Major MAGA accounts on X (Twitter) were exposed as being operated from outside the U.S. Some examples:

MAGANationX (nearly 400,000 followers) — based in Eastern Europe
IvankaNews (about 1 million followers) — based in Nigeria
MAGA Scope (over 51,000 followers) — based in Nigeria
America First (67,000 followers) — based in Bangladesh
Dark Maga (15,000+ followers) — based in Thailand
Ultra Mega Trump 2028 — based in Nigeria
Trump Is My President — based in Macedonia
@American (U.S. eagle/flag theme) — based in South Asia
MAGA Nadine — based in Morocco
Red Pilled Nurse — based in Europe

Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-influencers-outside-us-x-twitter-tool
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/x-new-location-transparency-feature-questions-origins-maga-accounts-rcna245487
https://newrepublic.com/post/203562/maga-trolls-elon-musk-x-new-feature
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/prominent-maga-accounts-exposed-foreign-174121892.html
https://www.breitbart.com/news/x-rolls-out-location-feature-unmasking-maga-accounts-as-foreign-based/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/many-top-maga-trolls-aren-151958851.html

[1](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/x-new-location-transparency-feature-questions-origins-maga-accounts-rcna245487)
[2](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/us/politics/x-twitter-location-maga-controversy.html)
[3](https://newrepublic.com/post/203562/maga-trolls-elon-musk-x-new-feature)
[4](https://www.breitbart.com/news/x-rolls-out-location-feature-unmasking-maga-accounts-as-foreign-based/)
[5](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/rightwing-influencers-outside-us-x-twitter-tool)
[6](https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-major-maga-accounts-on-twitter)
[7](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/prominent-maga-accounts-exposed-foreign-174121892.html)
[8](https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditForGrownups/comments/1p4yla1/new_xtwitter_feature_revealed_many_maga/)
[9](https://www.reddit.com/r/HeadlineHQ/comments/1p4fjm1/many_magaaligned_influencer_xtwitter_accounts/)
[10](https://www.news18.com/viral/x-country-of-origin-feature-sparks-chaos-as-several-pro-maga-accounts-found-foreign-run-ws-l-9726828.html)
[11](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/many-top-maga-trolls-aren-151958851.html)
[12](https://economictimes.com/tech/technology/xs-about-this-account-feature-shows-many-maga-accounts-operate-from-outside-the-us/articleshow/125534553.cms)
[13](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/xs-new-location-feature-exposes-apparent-fraudster-accounts-posing-americans-gaza-journalists)

@Mastodon oh jolly

Portable computing machines peaked in the 90s and since then have suffered from the introduction of new technologies that severely decreased their reliability and longevity.

Flash memory

Before this, you used battery-backed RAM and an "AAs + coin cell" approach to keep it alive while swapping batteries. RAM is an unfussy technology without lifetime concerns. All necessary system software is in ROM, is well-debugged (because it can't be updated), and resetting to factory state is quite simple: clear RAM, boot from ROM.

After: You must now patch your firmware to whatever version the community/homebrewers support. Once you use up all your write cycles, machine loses its mind or bricks itself.

Li-ion batteries

Before this, you used standardized modular batteries like AAs or coin cells. When a new battery technology comes out (like rechargeables or NiMH's), upgrades are automatic and backwards-compatible. Battery life is limited only by the number of spare cells you bring.

After: Batteries are custom to the machine and often go out of production along with it. Batteries may be sealed inside and inaccessible without specialized tools.

There are many machines I would collect if not for these poison pill techs.

"If we keep saying nonsense, people will believe us over their lying eyes."

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3m6f3jmzk5a2t

What are Trust Markers? #ORCID records ⬆️ trustworthiness over time from data asserted by validated sources, such as affiliations added by:

✅ research institutions
✅ grant data from funding agencies, and
✅ works by publishers

When our members + data to ORCID records, they contribute valuable info that gets added to the 🌍 research ecosystem. Each piece of data is a Trust Marker, which is marked with the a green check and origins of that data.

Read more: https://info.orcid.org/?s=trust+markers

Well, maybe we need to be more clear what we are trying to do: #deltachat apps are a cross-platform private messenger suite, that aims to provide a consistent UX/UI for users with lots of experience using WhatsApp and Signal.

Telegram has good fast UX but is hardly a private messenger (it has a central cleartext database of everyone and everything).

Matrix and XMPP are well-esteemed fellows in federated messaging, but so far didn't grow a WA/Signal-level cross-platform messaging UX.

YMMV

@jaddy
No, we don't plan to add more support for OAuth2 until providers stop the practice of requiring client registration: https://support.delta.chat/t/outlook-no-longer-accepts-classic-authentication-methods-to-sync/3281/2

We supported OAuth2 for Gmail in the past. First they required us to justify the need to get full IMAP access and then they updated the requirements and revoked our client ID: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android/issues/3233

Not going to repeat this mistake again.

Whenever I get started on a new project, I like to go look at the first blog post the project ever wrote.

Here is @Gargron's first post - it rings as true today as it did back in 2017.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2017/02/the-power-to-build-communities/

#Mastodon #SocialWeb

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with: -No casus belli -No authorization from Congress -No allies or international support -No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela -No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

@Canageek Think about it: the whole dynamic with McClain and his wife is that they're estranged, he wants to resume the relationship and she doesn't want to, until he saves the day.

Miss Piggy and Kermit's dynamic tends to be Miss Piggy pursuing and Kermit withdrawing.

Miss Piggy is much easier to picture doing violence.

Also, Miss Piggy's yippee ky-yay would be epic.

I asked Merriam-Webster for a synonym for "improve", and the answer is

"504 Gateway Time-out"

@Canageek idk but I've decided that John McClain is Miss Piggy and her estranged spouse is Kermit

We pruned a tree with fruit the coatis love. 😍

#Mexico

NEW: U.S. banking giants and mortgage lenders are scrambling to figure out how much of their customers' non-public banking data was stolen during a cyberattack on a financial tech firm earlier this month.

Customers of at least JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley are said to be affected.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/24/us-banks-scramble-to-assess-data-theft-after-hackers-breach-financial-tech-firm/

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