#followfriday — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #followfriday, aggregated by home.social.
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I did not do #FollowFriday since the last time I did that I ran into troubles.
Maybe I should do a #StansSaturday instead???
LOL
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Hello, everyone;
On this Follow Friday;
I want everyone to have:
1. Lifelong Peace
2. Lifelong Freedom
3. A World Without War
4. Thriving Livable Wages
5. Lifelong Excellent Health
6. A World Without Genocide
7. Affordable Quality Housing
8. Affordable Nutritious Food
9. Love of Family and Friends
10. Happiness, Safety, Security
11. Quality Universal Healthcare
12. Other things that you wish for.
#FollowFriday #Solidarity #Peace
#FollowBackFriday #FF #Follow
#GoodWishes #BestWishes 💚 😊 -
RE: https://bots.ambience.sk/@arroganceofspace/47893c90-5de0-4bbc-8053-1204372338bb
#ArroganceOfSpace bot is now live!
Follow @arroganceofspace
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As promised, my #Astronomy / #DarkSkies / #Astrophotography List [alpha order] for #FollowFriday ! Suggestions welcome! 🔭 🌌 🌟
@AlexSanterne
#Astronomer, working @IPAG & teaching at #University Grenoble-Alpes (France).
Interests: #photography #Astronomy #Space@ArvitZ
Process Engineering Student, Amateur - #Astrophotographer, FPV-Quad Pilot
So in a nutshell I like STEM, watching our universe and flying around with fast drones basically...@badastro
#Astronomer, #scicomm, #author, etc.@cosmos4u
Science writer in Germany since, gasp, 1982 specializing in all things space@esa [bot]
This is an unofficial repeater of the RSS feed of the #EuropeanSpaceAgency [ #ESA ]@esoastronomy
The European Southern Observatory designs, builds & operates world-class observatories on the ground for the benefit of society.@JohnBarentine
#Astronomer. Historian. Author. Space environmentalist. Small business owner. Arizona native. Proud LGBT American. 🏳️🌈 Retiring to asteroid 14505. Questioning everything; occasionally getting in trouble for it. Toots about #Astronomy, #LightPollution, #DarkSkies, #Satellites, #SciencePolicy, #History and more.@malcircuit
"This is where I share my #astrophotography without all of the drama."@maxplanckgesellschaft
Germany's leading basic research organization. Toots in English and German.
#Astronomy #Physics@mustapipa
Astronomer, researcher at Helsinki University, discoverer of dozens of planets, notably the candidate habitable world #Proximab around the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri.@planet4589.bsky.social [bridge]
#Astrophysicist #LEO
Support the work of #JonathansSpaceReport
🌉 bridged from 🦋 planet4589.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact@salvabara
#LightPollution researcher. Former profesor titular de Óptica (retired) at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza (European Union).
Born at 317 ppm CO2@space_environmentalism
The #CenterForSpaceEnvironmentalism ( #CSE ) increases awareness and understanding of space environmentalism issues and helps stakeholders make better decisions about them by pursuing research, education, outreach and advocacy. https://www.spaceenvironmentalism.org #Space #SpaceEnvironment #SpaceEnvironmentalism@stargazersmith
Stargeezer, retired. Worked in computer science (PhD), aerospace engineering, and astronomy.
Interests: #amateurastronomy #scifi #software #perl #forth #linux #R #GnuOctave@starrytimepod
Sisters Jordan and Kit (@kitirving) cohost this #podcast featuring #astronomy & ret-cons(tellations) of #mythology. Season 3: Into the Wild is afoot!
Follow for toots related to #astronomy, #space, #astrophotography, #StarLore, #mythology of the night sky, and, occasionally, other things we're into (e.g., #StarTrek #Grogu #DoctorWho #Basketball #celtics #ThemeParks #scifi #writing #dinosaurs #storytelling #Creatures etc.)@sundogplanets
Professor of astronomy, farmer of goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.
Living and learning on the land and under the skies of Treaty 4 (Saskatchewan, Canada).
