Hey #ActivityPub friends. Are there any new ActivityPub / Mastodon features I should add to #ActivityBot?
It's a small bot-only ActivityPub server in a single PHP file.
https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/
It can be followed, post images, allow quote posts, etc.
Is there anything else you […]
A federal judge in DC rules that Kari Lake was not lawfully appointed and that actions she took as the claimed head of USAGM "shall have no force or effect," including last August's RIFs at the Voice of America.
The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage
Holy shit. These people shouldn’t be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power.
Mullin: “This is war.”
Raju: “You concede this is war?”
Mullin: “We haven’t declared war.”
Reporter: “You just said it’s a war.”
Mullin: *stammer
Re-upping from yesterday: If you're in DC-land today, it's the final day of a phenomenal exhibit at National Gallery, treasures of Aboriginal art. You won't regret it.
The people behind this shit aren't thinking, "We could have it all!" They're thinking, "I could have it all!"
USAGM emails VOA staff (who mostly haven’t been allowed to work for nearly a year) offering them deferred resignations, warning of mass terminations (currently on hold due to court action) “as soon as we are able.”
If I may potentially make this worse - I think the risk here isn’t that AI is going to nuke us, it’s that there’s a kind of guy who is going to see this and think that we should be more willing to use nukes because the computer thinks it’s a good idea
Set your calendar, I'm willing to bet some marketing folks put out a Super Bowl LXI advertisement with this premise
I firmly believe, we gave morning people far too much power.
Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job
kind of like watching your car go up in flames on the side of the highway. undeniably mesmerizing, but also it's your car
Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.
The Supreme Court:
Bruh. Labi Siffre has a new album?!!
pitchfork.com/news/labi-si...
The funny thing is that James Talarico comes off in the Colbert interview as an unremarkable Democratic state legislator, no real stand-out positions or drama.
His interview almost certainly would have flown entirely under the radar and been forgotten in a day if CBS hadn't Streisand-effected it.
the guide 👇
RFK Jr.'s dismantling of vaccines and preventative care actually makes sense if you view it as a jobs program for health care providers.
This now-canceled airspace shutdown, from the beginning, reeked of a decision made by people who did not fully comprehend the consequences of their actions.
The idea that this might be due to confused officials misunderstanding other confused officials isn't surprising at all.
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
Hi y’all. El Paso City Councilmember here but also fellow avgeek. Not a usual sub for me, but here we are. We’re all trying to work out why this crazy NOTAM was issued. What I know so far (as of midnight zero six local Wednesday): • It isn’t a typo or an error. FAA issued this NOTAM intentionally as written. • Nobody local got advance notice. And I mean nobody — neither civilian nor military leadership. • Military does not have carte blanche exemption. Army is fretting about their flights tomorrow just as much as everyone else. • Albuquerque Center did not get advance notice.
Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits
ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.
im so sorry..
that anchor is fighting for his liiiifeeeee
Sorry, I am being told that is actually "Kid" Rock
I appreciate the Weekend-at-Bernie's effort here, but Charlie Kirk's looking pretty rough in that picture
New Quinnipiac poll:
63% of voters disapprove of ICE
60% want ICE out of Minneapolis
58% want Kristi Noem removed from office
BREAKING: Ed Martin was found, per CNN below, by DOJ to have violated GJ secrecy and also apparently lied about it.
If the reporting is accurate, both are federal crimes. Will Martin be charged, given how quick a trigger this DOJ has re Letitia James & James Comey?
edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/p...
i can't believe that after a decade of this bullshit the framing of all this trump authoritarian blather is still "omg what if he does this" and not "this is prohibited by 250 years of american history and also the constitution"
I can’t get over how increasingly desperate and worried district judges are — they are doing all the right things — and how they’re being betrayed by appellate judges and a Supreme Court, both too cowardly to stand behind their decisions.
I've been happy this week to see that some people have caught up to the fact that in MN and across the country, the resistance to fascism has actually BUILT ON what came before. The networks created in 2020 and earlier have been reactivated, expanded etc...
