@MissWarcraft agreed, he's my first black cat - goes from contemplative to silly really fast :scremcat:

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats
Bri, looking fabulous

@Sadsquatch :underheart:🎃

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
Léon, #Spain
#Halloween2025

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.

The human brain is resilient. While you’re watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you’re accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

These Arch Linux people are getting out of control.

Watching companies like Microsoft and AWS continue to fuck up at massive scale and orgs are just like "what can you do?" and keep shoveling money to them is very exhausting.

Are you a developer who likes to build on, or integrated with, Mastodon? We've got a great blog post for you, today - here's what is coming in Mastodon 4.5. The release candidate was tagged earlier today, with the final version really soon now 🤞🏻

(quote post authoring, AsyncRefresh API, and more)

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/mastodon-4-5-for-devs/

MS is having DNS issues. So the Dutch railways are having issues. Critical national infrastructure should not be on cloud systems owned by foreign companies. This is resiliency 101.

I really think that people who haven’t been poor should not give money or frugality advice to poor people. The problem with poor people isn’t money management or knowledge, it’s the insufficiency of money. This goes for anyone who wants to help people on food stamps navigate this situation. People on food stamps are already experts in navigating food and money with a shortage of both.

"ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien."

Every person involved in this decision needs to be hit over the head with a copy of Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" until they come to their senses.

https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/

A “General Strike” stopped a fascist takeover in South Korea…👇 America, please take note.

America is waiting for a message of some sort or another....

Palácio dos Flores is a unique gem, an abandoned mansion in Portugal tastefully decorated and filled with exquisite furniture.

Read more: https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/portugal/palacio-dos-flores-portugal/

#AbandonedaPlaces #Portugal #Photography #Abandoned #AbandonedHouse #Palace

Ridley Creek, PA

It was a beautiful day 😊
With some fly fishing 😉

#FlyFishing #Fishing #Nature #autumn #Creek #Hiking #Walking #Photography

I wish there was some kind of global internet-wide setting that says "I don't want to you use fucking passkeys, stop asking me".

I would once again like to apologize to the fine people of Canada for how incredibly idiotic and offensive and absurd my country's “leadership” (so called) is behaving. We look like unmitigated dolts, and believe me, living under this administration is every bit as awful as you might imagine.

the #FBI is now officially visiting the homes of people spotted at protests like #NoKings, #ICE, etc.

it boggles the mind that there are people at #protests in the US who, upon finding #FBI agents at their door asking “do you have a few minutes to talk about the protests?” answer with anything other than “do you have a warrant?” followed by a polite request that they leave your property.

this isn’t complicated. you need to shut the fuck up. the #5thAmendment exists for a reason. shutting the fuck up cannot be used against you, for any reason, ever. not shutting the fuck up will never help you. it can only hurt you.

any false statement to the FBI can be charged as a crime. even if you just forgot. even if you mix up the order of events. even if you tell the truth but the agents find another person whose story contradicts yours. even if you tell the truth but the agents misremember what you said (!!!).

talking to the FBI is much more legally perilous than talking to the police (and you shouldn’t do that either). talking to Kash Patel's FBI is far more perilous than talking to the old FBI.

i know it’s hard. you want to be helpful. you think if you stay silent they'll find you suspicious. you want to explain yourself. it’s a very natural human thing and that’s exactly what they’re going to use against you. so here’s a helpful script you can follow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqo5RYOp4nQ

literally every single lawyer in the united states will tell you exactly what i’m telling you now. tell a friend. tell all your friends. tell random people you see on the street.

and shut. the. fuck. up.

don't be like this guy, who helpfully stepped out of his house to chat with the FBI outside the range of audio recording for most of an hour: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-agents-visit-anti-ice-protester

#STFU #shutTheFuckUp #PSA #uspol #uspolitics #KashPatel #law #lawfedi

I spotted these little fabric pouches of catnip at the local home store. #caturday

Google and Apple should add a device-level AI permission, just like it does for other potentially invasive privacy features, like location, to their phones. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/when-ai-and-secure-chat-meet-users-deserve-strong-controls-over-how-they-interact