Happy New Year, @swift.org crew! So happy to be back, I hope everyone enjoyed some time off.
 If you're looking to catch up on Swift news, check out the December digest: www.swift.org/blog/whats-n... and let me know what you think!

Amsterdam City Councillor Juliet Broersen is fighting for a healthcare system that is both human and fair. ✊ Want to help us? Join Volt 💜👉 https://volt.team/simple-join/en

Great cover on this new Hayakawa edition. Does Case look almost but not quite Keanu-esque to you?

Hello atmosphere ! Over the last few weeks, a bunch of us have been collaborating on a new set of lexicons for publishing, indexing, and building out social features across long-form reading and writing apps ! 🧵1/7

Sacks might be dumber than Elon

The aggregated map with all Russian air attacks which occurred in 2025. Russia launched a record number of missiles and drones into Ukraine, making clear that Putin has no intention in peace. All while Trump is in office.

Worried that changing over to Proton Pass would be a lot of work? We've got you. Start 2026 off right by heading to Settings > Import and switch to the end-to-end encrypted password manager trusted by millions.

Please give a thought to people whose New Year’s Eve was spent in bomb shelters because a criminal invader was trying to destroy their energy infrastructure.

Cyprus takes over the Presidency of the Council of the EU at a defining moment. 🇨🇾🇪🇺 We will work with vision, purpose, and responsibility for an Autonomous Union, Open to the World. Listen to President Christodoulides’ message here.☝️ 🔗 Visit www.cy2026.eu to learn more. #CY2026EU #TeamCyprus2026

Καλωσόρισες, @cy2026eu.bsky.social! Cyprus’ EU Council Presidency begins at a pivotal moment for Europe. And so its focus on strengthening Europe’s autonomy couldn’t be more important. I look forward to working together to boost Europe’s preparedness and competitiveness.

Joining the EU has been a magic ticket to prosperity for former Russian satellite states. Bulgaria is now going vertical. This will happen for Ukraine, and it's Putin's nightmare. Ukraine’s resources, size, brainpower and location assure it will make even Poland's success small on comparison.

Happy New Year! 💜

I was recently trying to explain hard links to a non-techy person It did not go well

We're having trouble keeping track of how many countries President "I deserve a Nobel Peace Prize" has bombed. www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.alja...

On the last day of 2025, I tried to sum up in this free piece the big stories of the year. Boil it down, however, and one story surpasses all others, be that for the Russo-Ukraine war or global geopolitics overall. 2025 was the year when the USA changed sides open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Sorry for the long wait. I was quite busy the last 2 months securing a new 'base' for Flashes with @eurosky.social - account hosting and data processing outside of the US as sovereign social media infrastructure in Europe. There will be news coming out of that one in Jan 2026. The Android alpha...

Let's keep the purple fire in our hearts burning in 2026. 💜 Today is the last day to join Volt in 2025 🤩 https://volt.team/simple-join/en

Month by month, we have stood up for Europe, progress, and democracy. 🇪🇺💜 Will you help us make 2026 an even more incredible year? Join Volt 👉 volt.team/simple-join/en #Recap2025 #Volt #UnitedStatesOfEuropeNOW

It's getting better, I can now publish articles with images on @leaflet.pub using Sensei, a tool written in Haskell: pankzsoft.leaflet.pub/3mbbvbdz5m4qe Still not perfect but I am getting there and learning a lot in the journey, especially on GenAI development.

🚨🚀 In 2025, Russia launched over 60,000 guided aerial bombs, about 2,400 missiles of various types, and over 100,000 drones over Ukraine. Air alerts warnings were sounded at least 19,033 times, — United24.

Ondertussen dat NL steeds veiliger wordt, denken mensen dat t steeds onveiliger is. Thanx, kranten, SM, SBS, RTL, Opsporing verzocht, Talpa….. 😰 #Veiligheid #Ruuustig #Overvallen #Media

Heel Europa is verslaafd aan de producten en diensten van Amerikaanse techbedrijven. Een groep Europeanen probeert dat te veranderen. Maar hoe krijg je 27 landen mee en verkoop je iets wat er nog niet is? buff.ly/sudSp2M

Too many focus on what's happening with just Bluesky the microblogging app, rather than the wider atproto ecosystem and what's happening around the internet. Hoping in 2026 that starts to change...

