Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.
Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.
The hills have eyes. The mountains have ears. That valley? It's got a sweet ass.
This is one of the dumbest comics we've made.
Hi Fediverse! Hallo Mastodon! Wir sind das Deutsche Technikmuseum und #neuhier!
Auf 28.500 Quadratmetern Ausstellungfläche geht's bei uns um die Frage, wie Technik unser Leben prägt. Von historischen Maschinen bis zu Zukunftsthemen wie Klimawandel, KI oder Verkehrswende. Hier teilen wir Einblicke ins Museum und Geschichten aus unseren Ausstellungen und Sammlungen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit euch!
#museum
I will be opting my account out of the #Bluesky bridge next week. If you follow me from Bluesky (I think there are about 3.9K of you) and want to continue seeing my posts you will need to get an account on the fediverse. Cheers.
Now that some cat walk trails have been cleared, #lordpercival is content to go out on a birdwatching expedition to the backyard, pausing for a porch sit before doing some major tail swishing and bird listening. #caturday #cats #catsofMastodon #catsofFediverse #tuxedocat #snow
Whenever you see what #ICE is doing in front of cameras, you must imagine what they're doing where nobody can see them--like in the concentration camps the USA is building. It's easy to read those words and much harder to fathom what they mean; that this is happening in our day and age, in what until recently was believed to be a first world country. "Abolish ICE" doesn't go nearly far enough in my view.
President Trump announces that from Feb. 1, there’ll be a 10% tariff on all goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands and Finland, increasing to 25% on June 1, until a deal is reached for the complete and total purchase of Greenland by the US.
Head's up, if you want to disconnect the bridge to Bluesky, here are the instructions. I exercised this option today, as a result of them "blue checking" ICE. I'd never allow Federation of an ActivityPub instance with Nazis on it, and Bluesky is no exception. #Bluesky
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-protocol-bot-user-blocked
When they say AI is optional, but your option is to turn it off because they decided AI is default.
I'm slowly starting to share more images from my multi-year project "This Land Remembers", an odyssey into the last remaining ancient native woodlands of Scotland (like this one from a brilliant Autumn morning in 2025). I also have an upcoming exhibition at Gallery Photiq this April/May featuring 12 prints from the project, including this image.
I just got an idea for this year's #plushtodon that I'm very proud of but won't be able to share for months to not ruin the surprise. And of course something might prevent it from happening so no guarantees...
The thing about Barnaby is he's somehow even dumber than he looks
