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skinnylatte, 2 days ago to random

When we first moved here, 45 made it impossible for foreign spouses to work. So my wife went back to school and today, she’s graduating with her Bachelors in Psychology. Next stop: grad school! (Thankful for California’s excellent public universities system, and resident tuition!)

Sabrena felt she got an excellent education at SF State, and is looking forward to start the clinical psychology masters program to be your friendly multilingual culturally relevant therapist in a few years

aral, 1 day ago

@skinnylatte Congrats 🎉

maxleibman, 1 day ago to random

AI didn’t ruin Google. Cynical content farmers ruined Google. SEO ruined Google. GOOGLE ruined Google.

aral, 1 day ago

@peteriskrisjanis @hannu_ikonen @maxleibman How do you ruin a surveillance capitalist?

Sevslv, 1 day ago to random Dutch

Here is a threat/risk of armed mutiny against Israeli MoD #Gallant should Hamas or PA be in charge of Gaza.

Gallant is between the ICC's potential warrant and the Netanyahus' to-the-bitter-endists. Remarkable that the video is shared by #Netanyahu junior. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-25/ty-article/.premium/pm-netanyahus-son-shares-clip-of-apparent-idf-reservist-threatening-military-coup-in-gaza/0000018f-af39-d24f-a5df-ffffd6180000?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

aral, 1 day ago

@Sevslv Sure sounds like the most moral army in the world.

lapcatsoftware, 1 day ago to random

Cloudflare is evil. Do not use them.

https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

aral, 1 day ago

@lapcatsoftware I mean, it’s a casino, so 🎻 but still, yes.

Geri, 1 day ago to random

Rachel Johnson.

"We need #NationalService because we have not got enough people to pick our fruit ."

There you go folks, half an hour into the #TrevorPhillips show

aral, 1 day ago

@Geri “Let them pick fruit.”

aral, 1 day ago

@Geri Second source: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1d0u12a/comment/l5q16tw/

aral, 1 day ago

@Geri Yep, was just getting in front of the “what’s the source?” replies :)

koteisaev, 1 day ago to random

After reading that old but still actual post of https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/ by @aral I tried to think a bit. May be I am not best at this, sorry if so.
that anything that is not a really decentralized thing, literally a peer-to-peer stuff such as Utopia, it will eventually will end up the same way as Fediverse which is merging into few large clamps over time, like mastodon[dot]social/online I am sitting on.
🧵

aral, 1 day ago

@koteisaev You can run your own Small Web place on a single board computer at home.

aral, 1 day ago to Israel

Last day to vote for #Fedivision2024

You can listen to my own little entry, hastily recorded and imperfect, at:

https://fedivision.party/#UFOP

To vote for it, message the Fedivision bot:

@vote VOTE UFOP

(You can vote for up to 3 songs. Full instructions at https://fedivision.party/vote/)

There are lots of excellent entries this year so try and give them all a listen if you can.

#aNumberOnAPage #israel #palestine #gaza #settlerColonialism #ethnicCleansing #genocide #warCrimes #ceasefireNow

aral, 1 day ago

Damn, didn’t realise the fedivision bot picks up the vote even if it is not the only thing in the post.

(Should really only pick it up if the post starts with that and is the only thing in it.)

Ok, going to vote again for the three songs I selected earlier so I don’t end up voting for myself :)

aral, 1 day ago

@vote VOTE PRNY RUGG NRCI

aral, 1 day ago

@sknob 💕

aral, 1 day ago

@sknob Ah seems the bot doesn’t pick up edits – copied/pasted my original vote which messed up the handle – so, one last time now… :)

@vote VOTE PRNY RUGG NRCI

DareLooks, 1 year ago to random

Pawperty Damage is OUT NOW! 🎉🎉🎉

So excited to finally share this game, after 2.5~3 years of development—hope you enjoy!

Get it, here:

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2154650/Pawperty_Damage

itch: https://dare-looks.itch.io/pawperty-damage

video/mp4

18+ aral, 2 days ago

@DareLooks Nice! A lovely modern take on one of my childhood favourites, Rampage :)

ShaulaEvans, 5 days ago to random

If you are an informed, intelligent, compassionate, in-any-way-science-literate person, how are you coping with living through these times? What's helping?

No snark, please. I'm interested in sincere, practical answers.

aral, 2 days ago

@ShaulaEvans 50% ranting into the ether
50% working on something I hope might help
50% good wine

aral, 2 days ago to google

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18+ aral, 2 days ago

@noodlejetski Thanks for the heads up; will remove my post just in case. We have enough real ones without needing any fakes.