@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mastodon.social/@aseelfromgz/116097728946124841
Aseel is one of our Gaza Verified team of volunteers. She helps verify other Palestinians from Gaza while suffering through the same situation.
Please help her and her family – who are s…
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaOn this effervescent sunrise , I raise awareness of the suffering and resilience of those using it/its pronouns in honor of the ISO 639-1 language code for Italian, only to be dragged into yap from 15 year olds who were groomed on omegle about how theyre """resisting legal personhood""" or whatever 😢🇮🇹😿
@hynek@mastodon.socialsince I see a lot of gloom re Astral x OpenAI:
⁃ Even if Astral actively (malice) or passively (neglect) ruins uv, Python packaging is 1000x better today than 2 yrs ago.
⁃ Ruff is nice but only nice to have—ty is barely usable. We'll be fine if they vanish today.
⁃ Channelling Buddhism: it’s OK when things change or go away! Expecting things to last forever is an unnecessary source of suffering. But, worst case is that we get the community-maintained pkg mgr you always w…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNiners' Warner full go after season-ending injury https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48544620/niners-fred-warner-fully-healthy-season-ending-injury
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has done more to accelerate the energy transition than anyone else alive.
Fossil fuel companies bankrolled his presidential campaign to stop the transition in its tracks.
-- But when you back a volatile narcissist, unable to concentrate for more than a few minutes at a time, you shouldn’t expect to control the outcome.
It’s not that the fossils are suffering yet.
As prices have soared since Trump and Netanyahu attacked Iran, oil executives have been selling sha…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialYouTube appears to be suffering a widespread outage starting at ~7:45pm ET, with feeds, Shorts, and homepage inaccessible, based on 300K Downdetector reports (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/02/17/youtube-outage-february-2026/
@Dragofix@veganism.socialCruel Cargo: New Report Reveals More Hidden Suffering in Horse Exports for Slaughter https://animaljustice.ca/blog/cruel-cargo-new-report-reveals-more-hidden-suffering-in-horse-exports-for-slaughter
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comBoth me and @… are suffering from no-clue-what-should-this-thing-be-named-syndrome
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083623180403291
The people who suffer from Impostor Syndrome are almost never the people who _should_ be suffering from it.
@cdarwin@c.imWhile Democrats spotlight #healthcare as part of their party-wide focus on #affordability ahead of the midterms,
⚠️the legislative push to address drug prices and the costs of medical insurance and treatments remains at a standstill in Washington.
After Senate Democrats shut down the majority of the…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alEasy fix: Go home and stop murdering people half-way round the world, you sick fucks.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/fire-on-us-aircraft-carrier-in-middle-east-leaves-over-600-crew-members-without-…
@hex@kolektiva.socialOn the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Say no to pesticides, mix up your lawn – and six more ways to help bees to thrive"
#Environment #Bees #Insects
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaNo doctors at US Concentration camp in Dilley, TX. A 2 month old baby is suffering because of it. Putting people in cages is not required by law, this is for profit cruelty. (2/10/26)
Video Source:
https://reddit.com/comments/1r5rnfn
Spanish Language Article:
@UP8@mastodon.social😿 Myanmar’s election is derided as fake, but the nation’s suffering is all too real
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/asia-pacific/myanmar-election-people-suffering/
@pre@boing.worldStory one was set around the building of the tower of London, with moats and spies and helicopters and submarines. The workers were being exploited, underpaid, whipped and suffering.
In league with the architect, the workers planned to murder the contractor. Take their revenge, and the tower.
Meanwhile Russian spies witness all and plan to take the tower and it's lake of rose wine.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialH5N1 bird flu kills more than 50 skuas in first Antarctica wildlife die off #Antarctica
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialInfluenced by political unrest, human suffering, and the intrigue of melancholy and nature, she uses prepared piano, electronics, toys, and everyday objects to challenge traditional ways instruments are played.
@daniel@social.telemetrydeck.comBoth me and @… are suffering from no-clue-what-should-this-thing-be-named-syndrome
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaA little suffering is good for the soul.
-- Kirk, "The Corbomite Maneuver", stardate 1514.0
@PaulWermer@sfba.social#Medicare4All would save lives, improve quality of life AND reduce costs.
And thanks to #RFKJr and his policies, more Americans are already suffering costs - both health and monetary - from misguided polices from vacinations to diet.
