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

Wolf admits sheep population is in ‘rapid decline’. https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/business-nbfr4cs7z/-/a-1AhrCxHAS1i%5Fbbcq3SK6Hw%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

We worried that there would be checkpoints and arbitrary stops where innocent people would face the dreaded "Your papers, please" demand. But that was wrong. They don't say "please".

https://wapo.st/41IZKeF

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I have mixed feelings about Le Corbusier's architecture (to say nothing of his urban planning philosophy - he clearly influenced Robert Moses), but I think the UN Secretariat building was one of his successes.

An aside: If you look at the full resolution version (downloadable on flickr), you can see the HF amateur radio antenna on the roof. Nerds are everywhere, even/especially at the UN. There's also a family taking a group picture on the street in front.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The UN Secretariat building was designed by an international team of architects (most notably Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer) and completed in 1950. It was the first important "International Style" modernist skyscraper in New York - exemplified here here by a simple, unadorned rectangle with reflective glass curtain walls on either side.

Glass box office buildings became almost cliche in mid-century NYC, but the UN remains unusual in being set apart in the skyline, uncrowded by neighbors.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Love them or hate them, mid-century rectangular glass curtain buildings like this are easy to dismiss as being "boring", but I think that misses something.

Reflections of the surroundings become part of the facade, which changes at different angles and throughout the day. I visited several times and made dozens of photos, all quite different, before I settled on this one, and there are infinitely many photos others could make, all unique. (Similar to the new World Trade Center in this regard).

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

Israel has killed on average a child every hour for past 23 months.

– Save The Children

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/8/headlines/save%5Fthe%5Fchildren%5Fisrael%5Fhas%5Fkilled%5Fon%5Faverage%5Fa%5Fchild%5Fevery%5Fhour%5Ffor%5Fpast%5F23%5Fmonths

#Gaza #Palestine #genocide #israel #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #SaveTheChildren

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Captured with the Phase One Achromatic back and the Rodenstock 32mm/4.0 HR-Digaron lens, with the back shifted down 8.5mm to maintain the building's geometry. I brought out contrast in the sky with a polarizer, but otherwise used no color contrast filtration. The camera was positioned across the avenue about 10 meters up from the plaza level (at the bottom of the "canyon" of the skyline reflected in the bottom center of the building).

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

United Nations General Assembly Building, NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, but still no world peace, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51381729335

#photography

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
MusiqueNow@todon.eu ("MusiqueNow :pride: ✡️ 🇵🇸 :anarchismhebrew:") wrote:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/8/headlines/thousands%5Fgreet%5Fgaza%5Fprotest%5Fflotilla%5Fin%5Ftunisia

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

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🍏 A.omg.lol
🦁 L.omg.lol
💋 X.omg.lol

We’re trying a new auction format this year (Vickrey, which means sealed bids and the winner pays the second-highest bid amount). And half of everything goes to St. Jude! :prami_happy:

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I somehow never realized Tamiya was the name of a person. RIP Shunsaku Tamiya. Thanks for having a hand in some of the fun I had in my misspent youth.

https://www.tamiyausa.com/blog/loving-memory-s-tamiya/

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

Imagine for a moment being the news anchor who completes the segment by saying “of course, it’s not about the politics, it’s all about the film.”

Imagine what it must be like to be such a deplorable, spineless, genocide-denying corporate toady.

Then thank fuck you don’t have to stare at that person in the mirror every day for the rest of your life. https://todon.eu/@marcohackney/115146008941176673

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

+ a few more pics from Seattle waterfront from that day https://www.flickr.com/photos/isagalaev/albums/72177720328850316

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Panoramic view. Caught some shining white sails on the bay. Best viewed in full screen!

#darktable

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
marcohackney@todon.eu ("Marco Hackney") wrote:

#HannahEinbinder
#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether

Attachments:

• video: 0597390add177329.mp4

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
jacqui76@mastodon.ie ("Jacqui ☘️") wrote:

As the powers at be have covered up this new #Banksy work, the only proper course of action by a concerned population is to spread the image as far and wide as we can!

#protest #Banksy #Freepalestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
TheProgressive@federated.press ("The Progressive") wrote:

Israel has issued new evacuation orders for the entire population of Gaza City to leave, in preparation for its full-scale ground occupation of the city by October 7, 2025. But for many, leaving is no longer a choice.
#Gaza #evacuation #iSrael #Palestine

https://progressive.org/latest/nowhere-to-run-i-am-choosing-death-at-home-over-forced-evacuation-shnino-20250905/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
loriemerson@post.lurk.org ("Lori Emerson") wrote:

I am SO enjoying this very early...the earliest? critique of AI from 1965 whereby Hubert Dreyfus calls the hot air about AI "the production of intellectual smog" #ai https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3244.html

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
alttexthalloffame ("Alt Text Hall of Fame") wrote:

Everyone wins!

#AltText #accessibility

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

People willingly do this to their face? Why?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/08/the-official-cult-mask/

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

listening to: https://vibecoded.transistor.fm/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
CraigStuntz@discuss.systems ("Craig Stuntz") wrote:

@aral Not just .pe, but "CH, .ES, .FR, .LI, .PE, .SG, .COM.SG, .COM.AU, .ORG.AU, .NET.AU" according to the source linked there: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9916/2207/tlds-grace-periods/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

A team of sex pests, bigots, kooks, and clueless numpties has written a book. Yay free speech.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/08/renowned-scientists-and-scholars-who-deserve-shaming/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
gundersen ("Marius Gundersen - mdg 🌻") wrote:

@Edent I've used charts.css in a recent backoffice project, where you create a table using html templating language and then it's styled like a bar chart. Very handy!

https://chartscss.org/

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪡"):
medienbaecker ("Thomas Günther") wrote:

I collected some advice for designing and developing websites for Apple's new design language, Liquid Glass™:

https://medienbaecker.com/articles/the-web-behind-glass

#apple #accessibility #liquidass

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
faab64@freefree.ps ("Farhad") wrote:

Brave British police captured another dangerous terrorist today

#FuckUK #FuckStarmer #ViveLaResistance #StopGenocide #PalestineAcrion #ukpol #protest

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Jinjirrie ("Jinjirrie 🐈‍⬛✅") wrote:

Mass numbers of actors & directors vow not to work with Israeli film institutions complicit with genocide. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/08/film-pledge-israeli-institutions-palestinians #BDS #Israel #GazaGenocide

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Squirrels don't get enough credit for their nests.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
LMac1970@mstdn.social ("Mr Lawrence 🇪🇺🇷🇼") wrote:

#FediHire If anyone needs a database developer around the end of this year or early next year, I’ll be available around then! I can work in #SQL, #VB, #C#, #SQLServer and #Snowflake.
My current contract comes to an end in mid-November and I’m very good at remote working.
On the other hand, if your role is in Gloucestershire, I’m more than happy to work onsite.
Let’s make things happen for you!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrPsyBuffy@mstdn.social ("Buffy the Psych Prof") wrote:

In any discussion of what’s happening to Arkansas farmers, we should include how Fox News has repeatedly misled them. We have got to get these folks to stop watching propaganda 24/7. Getting people to turn off Fox News is the ONLY way out of this nightmare.