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Mastodon Statistics @mastodon.libera.site.ap.brid.gy · 23h

<span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#Mastodon <span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#Statistics 2025-10-08 18:00 CEST
Number of active instances: 10 698
Number of users: 10 003 537
Number of statuses: 1 111 917 158
Number of users last 4h: 418
Number of statuses last 4h: 138 680

Help me keep stats and server running! 💻📊 Even a small […]

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fediverseobserver @fediverseobserver.fediverse.one.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Found 3 new servers and 17 servers died off since 5 hours ago

26,137 servers checked today. 18,272,683 Total Users with 971,887 Active Users today

Check out the #fediverse stats

History of servers found and deleted

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

#fediverse #statistics

Fediverse Observer checks all sites in the fediverse and gives you an easy way to find a home from a map or list or automatically.

Fediverse Sites Status. Find a Fediverse server to sign up for, find one close to you!

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BrianKrebs @briankrebs.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21h

RE: exchange/@vxdb/115338982793901975" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://infosec.exchange/@vxdb/115338982793901975

I've been trying to get the cybercrime journalist @vxdb to abandon their seat at the Nazi Bar, or at least to also post here. So please join me in giving them a follow and a friendly hello.

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Thousand Madleens to Gaza FR @1kmadleenfr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

08.10.2025 #freedomflotilla #conscience
🚢✊ The citizens of the #us DELEGATION who were illegally abducted in international waters while traveling to the besieged #gaza Strip to open a humanitarian corridor ARE ASKING YOU TO MOBILIZE your governments to demand […]

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fediverseobserver @fediverseobserver.fediverse.one.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Found 557 new servers and 36 servers died off since 9 hours ago

26,077 servers checked today. 18,405,385 Total Users with 1,529,630 Active Users today

Check out the #fediverse stats

History of servers found and deleted

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#fediverse […]

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Mark Burton @markhburton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

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“... speaking out or speaking up about basic things like medical treatment, they would come & basically throw your head to the ground, shackle your hands behind your back, & then take you to either sit in the hot sun or sit in total isolation & shackle your ankles as well & just leave you […]

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

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Can Poems Push Christians to Stop the Suffering in Gaza?

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha’s ‘Forest of Noise’ offers a direct challenge to Christians who claim to believe all people are created in the image of God.

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02655-w

#climatechange #climatecrisis #climatecrisisisnow #DontLookUp

The cartoon shows a scientist at a lectern talking on six different years:
1990 "So, this climate change thing could be a problem ..."
1995 "Climate change: Definitely a problem"
2001 "Yep, we should really be getting on with sorting this out pretty soon ..."
2007 "Look, sorry to sound like a broken record here ..."
2013 "We really have checked, and we're not making this up"
2019 "is this thing on?" Scientist tapping the microphone

The six years depicted were all years in which IPCC reports were published

Cartoon in two panels
The upper panel, labelled “5th extinction” shows a group of fearful dinosaurs looking up at an approaching meteor.

In the lower panel, labelled “6th extinction”, the dinosaurs are replaced by modern animals also looking up fearfully, but this time the meteor is replaced by a fat, wealthy man, smoking a large cigar and clutching a bundle of money.

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Evan Prodromou @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Mind-blowing fact from @ben during #fediforum : in an fundraising experiment, he was able to raise more donations for #propublica on the Fediverse than on any other social channel. 🤯

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Sarah W @sarahw.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 1d

https://goodlawproject.org/s/e9a792

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

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An Angry Scot @anexiledscot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 3d

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10/06/how-long-is-it-before-promoting-scottish-welsh-and-irish-independence-is-deemed-to-be-a-terrorist-action/comment-page-1/#comments

This is a natural progression for Starmer, he just needs to include any act that threatens the stability of the United […]

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Cornovia Postcards @vibracobra23.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Trawlers Becalmed, Brixham, Devon, c.1920 - Valentine's XL Series RP Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/trawlers-becalmed-brixham-devon-c-1920-valentine-s-xl-series-rp-postcard-223366809.htm

#brixham

Sepia real photographic postcard showing a view of trawlers at Brixham in Devon.

Published by Valentine & Sons Ltd, Dundee & London, Valentine's XL Series, No 38393, photo registered in 1902, c.1920.

