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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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emaytch, to random
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got my washington state ballot and immediately wrote it in the only thing my conscience would allow

MikeDunnAuthor, to random
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rolle, (edited ) to random
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Can't stay quiet about this as much as I don't like namedropping or any kind of blaming even when there is a reason. But there is this one Mastodon admin who refuses to take any responsibility of his server. He literally said on other social site: "I'm not doing anything about it, just writing this comment is too much trouble for that shit."

I confonted him and said: "So you want to give free server capacity to criminals and spammers. Because quite a few vulnerabilities have come out since 4.1.4. So you want to let the spambots continue their work in peace? Good luck with that 🫡"

He answered "Yes" and blocked me. This is disturbing to say the least. Don't know how to react.

You should probably defederate mastodo.fi.

Source (in Finnish): https://www.threads.net/@tero.ojala/post/C3nueFKICzw

t_l_wood, to random
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Don't make me tap the sign...

aby, to Israel
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A friend helped set up this project in Gaza to buy and set up solar panels (already in Gaza, not being used) to help young Palestinian Writers. For each $1k comes in they can buy equipment to transfer to a household.

Please support and share.

Since October, Israel's ongoing bombardment of Gaza has destroyed over 50% of all infrastructure, rooftop solar and power stations. Fuel supplies have been cut and residents lack consistent access to food, water or electricity.

Families must walk long distances and wait in line, often for hours, for limited supplies of food and water or to charge a mobile phone (typically their only source of light at night, as well as connection to the outside world).

But a group of young Palestinian writers are fiercely determined to get their stories about Israel's genocide out to the world and are working to Repower Gaza, one light at a time.

We Are Not Numbers (WANN) has located the equipment and technicians inside Gaza necessary to produce a limited amount of solar power kits, enough to immediately restore power to the team of storytellers and their extended families (an estimated 50 households and around 1,000 people). Each kit will generate enough power to light five rooms and power up to 20 mobile phones daily. If more resources become available later, WANN will extend the effort to their broader communities. It will cost US$40,000 to purchase and install the kits.

Donate now and help provide light to Gaza.

The mission of We Are Not Numbers is to train and support a new generation of Palestinian writers, and share their powerful narratives and bring wider understanding to the Palestinian liberation cause.

Please support Repower Gaza and share this grassroots effort to give light, hope and voice to Palestinians resisting genocide with your network.
—
This project is an initiative of We Are Not Numbers, supported by the Middle East Children's Alliance, a registered US nonprofit organization. All funds raised will go directly to the purchase of solar kit componentry inside Gaza, to be deployed by trained solar technicians.

https://secure.everyaction.com/nqnFvmWo40K_m3nSTlqCmg2?fbclid=IwAR3qS-jmxzjXrF9kb8xrCgbcburfHD5wfHB8rfrBP8QXoZyKptEXudEmG8A

fgraver, to random
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Repeat after me: a university is not a corporation, and should not be run like one. The former exists for the pursuit of knowledge, while the latter for the pursuit of profits. These are mutually incompatible.

VjosaMusliu, to random
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Read novelist Lana Bastašić's next blazing response to yet another act of literary censorship. https://lithub.com/read-novelist-lana-bastasics-blazing-response-to-yet-another-act-of-literary-censorship/

To my fellow academics & academic institutions who are - still - comfortable in their silence: replace 'literature' with 'academia'.

prolrage, to random
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The boycott against Germany's complicity in genocide of Gaza is having an effect. Total boycott of german culture, products, relationships became urgent in the face of german government and several (almost all) institutions' support of .
“This change is the result of actions taken by a large number of people on the ground in Berlin, and around the world,” Strike Germany wrote in a statement posted on Instagram. “By adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, the policy would have penalized those who criticize the state of Israel—at a moment when Israel is engaged in a genocidal assault on in .”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjynq/berlin-artists-boycott-israel-palestine-

leahmcelrath, to random
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For the sake of future generations, we need to be clear about both the horrors AND about how stupid everything is at the same time.