Thanks to Saskatchewan's beautiful night sky, my research background in small body orbital dynamics, and a couple of really unfortunately placed SpaceX reentries, I spend a lot of time yelling about satellite pollution in international news media.@wawn [bot]
This bot posts daily updates on Earth's distances from its awkward neighbors, along with other bizarre weekly bulletins from the #SolarSystem. -
Welche öffentlichen Einrichtungen, #Stiftungen #Kommunen etc. könnt ihr heute zum #FollowFriday empfehlen?
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RE: https://mastodon.art/@datGestruepp/117127242739216987
Ihr folgt @datGestruepp noch nicht? Dann macht hinne - ihr verpasst sonst herrlich kluge und amüsante #cartoonArt!
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@OGJester Would also make a hole ... If you are interested in #spacedebris, I warmly recommend to follow #astronomer and specialist @sundogplanets !
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Follow Friday New Mutual Invite;
If you enjoy my erotic sexy posts,
And my 5 pinned striptease vids;
Follow me so we can be mutuals.
And, by the way, for your benefit;
I share NSFW and SFW content.
So with that said;
Please enjoy your Friday afternoon.
#FollowFriday #FF #FollowbackFriday
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Es ist #FollowFriday und hier sind die meist benutzten Hashtags auf :pnpde_social: pnpde.social!
1. #pnpde
2. #PhantastikPrompts
3. #mangade
4. #manga
5. #ttrpg
6. #rpg
7. #DnD
8. #yuri
9. #RollenSpiel
10. #artist
11. #freiburg
12. #MyMangaYear26
13. #YuriJuni2026
14. #art
15. #illustration
16. #cse2026
17. #mangager
18. #brettspiele
19. #demokratie
20. #DemokratieLeben -
Wem in #Bremen & #Bremerhaven sollen wir als #Volksentscheid Einfach Unterwegs - Initiative für gute Mobilität folgen? Oder wer soll uns folgen? Bitte in den Kommentaren markieren. #followFriday
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I put together a list of accounts that are based on the #WestCoast for an early #FollowFriday! Let me know if you want to be added to the list [or removed].
Alissa Azar @alissaazar
Syria📍PDX
Journalist covering police & far-right violence in the PNW • She/They • Antifascist • NeurodivergentAI6YR Ben @ai6yr
The account of AI6YR Ben, on his own server. Very eclectic selection of posts. Good weather info.JustBob 🪖🇺🇸♒️️ @bob
The silence is deafening. Always hearing about this country or that one, this group or that one but the silence continues for #homeless people.Indivisible SF @IndivisibleSF
San Franciscans standing indivisible for a progressive agenda in CA-11 and CA-15.Led By Gilded Fools @MHowell
White guy living in Indian Country (Suquamish aka Seattle, WA)
#Wilderness, #AntiFacist, #LGBTQ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally, #BLM, #ProChoice, #GunReform #noindex #nobots #noAIMungen Cakes ✅️ @Mungencakes
Loose cannon, Fuckstar, the antifa Ray Stevens, #AltText evangelist. Unceded Alsea land.The Needling @TheNeedling
Seattle's Only Real Fake News (Satire/Parody)Pete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️ @Petesmom
ANTIFA, ACAB / FUCK ICE
Black Lives Matter! Immigrant Lives Matter! Trans Lives Matter! I believe in DEI! “In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” - Maya AngelouRachael L @rachael
I live in Seattle with my family and work in tech. I'm also disabled (mostly deaf & blind on one side). I ride the bus, walk or bike most of the time and I care a lot about our transportation system working for everyone. This account is for Seattle, urbanism & regional political stuff!San Francisco Baykeeper @sfbaykeeper
Defending #SFBay & holding polluters accountable since 1989Seattle Bike Blog @seabikeblog
Pedaling news up Seattle’s hills since 2010.Youth Liberation Front Seattle @seattleylf
The Seattle Division of the PNWYLF, a collective in an autonomous network of antifascist students and youth [Note: They have not posted in a while.]#FollowerPower #PNW #California #Oregon #WashingtonState #SeattleWA #SanFrancisco #PortlandOR #PacificCoast
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Der wunderbare @Sanktionsfrei e.V. ist seit ein paar Tagen #NeuHier im #Fediverse:
👉 https://sanktionsfrei.de/support
#FollowFriday #Jobcenter #Grundsicherung #Hartzbreaker #Sanktionsfrei
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#followfriday #ff
Life is SO hard on Caroline 😱😭
✨ Wishlist Knick Knack Stack on Steam! ✨
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4456070/Knick_Knack_Stack/
#cozy #cozygaming #cozygames #indiegame #wholesome #steam #steamgame #puzzlegame #kks #knickknackstack #gloomy #departure #start #Caroline #visualnovel #relaxing #travel -
Es ist #FollowFriday und hier sind die Hashtags mit den meisten Folgenden auf :pnpde_social: pnpde.social!
