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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz ("Alexander Knochel") wrote:

@jsonstein Nice, tell them I said Hi :)
I'm particularly proud that I started with no pre made schematic or plan at all and tinkered myself to a working push pull design half simulating with LTSpice and half by trial and error.

Here's my very first real QSO after it was finished

https://youtu.be/-eqXxwfnthk

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

So I know dozens of trans folk and have met multiples of that number more in my life and honestly the most egregious thing I have ever known any of them to do is ABSOLUTELY OVERSHARE about their love of KPop Demon Hunters, which to be fair I IMMEDIATELY DID IN RETURN, I know this experience is anecdotal, nevertheless based on my personal knowledge if anytime something horrible happens and you immediately proclaim it's a trans person's fault, I'm just gonna file you as a piece of shit transphobe

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Fall Afternoon

Golden leaves drifting,
Sunshine warms the quiet grass,
Time slows, whispers peace.

( courtesy Argh Studios Storyteller https://arghstudios.com )

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

buying a domain is like: $1.12 / year

(renews at one million dollars)

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

what an ugly rebrand... colours are ok but the uppercase font and bottom heavy "S" is ghastly

Starling bank "S" app icon
Starling bank credit card designs

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

Hell yes to this. Especially fact check the shit you agree with. The people who spread disinformation are happy to cater to your biases to get you to believe and forward things uncritically.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@theheatherashley/post/DOgF2k0DUuo

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mohshbair ("Mohammed from Gaza 🍉") wrote:

Have a coffee together with me, and let’s spend a moment together. Tell me about your day. I care about your comfort, my dear friends.

#FreePalestine #FreeGaza #StopGenocide #SaveGazaPeople

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
mohshbair ("Mohammed from Gaza 🍉") wrote:

Hello my friends, this is Mohammed Shobair from Gaza City.

This afternoon, treat yourself to a coffee, and let’s pretend we have it together, from a distance.

It’s important to have a break and to spend time together with your loved ones, or thinking about them

A coffee pot on a stove in Gaza City.
A coffee pot on a stove in Gaza City. I’m holding my coffee cup before me. This is Mohammed Shobair, 22 years old, from Gaza City.
I’m holding my coffee cup before me. This is Mohammed Shobair, 22 years old, from Gaza City.

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

This simple composition was made with a small FF mirrorless camera, 21mm lens, and travel tripod during a short hike.

I didn't have any ND filters with me, so ended up having to shoot this in the bright midday light at f/8. That yields too much DoF to allow focus to separate the tree from the background. But fortunately there was just enough haze to reduce the contrast of the distant hills a bit, yielding a high contrast subject with a lower contrast background. So it worked out in the end.

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

Tree, Red Rock Canyon, NV, 2011.

All the pixels, none of the colors, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/5766414314

#photography

A small windswept tree on an overlook above a canyon, with mountains in background.

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adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

I remember someone has published a post about a tool permitting to generate diagrams (boxes with arrows) in plain text. I don't manage to retrieve the name of this tool.

User is able to draw ascii boxes with the mouse, I remember

Anybody could help me?

#markdown #textonly #cli #tui

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

Hi everyone, I’d like to welcome Hala and her family (@ghassangaza) to Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org)

I had a video chat with her a few minutes ago over Signal.

She is a mother from Gaza struggling to keep her children safe and fed.

I met Sama, the most adorable child you see in her profile photo during our chat. She was wearing a t-shirt with a lovely swan embroidered on it and I got the most heartwarming smile when I complimented her on it.

Please give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow them, help with the fundraiser if you can (they’re still in the danger zone and haven’t been able to afford to move South), and share their story so we can find others who can help.

Here’s a direct link to her fundraiser:

https://gofund.me/8e758692

Thank you!

