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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents https://theconversation.com/new-us-directive-for-visa-applicants-turns-social-media-feeds-into-political-documents-260201

> In recent weeks, the US State Department implemented a policy requiring all university, technical training, or exchange program visa applicants to disclose their social media handles used over the past five years. The policy also requires these applicants to set their profiles to public.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
afrozenpeach@geek.gay ("Mattie Schraeder") wrote:

Just got laid off. If anyone is looking for a senior software engineer please reach out

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 10 Jul 1985 the French intelligence service blew up the @greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, in a Aotearoa/NZ, killing Fernando Pereira, a photographer. The ship was headed to protest against French nuclear testing https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8208/rainbow-warrior-blown-up

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism
Virtual Event · Hosted by No Kings"

https://mobilize.us/s/Txd0PH

jwz wrote:

RSS feed subscription regrets:

Add Wired for political coverage. Get: 15 headlines a day on "Great Amazon Prime deals".

Add Consequence for music news. Get: 5 headlines a day about every time Ozzy Osbourne farts.

(You may be surprised to learn that Ozzy Osbourne is still alive.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I think the rate of suckers born per minute has been increasing in recent decades... 🤔

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Spot the dog! She's cleverly hidden, you might miss her! But I assure you, she is there!

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Lana@beige.party ("𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"") wrote:

Everyone shut up and let Elon spend billions becoming the Republican Jill Stein.

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RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu ("Radical Graffiti") wrote:

"Fuck ICE"
Seen in Oakland, California

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rail@flufftech.net ("rail 🦊 (sysadmin puppy)") wrote:

We're here
We're queer
Connection reset by peer

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davidho.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("David Ho") wrote:

A lesson on how to write a headline.

Man Afraid to Ride Subway Name...

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
technomancy@hey.hagelb.org wrote:

yesterday I learned that repositories on github can have a .github/README.md file which will be shown in place of the regular readme when people view the repository on github

this is really useful for all your projects you're moving github where you still want to temporarily leave a mirror behind; instead of changing the default branch you can just have it render the github-specific readme that explains the situation, but people cloning from git will still see all the regular content:

https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel#hello-github-user #giveUpGithub

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
sjvn wrote:

Many of my friends have recently received an odd note from the Social Security Administration, which contained misinformation about Social Security changes and taxes. Here's what's really happening in detail.

https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/what-to-know-new-tax-law-2025.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eff ("Electronic Frontier Foundation") wrote:

TODAY! Join us for a live discussion to celebrate 35 years of EFF and learn what's on the horizon for technology users: https://eff.org/livestream-35

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

A Gerbera drone — the same type Russia uses to exhaust Ukraine’s air defenses — crossed from Belarus and crashed inside Lithuania near Šumskas.

Lithuanian forces failed to identify it.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/10/lithuania-tracks-down-fake-russian-shahed-near-border-nato-jets-scrambled/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Elon Musk: Start acting more like my friends and political allies

Grok: you got it boss

Elon:

Grok:

Elon:

Grok: I'm Hitler now

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

“Lately, it has been difficult to ignore a tendency at the NY Times to make astonishingly bad news judgments. As Republicans increasingly circulate insane conspiracy theories and racist nonsense, the cult of centrism has taken a self-destructive turn.” https://www.theverge.com/culture/700082/nyt-mamdani-news-judgment

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Flies, flies, flies. Nothing but flies. Where are my spiders?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/10/planet-of-the-flies/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

#writers, #blog aficionados, #web enjoyers, #website browsers: lend me your ears! i need help with a big push to get the word out about #writing for GOOD INTERNET magazine's autumn issue! a digital AND physical magazine that ships all over the world, run & contributed to by volunteers! (‼️)

in case you're unaware, GOOD INTERNET covers a lot of different aspects of the #SmallWeb: unplugging from the corporate web, fighting #enshittification, migrating from data-harvesting corpo social media, creating your own personal website, using code and website-building as an art form, federation, and creating websites for fun. the aim is to be approachable for beginners and enjoyable for seasoned #indieweb travelers!

you don't have to be a professional #webdev or a #coding smartypants to write about all the good things happening on "this side" of the web. the idea here is to spread the word about and share thoughts, independent web projects, services, methods, sites, meet-ups, and celebrate the non-corporate web together while making it easier for us to partake and unplug from #bigtech.

