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February 1

Today, mothers and fathers in Gaza are mourning their children because governments across the world did not deem their lives worthy of protection.

This is a seminal moment: a Labour government cutting disability benefits. Not just continuing Tory levels. Cutting.

This comes after a week of speculation, itself an act of cruelty by a government toying with people’s dignity.

These cuts are disgraceful - and they will cost lives.

شب به خیر!

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One of the best things about living in UAE, not as much news.

Love the peace always from dramatised, over hyped, baitclick, dramatic soundtrack, western news.

I’m writing code! And things are working! CI is passing! And it’s actually so fun!

I was talking with someone a couple days ago about how the Popular With Friends feed had gotten stale lately. I found a few issues with it, fixed them, and have that running now. Please give it another try and let me know how it is!

Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com

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Some public art on the #AbuDhabi corniche as curated for the Public Art Biennial

The ICC’s arrest warrants are long overdue.

The Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary must immediately endorse this decision. That is the bare minimum.

Will the UK government now, finally, honour its international obligations to prevent genocide and end all arms sales to Israel?

Turkey, but away from the tourists

This chart is pretty insane. More of an overnight social/political-type shift than typical tech adoption imo: techcrunch.com/2024/11/19/b...

There is a very simple reason why the UK government refuses to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.

If they did, they would be admitting their own complicity in one of the greatest crimes of our time.

End all arms sales to Israel, now.

Bluesky 1.94. Improvements: Redesigned settings screen. New animations when viewing images. Imported images now clearly indicate that they were imported. Fixes: Lots of performance improvements!

📢 App Version 1.94 is rolling out today (1/5)

A new release to go along with 20 million users!

Open this thread for details. 🧵

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This is really huge. For my friends in tech, Oauth is a way of giving third party apps/services access to your Bluesky account securely, without them having access to your password. It will make it easier for people to make tools that build on the functionality here. 1/

OAuth for AT Protocol | Bluesky We are very happy to release the initial specification of OAuth for AT Protocol! This is expected to be the primary authentication and authorization system between atproto client apps and PDS instance...

We got a blog post out summarizing our launch of OAuth for AT Protocol, and what work remains. This has been a huge project led by @matthieu.bsky.team with input from a bunch of standards folks and devs.

Big milestone for building all sorts of clients, apps, and integrations on atproto.

Looking for places to try in Abu Dhabi. Forget “hidden gem” etc. let’s talk about quality food, value of money and great coffee. I think most cafes are using average beans for milk coffee’s looking for something places that make tasty flat white coffee.

A twist on cilbir (Turkish breakfast dish)

Welcome to Bluesky! - Bluesky What a week! In the last few days, Bluesky has grown by more than 2.6 million users, over 85% of which are Brazilian. Welcome, we are so excited to have you here!

What a week! In the last few days, Bluesky has grown by more than 2.6 million users, over 85% of which are Brazilian.

Welcome, we are so excited to have you here!

Here are answers to some common questions about Bluesky:

The Israeli government has cut off food, water, and fuel to 2 million people inside Gaza as part of its campaign to stamp out Hamas terrorism. Collective punishment is not only contrary to international law, it is inhumane and illogical. /1

The UK government’s decision to approve Rosebank displays shameful disregard for future generations.

Some want to “give investors certainty”, but how much certainty will investors have on a burning planet?

Stop Rosebank and invest in renewables instead!

What's the magic word to get what you want? Sudo, says the kid.

Command line parenting🤣

Bluesky needs to send their social media team some invites! 😁

ABC exiting Twitter: Australia’s national broadcaster shuts down almost all accounts on Elon Musk�... The public broadcaster says interactions on the platform are ‘toxic’ as it closes almost all its Twitter accounts

For a major organisation like the ABC to a) cite the toxic atmosphere as reason to abandon *huge* accounts, and b) to cite rising API costs as a reason to abandon emergency alert services, should be a major signal that if you don't have plans to abandon ship: make some immediately.

#auspol

Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque is one of the masterpieces of Iranian architecture that was built during the Safavid Empire, standing on the eastern side of Naqsh-i Jahan Square, Esfahan, Iran. Construction of the mosque started in 1603 and was finished in 1619.

Korean fried chicken , not sure how I made this typing error 🤦🏽‍♂️

Crowds of students in dress clothes and graduation robes in front of palm trees and a giant MYNYUAD sculpture.

Just a moment to celebrate the NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2023’s commencement. Over 400 students, from 81 different countries on six continents. An extraordinary group who have had a hell of a ride thru uni. Meet some of them here nyuad.nyu.edu/en/commencement/commence...