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

What Israel Has Done to Gaza City in the Past 24 Hours

We are experiencing the most difficult days of our lives, living under constant fear and danger. Additionally, I am sick with COVID-19, and there are no medicines or treatment available. The situation in Gaza is critical and requires urgent assistance. We urgently appeal for help💔😭🙏

https://gofund.me/f6e9cc9d

Verified by @aral
@joynewacc




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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
naefool@mastodon.scot ("Bernard Vall") wrote:

Just heard that a member of our Quaker Meeting was arrested on terrorism charges this morning by Police Scotland. His offence holding a sign the Government don't like at a demonstration in Edinburgh on Saturday 6 September. They didn't do it at the time because they want to pick people off secretly to avoid publicity.

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
naefool@mastodon.scot ("Bernard Vall") wrote:

Our Scottish National march for a ceasefire in Edinburgh today. We didn't let a down pour dampen our determination to achieve a ceasefire. We had a powerful speech from a man who was arrested last Saturday for carrying a sign our Westminster Government don't like.

The large crowd listening to speakers in Edinburgh today. Many sheltering under umbrellas in Palestinian colours  & lots of Palestinian glagst
The crowd demonstrating for Gaza outside the Scottish National Gallery in a wet Edinburgh

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

It's a genre unto itself: finding old Charlie Kirk quotes and showing how they justify pissing on his grave. Good. Now focus on the living people who are taking up his repulsive legacy.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/15/never-has-a-mans-own-words-so-adeptly-justified-contempt-for-him/

He was killed on camera. No one's family deserves to have to witness that. It's unthinkably cruel that people would then go on the internet and use their platform to say about an innocent man that “l don't care that he's dead.” "He's not a hero.” "He's a scumbag.” "He shouldn't be celebrated.” I'm talking about George Floyd. You thought | was talking about Charlie Kirk? No, those are actual quotes BY Charlie Kirk about George Floyd. Outrageous that anyone would say that of the dead, right?

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yura@udongein.xyz ("Meko #nowar") wrote:

#catposting

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Thomas@laserdisc.party ("Thomas (Spooky) :letterboxd:") wrote:

She’s just like me

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ansuz@social.cryptography.dog ("ansuz / ऐरन") wrote:

I'm looking for volunteers to help organize next year's FluConf.

If you're interested then please see this brief blog post for more details:

https://fluconf.online/organizing-fluconf-2026/

#fluConf #fluConf2026 #fluConf2025

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Boosted by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
santiago@framapiaf.org ("Santiago") wrote:

Salsa CI finally builds packages using sbuild (and unshare)! MR https://salsa.debian.org/salsa-ci-team/pipeline/-/merge%5Frequests/569 has been merged! Thanks a lot to all the folks that helped reviewing it (including @aquilamacedo, who made a thorough review), and to @freexian for sponsoring the time I spent on this MR, as part of my #debian work.

If you find any issue on the pipeline, please, don't hesitate to reach out via the Salsa CI channels.

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

This is the dream

RE: https://www.threads.com/@hankgreen/post/DOmmgqkCRvL

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

The production https://some.pics site uses this new template engine, too. Here’s the actual template that’s in use for default pages right now. https://adam.paste.lol/some.pics.template.txt

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

staring at a 25 template Figma picture and paralysed by choice trying to itemise and name design patterns

there can only be one "card" :sweat_blob:

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

propping up the value??

https://flipboard.com/@cnn/business-and-tech-fie8hiijz/-/a-%5FMP5d-DrTem12NB8EEm22g%3Aa%3A132361178-%2F0

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kbeninato@mstdn.party ("Karen Dalton-Beninato ☑️") wrote:

'I'd like to thank CBS for letting me be part of the Late Night tradition, which I hope continues long after I'm gone... Stay strong. Be brave. And if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!" Unjustly fired Emmy winner Stephen Colbert. To a standing ovation.

Winner Stephen!

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
metacurity@infosec.exchange ("Metacurity") wrote:

The FBI’s takedown last month of the RapperBot appeared to have an unwanted consequence: freeing up as many as 95,000 devices to be taken over by new botnet overlords. That led to a free-for-all to take over the machines “as fast as possible."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/the-fbi-destroyed-an-internet-weapon-but-criminals-picked-up-the-pieces-6a278c07?mod=panda%5Fwsj%5Fauthor%5Falert

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

For privacy researchers, this thread is interesting. iOS allow apps to make network requests after push notifications.

