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U.S. Sent a Rescue Plane for Boat Strike Survivors. It Took 45 Hours to Arrive. In seas that could kill a person within an hour, it took nearly two days for a rescue plane to arrive.

How does a country fulfill the duty to render aid to the shipwrecked without the inconvenience of survivors?

Today, some of the work I've done with Airwars was published in a piece I co-authored with @nickturse.bsky.social of The Intercept

@theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2026/02/17/b...

17.02.2026 22:51 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Preparing the graves for more than 150 elementary school girls who were killed by an Israeli-American strike. Photo: IRNA #Iran

02.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 226 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 16

Maybe the real cyberwars were the friends we made along the way πŸ’«

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DHS admits it deported more than 80 DACA recipients β€œDreamers” who came to the U.S. as children are protected under U.S. law, so deportations of them are unusual.

β€œThe Department of Homeland Security admitted to Congress this month that it deported dozens of unauthorized immigrants who are protected under U.S. law because they were brought as children to the United States, according to a letter made public Thursday.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

02.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 490 πŸ” 291 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 48

For the love of god, please learn to express disagreement on this app without talking like an absolute piece of shit who can’t understand that the person on the other end is a thinking, feeling human too

02.03.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 1624 πŸ” 174 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 30
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a motto for our times

02.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 61 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I think of all the past generations who toiled and wept to give us, the present, such treasures. And how they are destroyed in the blink of an eye, by malignant fools, by the enemies of beauty, civilization, culture and life.

02.03.2026 19:54 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

everyone loves smart missiles until they correctly parse the constitution and UCMJ and determine that they have a duty to obstruct an illegal war

02.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 303 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force.

Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

02.03.2026 14:43 πŸ‘ 5847 πŸ” 1296 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 39

see that's that bullshit

a tic is involuntary, but BAFTA not saying anything to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan afterwards is a choice

23.02.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 4701 πŸ” 885 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 27
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🟠 European Human Rights delegation arrives in Rojava to investigate violations

🌐More (hawarnews.com/en/european-...)

πŸ”” HAWAR NEWS AGENCY #ANHA

t.me/enhawarnewsβœ…

23.02.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rojava delegation to attend European Parliament meeting A delegation from Rojava will participate in a meeting at the European Parliament, scheduled to be held next Wednesday in the Belgian capital, Brussels.

🟠Rojava delegation to attend European Parliament meeting

πŸ”΅ A delegation from Rojava will participate in a meeting at the European Parliament, scheduled to be held next Wednesday in the Belgian capital, Brussels.

🌐More (hawarnews.com/en/rojava-de...)

πŸ”” HAWAR NEWS AGENCY #ANHA

23.02.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

15.02.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 4183 πŸ” 1853 πŸ’¬ 129 πŸ“Œ 319
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Introducing Wireservice - Wireservice Today, an alpha WordPress plugin for standard.site. Tomorrow?

Introducing Wireservice. Today, it's a WordPress plugin in alpha for publishing to @standard.site. Tomorrow, it's... another longform content lexicon? A news aggregation app on atproto? We'll see. wordpress.wireservice.net/index.php/20...

19.02.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 109 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6
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AI and Media Moderation for Blacksky-Only Posts Blacksky-only posts are coming. The community uploads 100K+ media monthly, too much for human review alone. Any AI moderation would run on our own infrastructure. No third party gets access to Blacksk...

πŸ—³οΈ Blacksky-only posts are coming.
- The community uploads 100K+ media monthly, too much for human review alone.
- Any AI moderation (if we used it) would run on our own infrastructure.
- No third party gets access to Blacksky data, period.

Please weigh in using the below survey by Feb 28th πŸ‘‡πŸΎπŸ‘‡πŸΎπŸ‘‡πŸΎ

20.02.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 500 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 70

😍😍😍😍😍

20.02.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of Tyesha Maddox's newly released book A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity. The cover features a colorized, archival photo of three Black Caribbean women at the turn of the 20th century, each wearing dresses of the period and all three wearing hats, with the one on the right wearing a hat unique to her Caribbean heritage.

