Tootfinder

This what the internet was built for.
#kindness
https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente/115443213824238068

Wow! That's way more posts than I've ever been notified of before from unbridged accounts...
And... it's AG. How not surprised. I note she didn't say anything about pay, just a general "untrue" claim.
I judge people by what they do, and that whole thing was very poorly handled.

Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC

What life is like for Palestinians from Gaza on centralised, US-based, Big Tech networks like Bluesky (yes, it’s all those things… did something about them make you think otherwise?)
#Bluesky #complicity #genocide

dalia rezk (@daliarezk@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @aral@mastodon.ar.al

Hey Europe, are you planning to copy the US once more, allowing Very Modern Autonomous Taxis in our cities? Think again.
(Waymo taxis in San Francisco)
Video via John Berry on Bluesky.

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky sees a lot of career advice on the site every day, but he doesn’t always agree with every piece that’s shared.
One common tip that Roslansky said is “a little bit outdated” is that
“you have to have a five-year plan,” he told content creator Erin McGoff in an interview for her YouTube channel AdviceWithErin.
In Roslansky’s view, having a five-year plan is “a little bit foolish,” he said:
given how rapidly technology and the workplace are ch…

LinkedIn CEO: Ignore this common piece of career advice—it's 'outdated' and 'a little bit foolish'
Young professionals should focus on learning and new experiences, says LinkedIn CEO.

Wann genau muss man extra betonen, dass es innerhalb eines Vereins keine "Vereinsmeinung" gibt, sondern man diskutieren könne?
Genau. Wenn diese Behauptung zweifelhaft ist.
https://archive.ph/MS52T
Es ist vermutlich kein Zufall, dass dieser Vorstoß kommt, kurz nachdem sich ein Mitglied zu…

#LB "When users are free from enshittification and can themselves control the platform’s algorithms, as they can on platforms like Bluesky, scientists get more engagement". O mínimo que eu esperava de um artigo da @… era citar o mastodon nominalmente e não uma plata…

People on #Bluesky, did you realise that the list of who you are blocking there is public?
There is even a website that shows some stats about blocks: https://clearsky.app/
Clicking on any of the users shows y…

ClearSky
ClearSky - Bringing information closer to you

Wurde auf #Bluesky in 48h 100k-mal geblockt: Einige Accounts
Wurde auf #Mastodon in 48h nett begrüßt: Du. Bald.
https://mastodon.online/…

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks (Erin Kissane/The Tech Policy Press Podcast)
https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-administrations-arrival-on-bluesky-highlights-growing-pains-for-open-networks/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p166#a251022p166

Bounce: Kontenumzug von Bluesky zu Mastodon und bald auch andersherum
Ein Tool namens Bounce zieht bald Accounts von Bluesky zu Mastodon und in die Gegenrichtung um. Derweil soll Mastodon hauseigene Starter Packs bekommen.

This Crimbo, I will mostly be hanging out on Tumblr, Mastodon, Bluesky and Reddit, in that order, while non-stop Stargate SG-1 plays on my telly.
Mood: I am the round red twat in this -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Balloon

The Red Balloon - Wikipedia

New Atlantic hurricane Humberto beats intensity forecasts every time, growing from a tropical storm to a cat. 4 major hurricane with winds of 220 km/h in 24 hours.
Fueled by the warm ocean.
(Expected to curve back into the North Atlantic, fortunately)
Via Eric Holthaus on Bluesky

@… ...and he's also the guy who invented the Xbox

#Evilgoz #antifa

Less than 48 hours after joining Bluesky,
the White House has already become one of the most blocked accounts on the social network.
According to ClearSky, which tracks Bluesky blocking stats,
the White House account is blocked by around 91,000 accounts, while being followed by only 10,000.
The only account that’s been blocked by more Bluesky users belongs to Vice President JD Vance, who joined back in June. 
While the various new government accounts hadn’t qu…

The White House is already one of the most blocked accounts on Bluesky | TechCrunch
The Trump administration is taking its social media attacks on Democratic opponents to an unlikely platform, with the White House and numerous other government agencies joining Bluesky on Friday.

