Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available. Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing. The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change. ➡️ about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/t...

The problem is that “just exercising” is hard to do if, you know, you’re depressed.

Bose is open-sourcing its old smart speakers instead of bricking them

It has also become routine, unfortunately, for law enforcement to use passive voice and reflexively claim that an officer was acting in “self defense” after law enforcement shoots someone, regardless of the circumstances. 404 Media's latest: DHS Is Lying To You

I have a scene in my project called "isle_zero" which serves as a controlled environment where I fix bugs and work the kinks out of features. And whenever I do, I say "Cleanup on isle zero!" I find it hilarious and it makes boring work a bit more tolerable. #gamedev #indiedev

My plex server got so may good movies over the holidays Some of them new and some Blu-ray upgrades

We just submitted to present at #ATmosphereConf 👀 We’re hoping to share about open source trust & safety infrastructure for distributed social media, including our Coop review dashboard and queuing tool! There are still a couple of says to submit your own proposal as well:

The point I am making, literally the base point, is that the minerals we need to build batteries do not disappear once we have built the battery. They are still in the battery. This stands in direct contrast to how fossil fuels work. Where we extract them from the ground and set them on fire.

I am pretty well into a script titled "you are being misled about renewable energy" Not gonna pull out studies. Don't need to go over climate change. Just a simple, plain conversation where we look at the realities of renewables vs. fossil fuels and I say "stop letting Republicans lie to you"

I don’t do bar trivia regularly, but my birthday is coming up and I feel like a Star Wars trivia night would be a fun way to celebrate. Last year I made my own trivia and had fun at home with friends, but how would I go about finding a local event in the Denver area in the next couple of months??

Bluesky feels like new Twitter, Mastodon feels like new Google+

I only joined @roost.tools towards the tail end of 2025, but I’m proud of everything we’ve accomplished. In particular, I’m stoked that we open sourced Osprey, part of Discord’s mod tools, so that any platform can tackle T&S investigation and incident response in the same ways as the big platforms.

my GOODNESS it has been a busy year! @roost.tools is still under 1 year old and we're pretty proud of what we've accomplished in 2025. Read on for details ✨ so grateful for @annebdh.bsky.social @cassidyjames.com @camillefrancois.bsky.social and all the ROOSTers! 🐓 roost.tools/blog/roost-i...

We are happy to announce that #GUADEC2026 will be held in A Coruña, Spain! For more information, please check: discourse.gnome.org/t/guadec-202...

making art in the time of AI lately i've been getting more questions (and occasionally downright accusations) of using AI in art and music. rest assured i have not and will never touch that garbage. thank you

muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)

while my mom was pregnant with me, she was delivering chinese food on bike in new orleans. i like to think that the music she heard in the streets made me the way i am now. happy new year everyone!

Advanced seagull tech! 🕊️ Each flock is a single MultiMeshInstance3D node that does all the pathing. Individual seagulls are positioned with simple formulas. Wind / organic drifting are all shader-driven. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

i didn’t need an AI model to confide in random strangers i shouldn’t have ever been talking to about certain things over MSN chat as a pre-teen. what i did need is someone i actually trusted in my life i could confide in instead.

#GNOME Foundation supports the infrastructure for a lot of foundational technologies that are widely used. If you are a company or individual, consider donating to the GNOME Foundation so we can help make the infrastructure sustainable of this software. donate.gnome.org

Implemented some footstep effect tech (still work-in-progress). It's based on individual foot position/velocity, not just a single raycast. So if, for example, the character straddles two different materials, you hear two different sets of sounds. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

I Donated to @gnome.org and you can do too! donate.gnome.org #linux #opensource #gnome

Because @labeler.hailey.at is fairly low stakes and is merely a community tool (not something we run in production), I've gone ahead and made the ruleset that drives it public. Hopefully serves as a good reference for writing Osprey rules.

The Board is united by a belief that keeping the internet safe requires open, transparent, & community-governed infrastructure. With their guidance, ROOST will continue building shared, open safety tools that support developers, researchers, platforms, & civil society working in the public interest.