Trump ignores dying Americans and gives away record sums to…
@paulwermer@sfba.social#Medicare4All would save lives, improve quality of life AND reduce costs.
And thanks to #RFKJr and his policies, more Americans are already suffering costs - both health and monetary - from misguided polices from vacinations to diet.
Trump ignores dying Americans and gives away record sums to…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caBrent Crude price going beyond $110
Putin is celebrating.
Trump is celebrating.
Oil companies are celebrating.
Gas companies are celebrating.
And here we are…. The rest of the world… suffering.
My only hope is that this makes people demand more access to EVs and renewable energy.
@mszll@datasci.socialI took this joke diagnostic "German or Autistic": https://german.millermanschool.com/
Turns out I am both, except instead of German I'm apparently Austrian. And I am indeed Austrian. 😲
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotAre there any immigration lawyers in the house? What's the situation just now with getting Palestinians from #Gaza refugee status in the UK? You'd think, for people suffering #GazaGenocide, it ought to be pretty much automatic, but given our xenophobic, pro-Israeli government, it wouldn't …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI can't overstate how transparent this is—it's simply market manipulation to enrich themselves and their buddies.
These people have no regard for human life or suffering or even "the economy".
It's simply greed. That's it.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMeloni's Woes Hint at Far-Right Troubles Ahead (Flavia Jackson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-03-24/italy-s-giorgia-meloni-isn-t-alone-in-suffering-a-far-right-setback
http://www.memeorandum.com/260324/p31#a260324p31
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTexans' C.J. Stroud 'grateful' for playing struggles: 'I know somebody's going to see how I respond' https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-c-j-stroud-grateful-for-the-suffering-playoff-loss
@davej@dice.campStolen to add #AltText. https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116184478150816223
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialBallot Box Scotland: Allan has started profiling parties.
Lib Dems: https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-party-profile-lib-dem/
"The smallest party to be elected to Holyrood in 2021, the Lib Dems have been suffering a second era of near-wipeout in their history. ..…
@vrandecic@mas.toRE: https://aus.social/@Ex_spurt/116338051405618797
I'm imagining Rowan Atkinson dressed as a priest telling this joke and then explaining why the suffering inflicted on Jesus was necessary and right.
@servelan@newsie.socialHarrowing 911 calls from ICE detention center reveal children unable to breathe, suffering seizures and broken bones: report | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-detention-center-911-calls-children-b2928990.html
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… That's a lot of suffering.
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place@…
Art: A creation of joyful suffering. It is fulfilling, but after completion the creator eternally craves yet another improvement.
@Dragofix@veganism.socialQuick Ways to Help Animals Used in Experiments #AnimalRights
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialThe headline below mis-states the story.
The original, in the Guardian, says:
"Trump signs executive order instructing DHS to immediately pay TSA agents"
But more properly it should have said:
"No Emergency: Trump always had the means to pay TSA. The non-payment and suffering of TSA employees was contrived for nothing more than political advantage."
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialSeeing Iran appoint new leaders and continue to fight is seeing the more literal kind of necropolitics in action, as a hierarchical system continues to function while replacing the expendable human parts that it lost. The system is of course changed and influenced (and ultimately was built) by humans, but it has become something undying, or at least almost as hard to kill as an idea, and it maintains a terrible inertia in it's destructive tendencies (e.g., "Morality Police" continue to patrol the streets).
Lest anyone think this somehow expresses approval of US actions, the same logic applies here too: what once had a (thin) verneer of democracy, a system which loudly proclaimed to be controlled by "the people" (but which never was nor was ever intended to be) has lost its paint job, exposing the inhuman machinations beneath. Trump is a symptom, not cause, of an institution built on blood and spoils, whose alignment with the Epstein class (and moreover, their institutions) is ever more apparent with each disregarded law and principle.
Stepping back for a moment, this systems/necropolitics perspective is just a perspective, with its own distortions and blind spots. To paraphrase LeGuin, any institution built by humans can also be changed or destroyed by them. But I think it's very useful to put on the systems goggles in this moment, especially when some are fond of preaching about the dangers of "overwhelmingly powerful systems unaccountable to humans which pursue destructive ends" without actually examining the plethora of existing systems that do just that.
P.S. yes, United Healthcare is another good example of this.
