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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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aral, (edited ) to random
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To those Americans getting offended that their president and country are being criticised for arming a genocide may I just remind you that there is something a tad more offensive than being criticised for arming a genocide which is arming a goddamn genocide. Get some fucking perspective.

aral, to Israel
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Joe Biden could still turn this around and not lose to Trump by defunding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. If he doesn’t, there will be only person to blame for Joe Biden losing to Trump in six months and that’s Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden.

aral,
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@StillIRise1963 Yes, Trump winning will fuck everyone over. And if Trump wins, the only person to blame is the one who knows exactly what to do to win and steadfastly refuses to do it because he will not stop enabling a genocide.

If someone is torturing a puppy on live television and you tell to him to stop if he wants to be elected and he doesn’t and he loses, he’s the only one to blame for losing whether or not the other guy will shoot the puppy dead when he wins.

aral,
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@StillIRise1963 I’m not white. I’m from the part of the world that Americans of all skin colours have historically shown no reticence in bombing. The part of the world where a genocide is being carried out right now using American bombs.

And yes, if it comes down to whether an American should vote for Biden or Trump in six months then, yes, vote for Biden.

But the third way is to make Biden see he will lose unless he stops funding this genocide and, y’know, stop a damn genocide.

aral,
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@StillIRise1963 America being the world’s arms dealer and bombing Brown people whenever it feels like it is what’s extremely offensive. At least to those Brown people who keep getting the shit bombed out of them. Heck, I know it’s hard to see non-Americans as human beings but I can guarantee that we very much are.

aral,
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@StillIRise1963 Ok, goodbye. I don’t really have anything to say if you cannot see that the world is not America and that people in the Middle East are people too. We’re not just cannon fodder for your domestic comfort.

aral, to random
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Elon Musk was a mistake.

aral,
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@abs0 I’m not underestimating him, I’m insulting him.

aral,
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@danielsreichenbach Him and any other billionaire.

lhgmk2, to random
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Well the tapwater has to be boiled, and the milk is full of flu, this will be a good year for tea with lemon.

Anyone ruins the lemons, we open fire.

aral,
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@lhgmk2 @Kierkegaanks That’s not good given a sheep costs as much as a cow these days.

aral, to random
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Colonialism is alive and well and living in white people’s minds.

phoenyx, to random German
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Ja, das kenne ich nur zu gut.

aral,
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@phoenyx @Giliell Alt text: comic strip of woman with box by trash can.

  1. READ DIRECTIONS ON BOX
  2. THROW BOX AWAY
  3. PULL BOX OUT OF TRASH
    15 SECONDS LATER
  4. REPEAT
    Seriously, what's
    wrong with me?!
aral,
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@phoenyx @Giliell Who are you and why do you have a camera in my kitchen? :)

jbzfn, to TeslaMotors
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⚡Tesla's Supercharger Changes Tell the EV Industry: Fend for Yourselves
— Business Insider

"I got a bounce from every email address," said Andres Pinter, a co-CEO of Bullet EV Charging Solutions, which has about a dozen projects underway for Tesla. Other contractors, he said, may be in trouble if they don't have non-Tesla projects to fall back on."

https://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-supercharger-changes-hurt-wider-ev-industry-2024-5

aral,
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@jbzfn 💩

laetsgo, to random French
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Morning 👋

aral,
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@laetsgo Sleepy wave from the Emerald Isle (courtesy of unscheduled 5AM puppy wake up call) :)

Hope you’re having a lovely morning 💕

aral,
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@laetsgo It’s always morning somewhere… or something :) 🤗

dahukanna, to random Danish
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To accompany the plethora of “how to …” articles, tutorials, recipes and videos, we also need “why or why not to …” also.

Thanks for reading my “TED Thought”, all “20 seconds” of it - 😉.

aral,
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@Sevoris @dahukanna I make a point of trying to do that so I don’t trip myself up later if nothing else.

JackTheCat, to random
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Mhairi Black: Promising change is another empty pledge from Labour | The National

https://www.thenational.scot/politics/24329119.mhairi-black-promising-change-another-empty-pledge-labour/

aral,
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@MadeyeTheCarnaptious @JackTheCat Alt text: Photo of Keir Starmer surrounded by quotes from newspapers:

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer drops pledge to scrap tuition fees
Sky News, 2 May 2023

Sir Keir Starmer vows no freedom of movement under plan to 'make Brexit work'
The Independent, 4 July 2022

Keir Starmer refuses to commit to public sector pay rises
Daily Record, 27 June 2023… (1/3)

aral,
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The Telegraph, 9 June 2023

Sir Keir Starmer backs use of private sector in NHS
The Times, 9 January 2023

Starmer not committing to immediately ripping up protest arrest law
Evening Standard, 9 May 2023

Labour rules out universal childcare for young children in fiscal credibility drive
The Guardian, 13 June 2023

Keir Starmer nicknamed 'Sir
Kid Starver' over Labour plans to keep two-child benefit cap
The Independent, July 18 2023 (3/3)

reidrac, to random
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Released The Heart of Salamanderland, a new action platformer for the CPC.

Info & FREE download: https://www.usebox.net/jjm/heart-of-salamanderland/

aral,
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@reidrac Looks gorgeous; congrats :) 🎉

janvlug, to foss
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Funding available for (individual) and projects.

is seeking project proposals between 5.000 and 50.000 euro.

Currently open for proposals:
1️⃣ (electronic payment related)
2️⃣ (mobile software)

Closing date: 1 June 2024

Easy to submit a proposal:
https://nlnet.nl/propose/

More information:
https://nlnet.nl/funding.html

FAQ:
https://nlnet.nl/mobifree/faq/

aral,
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@hanscees @janvlug https://ar.al/2022/10/20/nlnet-grant-application-for-domain-rejected/

aral,
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@janvlug @hanscees Yeah, you know what, maybe I will keep applying and if we keep getting rejected, we’ll have a lovely art piece of rejections to use at conference talks and when asked about how our work for the common good is funded.

aral,
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@janvlug @hanscees Not really, there’s been a huge amount of progress in two years. But yes, why not? If we keep getting rejected only one of us looks bad given what we’re already delivering and how close we are to wider availability. It’ll be embarrassing to some folks if the Small Web launches as a free and open alternative to the Big Web, made in the EU with zero EU public funding when organisations exist that say they fund exactly what it delivers. So, yeah, let’s see.

carlysagan, to random
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“Starlink precipitation” should not be allowable as a term - I’m sorry, what?!

aral,
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@carlysagan @benroyce Alt text:

Tweet
Jonathan McDowell
@planet4589
Starlink precipitation report: 7
reentered today. 0004 UTC, S-1126
over S Atlantic; circa 0300 UTC,
S-2376; 0332 UTC, S-2532 over
Indian Ocean; 0358 UTC, S-2233
over Stavropol Krai; 0637 UTC, S-1119
near the Marquesas; 0700-0900,
S-2729 over Pacific; 0831, S-2154
over Punjab.
9:57 PM • 5/15/24
15 Retweets 2 Quote Tweets 71 Likes

baldur, to random
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Putting together the blog post collection has meant trying to find old links in the Wayback Machine

One was this one by the legendary Kathy Sierra in 2004. It’s both inspiring and depressing, because we all know what happened in the intervening two decades

“A Computer Book Author’s Manifesto” https://web.archive.org/web/20120118171954/http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ksmanifesto.html

aral,
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@baldur I remember having spirited conversations with her about tech education back in the Flash days. One of the few people from that time that I miss.

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