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

occupation of Chicago by federalized troops will result in violence. a military confrontation with citizens & an excuse for further militarization is being created by Herr Trump.

https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/chicago-protest-photos-ab99f57029057aa9919be802f85876c2?link%5Fsource=ta%5Fbluesky%5Flink&taid=68bce7365102e60001ac08a6&utm%5Fcampaign=trueanthem&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fsource=bluesky

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeridansky@sfba.social ("Jeri Dansky") wrote:

Who but Alexandra Petri would write an article entitled Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children?

"Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children, but under the inexpert guidance of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., other states may follow.

"If we lose herd immunity, we will bring back diseases that had formerly been eliminated, and some children who would otherwise have been protected will perish. But no price is too high to pay in this pointless war against decades of lifesaving science."

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/florida-vaccine-children-mandate/684110/ or https://archive.vn/JQdAkhttps://archive.vn/JQdAk

h/t @jay

#uspol #Florida #vaccines #RFKjr

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
noelreports@mstdn.social ("NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦") wrote:

Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko inside the damaged part of the Cabinet of Ministers building in Kyiv, which was attacked by Russian drones.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

What Bernie says!
Shame on Schumer, Jeffries, Gillibrand, Hochul.
Bernie Sanders Assails Democrats for Not Endorsing Mamdani https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/nyregion/bernie-sanders-zohran-mamdani.html?smid=tw-share

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

most difficult enemy in Silksong: my hubris

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

@aral We all knew they were doing it, and we know all the big companies in Nazi Germany did the same thing, but watching it on video sure is something else.

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

Folks, just a quick heads up: I’m in touch over Signal with Mahmoud from the “Help Mahmoud Family” accounts you might have seen contacting you.

Like you, I was hugely suspicious of them due to the many accounts and automated spam-like messages (I also reported and had one of them taken down as a scam).

It’s looking to me now like this was more of a misguided (and understandably, given the circumstances) desperate attempt to get help.

I ask that we keep an open mind and offer Mahmoud and his family the benefit of the doubt.

Here are the steps we’ll be taking with Mahmoud going forward to try and fix this and give him a proper introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse and hopefully rebuild trust:

1. Joy and I will meet Mahmoud for a video chat next week.

2. Once we’re happy, I will contact a friend who runs a Mastodon server to ask that Mahmoud is allowed to set up his one (and only Mastodon account there). This way, we will also know that the account will be safe in the future.

3. Mahmoud has already agreed not to use automated messages in the future.

I will update you about the state of things next week, after our video conversation.

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115162189104716836

#Gaza #fediverse #Mastodon

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spinach@girlcock.club ("Saffron🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

Well, I just got laid off from my job. If anyone needs a talented embedded systems engineer or hardware engineer with strong experience in video hardware, send me a message with details of a job opening and I can provide a CV. Remote work preferred, but I can work anywhere in central Minnesota. Boosts welcome and encouraged.

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davidho@mastodon.world ("David Ho") wrote:

An aquifer under the sea? Let’s use it to water alfalfa for feeding cows.

https://apnews.com/article/freshwater-expedition-ai-501-cape-cod-5d62cae0f040d369b16d8400202f0a88

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Reuters bends knee to China dictatorship and removes video of Xi and Putin talking about changing out body parts.

Presumably lots of people have copies, so it's important for them to post them promiscuously -- and if possible anonymously -- to boost Streisand effect.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/reuters-withdraws-xi-putin-longevity-video-after-china-state-tv-pulls-legal-2025-09-06/

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

@Helpmahmoudfamilia100 @rififi54 OK, I understand and I am, of course, willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

The problem is that the behaviour of creating multiple accounts and sending automated messages is *exactly* the behaviour that scammers have been using in the past here. And a lot of trust has been lost because of it and it impacts every person from Gaza who has a Mastodon account and is trying to survive by using it. Including my friends on gaza-verified.org who I will do anything to protect.

Please get a Signal account and add me using my handle: aral.42

We can set up a time next week there when Joy and I can talk to you.

But, as I said, a lot of reputational damage has already happened so we will have to work hard to fix that as I do not want it negatively impacting Joy or the others.

I hope we can fix this and I hope that you and your family are safe.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Helpmahmoudfamilia100@troet.cafe ("Help Mahmoud Family 🙌🍉🍉") wrote:

@aral @rififi54
You need to understand me.
I am a computer engineer from Gaza.
I created an automated posting program, and Mastodon allows these permissions; it is not a bot in terms of posting rules.
This was the only method that worked for me to raise donations.

Secondly, I tried to create an official account on the main server, but it is still suspended.
I also created an account on mas.to, but unfortunately, it was blocked in less than an hour.

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

@Helpmahmoudfamilia100 @rififi54 I am sorry but your accounts are displaying bot-like behaviour. I’m being contacted by different accounts (eg., also https://mas.to/@Mahmoudgaza95/115161820335606921). Another account with the same fundraiser was on troet.cafe and had hundreds of automated posts and also linked to gaza-verified.org without permission.

I see three possibilities:

1. The campaign is real but there is someone else creating bot accounts on the fediverse either in a misguided attempt to help or to discredit it as a scam.