Oh hello #Bluesky #TOTP-ers.
Just a gentle reminder that if you reply to my posts or interact with them in any way, that interaction is totally invisible to me unless you follow the Fediverse bridge thingy-wotsit.
https://fed.brid.gy/login will see you right.

@… so it looks like Spring has finally bought the Big One? Or is it just me?
(I was amazed it’s worked on Twitter THIS long 😂)
Also as a complete aside, I’d love (once you’re done with the update to Mona) to see either BlueSky support or a version for BlueSky.
I’m getting ready to install SkyBridge just so I can use Mona to access my BS account 😂…

With the advent of Blacksky and Northsky, I was seriously considering creating a bsky account and checking things out over there. Turns out I don't need to after all!
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/115402352112431443

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: https://weact.campact.de/petitions/geas-gesetz-dobrindts-kinder-in-haft-gesetz-stoppen?source=bluesky&time=…

GEAS-Gesetz: Dobrindts Kinder-in-Haft-Gesetz stoppen!
Migrationspolitik ist eine entmenschlichte Debatte! Aber es geht um echte Menschen! Die endgültige Verabschiedung des Pakts auf europäischer Ebene war ein Einschnitt zur Aushöhlung des Migrations- und Asylrechts. Die Einigung verpflichtet auch Deutschland, diesen Pakt in deutsches Recht zu übertragen. Als Seenotrettungsorganisation war für uns immer klar: Es darf keine politische Frage sein, ob Menschen ertrinken. Und doch wird es immer wieder dazu gemacht. Doch nicht nur das: Mit...

This is the EU plan it seems, not confirmed, copied it from Bluesky.
#Ukraine

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Operant AI reveals Shadow Escape, a zero-click attack using the MCP flaw in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude to secretly steal trillions of SSNs and financial data. Traditional security is blind to this new AI threat.
😶‍🌫️ https://

Shadow Escape 0-Click Attack in AI Assistants Puts Trillions of Records at Risk
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

"Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue."
A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

How far will it go this time?
This post from #Mastodon can reach the whole #Fediverse, #Bluesky & more.
That's

Wondering how many folks here are also on #Bluesky but experiencing the birthdate bug so can't use the app: https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/7077

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/17/cps_41m_crypto_twitter/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky

UK prosecutors seize £4.11M in crypto from Twitter mega-hack culprit
: Civil recovery order targets PlugwalkJoe's illicit gains while he serves US sentence

Isn’t this the plot of “Gravity”
https://www.wired.com/story/three-astronauts-are-stuck-on-chinas-space-station-without-a-safe-ride-home/?utm_content=bufferf1781&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=aud-dev

Mastodon plans to add Bluesky-like starter packs to suggest accounts to follow for new users, but will allow accounts to opt out of being included in Packs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/mastodon-is-taki…

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

Vor genau einem Jahr war ich eine Woche bei @… zu Gast. Fast unmöglich das Zeug jetzt noch zu finden (scrollen?), aber es war eine lustige Woche.
Ein wenig schade, dass das ganze auf #Bluesky stattfindet statt im #Fediverse aber man kann wenigstens über die Brücke folgen.
Organisiert wird das im Umfeld von #MaiThinkX und die sind irgendwie alle auf Bsky gelandet nach dem großen Exodus... 😕
Spannender Account trotz allem.

Falls Euer Blockierfinger auf #Bluesky wund ist, kommt rüber zum #Elefanten.
Wenn du mehr Dialog als „Greatest Hits“-Videos willst:
https://

bruh lmao

Over on #Bluesky there was a bit of a controversy over the suspension of Sarah Kendzior. I thought it was an interestingly nontrivial moderation problem, so I wrote up a little case study on how this would have been handled on Mastodon: http…

Kendzior Case-Study

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bounce: Kontenumzug von Bluesky zu Mastodon und bald auch andersherum

(Comment regarding Paulina Borsook's tech writing)

The White House Joins BlueSky and Instantly Becomes the 2nd-Most Blocked Account -- After JD Vance (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/the-white-house-joins-bluesky-and-instantly-becomes-the-2nd-most-blocked-account-after-jd-vance/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p45#a251020p45

