If you live in the US and want to buy yarn or knitting needles or embroidery kits from my silly little shop, I finally have my online store set up and you can do that here!! https://the-dropped-stitch.square.site

Ah AI, automating incompetence en mass. Well done. “Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers” […]

The 19thNews/SurveyMonkey polling echoes a Mar 2025 poll from Data for Progress which found 55% agreed that “families & physicians should be the ones making decisions about transgender youth medical care, not the government” and just 33% supported government bans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

The Sumud #freedomflotilla is under attack. @palestine @israel #israel #gaza #palestine #gretathunberg #freepalestine

Get in losers we're shaming the legacy media into finally growing some semblance of a spine

Remember that fascism is fated to lose and die horribly. Not because of the moral universe or the spirit of mankind or any of that, but because climate change is real and will, if unchecked, absolutely destroy the nation-state.

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Daily reming to pat-pat your local critter. :wlf_pat_flat:

our friends over at @rpgp just published a monster milestone, humbly tagged 0.16 😍 with - streaming decryption and encryption - post-qauntum-cryptography - API streamlining. #rpgp is a full Rust implementation of #openpgp which counts among the fastest and most compliant implementations […]

Comparing #xmpp against #email protocols is too limited. What sets #deltachat apart is *vertical integration* and being driven by UI/UX considerations. Cross-platform Apps and Bots use the Rust core library which connects with #chatmail relays and classic email servers based on a higher level […]

Since June 1st there is a big sudden surge of new Delta Chat users and so far things are going pretty smooth. We are happy that our #chatmail infrastructure is holding up and that there is growing recognition that #deltachat is a ready-to-use and resilient chat solution. Some stats from the last […]

#deltachat is secure against server-side group membership changes but for a very different reason than #signal which keeps encrypted group membership data in a central store. Delta Chat has _no_ central store but implements a rigidly tested #p2p group membership model where servers play no role […]

You may setup "burner" phones for specific activities which may face repression including device seizure and forced unlocking. #deltachat does not require a sim card/number and works #offlinefirst. Seek out wifi or mobile hotspots to connect. At best form or join affinity groups and […]

#deltachat evolved according to needs of people under repression and continues to do so. The more ignorant and exchangeable we make #chatmail relays, the less their operators have to worry. Having metadata-less, fast and cheap instant messaging relays, that can also operate when 99% of the […]

Internet fragmentation is real in many countries and regions today but did you know that this "Sometimes-Internet" was the reality of the 1980ties when #email evolved? #chatmail relays are cheap, secure, fast, ephemeral and resilient server setups for the […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Several people noticed and wonder about our new #deltachat version numbering scheme: it changed for all apps! #chatmail Core rust library uses 2.X with incrementing X. And apps use 2.X.Y with Y being a numbered release for a core version. Therefore, any app release embeds the core library […]

We do not aim for #deltachat to be another social media app. No #ai summaries or suggestions. No public directory of contacts. No discovery via outside identifiers (mobile phone or email). Just you and your contacts privately messaging, in a solid simple user interface on all platforms […]

We are impressed with the new https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ website, and the way it provides all the info needed to engage in distributed diverse action to prevent the EU from preparing the ground for, or sliding into, authoritarianism by breaking end-to-end encryption for everyone. Germany and […]

#deltachat is being used in virtually all world regions where one or more other messengers fail to work. We recently released a major milestone (V2 security hardening releases) that prepared the ground for chat profiles to have multiple #chatmail relays at once ... failure or blocking of a […]

The problem with #chatcontrol is deep and extremely significant. It would be a paradigm shift that implies state and corporate control of app developers and users, i.e. what you can install on "your" devices. It would empower Google, Apple and Microsoft to increase enclosure even more. Just as […]

#chatcontrol is a giant legal-technical quagmire and would erode privacy in times where we most need it. But let's talk about protecting children ... what chatcontrol claims to be about: First, it's unproven that chatcontrol would help lower actual abuses. Second, why not spend the many EU […]

