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

A major catastrophe in Gaza City.

The occupation is now threatening to target the Mushtaha Tower, one of the largest towers in #Gaza, even though it is surrounded by hundreds of displaced people's tents, and it has been targeted repeatedly before.

All of this comes after the Israeli occupation's statement about beginning to expand its operation in Gaza City, with the first phase being the demolition of multi-story buildings.
@palestine #genocide #StopGenocide #war #palestine

Evacuation of the residents of Mashtaha Tower in preparation for its complete destruction

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

📌 "The unthinkable in #GazaCity has already begun"
This is a summary of what was said by 🔵 UNICEF Communication Manager for the #MiddleEast and #NorthAfrica Regional Office, Tess Ingram, from #gaza at the UN noon briefing

#palestine #genocide
#press

#children #humanrights #ihl

📑 Published SEP-04 (prime source) 👇🏽

https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unthinkable-gaza-city-has-already-begun

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
DrPsyBuffy@mstdn.social ("Buffy the Psych Prof") wrote:

I feel like conservatives would want us liberals to get vaccinated if they actually believed it was super dangerous

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Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
piccalilli@front-end.social ("Piccalilli") wrote:

Make your proposals for Interop 2026

This is how you make an impact to get what you and your users, what they need in the major browsers

https://piccalil.li/links/make-your-proposals-for-interop-2026/

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

“…the broader pattern is that companies are canceling or delaying their expansion plans. Spending on factory construction in the United States, a good indicator of the outlook for domestic manufacturing, declined in each of the first six months of Mr. Trump’s second term, ending a period of rapid growth under President Joe Biden.”

our economy is bleeding future jobs

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/opinion/trump-tariffs-international-reaction.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

“This… is also a national story. If the administration proceeds as expected, Chicago will be the third major American city governed by members of Mr. Trump’s political opposition to be subjected this year to the presence of military force, after Los Angeles in June and Washington last month. Other blue cities and states may reasonably fear that they will be next. Mr. Trump is threatening to radicalize our nation’s politics in a way not seen in our lifetimes.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/opinion/trump-chicago-national-guard.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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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

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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

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

Silksong enjoyers: d-pad or analogue stick?

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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 🙂

Tweet by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: ~40% of daily code written at Coinbase is AI-generated. I want to get it to >50% by October. Obviously it needs to be reviewed and understood, and not all areas of the business can use AI-generated code. But we should be using it responsibly as much as we possibly can.

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

#wxdtv #cow #pressanykey #gif

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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* 🍵

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

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

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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

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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==

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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

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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

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

orbital fluctuations

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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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Boosted by jwz:
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".

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

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

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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

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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

Frontmania promotional banner. A wanted poster showing my name and face, with below it the text "Porting React code to vanilla JS, for fun!"

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

@Ameboid at #ArcTanGent.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

A woman wearing rain jacket and a straw hat is holding a tiny mirror in her hand while sitting on a camping chair on the grass. Through the mirror, a part of her face is visible, covered by her other hand.

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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