I opened a Bluesky account long ago, in the hopes that some of my more liberal friends would eventually migrate there (since they couldn’t be convinced to move to Mastodon).

A few did. Their accounts are dormant. They wandered right back to Meta.

Now that I have no reason whatsoever to keep the account, I’m deleting it. Everything I’ve heard about them recently (their moderation, funding, etc.) makes me realize that the Fediverse is probably the last real open social available.

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# Fediverse

Forgot to post... From February in Brussels.

📷️️ Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

@inquiline @hypebot this one is clearly flosstodone

This has turned into quite the special interest but I am finally getting close to being able to release this…

@Gargron @Ameboid
Portra 400 on a Pentax, nice combo. that plaid texture looks really warm on film grain

Wow, so many news stories going on right now.

* The Epstein Fury War
* The Epstein UFO Dump
* The Epstein Illegal Memorial Pool contract
* The Epstein Tariff Illegality
* The Epstein Gerrymandering War
* The Epstein "Narco-Terrorist" Attacks
* The Epstein Medicare/Medicaid Fraud

Hard to keep them all straight. You'd think they'd come up with different keywords other than "Epstein". (It's like looking up the programming language "go" on the internet).

*Everything* is Epstein these days.

@otfrom @drgeraint @petealexharris @Geri
Of course energy being reserved to Westminster prevents Holyrood changing how electricity pricing works. So if the SNP & Greens can come up with a better system, & Westminster (as usual) rejects it, that's more grist for the independence mill.

Introducing policies towards a just transition however can & should be done by Holyrood.

Underground, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are leaving the front lines, exhausted and traumatized by this war that has dragged on for four years. Deserters or those absent without authorization, more than 250,000 have slipped away from the front since 2022 (nearly one in five soldiers currently engaged in the war).

For these escapees, there are few options: live in hiding or leave the country illegally. Many choose to flee via an unprecedented route, through the mountains and the Carpathians, heading for Romania. On foot, risking their lives, they cross these rugged mountains in the snow, searching for freedom far from the war. Some never complete the journey—there have already been 23 deaths in four years in these mountains—while others find refuge in Romania and elsewhere in Europe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3_xZZ17Xj8

Documentary is in french 🙄

@endrift Oh yeah I'm not saying it's not useful, I'm saying Linux isn't even trying.

@ben Have you looked reddit that have all these subs about that area and real estate.?