@aral@mastodon.ar.al
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20h ago
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Social oncologist. I make small things. Unapologetically anti-genocide. Warning: May not fit your taxonomy. From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https://gaza-verified.org/join/ Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 🍉🌻 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
mastodon.ar.al
Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.
You simply don’t need to.
You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.
Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.
The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.
And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)
#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena@mastodon.social https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239
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@Maeve@kbin.earth
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Jun 10, 2026
Maeve
@Maeve@kbin.earth
She/her/cishet/volcel Flexitarian Shattering the mirror doesn't change what is reflected. https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-and-iran-a-shared-struggle/ thanks to this newsfeed, for the article: https://news.abolish.capital/ https://youtu.be/QPYUOPVsBq0
kbin.earth
The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer
The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer #cuba #capitalism #fascism #usd #hegemony #socialism #stateterrorism #economics #businessplot #smedleybutler #warisaracket
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Cuba’s blackouts are getting worse. Many are going days without any light at all and the public electric company is “fighting to provide even a few hours of power a day.” The gas stations are empty. There are “mosquitos everywhere.” People in high-rise apartments are cooking with charcoal, risking carbon monoxide poisoning and deadly fires.
The suffering of Cubans has been inflicted upon them on purpose. It is the intention of U.S. policy to make the Cuban people suffer, and endanger their lives, in order to put pressure on their government. The Trump administration is waging a “pressure campaign aimed at forcing political and economic changes in Cuba.” The Trump administration, earlier this year, took “the almost unprecedented measure of blocking all oil shipments to a country with which it is not at war.” That means that food aid can’t be distributed on the island, because there’s no way to transport it. Once fully-stocked bodega shelves are now empty. (Not because “socialism” is causing shortages, since people had enough to eat before, but as a direct result of the blockade.)
The UN reports that the U.S. policy is killing babies and children: “infant mortality has doubled to 9.9 per 1,000 births; childhood cancer survival rates have fallen from 85 to 65 per cent; and essential medicines are available at only around 30 per cent of normal supply levels.” The UN human rights chief’s verdict on the U.S. is scathing: “Such severe sanctions packages that target entire sectors of an economy and produce broad, indiscriminate and harsh effects on populations are incompatible with basic principles of international human rights law.” But even this condemnation is too mild. The U.S. pressure campaign amounts to nothing but terrorism: making people sick, making them poor, making them suck in carbon monoxide, starving them, denying children their cancer treatments, in order to try to force a change in their government’s policy.
Crosspost from https://news.abolish.capital/post/55742
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
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1d ago
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Social oncologist. I make small things. Unapologetically anti-genocide. Warning: May not fit your taxonomy. From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https://gaza-verified.org/join/ Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 🍉🌻 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
mastodon.ar.al
“My fear is that W Social is just another for-profit Big Tech startup that happens to be based in the EU. We don’t need that. We don’t need more European surveillance capitalists and people farmers. We need ethical alternatives working for the common good.”
– Yours truly, in @_elena@mastodon.social’s excellent expose on W Social.
https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-public-institutions-and-the-theater-of-european-digital-sovereignty/
Do read the article to the end, especially noting the bit about the composition of their board of advisors, which includes an ex-Google AI lead and an ex-Paypal Chief [Violate Your] Privacy Officer who now works at Tools for Humanity (Sam Altman’s “Sci-fi dystopia? Hold my beer…” identity farming startup that wants to scan your eyeballs).
#WSocial #EuropeWashing #PrivacyWashing #BigTech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #EU #ATProto #fediverse
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
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2d ago
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Social oncologist. I make small things. Unapologetically anti-genocide. Warning: May not fit your taxonomy. From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https://gaza-verified.org/join/ Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 🍉🌻 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
mastodon.ar.al
RE: https://norden.social/@SheDrivesMobility/116732194100466437
Goodness, I wish someone had warned us about this shit, oh I don’t know, maybe over a decade ago?
https://vimeo.com/96727211#t=11m08s
#peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #gamification
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@Maeve@kbin.earth
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Jun 08, 2026
Maeve
@Maeve@kbin.earth
She/her/cishet/volcel Flexitarian Shattering the mirror doesn't change what is reflected. https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-and-iran-a-shared-struggle/ thanks to this newsfeed, for the article: https://news.abolish.capital/ https://youtu.be/QPYUOPVsBq0
kbin.earth
The absolute cult behavior of the American Social Democrats (Kyle Kulinski, Hasan Piker, and Ryan Grim) exposed by Spooky Scary Socialist.
