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

Israel is a terrorist state.

A terrorist state that is committing genocide.

Anyone who does not understand this at this point does not want to understand it on purpose and is a genocide denier. (And thus complicit in genocide as genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide.)

#israel #sumud #flotilla #genocide #terrorism #FreePalestine https://mastodon.social/@sheislaurence/115171737298048468

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

#BREAKING 🚨!! A #drone just hit the #sumud #flotilla boat #gretathunberg and #novaramedia #journalist Kieran Andrieu are staying on. This happened in #Tunis, as the flotilla was moored. The fact #Israel is left to target #civilians outside its jurisdiction with impunity is wild. Demonstrate wherever you are!

#freepalestine #gaza #breakingnews

Attachments:

• video: Drone strikes lead boat, Kieran Andrieu explains

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

Please stop spreading FUD about people who are suffering through genocide and famine for whom Mastodon and the fediverse are often their last lifeline.

You are not helping.

Scam accounts are very easy to detect as they usually employ bots and have multiple automatically-created accounts on different servers.

And for the others, we are doing our best to protect the people from Gaza who have Mastodon accounts on the fediverse from scammers with initiatives like https://gaza-verified.org

We must do everything we can to keep Mastodon and the fediverse a safe space for Palestinians as it is one of the last ones they have online.

https://diaspodon.fr/@dada/115173508990229840

#Gaza #Palestine #israel #genocide #FreePalestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #cagnotte #arnaque

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
threedaymonk@sonomu.club ("Paul") wrote:

Live your life with the insouciant confidence of Microsoft Teams, failing to do anything useful yet still nagging for attention.

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

For those of you who may be confused about what Zionism is (because there are people actively trying to confuse you):

“Zionism is an ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in late 19th-century Europe to establish and support a Jewish homeland through the colonization of Palestine, a region corresponding to the Land of Israel in Judaism and central to Jewish history. Zionists wanted to create a Jewish state in Palestine with as much land, as many Jews, and as few Palestinian Arabs as possible.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism#cite%5Fnote-ZionistLandJewsArabs-6

Zionism is what’s behind Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people and, needless to say, not all Jews are Zionists. In fact, to say that all Jews are Zionists is antisemitic as you’re literally stating that to be Jewish is to be complicit in genocide.

#zionism #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palastine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

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

new Facebook DDoS in the wild?

https://ziglang.org/news/first-outage/

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

Public service announcement: I am blocking the babka.social instance as the person who runs it (Serge) is a Zionist and a genocide/denier, who conflates being Jewish with being Zionist (“Zionism is a belief that more than 80% of Jews have. Talking about Zionists is talking about Jews.” – https://babka.social/@serge/115160596730973593) and who states that Israelis are not colonisers and that we cannot criticise Israel for killing children (one an hour on average for 23 months; https://babka.social/@serge/114670463036891746).

I will not federate with genocide deniers or people who hold the antisemitic view that all Jews support genocide and I suggest you do not do so either.

#israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #babkaSocial #genocideDenial #antisemitism #fediverse #mastodon

Boosted by jwz:
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

In the US, when you have absolutely no ability to hold a government official accountable, you say, "Person X must resign!"🤡

And then that person says, "Nah! I think I'll stay!"

And then you say, "No, you must resign at once!"🤡

And then they just ignore you.

And then that's the end of that.🤷🏿‍♂️

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boghan@chaos.social ("princess boggie (han dynasty)") wrote:

hate crimes are for losers do love crimes

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claytoncubitt.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Clayton Cubitt") wrote:

Terrifying bumper sticker?

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

Liquid Glass looks like shit and your faux-glass CSS/SVG hack is a travesty.

enjoy your internet points

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

Drink Special @ Death Guild: SHADOW DOCKET: House Vodka, Blue Curaçao, Razzmatazz, Sour and Soda.

Attachments:

• gifv: b8491a4da68a2a4a.mp4

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

Drink Special @ Hubba Hubba: Darmok And Jalad At The Bar -- Bacardi rum and diet No Lime OK???

Attachments:

• gifv: 985360bc2acfdbef.mp4

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

@aral
Where should I go?😭😭😭
My sick father can't stand the fear and fatigue.💔
@BlackAzizAnansi
@palestine
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest #gaza

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange ("Em :official_verified:") wrote:

New Privacy Guides article :2001: ⛔
by me:

Chat Control is one of the
most terrifying proposal for dystopian authoritarianism the Western world has seen in years.

We need your help to fight it ✊🇪🇺

For democracy,
For privacy,
And for all other human rights,
We cannot afford to lose this battle.

📩 If you are European (EU):

Contact your MEPs this week before Friday, September 12th, to tell them to oppose Chat Control (more information in the linked article).

🗣️ If you are outside of the EU:

Spread the word! Tell your friends and family in the EU about it! Make noise on social media! This will affect you too.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/09/08/chat-control-must-be-stopped/

#PrivacyGuides #ChatControl #StopScanningMe #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #EUpol

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie 🍉🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

There are engineers, dental students, authors, parents.

People of all professions and walks of life who need your help to survive

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie 🍉🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

https://gaza-verified.org

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie 🍉🏳️‍⚧️☭") wrote:

Please help people out in Gaza if you can. I personally can't give a lot except $5 here and there, but everything makes a difference.

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

Love it when an old #OSS issue you opened ages ago (this one was ~9 years old) is closed and you receive the notification email.
And obviously you completely forgot it.
It's like a message in a bottle

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

noted: signal-based reactivity with Reciprocate
https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-09T05:14Z/

direct link: https://thathtml.blog/2025/09/reciprocate-reactivity-for-html-web-components/ - good stuff by @jaredwhite !

jwz wrote:

How it's going:

20:16:03 exiting high-load mode: workers 180
20:17:12 entering high-load mode: workers 8

jwz wrote:

The "School Shooting Industry"

According to the market research firm Omdia, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing. "The school safety and security industry has grown rapidly over the past...
https://jwz.org/b/yku9

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elizabethjacobs.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD") wrote:

Started/Going in Louisiana 368 cases of whooping cough 63 hospitalized, of whom 75% vaccines not up to date, and 41 were infants

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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Adam Parkhomenko") wrote:

Holy shit…You can’t make this up: a plane is circling Soldier Field before the Bears home opener with a banner that reads— “HEY ICE, MASKS ARE FOR CUCKS.” Also the trolling is incredible for those that told us to stop wearing masks during the pandemic.

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• video: 47a829c425c80b1a.mp4

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

Stream ended! Didn’t quite wrap up everything I had intended for https://some.pics, but made awesome progress and paved the way to finish things up tomorrow. It’s officially out of beta now, and some long overdue UI improvements have been made to the upload process and picture management screen. Tomorrow, the custom page templates feature should go live! 🥳

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

@occvlt Thank you!

Here's a quick tread I did a while back about shift movements: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/112544286031247617

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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).

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
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).

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
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

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

A sunny day in Bristol.

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

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Bristol