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #fediAid #GazaVerified #FreePalestine

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
abeerabed22 ("Abeer Ehab🍉") wrote:

Sudden calls, sounds of departure, homes left as if they never were. Memories, laughter, steps erased. In Gaza, even homes are targets, the air full of fear. Hunger tears us, terror destroys us. Help us you are our only hope

https://gofund.me/f6e9cc9d
@aral
@joynewacc

#Gaza #HelpGaza #GazaUnderAttack #StandWithGaza #SaveGaza #StopTheWar #HumanRights #EndTheSiege




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

A few days ago, I had a video call with @aral to verify @abeerabed22 for the Gaza Verified
Today, Abeer and I chatted a bit.She's a mom who managed to escape the genocide with her children in Egypt, but her husband is now trapped in Gaza. She has no source of income to pay the rent for the miserable apartment she lives in. Her husband hasn't left the danger zone yet due to a lack of funds needed to evacuate.
Let's help Abeer today & every day, pls

https://www.gofundme.com/f/gw375j-help-abeers-family/cl/s?utm%5Fcampaign=fp%5Fsharesheet&utm%5Fcontent=amp13%5Fc&utm%5Fmedium=customer&utm%5Fsource=copy%5Flink&lang=en%5FAU&attribution%5Fid=sl%3A135441b3-c74f-43da-92fb-bd8dc84d0d22

#gaza @abeerabed22

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rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

We received reports of a phishing campaign targeting crates.io users. Do not click on links asking to authenticate to protect your account. More information: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/12/crates-io-phishing-campaign/

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

My wife has a talent for growing caterpillars. The plants…not so happy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/12/im-starting-to-pity-the-milkweed/

Three monarch caterpillars

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
csantosb@sigmoid.social ("Cayetano Santos") wrote:

The slides of my talk at #orconf2025 about using #guix in the context of #fpga development.

https://gitlab.com/csantosb/ip/talks/guix-fpga

https://mastodon.social/users/fossifoundation/statuses/115191366166341232

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
mrbiffo@topspicy.social ("Mr Biffo") wrote:

Barely a month old, and our new channel has hit 2k subs. It's not about the big numbers - we just needed a fresh start, and we're grateful to everyone who followed us over. You can see in what we've put out so far that the lightness and silliness is back. New video up now: https://youtu.be/aFAgBSlmfWA?si=6uPNKzSKc17p769Y

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

Starmer has the worst political instincts of any party leader in history. His entire strategy is trying to appease a bunch of people who already decided years ago they hated him. Meanwhile he's pissing off everybody who tolerated him.

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
joenepraat@todon.nl ("joene 🏴🍉") wrote:

WOW! Dit had ik niet verwacht. 🆓🍉

NOS: *Nederland doet ook niet mee aan Songfestival als Israël deelneemt*

https://nos.nl/artikel/2582132-nederland-doet-ook-niet-mee-aan-songfestival-als-israel-deelneemt

"Nederland doet niet mee aan het Eurovisie Songfestival als Israël ook weer meedoet. Dat schrijft omroep AVROTROS in een persbericht.

De omroep "kan de deelname van Israël in de huidige situatie niet langer verantwoorden gezien het voortdurende en ernstige menselijke leed in Gaza". Nederland sluit zich daarbij aan bij Slovenië, Spanje, IJsland en Ierland, die ook niet zullen meedoen als Israël deelneemt. …"

#Israël #Gaza #songfestival #ESF #AVROTROS

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sarajw@front-end.social ("Sara Joy :happy_pepper:") wrote:

To anyone that was sad that they missed out on the hard copy of the Internet Phone Book (https://internetphonebook.net) - be ready!

You can have another chance today!

At:
10am ET (US)
4pm/16:00 CET (Europe)

I am informed that this page will stop frowning at that time, and allow you to place an order:
https://livingweb.metalabel.com/internetphonebook

Best of luck!

#InternetPhoneBook

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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

wifi on ice should sometimes be less frozen, just sayin.

