@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-10 16:15:14
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bounce: Kontenumzug von Bluesky zu Mastodon und bald auch andersherum
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-10-10 16:15:14
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-10 06:48:28
"Natuurlijk kan zo’n Europese troepenmacht de Amerikaanse militaire macht niet weerstaan. Maar dat is het punt niet. Het doel is om de Amerikanen te tonen: jullie willen vazallen van ons maken, en wij pikken dat niet langer. Geen statements, maar daadkracht."
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-12-10 17:58:58
What’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115696148277070484
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-12-08 12:05:44
@luca@social.luca.run2026-01-09 17:25:32
Content warning: Twitter, XCorp
Weil Musk nicht gegen sexualisierte Gewalt (sogenannte KI grok erstellt in Replies Bilder wie Personen ohne Kleidung aussehen könnten) vorgeht, sondern sich dafür zahlen lässt und einen "edit this image"-Button zu allen Bildern hinzufügen hat lassen, gibt es mal wieder eine Löschwelle. Mein Skript TweetXer funktioniert wohl immer noch und ich habe wieder eine Runde Support auf Youtube und Bluesky gegeben.
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-11-10 18:31:50
And another thing about bluesky, it's incredibly slow and clunky.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-10-10 16:40:54
TIL que o bluesky ainda usa URL shorteners.
Ugh!
Detesto URL shorteners. São um valente perigo num mundo cheio de gente a fazer phishing com cópias de sites reais.
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social2025-11-09 07:29:50
Zum Thema wiederaufgetauchtes Raubgut: HHStA-Direktor Thomas Just hat drüben auf Bluesky dankenswerterweise auf diesen Akt zu den Steinen des Anstosses verlinkt: "Temporäre Entnahme des Allerhöchsten Privatschmuckes aus der Schatzkammer" 1.11.1918: https://www.archivinformationssystem.at/de
@cdamian@rls.social2026-01-08 19:49:56
Since I was following too many people anyway, I decided to unfollow everybody
- on Threads
- on Bluesky (via the bridge)
I'll miss some of them, and for others I'll follow their blogs via RSS.
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-10 17:22:01
@… how did you make the bots mirroring the bluesky ones bc I have just realized a couple that I am missing in my heart
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 00:24:55
The California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.
The ruling, handed down today, held that violations of the"LGBT Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights" are not protected by the First Amendment because they relate to codes of conduct in what is effectively both a workplace…
@cdp1337@social.bitsnbytes.dev2025-10-10 17:10:51
.... the fuck?
> Complete Beginner’s Guide to Vibe Coding an App in 5 Minutes | by James Montemagno
Just saw this post come across the wire, though it's from Bluesky so I can't reply, (I should probably just block that damned thing...)
"Complete beginner's guide..."
Step 1: uninstall any LLM/AI bullshit others may recommend you to use. A hallucinogenic chat bot will only cause problems in code, problems which beginners won't know are prob…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-03 09:53:00
@brichapman@mastodon.social2026-01-09 15:00:04
🛰️ I'm on Bluesky!
You can follow me at:
@brichapman.com
https://bsky.app/profile/brichapman.com
@Techpizzamondays@social.linux.pizza2025-12-08 23:30:43
Toronto's 2600 meeting is on this month again!
We meet on the second monday of the month at Victory Cafe 6pm (tonight!)
See you next month and next and next too!
@… @… and whoops also bluesky! We'…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-31 21:02:08
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/…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-31 12:38:50
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-11-01 13:14:35
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,…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-10-31 22:01:54
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/…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-12-09 00:01:23
Olha. Parece que vai vir aí mais uma vagazinha de refugiados, agora do Bluesky. Preparem-se.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-12-07 16:17:30
Thread about gifting (or buying yourself) a telescope and avoiding getting something terrible.
(sorry for Bluesky link but I’m auto-removing posts on Mastodon, this is from last year)
https://bsky.app/profile/thomasfuchs.at/post/3lbx2egm5222k
@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-12-06 19:53:22
It is an interesting data point that the "resonant computing" thing was pushed on Bluesky by a lot of people and it's basically non-existent on the Fediverse.
@patrickquin@furry.engineer2026-01-06 02:39:06
Content warning: bluesite drama over Parker Molloy and a trans modder giving Isabella from Animal Crossing curves
Parker Molloy’s backtrack is preserved on the #bluesky bridge. She has since deactivated her account.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/pro…
@emd@cosocial.ca2026-01-08 05:19:16
Is there a “quick” to follow all the folks i follow on bluesky, over here? I know about the bridging bot, but is there a way to automate that?
Related, is there a way to automate reaching out to bsky folks that I follow that aren’t bridged with that bridging bot?
