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jamey@toot.cat ("Jamey Sharp") wrote:
I made a quick demo of a web app that I think people could use to build personal-scale banner exchanges, for when you want to help people discover your friends' web sites. Anyone else think this is a good idea? https://github.com/jameysharp/redirandom
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
Separating the gold from the dross is getting harder every year.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/10/bad-apples-identified/
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
@ram @Mogleg I think you’ve understood by now why you’re “the sick fuck” and thus deleted your post. Thankfully, it is now archived. These sorts of receipts will be as useful when it is time for justice for Palestine as records of Nazi collaborators were after WW2. Your complicity in genocide will have consequences.
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
@palestine The now-deleted post, for reference.
When I said history is taking notes, I didn’t mean it metaphorically.
#genocide #genocideDenial #complicity #fediGenocideDenial #israel #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine
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Badgardener@mountains.social wrote:
I’m sorry, but the Sunday Express win Parody Of The Day award for this ripper of a headline:
“RIOT POLICE ON ALERT AS MORE PROTESTS PLANNED”
with the lead emphasis on the Palestine Action silent protests rather than the, y’know, wife-beating violent thugs massing outside refugee accommodation.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz ("Greg Egan") wrote:
“For three weeks in May, the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of a corporate recruiter on the outskirts of Toronto. Allan Brooks, 47, had discovered a novel mathematical formula, one that could take down the internet and power inventions like a force-field vest and a levitation beam.
Or so he believed.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
if you want to understand the long-term geopolitical consequences of electing the erratic Baby in Chief again, this is a good place to start:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gloves-off/id1820651848
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“…it’s the American system — not just its presidency — that is in breakdown. From the Canadian side of the border, it is evident that the American left is in the middle of a grand abdication. No American institution, no matter how wealthy or privileged, seems willing to make any sacrifice for democratic values. If the president is Tony Soprano, the Democratic governors who plead with Canadian tourists to return are the Carmelas. They cluck their disapproval…”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yup
“…the second Trump administration has established a more enduring truth about the United States: It is no longer a country that keeps its agreements.”
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
raph@social.coop ("Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון") wrote:
Standing Together activists disrupt a live broadcast of Big Brother in Israel, wearing “Leave Gaza” shirts and calling for an end to the genocide and against Netanyahu’s plan for permanent occupation of Gaza.
Standing Together started as a vague pro peace movement that refused to name apartheid. It's been good to see them become more radical and force other Israelis to face the genocide they're perpetrating.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
maddler@mastodon.ie ("Maddler :sarcasm: :antifa:") wrote:
Here you can see another dangerous member of the terrorist #OctogenarianArmy getting arrested while protesting for a #FreePalestine. She was so dangerous that three officers had to be deployed to contain her! Hope they all made back home safe and well after such a dangerous mission!
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DropBear@theblower.au ("Drop Bear") wrote:
Among other things, the BlueSky Zionist accused someone of victim-blaming. That sparked a memory.
The image is from "The fate of the Jews" by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht (1983).
Page 221
#Zionism
#EthnoSupremacism
#antisemitism
![Zionists believed Jews had to be transplanted in order to be redeemed. Uri Avnery wrote, “Zionist literature, taught to every Jewish child in Palestine, depicted Jewish life in Eastern Europe as despicable, the whole tradition and folklore of the ghetto as cowardly, crooked, parasitical.”5 He noted that Jews were “depicted in Zionist schoolbooks in a way rather reminiscent of anti-Semitic literature,”6 and because of this, Israelis consider themselves “vastly superior” to diaspora Jews, “treating them at best with a paternalistic, rather colonial attitude.”7 Yehezkel Kaufman, professor of Bible studies at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, wrote that Jewish nationalism was built “on a foundation of anti-Semitism.” It blamed Jews themselves for their misfortunes and said they deserved to be hated. To shed their iniquities they had to leave the diaspora and become a nation and a people like all others. “The poison which flows from Jewish nationalist sources,” wrote Kaufman, “is perhaps the most dangerous of them all.”8 [paragraph deleted to make room] He noted that every nation has its diaspora—those who emigrated—yet “none are considered slaves and dogs except the Jews—and by themselves.”10 He wrote, “Many Zionists . . . are completely convinced that in order to become ‘good Zionists’ we must first become ‘good anti-Semites,’ that we must first hate ourselves.” 11](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media%5Fattachments/files/115/004/059/701/738/720/original/0291f647cd11968c.png)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DropBear@theblower.au ("Drop Bear") wrote:
I've been lurking on a BlueSky thread where a Zionist is saying that he can't be antisemitic because he claims to be Jewish. The Jerusalem Declaration: "Antisemitism is discrimination, prejudice, hostility or violence against Jews as Jews (or Jewish institutions as Jewish)" https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ doesn't rule out antisemitism, by virtue of the perpetrator claiming to be Jewish.
Australian Zionist Mark Leibler provided a case study. The image is of a certified copy archived by the NSW state Parliament. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lcdocs/other/21800/X%20post%20%E2%80%93%20Mark%20Leibler,%208%20February%202025.pdf
Would a court rule that the words "repulsive and revolting" and "vicious antisemites" aimed at Jews is antisemitic? Those words are certainly hostile and prejudiced. The apparent deletion of the post implies the answer. Leibler is a lawyer.
