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divya@sunny.garden ("Dr. Divya 🍉 offline") wrote:
Massacres in Al-Shati camp tonight
QNN English: Breaking | Five Palestinians were reported killed and over 10 injured in an Israeli strike on Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City.
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aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
@r_alb @jstatepost Privacy is the right to decide what you want to share and what you want to keep to yourself.
(And for anyone who thinks “yeah, duh!”, I had to utter that exact sentence at a round-table meeting with “invited privacy experts” and the UN special rapporteur on the right to privacy because they were bikeshedding the definition.)
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r_alb ("Raphael Albert") wrote:
Actually, I have an awful lot to hide.
Not because I am a criminal or a tax-evading billionaire, but because I'm a human being.
I am more than just a data mine. I refuse to be reduced to a source of digital commodities. I refuse to be valued at anyone's ad-revenue.
I have a right to decide what others should know about me. And I have a right to know what they will do with what they know.
That's why I have a lot to hide. Not because I must, but because I want to.
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#privacy #DataProtection
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Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:
He asks, ‘Is this my home?’
How would you feel watching your house being destroyed right before your eyes?
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Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:
In northern Gaza, occupation aircraft dropped leaflets urging residents to evacuate the Jabalia area, in preparation for its complete destruction. Since last night, the area has been subjected to heavy shelling, resulting in a number of casualties.
@palestine #gaza #gazaunderattack #genocide #StopGenocide
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daliamohisen ("Dalia Mohisen") wrote:
Unfortunately, this occupation, its allies, and its suffocating policies are succeeding. Why must we always be given a glimpse of hope, something that eases our pain, only to have it ripped away from us after we’ve struggled so hard to reach it? It is a truly killing feeling one more method of slow death they inflict upon us.
The only small consolation is that the donations will be returned to you. Thank you for standing with us. I will try to find another way.
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daliamohisen ("Dalia Mohisen") wrote:
The whole world, with all its technologies, stands helping this occupation.
Even before this, I suffered from account closures and targeted campaigns against me all meant to silence our voices. Are we truly that frightening? We have no weapons, no ammunition; all we have are our words, our voices refusing to bow to their crimes, and I only write what I live through. Is it written upon us that even our right to speak be stripped away that we must die muted, voiceless, and unheard?
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NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:
The things I experience and see every day make me feel like the end of the world has started in Gaza.
The hunger in Gaza looks like something from the end of the world.
it's like nothing else.
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amro@todon.nl ("Amro has been") wrote:
@NouranKhaledGh
Everyday I hope to see a sign of live from you again. That you survived the night, that your family did.
I'm glad today is not a day filled with your silence.
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Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:
The Israeli army announced the start of a military offensive on Gaza City. Evacuation orders are expected to be issued for all residents of Gaza City to head south.
@palestine #gaza #gazagenocide #genocide
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
This? Oh, it’s just GoFundMe preventing people who are being starved by Israel in Gaza from raising money to buy food to live.
The scale of this inhumanity and injustice will haunt us forever. https://mastodon.social/@daliamohisen/115060399174567486
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daliamohisen ("Dalia Mohisen") wrote:
And this morning, we got that email… I don’t know what to do anymore, nor how we will survive what’s coming without any source of income. It feels as if there’s a campaign against us, determined to shut every single door in our faces.
Everyone who donated will have their contributions returned… all their kindness, all their attempts to stand with us undone in a single blow.
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daliamohisen ("Dalia Mohisen") wrote:
I just received news that crushed me on top of everything I’m already enduring. An email was sent to my cousin
the one who manages our campaign abroad, since we Palestinians from Gaza are not allowed to create accounts or links ourselves. He set it up for us, but unfortunately, we have received only a small amount of donations so far.
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djwudi@tenforward.social ("Michael Hanscom") wrote:
Image from @moira. Best response comment I've seen: "Incredible. After a century of investment and iteration and development, we’ve finally managed to make a computer that can’t do math."
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Incredibly exciting news!
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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:
I think the 2030s are gonna be really weird.
