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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CatsOfYore ("Cats of Yore") wrote:

Three real tough guys. Photo from my collection, no date or other info.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
aburtch@triangletoot.party wrote:

Checked out Mountain Grass Unit last night at Cat’s Cradle. They were great! Early Yonder Mountain String Band vibes along with a good cover selection and originals that jam. Also great musicians. The guitar player could rip! Check them out, they’re definitely on their way up.

#bluegrass

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
divya@sunny.garden ("Dr. Divya 🍉 offline") wrote:

Final 2 hours—as academics mourn the scholasticide in Gaza, we must also fight it by uplifting Palestinian students & educators. Ahmed is a teacher & a student, providing crucial art therapy to child survivors. He escaped Gaza & needs help with rent, since refugees in Egypt can't work.

233/550 - do leave a note of encouragement for him 💚 https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted%5Fbutton%5Fid=A8J9PXT3RGHCW

@palestine @mutualaid
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Gaza #Art #Education

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
HarriettMB@toot.wales wrote:

Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland want no part of this. We want our independence, the right to rejoin the EU, to keep the ECHR, to be proud independent nations - NI as part of Ireland of course, not a seperate statelet. (2/2)

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
HarriettMB@toot.wales wrote:

@Stevenheywood Three political parties - Labour, Tory and Reform all have the same aim. They may as well be one single party. Racism, transphobia, removal of all and any rights, continual impoverishment for the majority of the population, and a closed down introverted country. Fine - let England have this for itself. (1/2)

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

@aral And I don't remember the RAF doing recon flights for Nazi germany.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Japan gets the coolest playing cards.

Boosted by jwz:
NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

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

I feel that I want to spend all of my time thanking the great people who support me and my family. No body can imagine how their help made a real difference in our life during this tough time. We love you :underheart:

Please help my family via the link in the bio :underheart:

#palestine #gaza

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

Every night I ask my self will we survive once again? Is there an end to this misery? What will that end even look like?

Honestly we reached a point where we're just waiting for the end even if that end is death.

#gaza #palestine

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

Hey everyone, every Tuesday, my friend @Aseelsehwel asks for your help to feed her family. She can’t do it today (they’re trying to stay alive during a genocide) so she asked if I could do it on her behalf.
They need $500 each week for their 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 their full story 👇
$91/$500

💕

https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

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

Gaza is witnessing today a mass exodus towards the south in the attempts of the occupation to empty the north once again of its population, but this time everything is being destroyed.

@palestine #gaza #war #StopGenocide

Attachments:

• video: The displacement of many Gazan families from northern Gaza to the south.

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

Gaza is witnessing continuous displacement under bombardment and gunfire. In the Al-Saftawi area, Israeli tanks and bulldozers advanced, trapping residents inside their homes, while those who managed to escape were forced to flee under heavy shelling and gunfire.
@palestine #gaza #gazaunderattack #StopGenocide

Attachments:

• video: Quadcopters directly target fleeing civilians.

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

We are going through the hardest time of our lives. Every day, we struggle to provide food and do everything we can to care for our father, who is suffering from kidney complications.

All we hope for is to raise enough to cover our basic needs.

Every donation, no matter how small, truly makes a difference. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for standing with us.
@palestine #gaza

Donation link👇
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

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

Comparing Netanyahu to Hitler, Israel to Nazi Germany, and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people to The Holocaust is wrong.

Hitler, Nazi Germany, and The Holocaust are a dead villain, a defunct fascist state, and a historic genocide.

Netanyahu, Israel, and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people are a living villain, an existing fascist state, and an ongoing genocide.

#israel #naziGermany #netanyahu #hitler #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #TheHolocaust

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

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/25/middleeast/more-than-dozen-killed-israeli-strikes-gaza-hospital-journalists-intl

#israel #genocide #Gaza #NasserHospital

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

Hitler calls The Holocaust a “tragic mishap.” The Schutzstaffel said in a statement that it was “aware of reports that harm was caused to civilians” and that the Nazis are operating in an “extremely complex reality.” Hitler added that the Third Reich “are conducting a thorough investigation.”

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

“Trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires are compatible with democracy.”

– Very smart people who are regularly quoted by the mainstream press.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
firstdogonthemoon@aus.social ("Firstdog Onthemoon") wrote:

F-35 fighters - who is to blame. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/aug/27/what-would-happen-if-australia-stopped-supplying-f-35-parts-to-israel

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
greenpartyni@mastodon.ie ("Green Party NI") wrote:

The far right isn’t rising because people love them.
It’s rising because the media won’t stop handing them megaphones.

Why are extremists endlessly platformed while parties offering real change are pushed to the margins?

This isn’t balance. It’s manipulation.

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

“Google, and other such companies sell advertising. If you don’t like that you can just stop using them.”

– People who also wonder why they’re now living under fascism.

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

“If you ask people who study the topic, they will tell you that a modern famine is a man-made disaster. Natural disasters can play a part. For example, flooding and drought can destroy crops, but relief agencies and wealthy governments can now get aid where it needs to go. So it is ultimately war and political will that keeps enough food from being grown or delivered in places like Ethiopia and Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, Haiti and North Korea and, of course, now in Gaza.”

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/22/1240304812/as-famine-looms-in-gaza-we-look-at-why-modern-famines-are-a-man-made-disaster

#israel #genocide #famine #Gaza #Palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
GeofCox@climatejustice.social wrote:

@aral

Unfortunately Aral, 'twas ever thus. In the UK, for example, the 'Establishment', including the media, was generally sympathetic to fascism. There is a film of the Royal Family giving Nazi salutes. Lord Rothermere, owner of the The Daily Mail and Evening News, Lord Beaverbrook, owner of the Daily Express and the Evening Standard, were both Nazi sympathisers. Geoffrey Dawson, the editor of The Times was a member of the right-wing pro-Hitler group, the Anglo-German Fellowship... Even Churchill's trenchant opposition to Hitler was based not on opposition to fascism (he admired Mussolini) but on the threat German expansionism posed to British imperialism.

Boosted by jwz:
imalcolm ("Ian Malcolm") wrote:

@davidgerard

*shaking hands*

"Promptfondler. Barry Promptfondler. CEO and Chief Botlicker at Cogsucker Coding..."

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
TheRealNooshu@hachyderm.io ("Matt Hobbs") wrote:

New Blog post by me!
Hack to the Future Frontend ✨

A look back at 90s web dev and what it can still teach us now.

Which ancient frontend trick still lives in your head?

https://nooshu.com/blog/2025/08/26/hack-to-the-future-frontend/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dacig ("Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉") wrote:

@dougroudouvari @aral Yep, pre-existent moral vaccum.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Plutonaut ("Niels🛰️") wrote:

@aral it wasn't much different back then

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dougroudouvari@electricrequiem.com wrote:

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
IMHO the moral vacuum of the West preexisted and Gaza only served as the cause to bring it to the surface

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

Were The Holocaust happening today, Western media would be awash with quotes from Hitler, the Third Reich, and Nazi sympathisers justifying it.

Israel has not only turned Gaza into a literal wasteland, it has also turned the West into a moral wasteland.

(And only the latter is self-inflicted.)

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie ("Petrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂ") wrote:

The monstrous Israeli double-tap attack on a Gaza hospital that killed another 5 journalists https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c36jdze5r4ko