Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 21

@humanhorseshoes Do fuck off.

@Robo Here’s an article about the group with contact info: https://www.greystonesguide.ie/calls-on-harris-to-back-occupied-territories-bill-24/

@tieflingdio There’s a reason I just went back to daily driving a Mac after six years of Linux. (And I can code and I did try to improve things but… well… fun times and all that… https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/)

@eay @BafDyce @schmofu @Seb1982 @mspro This.

@ct_bergstrom @projjalm * capitalism

Now in Bray: North Wicklow against genocide.

#ireland #gaza #israel #genocide #protest #bray #wicklow

@TCMuffin @aral

No it isn't. It wasn't even considered by me till I hit the deck when a firework went off the other night. The next 2 months are going to be... Interesting.

@DodoTheDev @aral

PSTD in people is too often not considered by folks with fireworks 🫂

@TCMuffin @aral

Same in Braintree. And one terrified human to boot (PTSD sucks!).

Sodding, bloody fireworks are kicking off in Cardiff 🤬

One terrified dog doesn't know what to do with himself 🤬

@j_s_j @tprophet If you say so, bro.

@Outpatientzero No worries :)

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@TCMuffin I’m so sorry. People are dicks. Sending lots of love for the poor pup 🐶💕

Ooh, looks like Woodpecker CI is getting support for running rootless images. Which means I should be able to set up CI for Kitten* on @Codeberg soon :)

https://github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker/pull/4151

* https://kitten.small-web.org

#kitten #SmallWeb #continuousIntegration #codeberg #woodpecker

@aral

@grimalkina I can only imagine how difficult it was for you. Sending you lots of love from across the pond.

💕

All that and I never voted Republican, not one single time. What did I do in my first election?

I didn't vote at all. Because I was terrified, and for good reason. I don't blame that brave, kind, terrified girl, not one bit for that. But it would've been cool to see another option.

The thing is voting narratives aren't just about the characters in ads. They're about imagined futures. Reaching the children of these people matter, but ads can't show persuading children against their families.

I'm a queer woman who was raised in a hard right community like most people here couldn't imagine and was threatened with physical violence about how I voted -- the people around me literally bought out the ammunition from gun stores around elections, I want you to take a moment to truly imagine being a teenager in the closet and seeing guns in the hands of people who regularly threaten you -- and I'm reading that ad about Republican women voting very differently than 99% of the posts on here

@Outpatientzero Alt text: Photo (looks historic) of woman with pale skin and black hair smoking a cigarette while staring intently off camera.

Quote:

When out of fear you twist the lesser
evil into the lie that it is something
good, you eventually rob people of
the capacity to differentiate between
good and evil.

– Hannah Arendt

@HeavenlyPossum It’s not to change their behaviour, it’s to make others aware of their hypocrisy so they do not suck all the oxygen out of the room when presenting themselves as a legitimate alternative.