"I ... think the odds of #Bluesky following #Twitter’s path is (sic) very high, given the structural similarities. Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue" — @…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Ich empfehle Euch den Podcast @… von @…
Aber: warum sind @positivemaren.bsky.social und @afelia.bsky.social dann bei Bluesky aktiv?
Wenn Maren dann wenigstens Brid.gy nutzen würde, damit wir mitei…

Here's a quote from HuffPost:
"According to Bluesky analytics site VQV, the official White House account quickly became the platform’s second-most blocked profile, with around 95,000 users smashing the block button to presumably preempt their feeds being filled with AI slop and divisive rants.
"The only account with more blocks on the platform is Vice President JD Vance, who’s been blocked by more than 167,000 users since joining in June."

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge.
The huge airship is the Pathfinder 1,
billed as the "largest aircraft in the world" and developed by the company LTA Research.
Clocking in at 406.5 feet long and 66 feet wide, the Pathfinder 1 is among a class of airships known as "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.
For comparison, a Goodyear blimp is 246 feet lon…

'Largest aircraft in the world' seen over US. What is it doing?
Pathfinder 1 looks like a blimp, but much bigger. It's part of a wave of interest in "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.

Hey Bluesky users, I see your responses, but since you’re not bridging, I can't interact with you.
If you use this (https://fed.brid.gy/) then I could interact and reply. Cheers :)

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Kicking off EuroSky Live #EuroSkyLive

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

Savvy people are readying themselves for BlueSky's demise
https://bsky.app/profile/dmandl.bsky.social/post/3m6va6ntuws2g

Dave Mandl (@dmandl.bsky.social)
I'm on Bluesky but also on Mastodon. I hate to say it, but from past experience I'm not confident that Bluesky will remain the paradise that it is forever. It's not a bad idea to get familiar with Mastodon and least establish a presence there. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Beautiful post explaining ATProto, the stack behind Bluesky by Dan Abramov:
overreacted.io/open-social/

I will never understand how Bluesky is so overengineered (my brain melts every time I see a graph of how it works) yet it underdelivers so hard compared to the most basic fediverse software lol

went on bluesky, once again came back stupider and I looked up and above my head it's just
-1
-1
-1
-1
-5💥
-1

"Het bedrijf behaalde een omzet van 57 miljard dollar in het derde kwartaal (een plus van 62 procent ten opzichte van dezelfde periode vorig jaar. De winst steeg naar een onwaarschijnlijke 31 miljard dollar (inderdaad, meer dan de helft van de omzet!)"

Nvidia overtreft de verwachtingen, beurzen knallen verder omhoog
Goedemorgen! De cijfers waar de hele wereld met spanning op zat te wachten zijn eindelijk binnen. Chipmaker Nvidia, sinds een paar maanden het duurste bedrijf ter wereld en één van de belangrijkste hoekstenen van de huidige AI-race, kwam gisteravond nabeurs Amerikaanse tijd met de cijfers over het derde kwartaal. En beleggers, investeerders en vele anderen keken daar met heel veel spanning naar…

65 Minuten nach der Landung im Hotelzimmer. Trotz rund 20 Minuten auf den Hotel-Shuttle warten.
Rekordschnelle Einreise.
Unterwegs mit Swiss free Internet sah ich zwar alle Pushs von BlueSky, aber konnte keine Posts lesen. 🤷‍♂️
#CANEast25

Falls ihr mal unbefriedigte Blockgelüste habt.
Und ja, ich bin hier, weil ich mein Profil NICHT durch "strategic following and content management tools" (vulgo Algorithmus) growen will.

Alt Left Journo and Political Podcaster Sarah Kendzior was apparently suspended from the elitist corporate "social media" platform for #libturds known as #BlueSky
#FThatShid

Micdrop von @gildasahebi.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
https://bsky.app/profile/gildasahebi.bsky.social/post/3m3jv5udyxs2g

Kurznachrichtendienst: Bluesky will einen "Dislike"-Button testen
Damit Bluesky-User deutlicher machen können, welche Inhalte sie mögen und welche nicht, soll es bald auch eine Möglichkeit geben, diese negativ zu bewerten.

