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

Thousands fled south from Gaza last night. Traffic is slow, with cars and trucks stuck on Rashid Street. Many people are unable to move around due to the lack of transportation and the high costs, which reach $2,000.For one family, there are many families still sleeping in the streets with their children. There is no place for them. The situation is difficult here in Gaza.
#gaza #palestine @Oral

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

A child, exhausted by fatigue and displacement, sleeps deeply on the hood of a vehicle, a scene that reflects the suffering of displacement and the harsh conditions endured by the people of Gaza.
@palestine @mutualaid #gaza #gazagenocide #war #palestine

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• video: A child, exhausted by fatigue and displacement, sleeps deeply on the hood of a vehicle, a scene that reflects the suffering of displacement and the harsh conditions endured by the people of Gaza.

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

A young child is living in extreme fear and panic after the occupation threatened to bomb the area where he lives.
His heart and eyes are filled with fear, and his innocence is at risk every second under the weight of war.
@palestine @mutualaid #gaza #gazaunderattack #war #gazagenocide #genocide

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• video: A young child is living in extreme fear and panic after the occupation threatened to bomb the area where he lives. His heart and eyes are filled with fear, and his innocence is at risk every second under the weight of war.

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

The last days in our home

The one we love most.

We are packing our clothes and whatever we can take.

I don’t see anyone from my family crying

Everyone is just living in a state that feels like shock

or maybe there are no tears left.

Do you know what it means to break your bed into wood for fire because there is no place for it in the tent?

#gaza #palestine

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
sab@hostux.social ("Sten") wrote:

Nouran is a 18 year old who is currently looking for shelter in south Gaza with her family, having been displaced (again) by Israel's ongoing genocide.

You can read more on the family's crowdfunding campaign:
https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family

Or through posts on her profile. She's verified through gaza-verified.org, meaning that her identity is confirmed through video calls.
@eng_mohammed_iq @NouranKhaledGh

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

A final cry from Gaza
From today Gaza is no longer what it was before. From today its voice will disappear and no one will hear it. Today was the most violent day in Gaza. The bombing did not stop for a minute.
Gaza is only a few days away from joining the cities that have been wiped off the map: Beit Hanoun, Jabalia, and Rafah.
I don't know what to say. We are broken in body and soul. These are our last breaths to the world.
#gaza #palestine
@Oral

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

🚨This was our night in northern Gaza 🚨
We sleep on the ground, surrounded by houses that are all under threat.
Disease is consuming our bodies, and there is no safe place to go.
We looked for transportation, but the prices are unaffordable.

We need $500 to move to what they call the “safe zone” —even though it is not truly safe.

Please, donate and help me save my family from here. 🙏

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

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
baraaelmoghrabi ("Baraa Elmoghrabi 🍉") wrote:

My brother rented 250 m² land in Al-Zawaida for $400, but transport costs $2,000. We need urgent help to evacuate from Gaza as bombings intensify daily. Without your support, we remain trapped under constant attacks. Please help my family survive . 💔🙏

https://chuffed.org/project/148804-help-baraa-and-her-elderly-parents-in-gaza

#Gaza #StandWithGaza #HelpGaza #CeasefireNow #GazaUnderAttack #SupportPalestine

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

Las personas con cuentas en Mastodon verificadas por la iniciativa #gazaverified
por ahora son:

Joy - @joynewacc

Abeer Ehab - @abeerabed22

Mohammed Shobair - @mohshbair

Hala-gaza - @ghassangaza

Shatha Mohammed - @shathamohammed123

Mahmoud Ahmad - @mahmoudoov

Eman - @emanahmed

Dr. Nadeen - @Dr_Nadeen98

Aseelsehwel - @Aseelsehwel

Baraa Elmoghrabi - @baraaelmoghrabi

SakherGaza1 - @Sakhergaza13

#PalestinaLibre 🇵🇸

https://gaza-verified.org/

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

my son Walid is scheduled for surgery — a vital step in his long journey to recovery. Despite displacement and ongoing bombings in Gza, we remain hopeful. But Walid urgently needs support is required to cover surgery expenses, medications for wound care, and essential healthy food like eggs, fruits, and meat. We kindly ask for your help in the next two days to give Walid the chance to heal and grow stronger.

https://gofund.me/4d0dce47

#SupportWalid #MedicalAid #ChildrenInNeed

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

@Geri
Tanks have entered Gaza City neighborhoods, and the situation has become very difficult. Please keep us in your prayers, and thank you for your concern. 💕

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

Gaza is now entering its most dangerous stage as the ground invasion begins. The bombing has intensified massively, with huge demolitions and brutal, relentless attacks everywhere. Around 800,000 people in Gaza are currently facing the most horrific kinds of killings.