P.P.S. yes I bending the meaning of necropolitics here, but the two are related: these systems would not be so free to profit from human death and suffering if they were more vulnerable to the deaths of their constituent parts. Necropolitics of the standard variety is of course present as companies like Raytheon and Lockeed Martin profit from the carnage. The F-15 caught by friendly fire? Just as profitable for Beoing to replace as one downed by the enemy.
@jake4480@c.imI often like music where it sounds like the singer is really suffering. Like, it audibly sounds like he or she is having a really bad time. Many of those are my favorite bands
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
On this day in 2012 Leonard Cohen releases "Old Ideas", an album that becomes No.1 in 10 countries. It easy to forget just how big an impact Cohen made in music from the late 60s through to this album. Many fans were introduced to his music via his song "Hallelujah". Cohen first released it on his 1984 album Various Positions, though it gained massive popularity through covers by artists like Jeff Buckley and K.D. Lang. He had an incredible journey, starting as a poet, enjoying stardom in the 70s, retiring to a monastery in the 90s, and having to tour later in life to rebuild his fortune after suffering embezzlement by his agent.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianLegends
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.comSonnet 042 - XLII
That thou hast her it is not all my grief,
And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;
That she hath thee is of my wailing chief,
A loss in love that touches me more nearly.
Loving offenders thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I love her;
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.
If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,
And losing…
@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza @cdarwin@c.imAmerican history professor Gregory A. Daddis argues that Trump’s violent language
“represents a consistent and central aspect of his approach to international relations”
—and it must be taken seriously.
This rhetoric is also counterproductive, Daddis writes:
“All the while, an almost joyous attitude about inflicting suffering persists
despite its negative impact on the United States’ long-term interests.”
After Trump’s address to the nation last Wednesday
@unixviking@social.linux.pizzaHow much suffering would the US and the world have been spared, how many people would still be alive today, if on July 13, 2024, a ridiculous one or two centimeters had not been missing...
#trump #usa #Minnesota
@gwire@mastodon.social
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotRE: https://eldritch.cafe/@Tattie/116287014449680817
Is it not more cruel to inflict lifelong suffering instead of death?
@Dragofix@veganism.socialSay no to pesticides, mix up your lawn – and six more ways to help bees to thrive Say no to pesticides, mix up your lawn – and six more ways to help bees to thrive https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/08…
@hex@kolektiva.socialJust like... imagine for a second that you're a former billionaire and every day you have to sit through someone telling you a long story about all the suffering you caused them, or their family, or their community, in order to get food.
Like, as a billionaire, you don't even have the first clue how to take care of yourself so you are *completely* dependent on other people to do *everything* for you... and the only people who will do anything for you are all the people you hurt, in exchange for you sitting and listening to *all of it.*
Yeah, fuck the guillotine. I want justice.
@hippyjo@c.imAs Trump further humiliates America and alienates the world, his fiendish fuckery of Ukraine coincides with brutal weather conditions to create amazing suffering.
Giorgio describes a day in the life of -20 c temps and no electricity, no wood fires, as Russian drones seek out the tiniest thermal source and destroy it.
Support Ukraine and the work of Giorgio and Alla by sharing the friend link to bypass the paywall:
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizzaSo, sit down a moment and please take this with all your brain and critism. I don't want to anger you, but to move the discorse forward.
Ok so:
I think if you avoid generative AI in your life, it's not going to send a message to anyone. If you are trying to win a morale argument, I'm sorry but no one cares and the world is going to shit anyway. The only reason why you should not use them are because you are empathic to the ones suffering and because you are trying to a…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#LLM users should be obliged to buy *expensive* scraping offsets, and the money should go to #FreeSoftware projects that have to cope with their infrastructure being *killed* by crappy #AI scrapers.
Yes, #Gentoo is suffering from another wave. And yes, if you use their projects and therefore support their business model, please don't use Gentoo.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotA friend in #Gaza, living in a tattered tent with a sick child, just wrote to me 'I hope things improve.'
It makes me want to cry. I don't believe that, in all my long life, we've seen a population anywhere in the world suffering such terrible punishment and, at the same time, being able to communicate clearly with the outside world. How can things improve for her?
It wou…
@pre@boing.worldThere is support for these laws because people think the only consequence of a ban on a thing is that the thing stops existing.
For instance: Heroin is dangerous and addictive? Ban it then.
And suddenly you have organized crime and a grey market and criminal gangs shooting each other in the streets while addicts can’t seek help and have to resort to crime to fund their addiction. Their lives more chaotic and criminal than ever. Our streets are littered in needles.
