"Tens of thousands braved the scorching temperatures to celebrate the Budapest Pride parade on Saturday, the first since the election defeat of Viktor Orban, who tried to ban the event last year.

'I think the situation is getting better and better, mainly because of the change in government', 18-year-old Petra Toth, who was attending her first Pride with her girlfriend, told AFP."

Fuck yeah! 

https://www.dw.com/en/hungary-holds-first-post-orban-budapest-pride-march/a-77736596

I thought that #ElonMusk causing 14 millions deaths was yet another piece of social media bullshit, propagated via the usual nonsense of anonymous sourceless screenshots.

It isn't. It's a study in next month's #TheLancet, a collaboration between Brazilian & Spanish universities.

https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01186-9

It does not include other Department of Dodgy life-affecting consequences such as cuts to aviation safety at the FAA, NOAA cuts, cuts at the NIH, and others.

#USPolitics #DOGE #TrumpDeaths

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/tens-of-thousands-march-in-the-first-budapest-pride-since-viktor-orban-was-voted-out

So I found a cricut maker in ewaste. It needs new rollers but appears fine. However cricut are chunts and have locked the serial number out of their eco system. (I presume the previous owner upgraded).

Anywayyyy, one very spiteful detour in software development later and I've found a hilariously stupid way to regain access to the device (and possibly a bit of a flaw with cricut cloud....).

I built using a RP2040 a USB CDC Serial mitm device that emulates the pid/vid ect..., and detects when the serial number is being asked in the serial protocol, replaces that message with the serial number plus 1.

I don't have any accessories for the device so I can't show it off, but it now moves and is paired with my account.

Today, an unknown bot swarm started using my name, boosting my posts, and inserting itself into communities I helped create. I treated it like any other potential attack and started defending myself and our communities as best I could. This has taken up more of my day than most malicious bot attacks, because it had the air of legitimacy—despite taking the actions of a threat.

When the owner, @evan ¹, came in with the same justifications as the porn-scrapers and LLM-owners I regularly fight against—repeatedly doubling-down in the face of backlash²—I felt more and more sure of my response.

I now feel justified in calling for a #FediBlock of tags.pub (and probably his other projects), at least until a better opt-in consent model is built into the project.

¹ I'm including his name as he's a public figure associated with Activity Pub, and our whole conversation today is already a public record, but please don't dogpile; just defed or block as you see fit and call it a night (or day—I'm not your mom).

² Receipts: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/116824281370893420

#FediAdmins

RE: https://discuss.systems/@dev/116807460725864716

Are you the 🪿 or the 🥚?