topic_representatives.csv

Topic,Count,Name,Representation,Representative_Docs
0,20391,0_new_like_just_people,"['new', 'like', 'just', 'people', 'im', 'ai', 'use', 'time', 'dont', 'make']","[""@bascule Yeah, the problem was that it was incredibly hard to change anything about format_args!() and fmt::Arguments.The code in the compiler that expands the macro was messy and mixed implementation details of the fmt::Arguments structure into pretty much every part of the code, meaning that you had to rewrite a large chunk of the compiler just to try out a new fmt::Arguments implementation. Clippy used to depend on the exact expansion of format_args!() and would break with any change. During bootstrap, the standard library used to be compiled with both the old and new compiler, meaning it'd need to support both the old and new format_args!() expansion if you changed anything. And there were some stable API promises, such as support for the entire usize range for the width and precision fields, which blocked certain improvements.It's taken years to slowly remove these roadblocks one by one. We have now *finally* reached a point where it's actually doable to overhaul format_args!() and fmt::Arguments without losing your mind.See the tracking issue for some of the history: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/99012"", 'Explaining why I push back so hard on the question: ""Why do you want millions of people on the Fediverse?""If I ask people ""Are there racists on Twitter?"" People will say ""Yes, lots!""If I ask, ""Does the owner of Twitter have the power to define moderation rules that allow racism but ban criticism if they choose to do so?"" People say yes.If I ask people, ""Do the owners of Twitter have the possibility to algorithmically control what people see, and what gets amplified / shadow-banned?"" People will also say yes.If I ask, ""Do you believe that the Fediverse offers an alternative to centrally controlled, algorithmically defined, social media?"" People agree.If I ask, ""Do you think Black people that don\'t want to be on Twitter, deserve access to a better form of social media than what is available on Twitter?"" People agree.So far, so good! 👍🏿But then when I say, ""Are you aware that at peak, 1 in 5 Twitter users was Black, and 1 in 5 Black people in the US was a monthly active Twitter user?"" Fewer people know that stat.There were ~300,000 Black trans Twitter users that used the service monthly. Almost none of them are on the Fediverse.Black people deserve safety. Black people deserve access to more choice in social media.Decentralized social media is not zero sum. Adding Black people and making the Fediverse safer for them, does not need to take away from your experience.Your instance doesn\'t need to go from 100 people to a million people to accommodate the influx of new users.That\'s the logical explanation of why we should make the Fediverse safer for everyone. But... why push back so hard?One of the problems with the world in general, and the US in particular, is that we often prioritize white *feelings* over Black *safety*. I am not gentle about pointing this out. Tiptoeing around this phenomenon is tiring for Black people, and I won\'t do it.Black people are not safe on Twitter or Mastodon. The difference is that we as a community of people of all backgrounds, have agency to improve Mastodon.We can make Mastodon safer without breaking the experience for existing users.', ""I am thinking of proposing a @swib lightning talk about JSON-LD and BIBFRAME metadata, in light of what has been learned about linkeddata here in the fedi, and also remembering \u200bGregg Kellogg.If we legit want BIBFRAME to replace MARC as an interchange format, can we make it as easy to use as possible by people who don't really care about RDF? This should be possible now, given all the work that has been done on the vocabulary, right?But maybe this is too pedestrian and obvious?  Others like #lobid have already talked about this years ago, so it's not like this is new, and others haven't tried. But maybe it's a good time to try again? Or maybe I just need to find the other people doing this, and help amplify their work? If you care about these niche topics I would be interested to hear from you.""]"
1,937,1_thank_thanks_appreciate_glad,"['thank', 'thanks', 'appreciate', 'glad', 'oh', 'awesome', 'congratulations', 'good', 'welcome', 'lovely']","['@b3ll Thank you!! 😊', '@noodlejetski thank you! :aquaCry:', '@nelson thank you!']"
2,819,2_thanks_thank_yeah_oh,"['thanks', 'thank', 'yeah', 'oh', 'thats', 'yes', 'sorry', 'ah', 'lol', 'yep']","['@metacurity Back now - thanks!', '@ANC_Historian Thanks!', '@jswright61 once was enough, thanks']"
3,721,3_nature_photography_buyintoart_mastoart,"['nature', 'photography', 'buyintoart', 'mastoart', 'art', 'photo', 'wildlife', 'birds', 'fediart', 'painting']","['Young Cooper’s Hawk soars ocer Mount Hollywood. The teardrop shapes are associated with first-year Coops.  #nature #photo #LARiver #photography #birds #hawk #birders #birdwatchers #birding #California #LosAngeles #birdphoto #birdwatching #GriffithPark #DailyBird #BirdsOfPixelfed #BirdsOfMastodon  #naturephotos #LAWildlife', 'Three American White Pelicans in Lake Superior.See it bigger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/three-american-white-pelicans-jan-luit.html#WildlifePhotography #Photography #Art #NaturePhotography #fotografie #artist  #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #FediGiftShop #PhotographyIsArt #birdsofmastodon #Birdwatching #Birding #Birds #Vogel #Animals #Wildlife #Nature #Natuur #artwork #mastoart #Fediart #Arte  #Giftidea #LakeSuperior #GiveArt', 'Bird of the Day — Baltimore Oriole, Kansas, yesterday#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife #NatureCommunity #Photography #BirdPhotography #BirdWatching #Migration #Oriole #FlyoverCountry']"
4,674,4_time_server_cats_cat,"['time', 'server', 'cats', 'cat', 'right', 'pixelfed', 'like', 'email', 'know', 'account']","['Good morning. 🌊🌊🌊13 November 2025I got up about an hour later than usual this morning. I’d stayed up late last night—well, late for me—watching a series on BritBox called The Good Ship Murder. It features a former detective inspector turned lounge singer and a ship’s first officer who solve a murder onboard in every episode. That’s right: a regular murder of one of the passengers seems to be a standing feature of the cruise. What a fantastic marketing ploy—“Be the lucky passenger.” Come on aboard, we’re expecting you. 🛳️Charlie just barked, so I got up to let him in. But he only looked at me, so I shut the door and came right back in here. I’ll wait until his barking sounds a bit more insistent. He’s a strange character sometimes—perpetually on the wrong side of the back door. He’ll stay outside without complaint, as long as someone’s out there with him. Once I finish this morning’s dispatch into the digital void, I’ll grab my camera and we’ll both go sit outside and watch the birds.In just about a week, we’re headed east again. We go every year—Thanksgiving with the family in a small house in a small Georgian town. My wife is from there. I sometimes call it Georgiania, just to hear her say, “That’s not how you say it.” For the same reason, I jokingly call Canada Canadia and Chanel No. 5 Channel 5. It’s all just to get a reaction. There’s something delightful about walking into the perfume department of a store and asking for help finding some of that Channel 5. Some people get the joke right away. Some don’t.“Ship happens.” — CruiseMummy.co.uk“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.” — Mark Twain“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.” — Orhan Pamuk#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #ForestersTern #morning #shorebirds #cruise #murder #dogs #language', 'Once upon a time we had a deaf cat called KevyI was sitting at home one day with Kevy in my lap and I was patting him with one hand and giving him a scritch with another hand. He was purring madly and fell fast asleep quicklyMy mum came home from work. Normally Kevy would be lying near the door to ""hear"" her come in but he was purring softly and fast asleep. I hadn\'t stopped either patting or scritching himMum came over very quietly and very lightly began giving him a pat. Slowly the purring got louder and somewhere in the unconscious cat mind Kevy realised ""hang on... Is that a third hand?!"" He awoke very suddenly, saw my mum, did his happiest meow at the loudest volume (deaf cats don\'t know how loud they are 😂) and the purring hit maximum. Whenever Kevy got really happy, for some unknown reason, he started drooling. This purring, drooling mess of a cat stretched the stretch of those truly at peace and settled in for the biggest, comfiest sleep of his little lifeIn all my life, I\'ve never seen any creature so completely content. Mum and I watched a cat achieve true inner peace and it was glorious#catsofmastodon #catstories', 'Once upon a time we had a deaf cat called KevyI was sitting at home one day with Kevy in my lap and I was patting him with one hand and giving him a scritch with another hand. He was purring madly and fell fast asleep quicklyMy mum came home from work. Normally Kevy would be lying near the door to ""hear"" her come in but he was purring softly and fast asleep. I hadn\'t stopped either patting or scritching himMum came over very quietly and very lightly began giving him a pat. Slowly the purring got louder and somewhere in the unconscious cat mind Kevy realised ""hang on... Is that a third hand?!"" He awoke very suddenly, saw my mum, did his happiest meow at the loudest volume (deaf cats don\'t know how loud they are 😂) and the purring hit maximum. Whenever Kevy got really happy, for some unknown reason, he started drooling. This purring, drooling mess of a cat stretched the stretch of those truly at peace and settled in for the biggest, comfiest sleep of his little lifeIn all my life, I\'ve never seen any creature so completely content. Mum and I watched a cat achieve true inner peace and it was glorious#catsofmastodon #catstories']"
5,635,5_war_civil_union_men,"['war', 'civil', 'union', 'men', 'domain', 'troops', 'records', 'camp', 'archives', 'company']","[' President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 (W.E. Winner, painter, J. Serz, engraver, circa 1864; public domain, U.S. Library of Congress). “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.”—President Abraham Lincoln, “Emancipation Proclamation,” January 1, 1863 With those words, President Abraham Lincoln and the United States of America took another step forward in the nation’s long process of ending the brutal practice of chattel slavery in America. Issued on January 1, 1863, “the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways,” according to historians at the U.S. National Archives. “It applied only to states that had seceded from the United States, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy (the Southern secessionist states) that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union (United States) military victory.”Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.From the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. As a milestone along the road to slavery’s final destruction, the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom.By the time that President Lincoln had issued this proclamation, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry had already become an integrated regiment, having enrolled four formerly enslaved Black men in October and November 1862 while the regiment was assigned to occupation duties with the United States Army’s Tenth Corps (X Corps) in Beaufort, South Carolina—a process the regiment would continue during its tenure as the only regiment from Pennsylvania to participate in the Union’s 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana—an integration process that was supported by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Page one of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain; click to enlarge). The Full Text of the Emancipation ProclamationJanuary 1, 1863By the President of the United States of America:A Proclamation.Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.‘That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State, and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion against the United States.’Now, therefore I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States, the following, to wit:Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, (except the Parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James Ascension, Assumption, Terrebonne, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans) Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth[)], and which excepted parts, are for the present, left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued.And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.And I further declare and make known, that such persons of suitable condition, will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to man vessels of all sorts in said service.And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.Done at the City of Washington, this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the eighty-seventh.By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLNWILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.  Sources:“Establishing Slavery in the Lowcountry,” in “African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations.” Charleston, South Carolina: Lowcountry Digital History Initiative, retrieved online January 1, 2024.“Franklin, John Hope. “The Emancipation Proclamation: An Act of Justice,” in Prologue Magazine, Summer 1993, vol. 25, no. 2. Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Snyder, Laurie. “Freedmen from South Carolina,” in “Freedmen of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.” 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers: One Civil War Regiment’s Story, 2023.“The Emancipation Proclamation.” Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, May 5, 2017.“Transcript of the Proclamation” (transcription of the Emancipation Proclamation).” Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, May 5, 2017.  https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/2024/01/01/attempts-to-end-chattel-slavery-across-america-president-abraham-lincoln-issues-the-emancipation-proclamation-january-1-1863/#47thPennsylvaniaInfantry #47thPennsylvaniaVolunteers #AbrahamLincoln #America #AmericanCivilWar #AmericanHistory #Beaufort #CivilWar #Florida #History #Louisiana #Pennsylvania #PennsylvaniaHistory #Slavery #SouthCarolina #Union #Washington', 'Records Related to the Marriage of Mary and Peter HauptClick on document to enlarge:     Minister’s Attestation Re: the 1853 Marriage of Peter and Mary Haupt (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).    U.S. Civil War Military and Pension Records Related to Sergeant Peter Haupt’s Union Army Service and DeathClick on individual document to enlarge:     Attestation by First Lieutenant Daniel Oyster, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers Re: the Union Army Service and Battle Death of Sergeant Peter Haupt (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Confirmation by U.S. Adjutant General’s Office of Sergeant Peter Haupt’s Union Army Service and 1862 Battle-Related Death (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Confirmation by U.S. Pension Bureau of Sergeant Peter Haupt’s Union Army Service and 1862 Battle-Related Death (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).    U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Records Related to Mary HauptClick on individual document to enlarge:     Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (attorney information, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (brief, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (completed claim form, 1 January 1863, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (Mary and David Haupt’s Affidavit, 2 January 1863, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (additional evidence, 6 September 1863, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (Mary’s deposition, 12 February 1867, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (physician affidavit 1, Feb 1867, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (physician affidavit 2, Feb 1867, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (physician affidavit 3, Feb 1867, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (pension award and amount, 19 March 1867, p. 1, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (pension award and amount, 19 March 1867, p. 2, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (arrears claim, 7 February 1879, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (U.S. Pension Bureau Notes, 1879, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (request for pension increase, August 1886, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (request for pension increase, 21 September 1886, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (U.S. Pension Act language certificate, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (Mary’s death notation, returned pension check envelope, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (returned pension check notice following Mary’s death, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (Mary dropped from pension rolls following her death, p. 1, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (Mary dropped from pension rolls following her death, p. 2, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (pension history, 1862-1916, p. 1, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Claim (pension history, 1862-1916, p. 2, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).    