“What up biochem fam, so great to see you guys, today we are back at it again with another video, this one’s about making your own mRNA SARS-nCoV-2029 vaccine precursors with a Bambu Lab Crispy CRISPR kit. As you all know my university research program was shut down by ICE last month which is why we are in this undisclosed location, and that is why it’s so important for you to hit like, subscribe, smash that bell, and sign up for our Patreon”
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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/
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ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:
Drew teaches me how to use Vim in my latest video
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benrob0329@dice.camp ("Benrob0329") wrote:
Holy shit, there's really no hope for using KDE with a screen reader, is there?
Just getting into the *accessibility settings* with it and no visual information (closing my eyes) is a complete no-go. You have to use the keyboard to get Orca to speak the labels of any Qt buttons or menu options, and there's no way to tab back and forth between the settings categories, sub categories, and actual options.
(I don't need a screen reader but this is a rabbit hole I've fallen down now)
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Lowrain@sunny.garden ("Loraine Lawson") wrote:
Minimalist Mastro Framework Offers Modern Take on MPAs: https://thenewstack.io/minimalist-mastro-framework-offers-modern-take-on-mpas/ via @thenewstack #frontend
Mastodon FeedNoting a new batch of Chrome-impersonating bots trying to load the entire srcset property as if it were a URL. So much blocking. Blockety blockety block.
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deanpreston@sfba.social ("Dean Preston") wrote:
It is hard to fathom that a nationally recognized program, backed by the entire Board of Supervisors, that improved neighborhood safety would be targeted by a new mayor who claims public safety as his top focus. Yet that is exactly what happened.
CAP is the only City-run non-police community ambassador program in San Francisco. Many of the ambassadors in the program are residents of the neighborhoods they serve.
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az@scorpinc.social ("Az") wrote:
Excel developers 40 years ago: we've built a world-first recalc system, delivering performant but accurate dynamic cell updating on any architecture or system.
Excel developers now: we added a function that can sometimes give a correct answer. We can't tell if the answer is correct or not. Also it shouldn't be used for numbers in a spreadsheet.
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FediThing@chinwag.org ("FediThing 🏳️🌈") wrote:
Just relying on individuals to block bad accounts does not work in the real world. Here's a concrete example:
A black grandfather played with his white grandchildren. His family videoed it and shared this wholesome scene.
Far right racists stole the video, removed the context and claimed it was a paedophile grooming victims. They posted their edited version and a far right moron with over a million racist followers shared the video.
The black grandfather is now living in fear, but the social network (Musk's X) won't take the posts down and the police claim that sharing the video isn't a crime.
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spaf@mstdn.social wrote:
A public service announcement
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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:
🤔This is kind of like when newspapers report that police officers are "quitting en masse." But then you read the article and for them "quitting" just means "I will not report to duty. I will still collect a paycheck and earn a pension."
He's moving from CEO to Executive Chair of the Board. 🤷🏿♂️
He was both CEO and Executive Chair of the Board before too. He's just dropping the CEO part. 🤷🏿♂️
No judgment either way, but this isn't a board leadership change.
Do what makes you happy. Seriously! If you enjoy shopping at Target, I love that for you. Seriously. It's your wallet.
Mastodon FeedOne thing that I want to mention, true in 2023 and just as true in 2025: the number of corporations I’ve seen making a point to say that their HVAC systems have been upgraded, that they’ve been working to make collaboration safe in their spaces during this whole RTO push, has been zero. It has been exactly zero.
Compared to the cost of a single employee getting sick this shit is basically free. It is cheaper than toilet paper or soda. But somehow.
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jmcrookston ("Jonathan") wrote:
Masks (respirators)
Well, it looks like the fire service in the United States can't admit that smoke is bad for firefighters because then it would have to admit that it had been putting people at risk for all these years.
This is identical to what we saw healthcare doing during COVID. (Which they did before COVID, and continue to do today.)
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tedmielczarek ("Ted Mielczarek") wrote:
@jplebreton @mhoye the fact that we wiped out a strain of the flu in 2020 due to COVID precautions and that didn't make everyone stand up and take note and ask why we shouldn't work to eliminate the rest (as well as the common cold) is pretty damning of society.