Quick update on the @frameworkcomputer drama: a statement was issued by them on their Discourse thread. I've already written my response to this, stating that they have not addressed the underlying problems outlined by the community. I would also like to add: in response to the following: > […]

Hi @frameworkcomputer, if your response to serious concerns against funding fascist projects is just going to be a typical FOSSbro response while ignoring and sidestepping the inherent problems outlined by the post, and keeping in mind the responder is Indian and also the founder of Framework […]

No, your very 'nice' country does not get to pretend it is any better than the United States just because you have a centrist PM. You are just as bad. You are a part of the problem. Rather than confronting your incredibly racist and genocidal past and present you pretend that your version of […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

We're excited to announce that @altstore has joined the fediverse! Their innovative implementation of ActivityPub allows you to follow updates from your favorite apps, demonstrating a new way to bring more apps to the open social web. We extend our heartfelt gratitude for their generous […]

Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell’s Unified Care Team sweeping a single tent outside my office, on the same block as the Compass Center homeless shelter. At least two police officers involved in removing this one tent.

The GOP has thoroughly established they're a pro-child rape party & that Trump is their favorite pedophile & enabler of other child predators & rapists. He's intentionally surrounded by rapists & child predators & his base cheers it.

Serious question: What's stopping the State of Illinois from arresting Stephen Miller & charging him with incitement? The Senate didn't confirm him. He's just a guy. At some point, the states MUST use their authority to prosecute, because the federal government certainly will not.

Those of you rightly celebrating Greta Thunberg's release from the Holy Hell of Israel's torture chambers?? Send the same prayers and wishes and activism towards Chris Smalls of Shut Down Amazon, who is still at this moment in custody in Israel as part of the same Flotilla Thunberg was captured […]

During Mayor Bruce Harrell's term, visible homelessness downtown has declined as people have been pushed outside the central business district, but unsheltered homelessness has grown. Meanwhile, the city deliberately kept available hotel rooms empty: www.propublica.org/article/seat...

In June, we proposed new Terms of Service for registered users of on our mastodon.social and mastodon.online servers. We did not do enough to consider the full impact of the terms, and the community was very clear that we needed to reconsider. We've done that over the past few months. Today […]

ok so now that bluesky is imploding (lol) can we take mastodon's problems seriously 1. mastodon is lacking basic features to moderate harassment targeted at an individual, so it's hard to argue that mastodon has sufficient moderation. Because when you get a "private mention" reply, you have to […]

Because women are props, supporting characters in men's lives under patriarchy. Male power fantasies rely on someone else, usually a woman, being harmed (bonus if it's eroticized sexual violence) to justify his violent dominance. But not himself because male power avatars can't be dominated.

Lots of us have been saying it's inevitable, #bluesky was founded by Jack Dorsey and is run by crypto bros. There was exactly zero chance it actually maintained it's status as a left leaning #twitter and a lot of us knew it back then. Lets be friendlier this time to those who escape. RE […]

Wild stuff — nuking a portion of your website because MAGA got mad at you for it. jewishinsider.com/2025/09/adl-...

If Shon Barnes, the Chief of Police for the city of Seattle, truly does "not read PubliCola," as he took the time to "make clear" in response to a question about our story today, truly doesn't read PubliCola, then he's choosing to ignore the outlet that covers SPD the most. Maybe not a great policy?

The PAC supporting progressive Seattle mayoral candidate Katie Wilson responded to Bruce Harrell's claim that his opponent "darkened" his photo saying not only was the sitting Mayor of Seattle incorrect, the head of Common Power (the group posted the pic of Harrell looking orangey) had this to say:

Apparently there is an outbreak of killer fettuccine going on (per the LA Times). I didn't know fettuccine was contagious. 🫢 #fettucine

The Seattle Times' Brier Dudley says "Seattle would have lost Crosscut anyway" if it hadn't been bought by Cascade PBS, quoting founder David Brewster. PubliCola has been going for 10 years since we separated from the traditional outlet that bought us, so I would say that's a short-sighted comment.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/115272025824986846 @SeanCasten These days, $75 million sounds like a smallish Trump bribe. (If you're not already following the work of @molly0xfff, who is doing (IMO) the best journalism on the corrupt cryptocurrency "industry", you should...)