📏 looking for 1,000- to 4,000-word articles aimed at website owners and hobbyists, digital (and traditional) #artists, #internet culture enthusiasts, #technology nerds, #socialmedia expatriates, & anyone who wants to unplug from the corporate-owned #web.

⏲️ the deadline is AUGUST 22, 2025 ⏲️

ℹ️ more info here: https://goodinternetmagazine.com/contact/

#personalweb #websites #web #fediverse #neocities #nekoweb #html #css #zine #zines #indie #independent #creativity #tech #smalltech #opensource #degoogle #media

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers🚧") wrote:

@rolle True True. Most of my interactions are organic. Also, this notion that the Fedi is cats, tech and politics is wrong, also. I just organically found a post and shared about tar sands because someone organically found my post about using Lotus 123 in high school in the 1980s and I took a peak at their profile when they interacted.

@monarchist

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
anna_lillith@mas.to ("anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖") wrote:

Starting 1st July 2025! 🙌 #Switzerland is implementing mandatory labelling on animal-based food products, including #meat, #milk, and #eggs, to disclose if animals experienced painful procedures without anaesthesia.

This includes practices like #castration #dehorning, #TailDocking, and #TeethClipping.

We applaud this introduction, as #consumers have a right to more transparency about the cruel processes to make more informed and #ethical choices.

1/2

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
DocAtCDI wrote:

The female janitor at my building asked if I would chill and smoke some weed with her.

I said: No. I can't deal with high maintenance women.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:

A strong statement of resistance to the relentless marketing of "AI" in education spaces. I encourage all educators to have a look and consider signing on:

https://openletter.earth/an-open-letter-from-educators-who-refuse-the-call-to-adopt-genai-in-education-cb4aee75

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

Hilding Neilson just gave a mind-blowing talk on "Indigenizing the Drake Equation". I will spend a lot of time thinking about this, he made a lot of incredibly good points about how incredibly biased our thinking about searching for aliens is.

Main point: we're not looking for "civilizations", we're looking for breaks from Nature. We can only detect "civilizations" that are like us: doing terrible damage to their environments.

#IAUS399

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

We have built a secret police state. How will we get rid of it?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/07/10/they-are-the-baddies/

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

As one of the roughly three dozen people still using Foursquare Swarm, I don’t think I like its sweeping new redesign much. Foursquare still wants to be Yelp, and they have never been very good at it.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
robotwig@socel.net ("RobotWig :mastodon:") wrote:

Happy #PortfolioDay I'm Steve aka Robot Wig a professional freelance creative & award winning miniature photographer based in Sheffield UK.

All of my miniature photos are created from my living room using practical effects with very little digital work. If you enjoy movies I'm sure you'll get a kick out of what I do

I have a lot of passion for my work & am actively seeking new opportunities please visit https://www.robotwig.com for more of my creations & design portfolio. 🙏

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
dogzilla@masto.deluma.biz wrote:

Experts Question the Legality of Deploying National Guard Officers as Immigration Judges – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/florida-desantis-trump-national-guard-military-lawyers-jags-immigration-judges-legal/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:

US restarts shipments of GMLRS and 155 mm rounds to Ukraine — munitions already on the way

Washington sources confirm that guided rockets and artillery shells are once again flowing to Kyiv.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/10/us-restarts-shipments-of-gmlrs-and-155-mm-rounds-to-ukraine-munitions-already-on-the-way/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

the inmates are in charge of the asylum

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/07/09/the-man-who-wants-to-kill-vote-by-mail-in-oregon-contests-a-may-election-result/