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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Dr_Nadeen98 ("Dr.Nadeen") wrote:

And here is the painful reality that repeats itself again, forcing us into a new displacement I don’t know why I must give up everything I own and love.Why do my family and I always have to look for a new place and be exhausted by thinking and unable to sleep,Where will we go? And how will we pay the rent😭
I'm in dire need of any help and support from you. Share my link. Donate even 1$ to let my voice heard. Any support makes a difference
@aral
https://gofund.me/f3c48b11d

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
shathamohammed123 ("Shatha Mohammed") wrote:

Yesterday we were displaced from our home under heavy bombardment, leaving behind all our memories 💔.
We fled with our children, bullets piercing around us, saving only our lives.
Now we have no shelter, no clothes, no tent—nothing.
Please help us get basic necessities to survive 🙏. Every contribution, no matter how small, can save our lives ❤️.

🔗 https://gofund.me/4d0dce47

#Palestine #Displacement #ChildrenOfGaza #HumanRights #StandWithGaza #HelpGaza

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
riggs7sct@mastodon.scot ("Murdo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿") wrote:

They were quick to hide this... Got to share it a bit more...

#LondonsShame #Mastodon

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
phae@status.fberriman.com wrote:

Had an idea for silly make. Can you rent programmable robot arms?

Boosted by joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts"):
vanillaweb@intuitivefuture.com ("That HTML Blog") wrote:

Announcing Reciprocate, a Sweet Solution for Making Your HTML Web Components Reactive

Have you ever been chipping away on vanilla #WebComponents when you began to wonder “hey waitaminute…how do I make it so when I set this #JavaScript property, the equivalent #HTML attribute is updated? And if I set this attribute, the equivalent property is updated? Or when either is updated, my component will re-render?! Where are the APIs for this stuff??”

Worry no longer! 🤓 #WebDev

https://thathtml.blog/2025/09/reciprocate-reactivity-for-html-web-components/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
camille@praxis.nyc ("Camille Winds Down") wrote:

The Trans Health Survey was created by a team of trans advocates, researchers, and organizers to uplift the community’s stories with care and confidentiality.

If you are 18+ years old, live in the United States, and identify as trans or gender expansive, they’d love your insights on your experiences navigating the healthcare system.

https://www.pointofpride.org/trans-health-survey

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ MONDAY NIGHT HUBBA: STAR TREK DAY at DNA Lounge tonight: Mon Sep 8, 8pm!
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/09-08d.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #mondaynighthubba #hubbahubbarevue #burlesque #sanfrancisco

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• gifv: d84e8929be73a91a.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
jwz wrote:

@dangillmor
No.

So much no.

These people are asking us to judge the AT protocol on its own merits, entirely divorced from Blue Sky, the company founded and funded by fascists. These are the "keep politics out of tech" people who wan to believe that any tech can be apolitical.

Blue Sky must be destroyed.

As for the purportedly-apolitical and untainted AT protocol, I must again refer to the sage Jules Winnfield: "Sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'll never know."

Boosted by jwz:
bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:

Remember this fun URL from three years ago?

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/09/08/http-http-http-http-http-http-http/

jwz wrote:

Who wore it best? Pissdrunk Pete Kegstand, Secretary of GWAR, or President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho?
https://jwz.org/b/yku1

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
RikerGoogling@mas.to ("Riker Googling") wrote:

what the hell is going on

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

If you are fast and furious at using a terminal for word processing, you might be Vim Diesel.

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:

You can bid on any of these single-letter lifetime omg.lol addresses at https://bids.lol/stjude.

🍏 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

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• 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