من غير لف ودوران: ترشيحاتنا لمعرض الكتاب 2026 | مدى مصر https://www.madamasr.com/2026/01/24/feature/ثقافة/من-غير-لف-ودوران-ترشيحاتنا-لمعرض-الكتا-5/

Impro du samedi: "Pi-rats & Kraken"

الجارديان: إكس ما زال يسمح بالمقاطع الجنسية المُفبركة عبر Grok | المنصة https://manassa.news/news/29768 بالرغم من ذلك تستمر مواقع مستقلة مثل المنصة ومدى مصر وجمعيات حقوق إنسان ومرأة في مصر والوطن العربي من دفع اشتراك شهري لمنصة إخص (تويتر سابقا) للحصول على العلامة الزرقاء.

أوعى تفكر في إيران من وجهة نظر الإيرانيين، أوعى - مدونة بودي @BooDzy https://www.slashproc.net/waa~-tfkr-fy-yrn-mn-wjh-nzr-lyrnyyn-waa~/ "الشعوب مبتواجهش كل هذا الموت بسبب شوية عملاء موساد، والأمريكان مش عايزين أي نظام ديموقراطي حر في الشرق الأوسط علشان مفيش شعب في العالم هيقبل جار السو اللي […]

مشروع الأرشفة – صفحات صغيرة https://smallpages.blog/archive-project/ "مبادرة فردية لحفظ المجلات الحاسوب العربية رقمياً وتخزينها في أرشيف الإنترنت (Internet Archive) وتنظيمها ليسهل البحث عنها والوصول لها."

Personally I'm amazed people stayed on X after the Nazi salute, but whatever. The best time to leave Twitter was years ago, the second-best time is now. --- To anybody still using X: sexual abuse content is the final straw, it’s time to leave - Marie Le Conte […]

I really wish my friends and organisations I respect would leave the Nazi/CSAM pit of hatred and abuse (formerly known as Twitter) and use anything else. I am particularly upset by the fact that there are independent organisations and media outlets that claim they are progressive and care for […]

Weird how payment processors haven't cut Twitter off yet. It's almost as if there are multiple standards

Please ban soft touch plastics that turn gooey after 10 years.

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/08/abolish-ice-before-they-kill-again-impeach-trump-noem-before-they-incite-more-murder/ I don't like to comment on domestic US events as I clearly have little […]

Two days ago, I made a cup of #coffee using lightly roasted beans. Shortly after, I experienced a headache and tightness in my neck as if I'm constantly blowing a balloon. I took my blood pressure and it was quite high 147/97. It stayed high for another day. This morning I woke up fine and my BP […]

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

كفاية نفط!

You may have heard that the maintainer of med-mastodon.com, a large, prominent Mastodon server, recently decided to shut down the server without warning, leaving his users with no access to their data. This could happen to you at any time. If you care about this, you should be backing up your […]

Medmastodon (instance for doctors and healthcare professionals) stopped working at the end of 2025 without a warning. Users lost access to their accounts. In this Lemmy posts there are some ideas for users on how to manually rebuild the list of follows and other sources of help […]

I don't think it is OK to use a social media platform that has a built-in AI model trained on or capable of generating CSAM. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/no-grok-cant-really-apologize-for-posting-non-consensual-sexual-images/

Australian journalist Peter Greste: The Alaa Abd el-Fattah I know is a humanitarian https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/alaa-abd-el-fattah-british-values-citizenship-human-rights-political-prisoners-b2893566.html #freealaa #ukpolitics #Egypt

كل سنة وانتم طيبين 🎆 Happy New Year 🎇

Danny Yee's Book Reviews: Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World by Fred Feddes and Marjolein de Lange http://dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City_Amsterdam.html #cycling

The State Security Police HQ, where I was tortured in October 2000, will now become a Marriott hotel

Statement by Alaa Abdel Fattah @alaaosh on the old tweets dug up by Conservative and Reform MPs the second day he set foot in the UK after 10 years of prison in Egypt. Some called for revoking his citizenship. https://freealaa.net/ #freealaa

Egyptian Director Daoud Abdel Sayed Passes Away at Age 79 وفاة المخرج داود عبد السيد https://cairoscene.com/Buzz/Egyptian-Director-Daoud-Abdel-Sayed-Passes-Away-at-Age-79

‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/27/the-sight-of-it-is-still-shocking-46-photos-that-tell-the-story-of-the-century-so-far

Medicine Shortage and Health Crisis in #Gaza https://savageminds.substack.com/p/medicine-shortage-and-health-crisis

@mike Hi Mike, it seems that your Mastodon server is blocking access to people with IPs from Egypt. That is really unfortunate, I hope you can fix this.