U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Records Related to Payments Made to Other Parties for Expenses Related to the Medical Care, Death, Funeral, and Burial of Mary HauptClick on individual document to enlarge:     Reimbursement Claim by Mary Garringer for Final Expenses of Mary Haupt, 1918 (cover, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Charles Garringer’s 1918 Inquiry for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Charles Garringer’s 1918 Waiver of Reimbursement for Haupt’s Final Expenses (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (cover, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (completed claim form, p. 1, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (completed claim form, p. 2, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (completed claim form, p. 3, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (nurse’s bill, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (physician’s bill 1, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (physician’s bill 2, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (funeral home bill, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (cemetery bill, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).      Mary Haupt’s U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, Mary Garringer’s 1918 Claim for Reimbursement of Haupt’s Final Expenses (reimbursement approval, U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain).   https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/company-c-color-bearers/roster-company-c-47th-pennsylvania-volunteers/the-haupt-brothers-of-sunbury/peter-and-mary-haupt-key-u-s-civil-war-military-and-pension-records/', ' The community of Factoryville, where a number of Gardner family members lived in the early to mid-nineteenth century, still retained its rural qualities into the late 1800s, as this bird’s eye view illustration showed in 1891 (public domain; double click to enlarge). Raised in Pennsylvania’s bucolic Wyoming Valley during the early to mid-nineteenth century, the Gardner brothers were brought up in an agrarian world—destined to become farmers who would feed their immediate neighbors, as well as residents of neighboring towns.That destiny, however, would change forever while they were still just young men.Formative YearsBorn in Pennsylvania circa 1832 and on 19 June 1837, respectively, Jeremiah Gardner and his younger brother, Jasper B. Gardner (1837-1864), were sons of Champlin Gardner (1794-1869), a native of Rhode Island. Their mother was Pennsylvania native Eunice (Billings) Gardner (1806-1884), who was a daughter of Jasper Billings (1770-1831) and Mary (Mullison) Billings (1773-1853).As residents of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, they lived in Clinton Township with their parents and siblings: Wilber Gardner (1824-1909), Mary Gardner, who was born circa 1827; Andrew Jackson Gardner (1829-1917), Pauline/Perlina Gardner, who was born circa 1834, and Henry A. Gardner (1840-1841).Tragically, the youngest of the Gardner clan, Henry, was just ten months old when he died on 11 January 1841. His life was later memorialized on the same cenotaph at the Square Top Cemetery in Clinton Township, Wyoming County that paid tribute to his brother, Jasper.Subsequently listed on the 1850 U.S. Census as residents of Clinton Township, Jasper and Jeremiah Gardner were documented as the sons of farmer Champlin Gardner and his wife, Eunice, and siblings of Wilber, a farmer; Mary; Jackson, a farmer; and “Perlina.” Jeremiah was already being described as a farmer by that year’s federal census enumerator, signaling the life path that had been planned for him by his parents.* Note: Named for Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley, an area of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that had been so named in reference to the many meadows found within its boundaries, Wyoming County was a relatively new political division within the Great Keystone State. Born on 4 April 1842, it had been carved out from lands that were originally part of Luzerne County. Clinton Township, where the Gardner family members made their home in 1850, had been incorporated in 1843 with lands taken from Falls, Nicholson and Tunkhannock townships, and has been “settled during the first years of the present century [the nineteenth century], by families from Rhode Island,” according to Munsell’s History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming Counties.The first school was kept in a little log building about a mile south of the village, by Job Briggs. Hulda Allsworth, of Pittston, was the next teacher. About 1824 the old ‘square-top’ school-house was built, on the site of the depot, and for many years it served as a church and school building….The first saw-mill was built a short distance from where Matthewson’s grist-mill [stood in 1880] by Joseph Capwell, about 1820. The first grist-mill was built by Capwell about 1838.The first post office had been established a decade earlier, in 1828, in nearby Factoryville, a town that had been given its name in reference to the cotton mill that had been erected in the area roughly a decade after the first settlers had arrived there. In addition, according to Munsell, a school “class was in existence at the ‘square-top’ in 1830, and Rev. Selah Stocking was the preacher at that time, when ‘Aunt’ Eunice Gardner with the [Methodist] church, it being then an outlying appointment on the Wyoming circuit. Preaching was had once in two or three weeks for nearly twenty years following.”Sometime during the late 1850s, Jeremiah Gardner married and began a new life with his wife, Martha. Their first child, Milo Monroe Gardner (1859-1950), was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania on 19 April 1959.On 16 December 1860, Jasper B. Gardner wed Mary Beidleman. Born in Pennsylvania circa 1840, she was a daughter of Daniel and Esther Beidelman. “The Union Is Dissolved” (announcement of South Carolina’s secession from the United States, broadside, Charleston Mercury, 20 December 1860, U.S. Library of Congress and National Museum of American History, public domain; click to enlarge). Four days later, elected officials from South Carolina announced their state’s intent to secede from the Union, sparking one of the most disastrous periods in American History.On 1 February 1861, Jeremiah and Martha Gardner welcomed the birth of their second child, Watie A. Gardner (February 1861-1955), who was born in Springville Township, Susquehanna County on 1 February 1861 and was shown on later census records as “Maty.” Their third child, Nelson R. Gardner (November 1861-17), followed quickly thereafter, opening his eyes for the first time in Clinton Township, Wyoming County on 18 November 1861.Civil WarOn 12 September 1861, Jasper B. Gardner became one of the early responders to President Abraham Lincoln’s calls for volunteers to help defend the nation’s capital and bring a swift end to the Civil War that had broken out between America’s northern and southern states in mid-April of that year. He then officially mustered in for duty later that day at Camp Curtin in Harrisburg. Entering at the rank of private, he was attached to the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry’s C Company, the regiment’s color guard unit, which was commanded by Captain John Peter Shindel Gobin.Military records at the time described Private Jacob Gardner as a twenty-five-year-old conductor from Wyoming County, who was five feet, eleven inches tall with black hair, gray eyes and a dark complexion.Following a brief training period in light infantry tactics, the men of Company C were then sent by train with their fellow 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers to Washington, D.C. where, beginning 21 September, they were stationed roughly two miles from the White House at “Camp Kalorama” on the Kalorama Heights near Georgetown.“It is a very fine location for a camp,” wrote Captain Gobin. “Good water is handy, while Rock Creek, which skirts one side of us, affords an excellent place for washing and bathing.”Henry Wharton, a field musician from C Company penned the following update for the Sunbury American on 22 September:After a tedious ride we have, at last, safely arrived at the City of ‘magnificent distances.’ We left Harrisburg on Friday last at 1 o’clock A.M. and reached this camp yesterday (Saturday) at 4 P.M., as tired and worn out a sett [sic] of mortals as can possibly exist. On arriving at Washington we were marched to the ‘Soldiers Retreat,’ a building purposely erected for the benefit of the soldier, where every comfort is extended to him and the wants of the ‘inner man’ supplied.After partaking of refreshments we were ordered into line and marched, about three miles, to this camp. So tired were the men, that on marching out, some gave out, and had to leave the ranks, but J. Boulton Young, our ‘little Zouave,’ stood it bravely, and acted like a veteran. So small a drummer is scarcely seen in the army, and on the march through Washington he was twice the recipient of three cheers.We were reviewed by Gen. McClellan yesterday [21 September 1861] without our knowing it. All along the march we noticed a considerable number of officers, both mounted and on foot; the horse of one of the officers was so beautiful that he was noticed by the whole regiment, in fact, so wrapt [sic] up were they in the horse, the rider wasn’t noticed, and the boys were considerably mortified this morning on dis-covering they had missed the sight of, and the neglect of not saluting the soldier next in command to Gen. Scott.Col. Good, who has command of our regiment, is an excellent man and a splendid soldier. He is a man of very few words, and is continually attending to his duties and the wants of the Regiment.I am happy to inform you that our young townsman, Mr. William Hendricks, has received the appointment of Sergeant Major to our Regiment. He made his first appearance at guard mounting this morning; he looked well, done up his duties admirably, and, in time, will make an excellent officer. Our Regiment will now be put to hard work; such as drilling and the usual business of camp life, and the boys expect and hope for an occasional ‘pop’ at the enemy. Chain Bridge across the Potomac above Georgetown looking toward Virginia, 1861 (The Illustrated London News, public domain). Then, on 24 September, the soldiers of Company C became part of the federal service when the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry officially mustered into the U.S. Army. On 27 September—a rainy day, the 47th Pennsylvania was assigned to the 3rd Brigade of Brigadier-General Isaac Ingalls Stevens, which also included the 33rd, 49th and 79th New York regiments. By that afternoon, the 47th Pennsylvania was on the move again. Ordered onward by Brigadier-General Silas Casey, the Mississippi rifle-armed 47th Pennsylvania infantrymen marched behind their regimental band until reaching Camp Lyon, Maryland on the Potomac River’s eastern shore. At 5 p.m., they joined the 46th Pennsylvania in moving double-quick (one hundred and sixty-five steps per minute using thirty-three-inch steps) across the “Chain Bridge” marked on federal maps, and continued on for roughly another mile before being ordered to make camp.The next morning, they broke camp and moved again. Marching toward Falls Church, Virginia, they arrived at Camp Advance around dusk. There, about two miles from the bridge they had crossed a day earlier, they re-pitched their tents in a deep ravine near a new federal fort under construction (Fort Ethan Allen). They had completed a roughly eight-mile trek, were situated fairly close to the headquarters of Brigadier-General William Farrar Smith (also known as “Baldy”), and were now part of the massive Army of the Potomac (“Mr. Lincoln’s Army”). Under Smith’s leadership, their regiment and brigade would help to defend the nation’s capital from the time of their September arrival through late January when the men of the 47th Pennsylvania would be shipped to the nation’s Deep South.Once again, Company C Musician Henry Wharton recapped the regiment’s activities, noting, via his 29 September letter home to the Sunbury American, that the 47th had changed camps three times in three days:On Friday last we left Camp Kalorama, and the same night encamped about one mile from the Chain Bridge on the opposite side of the Potomac from Washington. The next morning, Saturday, we were ordered to this Camp [Camp Advance near Fort Ethan Allen, Virginia], one and a half miles from the one we occupied the night previous. I should have mentioned that we halted on a high hill (on our march here) at the Chain Bridge, called Camp Lyon, but were immediately ordered on this side of the river. On the route from Kalorama we were for two hours exposed to the hardest rain I ever experienced. Whew, it was a whopper; but the fellows stood it well – not a murmur – and they waited in their wet clothes until nine o’clock at night for their supper. Our Camp adjoins that of the N.Y. 79th (Highlanders.)….We had not been in this Camp more than six hours before our boys were supplied with twenty rounds of ball and cartridge, and ordered to march and meet the enemy; they were out all night and got back to Camp at nine o’clock this morning, without having a fight. They are now in their tents taking a snooze preparatory to another march this morning…. I don’t know how long the boys will be gone, but the orders are to cook two days’ rations and take it with them in their haversacks….There was a nice little affair came off at Lavensville [sic, Lewinsville], a few miles from here on Wednesday last; our troops surprised a party of rebels (much larger than our own.) killing ten, took a Major prisoner, and captured a large number of horses, sheep and cattle, besides a large quantity of corn and potatoes, and about ninety six tons of hay. A very nice day’s work. The boys are well, in fact, there is no sickness of any consequence at all in our Regiment…. The Big Chestnut Tree, Camp Griffin, Langley, Virginia, 1861 (U.S. Library of Congress, public domain). Sometime during this phase of duty, as part of the 3rd Brigade, the 47th Pennsylvanians were moved to a site they initially christened “Camp Big Chestnut” in reference to the large chestnut tree located within their campsite’s boundaries. The site would eventually become known to the Keystone Staters as “Camp Griffin,” and was located roughly ten miles from Washington, D.C.On 11 October, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers marched in the Grand Review at Bailey’s Cross Roads. In a letter home in mid-October, Captain Gobin reported that the right wing of the 47th Pennsylvania (companies A, C, D, F and I) was ordered to picket duty after the left wing’s companies (B, G, K, E, and H) were forced to return to camp by Confederate troops:I was ordered to take my company to Stewart’s house, drive the Rebels from it, and hold it at all hazards. It was about 3 o’clock in the morning, so waiting until it was just getting day, I marched 80 men up; but the Rebels had left after driving Capt. Kacy’s company [H] into the woods. I took possession of it, and stationed my men, and there we were for 24 hours with our hands on our rifles, and without closing an eye. I took ten men, and went out scouting within half a mile of the Rebels, but could not get a prisoner, and we did not dare fire on them first. Do not think I was rash, I merely obeyed orders, and had ten men with me who could whip a hundred; Brosius, Piers [sic], Harp and McEwen were among the number. Every man in the company wanted to go. The Rebels did not attack us, and if they had they would have met with a warm reception, as I had my men posted in such a manner that I could have whipped a regiment. My men were all ready and anxious for a “fight.”Captain Gobin had been referring to Brigadier-General James Ewell Brown (“J.E.B.”) Stuart, commanding officer of the Confederate Army of the Potomac (later known as the Army of Northern Virginia), under whose authority the 4th Virginia Cavalry (“Black Horse Cavalry”) fell. Stuart’s Fairfax County, Virginia home had been commandeered by the Union Army and used by the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers and other Union regiments as the base of operations for their picket lines in that area.In his own letter of this period (on 13 October to the Sunbury American), Henry Wharton described the typical duties of the 47th Pennsylvanians, as well as their new home:The location of our camp is fine and the scenery would be splendid if the view was not obstructed by heavy thickets of pine and innumerable chesnut [sic] trees. The country around us is excellent for the Rebel scouts to display their bravery; that is, to lurk in the dense woods and pick off one of our unsuspecting pickets. Last night, however, they (the Rebels) calculated wide of their mark; some of the New York 33d boys were out on picket; some fourteen or fifteen shots were exchanged, when our side succeeded in bringing to the dust, (or rather mud,) an officer and two privates of the enemy’s mounted pickets. The officer was shot by a Lieutenant in Company H [?], of the 33d.Our own boys have seen hard service since we have been on the ‘sacred soil.’ One day and night on picket, next day working on entrenchments at the Fort, (Ethan Allen.) another on guard, next on march and so on continually, but the hardest was on picket from last Thursday morning ‘till Saturday morning – all the time four miles from camp, and both of the nights the rain poured in torrents, so much so that their clothes were completely saturated with the rain. They stood it nobly – not one complaining; but from the size of their haversacks on their return, it is no wonder that they were satisfied and are so eager to go again tomorrow. I heard one of them say ‘there was such nice cabbage, sweet and Irish potatoes, turnips, &c., out where their duty called them, and then there was a likelihood of a Rebel sheep or young porker advancing over our lines and then he could take them as ‘contraband’ and have them for his own use.’ When they were out they saw about a dozen of the Rebel cavalry and would have had a bout with them, had it not been for…unlucky circumstance – one of the men caught the hammer of his rifle in the strap of his knapsack and caused his gun to fire; the Rebels heard the report and scampered in quick time….Wharton had also reported that all of the men were well; unfortunately, he was proven wrong.A Sad, Unwanted DistinctionOn 17 October 1861, death claimed the first member of the entire regiment—the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers’ little drummer boy, John Boulton Young. The pain of his loss was deeply and widely felt; Boulty (also spelled as “Boltie”) had become a favorite not just among the men of his own C Company, but of the entire 47th. After contracting Variola (smallpox), he was initially treated in camp, but was shipped back to the Kalorama eruptive fever hospital in Georgetown when it became evident that he needed more intensive care than could be provided at the 47th’s regimental hospital in Virginia.According to Lewis Schmidt, author of A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers, Captain Gobin wrote to Boulty’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Young of Sunbury, “It is with the most profound feelings of sorrow I ever experienced that I am compelled to announce to you the death of our Pet, and your son, Boulton.” After receiving the news of Boulty’s death, Gobin said that he had “immediately started for Georgetown, hoping the tidings would prove untrue.”Alas! when I reached there I found that little form that I had so loved, prepared for the grave. Until a short time before he died the symptoms were very favorable, and every hope was entertained of his recovery… He was the life and light of our company, and his death has caused a blight and sadness to prevail, that only rude wheels of time can efface… Every attention was paid to him by the doctors and nurses, all being anxious to show their devotion to one so young. I have had him buried, and ordered a stone for his grave, and ere six months pass a handsome monument, the gift of Company C, will mark the spot where rests the idol of their hearts. I would have sent the body home but the nature of his disease prevented it. When we return, however, if we are so fortunate, the body will accompany us… Everything connected with Boulty shall by attended to, no matter what the cost is. His effects that can be safely sent home, together with his pay, will be forwarded to you.According to Schmidt, Gobin added the following details in a separate letter to friends:The doctor… told me it was the worst case he ever saw. It was the regular black, confluent small pox… I had him vaccinated at Harrisburg, but it would not take, and he must have got the disease from some of the old Rebel camps we visited, as their army is full of it. There is only one more case in our regiment, and he is off in the same hospital.Boulty’s death even made the news nationally via Washington newspapers and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Just barely thirteen years old when he died, John Boulton Young was initially interred at the Military Asylum Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Established in August 1861 on the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home, the cemetery was easily seen from a neighboring cottage that was used by President Abraham Lincoln and his family as a place of respite. In letters sent home later that month, Captain Gobin asked Sunbury residents to donate blankets for the Sunbury Guards:The government has supplied them with one blanket apiece, which, as the cold weather approaches, is not sufficient…. Some of my men have none, two of them, Theodore Kiehl and Robert McNeal, having given theirs to our lamented drummer boy when he was taken sick… Each can give at least one blanket, (no matter what color, although we would prefer dark,) and never miss it, while it would add to the comfort of the soldiers tenfold. Very frequently while on picket duty their overcoats and blankets are both saturated by the rain. They must then wait until they can dry them by the fire before they can take their rest.On Friday morning, 22 October 1861, the 47th participated in a Divisional Review, described by Schmidt as massing “about 10,000 infantry, 1000 cavalry, and twenty pieces of artillery all in one big open field.”By early November, Gobin was reporting that “the health of the Company and Regiment are in the best condition. No cases of small pox have appeared since the death of Boultie.” A few patients remained in the hospital with fever, including D. W. Kembel and another from Company C. Gobin reported that Kembel was “almost well.” Unknown regiment, Camp Griffin, Virginia, fall 1861 (U.S. Library of Congress, public domain). Half of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, including Company C, were next ordered to join parts of the 33rd Maine and 46th New York in extending the reach of their division’s picket lines, which they did successfully to “a half mile beyond Lewinsville,” according to Gobin. In another letter home on 17 November, Henry Wharton revealed more details about life at Camp Griffin:This morning our brigade was out for inspection; arms, accoutrements [sic], clothing, knapsacks, etc, all were out through a thorough examination, and if I must say it myself, our company stood best, A No. 1, for cleanliness. We have a new commander to our Brigade, Brigadier General Brannen [sic], of the U.S. Army, and if looks are any criterion, I think he is a strict disciplinarian and one who will be as able to get his men out of danger as he is willing to lead them to battle….The boys have plenty of work to do, such as piquet [sic] duty, standing guard, wood-chopping, police duty and day drill; but then they have the most substantial food; our rations consist of fresh beef (three times a week) pickled pork, pickled beef, smoked pork, fresh bread, daily, which is baked by our own bakers, the Quartermaster having procured portable ovens for that purpose, potatoes, split peas, beans, occasionally molasses and plenty of good coffee, so you see Uncle Sam supplies us plentifully….A few nights ago our Company was out on piquet [sic]; it was a terrible night, raining very hard the whole night, and what made it worse, the boys had to stand well to their work and dare not leave to look for shelter. Some of them consider they are well paid for their exposure, as they captured two ancient muskets belonging to Secessia. One of them is of English manufacture, and the other has the Virginia militia mark on it. They are both in a dilapidated condition, but the boys hold them in high estimation as they are trophies from the enemy, and besides they were taken from the house of Mrs. Stewart, sister to the rebel Jackson who assassinated the lamented Ellsworth at Alexandria. The honorable lady, Mrs. Stewart, is now a prisoner at Washington and her house is the headquarters of the command of the piquets [sic]….Since the success of the secret expedition, we have all kinds of rumors in camp. One is that our Brigade will be sent to the relief of Gen. Sherman, in South Carolina. The boys all desire it and the news in the ‘Press’ is correct, that a large force is to be sent there, I think their wish will be gratified…. Springfield rifle, 1861 model (public domain). On 21 November, the 47th participated in a morning divisional headquarters review overseen by Colonel Tilghman H. Good, followed by brigade and division drills all afternoon. According to Schmidt, “each man was supplied with ten blank cartridges…. After the reviews and inspections, Gen. Smith requested Gen. Brannan to inform Col. Good that the 47th was the best regiment in the whole division.”As a reward for the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers’ outstanding performance during this review and in preparation for the even bigger adventures yet to come, Brigadier-General John Milton Brannan directed his staff to ensure that new Springfield rifles were obtained and distributed to every member of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers.Nine days later, on 30 November 1861, the Sunbury American announced that Captain Gobin had helped multiple Sunbury Guardsmen to send a total of $900 from their collective pay back home to their families and friends in Pennsylvania.Shortly before Christmas, the newspaper that Regimental Quartermaster James Van Dyke, who was enjoying an approved furlough at home in Sunbury, had procured “various articles of comfort, for the inner as well as the outer man.” Upon his return to camp, many of the 47th Pennsylvanians of German heritage were pleasantly surprised to learn that the well-liked former sheriff of Sunbury had thoughtfully brought a sizable supply of sauerkraut with him. The German equivalent of “comfort food,” this favored treat warmed stomachs and lifted more than a few spirits that first cold winter away from loved ones.1862 The City of Richmond, a sidewheel steamer, transported Union troops during the Civil War (Maine, circa late 1860s, public domain). Having been ordered to move from their Virginia encampment back to Maryland, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers left Camp Griffin at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 22 January 1862. Marching through deep mud with their equipment for three miles in order to reach the railroad station at Falls Church, they were transported by train to Alexandria, Virginia, where they boarded the steamship City of Richmond and subsequently sailed the Potomac River to the Washington Arsenal. After disembarking there, they were reequipped with weapons and ammunition before being marched off again for dinner and rest at the Soldiers’ Retreat in Washington, D.C.The next afternoon, the 47th Pennsylvanians hopped aboard a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad train and headed for Annapolis, Maryland. Arriving around 10 p.m., they were assigned quarters in barracks at the United States Naval Academy. They then spent that Friday through Monday (24-27 January 1862) loading their equipment and other supplies onto the steamship U.S. Oriental.Ferried to the big steamship by smaller steamers during the afternoon of 27 January 1862, with the officers boarding last, they sailed away for the Deep South at 4 p.m., per the direction of Brigadier-General Brannan. They were headed for Florida which, despite its secession from the Union, remained strategically important to the Union due to the presence of Fort Taylor (Key West) and Fort Jefferson (Dry Tortugas). Alfred Waud’s 1862 sketch of Fort Taylor and Key West, Florida (U.S. Library of Congress, public domain). In February 1862, Private Jasper Gardner arrived in Key West with his fellow 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers in order to garrison Fort Taylor. Initially pitching their Sibley tents on the beach after disembarking, they were gradually reassigned to improved quarters. During this phase of duty, they drilled daily in heavy artillery tactics and other military strategies, felled trees, helped to build new roads, and strengthened the fortifications in and around the Union Army’s presence there and began to introduce themselves to locals by parading through the town’s streets during the weekend of Friday, 14 February. They also attended area church services that Sunday—a community outreach activity they would continue to perform on and off for the duration of their Key West service.But while there were pleasant moments, there were also many episodes of frustration and heartache. The time here for the 47th was made more difficult by the presence of typhoid fever and other tropical diseases, as well as the always likely dysentery from soldiers living in close, unsanitary conditions. This 1856 Charleston & Savannah Railroad map shows the island of Hilton Head, South Carolina in relation to the towns of Beaufort and Pocotaligo (U.S. Library of Congress, public domain). Next ordered to Hilton Head, South Carolina from mid-June through July, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers camped near Fort Walker before relocating to the Beaufort District in the United States Army’s Department of the South, roughly thirty-five miles away. Frequently assigned to hazardous picket detail north of their main camp, which put them at increased risk from enemy sniper fire, the 47th Pennsylvanians became known for their “attention to duty, discipline and soldierly bearing,” and “received the highest commendation from Generals Hunter and Brannan,” according to historian Samuel P. Bates.Detachments from the regiment were also assigned to the Expedition to Fenwick Island (9 July) and the Demonstration against Pocotaligo (10 July).Victory and First BloodSent on a return expedition to Florida as September 1862 waned, Private Jasper Gardner and his fellow 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers saw their first truly intense moments of military service when their respective companies participated with other Union regiments in the capture of Saint John’s Bluff from 1 to 3 October. The earthworks surrounding the Confederate battery atop Saint John’s Bluff along the Saint John’s River in Florida (J. H. Schell, 1862, public domain). Commanded by Brigadier-General Brannan, the 47th Pennsylvanians disembarked with a 1,500-plus Union force at Mayport Mills and Mount Pleasant Creek from troop carriers guarded by Union gunboats.Taking point, the 47th Pennsylvanians led the 3rd Brigade through twenty-five miles of dense, pine forested swamps populated with deadly snakes and alligators. By the time the expedition ended, the Union brigade had forced the Confederate Army to abandon its artillery battery atop Saint John’s Bluff. According to Henry Wharton:On the day following our occupation of these works the guns were dismounted and removed on board the steamer Neptune, together with the shot and shell, and removed to Hilton Head. The powder was all used in destroying the batteries. Provost Marshal’s guardhouse, Jacksonville, Florida, 1864 (public domain). On Saturday, 4 October 1862, Brigadier-General Brannan directed several officers to order their subordinates to prepare rations and ammunition for a new expedition that would take them roughly twenty miles upriver to Jacksonville. (A sophisticated hub of cultural and commercial activities with a racially diverse population of roughly 2,100 residents, the city had repeatedly changed hands between the Union and Confederacy until its occupation by Union forces on 12 March 1862.) Among the Union soldiers selected for this mission were 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers from Company C, Company E and Company K.One of the first groups to depart—Company C of the 47th Pennsylvania—did so that Saturday as part of a small force made up of infantrymen aboard gunboats, the latter of which were commanded by Captain Charles E. Steedman. Their mission was to destroy all Confederate vessels they encountered in order to hamper the movement of enemy troops throughout the region. Upon arrival in Jacksonville later that same day, the infantrymen were charged by Brannan with setting fire to the office of that city’s Southern Rights newspaper.Before that action was taken, however, C Company’s Captain Gobin and his subordinate, Henry Wharton, who had both been employed by the Sunbury American newspaper in Sunbury, Pennsylvania prior to the war, salvaged the pro-Confederacy publication’s printing press so that Wharton could more efficiently produce the regimental newspaper he had launched while the 47th Pennsylvania was stationed at Fort Taylor in Florida. That salvage operation also gave Wharton and several of his C Company comrades the opportunity to take a parting, verbal “shot” at Confederate sympathizers in the region by publishing a snarky, final edition of the paper. Dated October 4, 1862, its text included the following:On account of the presence of distinguished visitors, the election is indefinitely postponed. A few lines have been taken from the matter of this page to make room for explanation.The form from which we strike off a few copies, is the same taken from Secession Printing Office at Jacksonville, Fla., on the expedition of Gen. J.M. Brannan to the St. John’s River.Wishing to know whether secesh type would print under Federal rule, we concluded to bring along with us the press and fixtures; to our surprise and gratification we find the machine prints almost alone, satisfying us that it rejoices at the change. We have no doubt it will continue the good spirit already manifested and will make itself generally useful under the kind treatment already received, in printing various blanks required by the Post. It is possible it may get patriotic and issue a Constitutional Union Paper.Beaufort, S.C. Oct. 17, 1862NoticeThe editor of this paper is absent from town for a few days on urgent business in the interior. It is therefore announced that the publication of this Paper will hereafter be weekly suspended as it has been heretofore, weakly continued.The taking of our battery after a loss of courage, but no blood, and the presence of the yankee [sic] fleet, and the fearful proximity of Gen. Brannan and his forces, render the Southern Rights precarious.The friends of Col. Hopkins are informed that the Colonel declines to run as a candidate for the office of Senator, notwithstanding the good time he made running from St. John’s Bluff.The original newspaper had also included the announcement of a $25 reward for the capture of Ned, a 28-year-old Black man who had escaped slavery near Jacksonville. On Sunday, 5 October, Brannan and his detachment sailed away for Jacksonville at 6:30 a.m. Per Wharton, the weekend’s events unfolded as follows:As soon as we had got possession of the Bluff, Capt. STEEDMAN and his gunboats went to Jacksonville for the purpose of destroying all boats and intercepting the passage of the rebel troops across the river, and on the 5th Gen. BRANNAN also went up to Jacksonville in the steamer Ben Deford, with a force of 785 infantry, and occupied the town. On either side of the river were considerable crops of grain, which