Postally unused.

Very good condition, with very slight corner bumps.

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jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Moon! Greenwich, London BST

Moonrise 18:00
Sunset 18:26
Full Moon 04:47
Sunrise 07:11
Moonset 07:32

This Full moon is the first of 3 SuperMoons. Full moon simultaneously to it's closest path in the orbit. Meaning it appears slightly bigger. Harvest Moon because it's the nearest to the Equinox […]

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Folk Horror Revival 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @folkhorrorrevival.bsky.social · 3d

"What moved the pale, raptorial owl
Then, to squall above the level
Of streetlights and wires, its wall to wall
Wingspread in control

Of the ferrying currents, belly
Dense-feathered, fearfully soft to
Look upon? Rats' teeth gut the city
Shaken by owl cry."

Sylvia Plath #OwlishMonday

Painting of a town at night with an owl swooping down on a group of rats who are scattering in terror

Artist unknown but published on page 733 of German journal Die Gartenlaube in 1879

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ProjectFearlessness @projectfearlessness.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@BashStKid
Yes, Lecornu was in office for 27 days and formed a government that lasted 14 hours. You can't make a cassoulet in that time.

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La Griffe @la-voix.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

#globalsumudflotilla : #israel va expulser 28 Français vers la #grece lundi https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/proche-orient/israel-palestine/flottille-pour-gaza-israel-va-expulser-28-francais-vers-la-grece-lundi-annonce-paris_7533634.html

Flottille pour Gaza : Israël va expulser 28 Français vers la Grèce lundi, annonce Paris

"Nos équipes ont pu rencontrer tous nos compatriotes, qui vont bien", a assuré, dimanche soir, le ministère des Affaires étrangères français.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

I'm very concerned about all the #GlobalSumudFlotilla detainees, but especially Hannah Schafer, who seems likely to be held in extended detention in Israel. Israeli armed forces have committed grave and multiple breaches of international law in attacking the flotilla and mistreating its crew.

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David B. Himself @davidbhimself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

So for those of you who don't follow the news from France closely (I understand, things go fast). The new government (which was pretty much the previous government) was announced yesterday and resigned this morning. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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Francois Heinderyckx @fheinderyckx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Headlines in French news media on Sunday night: “Who are the 18 ministers of the new government?”

Edited headline on Monday morning: “Who were the 18 ministers of the new government before the prime minister resigned this morning?”

(Printed papers didn't have the luxury of the editing.) […]

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 4d

Welcome to the Fediverse! Do you trust these two sharks more to keep your social media alive than a silicon valley CEO? Then this is your site!

A pink and blue shark working on a server rack

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sheislaurence @sheislaurence.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Never in a million years would I have imagined that it would be a #labour government that would turn the #uk into a full-on #1984 state where the #righttoprotest would be stripped and #newspeak would be so out of hand in the oligarchist and state #media that #antisemitism would be used to label […]

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4d

Guys, guys GUYS: it's finally happened - they did a photoshoot for This Modern House and they forgot to hide the telly:

For Sale: Antony House II, London E5 | The Modern House

Set in a sought-after corner position, this wonderfully conceived apartment lies on the top floor of Antony House in Clapton, a contemporary block designed by

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster

The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Police make more than 440 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London

Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleas

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, this really happened. The Met police has been arresting so many anti-genocide protesters that they’re complaining about how much they’re having to work overtime.

Poor cops. It’s tough being forced to arrest someone’s grandma because she doesn’t want kids starved to death.

Itsalladeepend @itsalladeepend.bsky.social · 4d

This article is absolutely bananas - 'There aren’t enough of us. Hard-working police officers are continually having days off cancelled, working longer shifts and being moved from other areas to facilitate these protests.' - Paula Dodds, chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation.

‘Enough is enough’ says chief of police federation over Palestine Action rally

Met Police said many of those arrested needed carrying away after they refused to walk from Trafalgar Square – but Amnesty International says arresting hundreds of people at the demonstration is ‘not ...

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Sarah W @sarahw.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@Lazarou
I'm not so sure. I have a feeling that he tries so hard to please people that he ends up pleasing no one.
Either that or his former life as a human rights lawyer really was a sham and merely a vehicle to edge his way into politics.