It had to happen: in-chat multi-player #Quake III Arena #webxdc app, running over @n0iroh and using the fine work of https://ioquake3.org/ folks. Quake3 app is 1.2MB but you need to download once a game file of ~50 MB. It's only one level […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Some people in #iran successfully use delta with national email providers when outside Internet is cut. #deltachat designs are #offlinefirst using delay tolerant protocols. Messages are queued when a path is blocked. email servers are made for this and run at planetary scale. Messages crossing […]

What if a state tries to mandate us as #deltachat app devs/distributors to shut down a chat profile? Nothing. It can't be done. We have no list of chat identities, have no handle or data about them, and don't mediate the message transfer. However, EU #chatcontrol politicians and Russian […]

Hey, this is a good question, actually.

@dangillmor this is not just an american media problem, this is an american business problem. we now live in an age where the best way to make money quickly is not to create a product people want but instead to defraud your fellow citizens w/sports gambling, crypto grifts, and/or outright fraud […]

Indiana Jones is a 1981 American film about a woke college professor who supports Antifa #antifa #indianajones

looking through old posts of mine and oh god i forgot this > so i started following links from the spec and apparently there are two competing screen reader apis for windows and one of them is by microsoft and the other is by the linux foundation > but both are windows only. the standard linux […]

fucking hate this country cant wait to leave it

I say 5x as large, Assigned Media was growing well when I left Twitter behind at 10K followers, it's currently over 55K. Could it have been even bigger? It's certainly possible it would have grown even more if Twitter was unchanged, but Elon suppressed the very word "trans." So, no growth possible.

Well the news keeps getting more and more lovely. The Heritage Foundation and The Oversight Project have introduced a new pack of lies with the goal of targetting trans people as terrorists. https://newrepublic.com/post/200688/fbi-coming-trans-people-kash-patel-charlie-kirk

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Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

One notable difference: It took Putin two years to shut down a late night comedy show that made fun of him. Trump has shut down two in nine months. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppets...

[re: US Politics, Censorship] Trump getting Jimmy Kimmel cancelled using the FCC while attempting to declare any antifascist action as terrorism is terrifying, yet we can't openly talk about these people as the Nazi scum they are because these social media platforms are more interested in […]

Not even about the man himself if your brand is wholesome, but certainly about the way he is being used by the regime to advance a totalitarian censorship offensive. Folks should agree that you shouldn't bother trying to make a reputation as a comic if you can't rise to this particular moment

All these nazis ever wanted was to make the rest of us take them seriously and treat them with respect. Nothing rattles and throws them off their game more than being laughed at. THAT is what the Kirk censorship is about, especially the attack on Kimmel.

Frankly at this point, this stuff needs to be the longest, loudest, sharpest running joke in the history of showbiz. It should be considered the mark of a quisling not to include a Kirk bit in your set. I'm being hyperbolic but only a little

Deliberately putting up walls to access... They are gambling parents are too busy to get multiple shots instead of just getting MMR and won't get them at all. I guess it's time to invest in an iron long company. The Guardian: CDC panel recommends multiple shots for measles, mumps, rubella and […]

Tonight one Dad in a whole kindergarten meeting for parents asked to move the parent group off anything Meta, calling the company 'evil'. Another Dad suggested Signal. Most people didn't even know what Signal was, but agreed to switch to Signal as the default way parents should communicate with […]

@evangreer.bsky.social I'd be interested in your thoughts about this (if you have time). if not, thanks for everything you do with EFF!

Could the Liberals please get it in their fucking heads that fascism is very very bad actually? Maybe start by accepting the reality that modern conservatism is quite openly fascist now. Their is no both sides to consider when one side is fascism.

Gosh if only someone had called out that this whole thing was bullshit and the Democrats pushing it were getting played. If only.

Paying attention yet?

Time to tap the lossy jpg of a vintage Tumblr post again. Do not punish the behaviour you want to see. If people have just come here from Bluesky. Or finally got around to closing their Airbnb account. Or leaving Meta or whatever. Don't immediately jump on them […] [Original post on social.coop]