for the full moon, saint brigid's day, and imbolc*, this little white cat made of earth and fire would like to wish you peace and renewal, light and hope.

whether you're moving into the light or entering the darker months, may the light of the moon and the energy of the flames carry and guide you.

🔥🌕🌱

*today is actually the full moon and saint brigid's day, but it's the standardised date for imbolc. one of the ancient celtic cross-quarter days, imbolc is a moveable astronomical (fire) festival, and this year, its actual date is 03 february. unless of course you want to celebrate by seasonal cues, which is also a thing that happened.

#imbolc #MastoArt #art

Libcom: **میگویند تاریخ دو بار تکرار میشود: اینک پس از تراژدی خمینی قرار است کمدی مسخرۀ ربع پهلوی با درخواستش از آمریکا برای بمباران ایران روی صحنه بیاید**

https://libcom.org/article/mygwynd-tarykh-dw-bar-tkrar-myshwd-aynk-ps-az-trazhdy-khmyny-qrar-ast-kmdy-mskhrhy-rb-phlwy

With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. https://www.encryptitalready.org

🤔 The Dank Case For Scrolling Window Managers // Tedium

｢ niri, an emerging window manager that is doing for sliding windows what Hyprland did for tiling. It is less than three years old (Hyprland is about four), but has quickly grown in popularity, doubling its GitHub star count in the past six months ｣

https://tedium.co/2026/01/29/niri-danklinux-scrolling-window-managers/

#wm #niri #opensource

#wm #niri

Trump's threat to acquire Greenland exposed a fundamental weakness in Europe's security strategy: its inability to act in unison when facing U.S. pressure, even as an overwhelming majority of Europeans now view him as a force against negative peace. https://theconversation.com/trumps-greenland-threats-reveals-no-win-dilemma-at-the-heart-of-european-security-strategy-274556

@stefano About time!

@Edent Photo for those of us who cannot attend?

@christianschwaegerl ist die nächste Stufe der Arroganz, dass diese Arroganz mit KI potenziert wird, ist jetzt keine große Überraschung.

Asking Fedi.

Could you help me find pieces of art about autism from the perspective of the autistic person? Ideally, made by autistic artists. Preferably short films but any other kind would be welcome too.

Anything helps! Boosts OK.

#askFedi #actuallyAutistic

@bluejay I'd be very surprised if it was a starlink. Even in low orbit, the moon is low on the horizon so any object in space between you and the moon has to be ~1000km away from you anyway...

@researchfairy

Look, as long as one can claim It Has Pockets!!!! it matters not if those are socialist pockets.

My local gang of sewing machine operators even calls themselves Sewcialists.

I'm getting a blistering 7.7MB/s, this is gonna take over 2 hours.

As I always see people sharing links to Spotify, Apple Music and other services directly, I want to mention Odesli for a second.

https://odesli.co/

It's also known as Songlink, as it generates links like this.

https://song.link/i/589038355

And also as Albumlink, as it generates links like this.

https://album.link/i/1528027446

It can also do links for albums and podcasts.

It only takes a few seconds to generate but saves everyone a lot of time.

Odesli will generate a page that links to all possible music services where the song, album or artist can be found. Including services that aren't that mainstream.

So maybe you can take the time the next time you want to share an album or song and generate a more accessible link for everyone. 😊

#Music

Weeknote:

📼 A VHS revival is the last thing we need
🔎 The good and weird of Apple’s new AirTags
🍎 Apple is now too rich to care about you
🖼️ Get started with Obscura Studio for iPhone
📺 Best iPhone apps for TV and movie fans
🔒 UK second chamber votes to age-gate VPNs
👾 Best browser games and Lost Caves on C64

https://reverttosaved.com/2026/02/01/weeknote-1-february-2026-vhs-airtags-obscura-studio-tv-apps-apple-being-rubbish-vpn-age-gating-and-more/

📣 #ChatkontrolleSTOPPEN Aufruf: Heute Europaabgeordnete kontaktieren 📣

Hilf mit Massenüberwachung per #Chatkontrolle 1.0 zu stoppen!

Eine Ausnahmeregelung erlaubt Internetdiensten das Durchleuchten privater Kommunikation. Ein Bericht der EU-Kommission zeigt, dass US-Unternehmen damit massenhaft Chats scannen. Aber anstatt die #ePrivacy-Lücke zu schließen, soll diese um zwei Jahre verlängert werden.

Das EU-Parlament kann das verhindern. So kannst du jetzt aktiv werden:
https://chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/2026/02/01/aufruf-eprivacy-luecke-schliessen/

Mandarinente im Schnee nach Foto von @kolombiken
#ducks #birds #watercoulour

@cstross

I thought latency was still an issue.

@fazalmajid

Postscript: and before the cult of space Karen start with the "so you're an expert in orbital computing this week are you?" Well. One of my first jobs out of uni involved designing an onboard control system for a satellite. My design has literally been to space. I know what I'm talking about on this one.

@mekkaokereke I had never considered this. I always interpreted it as a vague endorsement of liberty, not a reaction to slavery specifically. Thank you for sharing!