Rumors that Trump threatened Obama with Hatch Act originated as satire
Social media posts falsely claimed Trump "officially warned" Obama to "stay out of America's foreign affairs."
Ello you awesome people!
It's me again. Sorry I've not been around much, I've been sporadically using the first Friendica account I made, where I follow more folks and folks follow me.
But... The last few days, I've not been able to login to the friendica.world site, as it's just not there... It keeps giving errors or just nothing at all... I have no idea what is happening with the instance... So I switched to this one and I guess I'll have to follow some more folks with this one.
I still primarily use Mastodon, as I do like the Friendica bit, but I'm not all comfortable yet with using it, if that makes any sense... 🤔 Guess autistic me likes new things, but it holds on to things it already knows...
Have a nice day everyone! 😁
Hitler quote about removing judges credited to Trump was a prank. Here's the history of the passage
Users shared the quote in April 2025 following the FBI's arrests of a Milwaukee judge, as well as the arrests of an ex-New Mexico judge and his wife.
Yes, Virginia Giuffre, who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexually abusing her as teen, posted she was not suicidal in 2019
The family of Giuffre, who also accused Prince Andrew in a sex-trafficking scandal, announced that she died by suicide in late April 2025.
Don't fall for heartwarming — but fake — story about Pope Francis' dog not leaving his gravesite
Multiple AI-generated YouTube videos made up a tall tale to tug at the heartstrings in the wake of the pope's passing.
Trump's blue funeral suit caused uproar. Here's what we know about whether it broke Vatican dress code
The U.S. president wore a blue suit, blue tie and American flag lapel pin to the funeral of Pope Francis on April 26, 2025.
So there is a massive power outage in Spain and Portugal right now. No phone service, no Internet, no "modern" life :D. The cause is unknown - euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04…
What is funny is that we are in the mountains in spain with our TROMhome and we had no clue about any of these. We are fully offgrid in terms of power.
We have lots of solar panels, enough batteries, and satellite internet. So we are all good.
Perhaps we are indeed ready for an apocalypse. Waiting for it here in Picos de Europa :)
But yah, interesting this happened. Likely no "mysterious" cause. Keep an eye on the updates here - bbc.com/news/live/c9wpq8xrvd9t
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IMPORTANT!
We will remove our Matrix server in a week time (4th of May). Here's why?
In short: the service has become hard to manage and bots (likely) have taken advantage of our kindness spamming other rooms/users. Because of that our hosting provider wanted to shut down our entire TROM.tf server. Hard to deal with all that and with a huge 300GB database. On top of this anyone can make an account with matrix.org or other instances.
Full explanation and solutions here - trom.tf/chat/
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Family of woman photographed in 1944 allegedly writing thank-you note for Japanese soldier's skull speaks out
Snopes learned more information about the decades-old picture after contacting two children of Natalie Nickerson Paine, the woman in the picture.
Close-up image of the sun is not NASA photo. Here's the real story
A caption described the image as the “most clearest picture of the sun.”
P is for Pick Pixelfed
Sam says "This one is about Instagram and I know it can be a tough one.." but for me it was the easiest of all.
I was never an #Instagram fan. After avoiding it for years I eventually signed up to see a friends' posts, and was mystified as to how it fed me a bunch of random stuff rather than anything I subscribed to. What is the point of this? Now I've forgotten my password and good riddance.
Whereas, for the last couple years since I learned about it, I've been enjoying the heck out of #Pixelfed. It's my calm, beautiful oasis on the internet where I post and enjoy images of nature and interesting places and cats (#caturday!), and I keep it that way because I curate for myself exactly what to follow.
Pam Bondi didn't say, 'It's probably a crime to accuse the president of committing a crime after he breaks the law'
Online users shared a purported screenshot of a chyron from the U.S. Attorney General's appearance on "Fox News Sunday" in early April 2025.
Yes, Brazilian prisoners can read books to reduce sentences — but only by 48 days a year
Prisoners can submit up to 12 book reviews a year and reduce their sentences by four days per book read.