@aral@mastodon.ar.alThank you, everyone. I just heard from Aseel that we’ve reached her goal for this week.
Your contributions are literally helping keep a family of six alive despite Israel’s best efforts to destroy all life in Gaza.
💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115095609666982728
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCan someone explain to me how Hungary is still in the EU? https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/115122322237273111
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMicrosoft did this? I’m shocked. I thought they were too busy helping Israel commit genocide in Palestine. How do they even find the time? https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/115114482372317211
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou cannot capture the essence of capitalism in a single pho- https://me.dm/@davidtoddmccarty/114944150346707896
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou mean to tell me the folks carrying out the genocide of the indigenous Brown people whose land they occupy are racist? No, never!
#israel #racism #ChrisSmalls
@aral@mastodon.ar.alNeedless to say, don’t let these fuckers scan your face. https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-Sz4wqO5-S2O_A8Yxqr6d1A:a:4082434389-/0
@aral@mastodon.ar.alGenocide denial (the last stage of genocide; constitutes complicity in genocide): https://skeptics.social/@Derisor/115122396020622064
@aral@mastodon.ar.alDear Israelis, do not fucking contact Gazans on here asking them to help you “understand about people living in Gaza”. And don’t fucking use my name when doing that (“saw that you had a call with someone else I follow on Mastodon (aral)”).
The fucking privilege, man.
Your country is committing genocide. Do you understand that? Do you understand that Palestinians in Gaza are trying to fucking survive right now as your country starves them and shoots them and bombs them and they do…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alLook, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.
GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.
Cookie notices are *malicious compliance* by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.
If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.
If you’re using third-party co…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAnd who is the kind of person trying to get @… to ban the accounts of Palestinians who are using the fediverse as their last lifeline to literally get funds to eat as they’re being starved by Israel in a genocide?
The same kind of person – an anonymous coward furthermore – who paints the freedom flotilla as “Hamas”.
Do not let these Zionist propaganda acc…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten release!
Markdown and general renderer fixes.
Fixed:
• Nested Markdown sections rendering bug.
• Detection of components in Markdown where the opening tag spans multiple lines.
• Support for returning a component as a top-level object in a page.
• Slots in Markdown now work as they should (make sure you add them as block-level items, so with a leading and trailing empty line)
Enjoy!
:kitten: 💕
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten Release
To GNU tar or not to GNU tar?
• Installing Kitten on Linux should no longer display a screenful of gibberish from the tar command.
You see, macOS, being special, includes BSD tar, not GNU tar, and adds a bunch of Mac-specific metadata and extended header keywords to archives that GNU tar on Linux machines then chokes on and regurgitates onto your screen as warnings.
With this release, Kitten’s packaging script expects GNU tar to be available on ma…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWindows 11 Start Menu uses – get this – React Native.
(No this is not parody.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/1ctuz4w/the_recommended_section_in_start_menu_is_actually/
Via
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAI isn’t an existential threat to humanity, capitalism and corporations are.
You see, we created capitalism, a religion modeled on cancer, and the corporation, a new, artificial species; a parasite that co-opts human beings to do its bidding; an organism that’s psychopathic by design and grows by extracting from and exploiting us and our habitat.
And we now find ourselves ruled by this religion and driven to ruin by these parasites as they drain our humanity, destroy our habitat,…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🎉 New Kitten¹ Release: A little housekeeping 🧹
Today’s release only concerns production servers:
• Kitten no longer counts all *hits* in its stats. You can still see which of your *pages* are most popular, etc., and see stats for missing URLs, etc., as before from either the web interface or the interactive shell, but not every hit is logged. Instead, you can see the latest 25 served routes in Kitten’s Settings (at /🐱/settings/state/requests/ via the web on your server).
- …
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMeta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?
But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.
No, no, this must be fake news.
(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)
https://socialwebfoundation.org/…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al@… Ah, I see. It’s apparently what Mona (on macOS) does when you “quote post”. Just edited to move the URL above the hashtags. Should be fixed for you now. Thanks for the heads up :)
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOskar Kalbag,
December 9, 2011 - June 28, 2025.
You will live on in our hearts forever, my dearest couch buddy, incorrigible treat fiend, fluffy cuddle bundle, and best boy ever.
Thank you for all the joy you brought to our lives every single day and night.
Sleep tight, my sweet prince.
❤️
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @aral@mastodon.ar.alPalestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen, in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025.
