2026-07-18 17:48:43
Er is een redelijke grote kans denk ik dat we de komende maanden een verdere escalatie gaan zien rondom Oekraïne waarbij ook de EU-landen meer actief bij de oorlog betrokken zullen raken. Poetin heeft een belang bij horizontale escalatie van het conflict. Ik hoop dat we er klaar voor zijn.
Daarbij hoort ook nadenken over wolfraam.
Fat Loser is now openly destroying American democracy on live TV.
#trump
☑️ How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system | Donald Trump | The Guardian
Looks like the "decentralized" network went down today. The main page loads but no posts or feeds load at all, and sometimes I just get a 503. Nice.
#bluesky
From bluesky, the Biodiversity Heritage Library€ who I ❤️ ❤️ ❤️:
@biodivlibrary.bsky.social€ BHL is featured in
@theguardian.com's Age of Extinction series.
The article highlights the extraordinary value of BHL and the urgent need to ensure it remains free and open into the future.
Please read and share:
Marvel Comics is moving from NYC to Burbank, CA, the headquarters of Marvel Studios, and asks 100 NY-based employees to move to California by July 2027 (Borys Kit/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrepor…
That feeling when you’ve got twice the number of followers on the fediverse as the closed-source VC-funded European social network being peddled by the EU Commission has accounts.
Hey, @…, y’all are so incompetent you can’t even do evil right.
Muppets.
@…
It's great to see that @… has a Mastodon and a Bluesky account, now 🥰
On Bluesky last night
Catherine Rampell noted that in documents Trump released
there were confirmations of Russia’s work on Trump’s behalf in 2020
and that China “did not intend to “try to affect the election.”
https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/…
OMG!!! Bluesky war am gestrigen Abend down.
Wenn mal andere Meldungen so viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen würden. 🙄
Studienlage kurz zusammengefasst: Auf X wird man für Beleidigungen belohnt, auf Bluesky für emotionale Enthaltsamkeit, auf Mastodon für Nuancen. Drei Plattformen, drei Persönlichkeiten – und alle haben ein kleines Toxizitätsproblem. Rika Baack über Petter Törnbergs Forschungsergebniise auf #netzpolitik. Man wechselt die Plattform, nicht die Spezies.
In 2022 I drove across Canada from Ottawa to northern BC. I remember driving for three full days around the top of Lake Superior with a wall of mostly dead trees on either side of the road the whole way, thinking, man when Ontario burns, there's going to be no stopping it. And here we are.
Via Bluesky:
I have a feeling, based on nothing but behaviour that Bluesky's current problem is the restart, connect all nodes and all of them, including different PDS instances are doing this all the time.
The answer then is to leave it alone and wait.
Bluesky interim CEO Toni Schneider becomes the company's permanent CEO, four months after succeeding Jay Graber (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/blueskys-interim-ceo-toni-schneider-drops-the-interim/
Hurricane Lala began its path toward Hawaii’s Big Island on Saturday,
though the possibility of a direct hit, which would be the first in 155 years, was uncertain.
In its latest forecast discussion, National Hurricane Center meteorologists said the hurricane is displaying a possible new track,
making it “unclear if Lala will actually make a landfall on the Big Island.”
The tropical cyclone is unleashing what could be life-threatening rain on the Big Island
as it…
Sind die Lovescammer-Center gerade mal wieder in ihrer Datenbank bei E angekommen?
Irgendwas zwischen 5-10 eindeutige Fake-Follower & Mentions von Fakes, verteilt über 4 Netzwerke (Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads & Instagram) und zwei Tage.
Nur auf Mastodon war der Account bereits gelöscht, bevor ich blocken konnte.
“Influencers and thought leaders stand to gain from this practice where a self-sustaining industry of humans and bots generates an illusion of engagement,”
https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-a
Also, unlike this one, many of my skeets don’t get here. Something about @… doesn’t pick them all up. Probably bsky is sinking the stuff they determine not interesting or whatever.
I despise algorithmic feeds where I can’t fix my algorithm. @…
A mi me sorprende que, a estas alturas de la vida, haya gente de izquierda o tan siquiera míniamente inteligente que se mantenga en los tugurios esos de X y Bluesky. Da igual las trampas que se hagan al solitario con la visibilidad.
