aral

aral, 1 hour ago (edited 1 hour ago) to Israel

That feeling when you open the silly little collaborative drawing app you made and you find that some folks made this.

https://draw-together.small-web.org

✊

PS. If you want to learn how the app was made, here’s a video tutorial using Kitten¹: https://ar.al/2024/03/26/draw-together/

¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app

#FreeGaza #BDS #protest #keffiyeh #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #SmallWeb #Kitten #DrawTogether

aral, 1 hour ago to Eurovision

Fuck Eurovision. Fuck Israel. Fuck Zionism. Fuck settler colonialism. Fuck apartheid. Fuck ethnic cleansing. Fuck genocide.

(And if you’re more concerned by my language than with the injustices it decries then fuck you too.)

#Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #EBU #ESC #ESC2024 #Israel #zionism #Palestine #Gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #injustice #warCrimes #crimesAgainstHumanity #europeanComplicity #EU #ceasefireNow #permanentCeasefireNow

aral, 1 hour ago to Eurovision

Hey, I’m thinking of setting up a new song contest where you can vote as many times you want for the contestant of your choice (but only 20 votes per credit card, we don’t want it to appear like a money grab after all). I’m also thinking it should be a safe space for apartheid states committing genocide. Oh wait, sorry, Eurovision already exists.

What a shit show.

#Eurovision #NeverAgain #BDS #EBU #ESC #ESC2024 #Eurovision2024 #Israel #Palestine #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide

aral, 2 hours ago (edited 2 hours ago) to design

If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.

Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.

#design #technology #ethics #peopleNotUsers

taylorlorenz, 6 hours ago to random

Pro-Israel counter-protesters at UCLA previously took part in anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-vaccine events across Southern California.

Some of the pro-Israel counter protesters are also associated with local Proud Boy and Three Percenter militia chapters and fundamentalist Christian churches.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/10/college-campus-protests-far-right

aral, 17 hours ago to random

Might have just submitted a song for #fedivision2024

weirdwriter, 23 hours ago to random

oh hey @aral is there a database of small tech I can explore that's broken down into categories? Like a wiki? Something like PortableApps but for small tech?

weirdwriter, 23 hours ago to random

This is so wild, but the blog and RSS feed, well, one of them anyway, I've been reading and loving, I just figured out was @aral and if you all don't have his RSS feed, you really should, because I love posts like this https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/

aral, 23 hours ago to Israel

So you come into my replies on my instance and then block me.

This is what you think happens:

“Haha, everyone will see my reply and he can’t respond.”

Here’s what actually happens:

• You piss me off
• I suspend your account and delete your data from my server so it no longer distributes your reply
• I post a screenshot of your reply so everyone can see the mental gymnastics you have to employ to defend Israel
• You learn something new

#israel #eurovision #ESC #palestine #gaza #genocide

Screenshot of post by verena elisabeth @verenalettmayer: @aral and i guess you think you are an anti-fascist. sorry,: excluding and bullying a person because of their affiliation to israel is not anti-fascist, but ... You know what. and for 1000 times: no governments participate in the #esc, but independent broadcasters (that's why russia was also suspended, because NOT independent).

aral, 1 day ago to Eurovision

Folks, if your strategy is to vote multiple times (at ~€1/pop) to try and influence the Eurovision Song Contest outcome against Israel: please don’t.

Financially rewarding the EBU will only make them look successful. You don’t buy all the beer at the fascist bar to teach them a lesson.

#eurovision #ESC #eurovision2024 #ESC2024 #BoycottEurovision2024 #boycott #BDS #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #settlerColonialism #EU #EUComplicity #fascism #EBU #Malmo

michael_albert, 1 day ago to random German

Eva Schulz: "Es gibt Studien, die einen direkten Zusammenhang herstellen zwischen Sparpolitik und dem Erstarken von rechten Parteien. Macht ihnen das denn keine Sorgen?

Christian Lindner: "An diese Studien glaube ich nicht."

BinChicken, 1 day ago to Eurovision

I'm a huge fan of the Eurovision Song Contest, but this year I'm boycotting Eurovision.

Eurovision has always been political. Its purpose is political by seeking to unite Europe with the power of love of music over the power of hate and war.

In previous years, I celebrated the overt shows of support for Ukraine, LGBTQIA people, and other oppressed people.

But this year, the organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest have chosen ignore calls for BDS and allowed Israel to enter, and they have chosen to ban other participants from showing even support of the people of Palestine.

If you think the Eurovision Song Contest has chosen an appalling stance on this issue, you're not alone. The Israel singer was booed off stage, and there have been a record number of protests against Eurovision inside the auditorium, outside this year's venue in Malmö, and in many participating countries around the world.

#EurovisionSongContest #Eurovision #Eurovision2024 #BoycottEurovision #BoycottEurovision2024 #BDS #FreePalestine #Palestine #Genocide #Gaza #Israel #Rafah

aral, 2 days ago to random

Hello, I am a new startup!

I’m funded by venture capital and free to use.

Please come and make me valuable by using me. Make my numbers go up!

Once you do, I’ll have everything I need and I can do whatever I want with the time and effort you’ve put into making me successful.

Not happy? Fuck you, I don’t need you anymore (network effects FTW, amirite?)… I’m laughing all the way to the bank.

Goodbye!

…

Hello, I am a new startup…

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When are we going to learn to say “no” at the start?

jmeosbn, 4 days ago to random

It would be an outrage if Israel’s “assurances” are treated as credible, and their obstruction of supplies and various glaring atrocities are ignored.

But if they are “cleared”, and only then attack Rafah, Biden will be humiliated.

— ‘the state department is also due Wednesday to deliver a formal assessment to Congress … assessing whether the IDF are conducting its campaign in accordance with humanitarian law – in other words, whether the IDF is committing war crimes.’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/biden-israel-palestine-policy

aral, 1 year ago to random

Here’s an idea: let’s call people “people” on the fediverse instead of “users” whenever we can.

Compare:

“There are 42 users on this instance.”

vs

“There are 42 people on this instance.”

Which acknowledges our humanity more?

Language matters. We don’t need to perpetuate mainstream technology’s othering/colonial framing of “us” – designers/developers/other “clever folks” – and “them” – the users (usually one step removed from “dumb user” and usually the ones who get used).

#peopleNotUsers