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NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:
Many thanks for the great people who contributed in the previous days ❤️ Your help means the world for us
We still need your help, my friends. Please help us before it's too late 😢
https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family
Please share the post with your friends ❤️
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:
Good morning my friends :underheart:
I'm still alive.
I'm preparing myself for the first Tawjihi exam that will be hold on Saturday.
I'm trying to focus. I'm trying to be strong.
Please keep me in your prayers :underheart:
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:
The situation is deteriorating very quickly!
We started hearing the tanks movements at the night. They are getting closer every day.
Every single atom of my soul is scared. Scared as never before. This time is totally different.
I don't know what to say! Does anyone feel of us? Can you imagine what we go through?
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:
700 days of suffering! We survived many times. I don't know how this time passed. I experienced a famine. I lived around 400 days in the tents. I saw the death in front of me many times.
What is scary is that the worst will come soon. I don't know if we'll survive again!
I really don't know.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:
Atlassian 😂 thank the lord I don't use those browsers, Atlassian software is soul destroying
https://www.theverge.com/web/770947/browser-company-arc-dia-acquired-atlassian
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
hell@defcon.social ("hell \ Rebekah Hellberg") wrote:
Apparently cows kill more people than sharks every year.. tbf how they kill ANY sharks at all is beyond me
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Top blogging tip: don't stop using multisyllabic words just because they confuse and scare the genius iconoclast polymaths over on HN.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I have a very tiny connection to the Epstein files via John Brockman.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/04/epstein-was-a-window-into-the-privileged-elite/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:
Someone buy Mr Jamie Raskin of Maryland 6 pints of Guinness and a lamb vindaloo from me, for tearing a strip off Fuhrage as he talks bollocks and preens for Techbros in the USA.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/03/nigel-farage-called-a-putin-loving-free-speech-imposter-during-bumpy-us-congressional-hearing
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"…problem in our legal order: An emergency is in the eye of the beholder. Do these problems of debatable urgency demand an immediate response? The trade imbalance is generations old. Immigrants — even foreign gangs — are not an invading army. Protesters aren’t rebels. Crime has plunged nationwide, including in all of the cities Trump says need urgent protection…
Invoking emergencies lets the president have his way, now."
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"questioned why some federal employees represented by certain labor unions, such as the Teamsters, get to hold onto their bargaining rights while others who work in the same jobs but belong to a different union lose theirs.
“This latest executive order is another clear example of retaliation against federal employee union members who have bravely stood up against his anti-worker, anti-American plan to dismantle the federal government” Everett Kelley, AFGE president
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robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
I have four (4) international stamps on my desk so I'm using them to offer YOU a chance for some original art. I'm quite talented at drawing animals as you can see from this drawing of a bear I did.
Donate $25 and I will draw any animal you want on a nice card and send it to you. I'll even include some surprise stickers and write you a nice note, maybe other stuff.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:
St Jude update 🚨
We've hurtled past $6k already, so we're about $600 away from $40k lifetime raised which is incredible.
The next sticker is from @adam and it's the Neato logo on StickerApp's pixie dust finish which is bloody lovely 👌
$20 gets you the stickers https://stjude.omg.lol/
And one more thing...
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Chigaze@mstdn.ca ("Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦") wrote:
It's been incredibly inspiring to see the tributes from indigenous actors to Graham Greene. To hear about how much he mentored and inspired them has been humbling.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mweagle@hachyderm.io ("Matt Weagle") wrote:
Organizations may eventually increase capacity after an adjustment period, but cognitive work doesn’t lend itself to perfect substitutability of production inputs.
“The idea that new technology can be introduced as a simple substitution of machines for people-preserving the system though improving the results-is a persistent oversimplification fallacy: the substitution myth. In actuality, adding or expanding the machine’s role changes the cooperative architecture and changes the human’s role “
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KrissyKat@hoosier.social wrote:
Malort is ready for the invasion.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mweagle@hachyderm.io ("Matt Weagle") wrote:
“The most critical insight is that expecting immediate productivity gains without investing in learning infrastructure creates a paradox that undermines the very benefits organizations seek.”
https://rdel.substack.com/p/rdel-108-what-distinguishes-developers?publication%5Fid=1786386&utm%5Fcampaign=email-post-title&r=23ox6&utm%5Fmedium=email
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Doug_Bostrom@scicomm.xyz ("Doug Bostrom") wrote:
This oughta really wind up the wingnuts.