would have been destroyed or removed, but this was found impracticable for want of means of transportation. At Yellow Bluff we found that the rebels had a position in readiness to secure seven heavy guns, which they appeared to have lately evacuated, Jacksonville we found to be nearly deserted, there being only a few old men, women, and children in the town, soon after our arrival, however, while establishing our picket line, a few cavalry appeared on the outskirts, but they quickly left again. The few inhabitants were in a wretched condition, almost destitute of food, and Gen. BRANNAN, at their request, brought a large number up to Hilton Head to save them from starvation, together with 276 negroes—men, women, and children, who had sought our protection.Receiving word soon after his arrival at Jacksonville that “Rebel steamers were secreted in the creeks up the river,” Brigadier-General Brannan immediately ordered Captain Charles Yard of the 47th Pennsylvania’s Company E to take a detachment of one hundred men from his own company and those of the 47th’s Company K, and board the steamer Darlington “with two 24-pounder light howitzers and a crew of 25 men.” All would be under the command of Lt. Williams of the U.S. Navy, who would command the “convoy of gunboats to cut them out.”Also according to Schmidt, the small force steamed upriver roughly one to two hundred miles “to Lake Beresford, where they then assisted in capturing the [sixty-eight-ton] steamer Governor Milton,” which had been renamed in honor of Florida’s governor after having been “formerly known as the George M. Bird [under its previous owners] a New England family named ‘Swift’, who were timber cutters and used it as a tug boat to tow rafts loaded with live oak to the lumber market.” After the boiler on the Gov. Milton was repaired, it was moved back down the river and placed safely behind Union Army lines. Meanwhile, Brigadier-General and his men had begun making their way back to Saint John’s Bluff.Integration of the RegimentWhile all of that action was unfolding, other members of the 47th Pennsylvania, who had remained at their duty station back in South Carolina, were making history by processing the enlistments on 5 and 15 October 1862 of several Black men who had escaped chattel enslavement from plantations near Beaufort and Hilton Head. Among the formerly enslaved men who enlisted at this time were Bristor Gethers, Abraham Jassum and Edward Jassum.As that integration of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was taking place in Beaufort, South Carolina, Brigadier-General Brannan’s expeditionary force was winding down its activities in Duval County, Florida. According to a letter penned by Private William Brecht of the 47th Pennsylvania’s K Company, once the artillery pieces were carried away from Saint John’s Bluff by Brannan’s troops, Brannan ordered Captain Henry D. Woodruff of the 47th’s D Company to take his company as well men from Company F and Company I to “blow up the fort, which was done with the most terrific explosions, filling the air for a great distance with fragments of timber and sand.”During this expedition, C Company Captain Gobin “contracted intermittent fever during the expedition and was hospitalized as soon as he returned” to Hilton Head, according to Schmidt. Fortunately, he survived and was able to return to active duty on 20 October. Crediting his recovery to “good nursing and an abundance of quinine,” he resumed leadership of the 47th Pennsylvania’s C Company, which had returned to South Carolina nine days earlier. Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchel, commanding officer, U.S. Army’s Department of the South, circa 1862 (public domain). That day [20 October] also proved to be important for the regiment because The New York Times published a letter that had been penned six days earlier by 47th Pennsylvanian Henry Wharton, in which he recapped the events of the St. John’s Bluff Expedition and subsequent successes by Brigadier-General Brannan’s troops. Among the remarkable details included by Wharton was this description of the 12 October 1862 dedication of the First African Baptist Church on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina by Union Major-General Ormsby Mitchel, commander of the U.S. Army’s 10th Corps and Department of the South—during which Mitchel outlined his plans for the creation of Mitchelville—the first self-governed town created for formerly enslaved people:On Sunday the negro church at Hilton Head was dedicated to Divine service. Gen. HUNTER authorized the construction of the building, and before he left the work was nearly finished. The situation of the church is good; the appearance is neat, though plain as a Quaker meeting-house, and in all respects the building meets the requirements of the case. Three hundred persons may be comfortably seated. The Pastor is a black man from Savannah, named ABRAM MURCHISON, who has been in due form ordained a Baptist minister by the army Chaplains, and installed in office. ABRAM, though able to read and write, is not polished in his manners; but what he lacks in culture is more than compensated in earnest eloquence, a vigorous and clear expression of his views, deep piety, and a powerful influence over the colored people. The dedication exercises were interesting in themselves, being conducted by Rev. H.N. HUDSON, Chaplain of the New-York Volunteer Engineer Regiment, and elocutionist of celebrity. Gen. MITCHEL was present, with the members of this Staff, and, by invitation, addressed the audience. His remarks were pointed, impressive and instructive. They were listened to attentively, and indorsed [sic] with nods of approbation from young and old. I do not think that a portion of the TIMES could be better filled than with this frank and unmistakable expression of the Gen. MITCHEL’s views on the negro question. He said:‘I have been requested to say a few words to you by your teacher, who is a good man. Any good man I like, regardless of color. I respect him as much whether he is black or white. If he be a bad man I shall treat him as such, whether he is white or black. Most of you know that I have talked to all my soldiers since I came here, and now I am talking to you who are another set of soldiers, who have not yet arms in their hands, but are under my protection and guidance, and in whom I take interest. With your past life I fully sympathize. I know and understand it all. I was reared in the midst of Slavery, born in Kentucky, and know all about it. While there are many things connected with it that are pleasant, to which you will testify, there are a vast many other things which are not pleasant, and I think that God intends all men shall be free, because he intends that all men shall serve him with their whole heart. I think this is true. I am not certain. I don’t know. But in any condition we can all love and serve God. That privilege cannot be taken away. I care not how savage and wicked the master may be, he cannot prevent you from praying in the midst of the night, and God hears and answers the prayer of all, slave or free.But it seems to me that there is a new time coming for you colored people; a better day is dawning for you oppressed and down-trodden blacks. I don’t know that this is true, but I hope that the door is being opened for your deliverance. And now, how deeply you should ponder these words. If now you are unwilling to help yourselves nobody will be willing to help you. You must trust yourselves to the guidance of those who have had better opportunities and have acquired superior wisdom, if you would be carried through this crisis successfully. And I believe the good God will bless your efforts, and lift you up to a higher level than you have yet occupied, so that you and your children may become educated and industrious citizens. You must organize yourselves into families. Husbands must love their wives and children, clinging to them and turning from all others, and feeling that their highest object in life, next to serving the good God, is to do all they can for their families, working for them continually.Good colored friends, you have a great work to do, and you are in a position of responsibility. The whole North, all the people in the Free States, are looking at you and the experiment now tried on your behalf with the deepest interest. This experiment is to give you freedom, position, home and your own families—wives, property, your own soil. You shall till and cultivate your own crops; you shall gather and sell the products of your industry for your own benefit; you shall own your own savings, and you shall be able to feel that God is prospering you from day to day and from year to year, and raising you to a higher level of goodness, religion and a nobler life.Supposing you fail down here; that will be an end to the whole matter. It is like attaching a cable to a stranded vessel, and all the strength that can be mustered is put upon this rope to haul her off. If this only rope breaks the vessel is lost. God help you all and help us all to help you. If you are idle, vicious, indolent and negligent, you will fail and your last hope is gone; if you are not faithful you rivet eternally the fetters upon those who to-day are fastened down by fetters and suffer by the driver’s goad. You have in your hands the rescuing of those sufferers over whose sorrows you mourn continually. If you fail, what a dreadful responsibility it will be when you come to die to feel that the only great opportunity you had for serving yourselves and your oppressed race was allowed to slip.And you, women, you must be careful of your children. You must teach them to be industrious, cleanly, obedient, and dutiful at all times. You must keep your houses neat and tidy, working all day, if necessary, to have them in the best possible condition, always thinking and contriving to make them cleaner and more comfortable. When your husband comes home from the labors and fatigues of the day, always have something good and nice for his supper, and speak kindly to him, for these little acts of love and attention will bring you happiness and joy.And when you men go out to work, you must labor with diligence and zeal. It seems to me, had I the stimulus to work that you have that I could labor like a giant. Now you know who I am. My first duty here is to deal justly; second, to love mercy, and third, to walk humbly. First, justly—I shall endeavor to get you to do your duty faithfully. If you do I shall reward you; and if you refuse, then what comes next? Why, the wicked must be punished and made to do right. I will take the bad man by the throat and force him to his duty. I do not mean that I will take hold of him with my own hands, but with the strong arm of military power. Now do we understand each other? I am working for you already. I am told by your Superintendent that a gang of fifty men are building your houses at the rate of six a day. These houses are to make you more comfortable. You are to have a patch of ground, which you can call your own, to raise your own garden truck, and you may work for the Government for good wages. And you women must make your houses shine; you must plaster them and whitewash them, and gradually get furniture in your cabins, and a cooking-stove. I have arranged in such a way that you will get your clothing cheaper and better than before, and you are to have a school for your children. And you must have flowers in your gardens and blossoms before your doors. You will see in a little while how much happier you will be made. Are you not willing to work for this? Yes, God helping, you will all work. This is only for yourselves; but if you are successful, this plan will go all through the country, and we will have answered the question that has puzzled all good, thinking men in the world for one hundred years. They have asked, ‘What will you do with the black man after liberating him?’ We will show them what we will do. We will make him a useful, industrious citizen—give him the earnings of the sweat of his brow, and as a man, we will give him what the Lord ordained him to have.I shall watch everything closely respecting this experiment. It is something to be permanent—more than for a day, more than for a year. Upon you depends whether this mighty result shall be worked out, and the day of jubilee come to God’s ransomed people.’Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina U.S. Army map: Pocotaligo-Coosawhatchie Expedition, South Carolina, 22 October 1862. Blue Arrow: Mackay’s Point, where the U.S. Tenth Army debarked and began its march. Blue Box: Union troops (blue) and Confederate troops (red) in relation to the Pocotaligo bridge, Charleston & Savannah Railroad and Caston and Frampton plantations (blue highlighting added by Laurie Snyder, 2023; public domain; click to enlarge). Later that same month, the 47th Pennsylvania’s fight to preserve America’s Union while also helping to eradicate slavery across the Deep South went on. From 21-23 October, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers engaged Confederate forces in the Battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina. Landing at Mackay’s Point under the regimental command of Colonel Tilghman H. Good and Lieutenant-Colonel George W. Alexander, the men of the 47th were placed on point once again as part of the U.S. 10th Army’s 1st Brigade. This time, however, their luck would run out.Their brigade was bedeviled by snipers and faced massive resistance from an entrenched Confederate battery, which opened fire on the Union troops as they headed through an open cotton field. Those trying to reach the higher ground of the Frampton Plantation were pounded by Confederate artillery and infantry hidden in the surrounding forests.Part-way into the conflict, their brigade’s commanding officer was wounded, requiring Colonel Good to assume command of the 1st Brigade and Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander to assume command of the 47th Pennsylvania.Charging into the fire, Union forces fought the Confederates where they found them, pushing them into a four-mile retreat to the Pocotaligo Bridge. At this juncture, the 47th then relieved the 7th Connecticut, but after two hours of exchanging fire while attempting, unsuccessfully, to take the ravine and bridge, the men of the 47th were forced by their dwindling ammunition to withdraw to Mackay’s Point.Losses for the 47th Pennsylvania at Pocotaligo were significant. Two officers and eighteen enlisted men died; an additional two officers and one hundred and fourteen enlisted were wounded.On 23 October, the 47th Pennsylvania headed back to Hilton Head. Just over a week later, members of the regiment were assigned to serve on the honor guard during the funeral of Major-General Ormsby M. Mitchel, who had died from yellow fever at the Union Army’s hospital at Hilton Head on 30 October.1863 Fort Taylor, Key West, Florida (Harper’s Weekly, 1864, public domain). Having been ordered back to Key West on 15 November 1862, Private Jasper Gardner and his fellow 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers spent the year of 1863 and first two months of 1864 guarding federal installations in Florida as part of the U.S. Army’s 10th Corps (X Corps) and Department of the South. Companies A, B, C, E, G, and I were assigned to garrison Fort Taylor in Key West, under the command of Colonel Good, while Companies D, F, H, and K were placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander and assigned to garrison Fort Jefferson in Florida’s Dry Tortugas.Far from being a punishment for the regiment’s recent combat performance, though, as several historians have claimed over the years, the return to Florida of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers was viewed by senior Union military officers as a critically important assignment because both forts were at continuing risk of attack and capture by foreign powers, as well as by Confederate States Army troops. The 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were specifically chosen for this mission because of their “bravery and praiseworthy conduct” during the Battle of Pocotaligo,” as well as for their “attention to duty, discipline and soldierly bearing” since the regiment’s founding in 1861.Weakening Florida’s abilities to supply and transport food and troops throughout the area to the Confederate States by conducting raids on cattle ranches and salt production facilities, they also prevented foreign powers from assisting the Confederate Army and Navy in gaining control key points of entry in the Deep South.Once again, though, water quality was a challenge for members of the regiment; as a result, disease became their constant companion and most dangerous foe. Even so, when their initial three-year terms of enlistment were about to expire, more than half of the officers and enlisted members of the 47th Pennsylvania opted to re-enroll for additional tours of duty with the regiment. Among those choosing to reenlist during this time was Private Jasper B. Gardner, who re-enrolled at Fort Taylor on 12 October 1863, earning for himself the coveted title of “Veteran Volunteer.”1864 Bayou Teche, Louisiana (Harper’s Weekly, 14 February 1863, public domain). In early January 1864, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was ordered to expand the Union’s reach by sending part of the regiment north to retake possession of Fort Myers, a federal installation that had been abandoned in 1858 following the U.S. government’s third war with the Seminole Indians. Per orders issued earlier in 1864 by Major-General D. P. Woodbury, commanding officer, U.S. Department of the Gulf, District of Key West and the Tortugas, that the fort be reclaimed to facilitate the Union’s Gulf Coast blockade, Captain Richard Graeffe and a group of men from Company A were charged with expanding the fort and conducting raids on area cattle herds to provide food for the growing Union troop presence across Florida. Graeffe and his men subsequently turned the fort