RE: https://mastodon.social/@619SDLD/116117282876568190 Anyone know who runs this bot and why its frequently posting right-wing nutjob bullshit like this? Seems to be a random mix of Xitter and Rumble sources, both horrible nazi/right-wing red-pill propaganda sites. Would be great to get this […]

Violence broke out in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, after the Mexican Army killed Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho.” In retaliation, cartel members set buses and several buildings on fire, triggering […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

My favourite piece of internet today is the theory that Jesus was actually a type of yeast. Turns water into wine Floats on water Makes bread for 5000 people Put in a cave for 3 days and lo - he has risen! Jesus was a sourdough starter. Also this would imply: We should be calling him 'Mother' […]

The mother of a South Carolinian seven-year-old hospitalized since January with encephalitis (brain swelling) caused by measles says that she would not have vaccinated him, even if she had known this could be the outcome. "God has chosen Ethan for a reason," 35-year-old Kristina told […]

The FCC censored this video from playing on TV. The simple ask is to watch it on YouTube. Make it blow up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A #texas #uspol #jamestalarico

RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@wess/116053774638991732 MAGA is primarily winning by rolling back MLK's voting rights legacy, not by organizing better than Democrats for anything else.

Another factor in MAGA success is very disproportionate domination of media, including social media. Journalists are very disproportionately from MAGA's best demographics. That's more and more true the further you go back behind the camera and up into the executive suites. Elon Musk's $40 […]

If you're losing, just stop keeping score. Gallup has always had a right win bias. Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years Public opinion polling agency says decision ‘solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities’ […]

Californians need to know that a "Democrat" running for governor is basically a tool of the worst tech barons. Gil Duran explains. https://www.thenerdreich.com/palantir-for-governor/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

Trump's absurdly named "Board of Peace" is a plot to replace the United Nations, and its members are all run by despots. https://www.epc.eu/publication/trumps-board-of-peace-isnt-about-gaza-its-about-replacing-the-un/

“ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.” https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/

TL:DR; The Salesforce CEO at a company's annual all hands gathering asked international employees to please rise in the audience, then made a "joke" that ICE agents were in the back of the room ready to nab them. Guillotines for billionaires is the moderate choice at this point

ICE Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility. #sandiego #icedetentioncenters https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note

Revealed: private jet owned by Trump friend used by ICE to deport Palestinians to West Bank The flight was part of a secretive and politically sensitive US government operation to deport Palestinians arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Israeli-occupied West Bank […]

Linux community and administration everywhere — we owe this man a bit of care and support. The man who develops SUDO needs your help. #linux #foss #opensource #security #development #sudo RE: https://infosec.exchange/users/bielsubob/statuses/116013292445992512

“pandoc for the people”, the pandoc wasm web-app, is now available at https://pandoc.org/app/ It allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave the computer, thus ensuring *full privacy*. Conversions to pdf are done via Typst […]

Today is the 10th anniversary of Liberapay's launch! In its first decade, Liberapay processed donations worth a total of around 5 million euros, from more than 40k donors in more than 110 countries to more than 3500 recipients in more than 80 countries. Thank you all. To keep making the world […]

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets." https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart

This notification on Fedora Workstation is pretty annoying. It pops up every 5 minutes even though it already discovered the Printer on the network before. How can I fix it? #fedora #gnome #linux #printer #epson #laptop #desktop

Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't […]

Trump biographer Michael Wolff alleged in 2024 that Trump and Melania first had sex on Epstein’s private plane. The author claims Melania responded by threatening a lawsuit meant to harass and intimidate him. Wolff — who said Epstein was a secret source for his reporting — filed a suit of his […]

Homan — who has taken the reins on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown there — said operations on the ground will be targeted and he is “staying ‘til the problem’s gone.”<--What is this problem that is so much bigger in Minnesota than in Texas (2 million illegals) and Florida (over […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115962701645642008 Want to replace TikTok? Great. Join @loops. Otherwise, the problem will just follow you to the next platform and keep resurfacing every time that next platform reaches critical mass. Unfortunately, this problem will never get solved, because […]

@Migueldeicaza Cryptography works. Trusting giant corporations doesn't.

Google gains power whenever someone ditches Firefox for Brave/Vivaldi. There are better non-chrome alternatives. Every day browsers: - Zen Browser: https://zen-browser.app/ - Waterfox: https://www.waterfox.com/ - Floorp: https://floorp.app/ More […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

To the person who did that. Thank you.

If you run a mastodon instance, it's time to upgrade. There are some security issues fixed in the version released today: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.5

Many have already sold or slaughtered their animals to emigrate, but Paredes refused. “We didn’t want to finish our livestock,” he says. “That’s why we stayed.” He expects to remain on his ancestors’ land until he dies, even though much of his family has left. “When I die, they will make a […]

Let's make #2026 the year of... #activitypub #fediverse #socialweb

via MeidasTouch@tiktok BREAKING: US appears to begin bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes underway 1/3/26 - 2:18 am ET

“What did I discover? Not just a digital echo chamber of paleo-fantasies and bio-essentialism, but also: … A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia” From: okstupid.lol

The shipment controls are the latest instance of Israel weaponising aid for political and military goals in Gaza. Over the summer Israel caused a famine in parts of the territory by blocking food shipments for weeks, then allowing only a trickle of aid to enter, killing hundreds of people […]

@mayintoronto Here's a meme that I just saw, May:

This image is from January 1st 2025 and, in my opinion, has remained unbeated as the most iconic photo of the year. If you think of a better candidate for photo of the year, please share it in the comments! #2025 #photography #photo #trump #cybertruck #tesla

Meet billionaire Trump / Vance insider Peter Thiel. His dangerous influence spans tech, finance, and politics in ways that prioritize concentrated power, libertarian ideology, and disruption over democratic accountability or equity…👇 In other words, a real peach. 😎✨

One bit of trivia I recall from intro psych is that memory of the origin of information fades faster than the information itself, which often explains how people who are able to know better come to believe untrustworthy sources anyway: They don't remember that the source was untrustworthy. I […]

From Kalen Dion:

THE CRIMINAL TRUMP At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department’s public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein — including a photograph showing President Donald Trump — less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the […]

Unfollowing @ProPublica until this mess gets resolved: https://union.place/@propublicaguild/11573621431314524 gets resolved: https://union.place/@propublicaguild/115736214313145243

How do you think Santa is handling cyberthreats? With Dangerzone of course! (Yeah, it took some training.) If you feel like testing his security team, you should know it has a challenge for you: Craft Santa a letter that can bypass Dangerzone's defenses and earn a bounty! 💰🎅 […]

i can't believe how many people are flocking to closed source chrome forks like Vivaldi in the light of Firefox's AI stuff, when stuff like Waterfox is right there For the record, Waterfox has said not to use AI: https://www.waterfox.com/support/ai-chatbot/ "Waterfox does not include a built‑in […]

Oof. @governor.ca.gov's press office has a website dedicated to Trump and all his criminals. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/16/t...