If you think the US will not go full Nazi then you’ve clearly missed that the US has gone full Nazi.
Aral Balkan
aral@mastodon-ar-al.mostr.pub
npub1nk5e...mz64
Social oncologist.
I make small things.
Unapologetically anti-genocide.
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#SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people is made possible by the world’s top two arms dealers to Israel:
1. USA
2. Germany
Hey, @npub19ly5...y4lk, can you make one of your posts about how we’re so different to the US and European values, etc.? They’re usually so inspiring.
#US #germany #israel #EU #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #Palestine #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
Dear Mastodon instance admins,
Palestinians are facing genocide and famine.
If there is a Palestinian account from Gaza on your instance and it is *not* exhibiting bot-like behaviour PLEASE AT LEAST CONTACT ME before limiting/suspending it so @npub1n33c...fu06 and I can attempt to verify them by having a video chat with them on Signal and adding them to Gaza Verified:
Blocking the accounts of Palestinians in Gaza on the fediverse is like repeatedly slamming the door in the face of Anne Frank.
Please have some humanity.
Also, if your server is a safe space for Palestinians from Gaza, please respond and let me know and I’ll add you to the list at
#mastodon #fediverse #Gaza #Palestine #genocide #famine
Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we veri...
Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we veri...
🚨 My friend Nouran is in danger!
Nouran and her family are one of the almost one million people stuck in the area that Israel has said it is going to destroy imminently.
They need money to afford to move South.
Please help if you can and please share so others can.
#Gaza #Palestine #israel #genocide #fediAid
Chuffed
Urgent help for Ahmed's family
"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before go...
Mastodon
Nouran 🍉 (@NouranKhaledGh@mastodon.social)
Please don't ignore my message!
We are very scared. I don't know how to decribe our situation. We might decide to leave to south in any moment an...
@npub1pavj...4qst Hey folks, do you know if Lolo’s account (@npub1xjyy...cnzx) has been limited in some way?
@npub1n33c...fu06 cannot seem to follow her form mastodon.social. We’re trying to get in touch with her to see if we can verify her for Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org).
Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Please help Nadeen and her family who are running out of time to evacuate before Israel starts slaughtering anyone who is left behind.
Please donate if you can or share this so it might reach someone who can.
They desperately need to secure a place they can move to and the money to actually move.
Mastodon
Dr.Nadeen (@Dr_Nadeen98@mastodon.social)
🚨URGENT‼️
Only 36 hours left until the evacuation decision😭😭
Otherwise we will be surrounded⭕️ Please help me and my family to ev...
Fabio is the opposite of a Nazi and I am sick and tired of people WHO ARE OPPOSING A LITERAL GENOCIDE being perpetrated by Israel constantly having to defend themselves from accusations of antisemitism.
The dregs of humanity who are supporting, apologising for, and complicit in Israel’s genocide are the people and instances we should be blocking here not antifascists like Fabio who is spending his time trying to get aid to Palestinians on the ground in Gaza.
Ask yourselves what kind of person tries to have someone who is trying to get aid to people who are being starved blocked on the fediverse.
And then decide who should be blocked and who shouldn’t.
(And remember that history is watching.)
#fediblock https://manganiello.social/objects/4290e22d-b4ae-4adc-92c2-4e82d7fb8295
The AI equivalent of your starship exploding at the launchpad. 
tldr.nettime
felix stalder (@festal@tldr.nettime.org)
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Oh yeah, fast track model collapse!
Admin of todon.nl, and rightly so, suggests the default/flagship Mastodon instance (isn’t decentralisation great?) be moved to a more neutral jurisdiction than Germany:
“Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g. Switzerland). An alternative is to set up a new Mastodon server in a more neutral jurisdiction, which can then serve as a new flagship server.
The trigger for this is the regular negative moderation of people who speak out against the largest and bloodiest genocide of our time, the one in Palestine. In particular they use (or abuse, how you want to look at it) of a German law that seeks to counter so-called Holocaust reversal. With hiding behind this law, the moderators of mastodon.social (and especially its owner) are also unwittingly sitting in the chair of the (German) judge.
Apart from the fact that one local law should not affect the entire Mastodon project, the question is whether this law and the concept of Holocaust reversal are legally tenable in an international context.”
Mastodon mod closes the ticket after stating that “There is no current plan to make changes to the Mastodon instances operated by Mastodon gGmbH. People are free to choose any Mastodon server when signing up for the platform.”
And this is what that “choice” looks like (and this – along with the fact that they didn’t close registrations after hitting a certain size to create a social precedent and allow distribution to other servers – is why there is a flagship instance – an absolute contradiction of terms in a system that purports to be decentralised.)
#fediverse #mastoson #mastodonSocial #todonNL #Germany #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Palestine #Gaza
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Move the Mastodon flagship to a more neutral jurisdiction · mastodon/mastodon · Discussion #34747
Herewith the urgent request to move the Mastodon server presented to new users as the default (mastodon.social) to a more neutral jurisdiction (e.g...
His crime is being Palestinian in America during the genocide of his people by Americans and Israelis.
#America #USA #Israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank https://kolektiva.social/@cthon1c/114338393259857387
*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!*
“‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/03/19/etats-unis-un-chercheur-francais-refoule-pour-avoir-exprime-une-opinion-personnelle-sur-la-politique-menee-par-l-administration-trump_6583618_3210.html
#USA #fascism #EU #France #science #freedomOfSpeech #privacy #travelWarning
I miss the days when I wasn’t sure how to spell fascism.
“I don’t care about Palestine.”
– Jerry Seinfeld, Asshole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1ir5n6q/jerry_seinfeld_i_dont_care_about_palestine/
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #JerrySeinfeld #asshole
Europeans starting to realise the US is the enemy.
Meanwhile, Middle Eastern folks…
So maybe now some folks can see why having trillion-dollar people farmers as sponsors is a problem too. Maybe? I don’t know… Too soon?
#fosdem #institutionalCorruption #JackDorsey #billionaires #capitalism #openSource
Aral’s fediverse server
Aral Balkan (@aral@mastodon.ar.al)
In the past, I’ve called out @fosdem@fosstodon.org for having Google as a sponsor: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/100974215641531155
So this year,...
This fucking Free Our Feeds bullshit is basically trying to do for Bluesky what Mozilla does for Google.
And guess what, there’s Mozilla’s executive director and president on as custodians alongside two guys from AI companies and the executive director of Meta partner Social Web Foundation.
I’m so bloody sick and tired of bloody Silicon Valley asshats sucking all the oxygen out of the room with their bullshit and I truly hope the folks roped into legitimising it realise this and distance themselves as quickly as possible (you know who you are).
#FreeOurFeeds #SiliconValley #SanFrancisco #BlueSky #SocialWebFoundation #bullshit
Free Our Feeds
Free Our Feeds
If Mozilla are activists, I’m a mushroom.
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#mozilla #AI #VC #SiliconValley #BigTech #bullshit #activismWashing #privacyWashing #honeypot #PR #mushroom
Reclaim the internet: Mozilla’s rebrand for the next era of tech | The Mozilla Blog
Mozilla isn’t just another tech company — we’re a global crew of activists, technologists and builders, all working to keep the internet ...
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Access After Artists Released Video-Generation Tool in Protest: ‘We Are Not Your PR Puppets’
Famous Big Tech bottom feeders: “We don’t understand… what’s wrong with being PR puppets?”
Via @npub19anq...vvyh
#AI #OpenAI #protest #backbone #artists #PR #BigTech
OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Access After Artists Leak Video Tool in Protest
OpenAI suspended access to the Sora generative-AI video system after artists in an alpha-test program released it publicly in protest.