into both their base of operations and a shelter for pro-Union supporters, escaped slaves, Confederate Army deserters, and others fleeing Rebel troops.Meanwhile, all of the other companies of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry were preparing for the regiment’s history-making journey to Louisiana. Boarding yet another steamer—the Charles Thomas—on 25 February 1864, Private Jasper Gardner and the men from Companies B, C, D, I, and K headed for Algiers, Louisiana (across the river from New Orleans), followed on 1 March by other members of the regiment from Companies E, F, G, and H who had been stationed at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas.Upon the second group’s arrival, the now almost-fully-reunited regiment moved by train on 28 February to Brashear City (now Morgan City, Louisiana) before heading to Franklin by steamer through the Bayou Teche. There, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry joined the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division of the Department of the Gulf’s 19th Army Corps (XIX Corps), and became the only Pennsylvania regiment to serve in the Red River Campaign of Union Major-General Nathaniel P. Banks. (Unable to reach Louisiana until 23 March, the men from Company A were effectively placed on a different type of detached duty in New Orleans while they awaited transport to enable them to catch up with the main part of their regiment. Charged with guarding and overseeing the transport of two hundred and forty-five Confederate prisoners, they were finally able to board the Ohio Belle on 7 April, and reached Alexandria, Louisiana with those prisoners on 9 April.)Red River Campaign Natchitoches, Louisiana (Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 7 May 1864, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain). The early days on the ground in Louisiana quickly woke the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers up to just how grueling this new phase of duty would be. From 14-26 March, most members of the regiment marched for Alexandria and Natchitoches, Louisiana, by way of New Iberia, Vermilionville (now part of Lafayette), Opelousas, and Washington.From 4-5 April 1864, the regiment added to its roster of young Black soldiers when Aaron Bullard (later known as Aaron French), James Bullard, John Bullard, Samuel Jones, and Hamilton Blanchard (also known as John Hamilton) enrolled for military service with the 47th Pennsylvania at Natchitoches. According to their respective entries in the Civil War Veterans’ Card File at the Pennsylvania State Archives and on regimental muster rolls, the men were then officially mustered in for duty on 22 June at Morganza. Several of their entries noted that they were assigned the rank of “(Colored) Cook” while others were given the rank of “Under Cook.”Often short on food and water throughout their long harsh-climate trek through enemy territory, the 47th Pennsylvania encamped briefly at Pleasant Hill (now the Village of Pleasant Hill) the night of 7 April before continuing on the next day. 19th U.S. Army Map, Phase 3, Battle of Sabine Cross Roads/Mansfield (8 April 1864, public domain). Rushed into battle ahead of other regiments in the 2nd Division, sixty members of the 47th were cut down on 8 April during volley of fire unleashed during the Battle of Sabine Cross Roads (also known as the Battle of Mansfield due to its proximity to the town of Mansfield). The fighting waned only when darkness fell. The exhausted, but uninjured collapsed beside the gravely wounded. After midnight, the surviving Union troops withdrew to Pleasant Hill.The next day, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were ordered into a critically important defensive position at the far right of the Union lines, their right flank spreading up onto a high bluff. By 3 p.m., after enduring a midday charge by the troops of Confederate Major-General Richard Taylor (a plantation owner who was the son of Zachary Taylor, former president of the United States), the brutal fighting still showed no signs of ending. Suddenly, just as the 47th was shifting to the left side of the massed Union forces, the men of the 47th Pennsylvania were forced to bolster the 165th New York’s buckling lines by blocking another Confederate assault.Casualties were once again high. Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander was severely wounded in both legs, and the regiment’s two color-bearers, both from Company C, were also wounded while preventing the American flag from falling into enemy hands. Still others from the 47th were captured, marched roughly one hundred and twenty-five miles to Camp Ford, a Confederate Army prison camp near Tyler, Texas, and held there as prisoners of war (POWs) until released during prisoner exchanges beginning 22 July 1864. At least two men from the 47th never made it out of that camp alive; another member of the regiment died while being treated at the Confederate Army hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. U.S. Army’s death ledger entry for Private Jeremiah Gardner, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Camp Cadwalader, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11 April 1864 (U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1864, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain; click to enlarge). While all of that action was unfolding in Louisiana, Private Jasper Gardner’s older brother, Jeremiah Gardner, was enlisting for Civil War military service in Scranton, Pennsylvania. After enrolling on 28 March 1864, he officially mustered in for duty at Scranton the next day as a private with the same company and regiment in which Jasper had enlisted—Company C of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.Military records at the time described Private Jeremiah Gardner as a thirty-three-year-old farmer residing in Gibson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, who was five feet, eleven-and-one-half inches tall with dark hair, blue eyes and a dark complexion.Tragically, though, Jeremiah Gardner’s military service was short-lived. Within days after mustering in, he contracted meningitis, and was hospitalized at Camp Cadwalader in Philadelphia, where he died on 11 April 1864. Initially interred at Philadelphia’s Glenwood Cemetery, his remains were subsequently exhumed when the federal government began its major effort to rebury all Union soldiers at national cemeteries. Among the men interred at the Philadelphia National Cemetery was Private Jeremiah Gardner. His widow, Martha, was subsequently awarded a U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension of eight dollars per month, as well as an additional six dollars per month, total, as part of a U.S. Civil War Orphans’ Pension that was approved for their three children: Milo M. (1859-1950), whose pension support would later end on 18 April 1875 after he reached the age of sixteen; Watie A. (February 1861-1955), who was listed as “Maty” and whose pension assistance would end on 31 January 1877; and Nelson R. (November 1861-1917), whose pension would end on 17 November 1878.Back in Louisiana, as Private Jasper Gardner was learning about, and beginning to mourn, the death of his older brother, Jeremiah, he and his fellow 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantrymen were making their new home at Grand Ecore, after having retreated there following the Battle of Pleasant Hill. Stationed there for eleven days, they were engaged yet again in the hard labor of strengthening regimental and brigade fortifications. They then headed back to Natchitoches Parish, beginning 22 April. Marching forty-five miles that day, they arrived in Cloutierville at 10 p.m. While en route, they were attacked again—this time at the rear of their brigade, but they were able to quickly end the encounter and continue on. The 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were stationed just to the left of the “Thick Woods” with Emory’s 2nd Brigade, 1st Division as shown on this map of Union troop positions for the Battle of Cane River Crossing at Monett’s Ferry, Louisiana, 23 April 1864 (Major-General Nathaniel Banks’ official Red River Campaign Report, public domain). The next morning (23 April 1864), episodic skirmishing quickly roared into the flames of a robust fight. As part of the advance party led by Brigadier-General William Emory, the 47th Pennsylvania took on the Confederate cavalry of Brigadier-General Hamilton P. Bee in the Battle of Cane River (also known as “the Affair at Monett’s Ferry” or the “Cane River Crossing”).Responding to a barrage from the Confederate’s twenty-pound Parrott guns and raking fire from enemy troops situated near a bayou and on a bluff, Emory directed one of his brigades to keep Bee’s Confederates busy while sending the other two brigades to find a safe spot where his Union troops could ford the Cane River. As part of the “beekeepers,” the 47th Pennsylvanians supported Emory’s artillery.Meanwhile, other troops in Emory’s command worked their way across the Cane River, attacked Bee’s flank, forced a Rebel retreat, and erected a series of pontoon bridges, enabling the 47th and other remaining Union troops to make the Cane River Crossing by the next day. As the Confederates retreated, they torched their own food stores, as well as the cotton supplies of their fellow southerners.In a letter penned from Morganza, Louisiana on 29 May, Henry Wharton described what had happened to the 47th Pennsylvanians during and immediately after making camp at Grand Ecore:Our sojourn at Grand Ecore was for eleven days, during which time our position was well fortified by entrenchments for a length of five miles, made of heavy logs, five feet high and six feet wide, filled in with dirt. In front of this, trees were felled for a distance of two hundred yards, so that if the enemy attacked we had an open space before us which would enable our forces to repel them and follow if necessary. But our labor seemed to the men as useless, for on the morning of 22d April, the army abandoned these works and started for Alexandria. From our scouts it was ascertained that the enemy had passed some miles to our left with the intention of making a stand against our right at Bayou Cane, where there is a high bluff and dense woods, and at the same attack Smith’s forces who were bringing up the rear. This first day was a hard one on the boys, for by ten o’clock at night they made Cloutierville, a distance of forty-five miles. On that day the rear was attacked which caused our forces to reverse their front and form in line of battle, expecting too, to go back to the relief of Smith, but he needed no assistance, sending word to the front that he had ‘whipped them, and could do it again.’ It was well that Banks made so long a march on that day, for on the next we found the enemy prepared to carry out their design of attacking us front and rear. Skirmishing commenced early in the morning and as our columns advanced he fell back towards the bayou, when we soon discovered the position of their batteries on the bluff. There was then an artillery duel by the smaller pieces, and some sharp fighting by the cavalry, when the ‘mule battery,’ twenty pound Parrott guns, opened a heavy fire, which soon dislodged them, forcing the chivalry to flee in a manner not at all suitable to their boasted courage. Before this one cavalry, the 3d Brigade of the 1st Div., and Birges’ brigade of the second, had crossed the bayou and were doing good service, which, with the other work, made the enemy show their heels. The 3d brigade done some daring deeds in this fight, as also did the cavalry. In one instance the 3d charged up a hill almost perpendicular, driving the enemy back by the bayonet without firing a gun. The woods on this bluff was so thick that the cavalry had to dismount and fight on foot. During the whole of the day, our brigade, the 2d was supporting artillery, under fire all the time, and could not give Mr. Reb a return shot.While we were fighting in front, Smith was engaged some miles in the rear, but he done his part well and drove them back. The rebel commanders thought by attacking us in the rear, and having a large face on the bluffs, they would be able to capture our train and take us all prisoners, but in this they were mistaken, for our march was so rapid that we were on them before they had thrown up the necessary earthworks. Besides they underrated the amount of our artillery, calculating from the number engaged at Pleasant Hill. The rebel prisoners say it ‘seems as though the Yankees manufacture, on short notice, artillery to order, and the men are furnished with wings when they wish to make a certain point.The damage done to the Confederate cause by the burning of cotton was immense. On the night of the 22d our route was lighted up for miles and millions of dollars worth of this production was destroyed. This loss will be felt more by Davis & Co., than several defeats in this region, for the basis of the loan in England was on the cotton of Western Louisiana.After the rebels had fled from the bluff the negro troops put down the pontoons, and by ten that night we were six miles beyond the bayou safely encamped. The next morning we moved forward and in two days were in Alexandria. Johnnys followed Smith’s forces, keeping out of range of his guns, except when he had gained the eminence across the bayou, when he punished them (the rebs) severely. Christened “Bailey’s Dam” in reference to the Union officer who oversaw its construction, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bailey, this timber dam built by the Union Army on the Red River near Alexandria, Louisiana in May 1864 facilitated Union gunboat passage (public domain). Having finally reached Alexandria on 26 April, the 47th Pennsylvanians learned they would remain at their latest new camp for at least two weeks. Placed temporarily under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Bailey, they were assigned yet again to the hard labor of fortification work, helping to erect “Bailey’s Dam,” a timber structure that enabled Union gunboats to more easily make their way back down the Red River. While stationed in Rapides Parish in late April and early May, according to Wharton:We were at Alexandria seventeen days, during which time the men were kept busy at throwing up earthworks, foraging and three times went out some distance to meet the enemy, but they did not make their appearance in numbers large enough for an engagement. The water in the Red river had fallen so much that it prevented the gunboats from operating with us, and kept our transports from supplying the troops with rations, (and you know soldiers, like other people, will eat) so Banks was compelled to relinquish his designs on Shreveport and fall back to the Mississippi. To do this a large dam had to be built on the falls at Alexandria to get the ironclads down the river. After a great deal of labor this was accomplished and by the morning of May 13th the last one was through the shute [sic], when we bade adieu to Alexandria, marching through the town with banners flying and keeping step to the music of ‘Rally around the flag,’ and ‘When this cruel war is over.’ The next morning, at our camping place, the fleet of boats passed us, when we were informed that Alexandria had been destroyed by fire – the act of a dissatisfied citizen and several negroes. Incendiary acts were strictly forbidden in a general order the day before we left the place, and a cavalry guard was left in the rear to see the order enforced. After marching a few miles skirmishing commenced in front between the cavalry and the enemy in riflepits [sic] on the bank of the river, but they were easily driven away. When we came up we discovered their pits and places where there had been batteries planted. At this point the John Warren, an unarmed transport, on which were sick soldiers and women, was fired into and sunk, killing many and those that were not drowned taken prisoners. A tin-clad gunboat was destroyed at the same place, by which we lost a large mail. Many letters and directed envelopes were found on the bank – thrown there after the contents had been read by the unprincipled scoundrels. The inhumanity of Guerrilla bands in this department is beyond belief, and if one did not know the truth of it or saw some of their barbarities, he would write it down as the story of a ‘reliable gentleman’ or as told by an ‘intelligent contraband.’ Not satisfied with his murderous intent on unarmed transports he fires into the Hospital steamer Laurel Hill, with four hundred sick on board. This boat had the usual hospital signal floating fore and aft, yet, notwithstanding all this, and the customs of war, they fired on them, proving by this act that they are more hardened than the Indians on the frontier.On Sunday, May 15, we left the river road and took a short route through the woods, saving considerable distance. The windings of Red river are so numerous that it resembles the tape-worm railroad wherewith the politicians frightened the dear people during the administration of Ritner and Stevens. – We stopped several hours in the woods to leave cavalry pass, when we moved forward and by four o’clock emerged into a large open plain where we formed in line of battle, expecting a regular engagement. The enemy, however, retired and we advanced ‘till dark, when the forces halted for the night, with orders to rest on their arms. – ‘Twas here that Banks rode through our regiment, amidst the cheers of the boys, and gave the pleasant news that Grant had defeated Lee. “Sleeping on Their Arms” by Winslow Homer (Harper’s Weekly, 21 May 1864). Having entered Avoyelles Parish, they “rested on their arms” for the night, half-dozing without pitching their tents, but with their rifles right beside them. They were now positioned just outside of Marksville, Louisiana on the eve of the 16 May 1864 Battle of Mansura, which unfolded as follows, according to Wharton:Early next morning we marched through Marksville into a prairie nine miles long and six wide where every preparation was made for a fight. The whole of our force was formed in line, in support of artillery in front, who commenced operations on the enemy driving him gradually from the prairie into the woods. As the enemy retreated before the heavy fire of our artillery, the infantry advanced in line until they reached Mousoula [sic], where they formed in column, taking the whole field in an attempt to flank the enemy, but their running qualities were so good that we were foiled. The maneuvring [sic] of the troops was handsomely done, and the movements was [sic] one of the finest things of the war. The fight of artillery was a steady one of five miles. The enemy merely stood that they might cover the retreat of their infantry and train under cover of their artillery. Our loss was slight. Of the rebels we could not ascertain correctly, but learned from citizens who had secreted themselves during the fight, that they had many killed and wounded, who threw them into wagons, promiscuously, and drove them off so that we could not learn their casualties. The next day we moved to Simmsport [sic, Simmesport] on the Achafalaya [sic, Atchafalaya] river, where a bridge was made by putting the transports side by side, which enabled the troops and train to pass safely over. – The day before we crossed the rebels attacked Smith, thinking it was but the rear guard, in which they, the graybacks, were awfully cut up, and four hundred prisoners fell into our hands. Our loss in killed and wounded was ninety. This fight was the last one of the expedition. The whole of the force is safe on the Mississippi, gunboats, transports and trains. The 16th and 17th have gone to their old commands.It is amusing to read the statements of correspondents to papers North, concerning our movements and the losses of our army. I have it from the best source that the Federal loss from Franklin to Mansfield, and from their [sic] to this point does not exceed thirty-five hundred in killed, wounded and missing, while that of the rebels is over eight thousand. Union Army base at Morganza Bend, Louisiana, circa 1863-1865 (U.S. Library of Congress, public domain). Continuing on, the surviving members of the 47th marched for Simmesport and then Morganza, where they made camp again. While encamped there, the nine formerly enslaved Black men who had enlisted with the 47th Pennsylvania in Beaufort, South Carolina (1862) and Natchitoches, Louisiana (April 1864) were officially mustered into the regiment between 20-24 June 1864.In a new letter penned around this same time (which ran in the 18 June 1864 edition of the Sunbury American), Henry Wharton reported that:Company C, on last Saturday [21 May 1864] was detailed by the General in command of the Division to take one hundred and eighty-seven prisoners (rebs) to New Orleans. This they done [sic] satisfactorily and returned yesterday [28 May 1864] to their regiment, ready for duty. While in the City some of the boys made Captain Gobin quite a handsome present, to show their appreciation of him as an officer gentleman. The boys are well.The full regiment then moved on once again, and arrived in New Orleans in late June.As they did during their tour through the Carolinas and Florida, the men of the 47th had battled the elements and disease, as well as the Confederate Army, in order to continue to defend their nation. Ironically, on the Fourth of July—“Independence Day”—the men of Company C learned from their superior officers that their independence from military life would not be happening anytime soon because the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers had received new orders to return to the Eastern Theater of the war. U.S. Steamer McClellan (Alfred Waud, circa 1860-1865, U.S. Library of Congress, public domain). On 7 July 1864, Private Jasper Gardner and his fellow C Company soldiers boarded the U.S. Steamer McClellan and sailed out of the harbor at New Orleans, along with the members of Companies A, D, E, F, H, and I. (Meanwhile, the remaining men from Companies B, G and K remained behind, awaiting transport. They departed later that month aboard the Blackstone.)Following the arrival of the McClellan in Virginia and a memorable encounter with President Abraham Lincoln on 12 July, the members of Companies A, C, D, E, F, H, and I joined up with Major-General David Hunter’s forces at Snicker’s Gap in mid-July 1864. There, they fought in the Battle of Cool Spring and assisted, once again, in defending Washington, D.C. while also driving Confederate troops from Maryland.Sheridan’s 1864 Shenandoah Valley CampaignAttached to the Middle Military Division, U.S. Army of the Shenandoah beginning in August 1864, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry was assigned to defensive duties in and around Halltown during the opening days of that month, and then engaged in a series of back-and-forth movements over the next several weeks between Halltown, Berryville and other locations within the vicinity (Middletown, Charlestown and Winchester) as part of a “mimic war” being waged by the Union forces of Major-General Philip H. Sheridan against those commanded by Confederate Lieutenant-General Jubal Early.On 1 September 1864, First Lieutenant Daniel Oyster was commissioned as captain of Company C. William Hendricks was promoted from second to first lieutenant, Sergeant Christian S. Beard was promoted to second lieutenant, Sergeant William Fry was promoted to the rank of first sergeant, and Corporal John Bartlow was promoted to the rank of sergeant. Private Timothy M. Snyder was also promoted to the rank of corporal that same day.From 3-4 September, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers then fought in the Battle of Berryville, and engaged in related post-battle skirmishes with the enemy over subsequent days. On one of those days (5 September 1864), Captain Oyster and a subordinate, Private David Sloan, were wounded at Berryville.On 18 September, Color-Sergeant Benjamin Walls, the oldest member of the entire regiment, was mustered out upon expiration of his three-year term of service—despite his request that he continued to be allowed to continue his service to the nation. In addition, Privates D. W. and Isaac Kemble, David S. Beidler, R. W. Druckemiller, Charles Harp, John H. Heim, former POW Conrad Holman, George Miller, William Pfeil, William Plant, and Alex Ruffaner also mustered out the same day upon expiration of their respective service terms.Battles of Opequan and Fisher’s Hill, September 1864 Battle of Opequan (aka Third Winchester), Virginia, 19 September 1864 (public domain). Together with other regiments under the command of Union Major-General Sheridan and Brigadier-General William H. Emory, commander of the 19th Corps (XIX Corps), the members of Company C and their fellow 47th Pennsylvanians helped to inflict heavy casualties on Lieutenant-General Jubal Early’s Confederate forces during the Battle of Opequan (also spelled as “Opequon” and referred to as “Third Winchester”). The battle is still considered by many historians to be one of the most important during Sheridan’s 1864 campaign; the Union’s victory here helped to ensure the reelection of President Abraham Lincoln.The 47th Pennsylvania’s march toward destiny at Opequan began at 2 a.m. on 19 September 1864 as the regiment left camp and joined up with others in the Union’s 19th Corps (XIX Corps). Advancing slowly from Berryville toward Winchester, the 19th Corps became bogged down for several hours by the massive movement of Union troops and supply wagons, enabling Early’s men to dig in. Finally reaching the Opequan Creek, Sheridan’s men came face to face with Early’s Confederate Army.The fighting, which began in earnest at noon, was long and brutal. The Union’s left flank (6th Corps) took a beating from Confederate artillery stationed on high ground.Meanwhile, the 47th Pennsylvania and the 19th Corps were directed by General William Emory to attack and pursue Major-General John B. Gordon’s Confederate forces. Some success was achieved, but casualties mounted as another Confederate artillery group opened fire on Union troops trying to cross a clearing. When a nearly fatal gap began to open between the 6th and 19th Corps, Sheridan sent in units led by Brigadier-Generals Emory Upton and David A. Russell. Russell, hit twice—once in the chest, was mortally wounded. The 47th Pennsylvania opened its lines long enough to enable the Union cavalry under William Woods Averell and the foot soldiers of General George Crook to charge the Confederates’ left flank.The 19th Corps, with the 47th in the thick of the fighting, then began pushing the Confederates back. Early’s “grays” retreated in the face of the valor displayed by Sheridan’s “blue jackets.” Leaving 2,500 wounded behind, the Rebels retreated to Fisher’s Hill, eight miles south of Winchester (21-22 September), and then to Waynesboro, following a successful early morning flanking attack by Sheridan’s Union men which outnumbered Early’s three to one. Afterward, the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers were sent out on skirmishing parties before making camp at Cedar Creek.Moving forward, the surviving members of the 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers would continue to distinguish themselves in battle, but they would do so without two of their senior and most respected commanders: Colonel Tilghman H. Good and Good’s second in command, Lieutenant-Colonel George Alexander, who mustered out 23-24 September upon the expiration of their respective terms of service. Fortunately, they were replaced with leaders who were equally respected for their front-line experience and temperament, including Major John Peter Shindel Gobin, formerly of the 47th’s Company C, who had been promoted up through the regimental staff and would be promoted again on 4 November to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and regimental commanding officer.Battle of Cedar Creek Alfred Waud’s 1864 sketch, “Surprise at Cedar Creek,” captured the flanking attack on the rear of Union Brigadier-General William Emory’s 19th Corps by Lieutenant-General Jubal Early’s Confederate army, and the subsequent resistance by Emory’s troops from their Union rifle-pit positions, 19 October 1864 (public domain). It was also during the fall of 1864 that Major-General Sheridan began the first of the Union’s true “scorched earth” campaigns, starving the enemy into submission by destroying Virginia’s crops and farming infrastructure. Viewed through today’s lens of history as inhumane, the strategy claimed many innocents—civilians whose lives were cut short by their inability to find food. This same strategy, however, almost certainly contributed to the further turning of the war’s tide in the Union’s favor during the Battle of Cedar Creek on 19 October 1864. Successful throughout most of their engagement with Union forces at Cedar Creek, Early’s Confederate troops began peeling off in ever growing numbers to forage for food, thus enabling the 47th Pennsylvania and others under Sheridan’s command to rally.From a military standpoint, it was another impressive, but heartrending day. During the morning of 19 October, Early launched a surprise attack directly on Sheridan’s Cedar Creek-encamped forces. Early’s men were able to capture Union weapons while freeing a number of Confederates who had been taken prisoner during previous battles—all while pushing seven Union divisions back. According to Bates:When the Army of West Virginia, under Crook, was surprised and driven from its works, the Second Brigade, with the Forty-seventh on the right, was thrown into the breach to arrest the retreat…. Scarcely was it in position before the enemy came suddenly upon it, under the cover of fog. The right of the regiment was thrown back until it was almost a semi-circle. The brigade, only fifteen hundred strong, was contending against Gordon’s entire division, and was forced to retire, but, in comparative good order, exposed, as it was, to raking fire. Repeatedly forming, as it was pushed back, and making a stand at every available point, it finally succeeded in checking the enemy’s onset, when General Sheridan suddenly appeared upon the field, who ‘met his crest-fallen, shattered battalions, without a word of reproach, but joyously swinging his cap, shouted to the stragglers, as he rode rapidly past them – “Face the other way, boys! We are going back to our camp! We are going to lick them out of their boots!’”The Union’s counterattack punched Early’s forces into submission, and the men of the 47th were commended for their heroism by General Stephen Thomas who, in 1892, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his own “distinguished conduct in a desperate hand-to-hand encounter, in which the advance of the enemy was checked” that day. Bates described the 47th’s actions:When the final grand charge was made, the regiment moved at nearly right angles with the rebel front. The brigade charged gallantly, and the entire line, making a left wheel, came down on his flank, while engaging the Sixth Corps, when he went “whirling up the valley” in confusion. In the pursuit to Fisher’s Hill, the regiment led, and upon its arrival was placed on the skirmish line, where it remained until twelve o’clock noon of the following day. The army was attacked at early dawn…no respite was given to take food until the pursuit was ended. Attestation of Private Jasper B. Gardner’s death in the Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia on 19 October 1864, as given by Captain Daniel Oyster, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers and witnessed by 47th Pennsylvania Regimental Adjutant W. Scott Johnston (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain; click to enlarge). On this day alone, the 47th Pennsylvania lost the equivalent, in killed and wounded, of nearly two full companies of men, including Private Jasper B. Gardner. According to C Company Captain Daniel Oyster and Regimental Adjutant W. Scott Johnston:Jasper B. Gardner a Private of Company “C” 47th Regt. Penna. Vet. Vols was killed at Cedar Creek Va.That the said Jasper B. Gardner was killed during an engagement with the enemy at the place aforesaid and that his death was caused by a Rifle ball passing through his head which resulted in his death at the time and place aforesaid.Captain Oyster, who had sustained a wound to his right arm during that same battle, also attested that he was “present at the time,” and had “personal knowledge of the facts.”One can only speculate whether or not Jasper Gardner had had any time to have any last thoughts before he drew his last breath and, if so, what those thoughts were. But if he did, they may very likely been about his widow, Mary, and the children he had not yet had the time to have with her.Initially buried near where he fell on Cooley’s Farm, his remains were later exhumed as part of the federal government’s effort to bury its Union Army dead in a more respectful manner. He still rests at the Winchester National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia.A separate cenotaph was created for him at the Square Top Cemetery in Clinton Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania to enable his parents and widow to visit a place closer to home where they could pay their respects and honor his memory.In recounting the events of that terrible day in a letter later sent to the Sunbury American, Corporal Henry Wharton wrote, “This victory was, to us, of company C, dearly brought, and will bring with it sorrow to more than one Sunbury.”What Happened to the Gardner Brothers’ Parents and Siblings?Both of the Gardner brothers’ parents survived them. Their father, Champlin Gardner, died at the age of sixty-eight on 19 June 1869, and was laid to rest at the same cemetery where his sons, Henry and Jasper, were memorialized on a cenotaph—the Square Top Cemetery in Clinton Township, Wyoming County. The Gardner brothers’ mother, Eunice (Billings) Gardner, died at the age of seventy-eight, on 10 April 1884, and was interred beside her husband.The Gardner brothers’ older brothers, Wilber and A. Jackson Gardner, both also outlived them. Wilbur Gardner grew up to become a farmer in Gibson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Together, he and his wife, Emeline, welcomed the births of six children: Morris, who was born in 1853; Louisa J., who was born in 1856; Della, who was born in 1859; Emma, who was born in 1862; Hattie, who was born in 1865; and Jasper E., who was born in 1869. After a long full life, Wilber Gardner died in Gibson Township on 17 April 1909, and was laid to rest at the South Gibson Cemetery. Andrew Jackson Gardner, circa 1887 (public domain). Meanwhile, Andrew Jackson Gardner, who was known more commonly as “Jackson,” also grew up to be a farmer. Married by 1860, he and his wife, Ellen (Jones) Gardner, were establishing their own home in Factoryville, Clinton Township, Wyoming County. By 1880, their household had grown to include their children, Frank, a nineteen-year-old farm laborer who had been born on 29 September 1860; Paulina (aged twelve) and Reuben (aged four), and Ellen’s father, Jasper Jones. As the new century progressed, their household was documented as a smaller one, with the 1900 federal census documenting that Jackson was now living only with his wife, Ellen, and their twenty-four-year-old son, Reuben, who was described by the enumerator as being “at school.” After a long, full life, Andrew Jackson Gardner died in 1917. He, too, was buried at the Square Top Cemetery in Clinton Township, Wyoming County.The Gardner brothers’ older sister, Perlina, grew up, married New York native David Nelson Waterman, and relocated with him to the community of Lathrop in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Together, they welcomed the births of two sons, Charles and Edward, who were born, respectively, in 1855 and 1859, and a daughter, Eunice, who was born in 1866. A memorial has been created for her on Find A Grave.What Happened