2. The campaign is real and you are using bot accounts and creating lots of different accounts to promote it.

3. The campaign is fake.

In case of #2 and #3, we cannot add you to gaza-verified.org.

#3 is obvious. #2 I will document today on the site. People who create multiple accounts on multiple servers and use automated posts to spam hundreds of people will not be verified. This behaviour is scam-like and reduces trust and makes it difficult for Palestinians who are here interacting personally to get help.

If it’s #1, I am willing to try and help you but you must understand that a lot of trust has been lost already because of the behaviour of these accounts and we will be very skeptical in how we proceed and there will have to be lots of reputational damage that will take time to fix *if* (a) my friends in Gaza and I can verify that you are who you say you are (b) these other accounts are closed and only one account on one server remains and (c) if it does not engage in bot-like behaviour by spamming hundreds of people with automatically-generated posts.

My first and only priority here is to protect my friends in Gaza who are on Gaza Verified and others from Gaza on Mastodon and the fediverse who are being negativity impacted by the current behaviour of the accounts that link to your fundraiser.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
danielholt@mstdn.games ("ohanditdidntgo") wrote:

https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/farage-reform-mps-second-jobs-tice-anderson-gifts-b2819953.html?utm%5Fsource=reddit.com

Interesting reporting from The Independent about just how much money the anti-establisment party is currently raking in when compared to the rest of the house.

I'm sure the Reform lot will take this information on board and let it influence how they feel about the party going forward...

Right?

#UKPolitics #ReformUK

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
uoou@mas.to wrote:

Ever with my finger on the technological pulse, I've written about the 41 year old xterm.

https://friendo.monster/posts/xterm-is-good.html

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
isaac@hachyderm.io ("Isaac") wrote:

If you use Linux, this is your final boss.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
1kmadleenfr ("Thousand #Madleens to Gaza FR") wrote:

✊ 🍉 🫶 Video de soutien de Thousand Madleens To Gaza à la Global Sumud Flotilla

#breakthesiege #freepalestine
#1000madleens #globalsumudflotilla

Attachments:

• video: ✊ 🍉 🫶 Video de soutien de Thousand Madleens To Gaza à la Global Sumud Flotilla

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

More than 7,000 under-fives in Gaza put in malnutrition recovery in two-week period - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/06/unicef-under-5s-recovery-programmes-acute-malnutrition-gaza no one "thinks of the children" in the #israeli government... #gazagenocide

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

Hey @EUCommission – you are complicit in genocide.

Just noting it down for the history books.

#EU #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopTheGenocide #StopIsrael #FreePalestine https://anticapitalist.party/@Looping/115161876165581438

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

La guerre à Gaza, un "génocide" pour Teresa Ribera : l'UE se désolidarise de sa commissaire.

"Ce n'est pas à la Commission de juger de cette question et de cette définition, mais bien aux tribunaux, et il n'y a pas eu de décision du Collège [des commissaires] sur ce sujet particulier", a déclaré Paula Pinho, porte-parole en chef de la Commission.

Non, ce n'est pas aux tribunaux de décider.
https://fr.euronews.com/2025/09/05/la-guerre-a-gaza-un-genocide-pour-teresa-ribera-lue-se-desolidarise-de-sa-commissaire

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

Apple computers day 1: instant boot and restart like an F1 pit stop.

Apple computers day 1+N:

Attachments:

• gifv: confused John Travolta looking left and right with a hand wavy gesture, meme from Pulp Fiction

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

oh no, a quick note turned into a blog rant that's gonna get me in trouble...

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medieval_illuminations ("Medieval Illumination") wrote:

Monster nun. book of hours, Flanders 14th century. Walters Art Museum, W.90, fol. 108v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

When you take *3* chopsticks out of the dishwasher.

#odd

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
chacal@mas.to ("🌻💙𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖈𝖆𝖑💙🌻") wrote:

Last night, Chicago’s mayor deployed every salt truck in the city to block ICE. Because when the forecast calls for ICE, you salt the roads until it melts. ❄️🧂

By dawn today, IDOT plows and salt trucks were out on I-294, the Edens, and I-94 — crawling shoulder to shoulder, jamming every lane into Chicago. A wall of trucks, moving slow, making it clear: ICE isn’t welcome here.
Well done Chicago 👏👏👏
Video from cara_gutt on TT
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#fuckice #immigrantsmakeamericagreat #immigration #news #chicago

Attachments:

• video: e4bc5a76d131c7ca.mp4

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crk5@layer8.space ("crkⓋ") wrote:

I.T. Security in the 1990s

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
madbarrister ("Ray*mond Li*terally") wrote:

Why, yes. We always work as a duo

#BuyOneGetOneFree
#HashTagGames

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
elaterite@mastoart.social ("Bob Tregilus") wrote:

A backlit hot air balloon envelope at the Great Reno Balloon Race!
12/n

#Balloon #HotAirBalloon #AVGeek #NotAI #Photography #Darktable

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺") wrote:

I wrote a little blog post about how you can use an emoji as your website's favicon.

https://chriswere.wales/posts/how-to-use-an-emoji-as-your-websites-favicon/