1. #pnpde
2. #RollenSpiel
3. #pnpSuche
4. #pnp
5. #pnpdeSwap
6. #ttrpg
7. #osr
8. #DasSchwarzeAuge, #DnD5e, #PbtA, #PenAndPaper, #pnpdeSocial
9. #DnD
10. #rpg
11. #UlissesSpiele, #WaldLesbenContent
12. #pnpBerlinPS: Wie man einem Hashtag folgt steht hier: https://wiki.pnpde.social/books/faq/page/hashtags#bkmrk-wie-folgt-man-einem-
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Black Friday is the perfect day to support independent news sites and journalists with clicks and/or cash. 💰
Here are some who are active in the fediverse. Tell us in the comments if there are any we've missed.
404 Meda, @404mediacoBolts, @bolts
Brian Krebs, @briankrebs
Brian Merchant, @brianmerchant
Casey Newton, @caseynewtonCory Doctorow, @pluralistic
Joan Westenberg , @Daojoan
Gareth Halfacree, @ghalfacree
GBH News, @gbhnews
Kim Zetter, @kimzetter
Knowable Magazine @KnowableMag
LWN.net, @lwn
Molly White, @molly0xfff
ProPublica, @ProPublica
Rest of World, @restofworld
San Francisco Public Press, @SFPublicPress
Steve Herman, @w7voa
The Texas Observer, @TexasObserver
The Continent, @thecontinentThe Conversation, @TheConversationUS
The New York Review of Books, @nybooks
The Transmitter, @thetransmitter
The Tyee, @thetyeeThe Xylom, @thexylom
The Tucson Sentinel, @TucsonSentinel
Tim Mak/The Counteroffensive, @timkmak
#Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #News #BlackFriday #Media #Journalism #FollowFriday
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Wooo! Have my #painting of #British #owls for #followbackfriday. Some say they're bad luck, but I always feel blessed when I see or hear one.
https://janetomlinson.com/products/british-owls
#art #birds #birding #Strigiformes #FollowFriday #flyday #FF #birds #birding #FridayFeeling #TGIF #FriYay
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I haven't done a #FollowFriday in a while. Here are some accounts that I frequent! If you find them useful and/or interesting, you should follow them as well!
@DemocracyNow_Headlines_rss
Automated toots from #DemocracyNow's Headlines RSS feed.@UnicornRiot
#IndependentMedia amplifying stories from the frontlines of social and #environmental struggles.@AIF_Massachusetts #AmericanIronFront in Massachusetts: standing against Nazis, the alt-right, and fascists of all stripes in Massachusetts and the greater New England area.
@freedomofpress
Defending and supporting public-interest #journalism in the 21st century.@internetarchive
#InternetArchive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the #WaybackMachine.@RadicalAnthro
London's longest running evening class, studying What it means to be human at UCL #Anthropology dept. We are FREE, on Tues eves term time. Account run by #CamillaPower. Radical anthropologists include #ChrisKnight, Ian Watts, Jerome Lewis and Morna Finnegan.@bsnorrell.blogspot.com
Automated parrot. #CensoredNews is a service to grassroots #Indigenous Peoples engaged in #resistance and upholding #HumanRights.@gerrymcgovern Author of #WorldWideWaste. Focused on reducing data waste and #eWaste.
