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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
Revisit our Oct. 2025 story:
https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-citizens-arrested-detained-against-will?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Good morning The Forkiverse!! Another 200 people or so joined us overnight. And now the fire marshal is here. He's doing ... a sexy little dance. Wait a minute does this guy even work at the fire department
I told my kids that I want to move us to France to get out of this Murica. Can you inform me about France and if it is really feasible to do?
Free in the Dark, a GPL2 port of Alone in the Dark 1-3: https://github.com/yaz0r/FITD
Gamers, what's your MAIN preference for upgrading your equipment?
"Hi! You can sign up for extra surveillance and targeted marketing while you're at our conference! "
the raspberry pi should have broken out all its connectors to the pin connector. like yeah a bunch of GPIO is nice but I should be able to do USB or ethernet over the pins
“What do you want on your tombstone” I dunno, the key or key range being deleted? A logical timestamp I guess?
After being let go from Microsoft, Clippy fell on hard times
Smithsonian swaps Trump portrait and removes mention of impeachments | Donald Trump | The Guardian Sun 11 Jan 2026
National Portrait Gallery removes text on new portrait of Trump standing in Oval Office with a scowl and fists on desk
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/11/smithsonian-swaps-trump-portrait
I finally installed Immich this weekend, and oh my gourd is it awesome.
🇪🇺 European Union official accounts to follow:
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@EUCommissionEuropean Commission - European Commission, executive body of the EU
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@CuriaCourt of Justice of the EU (English) & 
@Curia_frCour de justice de l'UE (French) - Court of Justice of the EU
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@EC_NGINext Generation Internet - Funding free open online projects including Mastodon etc
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@EC_OSPOOpen Source Programme Office - Initiative to transition EU to free open software
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@REAEU Research Executive Agency - Funding body for research & innovation
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@EC_DIGIT - Handles IT in the European Commission
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@IHIEuropeInnovative Health Initiative - EU public-private partnership funding health research
In ICE’s Own Words, It’s “Wartime” in America
https://newrepublic.com/post/205122/ice-recruitment-wartime-america-renee-good
ICE just launched a “wartime recruitment” campaign and seeks agents who want to “defend” their “culture.” There will be more Renee Goods.
"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/
"The #Forkiverse makes all of this visible...unfolding in real time. We are watching a community take shape, with excitement, disagreement, and inevitable growing pains. Whether or not it fixes the internet is almost beside the point...in the Fediverse, community is not abstract. Community matters more than algorithms....It is intentional, contextual, and deeply shaped by where you choose to belong. And there is space, even if you have too many faces." https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkiverse-experiment-and-why-instance-choice-matters/
ICE Out For Good protests and vigils are springing up everywhere this weekend, organized by Indivisible, 50501, the Disappeared in America Campaign, Voto Latino, the ACLU American Civil Liberties Union, and many others. 580 events were scheduled as of last night, but more than 1,000 are expected.
🔗 Axios article https://www.axios.com/2026/01/09/ice-shooting-minneapolis-portland-vigils-protests
This is just nightmare fuel to me.
🤖 AI Disclosure: This project is 100% AI-generated code. All Rust code, documentation, and configuration was written by Claude (Anthropic) via Cursor with MCP tools. My role is product direction, testing, and learning to orchestrate AI-assisted development effectively. The code is reviewed and tested, not blindly accepted — but I want to be transparent about the development process. This project is partly a learning exercise in exploring how far AI-assisted development can go.
Every single response to Issues and PRs appears to also be generative. I see no oversight, no real safety nets whatsoever. And this is the future they want.
리리 인외폼을 아예 괴조로 바꾸고싶어. 하피, 시도해본적 없았으나 조만간 해보도록 하죠.
RE: https://persadon.com/@mdarvishi/115859556539177559
Arad is an an open source Farsi/Arabic font by 
@mdarvishiمحمد درویشی
https://mohamaddarvishi.ir/Arad
My USian friends, how are y'all dealing with all of this and still working. I feel like we're all pretending everything is OK during work hours. Had a panic attack last night ruminating about it. The cognitive dissonance is hitting a breaking point with me.
