Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.
Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.
Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”
Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.
Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.
Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”
Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.
Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.
Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”
Dozens Arrested as 1,000+ Jews Demand Gaza Ceasefire at Rabbi-Led Yom Kippur Protest in NYC | Common Dreams
Brett Wilkins Oct 03, 2025
Protesters then marched to the Brooklyn Bridge, where some sat down, locked their arms together, and sang while blocking traffic to the span. New York Police Department (NYPD) officers subsequently arrested at least 56 people, according to the New York Post.
Many of the arrested protesters chanted, “Let Gaza Live!” as their hands were zip-tied and they were hauled off to an awaiting NYPD bus.
Asked why she was arrested, one keffiyeh-clad woman said, “Because I’m using this sacred holiday of Yom Kippur, as a Jewish person whose ancestors perished during the Holocaust, to protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people in my name.”
The Supreme Court on Friday paved the way for the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status for up to 600,000 Venezuelan immigrants, meaning some could ultimately be deported.
We've released #Hollo 0.6.12 to fix a critical privacy #vulnerability where direct messages were being exposed in the replies section of public posts. Please update your instances immediately to ensure your private conversations remain private.
We’re back with a fresh release, and this one makes following and sharing smoother than ever—plus gives you more control over how your posts can be quoted.
A New Way to Follow (For Now)
Starting today, users on WordPress.com sites and self-hosted sites connected through Jetpack can see the posts of accounts they follow directly in their WordPress.com Reader timeline. The Following UI has been around for a little while, yet hidden, and with this release it will be enabled by default for these sites.
When you follow an account, ActivityPub checks for a discoverable RSS feed. If one exists, it’s automatically added to your Reader timeline so new posts appear alongside everything else you already follow. Unfollowing works the same way—the feed disappears when you remove the account. And if you’d like to view the feed for an account you’ve followed, just hover over it in the list table and click View Feed. Think of this as a bridge: a simple way to read the posts of accounts you follow today, while we continue building a full, first-class ActivityPub reading experience for tomorrow.
There are a couple of details to keep in mind. Removing a subscription directly in the Reader won’t update your site’s Following list, and interactions are limited to what RSS allows, which means sharing and reposting rather than the full range of ActivityPub features.
Running a self-hosted site without Jetpack? You can still enable the Following UI manually—it just won’t connect with the Reader.
Quote Post Controls
We’ve also added support for Mastodon’s quote post feature—and given you an easy way to control how others can quote your content.
When writing in the Block Editor, you’ll now see a sidebar setting that lets you decide whether everyone can quote your post, only your followers can, or if quoting is reserved for you alone. Once published, Mastodon and other compatible platforms will honor your choice automatically. No extra setup needed—just write, choose, and publish with confidence.
Full Changelog
Added
Added a setting to control who can quote your posts.
Added support for QuoteRequest activities (FEP-044f), enabling proper handling, validation, and policy-based acceptance or rejection of quote requests.
Add upgrade routine to enable ActivityPub feeds in WordPress.com Reader
Add Yoast SEO integration for author archives site health check.
Improved interaction policies with clearer defaults and better Mastodon compatibility.
New site health check warns if active Captcha plugins may block ActivityPub comments.
Sync following meta to enable RSS feed subscriptions for ActivityPub actors in WordPress.com Reader
You can now follow people and see their updates right in the WordPress.com Reader when using Jetpack or WordPress.com.
Changed
Added support for fetching actors by account identifiers and improved reliability of actor retrieval.
Clarify error messages in account modal to specify full profile URL format.
Improved checks to better identify public Activities.
Improved compatibility by making the ‘implements’ field always use multiple entries.
Improved recipient handling for clarity and improved visibility handling of activities.
Remote reply blocks now sync account info across all blocks on the same page
Standardized notification handling with new hooks for better extensibility and consistency.
Updated sync allowlist to add support for Jetpack notifications of likes and reposts.
Fixed
Fixed an issue where post metadata in the block editor was missing or failed to update.
