If you're planning on recording federal agents, turn biometrics off on your phone and opt for long passwords instead, EFF’s @legind told The Fulcrum. https://thefulcrum.us/civic-engagement-education/sousveillance-ice-surveillance-state-dhs-data

https://emptywheel.net/doj-over-seized-hannah-natansons-garmin-device-and-other-reporting-materials/

I recently saw someone leave fedi at least temporarily as a result of harassment, and one thing they highlighted was that most of us don't see the harassment they were getting because of how federation works and the fact that our instances block all the vile ones most of the harassment was coming from.

They were running their own single-user instance. 🙁

We really need better resources for single user instances to benefit from third-party moderation resources, but we also need to get the narrative out that running a single user instance is a horrible idea unless you want to be your own fulltime moderator or drowned in engagement from the worst parts of the net. Treating it as a viable option now really sours folks to the whole concept.

"Voter suppression is one of the core tools of authoritarianism. It is how you shift from democracy to autocracy. And for millions of Americans, it’s about to become the norm"

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/2026/02/how-autocrats-meddle-with-elections/685383/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3-tileaFXnSfZDTI7SgDZJQ

There was rain in one direction this morning but this was the sky in the other direction. Taken from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

please read #YourLocalEpidemiologist post Community and Crisis #DrKatelynJetelina January 26th https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/community-and-crisis

Europe: The Council of Europe has just voted to ban conversion 'therapy' practices 🇪🇺

Update: Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) here -

https://pace.coe.int/en/news/10185/pace-calls-for-ban-on-conversion-practices

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Europe

And once again, with #AltText4You

"We can't have clean energy because it will destroy the oil industry. We can't have healthcare because it will destroy the health insurance industry. We can't have peace because it will destroy the
weapon industry. Capitalism is a system which disables the option to do the right thing."

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115962508398912420

Do Not Visit The United States

#WorldCup #Olympics #Spyware #SocialMedia #Fascism

The past few days have been especially rough for anyone with a fully functioning heart and soul, so please take a moment to enjoy Ruby posing on her new scratching board.

Murdered in cold-blood for filming and trying to help a woman who was violently shoved to the ground by a goon. He was an ICU nurse at the VA. #FuckICE #ICEOUT #MNStrong #StandWithMinnesota #AlexPretti

"We had to remove the president and his wife because he's a criminal the people hate" is quite a line for the US to take right now.

I suggest we call this “The Epstein Files War”.

#Epstein #Venezuela

"Mr. Trump has not yet offered a coherent explanation for his actions in Venezuela."

That brain-addled d-bag has not yet offered a coherent sentence during his entire presidency.

So I'll offer a coherent explanation for him: He bombed and destabilized a country to distract from his (and his friends') involvement in the Epstein files.

I say turnabout is fair play, and eagerly await New Zealand or Canada kidnapping T-bag and running our country until a better leader can be elected.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/venezuela-attack-trump-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BlA.R-Hx.LrJGhvioM-hp

#USPol #Venezuela #Epstein

I’ll give this a repost. Cartoon from last month.

#Trump #Maduro #Venezuela

Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.

One of our most-read investigations of 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#DOGE #SocialSecurity #Government #ElonMusk #USPolitics #Musk #News

I finally managed it ...