@RadicalGraffiti Just sharing pics of #AntiCapitalist, #AntiAuthoritarian and #AntiColonial #graffiti, #stickers and #StreetArt seen around the world.
@thebeeguy
Founder of #WorldBeeSanctuary - the expanded ambition of The #Bee Sanctuary of Ireland - 55 acres of certified stock free organic land dedicated to our #NativeWildBees. The one and only true native wild bee sanctuary on the planet. No hives! No honey! Just wild! A not for profit social enterprise. Disruptive but irresistible.@mutualmorris
We are a#MutualAid group in Morris County, New Jersey, USA wanting to connect with likeminded folks, to learn, share, and build #solidarity communities as far as we can. We are led by mostly #queer, #poor / #unhoused, #immigrant, #socialist, #communist, and #anarchist types from multiple generations and we seek to build a real, active path out of "business as usual".@CrimethInc
#CrimethInc. is a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. We believe that you should be free to dispose of your limitless potential on your own terms: that no government, market, or ideology should be able to dictate what your life can be. If you agree, let’s do something about it.@igd_news
In search of new forms of life. A digital community center and media platform featuring news, opinion, podcasts, and reporting on autonomous social movements and revolt across so-called North America from an #anarchist perspective. 🏴@Todd
#ToddChretien is a farmer, translator, editor, and author. He is co-chair of #MaineDSA and works in the #PineAndRoses editorial collective.@g7izu
#SpaceWeather, #aurora and #RadioPropagation from a UK perspective. Any alerts or warnings are informational only and are not official. I post about various other subjects as well, but always hope to be informative and interesting. Not a professional space weather forecaster, it's my hobby!@sundogplanets
Professor of #astronomy, farmer of #goats. Asteroid (42910). She/her.@MusiqueNow
#Music #Musique #Musica #Musik #Antizionazi Jew , cis,gay franglais 🇫🇷🇬🇧 speaking #anarchist who votes -
Trying something new—forget #FollowFriday, let’s do a #FollowBackFriday. I don’t habitually follow back as much as I used to but I want to expand my pool of mutuals.
If you follow me and I don’t follow you, boost this post and I will follow you back.
No reisdency requirement, either. If you followed me ten seconds ago, offer still stands. No Nazis, but all others are welcome.
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And finally, introducing Ruby Ibarra, a Filipina American rapper who won @npr’s Tiny Desk contest with her entry, "Bakunawa." The three-song performance features an all-Filipino band, and Ibarra sings in English, Tagalog and Bisaya, sometimes switching languages between verses. As she introduces herself, she says: "Being human is not illegal. Immigrants have been here, lived here, worked here. And this immigrant is here. From Tacloban City, Philippines, all the way to Washington, D.C., my name is Ruby Ibarra."
Link: https://flip.it/ZoSr3q
#Music #Culture #Entertainment #TinyDesk #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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At the end of WWII, the Soviet Union shifted its censorship into high gear in order to minimize the corrupting influence of the West. The punishment for disseminating banned materials could be imprisonment in a gulag, or even death. But that didn’t stop the enterprising, innovative people of the former USSR. @TheConversationUS explains “bone music,” where recordings of Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis were etched into used X-ray film. “The music … suggested that a different sort of life is possible, beyond the strictures of Communist officials. How could a political system that prohibited beautiful music, many asked, possibly merit the allegiance of its citizens?”
#Music #Culture #History #SovietRussia #MusicProduction #SoundEngineering #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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The automatic license plate reading camera technology made by Flock is supposed to prevent carjackings or find missing people. @404mediaco says in one Texas case, it was used to track down a woman who was believed to have had a self-administered abortion. 83,000 cameras were used in the search, including ones in states where abortion is legal. The sheriff’s office in Johnson County says that the woman’s family were concerned for her health and that this was the sole reason they were tracking her. “The idea that the police are actively tracking the location of women they believe have had self-administered abortions under the guise of ‘safety’ does not make me feel any better about this kind of surveillance,” says Eve Galperin, director of cybersecurity at digital rights organization the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
#Surveillance #Security #ALPR #Tech #Abortion #WomensRights #Technology #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Apartment concerts — kvartyrnyks — in Ukraine are nothing new. They took place throughout the Soviet years, where Ukrainians could read poetry, sing songs, and freely discuss the government. Veronika Romanova and Mariana Lastovyria write for @timkmak’s Counteroffensive about what it’s like to attend the 2025 version. “The existence of kvartyrnyks demonstrates how Ukrainian culture persists despite constant adversity – whether under authoritarianism or in the face of open war against it,” they write. [Story may be paywalled.]