Previous recorders of history failed us by not emphasizing the stupidity—and its presence is one of the reasons the horrors aren’t taken seriously.

jamesglave, to climate
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Behold the power of consumer choice in a free market unhampered by burdensome regulations.

MostlyHarmless, to random
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i0null, to random

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

  • Frank Herbert, Dune (1965)
CiaraNi, to random Danish
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We need a word for real-life enshittification caused by online culture. Like being unable to find an organisation’s info because they’ve Instagram but no website. Or panicked people being sent a videolink to download to their phone when they ring for an ambulance. Or being excluded from residents' association news if you're not on Facebook. Or having cash payment refused. Or staff in the business you’re physically standing in telling you to find the answer to your question on their website.

ronanmcd, to random
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Always reminded of this when the far right could have been stopped but were not and were instead given a free pass as a legitimate political movement. Fuck them.
(I can't remember the artist's name for below. If you have it, let me know and I'll update)

helayoty, to opensource
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My statement related to the incident in the current

I was supposed to attend one of - used to be - favorite conferences to my heart . The event is all about an community under that reports to .

organizers offered me a room to support and communicate with the people as a community effort for the current inhumane situation in . They offered another room for the community as well.
(1/n)

pezmico, to random
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We are now in the middle of "Oops"

Miriamm, to random
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Remember, if someone is speaking English to you with an accent, they are probably, by default, smarter than you because they speak two languages. Don't patronize them.

JoBlakely, to politics
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Democracy was never meant to be run by election bc it is too easily corrupted by oligarchs.
It was always meant to be by sortition & there is a longer history to that & it's success, than this version of 'democratic' elections which is failing us & fallen to as was known & expected by Athenians.
Aristotle said were aristocratic & we're seeing that right down to dynasties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition#History

aral, to ai
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Machines aren’t taking over.
Corporations are taking over.

Worry about the right thing.

chris, to mastodon
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Duty calls on the Fediverse

ruhrscholz, to random
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Remember when Google dropped their "Don't Be Evil" slogan? I have a suggestion for a company who could drop their own slogan as well...

Kaliah, to random

Okay... I want to say this. Right here and right now. When you're around disabled people, you should do the following:

  1. Don't speak to someone else who is with the disabled person as if the person can't speak for themself. This is incredibly rude and harmful. There's nothing wrong with communicating with a disabled person. Ever. There isn't a problem. There. Is. Not. A. Problem. With any of it. Talk directly to us.
  2. Don't ignore disabled people. Talk to us. Ask us questions. We are people just like anyone else living in this world. Asking questions and having conversations with disabled people is not wrong, rude, disrespectful or harmful. It's okay. Seriously. It's fine.
  3. If a disabled person tells you to stop doing something, even if you think it's somehow helpful to them or you think they need you to do it for them, stop. Seriously. Just stop doing it. They're telling you to stop for a reason. Society has this common need to overdo it when it comes to helping disabled people. If they're asking you to stop, then stop.
  4. Respect us. There is not a single person, and that includes disabled people, in this world who doesn't deserve basic human respect.
  5. Don't look down on us. We have disabilities, but we can still live our lives. We just do things differently than people without disabilities do. It isn't something to be ashamed of. I also hate the societal stereotype that disabled people going about their lives are an inspiration. Stop thinking that too. We're people. We live. We exist. We have just adapted in our own ways, and as such, we may live a little differently. And that's okay.
    Once again. Ableism needs to stop existing. Please, please do not participate in it. It's a real problem that hurts so many people
BTyson,

@Kaliah Oh, and can I add to this to not do the thing where you question if a blind person actually knows who you are/if you're there, even if they haven't said something to you directly? I.e. One of my Uncles was sitting next to me talking to someone else and I knew he was sitting there next to me, yet he felt it necessary to ask, "Who am I? What's my name?" It tempts me to purposely say the wrong name just to get him to react. I have no idea why he does that but it really bothers me.

sarajw, to random
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sarajw,
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HEEEEEHEHEHEHHEEEEEFLGREGLEEE

indigenous_commentator, to random
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I'm here to bring to light the Indigenous Peoples plight, and struggles. However, some of these struggles are also everyone's as well...

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