Het is gedaan ....
Bron: @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu — Bluesky
#EU #Oekraine

I had someone search my account on bluesky and the only time I got quoted was someone on bluesky misunderstanding me and dunking on my take.
It was the Freedesktop/Linux post.

Blogbastelei
Nachdem mein letzter Versuch mit dem ActivityPub Plugin und der Erweiterung für Bluesky (Bridge) nicht funktioniert hat habe ich den ganze Kram aus dem Blog rausgeworfen. Stattdessen nutze nun das Plugin Mastodon Autopost um die Beiträge automatisch ins Fediverse zu bringen.
Damit die Beiträge auch auf Bluesky landen nutze ich das Plugin Atproto Share.
Bei beiden Pl

Blogbastelei
Schon wieder? Ja, schon wieder. Ich möchte es mal wieder mit dem ActivityPub Plugin probieren, inkl. einer kleinen Erweiterung für Bluesky. Also genau dem womit es schon des öfteren nicht geklappt hat, warum auch immer. Wenn alles funktioniert sollte der Blog im Fediverse unter @rausgerufen@rausgerufen.de erreichbar sein und auf Bluesky unter @rausgerufen.rausgerufen.de.ap.brid.gy Bedeutet, die Beiträge [...]

The (bridged) Bluesky mirror of this account keeps record of the first drafts of my posts on Mastodon (before edits). A wall of shame, if you will:
https://bsky.app/profile/cellfourteen.social.petertoushkov.eu.ap.brid.gy

Petar Toushkov (@cellfourteen.social.petertoushkov.eu.ap.brid.gy)
Writerer of fiction. Translatoror of wonderments. If you are into Bluesky, find me here: https://bsky.app/profile/cellfourteen.petertoushkov.eu […] 🌉 bridged from https://social.petertoushkov.eu/@cellfourteen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

@… bluesky will inevitably go away or become enshittified, hope that helps 😅

A prominent critic of the Trump regime was suspended on #Bluesky. Then it turns out it was because she made a joke/cultural reference that they mistook for a death threat.
So po-faced and dim, not offended by excellent dissection of MAG-America.
#sarahkendzior
https://bsky. …

Aaron Rupar ‪@atrupar.com€
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m3ln7ru4v72f

Übrigens, bei #Mastodon gibt’s „Greatest Hits“ mit gutem Geschmack. Kommt rüber, wenn Euch #BlueSky zu sehr nervt:
https://mastodon.online/inv…

Left #Bluesky or thinking about it? Into #genealogy or #familyhistory but don't know where to start? Follow @…

Reaktionen auf den Rant über Özdemir:
Bluesky/Mastodon: Zustimmung, Widerspruch, Nachfragen, Diskurs, normale Konversation.
Threads: Forderungen mich zu erklären, Beleidigungen, Unterstellungen, kritiklose Fankultur, (wenig) Zustimmung.

Whoa, BlueSky appears to be experiencing server issues. Haven't seen that before.

Bluesky says it has hit 40M users and plans to launch "dislikes" in beta to tailor content rankings and reply rankings (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/31/bluesky-hits-40-million-users-introduces-dislikes-beta/…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
As users "dislike" posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.

Hey everyone,
I’d like to introduce you to @… who joined the fediverse a few days ago.
Casey has been holding video calls with people from Gaza independently of us to verify them and protect them from scammers. And she’s been helping to carry their voices online with her videos starting on Instagram, then Bluesky, and now here on Mastodon.
Here’s a…

Hope that moderation lists make it over from Bluesky as a feature on here.
E.g. I'd love to share onr of alt-right people and their collaborators in the Ruby community so it's easy to mute or block them.

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kurznachrichtendienst: Bluesky will einen "Dislike"-Button testen

"There’s been a new feature in my #Mastodon feed lately: People who have abandoned #Bluesky in protest at various controversial decisions there that don’t bode well. There have been flurries of departures related to trans rights, the treatment of Black users and Blacksky including banning accounts…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Excellent. Me too.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/115321497095804305

Trump refused to answer a question from an ABC reporter at his sitdown with Argentine President Javier Milei on Tuesday,
citing host George Stephanopoulos’s evisceration of Vice President JD Vance on Sunday.
https://

Trump Lashes Out at ABC Reporter After Disastrous Vance Interview
Donald Trump refused to take a question from an ABC reporter in his meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei.

