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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
jasonm@social.lol ("Jason :neobread_this_is_fine:") wrote:

Don’t trust anyone that says some version of “both sides” need to de-escalate in MN. Only one side escalated the situation by creating it in the first place.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
BLKNewsNow ("BLK News Now!") wrote:

"Black Americans have been the only real die-hard Americans here. We’re the only ones who carried the process through the process, and everyone else sort of skipped stages. We’re the ones who marched. We’re the ones who carried the Bible. We’re the ones who carried the flag. We’re the ones who tried to go through the courts. And being born American didn’t seem to matter because we were born Americans and we still had to fight for what we were looking for."
https://blknewsnow.com/gil-scott-heron-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-interview-1989/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

“Project Dawn” is a super creepy name for an AI-driven downsizing effort.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Real classy, Amazon. Ready, fire, aim. https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-bungles-wednesday-layoff-plan-with-misfired-internal-email-2026-01-28/

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

Any menders out there have an idea for how to fix this belt? It's bonded lacing which is like low grade leather glued together? Maybe some plastic in there? Wondering if some heat would secure it in there idk what I'm talking about

Boosted by jwz:
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Noem, who’s in danger of being sacked, is trying to throw Stephen Miller under the bus. Meanwhile Miller is on TV trying to throw DHS under the bus. Basically they’re shitting their pants and flinging it at each other.

It’s working. Punch them harder.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3mdgo4t4md22k

Boosted by jwz:
DocPop@pixelfed.social ("Doctor P. Popular") wrote:

"Fuck ICE" and "Chinga La Migra" posters spotted on Mission and Valencia. Artist unknown. #SFGraffiti #Graffiti #ICE #WheatPasteArt

Boosted by jwz:
fraggle@social.coop wrote:

@nicole M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead is a $300bn industry now

Boosted by jwz:
nicole@oldbytes.space ("Nicole Express") wrote:

traditional software development is dead

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davidaugust@mastodon.online ("David August ❌👑") wrote:

So…ice tried to go into the Ecuadorian Consulate, an act of war, today.

https://apnews.com/article/eeuu-minnesota-redadas-migratorias-ice-trump-5b98291d7dede89494b79daae50f887b

🤦‍♂️🤬

#USpol #ice #Ecuador #incursion #war

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
swizzlevixen@social.lol ("Mark Boszko") wrote:

I have had to deal with a very large number of people today, who do not have their shit together. To these people, hear my plea: Please get your shit together 🤣

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
axios ("Axios") wrote:

Ecuador files protest after ICE agents attempts to enter Minneapolis consulate https://t.co/knFqNNhjVE

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
dbattistella@todon.eu ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

Philip Glass has withdrawn his upcoming symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
FinalGirl@blackqueer.life ("Tyla (Combat Waifu Yuri Arc)") wrote:

They need you afraid to use your voice because the biggest threat to power is speaking truth to power.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bixfrankonis@social.lol ("Bix F.") wrote:

@adam (And the next bit):

"The company that comes to your defense is not always within your control, to be sure, but is at least somewhat revealing nonetheless and should make you question what you’re doing and how you’re doing it. It’s also another one of those potential signals that give people pause."

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@bixfrankonis/115970007001101693

“There are some people (specifically in the micro.blog circles of the IndieWeb, to which Baldur alluded) who defend the ways in which Manu and others talk about these sorts of things who themselves in the past have, for example, ridiculed the idea of expressing your pronouns, wanted to continue to be fans of Elon Musk just for the space stuff, and who don’t think Trump, Miller, ICE/CBP, et cetera are nazis. These are the sorts of folks who tout things like articles in The Atlantic or Harper’s decrying ‘cancel culture’, a thing that both does not exist and is their scare-word for holding people to account for punching down.”

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bixfrankonis@social.lol ("Bix F.") wrote:

Hoo boy.

https://bix.blog/posts/2026-01-27-on-nibbling-nuggets-of-nuance/

#Blogging #BixDotBlog

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
sleepless@social.lol ("Courtney") wrote:

About a month ago I started a side project: a cross-platform, opinionated replacement for iTunes that matches how I actually manage local music.

It strips out the cruft, streamlines metadata handling, and works seamlessly across Linux and Windows (macOS should work too—untested for now).

It’s still under active development, but the core vision is there. Very few settings, very strong opinions. Open source soon—probably not for everyone, but exactly what I wanted.

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

@swf are these the tenants in which you are building your version of the new social web?

Are you not terrified of your complicity due to your partnership with Meta?

Isn't now the time to give back the money to Mark Zuckerberg, kick out the Meta employees from the W3C standards group, and renounce Meta?

You are an unelected, ungoverned org that intends to build the world's next gen communication tools. And this is who you work with?

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-is-blocking-links-to-ice-list-on-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

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cR0w@infosec.exchange wrote:

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

An old bridge constructed in the 1950s. The road hasn't been in use for decades, so the bridge is disappearing under vegetation.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #landscape #nature #naturephotography #landscapephotography #abandoned #grass #bridge #river #graffiti

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
SheHacksPurple@infosec.exchange ("Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple :verified: :verified:") wrote:

Every signature matters. 🙏
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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
SheHacksPurple@infosec.exchange ("Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple :verified: :verified:") wrote:

I’ve been working toward this for years, and it finally happened.

Canada now has a parliamentary petition to require secure coding in federal software. If you care about cybersecurity, public safety, and better government tech, please sign:
👉 https://twp.ai/4ivPjh
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A single Whopper costs $7.37.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

Good.

https://apnews.com/article/philip-glass-kennedy-center-cancellations-d29fda6fa3ea80dcdc7ded1033d6c04e

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Anyway, this all culminated in this train of thought which my groupchat found entertaining.

I feel like this catch phrase is going to pop into my mind every time this happens from now on.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If the feature is something that people actually want, and is well-designed (e.g. easily discoverable in the existing user interface) then people will use it. Stop putting stuff between me and the thing I'm trying to get done!

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I've been thinking recently about "be careful what you measure". Any metric you measure becomes a metric to be gamed for some outcome.

I think it's showing up in enshitification. You know how you open an app that you use every day and it's got to interrupt you and tell you how great its new features are?

That's because some team built that feature. And their metrics are being judged. So OF COURSE they're going to push for that intro to drive engagement, if it makes the team/project look good.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
bazurk@social.lol ("ᗪave") wrote:

#ice

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
robb@social.lol ("Robb Knight") wrote:

✨ Updated my /now page https://rknight.me/now/