Oh, Bluesky is back
Viktig granskning av Annie Hellquist och Viktor Asp i ETC. "Våg av terror och våld från svenska pojkrum". https://www.etc.se/story/kartlaeggning-vaag-av-terror-och-vaald-fraan-svenska-pojkrum?utm_source=blues…
Man, @ of
“Workshopping a theory with love in my heart for sane users of both platforms:
People get bullied off Bluesky, but annoyed off Mastodon”
Definitely getting some traction😂
(expanding “bullying” to include mods being dipshits, ofc)
https://bsky.app/profile/cldek.bsky.so
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider on the AT Protocol, ActivityPub, scaling moderation, Bluesky's reputation as a progressive social media network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-sc…
To any FSU (Free Speech Union of Aotearoa NZ) members out there in the Fediverse & BlueSky, I encourage you to reconsider your association with that organisation. I know a few 'Q Anon' adherents who are still trying to rebuild their broken lives after having gone own that rabbit hole and only recently realising the deep error in their ways. I wouldn't with that sort of fate upon you.
Some BlueSky numpty just replied to my latest blog post saying that you can't make sure that your web app is accessible by using tooling because you need to just know what is accessible and what isn't. That's definitely an energy.
Tangent: I like the controls for this on Bluesky better than on Mastodon
Q&A with Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider on the AT Protocol, moderation, Bluesky's liberal reputation, expanding conversations about live events like sports, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/974387/bluesky-toni-sc…
“McConnell says
‘I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke.’
But nowhere in the letter does he address the cardiac arrest,” Journalist Ken Klippenstein wrote.
“Swapping out ‘cardiac arrest’ for ‘heart attack’ is a clever move because most people use the two terms interchangeably.
They are not.”
Klippenstein went on to argue that McConnell's statement was a
"masterclass in political manipulation"
– technically accurate in denying he'd…
Via #Bildblog: Eine neue Forschungsarbeit von Rika Baack auf #netzpolitik.org zur Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie auf #X, #Bluesky un…
Took the outage over at Bluesky as a call to donate to my trusty Mastodon admin 🙂↕️
That instance hasn't been down in years 😁
Danke für den Gefühlespresso, @z428. 🌻
https://finest.day/posts/die-statusmeldungen-der-anderen
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:o5rekq5iai6uibxzoetgs3vb/post/3mstvll246k2p
(need to login to bluesky to see the drawing)
A Bit of Tedious Drama At Bluesky (Ken White/The Popehat Report)
https://www.popehat.com/p/a-bit-of-tedious-drama-at-bluesky
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p4#a260625p4
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lashman/117037432954066469
i would like to remind any bluesky users that follow me that mastodon/the fediverse
1. still exists, and
2. isn't nearly as horrible as everyone on bluesky makes it out to be
Donald Trump’s Treasury Department doesn’t want law enforcement to be able to “follow the money.”
The Treasury Department announced Friday that it would destroy the government’s registry on shell company ownership,
a database law enforcement uses to investigate money laundering and corruption, The Bulwark reported.
In addition to scaling back requirements for shell companies to submit basic information to the federal government, the new rule will also destroy all the data it …
Bluesky launches a feature to let users hide their posts from non-followers in its Discover feed; other AT Proto apps can choose whether to respect the opt-out (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/bluesk…
guten morgen! könntest Du vielleicht Deinen bluesky-account nach mastodon "bridgen", damit man Dir auch hier folgen kann? https://fed.brid.gy/docs#
hab grad erst gemerkt, dass ich Dich leider aus den augen verloren habe, weil der RSS-feed Deines blogs zzt. einen fehler wirft aufgrund der blog-überarbe…
Can't wait for Eurosky to stop depending on Bluesky's AppView service 😄
Huiiiii, da habe ich ja noch einen weiten Weg. 🤣
https://troet.cafe/@derAnalyst/116709670300500787
(fuck's sake! Eu digo que nem leio o que gente com a conta trancada me tenta dizer no bluesky, e o que é que gente com a conta trancada faz imediatamente? Tenta falar comigo, pois tš claro.
A sério, acho que vou começar a bloquear.)
Op opwarmende bergtoppen groeien meer planten, maar de soorten die er al waren verdwijnen juistMore plants on warming mountain summits, but species that used to live there disappear. The arriving species already had a place to live, lower on the mountain, but the disappearing ones won't find a new place. 'Escalator to extinction', an effective phrase to describe this. Similar to what happens to species moving towards the poles.