Be the voice of Gaza.
#TalkaboutGaza @palestine #gaza #gazagenocide #StopGenocide

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

We just released Mastodon 4.4.4, 4.3.12, and 4.2.25.

These versions contain a few bugfixes, notably related to quote posts display in 4.4.

Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

#mastoadmin

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

Arguably, given the health and environmental effects of things like power plants, perhaps they *should* be ugly. But ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

In any case, if you like this kind of stuff, let me strongly recommend the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher. https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher

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

Power plants are often regarded as utilitarian eyesores, and are rarely (generally under public pressure) built to look beautiful or interesting, (London's Battersea Power Station was an exception). Generally, like here, any beauty to be found is accidental, a direct consequence of interesting form happening to follow from function.

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

I shot several versions of this, with exposures that kept the moving train sharp or blurred it to varying degrees. I think this was the most successful attempt, with the train blurred enough to suggest motion, but not so much that it's unrecognizable.

Motion can be a central part of a still photograph.

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

This was captured with the Rodenstock 70mm/5.6 HR Digaron-W lens and the Phase One IQ3-100 back. A bit of vertical shift was used to keep everything straight. A 1/2 sec exposure provided just the right amount of motion blur for the passing train.

The power plant generates electricity (now oil fired, converted from coal) as well as steam for Philly's Center City steam loop. The rail bridge extends the former Pennsylvania Railroad's "High Line" into south Philly's Greenwich rail yard.

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

Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, PA, 2018.

All the pixels, none of the electricity, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454

#photography

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

The Perplexity Comet prompt injection attack that Brave demonstrated is pretty shocking. Visit a Reddit thread, hidden instructions make the browser log into a different site, then it checks gmail to get the OTP, and then it posts the email address and OTP back in the Reddit thread.

https://brave.com/blog/comet-prompt-injection/

And this is the "good guy" security researcher version of the attack. It could be infinitely worse.

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

Another option, and the best option if you don't live in the US, is to order a signed book from Subterranean Press, which is happy to ship internationally:

https://subterraneanpress.com/scalzi-tsp/?searchid=916414&search%5Fquery=The+Shattering+Peace

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

Remember also that I am on tour here in the US, and that even if you can't come see me, you can call these bookstores, ask them to have me sign the book for you, and then they'll ship it to you (usually within the US): https://us.macmillan.com/tours/john-scalzi-the-shattering-peace/

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

Today's the day that The Shattering Peace, the new book in the Old Man's War universe, is out in North America (UK, you have two more days). I wrote it to be enjoyable to new readers as well as old hands to the series. I hope you'll pick it up at your favorite bookseller!

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

(3) I think it looks better with the "background" enabled, not as much because it's more familiar but because it looks crisper and, in some ways, feels more honest: windows can't go under the menu bar in either mode, and with the background enabled there's a clear border that makes it obvious why.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Three observations about the macOS Tahoe transparent menu bar: (1) It's actually quite usable. (2) Turning on menu bar background makes it clear there *is* a background effect applied all the time; the "transparent" look just smears the background color down into your wallpaper.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lrhodes@merveilles.town ("⁂ L. Rhodes") wrote:

The Torment Nexus is bound to solve torment, once we've gotten the nexus big enough.

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

I think the hypothetical social platform that Herman describes already exists… as group chats (or even chat rooms). They check all of the boxes:

- Often slower; pace set by the group
- Focused on connection and friendship
- Authentic conversation
- No followers, no influencers, no ads

Maybe the group chat on your phone really is as good as online “social” gets.

https://herman.bearblog.dev/slow-social-media/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

We honor the leaders of the 2 unions, including Cesar Chavez, Larry Itliong, Dolores Huerta, Peter Velasco, Gilbert Padilla, Andy Imutan, Julio Hernandez and Philip Vera Cruz for joining together and forming the United Farm Workers. 2/2

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ufwupdates@union.place ("UFW") wrote:

9/16/65: Eight days after heroic Filipino grape workers struck Delano-area vineyards & began the Delano Grape Strike, members of the National Farm Workers Association voted to join the picket lines. That solidarity helped produce victory in 1970. Viva la Causa! Mabuhay! 1/2

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

this happened at about the same time on the same day as Charlie Kirk was murdered. we seem forget this tide of violence knows no political bounds, when the victims are not famous.

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/evergreen-high-school-shooting-colorado-updates/

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

Learning to love toes while not succumbing to despair.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/09/16/still-falling-apart/