Folks,

Mahmood is a software engineer from Gaza. He’s looking for work.

Do your thing, fediverse! :)

#Gaza #GazaVerified #software #engineering #iOS #apple #GetFediHired #Palestine https://mastodon.scot/@MahmoudGaza/115351113407315100

Hi everyone, a quick impact report to you at the end of the first 24 hours of our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal:

https://gaza-verified.org/emergency/

We’ve raised $16,975 out of our original goal of $15,000.

Today, I was able to do an instant withdrawal of €7,500 of that ($8,768.79) from Stripe.

This morning, @joynewacc and I had the difficult task of prioritising today’s payouts from that amount. Our criteria were:

• Who’s most at risk (e.g., in Al-Shifa camp, etc.)?
• How can we help the largest number of our families with what we have on hand today?

As such, I’ve just completed payments to six of our families:

• @baraaelmoghrabi: $2,000 (she in one of the most dangerous places (al-Shifa camp) and this will allow her to move South tomorrow. She will not have enough to rent a tent yet but she said they could stay in a school until we can get the rest of the money to her, which we will as soon as possible.

• @mittall: $2,000 to get a tent in the South (they are homeless right now).

• @shathamohammed123: $1,200 to move to the South.

• @doaagaza: $1,500 to move to the South.

• @bilal_mo: $1,500 to move his family to the South. He still needs $1,500 for a tent but he can house them with relatives for three days. We will get him the rest in time.

• @ghassangaza: $1,200 as she is about to be evicted. She borrowed $2,000 from a lender for a tent. We were able to negotiate with the lender. He will accept $1,200 and the remaining $800 later.

That brings the total we distributed today to $9,400. I covered the difference (~$630) temporarily from our account since time is of the essence.

We will get to everyone else tomorrow when I can withdraw from the Stripe pot again.

I also plan to update the site with the impact reports as we go.

Finally, as we are getting more details from some of the families and the ones we couldn’t contact due to Internet issues on the ground, the current estimate for how much we will need in the immediate future has shot up to $20,000.

So I’ve set the goal to that and we will continue the fundraiser.

Thank you again for your amazing support.

You are making an immediate difference in the lives of our Gaza Verified families.

#GazaVerified #EmergencyAppeal #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid

@joynewacc And wow, second donation has come in within seconds… we’re at $1,010 :)

(I’m not going to send updates on every donation, don’t worry, but yay!)

Hi everyone,

I’ve just launched the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal to get our remaining 8 families who are stuck in the danger zone in the North to relative safety in the South.

https://gaza-verified.org/emergency/

Based on conversations @joynewacc and I have had with them to ascertain what they need (transport, land, tents), we have set the campaign goal at $15,000.

To kick things off, I’ve made a personal donation of $1,000.

These families are living in terror under nightly bombings by Israel. Please, if you can, help them survive Israel’s ongoing genocide. And please share this as widely as you can.

Thank you!

PS. The donations are being collected by our not-for-profit, Small Technology Foundation and the entire sum, minus Stripe’s fees, will be transferred to the individual fundraisers of the families. We have suspended our own fundraising for Small Technology Foundation for the duration of the emergency appeal (https://small-tech.org/fund-us/).

PS. If you keep the campaign page open, you will see the progress meter update and donations coming in in real time.

#GazaVerified #EmergencyAppeal #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid

Folks, a quick update on my plans for today regarding the Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal we’re launching today.

• The site is ready (as it’ll be, we can improve as we go).
• Updates to Small Technology Foundation site to suspend our own fundraising and forward to the emergency appeal are also ready to deploy
• I also made a simple call to action SVG with a basic image embed code that you can add to your sites. More info when appeal launches.
• The amount we’ve been able to gather from people we’ve been able to reach is ~$12,700. I’m thinking that we’ll round that up to $15,000 so we have some padding to account for constantly rising prices on the ground and to account for a rapidly evolving situation. (@joynewacc’s been doing an amazing job with this in the middle of everything else and I just want to express again my immense respect for her.)

I also need to pick up Laura from the airport. She’s scheduled to arrive before 3PM Irish Time so, barring any delays, I aim to be back and launch the campaign at around 5PM Irish Time (which should be good for the European and American time zones).

That said, Dublin Airport has been evacuated due a security threat (https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0920/1534475-dublin-airport-evacuation/) and if there are delays, I might launch it before I leave for the airport.

Will need your help to spread the word when I do.

I’ll keep you updated.

Thank you all for your amazing support so far.

#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal #EmergencyAppeal #fediAid #statusUpdate

Right, I think the campaign site is ready :)

It even automatically updates the status on open pages as donations come in (thanks to Kitten’s¹ event-based model) :)

Yay! Will deploy tomorrow :)

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

The site is coming along, fingers crossed, we should be able to start the campaign tomorrow.

(We haven’t raised any money for it yet and that’s not the amount we‘re aiming for, that’s just dummy data and wishful thinking in the screenshot.)

#GazaVerified #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal #webSite #dev

Folks, just a heads up: I’m busily coding a Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal site so that we can raise one amount that will get all our remaining families in the danger zone in the North to safety in the South.

I’m adapting the donation form I’d made for us at Small Technology Foundation (https://small-tech.org/fund-us – don’t worry about donations to us at the moment, eye on the ball, folks!)

