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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I am so grateful that I learned to type properly in grade school. I was undiagnosed #ADHD so it was hard to complete anything, really. But for some reason I stuck with typing until I got it.
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
More photos from the protest.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #PassTheOccupiedTerritoriesBill #SimonHarris #Bray #Ireland
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Right now in Bray: protest outside Simon Harris’s office. “Free, free Palestine” “Pass the occupied territories bill”
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #PassTheOccupiedTerritoriesBill #SimonHarris #Bray #Ireland
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
"Please, please validate my bigotry," begs Alan Dershowitz. "No," reply all the good people.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/07/no-pierogis-for-mr-dershowitz/
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carson@social.lol ("Carson Brown") wrote:
Care of @adam I have some new fancy stickers!
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shantini@techhub.social ("Shantini") wrote:
1300 to go by Saturday to keep our six families alive. You’ve pulled through so many times before. Please don’t make us have to tell them we can’t send anything this week (due to conversion fees we have to send at least this amount or it’s pointless).
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Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:
We’re asking for help simply to stay alive. We’re trying to secure enough food for just one week, and we still need $205. If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇
@palestine @mutualaidhttps://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment
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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:
Oxide and Friends is back with a banger! We raised $100M in our series B, so @sdtuck and @bcantrill answered questions about the round, Oxide, and the future.
(not to bury the lede) also the OxF bingo card generator!
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
“Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.”
Give this brave young woman a medal for confronting a Zionist wearing an IDF t-shirt at their university while Israel and the IDF commit genocide in Palestine.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5s%5FUwhZAYUA
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FuckIsrael #FreePalestine
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jiub@not.an.evilcyberhacker.net ("jiub :v_enby: :v_trans: :v_est:") wrote:
it should be the opposite, the student wearing the IDF shirt should have been the one punished. it's the equivalent of wearing a kkk hood or swastika
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/EndIsraeliApartheid/statuses/114987916901441046
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EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:
Florida State University banned a student from returning to campus after she verbally attacked a male student wearing a T-shirt with the words “Israel Defense Forces (IDF)” printed on it, saying, “F*** Israel. Free Palestine.”
US Attorney General Pam Bondi praised FSU President Richard McCullough's “leadership and prompt action.”
Bondi also confirmed that the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and a US Attorney are "looking into the matter".
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
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eliza@chaos.social ("Elisa") wrote:
Good write-up of the #ukonlinesafetyact fallacy by Kate Sim (COSPR):
"The real and perhaps only winners of the Online Safety Act are not children, but tech companies."
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bifouba@kolektiva.social ("Bilal Barakat 🍉") wrote:
N.b., "banning trade with Israeli settlements" isn't even technically a sanction that requires any kind of decision, it's already a mandatory legal obligation on the EU in international law that it's simply refusing to implement.
https://todon.nl/@prolrage/114862296114764223
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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:
Although you will see none of this in our pants shitting national media, the US is full of people doing this right now.
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xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra Granade 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
I no longer do quantum computing consulting, so have this one for free: if someone tells you that quantum computing is five years away, or that quantum computing will give you "unlimited" anything, they're lying.
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aby@aus.social ("Aby--not fast, just furious") wrote:
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DrALJONES wrote:
Report: "Massive civilian flotilla set to sail for Gaza late August"
Dozens of boats carrying activists from 44 countries "will set sail from ports across the world, converging on Gaza in the largest civilian flotilla of its kind in history":
~organizer Haifa Mansouri
#GazaGenocideNotWar #USPol #EuroPol #FreedomFlotilla #Palestine #BreakTheSeige @palestine .
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DrALJONES wrote:
Interview: The West’s principles fall apart over Palestine
Francois Burgat
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/centre-stage/
#palestine #westerncomplicity #BDS #GazaGenocide @palestine .
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8ofpentacles@stoat.zone ("ash ✨🍃") wrote:
I SAID NO PICTURES YOU MOTHERF—
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adam@iosdev.space ("Adam Overholtzer") wrote:
Pathetic. https://www.theverge.com/news/737757/apple-president-donald-trump-ceo-tim-cook-glass-corning
Mastodon Feedchipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:
Becoming sufficiently frustrated with Mac mail clients that I’m considering trying to set up Emacs as a mail reader. (Which is a capital-P Project.)
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sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:
On the screen to my right, I just noticed what amounts to an advertisement for AI. Someone uploads their resume with the prompt, “Can you make a storybook for my 2- and 4-year-old daughters explaining my career in the style of a coloring book?”
I am not a parent, so maybe this is an unfair criticism, but this seems so utterly hollow. Maybe at those ages, children won’t differentiate between something created by their parent or generated by a prompt. Maybe they won’t even remember these moments. But that hollowing out of creativity doesn’t stop—it bleeds into everything else, especially as we get older, busier, and more consumed by the grind. Yet it’s exactly those bits of effort that are most transcendent and memorable.
When we replace the creativity we expose people to with a cheap, generative imitation, no matter how polished and clean, we teach them that creativity is simply another commodity, that the special spark that binds us together as human beings, as family, is nothing more than a throwaway prompt.
Perhaps I’m being overly judgmental—again, I’m not a parent—but making time to create something for your child, something using your own effort, your mind, your hands, and the bits of you that can’t be expressed in a simple command, those are the kind of “deliverables” that will hold value and foster enduring memories.
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marczz@framapiaf.org wrote:
@adele In 1992, for the first Linux I installed (kernel 0.96 then 0.99), the kernel needed 13 floppies; it was so long to download them, write them, and read them on the pc. And to wait for the first boot. Then the magic of the first prompt. Then we could FTP to get more software. This was the happy time of FTP and telnet. Each time to boot we needed to put again one by one these 13 floppies.
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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
"Embrace AI or get out"
Welcome to the out club.
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dhuyvetter ("Dimitri Dhuyvetter") wrote:
On Sunday, Israel’s far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the hotly contested holy site, and declared, “We are relaying a message that from today on, we are conquering the entire Gaza Strip, announcing our sovereignty on the entire Gaza Strip, taking down every Hamas member, and encouraging voluntary emigration”—his preferred euphemism for ethnic cleansing.
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orladediez@mastodon.ie ("Orla de Díez") wrote:
“The leaked #Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of [Unit 8200’s] sensitive data may now be sitting in [Microsoft] datacentres in the Netherlands and #Ireland.”
Which in turn, if I understand correctly, would suggest that Ireland stands implicated in the targeted killing of as many as 60,000 Gazans, "the majority of whom are civilians, including over 18,000 children."
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irishphoto@mastodon.ie ("Peter Cavanagh") wrote:
End Israeli Apartheid
Nearly 5,000 Palestinians in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated as a result of injuries sustained in Israeli attacks. The months-long blockade means medical equipment that could help amputees is running out. Alongside the devastated healthcare system, patients battle with deep psychological trauma. Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout spoke to young Palestinian amputees in Gaza City. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6kNTq-n7b0
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Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:
In a scene that repeats daily, the occupation continues to destroy and burn what remains of #gaza.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
#SouthPark at it again lmao
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samlitzinger@journa.host ("Sam Litzinger") wrote:
“When Neutrality Is a Constraint
Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?”
Yes.