I saw a nice initiative for an european BlueSky instance. I am always wondering why people don't like Mastodon?
For me Bluesky and Mastodon can co-exist but many people disagree 🙂
#eurosky #bluesky #mastodon

eurosky

Trump jabs 'No Kings' protesters with AI videos of himself wearing crown (Zac Anderson/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/19/donald-trump-no-kings-crown-protests-videos-rallies/86782600007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=68f4d9e741ccb1000198431c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251019/p25#a251019p25

Good god
“At least six career staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency were suspended with pay this summer after organizing a polygraph test that the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, failed.”
https://ww…

Users on BlueSky not too happy about the idiots who run that place suspending Sarah Kendzior. So they are putting their opinion on that in their profile name 😄

That's a first, a guy with bad takes that I blocked on Bluesky told me to also block him here after I pointed out a bad take that he had on here.

Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs
mingled with top US government officials,
including the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week.
The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit,
referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement.
Attendees inclu…

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

This is a really good assessment (why people are complaining BlueSky is “mean”), IMO.
It’s also true of Mastodon, for very similar reasons.
If I may mangle a line from “Grosse Pointe Blank”:
“if people are hot in your mentions, you did something to bring them there”
OTOH, BS and Masto have tools to manage that. (though they need improvement)

Film maker Duncan Jones is not happy with BlueSky, and thinks "we should built a new app" 🙄 Look at the response I got when I asked why not the Fediverse. I can't understand why Masto is seen that way.

Embattled Republican Representative Cory Mills
was caught with sex workers on an unofficial mission to Afghanistan in 2021, when he was still a congressional candidate. 
Mills was traveling with a group to Afghanistan to save Americans after former President Biden’s withdrawal from the country left the Taliban in power.
On their way, the group stopped in Tbilisi, Georgia, where Mills was caught in a hallway with sex workers,
leaving the group he traveled with irate, NO…

Republican Rep. Caught With Sex Workers Ahead of Trip to Afghanistan
Cory Mills can’t have one day without a scandal, apparently.

In the run-up to Dutch elections (29 October), it turns out that two Dutch MP's of Wilders' far-right PVV are using Sora AI to generate fake pictures of attractive blond women threatened by migrants. The prompts they used were published in this article.

Vanuit de PVV-fractie worden in het geheim met AI racistische ideeën gepromoot
Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden.

"Ministers hielden alarmerend rapport over veiligheid op de Noordzee achter."
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ministers-hielden-alarmerend-rapport-over-vei…

Ministers hielden alarmerend rapport over veiligheid op de Noordzee achter
De kans op sabotage van essentiële infrastructuur op de Noordzee, zoals kabels en windmolens, groeit. Maar waar meldingen van sabotage naartoe moeten, is vaak niet helder. Ook wie de leiding heeft als het misgaat, is onduidelijk. Dat staat in een in opdracht van de Kamer opgesteld rapport dat al negen maanden af was, maar pas vorige week werd gepubliceerd.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115577313253832072
I'd love to show you the end result but Mastodon's quote posting doesn't allow attaching images (Bluesky can do this just fine). Ugh.
End result in reply.

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado (Joey Garrison/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/16/trump-dismantle-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/87798771007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6942047625625600014c41b7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p149#a251216p149

Was machen wir denn eigentlich mit BlueSky?
Würdigen wir, dass die überwiegende Userschaft gewisse Neuankömmlinge in einer #Blockorgie gekickt hat?
Empören wir uns, dass sich im zentralistischen Netzwerk zweifelhafte Charaktere tummeln, und beenden das Bridging vom #Fediverse? (BTW,…

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta | TechCrunch
Bluesky is looking to a new signal — "dislikes" — to personalize users' feeds.