Así que Bluesky es la misma mierda que Twitter-X pero sin pornografía infantil, todavía, para sorpresa de nadie en el fediverso.
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@KazuShuSora/117105778065270722
Kinda funny that Bluesky goes down the second I ask this question
By now everybody in the world thinks, probably correctly, Trump is lying and/or he has very likely just backed down in some way.
https://…
Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/bluesky…
Similarweb: Bluesky's mobile MAUs fell 27% YoY to 10.4M in June and DAUs fell 26% to 3M in July; X's mobile MAUs fell 3% to 302M and DAUs fell 7% to 123.7M (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/11/bluesky…
Trump announced Monday that the United States will reinstate its naval blockade of Iran and be
"reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped" through the Strait of Hormuz, a levy he did not explain.
Trump said the strait itself would stay open to every country other than Iran.
Hours earlier, in a call-in to Fox News, he said:
"We're taking over the strait. They've got nothing."
He added that the US would "probably run it&q…
CNN's Harry Enten was floored on Sunday as he discussed new polling that shows Democrats have gained momentum in a key Senate race,
even after the candidate who won the party's primary dropped out.
Last week, oyster farmer Graham Platner suspended his campaign for the Maine Senate seat against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) after multiple allegations of sexual harassment and rape were lodged against him.
Platner has described the allegations as "serious,&…
“First they came for the New York Times and I… fuck I have to say something about this don’t I?
Who’s the next one on the poem? Could I maybe wait for that one?”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4tqkvdjxqapupkv6rnb6agp/post/3mqeqd3ptec2u
Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting in the way of my love life (Charles Robinson/The Columbus Dispatch)
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2026/07/13/dating-politics-divide-opinion/90731580007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a54d3592cd6ea0001054cd3
http://www.memeorandum.com/260714/p152#a260714p152
The more time I spend on Bluesky or Mastodon, the fewer personal blogs I read via RSS.
The more personal blogs I read, the less time I spend on Bluesky or Mastodon.
How about you?
Lembrete Šs pessoas do Bluesky:
Eu estou no Mastodon. Existe interação entre as duas redes através de uma ponte, o Bridgy Fed. Mas é limitada.
Se vocês limitam quem pode ver os vossos posts a quem estš com login feito na vossa rede, estão na prštica a impedir que essa interação se faça, portanto não esperem que eu vos responda. Nem sequer vos leio.
The Social Security Administration has added 14 new health conditions to its list of those eligible for fast-track disability benefits under the Compassionate Allowances program.
With this addition, there are now 314 total conditions eligible for the Compassionate Allowances initiative, the SSA announced on Aug. 11.
The Compassionate Allowances list fast tracks the application process for disability benefits for individuals with certain serious diseases or medical conditions.
Also I think I'll make the jump from Bluesky to Eurosky, this month 👀
Hottest nights ever in Central Europe: new national record high nightly minimum temperatures:
28.4°C in Skalica, Slovakia
28.0°C in Budapest Janos, Hungary
(via @… on Bluesky)
A minimum of 28°C is not good for sleeping. Air conditioners weren't necessary until recently in these countries.
This looks like an impressive achievement by AI , post from Ethan Mollick on BlueSky. The token cost will be immense I think.
https://bsky.app/profile/emollick.bsky.social/post/3mqev3ailf223
Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama provided new information about Graham’s unexpected death to reportersMonday evening.
A woman who worked as Graham’s scheduler, and who had previously been Tuberville’s scheduler, received a phone call from the South Carolina Republican Saturday night.
While Tuberville did not identify the scheduler, a staffer named Taylor Stephens was the scheduling director for the late senator, and previously held the same role in Tuberville’s office.
Gra…
Today I learned that the 'Open Social Web Alliance' wants to harmonize the protocols of the Fediverse and the Atmosphere and it's exactly what I meant when I said I wanna have the best of both worlds c:
In my case Mastodon x Bluesky 😁
Let's see how far they'll come by the end of 2027 ^^
Former Trump administration official Ty Cobb spoke at length Saturday about what he described as Donald Trump’s “frontal lobe illness,”
the “signals” of which were evident when comparing his behavior between administrations.
