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Several US news publications have just been added to the Fediverse via Flipboard:
@curaffairsCurrent Affairs Magazine - US news, politics & culture from progressive perspective
@TPMTalking Points Memo - Progressive US political news site
@AfroLA - Los Angeles independent news service, Black perspective
@RacketMNRacket - Independent news for Twin Cities area in Minnesota
@HellGate - Worker-owned news service for New York
@SAExpressNewsSan Antonio Express-News - Local newspaper for San Antonio, Texas
@YaleClimateYale Climate Connections - Climate crisis news including how to fight it
Violet watches while I trim Rose's hooves this afternoon. Violet was next of course!
今日の午後、ローズの蹄を整えている間、バイオレットが見守っています。もちろん、次はバイオレットです！
#hooves #ヤギ #goats #GoatsOfMastodon
Congressman Jamie Raskin just said that he was able to view the full and unredacted Epstein Files, and searching Donald Trump's name resulted in "MORE THAN A MILLION" results.
We knew of 38,000 mentions. That means we know of only ~3% of Trump's involvement with a convicted child sexual abuser and sex trafficker.
Anyone still not ready to impeach and remove him is complicit. Period.
So liebe Leute, jetzt bin ich Opfer der Kürzungen in der Sozialwirtschaft geworden. Mein Sozialverband schließt Mitte des Jahres meine Abteilung und ich darf mich nach einer neuen Stelle umsehen.
Für mich ein herber Schlag, da ich mich in einem Unternehmen noch nie so wohl gefühlt habe.
Ich bin Bildungsreferentin und habe mich in den letzten Jahren mit der Konzeption und Durchführung von Weiterbildungen beschäftigt. Außerdem habe ich E-Learnings entwickelt und erstellt.
Falls also wer was hört oder ein nettes Unternehmen in Berlin einfach eine unglaublich motivierte, digital affine, sympathische, Mitarbeiterin sucht, dann schreibt mir eine PN. #fedijobs #jobsuche #berlin #bildung #sozialverband #akademie #weiterbildung #bildungsreferentin #fedihire
In der Lokalzeit Dortmund ein Bericht über die beiden Brüder des in Dortmund von der Polizei getöten Mouhamed Dramé.
Beide wollen gerne hier arbeiten und die Stadt, so heißt es, wollen die befristete Aufenthaltserlaubnis nicht verlängern. Ein Skandal wie ich finde und nun gibt es einen offenen Brief:
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrgebiet/brueder-mouhamed-drame-wollen-bleiben-dortmund-100.html
Unterstützt die Forderung:
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/fur-eine-zukunft-fur-sidy-und-lassana-drame-in-dortmund
Update: Link zum TV-Beitrag:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/lokalzeit-aus-dortmund/wdr-lokalzeit-aus-dortmund-oder-10-02-2026/wdr-dortmund/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLXNvcGhvcmEtNmE0NzRlMGMtMzg4MS00NzIyLWExMGMtZjVlZWJmZDJlNzAy
Danke an 
@filmtdenpottChristof Voigt fürs Berichten.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@astrid/116043809090680535
This is a perfect Only Connect clue for the sequence round.
DNS Record
Battery
Battery
What is the fourth item in the sequence?
DNS Record. That is correct, but why?
Get a bunch of games and fund a good cause, why not
No ICE in Minnesota by jesthehuman and 651 others - itch.io
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota
i figured out how to get my latest newsletter post (as of build time) to show up on my website! (thanks to the 
@buttondown API.) so the body content of the most recent email will always be here:
https://palomakop.tv/newsletter/latest/
i don't really have it featured the most prominently, or share the full archive on my site, because it's more of a personal thing than a public blog or whatever. but maybe i should include them in my rss feed or something? because i myself prefer RSS to email newsletters, maybe i should cater better to people who are like me...
On March 1st, we will be launching an internet #radio station as a project of 
@TCRCATC Radical Community Archive. You'll be able to tune in to revolution bangers, local musicians, interviews, and event roundups. Interested in a DJ slot or helping coordinate? Want to do an interview or play a live set? Send us an email at TCRCA@proton.me with tagline "RFTC"! #TwinCities #Minneapolis #StPaul
83% of observed Ivanti EPMM exploitation (CVE-2026-1281) traces to one bulletproof IP that isn't on any published IOC list. The IPs that are? VPN exits with zero Ivanti activity. We broke down who's actually doing this ⬇️ https://www.greynoise.io/blog/active-ivanti-exploitation
fun fact: "poignant" is pronounced "poignant".
This is Molly
We got her from a rescue. Unfortunately, while she was there, she caught calicivirus, which led to stomatitis. Her body thought her teeth were invaders. She couldn't eat because of the pain
The vet said they needed to remove all her teeth - but don't worry, cats don't need teeth
Okay
In the end, they removed all but the canines - and she has been fine. She eats happily now. And she eats a lot
So I guess cats don't really need teeth
Em 
shared the below article:
Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org
A brief note: the Social Web Foundation, Qlub and FediHost are presenting a day-long Fediverse conference in Montreal, Canada on February 24, 2026. FediMTL features speakers from across the Fediverse, including Cory Doctorow, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Julian Lam, and yours truly, Evan Prodromou. The theme of digital autonomy for Canada has never been more important. Tickets are on sale now for both in person and streaming attendance. I look forward to seeing you there!
Read more →Get a bunch of games and fund a good cause, why not
No ICE in Minnesota by jesthehuman and 651 others - itch.io
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota
Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents by 
@jmmvJulio Merino https://lobste.rs/s/86y3bb #vibecoding
https://jmmv.dev/2026/02/one-week-with-claude-code.html
島一周ドライブしてた前職の同僚居たな
Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss
Link: https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131(26)00008-2
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962801
Tim Bray (
@timbray) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says:
My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate
AfD-Verwandtenaffäre in Sachsen-Anhalt weitet sich aus
Auch Verwandte des AfD-Chefs in Sachsen-Anhalt, Martin Reichardt, sollen laut WDR und NDR im Bundestagsbüro eines Parteikollegen angestellt worden sein. Solche gegenseitigen Einstellungen sind rechtlich nicht verboten, aber umstritten.
@tagesschau wehe, das wären die #gruenen gewesen. Dann hätte die Blöd-Zeitung und Welt zum öffentlichen aufknöpfen aufgerufen.
We are committed to growing the Open Social Web. For us, that starts by working to overcome barriers of entry in the network and highlighting the things done well.
On March 2nd, 
@fediforum are hosting an event dedicated to Growing the OSW. It's a chance to talk about all the issues as well as the long list of things the Social Web is doing well.
Ahead of it, we've published our Position Paper. You can see it here 👉
https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/our-blog/growing-the-open-social-web/
We don't send you surveys to find out how satisfied you were with the driver who put your parcel in the bin just before it was emptied. We just need to maximise the opportunities for you to accept cookies so we can track you and sell data.
Ok people are misusing the term "cognitive dissonance" again!
I meant to do this rant years ago. So here goes.
Phrases like, "Boy, MAGA must sure be feeling cognitive dissonance today!" are not only using big words with total ignorance about what they mean, but they're helping promote the kind of ignorance that helps cults retain followers.
Manipulation of the natural mental balancing act between cognitive dissonance and consonance is the core of how people get trapped in cults. People stay stuck in MAGA *because* MAGA influencers have created a complicated maze in their followers' minds that wards off THEIR ABILITY TO FEEL the dissonance one normally would when confronted with facts and basic human empathy.
Mind control completely subverts the mind's natural process for righting itself in the face of disconfirming information.
Events like this assassination (and all its surrounding discourse) have been pre-primed in the MAGA mind to cause them CONSONANCE. Almost anything you say or do to point out what to *you* feels like dissonance, will to them only enforce the reasons they are correct in their worldview.
This of why it's so incredibly difficult to get someone out of a cult, and why folks who leave cults find it so difficult to decondition from the cult's influence, even after they stop believing in its core ideology.
And why I wrote a book to help people do that.
And why one of the first things I explain in Recovering Agency is how cognitive dissonance/consonance theory works, citing Leon Festinger who developed the theory starting in the 1950s.
I will explain this theory in the next post... right after breakfast.
Because it explains how your mind works to accept and reject beliefs. Knowing this gives you awareness of your own mental processes, and can maybe empower you with Fox-watchin' Uncle Bob, who used to be a guy who cared, way back in '98.
🧵
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
shared the below article:
Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org
A brief note: the Social Web Foundation, Qlub and FediHost are presenting a day-long Fediverse conference in Montreal, Canada on February 24, 2026. FediMTL features speakers from across the Fediverse, including Cory Doctorow, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Julian Lam, and yours truly, Evan Prodromou. The theme of digital autonomy for Canada has never been more important. Tickets are on sale now for both in person and streaming attendance. I look forward to seeing you there!
Read more →大島でっかいどうw
Hallo #Stuttgart und Umgebung: Entgegen aller Widrigkeiten habe ich einen Vertrag für ein Praxissemesterpraktikum bei euch in der Nähe unterschrieben. Die Unterkunft fehlt aber noch!
Deswegen suche ich eine Untermiete (Zeitraum: April bis August, begrüße aber jegliche sonstige/kürzere Vereinbarung - bestens Richtung Süd/Böblingen)
Boosts willkommen! (So könntest DU zeigen, dass dieses Fediversum Macht hat! Gleichzeitig kannst du mich auch helfen, auch wenn ich kein Ralph Ruthe bin! 