@wraithe@mastodon.social2025-11-28 15:00:41
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)
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-11-03 17:15:14
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kurznachrichtendienst: Bluesky will einen "Dislike"-Button testen
@servelan@newsie.social2025-11-01 21:08:02
Bluesky Will Test a ‘Dislike’ Option. It Could Help Fix a Huge Problem
https://gizmodo.com/bluesky-dislike-2000680426
@fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de2026-01-08 09:15:49
RE: https://nerdculture.de/@fluchtkapsel/115858570659003019
Wenn das hier die Föderation ist, dann ist Meta eindeutig das alles assimilierende Borgkollektiv. Twitter ist definitiv Ferengi. Bluesky? Vielleicht Dominion? Wie ein Zerrbild der Föderation: …
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2025-12-31 08:05:24
My days on Bluesky are counted https://www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrapped/seeingwithsound.bsky.social
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-05 03:45:56
Election Night Live updates: Democrats notch wins for governors, mayor over Trump's picks (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/2025-election-updates-news?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=690ac56df274f70001345a08
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p171#a251104p171
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-11-07 18:06:54
On the subway yesterday someone sitting next to me was scrolling through either twitter or bluesky; I couldn't tell which, and I didn't want to obviously stare. But it was incredibly tempted to turn to them and say, "Have you heard the good news? The good news about John Mastodon?" If only I had literature with me!
@wrog@mastodon.murkworks.net2026-01-03 08:34:59
HELLO BLUESKY USERS!
You can follow me over here on Mastodon **but** I won't see your replies and won't be able to follow you back unless you give permission for that…
…which is easy. Just follow this special BlueSky user:
https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy
(1) click on th…
@robpike@hachyderm.io2025-11-06 06:45:36
No, it's not. I've been signed in for 21 years until you logged me out just now. But for some reason, almost every site I have a login for has decided I've logged out, on multiple unrelated machines even. Sure GMail/Google but also Apple, Mastodon, bluesky, GitHub, reddit, even some TV channels I stream. Not all at once, but over the last few days. Is this something I didn't hear about?
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-08 18:29:12
We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings.
CBS News is gone;
CNN seems about to follow.
The Los Angeles Times installed an AI-powered “bias meter” to warn readers against taking some of what they read in the paper’s columns at face value.
And all across the country, local news is on a ventilator;
the right-wing Sinclair network is taking…
@roelgrif@mstdn.social2025-11-01 22:44:12
Tjonge wat zijn de druiven zuur bij de SGP.
Merk ook even hoe hier schaamteloos genormeerd wordt wat 'de' christen zou moeten vinden of voelen.
https://www.rd.nl/a/1126353-een-christen-voelt-zich-ni…
@axbom@axbom.me2026-01-01 14:46:41
I have to say, the Bluesky bridge is confusing for me(!)
I don't use it myself but sometimes I respond to posts and only realise much later it was from a bridge account, in which case the user may or my not see my reply. I certainly don't see my reply on Bluesky. Same thing can happen vice versa.
I don't want a compulsory opt-in to another service, I want the AT and ActivityPub protocols to be compatible. In lieu of that the bridge accounts need to be a lot more ob…
I don't use it myself but sometimes I respond to posts and only realise much later it was from a bridge account, in which case the user may or my not see my reply. I certainly don't see my reply on Bluesky. Same thing can happen vice versa.
I don't want a compulsory opt-in to another service, I want the AT and ActivityPub protocols to be compatible. In lieu of that the bridge accounts need to be a lot more ob…
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-10-31 21:25:01
Dear #Bluesky #TOTP-ers. If you reply to me, or quote my posts, and you are not following the Fedi bridge, then I can't see your replies/quotes. You're shouting into the void. Don't do that, it's silly. Follow the bridge 😄
(you can follow the bridge here: https://fed.brid.gy/login)
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-01-05 08:18:47
"My strongest social media belief is that Threads isn't real"
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-12-05 21:03:57
Op BS brengt Micheal Persson even z'n column van 25 januari '25 in herinnering.
Grote vraag is wat we in de tussentijd gedaan hebben.
T meest springt wel in t ook de NLse kroonjuwelen van de overheid (data) in de Amerikaanse cloud gestald. 🙈
Maar vooral dat project 2025 en de gevolgen vooral compleet genegeerd zijn.
commentaar 25-1-25:
We zullen de VS moeten wantrouwen, is de les van een week Trump-II
https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/we-zullen-de-vs-moeten-wantrouwen-is-de-les-van-een-week-trump-ii~bb8f275d/
(Via @mickpersson.bsky.social — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/mickpersson.bsky.social/post/3m7bbbng3yc22 )
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-31 12:40:53
@wraithe@mastodon.social2025-11-23 15:10:54
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
@gratianriter@bildung.social2025-12-15 16:02:27
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=…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-01-03 13:03:44
Via @… on Bluesky.
