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

270 Park Avenue (Under Construction), NYC, 2021.

All the pixels, but without any tax abatements or zoning variances, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51382836481

#photography

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mahmoudoov@techhub.social ("Mahmoud Ahmad🍉") wrote:

@aral @joynewacc
From the depths of my heart, I would like to thank both Joy and Aral for the warm welcome on Mastodon.🌹🙏
I hope to live up to everyone’s expectations, and I will continue sharing the full picture from Gaza so that the world can see it.
Thank you all—I’m truly happy to be here on Mastodon and among such kind people.🙏🌹

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

Who needs a cat when you've got a swarm of spiderlings?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/10/blissfully-unaware/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
Wilto@front-end.social ("Mat “Wilto” Marquis") wrote:

At last, the usual JavaScript for Everyone newsletter returns, and so too does the stream.

I’ve been thinking a lot about certifications—just as a whole concept—and I could use some outside perspectives. Join us at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDn6bFoF9lM or https://www.twitch.tv/wiltostreams in half an hour, yeah?

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

Hey everyone, I want to welcome @mahmoudoov to Gaza Verified.

https://gaza-verified.org

@joynewacc and I spoke to him over video in Signal yesterday and we verify that he is who he says he is.

You might already have seen similar accounts to his on different servers and might even have been contacted directly by some of them. You might even have reported them. I might even have reported them. Needless to say, Mahmoud has had a bumpy introduction to Mastodon and the fediverse and I hope we can start again on the right foot now.

Let me explain what happened:

Mahmoud is a computer engineer and he and his three children are trying to survive genocide and famine. Being a programmer, he figured that the easiest way to reach as many people as possible was to code a bot to do it. Of course this started getting flagged as spam and his account was closed. Which is when he tried again on a different server. And, well, you can see where this is going…

Anyway, while this is a fediverse no-no, when someone is screaming for help, there’s only so much you can criticise their diction before it becomes obscene.

So I’ve explained everything to Mahmoud and he’s shut down all the accounts apart from this one – the one we’ve verified – and he won’t be using his bot any more.

Which means that we have to give him a hearty welcome to the fediverse and hopefully boost his posts and his campaign so that we can help him and his three children survive the terrible ordeal they have been facing for over 700 days.

Welcome to Gaza Verified and to the fediverse, Mahmoud, and please give my love to your adorable little ones.

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #fediAid

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ckoerner@xoxo.zone ("Chris Koerner") wrote:

I had the great honor of sitting down with George Pendergast, a spry 100-year-old who regularly edits Wikipedia. We talked about George's life, how he started editing, and his thoughts on Wikipedia and the future. #wikipedia #wikimedian

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/09/10/what-one-centenarian-contributor-can-teach-us-about-25-years-of-wikipedia/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I miss the times when you could pause a video and let it buffer to full so you can play it without interruptions.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
deliberately_me@blackqueer.life ("good judy theyfriend :blep:") wrote:

mornin', y'all! 🎶 🥞 #Music #Prince #MinneapolisSound #BlackMastodon #GoodMorning #GoodMorningFedi #MyPannycakesWeighATon

happy 45th anniversary to this single! 💜prince, "uptown"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiuSRQHLv88

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI)

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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

The biology department perspective is that there's nothing half as horrifying about what's inside biology as there is in the human world around us.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/10/this-has-got-to-go-on-my-office-door/

Boosted by Mastodon:
MastodonEngineering ("Mastodon Engineering") wrote:

In August, we made a lot of progress on backend code updates... and, we also had some holidays 🏖️

Here's the more in-depth version of what the team worked on, in our regular engineering update.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/trunk-tidbits-august-2025/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

🎉 new release: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal natan

read more: https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill-harmonics-crossword-music-machine/

and play around with it: https://fillharmonics.com

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

AI may have its place on the internet, but it sure as hell isn’t “first”.

The internet is for *people* first and foremost. I hate to think what things will be like if we lose sight of that.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
wim_v12e@scholar.social ("Wim🧮") wrote:

I wrote a paper that I am proud of:

"Modelling Scenarios for Carbon-aware Geographic Load Shifting of Compute Workloads"

It evaluates the scope for emission reductions of moving work between data centres in high-emission regions and low-emission regions.

tl;dr: the potential emission savings are no more than a few percent.

I have submitted it to a journal, it's under review but you can read the preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07043

(1/4)
#FrugalComputing

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

My friend Bobby is getting out of prison (after 12 years!) in just under a month. Please toss him a few bucks to restart his life - https://www.gofundme.com/f/j3khzk-help-for-a-new-start

Boosted by pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷"):
rolenthedeep@rattodon.nexus ("cannot resolve symbol "rat"") wrote:

Saying that mastodon is "losing" to twitter or has "failed" to break into the mainstream is like saying that kids playing basketball in the street are "losing" to pro hockey teams, or that a 5th grade chess club in Japan has "failed" to break into American pro baseball.

