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

“How I wish these senators had expressed these concerns in January when they voted to confirm Kennedy for his post.”

they did not do so because they were cowardly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-maha-food-vaccines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“the SEALs have an uneven track record that for decades has largely been concealed by secrecy.

Elite Special Operations units are regularly assigned some of the most difficult and dangerous tasks. Over the years, the SEALs have had a number of major successes… that have built an almost superhuman public image.

But among some in the military who have worked with them, the SEALs have a reputation for devising overly bold and complex missions that go badly.“

yup

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/us/navy-seal-north-korea-trump-2019.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.jk8.ibD5.2BLiL8uFCQEs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

Silksong enjoyers: d-pad or analogue stick?

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

this is the company in charge of custody for crypto assets held by the US government 🙂

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wxdtv@mstdn.social ("Jahred Bruno") wrote:

#wxdtv #cow #pressanykey #gif

Attachments:

• gifv: dd3b85630183e5ac.mp4

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

blogged: I Let The Emails In

https://dbushell.com/2025/09/05/typescript-email-smtp-server/

what could go wrong? *sits back and sips tea* 🍵

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

If your system supports genocide your system deserves to be shut the fuck down.

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

#PalestineAction supporters urged to demand they are taken into custody

The way to ENSURE you are taken into custody is to ask if you're being arrested under a section 50 stop and search order and then say I'm being entirely peaceful but I will not give you my name or address

That is perfectly legal

Then SAY NOTHING TO THE POLICE !
https://news.sky.com/story/palestine-action-supporters-urged-to-demand-they-are-taken-into-custody-if-they-are-arrested-13424360

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

Action Confirmed !

Over 1,000 people have committed themselves to the #defendourjuries campaign for #PalestineAction

This Saturday, Parliament Square

I shall be there, too

Xx

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOGasPrjbgn/?igsh=MTYwMzJtanp3Z2Znbw==

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

According to my notebook, 721 people have been arrested now for showing support for #PalestineAction

It is generally expected that this figure will go much higher after the weekend because of the protest which is happening in:

PARLIAMENT SQUARE
at 1:00 pm
This Saturday, 6th

which no one is allowed to promote by boosting.

So don't do that xxx

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgy215pml2o

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

Just now, from a friend in Gaza:

“The Israeli minister of defence just announced that the operation has begun. The announcement is from 15 minutes ago. He said that they ordered a high building in Gaza to evacuate (it's a tower) and this is the beginning of the operation. He also says that the operation will escalate and will be intensified

The tower that they will target is about 1.5 km away from us.”

We must stop this.

Get out onto the streets. Protest. Do something. Anything. I don’t know what anymore.

#Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #israel #genocide

Boosted by jwz:
ylegall@genart.social ("Yann Le Gall") wrote:

orbital fluctuations

Attachments:

• gifv: 2d31a2100c55701c.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
arclight@oldbytes.space wrote:

@alda As a nuclear engineer, I have never been asked to show my portfolio of reactor designs I maintain in my free time, I have never been asked to derive the six-factor formula, the quantization of angular momentum, Brehmsstrahlung, or to whiteboard gas centrifuge isotopic separation, water hammer, hydrogen detonation, or cross-section resonance integrals.

There's something deeply wrong with an industry that presumes you're a fraud unless repeatedly and performatively demonstrated otherwise and treats the hiring process as a demented form of 80s-era fraternity hazing.

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alda@topspicy.social ("Alda Vigdís") wrote:

If other jobs had the same hiring process as programming roles:

"For this sous chef role, we will only accept applicants familiar with modern cooking methods such as microwave ovens and freeze-dried Maggi powders".

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
mhoye wrote:

TIL that twice a year Hawaii looks badly rendered for astrophysical reasons.

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

Announcing Gaza Verified

https://gaza-verified.org

I’ve been having video conversations over Signal with people from Gaza who have Mastodon accounts on the fediverse in an effort to vouch for their authenticity.

This week, I whipped up a site to formalise this and to enable them to add a verified link to their Mastodon bios. Hopefully this will cut down on the amount of time they need to spend proving that their accounts genuinely belong to a person suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and help them with their fundraisers.

