Top stories on CNN this morning:

"Trump's approval at 100 days lower than any president in seven decades" - cnn.com/2025/04/27/politics/ap…

And "Jeffries and Booker begin sit-in on Capitol steps to protest Republican budget efforts" - cnn.com/politics/live-news/tru…

Things are starting to turn on Trump. Keep the pressure up!

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"Openly" sure is something here. Fosstodon definitely deserves to be cut off from the rest of the fediverse. I've had it quarantined for ages, and I'm definitely going to upgrade that to a full block.

@Friendica Support what license / terms of use is the friendica logo under?

@Fabio pointed me to the SVGs at git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… and git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ; am I correct that they would be under CC0-1.0 as per git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… ?

Are there additional term of use on the logo?

Looking at @Fabio 's laptop yesterday we may have agreed that there is an unacceptable lack of hexagons with nested Fs, and I wanted to fix this :D

Aww yeah, the Godot game engine 4.5 dev 3 snapshot is out.

For those of you to whom that's just alphabet soup, 4.5 dev 3 integrates AccessKit! This means that the editor UI, and any game UIs made with it, are screen reader accessible out of the box.

I just spun up an instance in a Fedora distrobox. Haven't gotten far, but the intro and project creation dialogs are certainly usable. Though the creation dialog seems to set its content as the label for all fields which is verbose. Filing that issue but still this is an amazing development!

⚠️ IMPORTANT FEDIPACT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!⚠️

THREADS HAS CHANGED DOMAINS TO THREADS.COM!!!!!

in a deleted article techcrunch confirmed threads would be moving from threads.net to threads.com

zero clue why it was deleted because threads.net already redirects to threads.com as of right now

sooooo yeah!!! new domain to block. check out fedipact.online/why if you're wondering why

#fediblock #FediPact #meta #threads

💬 ¿Ya viste todas las charlas que se van a estar realizando en el FLISoL Montevideo 2025?

Un total de 9 charlas abordando temas diversos sobre experiencias y tecnologías con Software Libre en Uruguay.

📅 Las charlas se llevarán a cabo el sábado 26 de abril en la sala de conferencias del espacio colabora.

🔗 ¿Querés leer más en profundidad sobre las actividades del Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre? Accedé al programa completo en wiki.flisol.uy/montevideo/2025

#FLISoL #FLISoL2025 #SoftwareLibre

Sunday.
A weekend of volunteering for me. I spent a few hours yesterday providing real time Braille during the funeral of the late Pope. We had the liturgy and readings in both their native languages and English, words to the hymns, and AI-generated braille descriptions of the visuals. Only supporting a dozen or so deafblind people with the technology skills to keep up, but that's a handful of people who wouldn't have been able to participate as well otherwise.

Today, the charity that employs the wife have over 150 runners in the London Marathon, so I'm helping direct their supporters as to when and for whom to cheer, and helping maintain the massive spreadsheet. The marathon generates a lot of revenue for the charity so it's a big day in their calendar.

4AVs.eu se tento víkend účastní praguebikefest.cz/ . Organizátoři apelují na návštěvníky: "Přijeďte na kole!". My to tak děláme i jako vystavovatelé :D

#pbf25 #cargobikes #praguebikefestival #cyclelogistics #cyklotruck

I know it's become quite common, but I still think of it as a miracle of technology:

With our internal combustion engine car, someone on the other side of the world has to drill into the ground, often under the sea, pump the oil into a tanker that has to take it halfway around the world to a terminal where it is pumped into a pipeline that takes it halfway across the continent to a refinery where it has to be processed so that a truck can come and take it halfway across the country to a gas station where I can fill it up.

With our #EV, I just plug it in and charge it with energy that comes right off our roof. I can easily extend the range by 200 km on a sunny day. The energy transport distance: tens of thousands of km vs. 10 meters.

#electronicvehicle #emobility

300 Google employees in the UK branch of its DeepMind unit have begun unionization efforts to protest their AI products being sold to defence groups especially the Israeli government.

This form of employee activism is dead in the US. Between the gutting of the NLRB and deportations for anti-Israel criticism, anyone who does such in the US is effectively giving up their job.

I knew @MapComplete could add ratings to Mangrove Reviews...but YIL it can add reviews too! (The OSM POI search on Mangrove Reviews' own site is mysteriously broken.)

In future mapping parties we're _so_ going to be using this to add reviews of the places we eat at! Heck, I've already asked participants of the last two parties to add them 🙂

This information brought to you courtesy of the #OpenStreetMap #XMPP channel - join today 😉
xmpp.link/#openstreetmap@confe…

An old failed Venus lander will re-enter from earth orbit next month, and it could land anywhere between 52 degrees north and south. Which covers basically all population in the southern hemisphere and a large majority in the north, leaving out the Baltics, Nordics, and Alaska.

It weighs a thousand pounds and is expected to reach the ground intact. Previous debris from the launch landed in New Zealand.

sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/…

I think that @theverge is underselling it - the gold here isn’t the chrome browser, it’s chrome’s automatic background update system. It’s root on billions of machines.

theverge.com/chrome/656613/goo…

Why are companies lining up to buy Chrome?

Chrome could eventually be up for sale, if the DOJ gets its way, and companies like OpenAI, Yahoo, and Perplexity have raised their hands as potential buyers.

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

Probably the best #anagram I will ever personally discover.

I've been waiting for a good moment this year to post it. I thought in 2025 someone would be bound to use this phrase in public discourse. But I haven't seen a case of it yet, so I'll just post this anyway.

Queen of Diamonds and Queen of Clubs kissing, one of the subversive playing cards of Iranian illustrator and concept artist/ Mahdieh Farhadkiaei ♦️♣️

#Art #Artwork #Artist