#Ukraine #History #SovietHistory #Music #Culture #Poetry #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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When a Tennessee student makes a threat on social media and it comes to the attention of school staff, the law requires them to investigate the validity of the threat, and figure out a plan of action that supports the student, and protects their peers. @ProPublica reports on an incident in DuPont Tyler Middle School earlier this year, where authorities expelled a seventh grader without following proper procedures. The 12-year-old’s alleged threat was a screenshot of a text exchange that he says he reposted from a Spanish-language news site. It’s just the latest in a series of similar stories of children being expelled, facing felony charges, and being detained — in one case, just for making a “finger gun” gesture at classmates.
#Tennessee #GunCrime #Education #Children #Schools #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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One way to track what’s happened on Earth during past periods of drastic climate change is to examine fossils, but, says @KnowableMag, “the fossil record for most species is spotty.” Enter planktonic foraminifera, a unicellular marine organism that first appeared on Earth about 100 million years ago. Nine out of 10 species went extinct when an asteroid hit 66 million years ago. It took 10 million years for species diversity to recover. Tim Vernimmen takes a look at what that can teach us about the past — and future.
#MarineLife #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Fossils #Plankton #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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@gbhnews has adapted “Acoustic Rooster,” Kwame Alexander’s jazz-meets-farmyard-animals children’s book, into an animated special and series of digital shorts. Kevin Coyne spoke to Alexander and series producer Julius about how it all came together. “This idea of democracy is at the heart of jazz, and I think that’s something that kids can learn from these musicians in ‘Acoustic Rooster’ – how they collaborate to create beautiful music, but more importantly, become friends and change their world,” says Alexander.
#ChildrensBooks #Education #Lifestyle #Parenting #Jazz #Music #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Another month … another series of local elections in the U.S. @bolts’s @taniel has once again detailed which 40 we should be watching, from high-profile contests like the New York City mayor and New Jersey governor primaries, to a ballot measure on book bans in a California city.
#NewYorkMayor #NewJerseyGovernor #BookBans #Elections #LocalElections #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Selena Quintanilla was murdered 30 years ago, but that’s far from the most important part of her story. @TexasObserver’s Francesca D'Annunzio reviews a new documentary, “Selena y Los Dinos,” which stitches together old camcorder footage, archival interviews with Selena and new conversations with her family members. “As for the woman who murdered Selena in 1995, the film essentially ignores her altogether. The film’s exploration of the loss of Selena’s life focused on the family’s grief and the late singer’s legacy,” writes D’Annunzio.
#Texas #Documentaries #Selena #SelenaQuintanilla #Music #Entertainment #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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It’s Friday! It’s nearly June! How the heck did that happen?! Here’s our #NewstodonFriday selection of stories from independent newsrooms and a few that caught the Flipboard editorial team’s eye. And while there’s hard-hitting journalism in there (we live in hard-hitting times), there’s more than our usual number of inspiring, positive stories of hope and beauty amidst destruction and oppression. @timkmak’s team writes about secret apartment concerts in Ukraine. @TheConversationUS’s story is about “bone music” in Soviet Russia. We’ll end with a Tiny Desk concert from @npr to take you into the weekend. Please follow independent publishers on the open social web, engage with their stories, and donate money if you can. ⤵️
#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday
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And finally, our @ArtPhotosDesk shared a few @RollingStone photos from the recent All-American Rejects tour, where they played free shows at weird and wonderful venues suggested by their fans in order to highlight the problem of crazy ticket prices for live music. Enjoy these shots of people crowd surfing and taking to the roof to get the best view.