“He’s always been a malignant narcissist,
but that narcissism now has no frontal lobe restraints,” Cobb said,
speaking to former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan in a video published Saturday by Zeteo.
Over on Bluesky @… posted about the spate of companies picking kind of fucked up names for their selves out of fantasy and science fiction, and someone in the comments mentioned how many AI companies there are with the name “Horcrux” and I remembered that I have a tool named “Horcrux email” (mail backup and migration) from like 2015 (which is, I think before J. K.…
Q&A with Karen Attiah about getting fired from WaPo over her social media posts after Charlie Kirk's killing, her willingness to go back to WaPo, and more (Riddhi Setty/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.
The problem is that Iran knows this too....All Trump's threats about escalation look quite empty.
https://www.
Quite a lot of journalists and political columnist types find progressives more irritating than they find Nazis off-putting.
https://www.aaronrosspowell.com/3mlqxgn3hzk2i/l-quote/1_146-1_807#1_146
At least 80% of the world lives under light-polluted skies
—a figure that rises to 99% in America and Europe.
A paper published in Science found that between 2011 and 2022 the night sky grew almost 10% brighter each year.
With so many places awash with artificial light, people are increasingly seeking out the darkness.
Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024,
following the U.S. elections.
But now, nearly two years later, the social network and would-be X competitor is struggling to hold on to its momentum.
According to data from digital intelligence provider Similarweb,
Bluesky’s mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026,
-- down 27.2% year-over-year.
In addition, mobile daily active us…
Great research by Sunday Times and @…
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/06/27
Iran’s chief negotiator accused U.S. President Donald Trump of staging “theater diplomacy.”
U.S. and Israeli ships would be barred from the Strait of Hormuz under Iran’s draft plan for managing the waterway.
Saudi Arabia is bracing for “multiple coordinated attacks” by Iraqi militia factions working with Iran-backed Houthis, according to CNN.
The cover of Newsweek International bears the text:
“TRUMP WAS RIGHT (ABOUT VENEZUELA),”
with a cartoon depiction of a giant Trump wearing a safari-style outfit
while holding a fuel pump.
The White House joined Trump in sharing the image on X, along with the caption “TRUST IN TRUMP.”
The cartoon depiction of Trump mirrors almost exactly a famous 1892 illustration of Cecil Rhodes,
who in the cartoon is seen in a near-identical position and size,
sta…
The U.S. men’s national team is barrelling into the World Cup’s round of 16 after Wednesday night’s 2-0 victory
https://www.wsj.com/sports/soccer/folarin-balogun-red-card-48c66b2f?mod=bluesky
Anthony Scaramucci,
— who lasted about eleven days as Donald Trump's communications director in 2017,
says he finally understands a children's story that puzzled him as a boy
— thanks to the man he once worked for.
In a post shared with his followers, the former White House aide turned vocal Trump critic offered a blunt assessment of the president's fitness,
writing that Trump "is not well and he's probably too old for the job."
Sc…
I hear a longstandingly mentally ill man,
a narcissistic sociopath who is cognitively declining in his elder years,
becoming increasingly disinhibited.
We don't know exactly what his health is ...
He's obviously physically unwell.
— he's drooping on one side.
Did he have a left hemisphere CVA?
We don't know any of that, because they obviously would lie to us about any of it
Published earlier this week,
“Regime Change”
was written by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan,
and had already rattled the White House before its release,
with officials fearful that the book’s authors had acquired audio recordings from within the White House Situation Room,
arguably the most secure area of the complex where top officials discuss matters of crises and national security.
“There’s something in the book that hasn’t gotten near…
A new piece of legislation aims to avert a Social Security crisis
by fast-tracking a solution before cuts are imminent.
But Democrats are torn:
Some say, far from saving the program, the bill could give Republicans an opening to raise the retirement age or cut benefits.
The bipartisan bill, dubbed the "Protecting Retirement Opportunities and Maintaining Income Security for Everyone", or PROMISE, Act,
calls for the nonpartisan Social Security Advisory B…
Russia’s net gain in the first half of 2026 is just 97 sq km (37 sq miles),
according to Institute for the Study of War figures.
“If Putin wants to send another million of his soldiers to keep fighting against this wall,
then these million Russians,
who have not yet been mobilised into the Russian army
and are queuing for gasoline,
should think about what awaits them next,” said Ukraine’s president.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was referring to the 1.4 millio…