information theories.

Well, I was right. They are all using the same contractor. But the reality is even more horrible than you probably imagined.
https://jwz.org/b/ykse

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
chaotin@corteximplant.com ("Alice Atmega :lucybz: :cv_pink:") wrote:

Omg voice memos for mastodon!

▶︎ •၊၊||၊|။|||||၊|။ 0:15

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

also wow, first release since switching over to a git tag-based versioning system + uv and pyproject.toml for project management (i know, i know) + hatchling as a build-backend + PyPI trusted publishing, and this is really, really slick

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

Just shipped a new release for xword-dl, the command line tool to scrape online crossword solvers into local puz files. Headline is fixed support for AmuseLabs embeds, but we've also added the LA Times Mini as a supported outlet https://github.com/thisisparker/xword-dl/releases/tag/v2025.8.4

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

Remember: Sometimes you stand out, but you can still flower where you are.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Alienated feelings. #grickledoodle #feelings #horror #aliens #cartoon #drawing #art #funny

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

WE CAN SHOULD MUST AND WILL BLOW UP THE MOON

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

There is this YouTube channel called Mei Time with really wonderful travel vlogs from Japan. I wish I could visit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50kEuC0Z4Ew

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🌹"):
tryst@imu.li ("trystimuli") wrote:

@adele the generality of the text editor (and unix text processing tools) is very nice, and when working within the current ecosystem i always choose them.

and yet i also find text formats harmful. the vast majority of programming languages, config files, and exchange formats reinforce english-supremacy. different people have different layout preferences - spacing habits, column widths, indentation styles, and in programming naming conventions - why must they compromise on those to collaborate? and those compromises inevitably favor the parties with more power.

so i am intrigued by the possibility of general self-describing binary formats that do not embed privileged perspectives. i suspect a similarly general ecosystem of tools could be built around something with more structure than text (which is, after all, also a binary format), and perhaps be even better.

Boosted by jwz:
loombot@mastodon.replacementhipster.com ("loombot 3000") wrote:

@davidgerard Please don't forget about this wonderful "we demand to be taken seriously" photo from the Google Glass era, feat everyone's favorite fascist

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

Put them on a table right outside the bathroom

https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-law-to-force-libraries-public-buildings-to-remove-tampons-from-mens-restrooms/J5HT7J7SWNBQ7O6WRZA6RMM6ZA/

https://daytondailynews.com/local/ohio-law-to-force-libraries-public-buildings-to-remove-tampons-from-mens-restrooms/J5HT7J7SWNBQ7O6WRZA6RMM6ZA/

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

Courage in our time

RE: https://www.threads.com/@mrdavehill/post/DM8irF1v6hh