Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

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...

This evening on my usual Monday national radio tech segment, I'll be discussing how AI chatbots have been directly involved in the suicide of a teenager and a murder-suicide, and what this should mean for Big Tech AI companies and their billionaire CEOs going forward.

✍🏼 Are you a cis woman in the UK who supports the trans community? Then sign the NION Women letter… 44K signatures, and counting…

If you’re trans or an ally, please repost and share 🔄 🙏🏻

👉🏻 https://www.change.org/p/not-in-our-name-women-in-support-of-the-trans-community?l

Word spread through social media that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had reportedly checked into two Long Beach hotels.

Within the hour, a small contingent of local residents had arrived at both establishments.

They were there to make sure ICE agents didn’t sleep.

This was one of several
“No Sleep for ICE” events
that popped up during the month of June.

In a time when large-scale protests often dominate headlines,
a different kind of resistance is taking root across Southern California.

Small, decentralized networks of community members are using stealthy tactics and real-time coordination
to monitor, disrupt, and expose the movements of federal immigration officers.
https://truthout.org/articles/in-southern-california-small-groups-of-activists-quietly-undermine-ice-operations/

The world’s leading association of genocide scholars has passed a resolution stating that the legal criteria have been met to establish that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza — DW News

Israel KKK minister Smotrich:
2025 will be the first year since 1967 that we will demolish more buildings in the West Bank than those being built.

And the bastard is proud of it, because he knows EU is coward and complicit, US is paying for it, Canada ignores it, Arab league looking for ways to make money out of it.

Who is going to stop him? Why should care holding back?

#WestBank
@israel @palestine @palestine