The absolute cult behavior of the American Social Democrats... #succdem #× #uspolitics #grahamplatner #ussocialdemocrats #treatler #capitalism #fascism #usd #hegemony
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Source: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQeQ_tBpoQ&t=0s
Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11856757
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@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca
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3d ago
Broadwaybabyto
@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca
Disabled & chronically ill writer. Former theatre critic. Passionate about disability rights, clean air, masks and covid caution. Clean air is a human right & masks work. I write about the experience of being highly vulnerable during a pandemic, isolation, loss of healthcare and euthanasia. My focus is on how we can find support, fight back & create better systems and safety nets everyone. #CovidisAirborne #Disability #Pandemic #MasksWork #CleanAir #Ableism #ChronicIllness #CovidIsNotOver
zeroes.ca
New modeling from The Lancet suggests the USAID funding cuts will kill 14 million people.
Many of them are children.
600,000 have already died.
The man who gutted the program?
Elon Musk. The world’s first trillionaire.
He has a trillionaire dollars and is murdering the poorest people on earth.
He should be in jail.
Billionaires and trillionaires should not exist in a world where millions die from poverty every year.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900281-5/fulltext
#usaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #musk #capitalism #poverty #publichealth #uspol
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@palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
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Jun 10, 2026
Palm Oil Detectives
@palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
Investigative Journalist doing #OSINT for #AnimalRights & #IndigenousRights. I created a non-profit platform for scientists, concerned consumers and whistleblowers to #Boycott4Wildlife https://palmoildetectives.com/ #Boycottpalmoil #Vegan #Buddhism #Wicca #Pigoneer I am #Maori belonging to many places #Aotearoa #Scotland #Poland #slavaUkraini #Palestine must be free! Animals deserve us to fight for them. All people deserve safety, green spaces, clean air and #libraries.
mastodonapp.uk
#News: #Capitalism is driving mass #ecocide and #inequality! 🤮☠️ Economists Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis outline steps to democratise the economy and save the #climate and our world from #corporate greed. 🔥🌴 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2026/feb/12/capitalist-model-climate-growth-capitalism-species-humanity?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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@Maeve@kbin.earth
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Jun 08, 2026
Maeve
@Maeve@kbin.earth
She/her/cishet/volcel Flexitarian Shattering the mirror doesn't change what is reflected. https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-and-iran-a-shared-struggle/ thanks to this newsfeed, for the article: https://news.abolish.capital/ https://youtu.be/QPYUOPVsBq0
kbin.earth
the West is everything they told you China was.
the West is everything they told you China was. #russia #china #usa #eu #capitalism #fascism #zionism #socialmurder #genocide #un #icc
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...No discussion of Western hypocrisy is complete without Ursula von der Leyen, the unelected queen of the European Commission and an unequivocal master of the genre.
There is a video, widely circulated at this point, of von der Leyen being heckled by a member of the public. The man asks a difficult question. She responds with a smile and a line that was clearly rehearsed:
‘If this was in Russia, he would be arrested.’
The crowd laughed.
The man was arrested.
Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11847282
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scriptkiddie
@scriptkiddie@anonsys.net
anonsys.net
The world is heading toward the greatest economic crisis of all time. On the one hand, because of Trump’s idiotic war that is blocking the Strait of Hormuz; on the other, because the economy is evaluated solely on the basis of growth. Endless economic growth is the philosophy of a cancer cell. The common good, environmental destruction, and population decline are not factored in at all. This can only lead to a crisis that keeps getting worse.
meme #economy #down #downhill #capitalism #war #hormuz #inflation #groth #philosophy #politics #trade #world #worldorder #future #society #trump #finance #poverty #rich #equality #environment #emissions #pollution #earth #civilization #crisis #collapse #apocalypse #doomsday
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al
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5d ago
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
Social oncologist. I make small things. Unapologetically anti-genocide. Warning: May not fit your taxonomy. From Gaza? If you need to get verified, please go here: https://gaza-verified.org/join/ Want to donate to people in Gaza? Please see https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) 🍉🌻 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22 #searchable
mastodon.ar.al
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Pettet8/116742131579090788
“Google was a different company 9 years ago.”