Buddy, these things are not remotely the same. Mastodon exists in an entirely separate universe from Twitter. Mastodon is an *explicit rejection* of mainstream social media. We can't lose because we were never playing.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

It's only called JSON if it comes from the Jéson region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling structured data.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
richpuchalsky ("Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝") wrote:

Since someone reminded me of how it was 20 years ago, I might as well write about the continued failure of people to understand why they shouldn't stay on places like Twitter or Substack -- with reference to a place called "Tech Central Station" (I think, my memory may have failed) which existed from 2000-2005.

TCS paid bloggers and indie writers for stories. About very varied informative subjects. Why did they do this?

1/n

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

@davidculley

Hello! Thank you for reaching out to us; however, these accounts aren't independently limited. They're limited because right now there is a temporary limit on Mastodon Social while they combat a spam wave that has been on-and-off since mid July. We have posted about it here:

https://hachyderm.io/@hachyderm/115112335335007484

And Mastodon Social has posted about it on and off, including here:

https://mastodon.social/@staff/114922270018549808

We've received a few questions about the Mastodon Social limit over the course of the weekish they've been Limited due to the latest wave. To reiterate: the instance-wide limit is temporary, and as the wave dies down to manageable levels, we'll lift it.

Thanks!

CC

@aral
@mohshbair @Dr_Nadeen98
@joynewacc

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

I wonder how Nazi Germany handled climate issues during the Holocaust. Do you think it was widely discussed at the time? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115179873107637672

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
davidculley@hachyderm.io ("David Culley") wrote:

Dear @hachyderm, some Palestinian accounts like @mohshbair or @Dr_Nadeen98 are hidden from Hachyderm users to protect them from bots, but these accounts and probably some more aren't bots.

They're actual Palestians living in Gaza under genocide, and have been verified by multiple people who had video calls with them.

@aral and @joynewacc run a website https://gaza-verified.org that lists accounts you can definitely unhide from Hachyderm users. See the message above in the thread.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange ("Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss :CIAverified: 🇺🇸") wrote:

Irish man with valid visa kidnapped and kept in inhumane conditions for a month, had his subdermal piercings surgically removed while ICE agents laughed, barely fed or washed, crammed in like sardines with 100 men and 1 toilet...ultimately dumped in London.

This is Trump's USA. An evil place run by a sadistic, violent death cult.
Original: https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/horrors-of-trump-detention-centre-lisburn-man-tells-his-story-after-arrest-for-looking-like-a-mexican/a1990029828.html
Archive: https://archive.ph/HLozC

Attachments:

• video: c83d25817e06ca9d.mp4

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

Some students don't want to learn. They just want professors to affirm their biases and bigotry. And in Texas, they get what they want.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/10/an-insufferable-student/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
b9AcE@todon.eu wrote:

Human Rights Watch on that Turkey must drop the criminal and civil cases against the usurped executive board of the Istanbul Bar Association (=lawyers' org).

"The legal action targets the Istanbul Bar Association’s president, İbrahim Kaboğlu, and 10 executive board members, and stems from a public statement issued by the Bar on December 21, 2024, following the killing of two Kurdish journalists, Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, allegedly in a drone strike in northern Syria."
More: https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/10/turkiye-drop-case-against-bar-association

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

@aral@mastodon.ar.al @joynewacc@mastodon.social This is a good initiative. It's one of the difficult moderation issues: you want to keep your users safe from scammers, but you don't want to make a mistake and block an actual person.

Of course Palestinians are welcome on mastodon.world. (Or any other of our instances)

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

noted: have you seen what Bun are up to? Yikes... 💀

https://dbushell.com/notes/2025-09-10T12:08Z/

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

The Gaza Verified guide is now also available in Arabic.

https://gaza-verified.org/guide-arabic/

Machine translated but verified by @joynewacc

#Gaza #Palestine #fediverse #mastodon #GazaVerified #fediAid

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
prolrage@todon.nl ("Proletarian Rage") wrote:

Partial suspension means nothing. And european leaders will not vote even for that. https://masto.ai/@euractiv/115179660353055147

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

Israeli forces have leveled another high-rise building in Gaza City, the seventh major tower targeted in recent days, as the assault continues amid plans to occupy the city and forcibly displace one million Palestinians.

Israel’s military attacked on Wednesday the Tayba II Tower in western Gaza City. It was the seventh major tower hit by Israeli forces in recent weeks, claiming it was used by Hamas.

https://qudsnen.co/israel-flattens-another-high-rise-in-gaza-city/

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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

Dear Mastodon instance admins,

Palestinians are facing genocide and famine.

If there is a Palestinian account from Gaza on your instance and it is *not* exhibiting bot-like behaviour PLEASE AT LEAST CONTACT ME before limiting/suspending it so @joynewacc and I can attempt to verify them by having a video chat with them on Signal and adding them to Gaza Verified:

https://gaza-verified.org

Blocking the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza on the fediverse is like repeatedly slamming the door in the face of Anne Frank.

Please have some humanity.

Also, if your server is a safe space for Palestinians from Gaza, please respond and let me know and I’ll add you to the list at https://gaza-verified.org/guide/

#mastodon #fediverse #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #famine