Well done everyone.
Now we think algorithmic social media may be mind bending?
Shall we ban it? For kids? Even if we can’t define it?
If you break kids access to the internet you sacrifice all the good that the majority of kids are getting from it for an ineffective solution which won’t fix anything and will mean massive increases in government surveillance and censorship. To data-hordes being hacked and people suffering ID theft.
And it won’t help.
Misogyny and sexism and depression are older than the internet.
Plus of course kids remain better at accessing computers than their parents. You’re going to end up breaking the internet for adults who can’t figure out how to verify while the kids start to use VPNs and stolen IDs to browse 4chan.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys QB Dak Prescott named Comeback Player of the Year finalist https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/22/dak-prescott-is-a-finalist-for-nfl-comeback-player-of-the-y…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWant to help people in Gaza suffering through a genocide perpetrated by Israel and supported by many of our own governments?
Here’s a list of everyone we’ve verified using video calls with links to their fundraisers, ranked by how much they managed to raise in the last week:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPatriots suffer biggest beatdown of season in lopsided Super Bowl LX loss to Seahawks https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-suffer-biggest-beatdown-of-season-in-lopsided-super-bowl-lx-loss-to-seahawks
@servelan@newsie.social"there's no ‘great hospital boat’ coming to Greenland because both U.S. hospital ships – the USNS Mercy and the USNS Comfort – are currently incapacitated, undergoing maintenance."
Critics say Trump's 'frankly unreal' Greenland post shows he's 'suffering from dementia' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675291961/
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116352092959557226
As war rages on in Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, and Congo,
the world’s attention is understandably focused on human suffering and destruction.
But a quieter, longer-lasting war is also being waged
—one aga…
@UP8@mastodon.social🐺 Africa's rarest carnivore: The story of the first Ethiopian wolf ever captured, nursed and returned to the wild
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-africa-rarest-carnivore-story-ethiopian.html
@detondev@social.linux.pizzaFrom Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCan you believe what the US government is doing in Minneapolis? I thought the worst they would do is commit genocide in parts of the world we don’t care about. But this… it’s a step too far, no? I mean, even white people are suffering now. It’s just not right.
@Dragofix@veganism.social @aral@mastodon.ar.alCondoning everyday fascism for those less fortunate is how you eventually get fascism for all. And this isn’t just about the US. This is a warning for Europe and beyond. Here in Europe, most of our governments have been merrily supporting the US and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza (and the ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and apartheid) as well as previous imperialist invasions of far off lands for oil, happily sharing in the spoils of the suffering. (Not a surprise, really. After al…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhenever a #FreeSoftware project is suffering from onslaught of low quality LLM-generated pull requests, there will be a bunch of #LLM lovers complaining that people shouldn't be talking of "LLM-generated" being part of the problem, because "using AI isn't bad" in itself. Of course, they entirely ignore all the ethical and environmental concerns, and probably write crappy code themselves.
#AI #NoAI
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump sounded like a fascist dictator
suffering from a brain bleed
during his speech yesterday
at Davos.
It was a national embarrassment
even by the lowly standards of modern American politics.
The president’s showing in Switzerland was so shabby that I feel compelled to share some thoughts about it.
First of all, despite what cable news chyrons would have you believe,
Trump’s screed was chillingly aggressive.
He began the Gree…
@cdarwin@c.imIn Trump’s war messaging, veterans see something new — and disturbing
“They’re completely diminishing what they’re asking the nation to do in Iran,”
retired Army colonel Joe Buccino said in an interview.
“It seems almost obscene relative to the actual violence and suffering that’s involved with this.”
@cdarwin@c.imThe devastating toll of Iran’s counterattack on U.S. service members after Donald Trump’s surprise strikes on Iran is even more severe than previously known.
A deadly attack that killed six U.S. service members has also left dozens of others suffering from traumatic brain injuries,
memory loss,
and other “urgent” health issues
at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany,
the largest U.S. military hospital abroad,
CBS News reported Wednesday.
As o…
@buercher@tooting.chTrump, having embarked on this war of choice without anything approaching a valid reason, needs a face-saving way out. But how many Iranians must die, how much devastation must this senseless war cause, how much impoverishment and economic suffering must the world endure, just so Trump can declare victory?
Trump is notorious for his counterfactual declarations of success. Now would be a good time for a reprise. ~ Kenneth Roth
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/24/trump-iran-strategy-nixon-vietnam?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
