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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-18 11:05:37

Dear USians,
How about you don’t call a Middle Eastern guy “white” and go on to tell him he’s “no better than any other oppressor we encounter” simply for trying to warn his Palestinian friends to not take any unnecessary risks and to be careful on Mastodon?
Also, apparently Divya has blocked me for this, which sucks because it has made it impossible for me to keep boosting her fundraiser, which you should, of course, still follow and support (link below).
I’m not going to …

Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al

You can support the Palestinian people without supporting Hamas. You can support the Ukrainian people, oppose Russia, and oppose American imperialism at the same time.

Do you see the common thread?

You can support the everyday people being oppressed without taking the side of any oppressor.

17 Oct at 08:51

Aral Balkan
@aral

An important note to my Palestinian friends in Gaza: please do not favourite, boost, share, or otherwise show support publicly for any…
Shantini
@shantini@techhub.social

@aral oh look another white man giving patronizing advice to marginalized
people. Check your privilege. And when multiple brown people call you out,
don't write an essay. Check your privilege again. Sit with it. Or you are no
better than any other oppressor we encounter.

Aral Balkan
@aral

@shantini Thanks, Shantini. I'll let my Turkish parents know I'm a white man
now.

Do fuck off.
@servelan@newsie.social
2025-09-17 03:56:58

"MAGA has become the new cancel culture. You’re demanding people lose their jobs, their visas, their passports for saying things you don’t like."
Hey MAGA, You’ve Become What You Despised
socialcontractwithjoewalsh.sub

@rberger@hachyderm.io
2025-09-18 17:45:14

Here are the email addresses to make your voice heard at Disney/ABC:
👉General Issues: DisneyABCtv_Support@disney.com
👉Publicity / Corporate Comms: Ashley.r.kline@disney.com
👉Audience Information: cheryl.pratesa@abc.com
👉Investor Relations: alexia.quadrani@disney.com
👉Disney Advertising: Disney.Advertising@disney.com
If anyone needs sample language, here’s a starting point you can copy and paste:
Dear Disney/ABC Leadership,
Your decision to silence a comedian for a harmless joke while protecting and platforming voices that openly promote cruelty is indefensible. It reeks of hypocrisy, cowardice, and corporate complicity.
Suppressing humor while elevating propaganda is how fascism gains ground. You are helping it along.
This is a warning: every dollar I once spent on Disney subscriptions, merchandise, films, and parks will now be withheld. I will also be encouraging others to cancel, divest, and pressure your advertisers and shareholders until Disney/ABC adopts clear, viewpoint-neutral standards that respect all voices equally.
History will not remember kindly the corporations that bent to fear and power, silencing dissent while protecting division. Right now, Disney/ABC is on the wrong side of that history. Shame on you. We will remember!
Sincerely,
- From Rob Brezsny on a different Social Media platform
#BoycottDisney #JimmyKImmel #FreedomOfSpeech

@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social
2025-11-18 16:12:11

From @…
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In other words, giving creative workers more rights without addressing their market power is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money. There isn’t an amount of lunch money you can give that kid that will buy them lunch — you’re just enriching the bullies. Do this for long enough and you’ll make the bullies so rich they can buy off the school principal. Keep it up even longer and the bullies will hire an ad agency to run a global campaign bemoaning the plight of the hungry schoolkids and de…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-18 19:25:59

Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft advertising the feature as able to "understand you", it delivers inconsistent and often incorrect responses (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
theverge.com/report/822443/mic

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-09-17 15:46:23

‘Push back – or they’ll eat you alive’: James Cromwell on life as Hollywood’s biggest troublemaker theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/

@hex@kolektiva.social
2025-10-18 17:09:44

I keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-16 16:36:56

Can You Hear Us?: Five Voices from Gaza – Hot Press Magazine, Ireland
hotpress.com/opinion/can-you-h
The five voices are those of my partner at Gaza Verified, @…