Stop protesting or they will shoot you. We have heard this song before.

This administration, as they try to demonize victims & protect predators and murderers ⤵️

Twitter is now saying if you want child porn, you have to pay for it.

Republicans: It wasn't a "kidnapping," and we did it because of drugs and because freedom Trump: So I kidnapped him and took the oil

🍃 🌱 📸 Mint collection day, and what a haul! Bringing her inside for the winter was the best choice this year. #mint #homesteading #plant

I hate that Bluesky ignores anything not controversial. I'm over here showing off my beautiful books that I worked really hard on and literally no one ever sees it. System is rigged to create hate instead of produce joy. LOOK AT THEM!

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US Authoritarian Regime Executes Unarmed Civilian as Ruler Grows More Erratic, Isolated What if we wrote about events in Trump’s America in the way that Western media describe African and Middle Eastern countries? From @premthakker.bsky.social. Read it here: zeteo.com/p/trump-us-r...

Mob boss country.

Pls donate generously, Jon’s a good guy stuck in a bad spot

With unemployment assistance done and my job search coming up zero, I have no money coming in. I can make this month with about $500, just to cover bills and give me time to hopefully get seasonal work I’ve been applying for. Can’t express enough the gratitude I have to those who’ve helped before.

After Minneapolis, now the ICE shooting on Christmas Eve in Maryland is getting some scrutiny from local police: “…county police confirmed The Banner’s reporting that the second person injured in the encounter was already in ICE custody, in one of the agency’s vehicles, when he was hurt.”

A federal court ruled Thursday that IU violated the First Amendment rights of pro-Palestine protesters it banned from campus in 2024 and found the expressive activity policy it passed that August unconstitutional.  www.wfyi.org/news/article...

Think about the mindset, and the expectation of immunity, of someone who texts this to friends.

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.

Somewhat concerned we're now trapped in the "why do you still use Twitter" discussion with the Irish government rather than the far more pertinent "what are you doing today to halt Twitter" conversation, which does not appear to be happening.

"empire of vice" is marked by a "brazenness with which the administration defies norms of truth-telling and decency" super helpful framing for me bc it undercuts my efforts as a teacher of children who don't remember a time before trumpism every single day www.liberalcurrents.com/to-my-studen...

When you "make it" as an indie, it's so important to give back and support others to help keep the indie market thriving. Love to see this from the Kinetic crew and extra cool to see Southampton gamedevs having such a positive impact on the industry 🙌

The genocide in Gaza has ended, and I found myself without a home, without a city, and everything around me past, present, and perhaps future is destroyed. I am trying to rebuild my life, and I hope you will support me, even in a small way. chuffed.org/project/1389...

Actually everything I raise and cultivate on this engagement farm is free range and organic. 🧐

“I am Lina. I used to work as a lawyer and had a warm home and a job I loved very much. Now I have lost everything and face these hardships alone. I lost everything in this war—my home, my work, and all that I owned. Today we live in a tent, and I fight every day for my three daughters“

Humans used poison arrows 56,000 years earlier than previously thought

I am Lina from Gaza 💔 Please don’t pass by without helping, even by sharing 🙏 I’m very worried; my husband and daughter are in the hospital. My husband urgently needs surgery 🤲 You could save them. No food, medicine, or milk, our tent is falling. You are our only hope 😭 🔗 chuffed.org/project/omsham

As far as I'm aware, he's now restricted the ability to create CSAM top paying users only. That's no longer a bug, that's a feature. He's selling the ability to make CSAM on his site.

Republican bullies deploy more threats against the UK to protect their big tech corporate allies.

Rep Luna standing tall to protect child pornographers

Exclusive: I obtained testimony from the Dec. trial where Jonathan Ross, the ICE officer who killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, describes an incident in June where he smashed a car window, is dragged 100 yards, and tased a Guatemalan man 10 times. "I feared for my life," he said.

Elon’s now selling child porn I thought that shit was illegal

Twitter‘s solution to making CSAM for free is to make CSAM for profit.

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Many left-leaning states and cities are trying to protect their residents’ personal information amid the immigration crackdown. But a growing number of conservative lawmakers also want to curb the use of surveillance technologies ncnewsline.com/2026/01/09/r... By @chatlanis.bsky.social

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it is 6:24am and this is the energy we were bringing to your friday morning

Taken during a very recent return to Ukraine just before Xmas. Former concert orchestra musician now busker. Mykolaiv - Ukraine. You can see more of my war, documentary and fine art photography at: davidpratt.co.uk

Bring the war home:

I know there's A Lot to be worried about right now but India is arresting climate activists on the grounds that they're opposed to fossil fuels www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/f...

The world's richest man runs a subscription-based automated service that removes clothing from photographs of children.

"Raelyn Duffy, his mother and a member of the Red Lake Nation, said she brought his passport and birth certificate to the Whipple Federal Building near Fort Snelling but was turned away and has not been able to contact him." Gift link:

I do not remember who, but someone noticed that, on a Mercator projection map, Greenland looks as big as Africa (it isn't) and suggested that that is why he want to grab it. Makes sense.

checking in on elon musk, the guy who absolutely did not give a nazi salute last year

My pet hypothesis for which I have no proof is that the reason everything is hot or spicy now is because so many people have permanently damaged senses of smell and taste from COVID that food has to have a tactile sensory component (in this case, light burning) for it to seem flavorful

Forgot this woke me up last night, lol, absolutely haunted me until I couldn’t take it and I typed enough in my sleep to be satisfied I’d see it in the a.m. - went to school with an Oonagh, iirc last I heard she translated a book from Italian to English

This is not enough. Even X must comply with the law. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99kn52nx9do

“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind…And with such a people you can then do what you please.” Hannah Arendt

An excellent primer on “pig-butchering” scams. From 2024. Adult language and adult themes content warning. For more info about these scams, read “Number Go Up” by @zekefaux.bsky.social youtu.be/pLPpl2ISKTg

Keir Starmer's spokesman says X limiting deep fake images to paid users "simply turns a feature that allows the creation of unlawful images into a premium service. It's not a solution.. it's insulting the victims of misogyny and sexual violence." Still won't commit to a ban or to stop posting there

After the Trump admin started deleting video evidence of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot from a DOJ server, a law firm secured a judge's order requiring the U.S. to restore the files. The firm has now partnered w/ @archive.org to permanently store them 👇 archive.org/details/@jan...

Winter -> Sommer. Dieselbe Dachterrasse. . . . Ich freu mich schon so sehr auf den Sommer. 🤩 . . . Ich sende euch viele warme, positive, gute Gedanken 🫶🏻