Instagram (and others) appear to be using this to profile devices, eg retrieve device uptime without their customer opening Instagram.

This one probably needs more eyes on it. https://mastodon.social/@mysk/115204746326765802

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
KJ7OFH@mastodon.hams.social ("Lionel - KJ7OFH") wrote:

There is a #Quansheng modification that allows it to transmit and receive #CW for Morse Code operation. I posted a six second video demonstrating it and hams on Facebook couldn't handle it. Today we talk about it and I show you how to modify your own Quansheng!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBCp9qYa30

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio #KI6NAZ #HRCC

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
randahl ("Randahl Fink") wrote:

Jim Brown voted for Trump to get all those immigrants deported. Unfortunately, his own wife is from Ireland, so Trump is now deporting her.

I have met floorboards more intelligent than MAGA voters.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/irish-woman-with-green-card-faces-us-deportation-over-25-bad-cheque

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

“An Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote a bad cheque for $25 in 2015.

Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained in July after landing in Chicago on a flight from Dublin and is being held in isolation in a detention centre in Kentucky. She has lived in the US since 1977, has five children and grandchildren, and ran a horse farm in Troy, Missouri.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/10/irish-woman-with-green-card-faces-us-deportation-over-25-bad-cheque

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

one of the (many) problems with telling people who've lost their careers in middle age to just retrain is that you can't live on an entry-level salary anymore. people in their 20s are supposed to have roommates and parent subsidies. you enter a new career in your 40s and you're expected to deal with all the financial obligations of middle age with a salary that doesn't even cover the rent.

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

I just remembered: today, I have been clean of tobacco for 10 years (I quit on 15 SEP 2015) 🎺

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

Hey by the way South Koreans are now reporting they were put in chains and treated like animals for 7 days after ICE raided the multi-billion dollar plant they were setting up for the benefit of 8500 high paying American jobs.

They had valid visas.
They were here legally.
They did everything right.
Trump still treated them like animals.

It was NEVER about "legal" immigration. It was always about banning non-white immigration.

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

You can now completely customize your https://some.pics site with a custom template! When paired with a custom domain (which you can configure on your omg.lol Switchboard page), you can run a photo site with some.pics and make it all your own.

I made this public before I finished documenting it (whoops) but you can access the tester notes here at https://adam.paste.lol/testing-some.pics-templates.md/markup. (You can skip the first part about logging into the dev environment, since it’s in production now.)

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

¿Ayudamos a difundir esta iniciativa para dar a conocer cuentas de personas que escriben desde Gaza? @joynewacc y @aral están haciendo videollamadas para comprobar que son cuentas legítimas y no "timos".

En esta web hay enlaces a las cuentas de estas personas que nos piden ayuda desde Gaza. Se puede ayudar con donaciones , difundiendo...

#PalestinaLibre #AyudaMutua

https://gaza-verified.org/

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

Folks, Mohammed ( @mohshbair) has taken ill after his trip to the South to try and secure a place for his family.

It’s likely Covid.

It’s the second account I’m seeing of someone who visited the South falling ill with Covid in as many days.

Please help him cover cost of treatment in addition to everything else.

This is his fundraiser: https://chuffed.org/project/mohshbairgaza

You can also find him on Gaza Verified:

https://gaza-verified.org

Please share so it can reach others who might be able to help also.

Thank you!

💕

#Gaza #Palestine #Mohammed #Covid #GazaVerified #fediAid #FreePalestine https://mastodon.social/@mohshbair/115201995885670592

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

For 710 days my family and people have lived under the unbearable weight of war
What was once unthinkable is now a cruel routine explosions through the night drones hovering low, firing at anyone outside
At dawn buildings collapse
survival shuts down markets empty power and communication cut off
Families like mine are left in the streets with nowhere to go😭
🚨Urgent 59$/600$ ⭕️help us secure food, water and medicine to survive these desperate week⬇️
https://gofund.me/dfb9a2f5
@aral
@johnchiment


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

Welcome to Ireland :)

#ireland #rain

Screenshot of ten-day forecast on iOS Weather  app: it’s rain every day with temperatures ranging from a low of 10 degrees Celsius to a high of 19 degrees Celsius.

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️") wrote:

History's being erased at an alarming rate. There's wonderful preservationists out there doing amazing, incredible, heroic things. But also, keeping personal receipts is a good thing! Keeping living cultural memory going is a good thing! Having somewhere we can be *honest* about the world is a good thing!

It's clear to me, at least at this point, that that means communicating and building culture outside of corporate enclaves.

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

Let me share with you my favorite poem everrrr

" The Betrayal of Shadow and the Silence of Light"

by Joy's pen
Designed by river " my back bone ❤️ "

#gaza #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #palestine #genocide #israel

The Betrayal of Shadow and the Silence of Light by Joy In the sacred stillness of Da Vinci's Last Supper, I once gazed upon that solemn silence, my soul entangled in every shadow, every line, every hue. My eyes, like pilgrims, wandered through the scene, returning again and again to that eternal grace. Questions surged within me like waves: Why did Da Vinci choose to paint the Last Supper? Why bind those final moments into a canvas that became an immortal emblem of human art? Is it true that all that is final, all that is sorrowful, carries a beauty that renders it eternal? Why does the world exult in elegy, in the rituals of farewell, when so often it yields to slumber at the very moments it should resist the causes of parting? My eyes roam again: now around Christ, now around the disciples. I push among them, questioning, reproaching, lamenting: How could you not save him? How could you not save the scene from the last farewell, from the Last Supper? I search with my eyes, O Lord-who among them is the traitor? All surround Christ with warmth and love. Now you have made it harder for me: encircling him from every side, sharing bread, exchanging words, fearing for him as he fears for you. Who, then, is the traitor?
Christ speaks of betrayal. Perhaps deep within he knows the one. But why this air of tension? Why did the disciples divide, each defending his innocence with all his might-instead of protecting him? John, Peter, Andrew, James the Lesser (son of Alphaeus), Bartholomew, James son of Zebedee, Philip, Thomas, Matthew, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot and... Judas. I pause suddenly between the two heroes of the canvas: shadow and light. How the shadow unmasked the traitor, and how the light revealed the faces of the innocent. I woke today, seeking that majestic painting again. But I found no disciples, only a family gathered round a still body. A mother's hand rests on his head, as if begging him to return to life. Sisters read the Gospel, imploring the heavens to grant him one handful more of breath. My eyes cling to every face, sparing no one. Minutes pass, yet I cannot tell: who is the traitor? The Last Supper taught me that no scene is complete without one. Is it the mother who weeps for her son? The sister who pleads with God not to host her brother today, to grant him a few more days in their embrace? Is it the small child, who denied himself sleep to keep vigil by his brother's side before losing him forever? For no child resists sleep save for a grave cause, and a brother's death is graver than all. But still-who is the traitor?
Again I trace the two heroes: shadow and light. But today I see no light. O Lord, how have they betrayed me now? Is it no longer a masterwork? All that remains is shadow-no light at all... save for the faint glow upon the dead man's face. So who is the traitor? Is it I? You? Or this world that allowed a family to taste its final farewell, a world that stood in silence before all that unfolds? There is no traitor today but the one who funded the massacre, who armed it, who fed it. There is no traitor today but the one who watches. O Lord, how the painting has incarnated in this bitter reality. The colors have faded, some features lost, yet the deepest element still remains: sorrow... grief... betrayal. And silence, that savage silence, which once rose from the traitor of Christ, and now rises from the traitors of the victims of genocide.

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

From today’s event in the Netherlands, where poems from my book were printed.🌷📖

#gaza #palestine

By my pen 🌷📖

My book 🌷📖

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

🍉Since the cooking gas was cut off in Gaza, we've been cooking whatever we can find over wood fires, just like primitive humans. My 11-year-old brother, Yousef, lights the fires. Unfortunately, the smoke exhausts our sinuses, and his in particular, making it hard to sleep. Blackness and ash cover us after every meal.🍉

Additionally, the price of firewood is now increasing due to its increased use by Gazans.

A kind reminder about my campaign here.
https://www.chuffed.org/project/evacuate-joy

#gaza #genocide

This is what hands look like after lighting a fire.
 Cooking pots get stained with black soot, which makes us tired and frustrated from cleaning them.