Cover of Tyesha Maddox's newly released book A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity. The cover features a colorized, archival photo of three Black Caribbean women at the turn of the 20th century, each wearing dresses of the period and all three wearing hats, with the one on the right wearing a hat unique to her Caribbean heritage.

THURS, FEB 26 @ 6:30PM EST: "A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity," with author Tyesha Maddox. This FREE and ONLINE event is by Gotham Center for New York City History. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/a-home-awa... #activism #MutualAid #BlackHistory

20.02.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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idk guys i just think if your pathologically contrarian posting brain leads you to try and whitewash the pedophile sex trafficking cult you should have very bad things happen to you

05.02.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 163 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4
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"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far olderβ€”and not Denisovans The revised age may help make sense of 2-million-year-old stone tools elsewhere in China.

My latest for @arstechnica.com explores what it means that we have 1.77 million year-old Homo erectus fossils in central China, and whether Homo erectus was really the first hominin to migrate that far. πŸ§ͺ

20.02.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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Jonathan Brown - jbcartoonist on Instagram.

20.02.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 2881 πŸ” 994 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 26
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DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platformβ€”after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

NEW: Homeland Security officials are asking companies to help them combine all of their face and fingerprint systems together into one giant biometric platform.

Buttttttt it's unclear how workable this really is since DHS uses a wide mishmash of proprietary algos.

20.02.2026 20:09 πŸ‘ 247 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 29

From what? They just passed it off to consumers

20.02.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A banner featuring Donald Trump's photo featuring the phrase "Make America Great Again" is hung on the side of the headquarters of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

A banner featuring Donald Trump's photo featuring the phrase "Make America Great Again" is hung on the side of the headquarters of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

As @brendannyhan.bsky.social says on repeat, what would you say if you saw it happening in another country?

Source: x.com/HBRabinowitz...

19.02.2026 19:13 πŸ‘ 277 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 12
two hands holding the book "Black Arms To Hold You Up" featuring two cartoon figures running in the bottom corner and the words "TFSR 12-28-25 | Black Arms To Hold You Up (with Ben Passmore)"

two hands holding the book "Black Arms To Hold You Up" featuring two cartoon figures running in the bottom corner and the words "TFSR 12-28-25 | Black Arms To Hold You Up (with Ben Passmore)"

Hear @benpassmore.bsky.social on history, Black liberation, anarchism, martial arts, myths, comics & his new book, β€œBlack Arms To Hold You Up”.
+ an interview with anarchist & former Belarusian political prisoner Mikola Dziadok, conducted by Frequenz-A

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/12...

28.12.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

idk, feels like a teachable moment.

free them tho.

24.01.2026 05:54 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is, as we know, the problem with "better training and oversight."

It is already a clear violation of DHS/ICE's use of force guidelines to immediately draw and point your firearm at an unarmed person. They know this, and they know the administration will defend their rule-breaking.

03.02.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 116 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
Screenshot of a web browser. The top of the page says "Text editor" with a save button, folder button and a plus sign button. A dialog is open with a form labelled "Create file". The save type is `hyper://`, the site name is `notes` and the file name is `example.txt`

Screenshot of a web browser. The top of the page says "Text editor" with a save button, folder button and a plus sign button. A dialog is open with a form labelled "Create file". The save type is `hyper://`, the site name is `notes` and the file name is `example.txt`

Want to learn how to make a #dweb app using Agregore? Check out our new tutorial that will guide you through making a basic text editor.

https://agregore.mauve.moe/docs/tutorials/texteditor

14.01.2026 04:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Good First Issues β€’ AgregoreWeb Here's a list of all the good first issues you can take on if you'd like to contribute to Agregore. If you see something that sounds fun, comment on the issue or ping @RangerMauve to claim it.

Interested in #decentralization and #p2p ? Want to contribute to #OpenSource software?

Check out our "good first issue" project board and see if something sparks your interest.

https://github.com/orgs/AgregoreWeb/projects/5

09.01.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see β€œpapers,” union says - Salem Reporter A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

01.02.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 6560 πŸ” 3472 πŸ’¬ 285 πŸ“Œ 340

i met this guy on Saturday. he was engaged in the devious business of walking a kid who'd just been maced back to his apartment and washing out their eyes.

03.02.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 2522 πŸ” 368 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 4