Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely to escalate the war in Ukraine, with Kyiv's recent drone strikes on Russia's oil refineries and ports strengthening his resolve to keep fighting for now. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/10/world/politics/putin-war-escalation-likely/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #russia #ukraine #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin

@alexchapman Ok, I will.

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The emerging details about ICE's murder of #LorenzoSalgadoAraujo and the aftermath are terrible:

They acknowledge there was no enforcement order against him.
They stopped him so they could scoop up his compadres.
They stripped his body of identification before taking him to the hospital and told the hospital to treat him as a John Doe.
His family has been prevented from identifying and claiming his body. Because he's a John Doe.
They are rushing deportation of the witnesses.

Foul, foul, foul.

Trump has fired all the commissioners of the bipartisan Elections Assistance Commission (EAC). The EAC was set up to after the 2000 election chiefly to administer the HAVA funds. Today it publishes standards for voting equipment and a manages standard form people can send to their state for voter registration.

Trump previously ordered the EAC to add a "proof of citizenship" section to the voter registration form, and this move may be related to that.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-fires-election-assistance-commission-leadership/

@KD2WLP That's awesome! If you experience any bugs, feel free to submit an issue on GitHub, or let me know here or wherever.

@JeffreySmith As if the U.S. weren't the world's biggest perpetrator of genocide... 😼

8 years ago in a drunk spiral, I deleted a blog with 100,000 subscribers.

Gone in a flash. Woke up the next morning horrified, but it was too late.

7 years ago, I quit drinking and started rebuilding my writing career from scratch.

I'm still nowhere near where I could have been. But I'm getting there.

I built a tool called Kerouac to help me track my writing and publishing across my blog, Substack, Medium etc.

Just seeing the activity graph light up reminds me - I'm rebuilding.

#BloomScrolling #flowers #beebalm #speedwell

@alexchapman I'm sure it did. lol.

Bluesky wants me to verify my age, and I think I might just, not

@alexchapman and it's working over here! yayayayay!

The state of accessibility in GNOME

With July being Disability Pride Month, GNOME's Sophie Herold published a blog post taking stock of where GNOME stands on this front, progress that's been made, as well as areas where the project comes short. One particular paragraph from her introduction really hits the nail on the head about accessibility discussions in tech circles:

The reality of tech communi

https://www.osnews.com/story/145481/the-state-of-accessibility-in-gnome/

#Gnome

“New Mexico officials are accusing President Trump’s Department of Justice of obstructing the state’s investigation into billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch.”

What is the regime hiding?

https://newrepublic.com/post/212913/new-mexico-doj-interfering-epstein-ranch-probe

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@Lino0876 I am waiting for Seedy to finish the stuff he started a few months ago.