#AusPol
#antisemitism
#Zionism
![[upside-down certification stamp, dated 19/05/2025] Mark Leibler @LeiblerMark Nothing, but nothing, is worse than those Jews who level totally unfounded allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the State of Israel. They are repulsive and revolting human beings. Their relatives who were murdered by the Nazis - the role models for Hamas - will undoubtedly be turning in their graves. Their avowed anti Zionism is clearly no more than a cover for the reality that they are vicious antisemites. 11:11PM - Feb 8, 2025 - 339.1K Views](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media%5Fattachments/files/115/002/547/962/034/465/original/91954465bab5c125.jpg)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
MingueFRuiz ("Miguel Francisco Ruiz Guerrero") wrote:
El video que Israel no quiere que veas: Matthew Chance de CNN se une a la fuerza aérea jordana en un vuelo sobre Gaza y obtiene una vista aérea de la destrucción generalizada causada por el ejército israelí después de casi dos años de GENOCIDIO.
#gazagenocide
#IsraelTerroristState
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Petition to rename the United Kingdom “Pound Store United States”. https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115003927188139242
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
OccuWorld@syzito.xyz wrote:
LEGAL ACTION
#West #Protests #AntiGenocide #LegalAction #Arrest #Protesters #GenocideSupport
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
disisdeguey@expressional.social ("Disisdeguey🔻Pavlichenko🇵🇸") wrote:
@Wen Keep fighting. Next time should thousands. #PalestineAction #FreePalestine #1c12
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Wen@mastodon.scot wrote:
Police arrest 466 at Palestine Action protest, beating poll tax record
Hundreds openly flouted terrorism law banning the group, including an 89-year-old Jewish refugee and a former Guantanamo Bay inmate
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ykhong@mas.to ("YK Hong") wrote:
Meta and Google, in league with
period tracking app Flo, shared and violated Flo users’ data.It goes without saying, that not only is this illegal, but it breaches privacy, and puts people at profound risk.
Google, Flo, and data analytics firm, Flurry, settled prior. Meta proceeded to trial, and a jury just concluded that they tapped in on and violated Flo users’ privacy globally.
Not all apps are always trying to steal your data, but most of them do.
And Big Tech always does.
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Walrus@toot.wales ("Walrus 🏴") wrote:
Mr Starmer is very clear. If you hold up a sign saying you object to his "government" helping Israel to kill Palestinians, you are a terrorist, and will be arrested.
Starmer is disgusting.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/palestine-action-arrests-london-largest-protest-ban
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pressenza_italia@mastodon.uno ("Pressenza Italia") wrote:
Amnesty International Regno Unito: gli arresti dei manifestanti di Palestine Action sono “fonte di profonda preoccupazione”
https://www.pressenza.com/it/2025/08/amnesty-international-regno-unito-gli-arresti-dei-manifestanti-di-palestine-action-sono-fonte-di-profonda-preoccupazione/
In risposta agli arresti di 466 manifestanti di Palestine Action avvenuti sabato 9 agosto in Parliament Square a Londra, Sacha Deshmukh, direttore esecutivo di Amnesty International UK, ha dichiarato: “Gli arresti
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
gvwilson ("Greg Wilson") wrote:
My sister Sylvia died of pancreatic cancer in 2012 at the age of 47, leaving three teenage children behind. The mRNA cancer vaccine being developed in the US was the best hope we've ever had to prevent this. The Trump Administration's decision to cut funding for this live-saving research based on pseudo-scientific hysteria condemns more people like my sister to death, and more children to grow up without their mothers. https://third-bit.com/2012/01/21/the-life-i-did-live-the-breath-i-breathed/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
TheComfortableSpotPodcast ("Ken M Sweeney") wrote:
So the arms traffickers and genocide enablers are trying to clean up their act two years after fully supporting the mass murder of innocent men, women, and children in #Gaza. Two years later is too late and #Germany must be made to pay at the very least, reparations directly to the Palestinian people. If they really cared, they would send people to the war zone. Help is needed on the ground and nit picking the best children for their PR cleanup will not wash. #GermanGenocide
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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:
Drink special for gothicumbia: Big balls beat-down -- Casamigos mezcal, starry, grapefruit and a fancy lime l!
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
UK would rather arrest almost 500 people rather than admit or cease its complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
So I guess the next step is a 5,000-person protest.
They arrest 5,000? Time for 50,000.
Overwhelm the system until the system stops committing genocide.
#israel #UK #UnitedKingdom #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #StopIsrael #StopArmingIsrael #StopFundingGenocide #StopTheGenocide #BDS
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
matt@oslo.town ("Matt ⁂ 🇳🇴 🇺🇦") wrote:
I know PixelFed exists but it's all just text and video and images at the end of the day - so what if the Mastodon interface just looked like Instagram and then you could sign in using your existing Mastodon account... a concept:
This is just hacked together real quick, but should I work on this to make it a real thing?
#PixelFed #Mastodon #Instagram #PhotoSharing #MastoDev #Instadon
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itsveganjim wrote:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
ConnyDuck@chaos.social ("Conny Duck") wrote:
I deleted my Instagram accounts months ago https://chaos.social/@ConnyDuck/114490912909649560, how the hell does it still know my accountname 🤨
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chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:
i3 is great, the Online Safety Act is a disaster - Freebooters
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jackie@deadinsi.de ("kie/qui (planar)") wrote:
the first ever DOOM recording commercially released calls out the current head of youtube music