Hmm… was it, though? 🤔
https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie
#google #BigTech #peopleFarming #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #meaCulpa
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@wrzky@kolektiva.social
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Jun 11, 2026
Wanda 
@wrzky@kolektiva.social
Not a Westerner 🇮🇩 | suicide survivor A reader-funded political writer. A self-taught half-assed techie thingy. I build mutual aid infrastructure and political education space. Rebuilding the system here. 📌 Intro: https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116362344939423095 Feel free to tag me in your mutual aid requests for a boost. I can’t always provide financial support, but I can help with amplification. 🙌🏻 Jin, Jîyan, Azadî. 
🚨STILL UNACHIEVED‼️ https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal
kolektiva.social
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: 𝟭𝟮/𝟬𝟲/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 03:00 UTC+7 | 𝟰 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁
$8.71 of $375, tysm to everyone who has shared my post and contributed. Four days to go and $366 still needed. It's my birth month and I'd like to spend it knowing I can cover groceries and medication.
A $5 monthly pledge helps me the most with my disability. One-off support is equally welcome. Boosting this is support too.
Thank you, thank you.
https://wrzky.com/links
@posts@wrzky.com @mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @disability @autistics@fedigroups.social @actuallyadhd@fedigroups.social
Tags: #mutualaid #disabilitymutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund #MutualAidRequest #disability #anarchism #activism #advocacy #politics #capitalism #inflation #mentalhealth #neurodivergence #healthcare #poverty #DisabledWriters #writer #cptsd #audhd #activitypub
https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116672865656446870
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@wrzky@kolektiva.social
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Jun 11, 2026
Wanda
@wrzky@kolektiva.social
Not a Westerner 🇮🇩 | suicide survivor A reader-funded political writer. A self-taught half-assed techie thingy. I build mutual aid infrastructure and political education space. Rebuilding the system here. 📌 Intro: https://kolektiva.social/@wrzky/116362344939423095 Feel free to tag me in your mutual aid requests for a boost. I can’t always provide financial support, but I can help with amplification. 🙌🏻 Jin, Jîyan, Azadî. 🚨STILL UNACHIEVED‼️ https://ko-fi.com/wrzky/goal
kolektiva.social
𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: 𝟭𝟮/𝟬𝟲/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 03:00 UTC+7 | 𝟰 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁
$8.71 of $375, tysm to everyone who has shared my post and contributed. Four days to go and $366 still needed. It's my birth month and I'd like to spend it knowing I can cover groceries and medication.
A $5 monthly pledge helps me the most with my disability. One-off support is equally welcome. Boosting this is support too.
Thank you, thank you.
https://wrzky.com/links
@posts@wrzky.com @mutualaid@ovo.st @mutualaid@fedigroups.social @disability @autistics@fedigroups.social @actuallyadhd@fedigroups.social
Tags: #mutualaid #disabilitymutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund #MutualAidRequest #disability #anarchism #activism #advocacy #politics #capitalism #inflation #mentalhealth #neurodivergence #healthcare #poverty #DisabledWriters #writer #cptsd #audhd #activitypub
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“We are being walked toward an arrangement in which money and property exist only as entries in databases that a central authority controls. Bank balances, wages, pensions, the deed to a house, the title to a car, the small float that gets a family from one paycheck to the next, all of it rendered as numbers that someone else can edit. The pitch emphasizes speed, lower costs, and an end to the grubby inconvenience of physical currency. The cost it leaves out is the loss of any way to hold or move value that does not first pass through a gate, and the corresponding power that gate confers on whoever owns it.”
