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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 20-Sep-2025 00:19:57 JST Aral Balkan

   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

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 24-Feb-2025 04:15:51 JST Aral Balkan

   @mc Thank you :)

   💕

   We have our own funding page for the not-for-profit but please don’t feel oblidged to. The kind words are more than enough :)

   https://small-tech.org/fund-us

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 18:24:28 JST Aral Balkan

   I mean, we* got nothing from it anyway but still…

   * https://small-tech.org/fund-us https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112806759307200576

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 05:38:58 JST Aral Balkan

   @servingworlds Custom page using Stripe.

   (https://small-tech.org/fund-us)

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 21:30:03 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   …

   PS. If you want to help us exist until then, you can always support us with a donation or patronage at https://small-tech.org/fund-us. It’s amazing to me that we just need the salary of one senior engineer at a Silicon Valley startup to be sustainable and we don’t even have that. Blows my mind.

   Links:

   (Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could set the character limit of posts on your own instance without forking Mastodon? *smh*)

   ¹ https://ar.al/2020/08/07/what-is-the-small-web/
   ² https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 30-Nov-2023 20:55:45 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   Folks: where’s the alternative to the trillion-dollar surveillance capitalists you’re working on? Why isn’t it ready yet?

   Also folks: Here’s your €457/mo war chest… don’t spend it all in one place now!

   (I can’t express how grateful I am to our patrons over the years but how the fuck do we compete when we live in a world where some random techbro raises $2.6M to build a people farming social network where you can only say “Yo!“ while we struggle to pay the rent?)

   https://small-tech.org/fund-us