Photo by Abdel Kareem Hana/AP
https://abcnews.go.com/International/idf-conduct-aid-airdrops-gaza-hunger-crisis…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAnd still: “Palestinians say”. It’s on video. All of it. To the world’s media: What do your own fucking eyes say? https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115105303439614782
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @aral@mastodon.ar.al🚨 Listeriosis outbreak update - Ireland
Salad leaves and spinach added to list.
Nothing like cooking and enjoying a lovely HelloFresh meal and then reading the latest listeria notice that it now includes the McCormack Family Farms Irish Spinach Leaves you just used in the sauce.
I did cook it well and it was steaming hot so 🤞
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThank you all for your kind words of love and support. I’m going to step away from here for a bit. Just need to spend a little time offline.
💕
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThank you all for your donations so far. It’s the middle of the week and we’re almost half way there.
Can we get this to $500 by the end of the week so Aseel can feed her family?
Please share.
💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115095609666982728
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIt’s not fair to compare a state-of-the-art-AI-assisted proprietary tool from a trillion-dollar corporation with a hand-coded free and open tool from a small not-for-profit cooperative.
(The latter works.)
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/17…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSo predictable.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHumanity is against the Bluesky Social Terms of Service.
#BlueSky #SiliconValley #BigTech #israel…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alComparing Netanyahu to Hitler, Israel to Nazi Germany, and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people to The Holocaust is wrong.
Hitler, Nazi Germany, and The Holocaust are a dead villain, a defunct fascist state, and a historic genocide.
Netanyahu, Israel, and the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people are a living villain, an existing fascist state, and an ongoing genocide.
#israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHitler calls The Holocaust a “tragic mishap.” The Schutzstaffel said in a statement that it was “aware of reports that harm was caused to civilians” and that the Nazis are operating in an “extremely complex reality.” Hitler added that the Third Reich “are conducting a thorough investigation.”
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Trillion-dollar corporations and billionaires are compatible with democracy.”
– Very smart people who are regularly quoted by the mainstream press.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Google, and other such companies sell advertising. If you don’t like that you can just stop using them.”
– People who also wonder why they’re now living under fascism.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“If you ask people who study the topic, they will tell you that a modern famine is a man-made disaster. Natural disasters can play a part. For example, flooding and drought can destroy crops, but relief agencies and wealthy governments can now get aid where it needs to go. So it is ultimately war and political will that keeps enough food from being grown or delivered in places like Ethiopia and Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, Haiti and North Korea and, of course, now in Gaza.”
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWere The Holocaust happening today, Western media would be awash with quotes from Hitler, the Third Reich, and Nazi sympathisers justifying it.
Israel has not only turned Gaza into a literal wasteland, it has also turned the West into a moral wasteland.
(And only the latter is self-inflicted.)
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAI is the new oy vey.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“I can’t believe genocide not being a deal breaker is your purity test.”
Yeah, sorry, I’m weird like that.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAt its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-p…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou can play with (a supercharged server-driven version of it) today with Kitten:
https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/dynamic-pages/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHey everyone, every Tuesday, my friend @… asks for your help to feed her family. She can’t do it today (they’re trying to stay alive during a genocide) so she asked if I could do it on her behalf.
They need $500 each week for their family of 6.
Every single dollar makes a real difference
If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing – it might r…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alNo, not Meta! Meta? Really? The same Meta that’s Mastodon gGmbH’s partner at the Social Web Foundation?
#meta
@aral@mastodon.ar.al‘This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily.
…
Noor, my eldest sister Tasneem’s daughter, is three; she was born on May 11, 2021. My sister’s son, Ezz Aldin, was born on December 25, 2023 – in the early months of the war.
One morning, Tasneem walked into our space carrying them in her arms. I looked at her and asked the question that wouldn’t leave my mind: “Tasneem, do Noor and Ezz Aldin unders…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat even is this timeline? https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman/114751095054600869
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @aral@mastodon.ar.alHey @…, how’s this for a CC signal for AI, you clowns?
