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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

Happy birthday, asshole!

https://www.rte.ie/news/uk/2026/0219/1559293-andrew-uk-arrest/

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

(I’m still fuming that I had to sit next to that asshat because a certain someone at Code Club was busy kissing royal arse against our fervent objections and made him a patron. The dipshit – quite out of the blue at the meeting – voices his concern that kids would be confused by same-sex relationships – oh, the irony of his concern for kids (nothing was known of the Epstein connection at the time) – and I had to explain to this royal arsehole that no, kids have no trouble understanding the concept of two people who love each other. I’m so glad I resigned from the Code Club board when I did. Another initiative that could have been a force for good in the world that was destroyed by the petty greed of one person ­who was rewarded with an OBE like a good little puppy.)

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Raul Portales
Raul Portales
@Sh41@androiddev.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@aral I did run a Code Club dinner years ago, it felt definitely a force for good... But of course there'll be people tainting everything 😓

This is the same code club that's run by the Raspberry Pi foundation and Coder Dojo, right?

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Frank Delporte
Frank Delporte
@frankdelporte@foojay.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@Sh41 @aral a bit vice-versa, CoderDojo has been swallowed into Code Club after Raspberry Pi Foundation has taken it over...

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@frankdelporte @Sh41 Yeah, the enshittification started when one of the co-founders accepted Google as a sponsor against our objections and the other co-founder and I resigned. Well, the royal patronage thing did predate that so maybe that’s when the writing was on the wall. Still, it was very disappointing to put it mildly.

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Raul Portales
Raul Portales
@Sh41@androiddev.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@aral @frankdelporte ah, that's unfortunate. I loved the initiative when I was part of it (2018-2020 or do). We did run a Club for autistic kids and it was a great experience.

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 2 hours ago

@Sh41 @frankdelporte Yeah, it had great potential.

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Jonas Geiler
Jonas Geiler
@jonasgeiler@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@aral
Ah yes, the perfect topic for a CODE CLUB meeting: same-sex relationships and oh no the poor children 😱😱

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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@jonasgeiler It was just three or four of us from the board, if I remember correctly, and him and possibly one of his minders so there were no kids during the meeting at least. But he did do a meet and greet with a bunch of kids present at the announcement event afterwards.

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Jonas Geiler
Jonas Geiler
@jonasgeiler@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@aral
Ohh I see 🤦🏼‍♂️ Yeah I'm sure he enjoyed that meet and greet more than he should've... disgusting

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Plutocrash
Plutocrash
@plutocrash@jasette.facil.services  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@aral «Qu'on lui coupe la tête!»

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Bill Hooker
Bill Hooker
@sennoma@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@aral I hope the baby raping sonofabitch dies in prison.

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