#Photography #Photos #LiveMusic #Entertainment #Music #AllAmericanReject #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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@Joysauce is usually focused on celebrating joy in the AANHPI community. "But how do we do that when things seem so bleak?" wrote editor Samantha Pak in her introduction to this Flipboard Storyboard, which our @CultureDesk featured. It centers on stories of activism — stories that Pak says should remind us not to lose hope.
https://flipboard.com/@joysauce/fight-back-this-aanhpi-month-with-joysauce-q58v9npns2ct362v#History #AAPIHistory #AANHPIHistory #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday @histodons
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“The knowledge infrastructure that used to anchor American governance is fraying,” writes @Daojoan in her story for her Index newsletter. People in senior positions often have limited understanding of their roles, responsibilities, the law and the U.S. Constitution, and it doesn’t seem to matter. “The crisis we face — not only in America but worldwide — isn't a knowledge gap. It's a moral gap. A deficit of virtue. And the only remedy for that is cultural, not political,” she writes.
https://www.theindex.media/the-unlearning-of-america/
#TrumpAdministration #KristiNoem #USGovernment #USLaw #USConstitution #HabeasCorpus #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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“The fundamental right to due process is under attack by Trump's mass deportation policy,” wrote our @ElectionCentral team in this Flipboard Storyboard. Here’s a collection of articles exploring what’s happening, who is being sent where, and if U.S. citizens could be next.
https://flipboard.com/@electioncentral/the-vanished-trump-deportations-4c20bskv33q9e5j9
#USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #Deportations #ElSalvador #Immigration #HabeasCorpus #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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The No. 1 threat to birds is windows. @TheConversationUS reports that more than 1 billion birds – and as many as 5.19 billion – die from collisions with sheet glass each year in the U.S. alone. Here’s what you need to know about why glass is so often deadly, which windows are riskiest, and how we can make them safer.
#Wildlife #Animals #Birds #Conservation #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Months ago, a Congolese rebel group called M23 seized Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now they’ve got it, what are they doing with it? @thecontinent reports on how M23 is struggling to control the city of two million people, and how residents are suffering. In the words of one resident, Prisca Kanyere, living in the city is like a subscription that is “renewable every 24 hours” because “to sleep and wake up alive is a very exceptional grace in these times.”
https://continent.substack.com/p/seizing-is-easy-ruling-is-harder
#Africa #Congo #Rwanda #Goma #War #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Russian bombs have destroyed many of Ukraine’s cities and in doing so, flattened Soviet-era buildings. @timkmak, Mariana Lastovyria and Artem Moskalenko write for The Counteroffensive about whether that might one day create opportunities for a new kind of city planning and building that’s more resilient and better for individuals and communities.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/how-ukraine-can-move-beyond-its-soviet
#Ukraine #History #SovietHistory @histodons #Architecture #Building #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Have you heard the one about the small dog in the terrible zoo? We first heard it back in the 1990s, when Dad told it and “ruined Christmas dinner,” according to Granny. It’s also a favorite of Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator. But why? Emanuel Maiberg from @404mediaco tries to figure things out.
https://www.404media.co/why-does-googles-new-veo-3-ai-video-generator-love-this-dad-joke/
#Tech #Technology #AI #Comedy #Humor #Jokes #DadJokes #ArtificialIntelligence #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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One of TV personality Dr. Phil’s maxims is that you should avoid debt at all costs. At the same time, his son Jay McGraw has been involved in the payday lending industry. @ProPublica collaborated with Anchorage Daily News on a story about his role in CreditServe Inc., a consulting firm that worked with a company owned by a Native American tribe in Alaska that offered small dollar loans, with interest rates as high as 700%. CreditServe provides the infrastructure to market, underwrite and collect on loans while “the Tribe is merely a front” and shares in only a small percentage of the revenue, according to a suit filed by five borrowers. They claim that McGraw has collected hundreds of millions of dollars of consumer payments.
https://www.propublica.org/article/minto-money-dr-phil-son-payday-lending-alaska
#Money #Finance #Alaska #Anchorage #DrPhil #FinancialCrimes #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Not every farmer is happy to see birds on their land, but their cooperation with conservation programs can be key to the survival of wetland-dependent waterbird species. @KnowableMag reports on projects that are helping safeguard breeding grounds, molting spots and migration stopover sites for our feathered friends.