We’re proud to share an important milestone for ROOST: the formation of our inaugural Board of Directors! This Board brings together leaders across open source, technology, public policy, civil society, and national security. roost.tools/blog/roost-w...

a sample of what commonly happens with coordinated spam networks. we see that these accounts are all starting up with similar bios and all posting some sort of political/news content

When the core primitives of trust and safety infrastructure are open source, everyone gets to experiment, tweak, and make it work for them, like @hailey.at just did.

First community labeler taking actions on atproto using @roost.tools’s Osprey. entire Ozone and Osprey stack running on a $50/m OVH machine, with up to seven days of full firehose backfill for investigating patterns and exploring the network.

Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...

Hi friends! It's the last Installer of the year, and I want to know: what's your favorite new thing of the year? (Or at least A favorite.) Doesn't even have to be new to everyone, just new to you — what'd you read / watch / listen to / buy / cover in chocolate this year that you absolutely loved?

This post is for @sri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, from Buffer. 😉 The OG cross-poster which has really nice features for modern federated and decentralized social media!

One amazing thing about 2025 is that, if you start up an Apple product, it forces you to choose between _three different_ window mangers, but if you start up a clean install of a current version of Linux, it just chooses good defaults for you.

If you’re a Python, Go, or Rust dev and have an interest in open source development and/or trust and safety at any scale, you should absolutely take a look at this! All the ROOST folks and community are absolutely amazing.

Bluesky peeps who come across Mastodon/fediverse accounts that are bridged (i.e. using Bridgy Fed), how do you feel about them and their posts? I have my thoughts/opinions, but am curious what the general vibes are. Please reshare widely, I’m trying to get input from more than just my followers. 🙏

We are also very excited that @hailey.at is part of our Technical Design Committee! The initial TDC was selected by ROOSTers, but we aim to hold elections in the future. Along with community feedback and ROOST staff priorities, the TDC will help advise on our projects and priorities.

we have removed the scrolljacking behavior on the @roost.tools site! thank you to the many many many many many many many people who let us know about it

We have an open source development legend joining the TDC as well: @tpepper.bsky.social! Tim brings 30 years of experience all across the software stack and we're incredibly grateful he is spending some time making sure our projects are quality OSS projects

We got good feedback on the job description, which Diffie* has incorporated. TL;DR: If you've architected data-intensive systems and are familiar with an infrastructure-level language like Python, Go, or Rust we want to hear from you! roost.tools/staff-softwa... *supervised my typing from the couch

How does this work? 1️⃣ who knows 🅱️ oh like this 📊 Show results

What do you think robust open online safety tools should be? Contribute to @roost.tools ‘s new roadmap on GitHub!

@roost.tools isn't just openly licensing our tools, but also openly developing them. We just released an initial draft of the ROOST tooling roadmap, but it's just that -- a draft. If you're interested in OSS trust and safety tools, now's the time to shape what gets built! github.com/orgs/roostor...

One thing that stuck out to me was how often I heard "It's so nice to know I'm not alone in this." Working in online safety can feel isolating, and there aren't enough spaces where builders can come together and reach for the limits of what's possible, together. This is what OSS is all about!

Stipple Studio v1 Today I'm releasing the initial version of my stippling tool. It's still a bit of a work in progress, so let me know if you encounter bugs. Show me what you make with it! caidan.dev/portfolio/st...

Our initial roadmap for @roost.tools is now public! We have a lot of work planned, and we are pretty excited about it. Let us know what you think. roost.tools/blog/introdu... Check it out here: github.com/roostorg/com... Give us your feedback and suggestions here: github.com/orgs/roostor...

We have just published our initial roadmap and announced our inaugural Technical Design Committee. We want to hear from all of you if we're focusing on the right things and what you think of our roadmap! Drop a comment in the GitHub discussion linked in the blog. roost.tools/blog/introdu...

Hope you didn't miss out 👀 Digital safety nonprofit 🤝 unintentional self defense keychain for physical safety

On Monday, @hf.co , OpenAI, and ROOST hosted the first Open Safeguard Hackathon. The room was filled with people who care deeply about safety, working together to explore and test gpt-oss-safeguard. Check out the ROOST Model Community for some of the projects github.com/roostorg/mod...