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Gotta love that Interlochen Public Radio is doing the footwork on the rogue MAGA county clerk in Antrim County illegally cancelling registrations.
https://www.interlochenpublicradio.org/2026-05-19/antrim-county-clerk-has-c…

Antrim County Clerk has changed at least 6 voters’ statuses to ‘cancel’
After telling the state Bureau of Elections she has not canceled any voters, IPR has confirmed Victoria Bishop has canceled 6 voters in her jurisdiction.

Peculiar; Facebook appears to be brute forcing registrations on my Mastodon instance. Weird.
Ok, have fun with this "small" 10MB gzip file that definitely doesn't contain 10GB worth of 0's if it's decompressed.
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon

Electric vehicles now account for a quarter of the new car market in Germany, France and the UK, with a further 12% for plug-in hybrids.
Other large car markets, such as Italy and Spain, are also seeing significant growth in the #EV share.

EU Researchers' Night activities will be starting on 25 Sep
https://lanitdelarecerca.cat/noticia/sobre-la-convocatoria-de-propostes-dactivitats-de-la-nit-de-la-recerca-2026/
Registrations of activity proposa…

"By the end of May 2026, petrol car registrations declined by 18.2%, with decreases across all major markets. France recorded the sharpest drop, with registrations plummeting by 36.8%, whereas other key markets also saw double-digit decreases [..] In addition, the diesel car market continued its downward trend [.] with registrations declining by 16.6%"

Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $864M, vs. $855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

There is so many AI-registrations attempts to this instance, which is annoying.

BEV 39%, PHEV 11% (May 2025 > May 2026)
"In light of the dynamic trend in new electric vehicle registrations so far this year, the VDA has raised its forecast for the German passenger car market to 1.07mn units ( 25%; previously 17%)."
https://www.

New Electric Vehicle Registrations Boost Passenger Car Market
Production and Market in May 2026

Interested in setting up the Anubis web application firewall to help block bot registrations against your Mastodon instance, but want to leave the rest of the site open? Here's how we used nginx to proxy just the user registrations through Anubis in an attempt at combating spam registrations.
Will it work? Don't know, time will tell.
If you notice any issues with it or have additional tricks that you like to implement to help secure your Mastodon instance, let us know!

Protect Mastodon from bots with Anubis WAF
Howto guide for installing Anubis to protect Mastodon user registrations

Germany’s used #EV market is gaining momentum: "between January–April 2025 and January–April 2026, used BEV registrations rose by 77%"
https://theicct.org/publication/europe

"One in three new UK cars now fully electric, says SMMT"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #EV #ElectricVehicles

One in three new UK cars now fully electric, says SMMT
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has published new figures showing that battery electric vehicles (BEVs) accounted for 30% of new car registrations in the UK in June.