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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
david_megginson@mstdn.ca ("David Megginson") wrote:

(This post is for non-Americans.) Folks, it's time to stop agonising over everything the Americans do, and focus instead on building a world that works without them. Let's accept that we can no longer rely on them for anything: trade, global security, aid, medical research, a model of democracy, tech innovation … anything.

Even if the U.S. somehow achieves peaceful democratic transfers of power in 2026 and 2028 — and there are many good Americans fighting hard for that — there''ll be years or decades of cleaning up and rebuilding shattered democratic institutions from the ground up. Write them out of the global script for now and move on.

#USpolitics #trade #war #science

Boosted by denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert"):
jer@hachyderm.io ("jan-erik") wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLD6vrt9rAQ

DIT IS DE SPACETREIN NAAR AMSTERDAM CENTRAAL🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#trains
(via @denschub)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Bonus pic #Plushtodon

Boosted by jwz:
bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot ("Bodhipaksa") wrote:

@benroyce So when United Health's CEO was assassinated, the lesson they learned was not "let's be less shitty and actually help people," but "Let's continue to be shitty but hide our identities."

It's time to burn the whole fucking thing down to the ground and start over.

Boosted by jwz:
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

Breaking: RFK Jr. rules out 2028 presidential bid, satisfied with the number of people he can kill in his current role. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/15/rfk-trump-president-2028/

Boosted by jwz:
CarveHerName@mstdn.social wrote:

#OnThisDay, 17 Aug 2012, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich of Pussy Riot are sentenced to two years in a prison colony for an anti-Putin protest.

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@davidho I see Altman's press photos have been upgraded from "how did this ice dildo get in my ass?" to "what do you mean The Batman blew up my factory?"

Boosted by jwz:
davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

Republicans are dicks

https://apnews.com/article/postal-service-electric-vehicles-trump-biden-reversal-03958ff70e8209ee2bf91c266c6d4b6f

Boosted by jwz:
spaf@mstdn.social wrote:

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
scopique@gamepad.club ("Scopique") wrote:

Always a banger

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ElectronicIntifada@flipboard.social ("The Electronic Intifada") wrote:

Internal paper shows EU sought to shield Israel from sanctions

Brussels and Tel Aviv brainstorm on funding new weapons amid genocide.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/internal-paper-shows-eu-sought-shield-israel-sanctions

#EuropeanUnion #DrorBin #IsraelInnovationAuthority #BenjaminNetanyahu #IlianaIvanova #FriedrichMerz

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

AI: Infinite Monkey Theorem as a Service.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He smol #Plushtodon

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

Anyone raising money to sue for a "recount" of the 2024 presidential election is trying to scam you. This is simply not a thing. The election is long over, and the time during which recounts can happen in every US jurisdiction is long past.

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

I did a new blog post about my new favourite static site generator called blop.
https://chriswere.wales/posts/a-blop-in-the-bucket/

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

Attachments:

• 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

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

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