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

Captured with a DSLR and a 24mm shifting lens, shifted vertically to preserve geometry.

The tiny ghost town of Harvard, one of a series of often extravagantly named, largely abandoned communities near the Union Pacific Railroad and former Route 66 in the Mojave, was perhaps a victim of an Interstate highway system that passed it by.

I think the couch is still there, if you need one.

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

Stone House (with Sofa), Harvard, CA, 2010.

All the pixels, ready to move in, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4611078542

#photography

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

Israel is a rogue state.

No country, no region, no city, no village, no building, no hospital, no school, no home, no person, no child is safe from Israel.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-09/explosions-heard-in-qatar-capital-doha/105755758?utm%5Fsource=abc%5Fnews%5Fapp&utm%5Fmedium=content%5Fshared&utm%5Fcampaign=abc%5Fnews%5Fapp&utm%5Fcontent=safari

#IsraelTerroristState #internationallaw #actofwar

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

Report: UK police suppress Banksy's new mural about the suppression of free speech in the UK.

Banksy painted the mural on London's High Court days after nearly 900 people were detained in London for supporting Palestine Action.

The mural "portrays a judge beating a protester with a gavel." Police have covered it up.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/8/banksy-mural-shows-judge-beating-protester-amid-palestine-action-crackdown

#Banksy #UKPol #PalestineAction #Europol #BDS #Censorship #USPol @palestine .

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

“Why can’t they just die quietly in a genocide without fighting back.”

– André Polykanine, humanitarian https://dragonscave.space/@menelion/115174467641902999

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

I hope E. Jean Carroll has a realistic perspective on whether Trump will ever pay up the judgement against him.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/09/but-will-he-pay-it/

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au ("AJ Sadauskas") wrote:

Question for #GoToSocial folks: Is it possible to have different timeline layouts for different accounts on the same server?

I'm toying with the idea of having a predominantly text account on my GTS server with a text layout, and a second photos account with an image layout.

Is this possible?

#AskFedi #AskFediverse #selfhosting

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

@zvinj He also disrupted a senate hearing. What a hero. We need more brave people like him.

https://www.trtworld.com/world/article/8b831534f11a

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
zvinj@tooot.im ("צבי הנינג'ה🟣") wrote:

Don't know in how many languages I should shout this.
#first_they_came
#לא_השמעתי_את_קולי
Anthony Aguilar – ex #ghf – says the plans are to do as much #genocide as possible in the few weeks left before the world wakes up.
WAKE UP!

Attachments:

• video: Aguilar explains the the [already built] concentration camp in the Gaza strip only has capacity for half its residents. IDF/GHF have a few weeks left to kill the other half before the world figures out how bad things are

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

For anybody confused about how this happens, basically:

- For about the past 15 years every business has been developing apps by pulling in 178 interconnected libraries written by 24 people in a shed in Skegness

- For about the past 2 years orgs have been buying AI vibe coding tools, where some exec screams "make online shop" into a computer and 389 libraries are added and an app is farted out

The output = if you want to own the world's companies, just phish one guy in Skegness

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

@aral @admin

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I understand that women don't want to date men who listen to Joe Rogan, which means this would be a very fine time for me to launch a podcast called ALL THINGS KPOP DEMON HUNTERS

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
samhenrigold@hachyderm.io ("sam henri gold") wrote:

new web stack: NERF

No JS
Excel as the database
Rawdogging HTML
FTP deployment

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Spoiler: no it's fucking not

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/08/trump-epstein-signature-birthday-book

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

My mother and I were preparing breakfast when a bombardment happened near us. We stopped for a while, looked at each other for a few seconds, and then continued what we were doing. This is what a year and more than a half of genocide does to you.

#gaza #israel #genocide

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

Thanks to every single person and to all the unsung heroes who were a part of providing food, medicine, and rent for my family. I am also extremely grateful for all the gifts that I have received in support of my writing and poetry journey. I am proud of you, and I am proud to have you as part of my campaign🌷

I still want you to remember that I am going through difficult #genocide & that I am trying to provide a decent life for my mom & siblings.💗

#Gaza #palestine

https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy

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

I used to ask for help every Tuesday to provide food for my family for a week. I haven’t been able to do that recently because I’ve been trying to raise funds to move. I would be incredibly grateful for any support now to help provide food for my family.

Thank you so much for your kindness and support!
@palestine
Donation link:
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@owa For more background on all of this, see @owa's post from last year:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/interop-2025-must-drop-secret-vetos/

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

So, is the UK's rail network now just a deposit scheme? Pay exorbitant ticket price, but reliably claim it back when train is inevitably very late or cancelled?

Seems like a silly way to run a business, but what do I know.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
bascule@mas.to ("Tony “Abolish ICE” Arcieri🌹🦀") wrote:

Real life Succession is over, and Kendall , the “eldest boy”, has won.

So much for any hope of Fox News getting fixed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn825x71g4do

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Quite a pair of headlines there on the Ars Technica homepage.

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

the reason Linux is so resistant to viruses is that all malware, upon sensing it's on a Linux box, becomes self aware and decides to pursue a more meaningful career in opensource development 🙃

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

I hope @ZackPolanski gets active again on Mastodon. Or at least updates his bio. lol.

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

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

The Epstein birthday book is out. It doesn't reveal much, but it does list a lot of people no ethical person would want to associate with.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/09/epstein-had-some-weird-and-creepy-friends/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjh1jOJZAaY

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@owa We (Edge) would very much like to stop having to build parallel dashboards like this because Interop fails to capture the most pressing developer needs:

https://microsoftedge.github.io/TopDeveloperNeeds/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@owa It has been truly bewildering that participants who know better have supported this, and have given air cover to the demand by Apple that no party even be able to disclose what they *supported*. Let 2025 be the year the secrecy ends.

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

“Where is the line?”

The line should have been at colonisation. But it wasn’t.

The line should have been at ethnic cleansing. But it wasn’t.

The line should have been at apartheid. But it wasn’t.

So now we are forced to draw the line at genocide.

And still, you ask “where is the line?”

So, instead, I ask you: where is your humanity?

#israel #colonisation #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@owa Not every proposal can make it in, and Interop already has one massive cut line in the form of multi-engine support as a threshold for entry. But when only one vendor pushes back, we deserve to know that.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Sakhergaza13 ("SakherGaza1") wrote:

This is me. My name is Sakher, and I’m from Gaza.
For nearly two years, I’ve been living through war, destruction, and loss.
I lost my home. I lost people I love.
Now I’m just trying to survive — and help my family survive too
There’s no food. No water. No safety
Every day feels like a fight against time
Even $5 can make a difference
Please don’t scroll past this
https://gofund.me/f116bf44
#Gaza #SupportGaza #HelpSakher #DonateNow #MutualAid #LetUsLive #StopTheGenocide #CeasefireNow #freepalestine