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

By now many, though not all, of the structures from the island's military era have been demolished (including the bowling alley in the photo). Environmental remediation is proceeding slowly.

A small community of mostly low-income families live in the island's housing, and some of the larger buildings are used as sound stages for film production and related industries. Fancier redevelopment is starting to accelerate.

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

San Francisco's Treasure Island is a weird place. An artificial island built adjacent to Yerba Buena Island in the middle of the Bay Bridge, it initially hosted the 1939 World's fair, with plans to then use it for the city's main airport. At the start of WW II, the US government appropriated it for use as a Naval station. After the Cold War, the government returned the island to the city. It was extensively contaminated by radioactive waste from decontamination training conducted on the island.

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

This was captured with a BetterLight scanning digital back and Nikkor 90mm lens on a Sinar P 4x5 camera.

This now-demolished bowling alley was part of the Treasure Island Naval Station, closed about 15 years earlier and then just starting to be redeveloped (a process that's been slowed by serious environmental contamination).

The composition emphasizes the simple lines of the structure and the isolated, rather desolate setting.

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

"Bowl For Health", Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA, 2007.

All the pixels, shoe rental not included, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/2123765265

#photography

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

life is full of tradeoffs

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• video: 1c6ca49e0ff81fe2.mp4

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

@noyes More Israeli lies:

“Netanyahu’s office issued a statement denying that the employee in question had even been arrested.

‘A state employee who traveled to the US for professional matters was questioned by American authorities during his stay,’ the prime minister’s office said. ‘The employee, who does not hold a diplomatic visa, was not arrested and returned to Israel as scheduled.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official

The arrest notice:

https://www.lvmpd.com/Home/Components/News/News/2182/263

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
noyes@mastodon.online ("J.H.Noyes") wrote:

Have y'all seen this shit? High ranking Likud Party member caught in Vegas child sex sting and the Trump Administration let's him go.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële") wrote:

smolweb-validator is a new CLI tool to check if a web page respects smolweb HTML subset.

This tool uses jsoup HTML5 parser, a java library.

Exemple :

$ ./smolweb-validate https://adele.pages.casa/md/

🔍 Validating: https://adele.pages.casa/md/
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

📊 VALIDATION SUMMARY
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
✅ VALID: This page conforms to the smolweb HTML subset!

📈 Statistics:
 Total elements: 71
 Valid elements: 71
 Invalid elements: 0

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Validation complete.

#smolweb #smallweb

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

The battle in Gaza City will be a total crushing of the neighborhoods with artillery and airstrikes, accompanied by a rapid evacuation of residents. After that, tanks will storm the neighborhoods, and bulldozers will begin to completely destroy them. As the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood was evacuated within three days, the entire city of Gaza could be evacuated within a week.
@palestine #gaza #StopGenocide #gazaunderattack

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Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

Al-Zaytoun, Gaza's oldest and largest neighborhood, is being systematically erased by ongoing Israeli bombardment.
@palestine #gaza #StopGenocide #palestine #gazaunderattack

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Walrus@toot.wales ("Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿") wrote:

@mitch

Liked it, stole it, reposted it with alt-text...

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

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I attended a WWII air show, and my testosterone levels increased 3 times in one moment.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/17/the-real-wwii-experience/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEOIIDdRB8U

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
danirabbit@mastodon.online ("Danielle Foré") wrote:

Things I won’t stop doing because fuck you:

🖋️ em dashes
👞 Oxford commas
😘 Emoji as bullet points
🤖 Whatever other thing you come up with to prove it “must be ai”

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

The AppleVision L is widely regarded as the best of Apple's L-displays, and is perhaps just as well known by the arguments following Macworld's 1997 review of it as "unparalleled", after which thousands of Apple critics descended on usenet to post that it was just as parallel as regular displays.

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petebrown@social.lol ("Pete Brown") wrote:

Weekends should be longer than two days.

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

Bloody hell, finally, I think I’m done with the Markdown support rewrite in Kitten.

The Markdown rule for interpreting four spaces as code fences has been the biggest pain in my neck during this whole ordeal but, bitching aside, it means the parser is now more accurate and thus stronger for it.

If all goes well, expect a Monday release :)

https://kitten.small-web.org

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #Markdown #HTML #CSS #JavaScript #NodeJS

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

For the Guard from WV and OH and wherever, it might be useful to put together fliers to hand out, describing that they've been moved from their families and regular jobs bc a single guy who accessed their private data was assaulted by unarmed teenagers.

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

Capitalism is the larval stage of fascism.

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Ttubretep@mstdn.social ("Ziggy Sawdust") wrote:

Myrna Loy

jwz wrote:

Deep State Hero Sandwich.

Pinko Joe:
https://jwz.org/b/yktc

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MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social ("Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!") wrote:

@McPatrick @astroPug @QueenOfTheCroneAge
From artist Pinko Joe:

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alexjs@wetdry.world ("alex :neobot_flag_disabled:") wrote:

when you need to change instances this is who you call

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tychotithonus@infosec.exchange ("Royce Williams") wrote:

Kiddo: why do you put the full year with "20" at the front when you sign the school forms?

Me: thousand-yard Y2K stare

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

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dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ AniCLover: DON'T HOAGIE ME, BRO: Ciroc Green Apple Vodka, Sour and Starry.

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• gifv: 1411c131ae366680.mp4

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skiles@carhenge.club ("John Skiles Skinner") wrote:

Trump has made no comment. The White House has found the time to post a video of the arrest of that guy who threw a sandwich at a cop, but nothing about a cop killed defending the government's own employees.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose district includes parts of Atlanta, has also said nothing.

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skiles@carhenge.club ("John Skiles Skinner") wrote:

CDC leadership also hasn’t been very communicative. To be fair to them, their staff who would would have dealt with this situation were mostly fired by DOGE.

So my fellow civil servants at the CDC feel abandoned. They are hated with a murderous rage and no one cares.

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skiles@carhenge.club ("John Skiles Skinner") wrote:

You know why CDC has blast-proof windows? A response to the Oklahoma city bombing, in 1995. That's how long the American right wing has been mass-killing federal workers.

The bombing followed the Gingrich Revolution of 1994, when hatred of government workers rushed into the political mainstream.

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Mamadani won the NYC Democratic primary & Jeffries, Schumer, & Gillibrand won’t endorse him.

Omar Fateh won the Democratic Party endorsement for Minneapolis mayor & Tim Walz won’t endorse him.

Bowman & Bush were the Democratic incumbents & the Dem Party let AIPAC take them out.

"Vote blue no matter who" always meant "vote blue as long as they're corporate centrists." Is it any wonder the party has a 26% approval rating?