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/06/11/the-off-switch-when-money-becomes-permission/
#money #capitalism
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@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social
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Jun 11, 2026
PaulaToThePeople 😷
@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social
Paula (she/her), nonbinary. #ClimateJustice & #ClimateCommunication #AnimalAssisted & #SocialPedagogy #empathy & #solidarity #mindfulness & #degrowth #Fediverse #FediverseFoundation & #JoinFediverseWiki #HumanRights & #NoAI
climatejustice.social
RE: https://climatejustice.social/@PaulaToThePeople/112675793067632173
Fleeing from war,
crossing deserts and oceans
and jumping through hoops for authorities
is still worlds hardest triathlon,
but there is no fame and no sponsorship at the goal.
#ExtremeSports #RefugeesAreWelcomeHere #capitalism
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@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social
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Jun 11, 2026
PaulaToThePeople 😷
@PaulaToThePeople@climatejustice.social
Paula (she/her), nonbinary. #ClimateJustice & #ClimateCommunication #AnimalAssisted & #SocialPedagogy #empathy & #solidarity #mindfulness & #degrowth #Fediverse #FediverseFoundation & #JoinFediverseWiki #HumanRights & #NoAI
climatejustice.social
People who can't work for a living have to find some other way to pay their dues to the morbidly rich.
And now tell me again how capitalism differs from cancer?
#MorbidlyRich #capitalism #WorkForALiving #redistribution #WealthRedistribution #CapitalismIsCancer #EndCapitalism
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@lfa@hostux.social
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Jan 28, 2026
LFA 🇮🇨
@lfa@hostux.social
Friki de la informática hasta la médula. Paso del hype de la nube y la IA: cero porquerías. Me gusta conectar con gente que vive la informática como era antes: filosofía UNIX, bajo nivel, retrocomputación y trastear con hardware. 🌐 Fundador de #LibreCan 📍 Canarias🇮🇨 🇪🇺 🗑️ Las publicaciones mueren a los 12 meses 🚫 Los intolerantes de cualquier color no sois bienvenidos #NetBSD #Artix #SoftwareLibre #Gopher #ASM #C #descentralización #smolweb #retroinformática #privacidad
hostux.social
Bing has blocked Neocities and all its sites from the search results
https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block
#bigtech #microsoft #bing #neocities #freedom #capitalism #microslop #smolweb #smallweb
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Analysis reveals overseas environmental toll of UK consumption https://phys.org/news/2026-05-analysis-reveals-overseas-environmental-toll.html
#UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #society #consumption #capitalism
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@jd@todon.eu
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May 24, 2026
jd 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺🚀 & 👍🇺🇦🇵🇸+🇮🇷🇨🇺
@jd@todon.eu
https://justmytoots.com/@jd@todon.eu – please don't ask me for money, I really have none to give.
todon.eu
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Maeve
@Maeve@kbin.earth
She/her/cishet/volcel Flexitarian Shattering the mirror doesn't change what is reflected. https://orinocotribune.com/venezuela-and-iran-a-shared-struggle/ thanks to this newsfeed, for the article: https://news.abolish.capital/ https://youtu.be/QPYUOPVsBq0
kbin.earth
Right, Left, Center
Right, Left, Center #liberalism #democracy #capitalism #fascism #zionism
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@peritia@alovely.space
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May 09, 2026
Peritia System
@peritia@alovely.space
Queer, neurospicy DID system Linux & selfhosting enjoyer A small cluster of people sharing one brain(cell) powered by coffee & stubbornness. Core beliefs: > Trans rights are human rights > If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing > Furries get free hugs > "No" is always a valid answer Taken by -> @dulcis DMs open (especially if queer, furry, into Linux, or have cute pet pics) More from us: https://peritia.space/links/?code=mastodonBio
alovely.space
It is so stupid and crazy how normalized the wage gap is.
I just sat next to someone that had a bag of clothes worth as much as my yearly salary. No not spending money i am talking salary. They spend that in a day and had the bag just casually standing next to me.
I dont earn little which makes this 10 times worse.
I dont like how normal this is.
During the Revolution in france the wage gap was way way smaller btw
Eat the rich pls :3
Lets normalize hating te rich. Like spitting in their food and planning a revolution <3
(Hypothetically ofc)
#fcktherich #fucktherich #hatecapitalism #capitalism
Uii i like this hashtag <333
#eattherich
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