On 19 November 2025, the European Commission unveiled the new Digital Omnibus, claiming it would “simplify” tech rules. In reality, it reopens laws that protect us from Big Tech abuse, unsafe AI, scams, and online harm.

#BigTech is trying to break the rules - again. Google and Musk were held accountable, but lobbyists now want to weaken the laws that protect our safety, privacy, and money online ✍️ Tell EU leaders: protect people, not billionaires! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-01...

Keep Big Tech Accountable!

Big Tech is trying to get away with breaking the rules - again.Google and Musk have already been held accountable, but now lobbyists are pushing to weaken the rules that protect our safety, privacy, a...

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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Your regular reminder that your BlueSky blocks are *not* private. The worst people in the world now know that you have blocked their favourite account. Act accordingly.

Terence Eden@edent.tel · 2y ago

BSky's super-block is brilliant. It cuts off bad-actors instantly. I think the level of discourse here is much better than on other places. But it achieves this by publishing your block lists for everyone to see. And there's *nothing* about it in their privacy policy bsky.social/about/suppor...

Gaza has around 20,000 unexploded Israeli bombs amid up to 70 million tonnes of rubble, posing a massive threat to Palestinians, as removal is blocked by Israel’s ban on heavy equipment, according to the Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/m73gl0

EuroAlternative is a curated collection of the best European alternatives to big tech companies. Keep your data in Europe, support local innovation, simplify business operations. Our directory connects you with EU-based digital service providers. → euroalternative.co

10 years ago, one idea sparked a movement. Today, thousands of us are changing #Europe for the better. As Europe faces its greatest challenges ahead, share this video to help inspire more people to make people powered change: action.wemove.eu/signup/2025-...

10 years of people power in Europe

10 years ago, one idea sparked a movement. Today, thousands of us are changing Europe for the better. As Europe faces its greatest challenges ahead, share this video to help inspire more people to mak...

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Musk is gambling with our democracy. Europe has rules to stop him. To force EU regulators to play their cards, we delivered illegal tweets on playing cards + 150k signatures. EU: play your ace, the DSA! @cnam-ie.bsky.social, @ec.europa.eu, @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social

Look at this graph we discussed in my Danish class today. 👀 63% of Danes believe (or believed in 2022) that we must change our lifestyles to resolve the climate crisis. Only 11% believe technology is the solution. Both men and women largely agree in this regard. This is remarkable! 1/2

Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong global policy to protect us from plastic pollution! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-08...

End the Plastic Era!

Right now, just a few powerful polluters are holding the whole world hostage - stopping a Plastics Treaty that could protect our health, wildlife, and planet. Join me today and speak up for a strong g...

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This is an *excellent* report. I would highly recommend anybody interested -let alone involved- in open source to read it. 👏

Miranda Heath@mirandaheath.website · 11mo ago

I'm working on a report on the causes of burnout in open source software. If you're a part of the OSS community, I would love to hear your thoughts, either here on Bluesky, or privately via email (see post). Thanks 😊 mirandaheath.website/report-on-bu...

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Blue Team Con has a sober board game room with mocktails at the same time as the big party for people who don’t want to be around loud music or alcohol! 🤩 Why doesn’t every con do this?

I know the campaign is called "chat control", but don't let that fool you into thinking it's trivial. EU Home Affairs ministers want to rule out the possibility of you having a confidential conversation at a distance. In a digital society, that's unacceptable. Read up; sign up: fightchatcontrol.eu

Robin Wilton 🇱🇧@komadori.eurosky.social · 12mo ago

The US is providing a vital lesson in how fast a change of government can lead to authoritarian policies. In Europe, governments are trying to lay the foundations for mass, preemptive, consentless, surveillance. Tell them to stop: fightchatcontrol.eu

Motherfucking wind farms…

Today, the International Court of Justice delivered its Advisory Opinion that could transform climate governance. 1/5

We now have audited data on water consumption for AI. Over the 18 month lifespan of Mistral Large 2, a 128B model, all water usage (including chats, training; hardware & data centers) took as much water as 678 US households use yearly. Each additional query is 45 mL. (Fixed a conversion error)

👉 Say why protecting pollinators matters to you. It takes two minutes and no expert knowledge: go.wemove.eu/ShareYourVoice

@moderation.bsky.app suspended our director, Evan Greer's Bluesky account for speaking out about an awful experience from a transphobic bigot...is @bsky.app on the way to becoming the next Twitter/X ? Re-skeet + demand Bluesky unsuspend her account!

Oh yeah if folks don't know, Nazis stole "fren" from the lolcat folks years ago and backronymed it to mean "far right ethno-nationalist." It is used almost exclusively by Nazis now bsky.app/profile/erin...

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · last yr.

Also using “frens” Feels like Musk trained the new version of this on some VERY specific sources.

For the uninitiated, this is Grok starting an N tower-- a 4chan bit where different users take turns replying to each other, each contributing one letter until they spell out the N word

Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD@mikesenters.bsky.social · last yr.

I found this before going to dinner and screamed. I’m so tired.

Make it stop. Please, I cannot be still fighting this battle. I wasn’t even old enough to vote when I started fighting this.

Barry Dorrans@blowdart.me · last yr.

Oh we’re back on this shit again

George Orwell: In my book I invented the Versificator as a cautionary tale Gen AI company: At long last, we have created the Versificator from classic sci-fi novel Nineteen Eighty-Four! Hat tip: twitter.com/AlexBlechman...

Alex Blechman on X: "Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus" / X

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

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🛑 Over half of “eco” claims on products in Europe are misleading or just false. The EU was about to pass a law to stop this greenwashing, but it was shelved under political pressure. 🌍 Sign to demand strong rules on false green promises 👉 go.wemove.eu/Antigreenwas...

Ours is the first study to demonstrate an historical increase (by a factor of three!) in the occurrence of atmospheric resonance, which is associated with many of the most devastating and deadly persistent summer weather extremes in recent years (e.g. Pacific Northwest Heat Dome of summer '21) 🧵

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · last yr.

"Increased frequency of planetary wave resonance events over the past half-century" | Our new article in @pnas.org by @xuekeli.bsky.social, @michaelfwehner.bsky.social, Shannon Christiansen & yours truly: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’ve just noticed that, if you don’t want Meta AI to go through slurping up all your WhatsApp messages, you have to go through and turn this on *for every chat you’re in*. Can everyone please move to @signal.org already? This is getting absurd!

I get annoyed at the narrative that all the awareness and work on climate change hasn't done anything. Yes, global CO₂ emissions indeed continue to climb, but we don't know the counterfactual. When I was in grad school, we were on track for 5°C of warming. Now it's below 3°C. That's progress.

Important update paper from @glenpeters.bsky.social and others, showing rate of warming now .27ºC a decade. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenod...

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