Joy’s busy compiling the list of Gaza Verified families that are still stuck in the North and the monies they need to get to the South.

We’re going to add those up and set a total amount and then push that out with a campaign similar to the one I ran last night. I could really use your help once that starts to spread the word and help out if you can.

I don’t have the exact number of families off the top of my head right now (head in code mode) but it’s too many. Even one is too many. Anyway…

So we’re going to collect the donations into our Small Technology Foundation account and then transfer them to everyone’s individual fundraisers. I’ve got that basic functionality running right now (it looks like crap but it’s running so I’m going to work on making the page look more appealing for the rest of the day).

As much as I’d like to start the campaign tonight, realistically, it’s better if we start it tomorrow.

Every night, though, is a chance that we will have fewer families to help…

Anyway, I just wanted to give you a heads up. If you’re around tomorrow, I could use your help in spreading the word.

Thank you all so much for showing our Gaza Verified family so much love already.

I think I’ll be able to breath a little easier once the remaining families in the North are safely in the South.

#GazaVerified #Gaza #Palestine #fediAid #GazaVerifiedEmergencyAppeal

@staff We also need a list of servers that are safe for Palestinians to be on.

We cannot take the risk that mastodon.social will do what Bluesky has done and ban them.

Banning the account of a Palestinian who is using the fediverse to fundraise for food in the middle of a famine created by Israel’s genocide is tantamount to a death sentence.

Is there already a list?

If not can admins for instances that are safe for Palestinians please reply to this point and submit their domains?

Please share. Thank you.

And who is the kind of person trying to get @staff 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 accounts take hold on the fediverse.

https://skeptics.social/@Derisor/115117445805682816 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115122378758416385

Hey everyone, Yousef, @NouranKhaledGh’s brother in Gaza, is looking for remote work:

“Before the war, I was working as a copywriter in English and Arabic. I managed to get dozens of projects done successfully and I got a top-rated badge on Upwork.”

He wasn’t able to work during the war. In January, during the ceasefire, he was able to get short-term projects. He goes to a dedicated workplace every day even now, in the middle of an ongoing genocide, to have electricity and a working Internet connection to look for work but has been getting rejections on Upwork, likely because he’s based in Gaza.

“I just want to get back to work because I don’t want to lose everything in my life.”

This is his Upwork account:

https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~018cc9bd813d00e632

How can we help?

Please share + talk to people you know who might benefit from Yousef’s expertise.

Thank you!

@palestine

#Palestine #Gaza #GetFediHired #FediHire #copywriter #english #arabic

Here’s the thing: fuck the ayatollah and his mullahs and fuck Hamas (neither of those bastards would hesitate to put a bullet in the head of an atheist apostate like me) but that doesn’t mean you attack the people of Iran (most of whom oppose the regime) or Palestine (who also suffer under the yoke of Hamas – an organisation that, furthermore, was funded and supported by Netanyahu’s regime to sabotage the peace process).

If you cannot separate authoritarian regimes from the people being oppressed by them, and if you condone the indiscriminate slaughter of the latter, then don’t be surprised when the same rules end up applying to you… given the way things are going in the United States, for example.

We have rules of combat and international law for a reason. It’s not because we’re morally superior; far from it. It’s because we don’t want that same shit done to us. That’s a dangerous thing to forget.

Mafia says following laws could kill its business.

#AI #BigTech #NickClegg #coinOperatedMouthHole

https://www.theverge.com/news/674366/nick-clegg-uk-ai-artists-policy-letter

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if every four years you must vote to keep out fascism, you’re not living in a democracy, you’re living under siege.

Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. Either democracies have constitutional protections (and a system of democratic institutions to enforce them) to ensure fascism can never be voted into power or they are just fascisms in waiting.

New Kitten Release

• New: Any attributes present in a <markdown> tag are now passed to the first rendered element. (This is useful if you want to add some quick inline styles to a <p> that’s rendered from markdown, etc., but for anything more complicated, you should likely just jump into HTML.)

To learn more about Markdown in Kitten, please see the Markdown reference¹.

Enjoy!

¹ https://kitten.small-web.org/reference/#markdown-support

#Kitten #SmallWeb #PeerToPeerWeb #KittenRelease #markdown #web #dev

Capitalists: capitalism and democracy are inextricable.

Also capitalists: “US Marine Corps Maj Gen Smedley Darlington Butler claimed he was recruited by a group of Wall Street financiers to lead a fascist coup against FDR and the US government in the summer of 1933 … Members included JP Morgan, Jr, Irénée du Pont, Robert Sterling Clark of the Singer sewing machine fortune, and the chief executives of General Motors, Birds Eye and General Foods.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/trump-fdr-roosevelt-coup-attempt-1930s

None of this is new or surprising.

#USA #capitalism #fascism

Dear Nicole,

I am prince Bofa from Nigeria…

The biggest lie you were ever told is that the world needs CEOs or presidents or whatnot. That some privileged clueless asshat – and it’s usually a guy – needs to make the “hard decisions” that the everyday people who keep things running and actually know shit are apparently incapable of making because they might just make them in ways that benefit their communities and humanity at large instead of playing some psychopathic and self-destructive zero sum game with all our futures. Fuck ‘em. Fuck the lot of ‘em. Oh, you’re a “leader” are you? Fuck you. The world doesn’t need you or your toxic bullshit. You’re worse than useless.