Finally now our priority should be, better bloody late than never: We need INDEPENDENCE from the USA. That means security independence, economic independence, digital independence. It isn’t easy but we have no choice. That should be our number 1 goal.

Very glad to help this initiative. Also fun nerdy project for the new year and a nice way to wardrive to fight surveillance fascism

I’m not sure how much weight to give to this theory, given he was convicted on State charges, in New York state

And they were all of them deceived, for Tiny Tim did *not* die

Former BBC employee Jack Murley has posted on Instagram about the repeated homophobic abuse he received while working for the corporation - often from BBC staff. He says the BBC has now formally apologised. www.instagram.com/p/DSaZBd4DO8F/

A lot of ground covered in a short post

That feeling in the middle of a discussion about care for your cat when your vet says “hang on… are a medical professional?” and you explain no that the cat is just the love of your life and so you learned about feline grimace scale, adverse events, ckd etc etc. #CatsOfBluesky

Be like Lily

On the other hand it makes me very happy. Not as happy as when the Atlantic loses a subscriber, but still very happy

Friend of mine is exploring gender presentation and is looking for LGBTQ+-friendly shops in Manchester which might stock femme clothes in a range of larger sizes. Does anyone have any recommendations please?

Something plague something something both houses something

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Switched from the @bsky.app client to skeets after I noted that a polite reply, from a person I follow and who follows me, to a post of mine was hidden. I don’t need idiots deciding what I see, and it is beyond clear that the challenging of moderating is far, far beyond the capabilities of this team

A child. Linehan’s victim was a child. These people….

And Lexie is home with her lovely new family, and I can go to sleep without being sad about her being cold and hungry #CatsOfBluesky

#Caturday #beans #CatsOfBluesky

Wonderful reminder of when Labour was a party that accomplished things, with at least a few MPs with political courage

Wow, the dam has really broken on allegations about Farage’s racism when he was at school. There was nothing like this intensity during Brexit - I think it says a lot about how much more dangerous he is now perceived to be. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Also, in amazing news, got a home for the beautiful Lexie, a stray I’ve been trying to get a shelter spot for since May. She is 12, very underweight, and so affectionate it breaks my heart that I can’t take her. She will be safe, warm, loved and in a home from Friday #CatsOfBluesky

Having finally worked out how to get @proton.me calendar notifications on my watch, I am delighted to be exporting my last paid gmail account data and shutting off that clownass service. It was already mid, but the layoffs have *really* started to bite lately

Violet came to live with us in Berlin 5 years ago. I had to change my office chair as she loved to sleep at my feet as I worked & I didn’t want to hurt her with castors. She eventually got out of the habit, but recently started again. No idea why, but gives me the feels #caturday #catsofbluesky

I know it's not the coolest thing to bring up and not many people seem to care, but my website is hosted in a local datacenter powered entirely by wind energy and certified under ISO-14001. So my #gameassets are a good choice if you care about the environment 🌲

I still had Chrome on my personal laptop for convenience (work is a #Google shop) but finding there was a 4gig local model squatting on my hard drive without so much as a by-your-leave was the nudge I needed to give it the heave ho. And delightfully after I delete the app it’s still there…

If you think people won’t remember your snivelling cowardice in 5 years time you should get your doctor to watch you draw a clock, Shelly

I lined up concerts around work trips I had. Due to the shutdown, the trips are canceled. Chicago: 1 tik to Patti Smith on Nov. 18th Pittsburgh: 1 tik to Wednesday (in McKees Rocks) on Nov. 20th If you can't afford to pay for it, it's ok. I'd just rather they weren't wasted. DM for either ❤️

Cornell joins the Vichy League

Turns out it wasn't the basement of a pizzeria they were looking for, but rather the bottom of a McDonald's bag.

Briefly back in the old Kiez #Berlin #Prenzlauerberg

You may or may not end up on the Jumbotron screen today! #MozFest

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

Turns out really great music to help Violet cope with fireworks is.. Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet. She is still chilling very close to me, but… not hiding, which is very unusual for fireworks #CatsOfBluesky

As a brown dude that passes as white you get to hear some wild, wild stuff. Was just reminded today of my first german accountant who explained.. to my face.. that he bought the building he worked out of but decided not to rent it out because all of the kurds and arabs in the kiez were so lazy

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. goodlaw.social/ncfw

Her current favourite box, which I have modded using a nite-ize cable tie to prevent it closing on her, as the one time it did she looked at it with such a look of betrayal. #cat #catsofbluesky

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

My adblock setup was slipping - a few ads popped up here and there, but the tipping point was seeing ads on the @theguardian.com and as I’d rather accept cake from a man with visible boils than give them a penny I refreshed the setup. Wipr2 and #pihole got me back to 100% on adblock-tester.com

"Did Homan keep the $50k he accepted while unde FBI surveillance?" JD: "That's a left wing conspiracy!" "But did he keep the $50k?" JD: "I'm sure he's earned $50k many times" "But did he keep THIS $50k?" JD: "Your ratings are low!" 'But did he keep the $50k" ... Interview like this please.

Kakistocracy has its moments of absolute comedy

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back? From my understanding: Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned. opencollective.com/blacksky

Window cancer is a hell of a disease

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

QueerAF are great, this is an amazing opportunity and folks should be jumping on it

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That thing where you trace your family tree as a #procrastination demand avoidance behaviour and find out that in 550 years your ancestors managed to drag themselves an incredible 8.5 miles from their ancestral parish #genealogy #yorkshire

She’s asleep behind me but I just found this old photo of her from when she first moved in to our Berlin flat and god, those ears!