)
Headline: 'E-bike for your feet': How bionic sneakers could change human mobility
Me, having read The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen: No, thanks
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/10/nx-s1-5698195/nike-amplify-bionic-sneakers
Evan Prodromou shared the below article:
Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org
A brief note: the Social Web Foundation, Qlub and FediHost are presenting a day-long Fediverse conference in Montreal, Canada on February 24, 2026. FediMTL features speakers from across the Fediverse, including Cory Doctorow, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Julian Lam, and yours truly, Evan Prodromou. The theme of digital autonomy for Canada has never been more important. Tickets are on sale now for both in person and streaming attendance. I look forward to seeing you there!
Read more →the existence of a network implies the existence of a grosswork.
そういえば霧もコロイドか
i figured out how to get my latest newsletter post (as of build time) to show up on my website! (thanks to the @buttondown API.) so the body content of the most recent email will always be here:
https://palomakop.tv/newsletter/latest/
i don't really have it featured the most prominently, or share the full archive on my site, because it's more of a personal thing than a public blog or whatever. but maybe i should include them in my rss feed or something? because i myself prefer RSS to email newsletters, maybe i should cater better to people who are like me...
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
― the 2024 blog post
― the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.
Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org
A brief note: the Social Web Foundation, Qlub and FediHost are presenting a day-long Fediverse conference in Montreal, Canada on February 24, 2026. FediMTL features speakers from across the Fediverse, including Cory Doctorow, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Julian Lam, and yours truly, Evan Prodromou. The theme of digital autonomy for Canada has never been more important. Tickets are on sale now for both in person and streaming attendance. I look forward to seeing you there!
Read more →よっこいし 
Profile redesign: Account filter fixes (#37811)
Remove unneeded rescue from DOB Validator (#37785)
Purge custom emojis on domain suspension (#37808)
Move theme-related helper methods out of controller (#37807)
Fix `NoMethodError` in `ActivityPub::FetchFeaturedTagsCollectionService` (#37806)
Update irb to v1.17.0 (#37780)
Fix streaming of disabled timelines with special permissions (#37791)
Auto accept account added to collection (#37805)
Migrate to new theming infrastructure (#37612)
Profile redesign: Quality pass (#37766)
Reduce stubbing SUT for `EmailMxValidator` spec (#37750)
Update vite-tsconfig-paths to v6.1.0 (#37773)
Update axios to v1.13.5 [SECURITY] (#37803)
New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37797)
Federate updates to collections (#37790)
Set a more explicit version number for GH Action (#37800)
Fix i18n check for missing source strings (#37801)
Add a i18n check in pre-commit for JS files (#37793)
The answer is not “have you tried wearing noise canceling headphones”.
The answer is “don’t let extroverts decide on office policy and design”.
Non-sexual nudity
Busy day in the onsen ♨️ #gogogris
#PPOD: This Feb. 4, 2026, image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captures a strong solar flare erupting. Solar flares are powerful bursts of energy that, along with other types of solar eruptions, can impact radio communications, electric power grids, and navigation signals and pose risks to spacecraft and astronauts. The flare pictured was classified as an X4.2 flare. X-class flares are the most intense. Credit: NASA/SDO
Making self hosted web user interface for BME280 temperature, humidity and pressure sensor with ESPUI https://lobste.rs/s/jb4mko #c++ #hardware
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/making-self-hosted-web-user-interface-for-bme280-temperature-humidity-and-pressure-sensor-for-esp32-poe-esp32-c6-devkit-lipo-and-esp32-c3-devkit-lipo-with-espui/
That's helpful to know.
SPD-Digitalpolitiker fordert Klarnamenpflicht für soziale Netzwerke. Der Abgeordnete Armand Zorn will Accounts "mit der europäischen digitalen Brieftasche, der EUDI-Wallet" verknüpfen. "Damit ließe sich eindeutig zuordnen, welche Person hinter einem Account steht und wer für Inhalte verantwortlich ist." https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/social-media-verbot-koalition-debattiert-einschraenkungen-fuer-jugendliche-a-46f3a18d-cf4e-4fba-bcd6-91b1d6ec6b51
@andre_meister
Klammerbeutelpflicht für SPD-Digitalpolitiker...
(war nur n Verleser, aber ich dachte, ich lass das mal hier...)
いつかは立派な部分ツイートを一番乗りで投稿して集合知に貢献したい
ヒロ観光はキラウエアの噴火を眺めるくらいしか思い付かないんだけどいつも噴いてるわけじゃないんだよねえw 島のあっちに行けばみんなの知ってるハワイもある
朝の4時よ！これから走りに出るんでしょ？
Think you can predict the output? Take a pause with our latest #ACMCoffeeBreakPuzzle. 💬 Leave your solution below. We're tagging the sharpest minds in our Stories! Looking for more puzzles? https://www.acm.org/education/coffee-break-puzzles
My children…
授業資料を公開している大学の皆様に置かれましては、感謝しています。
Quincy ⁂
Stefan Bohacek
wakest ⁂
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Fullmetal Alejandro
Jan Lehnardt 
Jenniferplusplus