🖕
https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIsrael could kill Bambi on live TV and some of you fuckers would still be cheering from the sidelines. No, actually, scratch that, what am I thinking? Some of you racist pieces of shit would probably feel worse for a cartoon deer than a real-life Brown person.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHere‘s a little tip if you’re using (the latest version of) Helix Editor:
Add the following keybinding to your config (if you don’t use Ctrl b for page up, that is; otherwise, change the key):
[keys.normal]
C-b = ":echo %sh{git blame -L %{cursor_line}, 1 %{buffer_name}}"
Now, when you press Crtl b in the editor, you’ll see the git blame for the line you’re on. Very useful for seeing which commit the line last changed in and, for teams, who committed the chang…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alA billionaire can never be held accountable therefore a billionaire must never exist.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alLook, if you’re going to “both sides” the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, I’ll tell you the exact same thing I would if you tried to “both sides” The Holocaust: Fuck right off, you sorry, genocide-denying excuse for a human being.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMicrosoft is complicit in genocide.
#microsoft #BigTech #SiliconValley #israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThis is the last straw! Working with Israel to commit genocide we can forgive but asking us to pay more for their services… now that’s unconscionable. https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/114914379016704186
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAnyone who defends israel is a monster.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid
@aral@mastodon.ar.alMore of this, please. https://me.dm/@funcrunch/114751288573182357
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIntroducing Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains!
Get ready for an exciting new (old?) way to address (small) web sites in 2026.
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
💕
(Thanks to @…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alTansu Çiller, and the corruption of her neoliberal government, was one of the primary drivers of the neoliberalism-to-fascism pipeline* in Turkey that exacerbated inequality, alienated and marginalised huge swaths of the population, and eventually led to Erdoğan’s fascist/Islamist takeover.
Carve her name, indeed; right next to Margaret Thatcher’s.
* Sound familiar, Americans?
#tansuCiller
@aral@mastodon.ar.alGuess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.
And genocide denial is complicity in genocide.
Blocked right back, asshole.
(His post was in reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115065419489536063)
@…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“A string of bands have pulled out of a UK music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.
The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Victorious festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
…
Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they would boycott the festival in a statement shared on their Inst…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe only way Microsoft should be involved in a European Sovereign Tech Fund is if we fund it by taxing the living shit out of them.
But having them organise and influence it (and who gets funded by it), thereby de facto giving Microsoft EU taxpayer subsidies? Get the fuck out of here.
There are no words to describe how angry this attempt at corporate capture gets me when we’ve been working on sovereign tech in the EU for the past seven years with zero EU funding (not for lack of …
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Europe is going to pay in a BIG way, as they should, and it will be your win.” – NATO chief
The state of these fuckers. https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/114739811540017876
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIdiocracy didn’t go far enough.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI just don’t know what to write anymore. Israel is committing genocide with the full support of our countries in the West.
What do I say to my friends in Palestine who don’t know if they’re going to survive the night? That we are morally vacuous? That we are horrible human beings? That we’ve lost any semblance of humanity we might have had? That we deserve their eternal wrath?
What do you say about societies that, far from failing to prevent genocide, support and profit from it?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alImagine having a memorial to people who perished in a genocide with the hashtag #NeverAgainIsNow in your bio and you haven’t uttered so much as a single word against Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhen boycotting Israeli goods (have you heard, they’re committing genocide), make sure you check for country of origin on the label, not just the barcode that starts with 729.
https://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/a-note-on-barcodes-israel-…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe reason we keep building the Torment Nexus is because all we have are Torment Nexus factories in a system designed by and for Torment Nexus factory owners.
#capitalism
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @aral@mastodon.ar.al* Israel’s manufactured famine, in its ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. https://mas.to/@therightarticle/115087820306387608
@aral@mastodon.ar.al130 unit tests passing; 90 regression tests passing… still choking on real-world content/end-to-end tests. FML.
(First world problems.)
(I’ll pick it up again tomorrow.)
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCreative Commons jumps the shark.
*smdh*
#AI #CreativeCommons https://mastodon.social/@creativeco…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI’m at the point now where I inherently distrust any white man with a bad haircut. https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/114743381099800265
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe ruthless have convinced the indifferent that greed is intelligence.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCan all German genocide deniers please get the fuck out of my mentions.
Genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide and constitutes complicity in genocide.
Matze Schmidt, you are complicit in genocide.
And history is taking notes.
https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/1150655
@aral@mastodon.ar.alStop. Israel. Now.
Stop this genocide.
Free Palestine. https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/115074168224412569
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🚨 Ireland prepared meals listeria recall
How centralised is our food production?
Here’s the list of prepared meals from the current listeria recall in Ireland – nearly every supermarket’s “own” brand is listed, along with others, including independent vegan darlings Happy Pear:
https://www…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHaving Microsoft organise a European Sovereign Tech Fund is like having Anheuser-Busch be your AA sponsor.
