Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians. Trump's VP Vance is now on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bsky.social

"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky" (Bluesky in their email to Fox News)

More 🚩: Bluesky is centralised, run by a for-profit corporation, its CEO has blockchain background, it is partly owned by VCs & Blockchain Capital.

Bluesky are going down exactly the same Nazi Bar path as Twitter.

(via @mastodonmigration)

"Britain’s drug gangs and Moscow’s hackers were just two nodes in a vast criminal super-network [that] included sanctioned oligarchs, Russian intelligence operatives and an Irish crime family."

(and of course that network also now includes the #Trump administration, because Howard Lutnick is/was Tether's money manager and Justin Sun is now the Trump family's business partner in #WorldLibertyFinancial)

* #TheEconomist: https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/07/04/how-tether-became-money-launderers-dream-currency
* no paywall: https://archive.ph/NiCRD

#moneylaundering #crime #corruption #crypto #cryptocurrency #iran #russia #uspol #howardLutnick #economist #economics #finance #uk #ukpol #garantex #threatintel #ransomware #cybersecurity #vladimirputin #oligarchs #putin #ukraine #kinahans #kinahan

ClearURLs is a browser extension that removes tracking elements from URLs.

Automatically removes trackers.
Blocks some ad domains.
Built-in tool to clean up multiple URLs at once.
Supports redirection to the destination.
Blocks hyperlink auditing (ping tracking).
Prevents ETag tracking.
Prevents Google from rewriting the search results.
Optimized for Firefox.

Website: https://clearurls.xyz
Mastodon: @clearurls

#ClearURLs #Firefox #Browser #Privacy #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Trackers #Tracking

New blog post about our local-first GNOME app initiative! Project Aardvark is growing up into a real app, called Reflection 🪩✨

Over the coming months we have a @PrototypeFund grant to expand the app into a proper local-first Hedgedoc replacement, with multi-cursor, sharing URLs, undo, permissions, and more.

Hopefully the first of many GTK+p2panda apps to come, especially once we add GObject bindings making this stack accessible to non-Rust apps :)

https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/06/30/aardvark-summer-2025-update