Digging into Harrell's "They Aren't From Here" Homelessness Talking Point The mayor says most homeless people in Seattle became homeless somewhere else, so the rest of the county needs to do its fair share. But his talking point is based on skimpy evidence. publicola.com/2025/09/26/d...

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Harrell says "she was one of the lead architects of the Defund movement." Once again, he is erasing the Black leaders of efforts, quickly rejected by establishment politicians, to use some of the city's police funding (now more than half the general fund budget) on non-police response.

"Why isn't there a Fedora LTS?" @jorge heard you and decided it was time! @UniversalBlue have worked with the @centos community to bring you... Bluefin LTS Learn more: https://docs.projectbluefin.io/blog/bluefin-lts-ga/ #bluefin #centos #fedora #linux #opensource

Charlie Kirk never cared about debates.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

Somehow I missed this Wired story on the leak from Sept 8 https://www.wired.com/story/geedge-networks-mass-censorship-leak/

Worth noting: Although Hollingsworth has deemed several amendments adding density out of scope because their environmental impacts weren't studied, there's no requirement to study the environmental impacts of retaining apartment bans instead of lifting them.

Hey, lately, I've been generally unmotivated to contribute to free and open-source projects because I can't sustain myself long-term. I can't find any local or online job that allows me to make a positive impact and not feel depressed. I am not receiving a sufficient number of donations — the […]

1 GRAFFITI VANDALS are not going to pay the city $40,000 2 civil suits in municipal court won't deter GRAFFITI VANDALS 3 Seattle is obsessed with aesthetics, and that includes constant encampment sweeps 4 just giving businesses money to cover graffiti would be more effective than suing taggers

Retail jobs already suck; this startup has a plan to make them significantly worse! 10/10 neither of these guys ever worked a shitty retail job to pay the bills. www.geekwire.com/2025/seattle...

Senate appropriations bill says the new dietary guidelines for Americans CANNOT consider studies showing conclusively that alcohol consumption causes cancer; instead, they HAVE to use a flawed and outdated study that recommends moderate drinking. www.foodpolitics.com/2025/09/alco...

What amuses me about the people who describe what he did as debating is they would block someone who attempted to engage them in that manner online. Kirk was a troll, just with a microphone & sugar daddies, & if his defenders were honest, they'd admit his smug antagonizing wasn't debate.

I am once again asking that they pass a law to immediately remove elected officials who knowingly lie & refuse to apologize & correct their statements. One of the greatest harms to our democracy has been the acceptance of our government officials to blatantly lie. It has destroyed trust & the truth.

Indirectly, Jen Sorensen may bring tens of millions of new people to the Fediverse, Mastodon, et al. https://universeodon.com/@[email protected]/115204375978105099 #Fediverse #Mastodon @Gargron#Fediverse#Mastodon#feditips #mastodonmigration @mastodonmigration @jensorensen #socialmedia

Watching liberals like #timechambers lecture people directly impacted by #charliekirk and his ilk as to how they 'should' react to his death has been a good refresher that #liberals & #progressives are not real allies to the marginalized. Even people who had been directly targeted have attempted […]

"The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different." – The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024 This sudden worship of Kirk as a martyr needs context.

Insisting marginalized people performatively grieve someone who hated & dehumanized them is supremacist culture. Also, again, if you want to be remembered fondly, live a life worth remembering fondly. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I was asked why people can't just say nothing in regard to Kirk. To which I asked why do the people most harmed by these bigots have to stay silent when their histories are being rewritten in real time? Why do only those who benefited from the hate get to speak (& misrepresent their hate leaders)?

They're whitewashing & canonizing him in real time then declaring anyone quoting him as celebrating violence. This is how the right continues to control & shape the narrative. And it won't matter who actually did it or why, Trump has already decided that.

Alright. So let me step in this for real. It's been almost 24 hours since that fuckwit died, and we've seen everything from cheering on the as-of-yet-unknown killer (as in "he got Luigi'd") to hand-wringing about political violence from the left. But there's one argument I actually want to give […]

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