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

Today is a day of action for Palestine. Here's eight hours of sounds and music, including some from a few long-time friends of the site, plus resources to apply pressure in ways that could change the situation on the ground.

https://cdm.link/listen-to-8-hours-of-sound-dedicated-to-palestine-and-act/

screenprinted graphic, "Our resistance will outlast the empire," with images of olive tree branch and pattern in green on white, SISTER MIDNIGHT FM PALESTINE ON AIR banner, radio.sistermidnight.org

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

🔴I still need $19🔴

Every Tuesday, I ask for your help to feed my family. We need $500 each week for my family of 6. Every single dollar makes a real difference If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing — it might reach someone who can help. Thank you so much for your continued kindness and support. Here’s the donation link and our full story 👇
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

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

Analysis: "The BBC hides truth about Israel's genocide -- again"

"The BBC keeps failing to report Israel's actually stated genocidal intent."

It did not report Israel’s leaders explicitly stating their actual motives -- over & over again.

"The BBC whitewashed a genocide."

https://www.owenjones.news/p/the-bbc-hides-truth-about-israels

#UKPol #BBC #EUROpol #USPol #GazaGenocide #Netanyahu #BBCCensorship @palestine .

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

Smotrich: "The Palestinian state is being erased from the table, not with slogans but with actions."

"Every settlement, every neighbourhood, every housing unit is another nail in the coffin of this dangerous idea."

"The time has come to forever put the idea of dividing the land on the back burner & ensure that.. the hypocritical leaders in Europe will have nothing to recognise.”

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-approves-e1-settlement-smotrich-says-palestinian-state-being-erased

#DisplacementReplacement #USPol #Europol #PalestinianState #illegalSettlements .

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

All we dream of is simple normal life.

To wake up in the morning safely, have a cup of tea with our family,
then go to schools, universities, and work, and meet our friends.

To go out with our friends and sit in quiet places.

To walk in the streets of our city without any fear.

To eat healthy food every day.

Everything I mentioned became unachievable dreams in Gaza.

Please donate for my family in the link in the bio :underheart:

#gaza #palestine

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
GeriatricGardener@mstdn.social ("Geriatric Gardener") wrote:

@DrALJONES

What are the Israelis gonna train Brit soldiers to do? Genocide? Murdering children? Setting up field stations to feed refugees so they can be gunned down?

Any thoughts @UKLabour?

POSTER:  “WHATEVER YOU ALLOW YOUR GOVERNMENT TO DO TO OTHERS THEY WILL EVENTUALLY DO TO YOU”

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

They love genocide so much they want to learn all the tricks from the experts.

#UK #israel #elbit #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #abjectMoralFailure https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/115066599044642567

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

oh this is comedy gold. you can prompt-inject a chatbot via unicode fuckery

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/hiding-and-finding-text-with-unicode-tags/

"which attacks are LLMs vulnerable to?" "yes"

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Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

The DNC found a way to revoke David Hogg’s election to vice chair, despite him winning the nomination.

The Democratic Party establishment won’t endorse Zohran Mamdani, despite him winning the nomination.

And now the Minnesota DFL has found a way to revoke its endorsement of Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh, despite him winning the nomination.

Democratic Party insiders keep crapping on its new & young leaders, yet wonders why young people are upset with the party & it has 26% approval😐

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

#ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark

Creepy golden age panel. Narration: “The department chief feels hungry.“ Standing in front of an all red background is a creepy fat man in a green three-piece suit with red tie. He’s looking just off the right of the panel with beady eyes, and he holds out his right hand and says to somebody, “Give me some cookies and milk, daddy!“

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're on the Enterprise bridge, looking from the view screen back. Riker is chattin' it up cool boss style with the crew all relaxed like up behind the captains chair where Worf usually stands when asking to fire on any unknown objects approaching. Data, standing down below, looks puzzled and confused.  Closed caption reads, "There may be a correlation between humor and sex."

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Boosted by jwz:
mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I know this is not a real ligature, but it was fun to see today.