#EuropeanSovereignTechFund #microsoft #corporateCapture
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSince Microsoft is organising a European Sovereign Tech Fund, we should ask Lockheed Martin to put together a European Sovereign Defense Fund. There’s probably also opportunity here to bring Amazon in to advise on EU labour standards and have McDonald’s take the lead on food safety policy in the EU.
CC @…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alA European Sovereign Tech Fund organised by Microsoft, you say? Why Microsoft? Was Trump himself too busy?
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWe do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.
What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.
#microsoft
@aral@mastodon.ar.alStop calling this a bloody war. This is not war. It’s genocide. Palestinians are not starving, they are BEING STARVED BY ISRAEL.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI don’t understand why we must spend billions of dollars and waste so much water for AI.
I just created an “AI-generated image” from the original using a few dabs of the retouch tool in the Photos app.
Might have taken a sip of water afterwards but that was it.
(Is there a word/phrase for taking a regular image and making it look like it was AI generated? There should be.)
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAvoid the US like the plague. https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115068447096730360
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust had a video call with @… from Gaza. Like every family there, they need your help to survive.
Our governments have failed us, we are the only ones who can help. Your donations go directly to keeping families like Aseel’s alive as they struggle to survive Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
Please help Aseel and her family if you can.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Solidarity activities at the global level should be strategic and impactful. They should focus on disrupting all components of the supply chain that benefit the Israeli occupation in general and settler colonialism in particular. This means citizens around the world in different sectors of society can contribute to the struggle for Palestine as both producers and consumers by heeding the call to boycott and divest from Israel.
Direct actions from the working class are crucial. Workers…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @aral@mastodon.ar.al“US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/06/22/us-signals-a-willingness-to-renew-talks-with-iran-and-avoid-a-prolonged-war/
…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat was that thing about fucking around again? https://mstdn.social/@990000/114727246131708813
@aral@mastodon.ar.alPlease understand that I say this with the utmost sincerity: Go fuck yourself you genocidal piece of shit. People are being starved to death and being murdered with bullets while lining up for food while being starved to death and this is what you have to say, you utter piece of human trash? Assholes like you without a thread of human decency are the reason human suffering is allowed to exist. You make me sick.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alSo you teach your kids to respect revealed truths and not question authority and then wonder how sociopaths and malignant narcissists come to power and why you find yourself living under the yoke of fascism?
#microNonfiction
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIsrael is the moral failure of the West.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alJust so we’re clear, this is the same court our governments are ignoring and sanctioning, right? https://journa.host/@w7voa/114903421973325766
@aral@mastodon.ar.alDoes it even have to be said that Microsoft should not have anything to do with an EU sovereign tech fund or benefit from it financially in any way?
Probably, yes.
Over and over again. https://social.ayco.io/@ayo/114903940293761313
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThis would be nice. Wonder if Small Technology Foundation would finally get some EU funding for our Small Web work if this were to happen.
One can hope.
#SmallTech
@aral@mastodon.ar.alTo the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.
![Screenshot of report cont. (post/evidence):
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al“We kissed Trump’s ass and kowtowed to a fascist.” https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115067151811326127
@aral@mastodon.ar.alNot an assault. Genocide.
One that the UK – for which the BBC is the propaganda channel – is complicit in.
#israel
@aral@mastodon.ar.alPuy Netanyahu, it is hard to convince people that genocide is kosher. https://mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApartheid/115068506887487160
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten Release
• Improved Markdown parser
Kitten’s JavaScript tagged template strings (`kitten.html`) no longer fail to render as expected when interpolated values are used inside of Markdown where the Markdown render changes source order.
So, for example, the following will now work correctly, whereas, previously, the link source and link text would have been erroneously flipped:
kitten.html`
<markdown>
[${linkText}](${linkSource})
…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe AI equivalent of your starship exploding at the launchpad. https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/114721637610323807
@aral@mastodon.ar.alZuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-zuckerberg-meta-nickname-trump-b2774168.html
@aral@mastodon.ar.al @aral@mastodon.ar.alThe last message I got from @… was a little before midnight last night (I was asleep; I just woke up and saw it). Please share her voice:
“The situation is very bad. We are still in place. As you can hear, there is shooting at houses and tents and it has not stopped for a moment.”
@…
