I had a much needed dose of nature today.

#walking #cymru

@donni Unfortunately one way to bring this about is to make sandwiches and cars really expensive

To recap—in the last week Zohran Mamdani
•Banned ICE fascists from all city property
•Went 8 for 8 in his endorsements winning their elections
•Has now frozen rent for 1 Million rent-stabilized apartments for the next 2-years—for the first time in NYC history

Reminding everyone again that if politicians wanted to—they would. This is the power of people funded public servants, not corporate bought politicians. ❤️✊🏽

"It looks like you're using an unsupported browser"

No, sorry, what you meant to say was:

"It looks like we've written an unsupported website"

@the_wub I like the idea of channeling Wowbagger! I'm not generally a fan of browser extensions (I just have an adblocker) but I would definitely go for that one.

In de nieuwe release van Mastodon zitten features die we nodig hadden voor social.overheid.nl rondom digitale toegankelijkheid. Wij hebben die kunnen meefinancieren en zo hebben wij een beter platform, en de rest van de wereld ook. Zo investeren we in onze communicatiemiddelem en de gehele fediverse tegelijk.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has given away half a billion dollars against a backdrop “where a growing number of billionaires are lashing out against philanthropy”. https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/craigslist-multimillionaire-craig-newmark-b2980681.html

This moron is going to start filing bills terminating funding for transportation, movies about Transylvanian vampires and trans-Atlantic relations long before she ever bothers to learn what a transgenic mouse is.

And then, whilst supping a cup of tea with milk I think of this:

#thehousemartins

https://youtu.be/KfDoPEN7n5k

Half a lifetime away.

On warm, windy and sunny evening watching the #swallows (or are they #housemartins or #swifts ?) weave, duck and dive, before soaring up and disappearing sideways out of view is just pure delight!

I am tempted to turn on one of the irrigation sprinklers on the vegetable patch as I assume it makes insects on the plants fly up into the air and seems to increase the chance that the swallows will stay above our plot for just a little longer.

#birdwatching #gardening

TruthSocial vs WSocial

The Same Play, Run Twice:

Both platforms identified an audience that felt alienated from mainstream social media. Both position themselves as principled alternatives. Both built on open source community infrastructure while simultaneously obscuring that fact. Both are controlled by a small group of wealthy well-connected people with clear political ambitions.

https://wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mokohkfb4224

#TruthSocial #WScoial #Mastodon #BlueSky #Trump #EU #OpenSource

People who oppose immigration aren’t all just racists, you know.

Many of them are racists who also don’t understand economics.

Jede Innenstadt in Deutschland, jetzt.

@_elena @EUCommission

I love the idea of the EU, but sometimes they don't know their arse from their elbow. Proper facepalm moment.

New, from me: 'Popa' Botnet Linked to Publicly Traded Israeli Firm

"For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR]."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/popa-botnet-linked-to-publicly-traded-israeli-firm/

There is an incredible amount of interesting data and findings in the reports on Popa released this week. For example, the proxy detection service Spur told me they recently scraped the LG and Samsung app stores and found that each had approximately 3,000 apps available for download. Spur said it found that more than 42 percent of apps available for download via the webOS operating system on LG smart TVs include SDKs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. More than a quarter of the apps made for Samsung’s Tizen operating system had similar residential proxy components, Spur found.

#proxy #popa #botnet #lg #samsung

US senators propose using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine's military
https://kyivindependent.com/us-senators-propose-using-frozen-russian-assets-to-support-ukraines-military/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Latest News @latest-news-KyivIndependent

UK Gov: "We'll ban under-16s from social media!"

People: "Why?"

UK Gov: "Because it's dangerous for them."

People: "Why?"

UK Gov: "Because of bullying, and algorithms that promote hate."

People: "Have you considered holding the bullies and those who tweak the algorithms responsible?"

UK Gov: "..."

People: "..."

UK Gov: "..."

People: "..."

UK Gov: "Well, clearly you're anti-growth and anti-business and anti-Britain and anti-semitic."

Even het werk van @_elena promoten:
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/06/18/hoe-het-nieuwe-sociale-medium-w-social-de-europese-commissie-wist-te-verleiden-a4930476 #WSocial #Eurosky #Mastodon

Come on folks, another independent journalism outlet needs our help.

The New Internationalist is a great magazine and has been going since the 1970s. Independent journalism at its best.

I used to read it as a student in the 1980s and on re-discovering it a couple of years back I subscribed again.

They need our help to keep going. The deadline is in 19 days time.

Donate now, I already have.

Boost for reach please!

#independentjournalism #newinternationalist

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-new-internationalist-more-than-a-magazine?utm_source=ni-www&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=save_ni_top-banner-msg

🚨 Google is now asking you to grant camera access and show your hands to prove you're a human?!

--> I am not a robot tests have officially gone to far.

Just when you think the Big Tech can't get more privacy-invading, it does! 🫣

#Google #verification #privacy