RSF discovers Belarusian surveillance malware targeting Android phones, requiring physical access: rsf.org/en/exclusive...

I shared the joy of creating documents using @typst.app on my YouTube channel today

In einem interaktiven Tool machten wir das AfD-Gutachten des Verfassungsschutzes durchsuchbar. Auf dem Weg dorthin stießen wir auf technische Hürden, die sich nur mit beispielloser Handarbeit überwinden ließen.

Really? Uh first chechen war, afghanistan, ww1?

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Here is what we are leaving behind in 2025. What are your New Year resolutions? Leave your comment below, we read you 💜. If our resolutions match, join Volt https://volt.team/simple-join/en

russia's losses in Ukraine rise faster than ever! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Can you see fireworks from space? 🎆 You can if you get lucky, but nature always puts on the best show. We're celebrating the New Year with this stunning sight from the International Space Station: a giant blue jet and red sprites shooting upwards from a thunderstorm. 🔗 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

This is why every political party or government organization should leave X , besides the hate the platform is completely manipulated by Musk.

I love what Tauri has done, a lightweight version of Electron, where you author the backend code in Rust. But while I love Rust, I do not love it for app building, and I wanted to have that HTML-model for programming but available in Swift. 1/2

📷 This NASA/ESA #Hubble Space Telescope image shows the N159 star-forming complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way 🧪🔭 🔗 esahubble.org/images/potw2...

🇺🇦🧵 After Trump's "Putin wants Ukraine to succeed", we are now getting Lavrov's "We will reconsider our positions in negociations because Ukraine tried to kill Putin". Zelensky freshly returned from Florida swiftly denied the accusations & said they're a pretext for Russia to hinder negociations 1/

Interesting experience report involving ATProto, GenAI, and Haskell — I wager that that is a rare combination.

DUNE (dir. David Lynch, 1984)

Interesting experience report involving ATProto, GenAI, and Haskell — I wager that that is a rare combination.

In Nederland ligt de verhouding dit jaar op ongeveer 4500 hectare aan zonneparken en 11.000 hectare aan golfbanen.

RUSI: 2026 will see hybrid warfare escalation from a desperate Putin who is losing the war. With the economy crumbling, expect to see more Russian sabotage, subversion, and military coercion across Europe. Many interesting details in this report:

More than 16,000 of you have signed the petition for the United States of Europe! Can we hit 20,000 signatures before the New Year? Thank you for signing and sharing 🇪🇺💜👉 https://loom.ly/V4KXnxs #UnitedStatesOfEuropeNow #Volt #UniteEurope

It seems that we somehow achieved the best case scenario from today’s meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy. The ball is now in Putin’s court for the next while and the Russian economy can continue to deteriorate.

With all this talk of how to end Russias war against Ukraine, and a cease fire, keep this in mind: If Ukraine ceases firing, Ukraine will cease to exist. If Russia ceases firing. the war will cease to exist. Pretty clear

Call for papers for the #swiftlang event before #fosdem still going! Send in your talk ideas :-)

As part of preparing for #ATmosphereConf in Vancouver March 2026, we're republishing the videos from Seattle March 2025, along with transcripts. Here's @immber.bsky.social with a talk about adding oAuth Login with Bsky to an OS.

I regret finding out

Ik probeer de openlijke hielenlikkerij van Rutte inmiddels te zien als codetaal naar ons. De gegijzelde Rutte - die niks kan zeggen - probeert ons telkens duidelijk te maken hoe ernstig het er voor staat. Momenteel is het code diep rood: 'We mogen Trump HEEL HEEL, JA: ECHT EXTREEM dankbaar zijn!'

Mars’s mysterious slope streaks aren’t signs of water after all! 🧪🔭 A study using machine learning and decades of orbital data revealed they are the result of dust sliding down steep terrain. 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/05/Streaks_on_Mars

Real-time bidding, which powers nearly every ad you see online, might be the most privacy-invasive surveillance system that you’ve never heard of. Learn how it works and how to protect yourself. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The surge of AI slop, deceptive synthetic videos & images flooding our feeds, is driven in large part by Agentic AI Accounts (AAAs). aiforensics.org/work/agentic... Key findings: -Over 43,000 mostly AI-made posts generated 4.5 billion views -More than 65% of accounts were created in early 2025 1/