#trainPun

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

blogged: Let’s see Paul Allen’s CSS Reset

https://dbushell.com/2025/09/12/css-reset/

— you're all doing it wrong! so I copied you and made my own mistakes :)

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

This is a public service announcement for all the dollar-store Sherlock Holmes’s out there who clearly have nothing better to do than to concoct conspiracy theories about people from Gaza on the fediverse who are faced with genocide and famine:

Stop.

Have some humanity.

Case in point, do not do what Daniel (@helmet91@mastodon.social) is doing here:

https://mastodon.social/@helmet91/115158104880965232

Here’s someone going out of their way to discredit Nouran and her brother Yousef ( @NouranKhaledGh). I’ve spoken with Nouran and Yousef over video on Signal and we’ve verified them on:

https://gaza-verified.org

They are real. They are from Gaza. I’m in touch with them daily. They haven’t been able to evacuate yet.

They need your help.

And what is Daniel doing? Examining bloody shadows in video footage like some tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorist attempting to disprove that the moon landings ever happened.

And writing blog posts about it:

https://helmet91.com/post/how-not-to-get-scammed

Stop it, Daniel. Stop and think about what you’re doing.

This isn’t some computer game.

These are real people. Who are in danger. And need our help. And you’re not helping.

PS. You can show your love and support for Nouran, her brother Yousef, and their whole family by following her here: @NouranKhaledGh, sending some words of solidarity, donating to their fundraiser, and sharing it so others can help too.

#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #conspiracyTheories #fediAid

Daniel to @aral While I appreciate the initiative and the intent behind it, I must point out, that there's at least one account in the list that is proven to be using Al-generated footage for their verification video. This raises doubts about the methodologies used for proving authenticity before accepting anyone on this website. I'd like to encourage everyone to prefer trusted organizations for donations, such as the Global Sumud Flotilla or UNRWA or others. Aral to @helmet91 and @palestine What are you taking about? There is no "verification video." Which account are you talking about and what is this proof you purport to have? I've personally had video chats over Signal with all four of the people verified on the site currently and I am in touch with them daily. Daniel to @aral Video in Nouran's pinned post: shadows are inconsistently cast in every direction in the ruins in the background - one of the hallmarks of Al imagery. In the Al era l'm afraid, video calls on their own are no proof anymore. Aral to @helmet91 I know Nouran uses ChatGPT for translations. I don't know what they used for the videos they posted. But I do know I've chatted to her and her brother live over video on Signal. Daniel @helmet91 to @aral I mean, they're not supposed to use anything but a camera for a video that is meant for proving their authenticity.
Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al Replying to @helmet91 2m These people are literally faced with genocide and famine and you're out here acting like a dollar-store Sherlock Holmes. I've told you several times now that l've had live video conversations over Signal with Nouran and her brother Yousef. I don't know what your problem is but what you're doing by spreading this FUD is deplorable. I just saw that you wrote this blog post also: helmet91.com/post/how-not-to-g... Congratulations, you are slandering people who are trying to survive genocide and famine. Please think long and hard about what you're doing here. How not to get scammed Give yourself a chance before you become a prey. helmet91.com Analysis of a donation fraud and the lessons learned

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

Ephemeral Masterpieces: The Land Art of Jon Foreman https://theinspirationgrid.com/ephemeral-masterpieces-the-land-art-of-jon-foreman/ #art #ArtInspiration #ArtInspo #inspiration #InspirationGrid

A person arranging colorful stones in a circular pattern on a sandy beach at sunset, creating a stunning natural artwork.
Spiral arrangement of colorful stones radiating outwards, creating a mesmerizing, natural art piece on a sandy surface.
A spiral pattern made from yellow leaves on a forest path, surrounded by lush greenery.

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

Good morning everyone.