@padraig@mastodon.ie2025-10-30 22:37:33
@lschiff@mastodon.sdf.org2025-12-13 16:09:32
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
@kingconsult@berlin.social2025-11-10 17:45:14
Tired of #BigTech? Explore the Rise of Decentralized #SocialMedia in #2026
> Why it matters now. Apps are smoother. Mobile experiences are better. More people want user control and #privacy. Crea…
@cvillisek89@noc.social2025-11-07 23:06:59
@pre@boing.world2025-10-18 10:48:22
Content warning: dot gov on bluesky
Apparently the US government departments are starting to join Bluesky and are getting ratioed in that the accounts are being blocked more than they are followed.
Doesn't really seem to make sense at first. The US Department Of Transportation isn't going to show up as a reply guy in your mentions and the spooks aren't going to use that account to spy on your posts.
Is the blocking then entirely performative? Because blocks are public they are votes?
I guess really it's people deliberately reading the recommended-for-you AI-driven slop feeds.
Blocked users won't show up in your machine-learning robot-recommended feeds that people apparently must be reading over there.
Just not-following would be enough for me, I don't see things I don't follow. But if you read the robot-DJ feeds then anything can show up, so you have to preemptively block it. If only to train the robot shuffle.
#blueSky #fediverse #aiSlopFeed
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 01:05:30
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has planned to ask a judge to release her from federal prison, citing concerns over her safety if the Jeffrey Epstein files and grand jury records are released.
Arick Fudali, who represents several Epstein survivors, told MS NOW on Thursday that he hopes Maxwell remains behind bars and called her "entitled" and that she lives in an "alternate reality."
"I certainly don't know of any grounds that would allow a …
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-03 18:45:42
Live updates: Trump administration says SNAP will be partially funded after judges' rulings (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-11-3-2025?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6908e45236c292000189047b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p78#a251103p78
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-17 12:01:14
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
@gwire@mastodon.social2026-01-05 08:29:05
Burning platform news:
A Bluesky thread suggesting the non-Russian parts of (former US site) LiveJournal may be going away - since they can't accept payments due to sanctions.
https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3mbebi2xfxc25
@mela@zusammenkunft.net2025-10-24 21:15:47
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…
@jerome@jasette.facil.services2025-12-04 16:18:07
Technologists for Democracy, a new org based in Toronto that advocate for a more ethical tech, just joined the fediverse through the Bluesky bridge
@…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-24 14:33:36
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
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-07 13:09:48
Watch this clip shared on Bluesky with the extremely aggressive and crazy statement by this US member of Congress, Ogles.
#USA
@jkmartindale@mastodon.social2025-12-31 18:25:14
absolute banger on Bluesky if you missed it https://bsky.app/profile/rianjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mb6is5pgi222
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social2025-11-23 18:10:43
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…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-12-02 00:42:58
Nottingham Greens have info (on Bluesky) about a March for Palestine in Nottingham on Saturday, 6 Dec 2025. Setting off 1pm from the Forest, finishing up by Central Library.
#Nottingham #Palestine
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchange2025-10-27 03:03:21
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.
@noellabo@fedibird.com2026-01-01 07:49:39
みんな、ぞーぺんは試してみたかい？
:zonepane: ぞーぺんは、ZonePaneっていうアプリの愛称で、Twitterに殺された :twitpane: TwitPaneの生まれ変わり（後継アプリ）。
Mastodonを使っている人、
Misskeyを使っている人、
Blueskyを使っている人、
あとFedibirdを使っている人、
それらのサーバを同時に扱えて、機能を活用できて、独自の便利機能も備えた、iOS版とAndroid版がある、便利なサードパーティクライアントだよ。
iOS版
https://apps.ap…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-04 16:20:05
@… it would be nice to have bluesky posts formatted more like posts, not like links, e.g. here https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115492273452689792
@roland@devdilettante.com2026-01-01 01:48:51
for those who can't be bothered with the bogus age limit thing, check it out at: https://skyview.social/?url=https:%2F/bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mbcvjmqdtk…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2026-01-04 22:25:11
Fed up with not being able to visit the "Live Feeds" tab without instantly encountering explicit pornography.
It's because of the porn that many people didn't stay on Masto after leaving X, but went to BlueSky instead.
