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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
nova@lunar.place ("Nova :neocat_floof_cute:") wrote:

​:neocat_floof_cute:​

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mxjaygrant@triangletoot.party ("Jay Grant 🌱🌷🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

ADHD: you have the power to disappear things permanently by holding them in your hands and thinking to yourself, "I'll need this again, better put it in a safe place"

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
indivisibleteam ("Indivisible ❌👑") wrote:

Republicans can get away with scammy fundraising tactics, but a pro-democracy party can’t afford to burn people out by asking for money every 30 seconds.

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

I chose the 32mm Rodenstock with stitching here. I could have just barely squeezed this into a single frame with the wider-angle 23mm, except that the 23 doesn't have a large enough image circle to accommodate the vertical shift needed to keep the vertical lines from converging. The 32 has a much larger image circle, and so stitching with it yields a wider angle of view than I could obtain with the 23 (which allows only much more limited movements). About 25% more pixels this way, too.

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

This is a stitched composite of two captures made from the same position, using horizontal shift movements to get a wider field of view on either side. This was really the only way to capture this building from in front of a tree that would otherwise have obstructed the facade, while also keeping its geometry undistorted. The final result is roughly the angle of view of a 14mm lens (in 35mm full frame terms), with a total of about 190 megapixels in the combined frame.

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

Captured with the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W (@ f/6.3 lens, Phase One IQ4-150 back, and Phase One XT camera. Composite of two shifted images (+/- 12mm from center horizontally, -12mm vertically).

Officially, "House of the Temple, Headquarters of the Supreme Council, 33°, Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Southern Jurisdiction, Washington DC". The local Masonic temple, museum, library, and, I'm told, a gift shop.

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

House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023.

All the pixels, relatively few ritual sacrifices, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53288608886

#photography

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

JD Vance pretending not to know that WWII ended in the unconditional surrender of the Axis nations is one reason I believe that when this is all over there will be a long line of historians waiting their turn to give that squamous poltroon a series of extremely harsh wedgies

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net ("Mondoweiss 🇵🇸") wrote:

Hundreds of scholars, educators, and education practitioners condemn Harvard Educational Review's cancellation of a special issue on Palestine, saying it aims to silence discussion of the genocide and dehumanization of the Palestinian people.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/stop-censoring-palestine-a-public-call-for-accountability-at-the-harvard-education-publishing-group/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ekis ("she hacked you") wrote:

@bodhipaksa I have a similar one from a while ago

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

1. What my daughter posted on Instagram.

2. What Instagram put over her post.

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

Right there in my backyard!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/24/i-thought-i-was-going-to-miss-out-this-year/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
prolrage@todon.nl ("Proletarian Rage") wrote:

Childhood in #Gaza.
https://visualizingpalestine.org/visual/six-wars-old/

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

“A string of bands have pulled out of a UK music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.

The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Victorious festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
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Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they would boycott the festival in a statement shared on their Instagram page: ‘We are outraged by the decision made to silence The Mary Wallopers yesterday at Victorious. As a band we cannot cosign political censorship and will therefore be boycotting the festival today.’

…

Rock band The Academic have also pulled out of the festival, saying they could not ‘in good conscience’ perform at ‘a festival that silences free speech’. Irish band Cliffords said they ‘refuse to play if we are to be censored for showing our support to the people of Palestine’.

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2025/08/23/mary-wallopers-claim-they-were-cut-off-at-uk-festival-for-displaying-palestinian-flag/

#Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #solidarity #israel #genocide #victoriousFestival

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

Thread. Hope you enjoyed the era of things from away being easy to get; that's going away now thanks to this administration.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@paperandspark/post/DNtBscm4tEk

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

I've updated my website's list of web tools. It's a little shorter than before, but something I don't use as much any more, or have been taken offline.

https://chriswere.wales/posts/web-tools-i-use/

#foss #opensource #webtools

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
ana@starlite.rodeo ("miss ana vee :vheart_fuck_yes:") wrote:

sure is strange how every "liberal democracy" suddenly introduces the same internet censorship bill at the same time. such a weird coincidence haha

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

@aral and a website version I stumbled upon the other day.

https://fiftythousandnames.org/

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

I'm Nouran Ghaboun, I'm 19 years old now. I was 17 when the war began.

