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

@Aseelsehwel @palestine I just got a message from Aseel. She’s alive. That’s all I know.

Going to share the screenshot she sent me next.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
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/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

If you appreciate the features I've helped develop - container queries, cascade layers, mixins & functions, scope, progress & interpretation, logical shorthands - consider supporting that work though open collective:

https://opencollective.com/oddbird-open-source

or bring me in to teach a workshop for your team:

https://www.oddbird.net/talks/

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

“Anyone who claims to rely on the best scientific consensus today must report the current death toll in the Gaza genocide as ‘more than 115,000’ violent deaths or ‘more than 460,000’ overall.

Here, in detail, is why.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/19/the-real-gaza-death-toll-is-impossible-to-know-today-but-the-minimum-isnt/

@palestine

#genocide #Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #stopTheGenocide #StopIsrael

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

The last message I got from @Aseelsehwel was a little before midnight last night (I was asleep; I just woke up and saw it). Please share her voice:

“The situation is very bad. We are still in place. As you can hear, there is shooting at houses and tents and it has not stopped for a moment.”

@palestine

#Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #genocide #StopTheGenocide #StopIsrael #news

Attachments:

• audio: efb00403d67560e0.mp3

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
zkat@toot.cat ("Kat Marchán 🐈") wrote:

get yours today
https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/The-Demon-Core-Says-Believe-In-Yourself-by-TalenLee/128352439.EJUG5

(by @Talen_Lee)

https://beige.party/@Kierkegaanks/115050623101280641

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

Are the mRNA vaccines incredible? YES!

Are the mRNA vaccines perfect? No.

Have the mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives? YES!

Can we make the mRNA vaccines even better? YES!

Can we use mRNA vaccine technology to prevent and treat many other diseases? YES!

Fund mRNA research!

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

This is what happens when you forget what your boss told you

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-interrupts-talks-with-european-leaders-call-putin-says-eu-diplomat-2025-08-18/

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

Telegraph poles like these, with multiple "code lines", were once a common feature along American railroads. They are distinguishable from ordinary power or telephone lines by their multitude of cables, often occupying several crossarms. They typically carried a power bus plus individual lines for the signals along the route, with more efficient encodings used as technology improved.

They've been mostly supplanted by more modern SCADA systems that don't require so many individual wires.

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

Captured with a DSLR and 24mm shifting lens (vertically shifted just a bit) on a hot day in the Mojave desert.

This is a simple composition, characteristic of the early 20th century Precisionist school. There's little in the frame that isn't essential. The pylons, wires, and tracks all converge at a vanishing point at the edge of the frame, suggesting, but not showing, a more expansive network of wires, tracks, and, for better or worse, human dominance over nature.

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

Code Lines, Union Pacific Railroad, Harvard, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, none of the voltage, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4612902834

#photography

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net ("Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:") wrote:

I'll stop after this. But I need to get this out of my system. We in Europe have enjoyed 3 generations of peace after the 2nd world war. We now learn that that didn't happen because we are shiny, happy people. It happened because of diplomacy. Of working in the background to keep the Cold War cold. That balance of power is now over. And we can replace it with more peace or with more war. I guess you understand what I prefer. Is all. Now go and attack me for being naive :)

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

Public debate on global warming? Sweet. Let’s also debate the Ptolemaic model of the heavens.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-team-readies-more-attacks-on-mainstream-climate-science/

Boosted by jwz:
js@podcastindex.social ("John Spurlock") wrote:

guys

Boosted by jwz:
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

In the far future, we will all be human emulations running on the mind of AI God!

we have separate areas of sim city for the brown emulations of course

Boosted by jwz:
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

jwz wrote:

Sax, possibly violence.

For important comedy purposes, I would like to buy several saxophones. They don't have to work *at all,* but they do have to be cheap. Like, "beat to hell and rejected from a middle school music program" is what I'm hoping for. Unfortunately even broken saxophones seem to be going for a couple hundred bucks on eBay, and my joke is not *that* funny. Anyone got a lead?
https://jwz.org/b/yktm

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

I'm going to pronounce it M-S-N-O-W and also still not watch it because I think watching cable news is a bad idea in general

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I got my War of Being LP sleeve signed by them. We agreed the names of the songs on the Altered State album (my favorite album) are difficult to remember when they asked me which of their songs was my favorite. They ended up performing the song I had in mind later anyway! #ArcTanGent

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

Can capitalism just die now, please? https://mastodon.world/@davidho/115046724177703023

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
reiver ("@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:") wrote:

🎉 Right now, many people are leaving GitHub for Codeberg.

💵 If you were previously paying for a GitHub account, please consider redirecting that support to Codeberg.

❤️ Your donation can help keep this community-driven platform running strong.

👇 Donate here:
https://liberapay.com/codeberg/donate

.

.

#codeberg #git #GitHub

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

Everything here is scary.

We are afraid of everything.

There is no human life here. Every detail of life is frightening.

I'm very depressed 😞

#gaza #palestine

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

Do you know what it means to live only to survive?

We spend the day looking for food, water, or wood to make a fire.

We keep thinking about what we will do tomorrow.

Life here changes in one minute.

Please help my family survive via the link in the bio 🇵🇸 :underheart:

#gaza #palestine

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

Mosab Abu Toha | Families sheltering inside the UNRWA clinic in Gaza City's Sabra neighborhood are currently under siege.
Israeli tanks have suddenly advanced on the area, and intense gunfire is preventing anyone from leaving the building.
They are trapped, with no safe way out.
Families there are in danger.
@palestine #gaza #gazaunderattack

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

Evergreen not actually satire

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theonion/post/DNgk0WYqf26

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Chris learns Vim

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/a9sijmZ4GQMA1dk2B3QVDq

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

Drew teaches me how to use Vim in my latest video

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/a9sijmZ4GQMA1dk2B3QVDq

#vim #linux #foss #opensource

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
OscarCunningham@mathstodon.xyz ("Oscar Cunningham") wrote:

A working QR code in the style of Piet Mondrian. Inspired @divbyzero and @andrewt.

#Art #PietMondrian #QRCode

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
onthisday ("On This Day In History") wrote:

Today in 1920, 105 years ago: The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing women's suffrage.

#OnThisDay

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

I was away at the Worldcon for several days, I have not watched the news in the interim, I assume it was all mostly bad, anyway here is a cat