Fix Flag activity object list processing to preserve URL arrays
Fix PHP warning in bulk edit scenario when post_author is missing from $_REQUEST
Posts now only fall back to the blog user when blog mode is enabled and no valid author exists, ensuring content negotiation only runs if an Actor is available.
Thanks to everyone who contributed code, tested, offered feedback, or lent support along the way. Update to 7.5.0 today and follow, share, and quote to your heart’s content!
What's Changed
Change 'implements' to array in generator definitions by @pfefferle in #2195
Add Yoast SEO author archives site health test by @pfefferle in #2193
Fix Flag activity object list proc...
Likely a controversial one, but as a vegan I'd say yes. And I don't see it as moral failing. Then with a smile turn to the question asker and give the same scenario with a dog, their dog, a kid, their kid,...
This #BandcampFriday, if you like good songs and fine music, my suggestion is to go check out this album by my ridiculously talented friend Rob Corcoran: robcorcoran.bandcamp.com/album… , which For Reasons, hasn't actually been released yet but is temporarily available for the duration.
I'd get it myself but am a bit skint. However, if there's any action on music.conniptions.org/ (my own Bandcamp) that may change. Fingers crossed and all that.
social.coop/@cwebber/115312308… cwebber@social.coop - In 3 days nearly the entire Bluesky team doubled, tripled, quadrupled down on the "WAFFLES" thing in response to upset users, and now Jesse Singal etc are using it as a Nazi slur against trans people bsky.app/profile/nogoodwyfe.bs…
I tried to follow up on this to see what's going on. From what i can tell, a few people are harassing Jay, the CEO, for not coming down hard enough on Singal a while back, and then more recently, a few more people got pissy because she didn't get anti-fascist enough about a couple other things. JD Vance fits in here somewhere, I think he wasn't banned from joining bluesky or something.
Most of the harassers are mastodon users I think. In all of it I haven't seen any intelligent discussion, so I think it is mostly the fear that where there is smoke there is fire. I have not seen anything on bluesky about it yet, other than the waffles snark. I see a lot of people expecting bluesky to get enshitified or nazified (especially on mastodon, but here on diaspora too), so they are screaming about it before it happens. Well, the Singal fiasco did get out of hand I believe.
You can't really blame people for getting panicky since the US is on a fast track for a real life nazi takeover, god forbid. But I would like to see more intelligent discussion rather than so much hysteria. B
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I tried to follow up on this to see what's going on. From what i can tell, a few people are harassing Jay, the CEO, for not coming down hard enough on Singal a while back, and then more recently, a few more people got pissy because she didn't get anti-fascist enough about a couple other things. JD Vance fits in here somewhere, I think he wasn't banned from joining bluesky or something.
Most of the harassers are mastodon users I think. In all of it I haven't seen any intelligent discussion, so I think it is mostly the fear that where there is smoke there is fire. I have not seen anything on bluesky about it yet, other than the waffles snark. I see a lot of people expecting bluesky to get enshitified or nazified (especially on mastodon, but here on diaspora too), so they are screaming about it before it happens. Well, the Singal fiasco did get out of hand I believe.
You can't really blame people for getting panicky since the US is on a fast track for a real life nazi takeover, god forbid. But I would like to see more intelligent discussion rather than so much hysteria. But as we've seen it's a few loud complainers who end up dominating the discussion, so it's hard to tell where this is going. So far I don't expect to see Jay capitulating to the nazi's, so I'm not worried about that. She's finding her way, but trying to stay neutral, but in the middle of a social war may that will be a problem.
I missed the whole Singal thing (no idea who that is). I had started to follow Jay, then had to unfollow because I got tossed in the middle of the above mess and don't have the bandwidth to deal.
Here's some context: "FediThing@chinwag.org - If anyone's confused by what the heck is going on with latest Bluesky drama, I've tried to summarise it in one toot here:
This is in context of Bluesky welcoming JD Vance to their platform with an email to Fox News, allowing him to post transphobic stuff, welcoming other prominent transphobes, while simultaneously banning people who were disrespectful to Charlie Kirk.