The first four accounts belong to:

• @Aseelsehwel
• @NouranKhaledGh
• @joynewacc
• @mohshbair

If you want to get on the site, please contact me. See the guide for more information: https://gaza-verified.org/guide

Please share and donate to their fundraisers if you can.

Thank you!

💕

CC @palestine

#Gaza #Palestine #FreePalestine #fediverse #mastodon #verification

joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:

"Porting React code to vanilla JS, for fun!"

If that sounds interesting to you it is what I will be talking about at the Frontmania conference next month in Utrecht. More info at frontmania.com

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

noted: fixing encoding bugs with gnarly regex
https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-05T06:10Z/

(future note: fixing regex bugs)

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
benroyce ("Ben Royce 🇺🇦") wrote:

So it's apparent to most that the statements and decisions coming out of the #US Govt are stupid

But how stupid is the #USA exactly?

Pretty fucking stupid:

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-radioiactive-shrimp-xenomorph-2124553

Attachments:

• video: Republican Louisiana Senator John Kennedy says if you eat imported shrimp you'll turn into a xenomorph from the movie "Alien"

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

🚢 Italian dockworkers in Genoa are ready to take action! If contact with the Sumud Flotilla is lost for just 20 minutes, they’ll block 14,000 containers from leaving for Israel
👉 https://avispa.org/?p=120671

#GenoaSolidarity #StandWithGaza #HumanitarianAid #sumudfreedomflotilla

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

According to the media, the military operation in Gaza is set to begin next week, starting with heavy airstrikes followed by a ground invasion.

I might lose the internet in anytime next week. Please remember all of us in your prayers ♥️

#gaza #palestine

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🥐") wrote:

https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/1012

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@Ameboid at #ArcTanGent.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Jack's Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wtfjht ("WTF Just Happened Today?") wrote:

⏭️ Notably Next: Trump’s D.C. police takeover authority ends Sept. 9; Congress has 26 days to pass a funding measure to prevent a government shutdown; and the 2026 midterms are in 425 days

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
agitprop_n_absurdity ("agitprop & absurdity") wrote:

"The United States of America is complicit in genocide."

US army veterans Anthony Aguilar and Josephine Guilbeau @cptjosephineguilbeau were forcibly removed and arrested for disrupting a Senate hearing after denouncing US complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Aguilar, a retired Green Beret and whistleblower who worked as a security guard at US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution sites in Gaza, has exposed Israeli abuses at the sites.

Attachments:

• video: 2f1c768480e079b2.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Unemployment rate for Black women is now the highest it’s ever been in the history of the United States. It’s bad for everyone right now… but as usual…. ESPECIALLY for Black women.

Let’s be clear. This is blatant retaliation against the #92Percent who did not, and will not ever vote for the nazi kakistocracy.

…anyone out there prepping the refugee room? Because yikes.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ildiavolorosso@sfba.social ("JWM (Joe No Se)") wrote:

ROTFL...

#StarTrek #AI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mls14@vivaldi.net ("SouprMatt") wrote:

Trump is LITERALLY carrying out extrajudicial killings. And saying he will kill as many people as he wants, as often as he wants.

He is now liable for prosecution by the ICC. I’m not exaggerating.

Impeach him, send him to The Hague, and put him in a cell with Duterte.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/politics/trump-drug-smugglers-military.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.jk8.rdP9.xbUfLSam-bVr&smid=url-share

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
talkingpointsmemo.com@rss-parrot.net ("🦜 TPM – Talking Points Memo") wrote:

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-is-accusing-foes-with-multiple-mortgages-of-fraud-records-show-3-of-his-cabinet-members-have-them

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"US factory activity shrank in August for a sixth straight month, driven by a pullback in production that shows manufacturing remains bogged down by higher import duties tied to President Donald Trump’s trade war."

~ Natasha Solo-Lyons

#Trump #tariffs #economy #manufacturing #inflation #stagflation #taxes #groceries
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-09-02/us-manufacturing-shrinks-for-sixth-straight-month-evening-briefing-americas