A major southern California highway was being shut down while the U.S. Marine Corps stages a demonstration set to involve live fire on Oct. 18,
pitting the state's governor against the federal government yet again.
Interstate 5 will be shut down from Harbor Drive to Basilone Road,
a stretch of the main artery over 15 miles,
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. local time, the California Highway Patrol announced the morning of Oct. 18.
The news comes after days of back-an…

Highway shuts down as Marines’ show sparks clash with Newsom
The Marines said in an earlier statement that the event would take place "on approved training ranges and comport with established safety protocols."

"Dutch government bodies were unpleasantly surprised by news that an American tech firm has acquired the Dutch cloud company Solvinity, the Financieele Dagblad reported.
Several governments opted for working with Solvinity precisely to reduce dependence on American technology firms"

Dutch governments caught off guard by American tech firm buying Dutch cloud company
Dutch government bodies were unpleasantly surprised by news that an American tech firm has acquired the Dutch cloud company Solvinity, the Financieele Dagblad reported. Several governments opted for working with Solvinity precisely to reduce dependence on American technology firms.

Reminder: It was Netanyahu who ended the previous ceasefire, 6 months ago, presumably with Trump's permission.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-pale

Why Netanyahu ended the Gaza ceasefire with surprise strikes
The wave of Israeli strikes that killed hundreds of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday was the culmination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to get out of the ceasefire with Hamas that he agreed to in January. Since the start of the war, Netanyahu has faced dueling, possibly incompatible pressures. Families of the hostages want him to cut a deal with Hamas to free them. His far-right coalition partners want to continue the war with the aim of annihilating the milita…

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement
https://www.rawstory.com/wyomin…

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves
A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terri Lesley, the former director of the Campbell County Public Library in Gillette, Wyo., filed a feder...

Interessant journalistiek onderzoek.
#PVV
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/maak-haar-blond-onschuldig-en-kna…

Vanuit de PVV-fractie worden in het geheim met AI racistische ideeën gepromoot
Op sociale media delen PVV-fanaccounts levensechte AI-beelden, veelal van knappe, blonde vrouwen die worden bedreigd door migranten. Deze pagina’s blijken te worden beheerd door minstens twee PVV-Kamerleden.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website
to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism,
he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.
His comments provide clarity into who directed the CDC’s website change,
after many current and former staffers at the agency were surprised to see new published guidance on Wednesday
that defies …

RFK Jr. says he personally directed CDC’s new guidance on vaccines and autism
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. personally directed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to update its website to contradict its longtime guidance that vaccines don’t cause autism, he told The New York Times in an interview published Friday.

The Trump administration is moving to
dismantle the
National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado,
taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

NY Senate Bill 4505 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications;
directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label
Bluesky=Facebook
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills

NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4505
Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications; directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label.

Mastodon, the decentralized, open social network with over 8 million accounts and nearly 700,000 monthly active users,
is planning to introduce a new feature, called “Packs,”
which will make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow.
The idea is similar to a feature Bluesky, another open social platform, introduced last year.
Starter packs are designed to address the “cold start” problem of joining new social networks.
When you …

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter 'Packs' | TechCrunch
Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

A proposal to ship radioactive waste from Canada to Utah has received an initial green light.
EnergySolutions is pursing a plan calling for importation of 1.31 million cubic yards of the waste from Canada for disposal in Tooele County.
Canadian officials and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission still need to sign off on the proposal.

EnergySolutions proposal to deposit Canadian radioactive waste in Tooele County gets initial OK
EnergySolutions' plans to dispose of low-level radioactive waste from Canada in Tooele County have gotten an initial OK, though the approval process isn't over.

"King" Trump has signed what’s called a “presidential finding,”
or a classified directive authorizing covert action, against the regime of Venezuelan ruler Nicolšs Maduro.
This would allow the CIA to conduct “lethal operations in Venezuela”
as well as “a range of operations in the Caribbean,” according to the Times.
Covert action could be taken “either unilaterally or in conjunction with a larger military operation.”

America First? Trump Authorizes “Covert” CIA Action in Venezuela
The CIA now has greater authority in leading lethal operations in Venezuela.