One million people are facing imminent death and destruction at the hands of Israel in Gaza.¹

Israel has issued evacuation orders for one million people. These are people who have been displaced over and over again in Israel’s ongoing genocide. They have nowhere left to go. To move South costs thousands of dollars to rent land, a tent, and sanitation due to war-time profiteering.² That’s if they can get someone outside of Palestine to host their fundraiser and if they can keep their social media accounts from being shut down by mainstream Big Tech platforms and after paying half the donation amount or more in commission while withdrawing the funds that are sent to them.

Things are desperate.

Mastodon and the fediverse are the last lifeline for people from Gaza. It’s their last chance of reaching us in the outside world so that we might help them survive the genocide and famine being wrought out by Israel.

@joynewacc and I are having video conversations with people from Gaza who have Mastodon accounts every day to verify them in hopes that this will help them raise funds to live.

You can find the verified accounts on Gaza Verified:

https://gaza-verified.org

I hope you will follow them on the fediverse, perhaps send them a few words of love and solidarity so they know they’re not alone but that there are some of us that see, hear, love and support them.

And, if you can, please support their fundraisers, boost their posts, and share their accounts.

Thank you in advance for making our friends from Gaza who are facing unspeakable horrors welcome on the fediverse and for showing that humanity is not entirely dead in the rest of the world.

💕

PS. Please note that many Palestinians use automated translation tools, including AI-based ones so you might notice issues with translation or even transliteration (so, for example, a name is written Eman in one place but Iman in another). Also, not everyone is social media or technically savvy. These are everyday people trying to survive a genocide and a famine so please understand that there might be issues with the accounts. That doesn’t mean that they’re not genuine. If you have any concerns, you can talk to me. (Furthermore, there are concerted efforts by some groups to spread FUD about Palestinian accounts with the goal of getting them all shut down. If you notice any such behaviour, please also alert me. To server admins: closing their accounts is tantamount to handing out a death sentence. We’re here to help if you need it.)

PPS. If you know of any people from Gaza with Mastodon accounts who are not on Gaza Verified, please tell them about it. You can give them a link to https://gaza-verified.org/guide-arabic/ with further information. The guide also includes a list of Mastodon servers whose admins have publicly stated that their servers are safe spaces for Palestinians to open accounts so please feel free to share that with people from Gaza who are having their accounts closed on Bluesky and elsewhere. You can find the English version of the guide here: https://gaza-verified.org/guide/

¹ https://msf.org.uk/article/gaza-city-offensive-death-sentence-one-million-palestinians
² https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/9/3/the-crippling-financial-costs-of-forced-displacement-in-gaza

#Gaza #Palestine #fediverse #Mastodon

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

Just wake up more grateful for having another chance of surviving 💗

Maybe one day when i get out of here, i'll be a Writer/Poet and a Zionism Holocaust Survivor 🙏🏻

#Gaza #palestine
@palestine

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

Hello everyone 🍉❤️
It's Joy again, i know very well that you are doing your best to help me

I've started a new goal which is $500 for medicine, food and rent of this shelter, you can donate here :

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

every week i start a new goal but i was busy with my evacuation matter

#Gaza #Palestine
@palestine

This food sometimes we found it at markets and many times we don't.
A kilo of flour made this :)

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

📚✏️ On this day, children everywhere return to school full of joy. My daughter Tulin should have started 3rd grade, and my son Waleed kindergarten. But war has taken away even this simple right — the right to education. Tulin, a creative girl who loves drawing, dreams of her own colors, while Waleed, who needs special care, was denied his first school experience. My children deserve to learn, play, and dream of a better future. Please support them and bring back a little hope. 💙


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

The occupation demands the evacuation of Gza City—over 1 million people. Imagine: each family needs nearly $5,000 just to flee—paying for transport, a tent, a small rented plot of land, and even a makeshift bathroom. They ask for the impossible! Families have nothing, not even the choice to survive. Even those who wish to leave can’t afford it. What are people supposed to do? #Genocide #ForcedDisplacement #StopTheOccupation #GazaUnderAttack