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

I just don’t know what to write anymore. Israel is committing genocide with the full support of our countries in the West.

What do I say to my friends in Palestine who don’t know if they’re going to survive the night? That we are morally vacuous? That we are horrible human beings? That we’ve lost any semblance of humanity we might have had? That we deserve their eternal wrath?

What do you say about societies that, far from failing to prevent genocide, support and profit from it?

Zionists love to ask you if their genocidal project deserves to exist. They’re not asking a broad enough question. Does a system that cannot even prevent genocide deserve to exist? What is the purpose of us if we are to exist shackled to the bloody whims of the worst of humanity?

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

Israel bombed Nasir hospital twice to murder four journalists:
Mohammed Salameh
Husam Al-Masri
Mariam Abu Daqqa
Moaz Abu Taha

A rescue worker was confirmed dead along with 10 other civilians & patients. Dozens more wounded, many in critical condition
@palestine #gaza

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Heliograph@mastodon.au wrote:

#wix #websites

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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Today on CNN Jeffries Again refused to endorse Mamdani. Meanwhile Mamdani’s popularity keeps growing & he’s further exemplified that his messaging and policies are wanted & real.

The Dem establishment has missed its chance to step up. They’ve squandered a golden opportunity to brand itself as a working family focused party that welcomes new young voices. They’ve failed the bare minimum—reminding us again why Dems remain at 26% approval smh.

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sogo7 ("Pascal Wicht 👾") wrote:

Super smart visual tension and analogy.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse wrote:

This is a country of forgetting. We forget that we started as 13 corporations. We forget that we were founded on genocides (plural) and built by chattel slavery. We forget our war crimes, lynching, our white supremacist murders, our patriarchal organizational structures, or warmongering and slaughter. All of it gets memory holed, never addressed, allowed to remain in the zeitgeist, waiting for men like Trump to come along. There is no American reconciliation committee - we should have DOZENS.

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

Imagine having a memorial to people who perished in a genocide with the hashtag #NeverAgainIsNow in your bio and you haven’t uttered so much as a single word against Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

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AntiBullyRanger@ani.social ("反いじめ戦隊") wrote:

Now is not the time

https://ani.social/post/18912638

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astrra.space@bsky.brid.gy ("Astra touches computer") wrote:

morning read

jwz wrote:

"We'll notify next of kin if she dies."

Mass. mom detained by ICE for 10 days over decades-old minor marijuana charge: When Rosa asked about his wife's medical care, the agent cited HIPAA laws as a barrier to knowing her health issues. Taken aback,...
https://jwz.org/b/ykuA

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
DailyHieroglyphs@archaeo.social ("Daily Hieroglyphs Bot") wrote:

Today's sentence (see thread for transliteration and translation):

#ancientEgypt #hieroglyphs #middleEgyptian

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
urlyman ("Jonathan Schofield") wrote:

State capture in Australia:

“Did you know that since 2001 almost every federal resources minister has gone to work for the fossil fuel industry shortly after leaving parliament?”

https://halo.nu/@theguardian%5Fclimate%5Fcrisis/115087906076440074

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
tommorris ("Tom Morris") wrote:

Given the attitude to consent of tech executives when it comes to forcing everyone to use their shiny but shitty toys, it is completely reasonable to draw inferences about their wider attitude to consent.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

jwz wrote:

Today in Christofascism.

If there's one person who knows a little something about being The Antichrist, it's probably Sweaty Peter Thiel:

You are warmly invited to a series of four lectures by Peter Thiel addressing the topic of the biblical Antichrist...
https://jwz.org/b/ykt9

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

When boycotting Israeli goods (have you heard, they’re committing genocide), make sure you check for country of origin on the label, not just the barcode that starts with 729.

https://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/a-note-on-barcodes-israel-has-not-changed-its-barcode-to-defeat-bds

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

The reason we keep building the Torment Nexus is because all we have are Torment Nexus factories in a system designed by and for Torment Nexus factory owners.

#capitalism

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therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered. Be it through carelessness, selfishness, organised plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of construction

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/25/making-it-official-famine-strikes-gaza-city/

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

Good. https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115087882795010851

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faab64@freefree.ps ("Farhad") wrote:

We have to keep our heads down in Shame forever...

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Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

I had to temporarily stop sharing updates about Gaza. The heavy bombardment has filled the air with the smell of gunpowder, which has severely triggered my respiratory allergy. I will be able to post again soon. Please keep us in your prayers.
#gaza

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

* Israel’s manufactured famine, in its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. https://mas.to/@therightarticle/115087820306387608

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therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/25/xdth-a25.html

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nordacious@aus.social ("James Hillier") wrote:

Hey Albo + Wong – up to 300,000 marched across Australia yesterday. Decent Aussies want urgent diplomatic action, not hollow platitudes. Sanction Israel. Weapons embargo. Accountability for genocide. ACT NOW 🇵🇸

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therightarticle@mas.to ("Michael") wrote:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-rescue-teams-overwhelmed-israeli-strikes-level-entire

jwz wrote:

Getting absolutely reamed by AI scrapers again today, and it seemed like my mitigations were failing. Why weren't these being blocked?

Oh. Because I had Facebook's subnets on the fail2ban whitelist, so that people sharing @dnalounge links on the Zuckerweb got link previews.

Welp. You can't whitelist "facebookexternalhit" (the link preview bot) without also whitelisting "meta-externalagent" (the AI scraper, which seems to ignore robots.txt).

I guess link previews are gonna be a casualty.

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augieray ("Augie Ray") wrote:

"Nice people made the best Nazis. Or so I have been told. My mother was born in Munich in 1934, and spent her childhood in Nazi Germany surrounded by nice people who refused to make waves. When things got ugly, the people my mother lived alongside chose not to focus on 'politics,' instead busying themselves with happier things. They were lovely, kind people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away."

- Naomi Shulman

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/11/17/the-post-election-case-for-speaking-out-naomi-shulman

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

I'm late to this post, and the whole thing is worth your time, but this specific tip is gold if you own a Pixel; thank you @eevee!

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/#:~:text=If%20you%20are,since%20doing%20this.

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continuation@mas.to ("Mx Arjuna") wrote:

It's getting very Season 1 Episode 3 in the US right now.

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

I blame Google for this

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

@surfingreg Yes. It provides an excellent and consistent service, despite having undergone several changes of ownership. I pay for it and feel I get considerable value from it.