"Living organisms are assumed to produce same-species offspring1,2. Here, we report a shift from this norm in Messor ibericus, an ant that lays individuals from two distinct species. In this life cycle, females must clone males of another species because they require their sperm to produce the worker caste. As a result, males from the same mother exhibit distinct genomes and morphologies, as they belong to species that diverged over 5 million years ago. The evolutionary history of this system appears as sexual parasitism3 that evolved into a natural case of cross-species cloning4,5, resulting in the maintenance of a male-only lineage cloned through distinct species’ ova. We term females exhibiting this reproductive mode as xenoparous, meaning they give birth to other species as part of their life cycle."
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
br00t4c wrote:
Retired Green Beret thrown out of Senate hearing after shouting at lawmakers
#MelindaHildebrand #OilWealth #Disruption #GenocideClaims #CapitolPolice
https://www.rawstory.com/senate-foreign-relations-committee/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kenwhite.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("More Abstract Popehat") wrote:
Summarily killing a boat full of suspected illegal migrants rather than summarily killing a boat full of suspected drug dealers lowers the approval rate with the American populace from maybe 35% to 25%.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o4h5r2albulagzxvhp634tof/post/3lxxvhq7kdc2x
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:
WATCH — Sen. @ossoff.senate.gov : "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes.” He adds that RFK JR. must resign.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:
NASA FIRMS data show Ukraine probably struck two Russian radar sites inside Rostov Oblast on 4 Sept—hitting the “Navigation of the South” hub and a former Soviet air defense base.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
FluentInFinance ("Andrew Lokenauth") wrote:
BREAKING: The US now has more unemployed Americans than job openings for the first time since April 2021.
In July, the US had 7.24 million unemployed people and 7.18 million job openings.
Meanwhile…
60% of recent graduates are unemployed and cannot find jobs.
Tells you everything you need to know.
Expect the unemployment rate to rapidly rise from here on out.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:
Here’s a short poem called ‘On Falling for a Meteorologist’.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
trib@aus.social ("Stephen Collins") wrote:
Why even are these people? We need a new Labor excuses tea towel that’s even more of an indictment than the previous one.
#auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-03/labor-to-water-down-information-laws/105729886
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
antlerboy ("Benjamin P. Taylor") wrote:
Special Issue of Information Technology & People (Emerald) on Coding society. Programmatic encounters between information systems and social theory (Luhmann linked – Dr Steffen Roth) https://stream.syscoi.com/2025/09/03/special-issue-of-information-technology-people-emerald-on-coding-society-programmatic-encounters-between-information-systems-and-social-theory-luhmann-linked-dr-steffen-roth/
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baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
“Where's the Shovelware? Why AI Coding Claims Don't Add Up”
https://mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the-shovelware-why-ai-coding
> but also so far AI appears to slow me down by a median of 21%, exactly in line with the METR study
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
adachika192@hcommons.social ("AK") wrote:
Israel’s Attacks on Seed Banks Destroy Millennia of Palestinian Cultural Heritage | Truthout (2025-09-03)
>> This summer, Israeli bulldozers rolled through the West Bank city of Hebron with ruthless efficiency, targeting not soldiers or weapons caches, but something deeply vulnerable: Palestine’s only surviving national seed bank.
>> Within hours of the bulldozers’ arrival on July 31, 2025, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees’ seed multiplication facility lay in ruins — its propagation materials scattered, its infrastructure demolished, and with it, generations of Palestinian agricultural heritage reduced to rubble.
>> … #ecocide functions across temporal scales. The destruction of seed banks eliminates not just current agricultural capacity, but future possibilities for food sovereignty …
Mastodon FeedBoosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
TheGentleKlingon@mastodon.art ("The gentle klingon") wrote:
:boost_ok:
So, it was my birthday recently. And I don't usually publicly declare it because I don't like attention and I don't think it's that big a deal.
But this year I want to do something I saw a mufo do on their birthday, which I thought was alright, and gave me a good reason to share my birthday on here.
My birthday request is for you to donate whatever amount you can, if at all you can, to the Gaza Giving Circle. More info at the link. Thanks! 😊💛
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edendestroyer@chinwag.org ("EdenCrowdFunder") wrote:
Mohammed Shobair @mohshbair , is a 22 years old Palestinian Electronic and Electrical Engineer. He used to love spending time with his friends and family of 6, and to his own admittance - was obsessed with sunglasses. He used to work part time as a cleaner in a sweet shop to support his family as he studied. Life for him and his family wasnt easy but it was simple and peaceful. They no longer have a home to go back to as it was completely destroyed. He has gone into great details into his daily struggles and life in his chuffed campaign. If you can't donate, read it through and share it with people: