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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:
San Mateo Bridge, San Francisco Bay, San Mateo, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, no rush hour traffic, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54129314405
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
Hi everyone,
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to four lovely people from Gaza today over video chat on Signal and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family:
• @aseelfromgz
• @Salem_family
• @Doctor_abdullah
• @ahmedosamaPlease give them a warm welcome to Mastodon and the fediverse, follow their accounts, and, if you can, please help them with their fundraisers and please share this so others might also.
Thank you!
💕
PS. They will be adding the verified links to their accounts in the next few hours. Internet access is not always stable in Gaza and there are sometimes technical issues and sometimes the guy making the announcement (that’s me, by the way) forgets to tell them to do it before making the announcement.
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #genocide #famine #fediAid #FreePalestine
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
some raptor action st my neighbor’s birdbath https://www.threads.com/@jsonstein/post/DOoNbzODDMK?xmt=AQF0Ji4n7IyZY5gfYwbYL8ZqaOInWU0m8630zXAd56R23w&slof=1
Mastodon Feedaral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:
@staff Hi there,
(I tried the email route but got an automated response, so I’m trying this instead.) :)
I just got notified that my friend Iman’s account (@emanahmed@mastodon.social) has been suspended with cause due to private messages being sent from her account to ask for donations. (One of the people who was upset about this contacted me directly to let me know their concerns.)
Iman and her family are based in Gaza at the moment facing genocide and famine and she was not aware of the etiquette of not sending private messages in this manner.
I have explained it to her and she has promised not to do so in the future.
Her account is real and we have spoken with her over video chat on Signal. You can find her account on Gaza Verified:
I’d like to kindly ask that her account be reinstated so that her family can continue to receive donations to afford food during the famine and raise funds to get to relative safety in the South of Gaza.
And, if possible, if you see a verified Gaza Verified link on someone‘s profile, I would greatly appreciate it if you could contact me before carrying out moderation tasks on their account as it is at least known that they are representing a family facing genocide and famine in Gaza for whom Mastodon and the fediverse are their last online lifeline.
(And if you have any concerns about accounts stating they’re from Gaza but without the Gaza Verified link, if you contact us, we will be more than happy to talk to them and verify them.)
Thank you.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
welcome to the 1870s, again.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/14/trump-administration-congress-security-funds
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963). Four children murdered at church.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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💔😭🙏
Verified by @aral
@joynewacc
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
yura@udongein.xyz ("Meko #nowar") wrote:
Attachments:
- video: 6417f6c1ba10f11c.mp4
Mastodon FeedBoosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Thomas@laserdisc.party ("Thomas (Spooky) :letterboxd:") wrote:
She’s just like me
Attachments:
- video: 298d22852d41666b.mp4
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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:
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon Feedjscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
This is the dream
Mastodon Feedadam@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
Mastodon Feeddb@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:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
propping up the value??
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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!
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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.”
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@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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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.
Mastodon Feedadam@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.)
Mastodon FeedBoosted 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...
Mastodon Feedaral@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:
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