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renchap@oisaur.com ("Renaud Chaput") wrote:

And now thanks to @chaosexanima I can show you how the retractation works:
- you get a notification when someone quotes you
- on their post, you have a new menu to remove their quote of your post
- you confirm, and your quote is removed and shown as having been retracted
- the quote is no longer displayed on the original post

A screenshot of the Mastodon notification interface, showing a notification with a "echo quoted your post" label and a post by Echo quoting the original post of this thread
A screenshot of the Mastodon interface showing a post by Echo quoting one of mine, with the post menu open and a new "Remove my post from @echo's post" item
A screenshot of a Mastodon confirmation modal, titled "Remove post?", with  "This action cannot be undone." as text, a "Cancel" button, and "Remove post" button
Screenshot of Echo's post, but the quote is replaced with "Post unavailable"

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

Drink Special @ Random Access: Currently Clean On POOP-SEC -- Cazadores tequila, ginger ale, pineapple, cherry

Attachments:

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Boosted by jwz:
enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e") wrote:

@flaviusb @zzt

Lambda calculus specifically has been used this way by multiple different generations of nerd-poseurs! Remember that early LISPers at Stanford started the "Knights of Lambda Calculus" secret society & then it turned out that most of them thought LISP and lambda calculus were the same thing.

(It's probably because of the influence of this group that the current crowd has attached itself)

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex Ștefănescu") wrote:

Whether the genAI bubble with burst or fizzle, we are be left with precarious folx, deprofessionalized workers and data centers that gobble up unreasonable amounts of energy and natural resources.

Instead of waxing philosophical and quoting Wittgenstein, debating whether LLMs "understand" the shitposts they generate, we must address these burning issues.

Ameliorate the precariat. Practice social solidarity. Refuse & oppose the data centers.

https://www.structural-integrity.eu/crashing-hard-why-talking-about-bubbles-obscures-the-real-social-cost-of-overinvesting-into-artificial-intelligence/

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

Jodie Ginsberg, head of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), says today’s letter calling on Israel to ensure Palestinian journalists in Gaza are protected and allow foreign reporters into the Strip marks a “turning point”.

“It’s extremely welcome that nearly 30 governments have signed onto this statement,” Ginsberg told Al Jazeera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLpLoP%5FnCbA

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

Children in Gaza are begging their parents for food that no longer exists. Many haven’t eaten bread in weeks.

A new Amnesty International report accuses Israel of deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war - a claim Israel denies, even as doctors on the ground describe malnourished children, mothers unable to breastfeed, and babies dying within days of birth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqPguDl4mc

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dromografos@social.dromografos.report ("Δρομογράφος") wrote:

Scientists call for action to address air pollution from space launches

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/22/scientists-call-for-action-air-pollution-space-launches

“More pollutants are being released into the atmosphere from rockets and satellites than ever before. We’re in uncharted territory, as humans have never added this much pollution to the upper layers of the atmosphere. If left unregulated, it may have serious impacts on Earth’s atmosphere.”

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

Protesters at the next mass demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action will withhold their details from officers to force en-masse processing at police stations in an effort to make it “practically impossible” to arrest everyone.

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

Zionism is, and always has been, a genocidal, settler colonial project.

It is the justification for and the ideology behind the literal genocide that is being committed by Israel right now, at this very moment, against the Palestinian people. A genocide that is being live streamed in posts here and elsewhere by its victims.

To equate all Jews with Zionism, as Zionists do – in other words, to state that all Jews are genocidal settler-colonialists – is antisemitic.

(Equally, it is antisemitic to portray opposition to Zionism and genocide as antisemitic.)

TL; DR: Zionists are antisemites.

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

About the feeling of awaiting execution… I speak to you about this feeling that dwells in the heart of every Gazan!
The displacement of Gaza this time means losing it forever, means erasing it from the face of the earth, means that what awaits its people will be the harshest: extermination, displacement, slaughter, and arrest.
Be our voice, do something to stop them!
@palestine #StopGenocide #gaza #gazaunderattack

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

We sleep and wake up every day to the sound of bombing.

The bombing sounds come closer and closer each day.

I'm still alive but I feel scared all the time.

It seems like the end is very near.

#gaza #palestine

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

Avoid the US like the plague. https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115068447096730360

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
cathywilcox@theblower.au ("TheCathyWilcox") wrote:

Killing journalists.

My @smh cartoon.

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
shantini@techhub.social ("Shantini") wrote:

Hi! We are looking for people to help post fundraisers 1-2 times a day. The occupation forces are now destroying Gaza city and the families we help are facing displacement and great danger.

We provide all the text, links, and verification.

DM me or email shantini29 at gmail if you can help.

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
shantini@techhub.social ("Shantini") wrote:

Basically no support today. We have 1000 to go by Saturday to keep these families in Gaza fed and housed

#mutualaid
#MutualAidRequest

https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

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isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Got reminded today of one kitchen rule: for sweet things, if the recipe is American — half the sugar.

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

@Tooden I think these brave troops may be the only thing holding the Canadian army back from hopping a train down here and invading.

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

To be fair, since the deployment of National Guard troops this month, there have been ZERO foreign military invasions of the Shake Shack at Union Station.