There is a far right pattern emerging in how Bluesky chooses to ban or not ban people.
@Susan ✶✶✶✶ Yes, i saw where people are up in arms about that pattern. But like i said above, it may be a case of where's there's smoke there's fire.
We don't know who all has been banned, nor the circumstances. So, it's too easy to find a few anecdotes as evidence, rather than the whole picture. Remember, it's the extreme polarization that's seeing smoke everywhere. We just have to wait to see what really develops. And with the trump administration, they are going to incite anger and division as much as they can, and unfortunately, they are going put a lot of pressure on bluesky. So, we shouldn't be too sure a pattern is emerging, or at least not ruin things out of dread anticipation.
This sort of reminds me of when g+ was closing down, we talked about what other social sites were available. And a few people started loudly bad mouthing mewe really persistently (2 people particularly), and without evide
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@Susan ✶✶✶✶ Yes, i saw where people are up in arms about that pattern. But like i said above, it may be a case of where's there's smoke there's fire.
We don't know who all has been banned, nor the circumstances. So, it's too easy to find a few anecdotes as evidence, rather than the whole picture. Remember, it's the extreme polarization that's seeing smoke everywhere. We just have to wait to see what really develops. And with the trump administration, they are going to incite anger and division as much as they can, and unfortunately, they are going put a lot of pressure on bluesky. So, we shouldn't be too sure a pattern is emerging, or at least not ruin things out of dread anticipation.
This sort of reminds me of when g+ was closing down, we talked about what other social sites were available. And a few people started loudly bad mouthing mewe really persistently (2 people particularly), and without evidence just out of paranoia that it would be a nazi haven. Mewe doesn't look like it got very popular and i always wondered how much a few people witch hunting and loudly badmouthing it ended up dooming it unnecessarily.
So, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber, fast forwarding down the road of PR catastrophe, starts cynically suggesting we should take “poster strike”, so I have decided to take her up on that offer.
I had enough of Zuckerbergs and Musks of the world, earning trillions by us using their platforms. So I’m off Bluesky. This is a prime example of “fuck around and find out” philosophy in practice.
The image shows a two-pane view of a mobile screen, likely related to account deletion. On the left is a form requesting information, and on the right is an error message.
The left pane has a white background and the title “Delete Account” with the email address “onajikikuka.com” underneath it, followed by the instruction: “Check your inbox for an email with the code to enter below.” A text field labeled with the code “MUJXY-RJEOS” is present, followed by another text field labeled “Please enter your password as well:” with a series of dots indicating a password field. Below these fields are two buttons: a large pink button labeled “Delete my account” and a smaller text link labeled “Cancel”.
The right pane has a black background and displays an error message with a yellow exclamation mark icon. The text reads “Not Found” with “Profile not found”
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The image shows a two-pane view of a mobile screen, likely related to account deletion. On the left is a form requesting information, and on the right is an error message.
The left pane has a white background and the title “Delete Account” with the email address “onajikikuka.com” underneath it, followed by the instruction: “Check your inbox for an email with the code to enter below.” A text field labeled with the code “MUJXY-RJEOS” is present, followed by another text field labeled “Please enter your password as well:” with a series of dots indicating a password field. Below these fields are two buttons: a large pink button labeled “Delete my account” and a smaller text link labeled “Cancel”.
The right pane has a black background and displays an error message with a yellow exclamation mark icon. The text reads “Not Found” with “Profile not found” underneath it, and a button at the bottom labeled “Try again”. The URL “bsky.app/profile/onajikikuka.com” is visible at the top of the screen.
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After stealing focus in everything from "Bridesmaids" to "Insidious," Rose Byrne
unravels beautifully in "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," a bold, career-best turn.
In this week's Screen Gab, Michael Waldron, the co-creator of Hulu's new comedy starring Glen Powell, stops by to discuss his approach to the show, and we recommend a few films to watch.
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