ｽﾋﾟｷほしい
스우님 안녕
나아가고자 하는 사람은 필연적으로 고찰하고 고찰하는 자는 필연적으로 자신을 바라봐야하니까... 자신을 보는 사람은 나아가고자 하는 사람이라고 생각해요 움직이면... 그게 다 길이잖아요 어느 방향으로 갔든 어느 속도로 갔든 그냥 그게 인생이고 삶이니까 다들 너무 지금이 힘들지 않았으면 해요
Local native americans come to pay their respects to Renee 💞
#Minneapolis #USPolitics #SolidarityIsBeautiful #GlobaliseTheIntifada #FuckICE
When it became obvious that the primary consumer of bandwidth was corporate web scrapers powering generative models, I started being more selective about what personal projects (/+updates) I made public.
Ultimately I have no interest in doing subsidized work in the service of for-profit enterprises; and while there was always an undercurrent, lately the dynamics of the foss ecosystem have radically shifted towards that end.
Thinking back to the days when IRC was the main way I shared code.
I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
Link: https://www.notebookcheck.net/I-dumped-Windows-11-for-Linux-and-you-should-too.1190961.0.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707
Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux
Link: https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/replace-retiring-windows-xp-linux/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577019
That's great, Mr Carney, now do the U.S.
Alma is a sophisticated lady-cat who absolutely could get the mousey toy out of this bowl if that was her aim. She would never sit on it and then scrabble comically. She’s just hanging out here being extremely casual, as you can see.
Somewhere some tech bro is trying to figure out how to get ads in to linux desktop.
Hardly a surprise.
Elon Musk shrugs off responsibility as Grok makes sexual images of young girls | The National
My friend told me to take three of these. I'm now on a whole new level ...
When it became obvious that the primary consumer of bandwidth was corporate web scrapers powering generative models, I started being more selective about what personal projects (/+updates) I made public.
Ultimately I have no interest in doing subsidized work in the service of for-profit enterprises; and while there was always an undercurrent, lately the dynamics of the foss ecosystem have radically shifted towards that end.
Thinking back to the days when IRC was the main way I shared code.
finished this lil' cutie a while ago and gave it to a lovely someone 
I really like how it turned out! Cute but not *too* cute, cuddly with no metal wire or such, but still able to kinda stand up
Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are. Offer people all the slop extensions in the world and see who will download them.
Got an email from our local vet today announcing that she was retiring, and selling the practice to another independent veterinarian, having turned down several much higher offers from private equity rollup funds.
I am so grateful to Burbank/Toluca Pet Hospital's Dr Skaar for this. Having watched PE-backed rollups destroy so many veterinary practices, killing pets and ruining workers' lives, it's such a relief to know that our vet put her patients first.
It's my first Fediversary! Still happy to be here, no regrets leaving IG--in fact, it's been a relief.
https://mastodon.social/@potterybyosa/113867178054241404
Are there any older women that are gamers and are looking for new people to play with?
I'm 61 and have lost my gaming group for reasons that are not clear to me. I prefer playing with other women or queer folks.
I mostly play:
#Warframe
#Palia
#DeadByDaylight
#Terraria
#GTAOnline
But I'm open to other games. I just can't play anything in first person due to nausea. I prefer cooperative games to competitive ones.
I play on #PS5, so I can play with other playstation folks or on cross-platform titles.
I'm in Pacific time zone, and am available most any time during the day, with an exception of 5-7 pm. I usually get to bed around 10 pm.
Please boost for visibility.
US folks: Want to buy some girl scout cookies online? Erin Reed has a list of LGBTQ girl scouts you can buy from! (Yes, sadly, this is on Substack. But you don’t need a Substack account to read it.)
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies
Alternatively, you could support the child of a Mastodon person! Send a DM to 
@metalplates to get info on buying from his child.
Some days there are very few ducks on the canal. This isn't one of those days.
My USian friends, how are y'all dealing with all of this and still working. I feel like we're all pretending everything is OK during work hours. Had a panic attack last night ruminating about it. The cognitive dissonance is hitting a breaking point with me.
I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.
Hannah Arendt saw the terror of Nazis in the 1920s and 30s and was imprisoned by the Gestapo.
She knew the importance of standing up to Fascism and to Fascist Terror.
does someone using an electric drill mean they care less about their craft or do a worse job than someone who uses a hand drill?
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Stefano Marinelli
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