I didn't graduate from the secondary school because there is no exams. In this time, I supposed to be in the univresity.

I'm writing this wondering what is my guilt to lose my future? what is my guilt to lose even the basics of life like safety, education and food? All we live is fear all the time, displacement, death, hunger.

Can you imagine that I forgot how the normal life looks like?

@palestine #gaza

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

How are these genocidal pieces of shit not behind bars? How is there not a UN peacekeeping force heading to Palestine right this very moment to stop Israel’s genocide?

How are we not shutting everything down in the West to force our governments to either reverse course on their complicity in genocide and stop Israel or get the fuck out of the way so other people can? https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115082813519293136

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
faab64@freefree.ps ("Farhad") wrote:

Military chief Eyal Zamir clashed with far-right ministers Smotrich & #BenGvir, saying the #IDF isn’t sure how long it will take to evacuate #Gaza City’s civilian population.

“We ordered you a quick operation. In my opinion, you can besiege them. Whoever doesn’t evacuate, don’t let them. No water, no electricity, they can die of hunger or surrender. This is what we want & you're capable of” #Smotrich said

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog%5Fentry/anyone-in-gaza-city-who-doesnt-evacuate-can-die-of-hunger-or-surrender-smotrich-said-to-tell-idf-chief/
#Starvation #Genocide #stopisrael
@israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe

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

La gente no comprende el silencio de los gobiernos, que se mantengan acuerdos económicos con Israel, que incluso se le compre armas... En Villena se desplegó una inmensa bandera por el pueblo palestino, en un grito por frenar su genocidio fríamente calculado por el gobierno de Netanyahu.

#Gaza

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

Names of children murdered in Gaza in israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/115083408206443705

#israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #KnowTheirName

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green ("Pauline von Hellermann") wrote:

There is #KnowTheirName reading in Eastbourne today: we are reading all the names of the children killed in Gaza. I arrived during the reading of 6 year olds. 30min later, still doing 6 year olds. It is just awful. #Gaza

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• video: 56af5c3012719579.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
AlJazeera@flipboard.com ("Al Jazeera") wrote:

There is something worse than starvation in Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/24/there-is-something-worse-than-starvation-in-gaza?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
SheDrivesMobility@norden.social ("Katja Diehl") wrote:

This will kill.

It's appalling that monster trucks are now allowed to drive in the EU, contrary to all promises — just so that the German car industry can... Oh, just leave me alone.

We have NO cycle path infrastructure that can protect us from these Cybertrucks.
Our politicians, who have failed to implement inclusive transport policies for decades, think it's appropriate to throw everyone without a car in front of these monsters.
I don't get it.
Industry 1st.
Kill 🚴

https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/joint-statement-united-states-european-union-framework-agreement-reciprocal-fair-and-balanced-trade-2025-08-21%5Fen

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

Putin vowed to take Sumy — his paratroopers are trapped instead

Ukrainian forces encircled Russia’s 51st VDV Brigade near Sadky, leaving elite troops cut off in a 15-square-kilometer forest.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/08/23/ukraine-strikes-russian-reinforcements-sumy/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wi8x@mastodon.radio ("Chris - WI8X") wrote:

From N4RTD via WI8X@0557AM EDT 0n 8/24/25:
Good Morning Folks! The Sunspot Number has risen to 79. The Solar Flux Index has risen to 143. Two sunspot groups on the far side of the sun will turn to face earth in a few days. These groups are very active and could increase our space weather activity. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours. Chance of flares today: 35% for M-Class, 5% for X-Class.

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

@justindz @shiri @cstross our student logins at my middle school were the first letter of your first name plus the first three letters of your last name, which was very unfortunate for C. Unterberger

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

Report: The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has renewed its call on Israel to allow the agency to bring aid into Gaza to stop the ongoing famine.

#UNRWA #USPol #Europol #GazaStarvation #GazaGenocide #Racism @palestine .