@wraithe@mastodon.social2025-11-04 13:39:17
Via @… over on BlueSky:
“I hope this is how you find out about Dick Cheney”
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-01-04 18:05:28
Live updates: Rubio says US won't govern Venezuela but will press changes through oil blockade (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/live/us-venezuela-trump-maduro-updates-01-04-2026?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=695aa60d3265bb0001581d41
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p35#a260104p35
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-12-14 11:18:33
"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/…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-03 00:28:00
"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2025-12-02 17:40:37
Lembrete periódico Šs pessoas do Bluesky sobre como e com quem posso interagir pela ponte.
Para interação total, vocês têm também de estar na ponte, i.e., têm de seguir a conta do bridgy fed no bluesky. Nesse caso é praticamente como estarmos todos na mesma rede.
Para os outros só hš interação parcial, e só SE tiverem a conta aberta.
Se não a têm, e/ou se as vossas opções exigem que se esteja com login feito, a interação possível é um redondinho zero. Nem vos posso ler.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-10-31 12:46:05
"“I’m going back to the #Fediverse. Back to #Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick, it’s a survival…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-12-02 20:54:12
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-02 10:13:59
Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and a few iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-10-19 19:02:27
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
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-30 01:40:54
Jury Acquits Man Accused of Soliciting Trump's Murder on Bluesky (Ben Penn/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/jury-acquits-man-accused-of-soliciting-trumps-murder-on-bluesky
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p148#a251029p148
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-19 22:28:35
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…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-10-24 11:13:43
Wurde auf #Bluesky in 48h 100k-mal geblockt: Einige Accounts
Wurde auf #Mastodon in 48h nett begrüßt: Du. Bald.
https://mastodon.online/…
@emd@cosocial.ca2025-10-27 05:07:04
This what the internet was built for.
#kindness
https://wandering.shop/@Catvalente/115443213824238068
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-11-21 21:27:11
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.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 21:54:56
New dietary guidelines delayed again
as RFK Jr. plans to reject expert panel's recommendations
Kennedy wants to stress saturated fats and discourage ultraprocessed foods.
The administration will miss its legal deadline to release the update.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-28 23:37:49
This thread on Bluesky about college students in 2025 is terrifying
https://bsky.app/profile/jesbattis.bsky.social/post/3m6q26hzqoc2l
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-12-16 21:44:42
Savvy people are readying themselves for BlueSky's demise
https://bsky.app/profile/dmandl.bsky.social/post/3m6va6ntuws2g
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-10-23 06:08:51
Falls Euer Blockierfinger auf #Bluesky wund ist, kommt rüber zum #Elefanten.
Wenn du mehr Dialog als „Greatest Hits“-Videos willst:
https://
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-12-01 02:01:11
![A skeet (eg, bluesky toot) from The New York Post. Theheadline reads, "Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas to transportation team: 'war on drivers'", with the subhed "Car-hating TRansportation Alternatives boss Ben Furnas has been appointed to Mamdani's transition team for transportation, climate, and infrastructure.."
The first response to it is someone named "Lunchtown", saying "Are you guys [meaning the nypost] on bsky for like humiliation fetish reasons?"](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/115/641/841/730/995/704/original/5c4252afb2c3fa76.png)
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-01 18:34:20
The January wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles forced the state to spend billions in disaster aid
-- and delay tax filings for LA residents.
The cost of Medi-Cal,
the state-run health insurance program for low-income residents, ballooned to $6 billion more than anticipated.
Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again tariff policies rocked the stock market,
which California heavily relies on for tax revenue.
And the state lodged a flurry of lawsuits again…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-23 00:35:56
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
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-31 17:57:36
To ensure you get a postmark that reflects the day you mail something, you’ll have to go to a post office counter and ask for a manual postmark.
This may affect the eligibility of your mail-in ballot, or tax payment
https://www.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-01-02 10:13:00
Playing around with Antigravity, vibe coded a social media summarizer that makes a summary of the last 48 hours of my bluesky and mastodon timelines, using python, a local database of the posts on my laptop and APIs of mentioned services. Works greats after squashing some bugs and some iterations. Interestingly you need to know a little bit about coding to use it efficienctly, even in "vibecode" mode.
#AI
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2025-11-17 17:18:13
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 01:09:14
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society.
And as you know: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-20 15:45:44
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
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-04 02:15:18
Five years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-11-20 06:58:09
"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!)"
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 04:42:10
Not going backwards is a win.
Given Donald Trump's fraught relationship with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, that's important.
The Mar-a-Lago meeting did not materially move things forward
but nor was there a bust-up like that Oval Office moment in February.
There were however some notable takeaways.
First, Zelenskyy's facial expressions...
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-03 23:04:31
Donald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-10 20:19:41
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…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 02:50:29
Stephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-22 20:37:07
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…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 03:07:05
47% of the world’s top 20th percentile AI researchers
finished their undergraduate studies in China,
-- well above the 18% share from the U.S.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/20…