#Birds #Conservation #Farming #Agriculture #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Environment #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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A pattern of practices, both deliberate and unintentional, has concealed the history of Massachusetts’ state institutions from the public, including institutional survivors and their family members. This is the finding of a newly released report from the Massachusetts Special Commission on State Institutions — a commission that was made up of majority disabled people, many with personal experience of having been institutionalized. Here’s @gbhnews’s story about the report, which could have national ramifications, since Massachusetts was the home of the U.S.'s first institution for disabled people, creating a blueprint for the nation.
#Disability #DisabilityRights #Massachusetts #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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On Tuesday, Larry Krasner easily won the Democratic primary ahead of a November election that could see him win a third term as district attorney of Philadelphia. @bolts’s @taniel writes about Krasner’s role as one of a number of progressive prosecutors across the United States, the opposition he faced from everyone from Elon Musk to the city’s Democratic Party, and why he continues to be supported across Philadelphia.
https://boltsmag.org/larry-krasner-wins-philadelphia-primary/
#Pennsylvania #Philadelphia #LarryKrasner #ProgressivePolitics #Law #Elections #LocalElections #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Graphic novel legends Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco collaborated on a three-page “comic” about Gaza earlier this year. @thetyee’s Tom Sandborn thought that might lead to controversy, but it didn’t. He looks at the art of the comic form — how it can provoke, satirize, and challenge moral complacency, and whether it’s journalism.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/22/Comics-Power-Moral-Horror-Spiegelman-Sacco-Gaza/
#Culture #Art #Comics #Journalism #Media #GraphicNovels #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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John J. Lennon lives at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where he is serving his 24th year of a 28-years-to-life sentence. He’s also a journalist whose work has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and more. Until last year, he was at Sullivan Correctional Facility, where he mentored emerging writers, both informally and most recently, through the Sullivan Nonfiction Writing Workshop. He writes for @nybooks about setting that up, and what happened when it came to an end with the prison’s closure. “I often think about the time before I came to prison, when I had no promising future. I’ve come to realize that two opposing realities can be true at once: prison probably saved my life and it’s where I learned to write; and prison is a disgusting place that’s hurting me more now than ever,” he writes. “I’m both ashamed and proud of my path. But it wouldn’t have been possible if prison officials hadn’t given writing programs a chance.” [Story may be paywalled]
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/05/21/finding-the-story-prison-writing/
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Nine-year-old Jackie Cazare was one of the victims in the horrific Uvalde, Texas, shooting. In total, 19 children and two teachers were murdered. In the aftermath, Jackie’s uncle, Jess Rizo, became a regular at local government meetings. A year ago, he was elected to the Uvalde CISD school board. He spoke to @TexasObserver’s Gus Bova about turning anger to activism, what he’s learned, and how the community is coming back together. “Everybody, when you go to these meetings, you hear the word transparency, you hear the word accountability, and so everybody’s practicing what they’re preaching, and so we hold each other to that,” he says.
https://www.texasobserver.org/uvalde-jesse-rizo-school-board/
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We were hoping for the summer of love, or at the very least, the summer of ice cream and going to the beach, but alas, @damemagazine tells us, it’s the summer of stagflation. Kaz Weida explains the difference between this and a common-or-garden recession, the signs that indicate the U.S. is going in that direction, and lessons from the past about how to survive the squeeze.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/05/20/the-summer-of-stagflation-is-here/
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On that note, some words from Bruce Springsteen, as shared by our @CultureDesk. "The last check on power after the checks and balances of government have failed, are the people, you and me," said the Boss at a show in Manchester, U.K. Here’s the video of his many anti-Trump remarks at the show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZHWIYHlXOs&t=1s
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