Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Two years apart. We were warned. Half of us didn't listen.

Astronomers have discovered a super massive black hole (SMBH) at the center of the well-known Cosmic Horseshoe Einstein Ring system.

Using gravitational lensing effects and stellar kinematics (how an SMBH affects the motion of stars around it) and data on asymmetrically placed lensed images of another distant galaxy, the mass of the SMBH is estimated at 36 billion solar masses, close to a new record. The galaxy itself is estimated at 5.2 trillion solar masses.

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/541/4/2853/8213862?login=false
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“Mockery of science”: Climate scientists tear into new US climate report
Department of Energy is not serious about engaging with the scientific community.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/mockery-of-science-climate-scientists-tear-into-new-us-climate-report/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown - Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up A RAI... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/03/matrixorg_raid_failure/

Cracking down on transphobic hate speech doesn’t make the UK a police state
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hate-speech-transphobia-free-speech-consequences-b2819307.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Voices @voices-Independent

With Israel’s offensive drawing close, Palestinians in Gaza City fear permanent displacement https://apnews.com/article/gaza-city-offensive-evacuation-israel-hamas-war-f8a720a4a359180aecf306f383dbc90d?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

✅Scotland is to BAN funding for Israel's arms dealers!

Scottish Greens have long fought for this change, alongside Amnesty, Oxfam, and others.

Plant extinctions are shaking Earth’s green foundation
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/plant-extinctions-are-shaking-earths-green-foundation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-NationalGeographic

In parliament, the Scottish Greens brought debates, votes and motions to ban arms sales.

Today, the Scottish Government have backed our calls.

Be part of the movement that banned funding for Israel's arms dealers. https://greens.scot/join

The MP was speaking at an event hosted by UKAI on “AI and FinTech for Growth” when a protester from Climate Resistance walked up to Jones and demanded that the Labour government “starts taxing the super rich” and “abolish billionaires”

Sharing the footage online, the protest group claimed: “While his government cosies up to tech billionaires, those same billionaires are trashing our planet, dismantling human rights, and profiting from hardship.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/darren-jones-climate-protesters-video-b2819156.html

#UK #ClimateStrike

#Venezuela says the #US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade it…and normally that would be an insane claim but… https://www.latintimes.com/venezuela-says-it-uncovered-us-plot-fabricate-incident-justify-invasion-580110

#FalseFlag #Military #USpol #SouthAmerica

The in-person events at FediCon in Vancouver lit a fire in the Canadian ActivityPub community. One of the louder calls were for a place in the fediverse for ActivityPub discussions; a place for groups to form and for long-running discussions to be had.

I was more than happy to get involved. I also wanted such a place, and I've discussed it on and off for the past year. ActivityPub development discussions are fragmented across multiple disconnected channels, and none of them fully capture the entirety (or a majority, or even a sizeable minority) of the AP developer community. ActivityPub.Space is my answer to that call.

One constant about ActivityPub is that all ActivityPub developers are on the fediverse, and so it only makes sense that discussions about AP development should also take place on the fediverse.

At the same time, the "fediverse" isn't one singular entity. @jaz@mastodon.iftas.org famously quipped "There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses." While I can't make guarantees about this site connecting with a million fediverses, I can say that it does connect with the microblogiverse, the blogiverse (WordPress blogs!), and the Threadiverse (Lemmy/Piefed/MBin/NodeBB/Discourse).

So how does it work?

The site is divided up into several categories:

General Discussion is for any non-technical discussions about ActivityPub
Technical Discussion is for technical deep-dives
Meta contains discussions about this site itself
Random is for everything else (there's always a "Random" category on a forum, isn't there...?)

We also pull in content direct from Fediverse news outlets such as "Week in Fediverse", "Connected Places", and "Relay, by We Distribute".

On the threadiverse side, we directly link to several other fediverse-focused communities on Lemmy and Piefed.

We utilise a number of relays to both distribute local content out and receive content from the wider microblogiverse. When content comes in via microblogs, they're not usually categorized, so we check for relevant hashtags and automatically categorize them into one of the local categories.

The wonderful thing about this site is that it fully federates, which means you can follow all of these categories from your app of choice. You don't even have to register a local account if you don't want to, but you definitely can (and should!) if you want the best experience browsing the categorized topics.

The categories today are rather broad, but over time I hope to split them up into smaller topics based on user demand. Give the site a try today!

“There were many, many adults around [Epstein’s] properties that may not have participated but very clearly knew what was going on,” Jones said. “And they’re not saying anything, and why are they still not saying anything and speaking up on our behalf?”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jeffrey-epstein-accusers-urge-trump-231004122.html
#EpsteinFiles

How false rumours of Trump’s untimely ‘death’ spread on social media

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/3/how-false-rumours-of-trumps-untimely-death-spread-on-social-media?traffic_source=rss

> Amid speculation and misinformation about his health, President Donald Trump is well and playing golf.

Baker Mayfield's Top 1️⃣5️⃣ throws as a Buccaneer... So far 👀

🔜 #TBvsATL 1 p.m. ET Sunday on FOX

RFK Jr. is going to release a report on what he thinks are the causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder. There is reason to believe it won’t be trustworthy, so @defendpublichealth.bsky.social has released our own evidence-based report of ASD risk factors to the public. Vaccines aren’t one of them.

Risk Factors for Autism Spectr...