انتقاد أممي لصفقة الغاز المصرية: دليل لا يصدق على دعم إسرائيل خلال الإبادة الجماعية | المنصة https://manassa.news/news/29256

"Simply appearing in the photos or documents is not evidence of wrongdoing." is the new "according to Hamas-run health ministry" for the BBC.

Request accepted: #Egypt lifts travel ban on activist Alaa Abdel Fattah @alaaosh https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/request-accepted-egypt-lifts-travel-ban-on-activist-alaa-abdel-fattah-played-key-role-in-2011-uprising/articleshow/126095771.cms #freealaa

Update. The Danish government is moving away from #Microsoft products to #opensource alternatives. https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/ #Denmark

Denmark Begins its Exit from Microsoft — and This is Just the Beginning https://itsfoss.com/news/denmark-road-traffic-authority-ditches-microsoft/ The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.

أحمد الأحمد ليس "سورياً" والقاتلان ليسا "باكستانيّين"! - Daraj https://daraj.media/%d8%a3%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a3%d8%ad%d9%85%d8%af-%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b3-%d8%b3%d9%88%d8%b1%d9%8a%d8%a7%d9%8b-%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%aa%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%84%d9%8a%d8%b3/ "يتحول فيها هذا […]

I got the The Oracle archetype! https://mastodon.online/@moftasa/wrapstodon/2025/89cc0016b6cf2115 #wrapstodon2025

I am begging, begging, begging cool people making cool things to please have any presence on the web other than Instagram.

نشر أخبار كاذبة.. رصد آلي للمواطنين وصمت مبرمج عن تصريحات المسؤولين - زاوية ثالثة https://zawia3.com/spreading-fake-news/ "اعتماد تقنيات للذكاء الإصطناعي في رصد المحتوى وتحليل مضمونه، ودراسة تغليظ العقوبات ضد من يُتهم بنشر أخبار “تضر بالمجتمع أو تُسيء للاقتصاد الوطني”. وبرغم التأكيد الرسمي على […]

Good morning from Gaza. We wake up to another day of resilience under harsh conditions—cold nights, scarce resources, and constant uncertainty. Yet the sun still rises, and with it our hope. Children try to smile, families hold on to dignity, and we continue […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Check out my Year In Sport and follow me on Strava! https://strava.app.link/uuGzT0UWYYb #biketooter #cycling #strava

Question: Is the RAM shortage situation going to affect SSD prices? They aren't made of the same kind of chips aren't they? Asking because I would like to replace my desktop's mechanical drive (/home) to an SSD in the near future.

انا خلاص حولت لينكس يا جماعة هبقى اعمل ثريد هنا عن الحاجات اللي عحبتني لحد دلوقتي بصراحه تجربة جامدة ومبسوط اني حاليا عرفت اعمل الخطوة دي واثبت عليه واعتمد عليه بشكل رئيسي

The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to – alexwlchan https://alexwlchan.net/2025/social-media-scrapbook/?ref=rss

NEWEST HAWAII! Incredie eruption of Kilauea volcano in Hawaii today, with a rare triple fountain event #aurefreepress #News #press #headline #volcano #hawaii

with or without AI, A/B testing as practiced by Silicon Valley is unethical. It ranges from quiet gaslighting to full-on Stanford prison experiments with no ethics board or informed consent.

Still very proud of myself 12 hours later for defeating Chronos for the time last night 🤜💥⏳️ #hades2

Miniatures of Alexandria – Mohamed Gohar https://gohardiaries.com/2025/12/03/miniatures-of-alexandri/ #urbansketching #alexandria #Egypt

Fresh out of the oven. White bread with 3 types of seeds. #baking #breadmaking #bakingbread

This is an excellent #podcast episode discussing AI psychosis. It focuses on 5 public cases in the US. Along with other issues they highlight chatbot sycophancy and the responsibility of AI companies towards people harmed by its use […]

I've been banned from Blue Sky for the tenth time. What a racist platform!

"Twitter is basically the Dead Internet. I'm no longer on there, but I do occasionally search it to see who is sharing my posts. The popular posts I write get shared a lot - sometimes by accounts with huge followers - yet there are no comments or retweets and barely any clicks." Now witness the […]

بعد 16 شهرًا من الحبس الاحتياطي.. إحالة أشرف عمر إلى محكمة الجنايات | المنصة https://manassa.news/news/28612 #مصر

My cat Rainbow likes to sit in this basket in my bathroom. My daughter painted a portrait of Rainbow in the basket. I hung it in the bathroom, naturally. Then I got a photo of Rainbow sitting in the basket underneath the painting.

غياب المسارات والقوانين يهدد حياة الدراجين في شوارع مصر https://zawia3.com/cyclists/ #القاهرة #مصر #دراجات