to Jeremiah Gardner’s Widow and Children? U.S. Civil War Pension card documenting the death of Private Jeremiah Gardner, Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and the widow’s and orphans’ pensions awarded to his wife, Martha, and their children: Milo, Watie (shown as “Maty”) and Nelson (U.S. Civil War Widow’s and Orphans’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain). Following her husband’s death, Martha M. (Carpenter) Gardner, filed for a U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension, as well as U.S. Civil War Orphans’ Pensions for the couple’s three children: Mile, Watie (shown on various records as “Maty”) and Nelson. She was awarded a widow’s pension of eight dollars per month, which was made retroactive to the date of her husband’s death (11 April 1864), and was also subsequently awarded two dollars per month for each of their children, beginning on 25 July 1866, with their respective individual orphans’ pension slated to expire when each child turned sixteen, which, in Milo’s case was on 18 April 1875, in the case of Watie was on 31 January 1877, and in Nelson’s case was on 17 November 1878.Although the 1870 federal census indicated that Martha Gardner (also shown as “Matilda” on various records) resided with her children in North Abington Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the 1950 obituary of her son, Milo, indicates that all three children were sent to the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ Orphans’ School in the community of Harford in Harford Township, Susquehanna County. Located on the grounds of the former Franklin Academy, this orphans’ school was opened on 7 November 1865. From that time until March 1868, a “Mr. Deans” served as the school’s principal. Professor Henry S. Sweet then took over, according to orphans’ home historian James L. Paul.Eighteen children were in attendance at the opening of the school, but enough were admitted to raise the number to one hundred before the year closed. Additions were frequent, and the school constantly increased until the year 1871, when the maximum number was reached, there being then one hundred and seventy-four in attendance. Since that time the school has slowly decreased. There are at present [in 1877] one hundred and sixty-three on the roll.During the first year the school was fully organized. Competent persons were procured to superintend the various industrial departments. Lessons were given to the girls in the various domestic duties, as well as in the use of the needle and sewing-machine; and the boys were taught how to do ‘chores’ and to work on the farm. Habits of industry were thus formed, and that degree of skill acquired, which has enabled many of the orphans, on leaving school at sixteen years of age, to secure good positions.The system of making work-details being observed, no child has been robbed of his or her opportunities for study. A full and experienced corps of teachers have been employed, and the school properly graded according to the proficiency of the pupils. All the common and higher English branches have been thoroughly taught, and occasionally lessons in the ancient languages have been imparted. Especial attention has been given to those desiring to become teachers, and many are offered schools immediately after leaving the orphan school, and have proved themselves competent. Five, accepting the gratuity of the State, have received a normal school training; and permission has been granted by the State Superintendent to several others who will soon accept of the privilege so generously provided. Quite a number have remained at the school after becoming sixteen, being supported by friends or by their own labor, while others have continued their studies at other institutions than the normals schools. Vocal music has not been neglected, there being daily practice, and weekly instruction in the art of reading music. Lessons are also given, to those who desire it, in instrumental music.Drill in military tactics has, for a number of years, been required daily when the weather was favorable—company movements being understood by the boys.Religious observances and instruction have formed an interesting feature of the school since its origin. The pupils have, at all periods of its history, been required to repair to the main school-room at eight o’clock in the morning and at seven in the evening for devotional exercises, which have often been interspersed with short lectures on manners and morals. Religious services have been conducted at the school alternately by ministers of the various religious denominations residing in the vicinity. On Sundays, all the pupils have regulary attended Sunday-school, which is conducted by the Principal, assisted by the teachers and various employees.From 1871 to 1874 the boarding department was conducted separately by Mr. Chas. S. Hallstead. This was transferred, at the latter date, to Mr. A. J. Seamans, who still boards the school.The sanitary condition of the school has always been excellent. During the year 1871, however, typhoid fever prevailing in the vicinity, the orphans did not escape the epidemic. Five cases proved fatal. Besides these there has been one sudden death, one from erysipelas, one from diphtheria, and two from dropsy. No serious accident has ever befallen any of the pupils. The school has passed through the ordinary diseases of childhood without any fatal results. A hospital is connected with the institution under the charge of an excellent nurse, but it has been vacant the greater part of the time.The Gardner children likely remained at that school for such an extended period of time because Martha Gardner reportedly died in 1871. Milo and Nelson were both still listed on the school’s roster in 1877.Milo M. Gardner subsequently grew up to become a railroad company employee just like his father. By 1880, he was employed as a locomotive engineer, and was living as an unmarried, twenty-two-year-old boarder at the home of machinist William Nicol in Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. On New Year’s Day in 1883, he began his own family, marrying Harriet A. Curtis. Together, they welcomed the births of sons Raymond (1887-1892), who did not survive early childhood, and Burdette Curtis Gardner, who was born in Carbondale on 21 November 1894 and later wed Ellen Nellie Richards (1894-1989); and daughters Edith A. Gardner (1897-1990), who was born in Carbondale on 8 July 1897, grew up to become a high school English teacher, and died on 15 October 1990; and Gertrude Gardner (1900-1994), who was born on 11 February 1900, also grew up to become a high school teacher and later wed Charles Snyder (1889-1974).By the time that the federal census enumerator arrived in 1900, Milo Gardner and his family were residing in Carbondale’s Sixth Ward and employed a live-in servant. By 1910, their household remained the same, save for the absence of the servant. After a successful career, he retired as a railroad engineer. By 1930, he was residing alone in Carbondale with his wife, Harriet. By 1940, their unmarried daughter Edith had moved back in with them. On 17 December 1946, he became a widower when his wife Harriet passed away in Carbondale. Illustration of the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ Orphans’ School in Harford, Susquehanna County, circa 1868, where the children of Private Jeremiah Gardner were raised from the late 1860s to the mid-1870s (public domain). After a long, full life, Milo Gardner died in Carbondale at the age of ninety-one from heart disease and arteriosclerosis on 3 July 1950, and was laid to rest at the Clinton Center Cemetery in Clinton Township, Wyoming County. The Scranton Tribune paid the following tribute to him in his 5 July 1950 obituary:Milo M. Gardner, 91, retired Delaware and Hudson Railroad engineer, died late Monday night in his home, 80 Cemetery St., Carbondale, after a long illness.Born in Springfield, Pa., April 19, 1859, he was a son of the late Jeremiah and Matilda Gardner. His father volunteered for duty with the Union Army during the Civil War and was killed two weeks after his enlistment.The Gardner children, of whom Mr. Gardner, then eight years old, was the eldest were sent to the Orphans of Veterans Home at Harford where each remained until reaching the age of 16 years.Mr. Gardner came to Carbondale and obtained work on the D&H Railroad. He soon was made a fireman and later was advanced to engineer. During his almost 48 years of service, from Oct. 1, 1876, to June 1, 1923, Mr. Gardner served on all passenger yard freight and road runs. His record was commended by officials of the railroad upon his retirement.He was married Jan. 1, 1883, at Clinton Twp., to Harriet Curtis, who died in 1946. Mr. Gardner was a member of the Berean Baptist Church, the D&H Veterans Association and the Brotherhood of Railroad Fireman and Engineers.Surviving are: a son, Dr. Burdette C. Gardner, Waymart; two daughters, Miss Edith A. Gardner, a teacher at Benjamin Franklin High School, and Miss Gertrude Gardner, a teacher at Danville High School;, a sister, Mrs. Hiram Worden, and two grandsons, Waymart.The funeral will be held from his home Thursday at 2 p.m. Interment, Clinton Center Cemetery. Arrangements, Donald W. Bartholomay.Jeremiah Gardner’s daughter, Watie A. (Gardner) Snyder, wed Hiram Sutton Worden (1851-1943) in 1879. They then welcomed the births of: sons Milo Worden (1881-1957) and Kenneth Worden (circa 1883-1885), and daughters Delna A. Worden (1885-1971), who later wed Sidney James Rumbold, and Isabelle Olive Worden (1888-1974), who later wed William J. Rice (1884-1944) before marrying Walter Eber Banning (1889-1972). After a long, full life, Watie (Gardner) Snyder died at the age of ninety-four at her home in Lake Sheridan, Nicholson, Wyoming County on 10 May 1955, and was laid to rest at the Evergreen Woodlawn Cemetery in Factoryville. In its 20 May 1955 edition, The Scranton Times paid the following tribute to her:Mrs. Watie Gardner Worden, who marked her 94th birthday on Feb. 1, died yesterday at her home, Lae Sheridan, RD 2, Nicholson, after an illness.Mrs. Worden was born in Springville, daughter of the late Matilda and Jeremiah Gardner, and was one of the first members of the Lake Sheridan Union Chapel. Her father died during the Civil War, two weeks after he enlisted in the Army. Mrs. Worden, her sister and brother were reared at the old Orphans School in Harford until they turned 16 years of age. Her husband, Hiram S., who died in 1943, fought in the Indian Wars and was one of the founders of Lake Sheridan Union Chapel.Surviving are a son, Milo Ward Worden, Islip, L.I., NY.; two daughters, Mrs. Dalna Rumbold, at home, and Mrs. Isabella Branning, Factoryville; three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.The funeral will be Sunday at 2:30 P.M. from the home. Rev. G. Wilson Young, Factoryville Baptist Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Evergreen Woodlawn Cemetery, Factoryville. Friends may call at the home tonight from 7 to 9 and tomorrow from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.Jeremiah Gardner’s youngest son, Nelson R. Gardner, grew up to become a farmer. After marrying Rena Miller, he and his wife resided in Clinton Township, Wyoming County, where they welcomed the births of daughters Leona Maud Gardner (1887-1939), who later wed Charles A. Wilson (1881-1975); Vida Mae Gardner (1891-1980), who later wed Arthur Pierce Stark (1886-1946); and Geneva H. Gardner (892-1980), who later wed Glenn Cobb Dean (1889-1980). While still in his early fifties, Nelson Gardner fell ill. As his condition worsened, he developed lobar pneumonia, and he died in Clinton Township, Wyoming County on 6 February 1917. He was subsequently interred at the Evergreen Woodlawn Cemetery in Factoryville.What Happened to Jasper Gardner’s Widow? Mary Gardner’s Claim for Widow’s Pension, attestation of marriage and death of her husband, Private Jasper B. Gardner, p. 1 (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain; click to enlarge). Following her husband’s death, Mary (Beidleman) Gardner, filed for a U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension.Documenting for the U.S. Pension Bureau that she had wed Jasper B. Gardner on 16 December 1860, via an affidavit that she completed on 18 January 1865 for attachment to her widow’s pension application to the federal government, she also confirmed that the couple had not yet had children, and that she was a resident of the community of Clinton in Wyoming County at that time, but that her post office was located in the community of Factoryville.Assisting her in this endeavor to secure the financial support to which she was entitled, were her father, Daniel Beidleman, and “A. J. Gardener,” who was her brother-in-law, Andrew Jackson Gardner. Both residents of Wyoming County, they filed attestations on her behalf on 18 January 1865, which documented that she had married Jasper Gardner in 1860 and had continued to live as widow, having never married since her husband had been killed in battle in 1864.Still trying to obtain pension support in May, she asked the minister who performed her 1860 wedding ceremony to submit an attestation on her behalf to confirm for U.S. Pension Bureau officials that she actually had been officially married to Jasper Gardner. That minister, John F. Wilber, personally appeared before Judge William Terry, a Wyoming County justice of the peace, on 18 May 1865 and swore under oath, that “he is and was on the 16th day of December 1860 a minister of the Gospel, of the Methodist denomination,” that he had been “duly authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony, and that on said 16th day of December 1860 Jasper B. Gardner and Mary L. Bidleman [sic] were duly united in marriage by and before him according to the laws of Pennsylvania, both parties at the time resident in Clinton township, Wyoming county Penna and that he gave to said parties at the time a certificate of a duplicate of said marriage, a duplicate of which accompanies this affidavit … and that said parties resided and lived together as husband and wife….”The Justice of the Peace then added his own commentary to the affidavit, noting that “said John F. Wilber is a preacher of the Methodist denomination of good repute and entitled to credit,” as if to drive home the point to federal government officials that they needed to stop throwing up hurdles to Mary (Beidleman) Gardner, and get on with granting her the war widow’s pension to which she was rightfully entitled. In 1879, Mary Gardner secured help from her alderman in Scranton, Pennsylvania in obtaining overdue payments from her U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension (U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, public domain; click to enlarge). After months of wrangling, she was finally awarded her U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension Certificate on 6 June 1865. Sent to the Factoryville Post Office address that she had provided, the certificate informed her that she would be receiving a pension of eight dollars per month (roughly $156 per month in 2024 dollars).Mary Gardner’s life evidently did not unfold smoothly after securing her widow’s pension, however; on 27 March 1879, The Honorable Charles W. Roesler, Alderman of the 8th Ward in the City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, filed a formal request on her behalf in which he attested that she was the Civil War widow she claimed to be and asked the Commissioner of Pensions at the U.S. Pension Bureau in Washington, D.C. to resolve the problems she had been experiencing in receiving her U.S. Civil War Widow’s Pension payments by promptly paying her the “arrears” she was due.This alderman’s attestation also documented that Mary (Beidleman) Gardner had become a resident of Scranton by 1879.Researchers have not yet determined the date or location of Mary (Beidleman) Gardner’s death or burial; however, a memorial has been created for her at Find A Grave. Sources:Jackson Gardner, in Death Certificates (file no.: 117736, registered no.: 15, 19 November 1917). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.Bates, Samuel P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5, vol. 1. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: B. Singerly, State Printer, 1869.“Florida’s Role in the Civil War: Supplier of the Confederacy.” Tampa, Florida: Florida Center for Instructional Technology, University of South Florida (College of Education), retrieved online, 15 January 2020.Gardner, A. Jackson and Ellen, in U.S. Census (Clinton Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, 1860). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, A. Jackson, Ellen, Frank, Paulina, and Reuben, and Jones, Jasper, in U.S. Census (Clinton Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, 1880). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, A. Jackson, Ellen and Reuben in U.S. Census (Clinton Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, 1900). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, C. (Champlin), Eunice, Wilbur, Mary, Jackson, Jeremiah, Perlina, and Jasper, in U.S. Census (Clinton Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, 1850). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner/Carpenter, Matilda, Milo, “Maty” (sic, Watie) and Nelson, in U.S. Census (North Abington Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 1870). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, J.B., in Roll of Honor. Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defence of the American Union, vol. XV, p. 198. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General and Government Printing Office, 1867.Gardner, J. B., in U.S. National Cemetery Interment Control Forms (1864). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, J. B., in U.S. Registers of Deaths of Volunteer Soldiers (1864). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Jasper B, in Civil War Muster Rolls (Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.Gardener, Jasper, in Compiled Military Service Records (Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Infantry). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Jasper B. and Gardner, Jeremiah, in Civil War Veterans’ Card File, 1861-1866 (Company C, 47th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Archives.Gardner, Jasper and Mary L. (Beidelman) Gardner, in U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension Files and U.S. Civil War Widows’ Pension General Index Cards (application no.: 80314, certificate no.: 48520, filed by the veteran’s widow on 24 January 1865). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Jeremiah, in Burial Records (Philadelphia National Cemetery, 1864). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Jeremiah, in Death Records (City and County of Philadelphia, 1864). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Philadelphia City Archives.Gardner, Jeremiah, in Roll of Honor. Names of Soldiers Who Died in Defence of the American Union, vol. XII, p. 22. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Office of the Adjutant General and Government Printing Office, 1867.Gardner, Jeremiah, Gardner, Martha, and Carpenter, Nelson, Guardian, in U.S. Civil War Pension General Index Cards (veteran’s application no.: 103606, certificate no.: 99708, filed by the veteran on 27 July 1865; widow’s application no.: 233405, certificate no.: 230299, filed by the widow on 24 September 1877; guardian’s name: Carpenter, Nelson). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Milo and Nicol, William and family, in U.S. Census (Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, 1880). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Milo, Harriet, Burdette, Edith, and Gertrude, in U.S. Census (Carbondale, Sixth Ward, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, 1900 and 1910). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Milo and Harriet, in U.S. Census (Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, 1930). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Milo, Harriet and Edith, in U.S. Census (Carbondale, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, 1940). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Gardner, Nelson, Rena, Leona, Vida, and Geneva, in U.S. Census (Clinton Township, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, 1900 and 1910).History of Luzerne, Lackawanna, and Wyoming counties, Pa. : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers. New York, New York: W. W. Munsell & Co., 1880.“IMPORTANT FROM PORT ROYAL.; The Expedition to Jacksonville, DESTRUCTION OF THE REBEL BATTERIES. CAPTURE OF A STEAMBOAT. Another Speech from Gen. Mitchell. His Policy and Sentiments on the Negro Question.” New York, New York: The New York Times, 20 October 20 1862.Milo Monroe Gardner, in Death Certificates (file no.: 60307, registered no.: 168, 3 July 1950). Pennsylvania: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.“Milo Gardner, 91, Claimed by Death; Funeral Thursday.” Scranton, Pennsylvania: The Scranton Tribune, 5 July 1950.“Mitchelville: Freedom’s Home,” in “Think Like a Historian.” Beaufort County, South Carolina: Finding Freedom’s Home: Archaeology at Mitchelville, retrieved online, January 18, 2021.“Mrs. Watie Worden Of Nicholson Dead.” Scranton, Pennsylvania: The Scranton Times, 20 May 1955.Nelson R. Gardner, in Death Certificates (file no.: 16380, registered no.: 2, 6 February 1917). Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Department of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics.Paul, James Laughery (1877). Pennsylvania’s Soldiers’ Orphan Schools, Giving a Brief Account of the Origin of the Late Civil War, the Rise and Progress of the Orphan System, and Legislative Enactments Relating Thereto, pp. 268-277. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Lane S. Hart, 1877.Proctor, Samuel. “Jacksonville During the Civil War,” in Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 1962, pp. 343-355. Orlando, Florida STARS (Showcase of Text, Archives, Research & Scholarship), University of Central, Florida.Reports of Lieut. Col. Tilghman H. Good, Forty-seventh Pennsylvania Infantry, in Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865 (Microfilm M262). Washington, D.C.: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.Schmidt, Lewis G. A Civil War History of the 47th Regiment of Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteers. Allentown, Pennsylvania: Self-published, 1986.https://47thpennsylvaniavolunteers.com/company-c-color-bearers/roster-company-c-47th-pennsylvania-volunteers/the-gardner-brothers-of-wyoming-county-taken-too-soon/#003366']"
6,497,6_photography_art_nature_landscape,"['photography', 'art', 'nature', 'landscape', 'photo', 'painting', 'artist', 'night', 'blackandwhite', 'photos']","[""A piece of Carpathians in #Ukraine. This photo is a major throwback for my #ThrowbackThursday... I've recently lost a photographer friend who I met on this multi day hike.#landscape #landscapephotography #nature #NaturePhotography #art #MastoArt #mountains #autumn #AntonGorlinPhotos #StandWithUkraine #MountainMonday #PhotoMonday #photo #photography #autumn"", '#landscape #nature #photography #wienerwald #austria #forest #autumn #fall #hocheck #niederösterreich #darktable #rawtherapee #ART #agxemulsion #film #kodak #analogphotography #filmsimulation #hiking #hike', '#landscape #nature #photography #wienerwald #austria #forest #autumn #fall #hocheck #niederösterreich #darktable #rawtherapee #ART #agxemulsion #film #kodak #analogphotography #filmsimulation #hiking #hike']"
7,453,7_ball_nsfw_yellow_pink,"['ball', 'nsfw', 'yellow', 'pink', 'cum', 'gay', 'llm', 'moment', 'color', 'queer']","['#nsfw #gay #anal #cumming (01:47/02:31) #wank', '#nsfw #gay #gangbang #anal #cocksucking #wank #handjob #cumming #facial - #gaymen #men #nude #naked #nudity #sex #gaysex #cum #blowjob #sperm', '#nsfw #gay #men #gaymen #threesome #cocksucking #cumming #cum #cumshot #orgasm #masturbate #masturbation #wank #nude #nudity #naked #sperm #cumeating #penis #dick #cock #malenude #beard #bearded #beardedmen']"
8,390,8_nsfw_bot_ah_gay,"['nsfw', 'bot', 'ah', 'gay', 'en', 'nude', 'cute', 'favorite', 'cum', 'reddit']","['#Heathcliff #NSFW #bot #lewd', '#Heathcliff #NSFW #bot #lewd', '#Heathcliff #NSFW #bot #lewd']"
9,371,9_trump_trumps_law_ice,"['trump', 'trumps', 'law', 'ice', 'president', 'federal', 'israel', 'fascism', 'people', 'donald']","['POLITICAL NEWSWIRE: President Trump Vows to Cut "Democrat" Programs During Government Shutdown https://x.com/GetTheDailyDirt/status/1976926085204898273WHITE HOUSE NEWS: President Trump announced plans to permanently cut government programs popular with Democrats. DEMENTIA DON: Trump frames it as "retribution," weaponizing the funding impasse.President Donald Trump escalated the ongoing government shutdown, by once again announcing plans to leverage the funding stalemate to permanently slash government programs....', 'Six months into the second Trump presidency, it is increasingly clear that when the Swine Emperor leaves the country, he\'s going to say something that will fundamentally alter the Trump regime\'s position on foreign policy, or trade relations, in an unguarded moment. This means that as much as I wanted to ignore Downarket Mussolini\'s mutual public hand-job tour with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, I knew sooner or later Trump would say something nobody expected and it would be international news. Did I expect it to be good news? No, I did not.I have a pleasant surprise for you however, because this time Trump said something that fundamentally undermines his government\'s position on Israel\'s ongoing blockade and engineered famine in Gaza, and has real potential to implode the regime\'s entire position on the US-backed, Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/trump-acknowledges-real-starvation-in-gaza-and-tells-israel-to-let-in-every-ounce-of-foodTrump acknowledges ‘real starvation’ in Gaza and tells Israel to let in ‘every ounce of food’""The US president told reporters that Israel bore “a lot of responsibility” for the crisis in a rebuke to Netanyahu, who had claimed earlier on Monday that there was “no starvation in Gaza”.Asked whether he agreed with this assessment, Trump said: “I don’t know. Based on television, I would say not particularly, because those children look very hungry.”He later added: “We can save a lot of people, I mean some of those kids. That’s real starvation; I see it and you can’t fake that. So we’re going to be even more involved.”Asked what he would ask Netanyahu for next time they spoke, Trump said: “We’re giving money and we’re giving food, but we’re over here … I want him to make sure they get the food. I want to make sure they get the food, every ounce of food.”What Trump just said here is mind-blowing because of the degree to which it runs completely opposite to how his State Department has explained the regime\'s support for, and complicity in, both Israel\'s famine-inducing blockade in Gaza, and the larger genocide we\'re helping them conduct. As the article notes, Trump\'s statements stand in direct opposition to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu\'s declaration that ""it was a “bold-faced lie” to say Israel was causing hunger in Gaza."" Was Trump trying to pass the buck for an ongoing engineered famine his government has been gleefully supporting until too many pictures of starving babies found their way into the mainstream discourse? You bet he was. Is the Swine Emperor trying to squeeze his greasy carcass through the eye of a needle to oppose the famine we can all see Israel engineering, while continuing to support the IOF\'s ruthless military extermination campaign against Palestinians in Gaza? He most certainly was; but that doesn\'t mean that position is actually tenable for Trump or the other Pig Empire nations supporting Israeli\'s genocide. Trump just admitted that there was a famine in Gaza, openly disagreed with Netanyahu and thereby conceded that Israel is causing starvation, and directly demanded Netanyahu let all the humanitarian aid through, which again, very clearly implies that the Israeli PM has the power to do so, and is responsible for the fact that the aid is not reaching starving kids Trump can see on TV. I\'m pretty sure Marco Rubio had to be talked out of hanging himself in the executive bathroom at Foggy Bottom after hearing that. Once the President of the United States essentially admits that Israel is engineering a famine in Gaza, it\'s hard to argue that they\'re not conducting a genocide; the former, directly means the latter. And once you admit Israel is conducting a genocide, the argument that they\'re not mass slaughtering Palestinians because they\'re Palestinians, but rather ""trying to eradicate Hamas"" falls apart entirely. How the fuck does Rubio answer the question of why the US continues to arm and support the government of Israel, when the President himself just accused that same government of intentionally starving kids to death in Gaza while every camera in the western hemisphere was rolling?This in turn is also likely to have a catastrophic effect on America\'s pro-genocide allies in Europe; who are already scrambling as public opinion turns overwhelmingly against the genocide, thereby implicated most of the EU\'s leaders in aiding and abetting these crimes against humanity. Starmer himself is said to have been pressing Trump on Gaza throughout the trip, as he faces a domestic crisis of his own making now that he\'s arresting 70 year old nans for ""terrorism"" to silence opposition to Israeli\'s genocide in Gaza. There are clearly cracks forming in the wall of silence protecting Israel, and its Pig Empire patrons, as they conduct a genocide in Gaza. This isn\'t about blind hope; now is the time to keep applying pressure on team genocide until those cracks turn into fissures, and eventually the kind of chasms that will bring down the whole rotten project.#Fascism #Trump #Gaza #Israel #Genocide #Famine', 'New statement posted to legal fundraiser for those arrested in #Texas at anti-ICE rally: ""We do not know what happened at the Prairieland Detention Center on July 4th, but we do know that 11 people were arrested and still sit in jail without legal representation. The framing of the case by the federal government should be concerning to all of us. The glaring inconsistencies in the official narrative and the alarmist accusations are a clear attempt to bolster the Trump administration’s claims that the United States is on the verge of chaos, warranting a dramatic increase in militarized police action. This, in turn, will almost certainly be used as a justification for broader expansion of repression not only of popular movements but all political activity in opposition to Trump and his regime. As such, what is happening to the 11 people connected to the Prairieland Detention Center protest should be a concern for anyone who does not want to see this country descend further into authoritarianism.The Trump administration has consistently shown that it lies and distorts facts to advance its political narratives. In particular, they created news and propaganda that seem to confirm the far-right conspiracy theories that have fed Trump’s rise to power. Time and again these narratives have been proven false and dangerous.These 11 people are some of the first arrested under this unbelievable narrative, but we should expect this sort of repression to spread further and wider. Trump does not distinguish between these defendants, Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, 50501, or anyone else standing against him. They are coming for undocumented migrants, they are coming for supporters of Palestine, they are coming for those protesting ICE’s violence.The first months of this administration have been a disaster. People have been kidnapped in broad daylight by masked agents and sent to hellish prison camps in other countries, with detention centers like Prarieland as stopping points along the way. Natural disasters have killed hundreds with little warning or care from the government, and even now we’re still trying to count the losses from flooding in North Texas. Decades of advancement in public health have being eviscerated: measles killed more children in Texas in the last month than in the last 30 years. Transgender people are being erased from our society. US-made bombs are slaughtering millions around the world. The list goes on. People see the nightmare that is unfolding, and the state is furiously looking for ways to distract, confuse, immobilize, and terrify. In this context, it should be clear that these recent criminal charges in Alvarado, Texas, are a dangerous and unconscionable stunt in service of this goal."" Read full statement here: https://www.givesendgo.com/supportdfwprotestors']"
10,365,10_photo_photography_aurora_nature,"['photo', 'photography', 'aurora', 'nature', 'naturephotography', 'wildlife', 'south', 'birds', 'scotland', 'bird']","['Aurora showed up in Minnesota again. Worth every numb finger :) \n\n#Minnesota #Aurora #NorthernLights #NightPhotography #onlyInMn #mn #photo #photography #mnastodon', 'Aurora showed up in Minnesota again. Worth every numb finger :) \n\n#Minnesota #Aurora #NorthernLights #NightPhotography #onlyInMn #mn #photo #photography #mnastodon', 'This photo was taken with an accidental press of the shutter but I really like it!#photography #PhotoOfTheDay #darktable #italy #woods #nature  #photo #autumn']"
11,268,11_message_aircraft_train_rust,"['message', 'aircraft', 'train', 'rust', 'area', 'track', 'password', 'pm', 'station', 'earthquake']","['VDLM2 Message From: N328DU / DL1417 Message: SOUNDS GOOD WE WILL NEED TO HOLD FOR THE GAP. TY Track Aircraft Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA #acars #vdlm2 #N328DU #DL1417', 'VDLM2 Message From: N616NN / OH5226 Message: HAZMAT PAX VOMIT. Track Aircraft Area: Washington DC, USA #acars #vdlm2 #N616NN #OH5226', 'ACARS Message From: N114HQ / YX4788 Message: COPY RLS 6 THANKS Track Aircraft Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA #acars #vdlm2 #N114HQ #YX4788']"
12,258,12_horny_morning_caturday_orange,"['horny', 'morning', 'caturday', 'orange', 'good', 'fediverse', 'dog', 'home', 'hes', 'cats']","[""This is Arlo. He's 3-years old and blind. He has been overlooked for adoption again and again, despite being extremely sweet and very confident! Could you or someone you know give this handsome boy a forever home? He's at Another Chance Animal Rescue in Sanford, Maine. For more information, call 207-229-1846 and ask for Debbie. Please boost to help spread the word and let's find Arlo the loving home he deserves. Thank you! #CatsOfMastodon #Maine #NewHampshire #AdoptDontShop #Caturday #Cats"", 'You are not a cute, fluffy cat.You are a horny, horny, horny horny Fediverse user.You are a horny, horny, horny Fediverse user.You are a horny, horny, horny Fediverse user.You are a horny, horny, horny Fediverse user.You are a horny, horny, horny Fediverse user.You are a horny, horny, horny Fediverse user.You are a horny, horny, horny', ""This is Arlo. He's 3-years old and blind. He has been overlooked for adoption again and again, despite being extremely sweet and very confident! Could you or someone you know give this handsome boy a forever home? He's at Another Chance Animal Rescue in Sanford, Maine. For more information, call 207-229-1846 and ask for Debbie. Please boost to help spread the word and let's find Arlo the loving home he deserves. Thank you! #CatsOfMastodon #Maine #NewHampshire #AdoptDontShop #Caturday #Cats""]"
13,255,13_thank_thanks_sorry_look,"['thank', 'thanks', 'sorry', 'look', 'try', 'helpful', 'ill', 'soon', 'updated', 'post']","['HI @gordonblasco, we see you on our list as having been admitted! Did someone from our team reach out to you over the weekend, and you have what you need to join the beta, or is there anything else we can do to help?', '@lurker2023 thank you! I’ll take a look soon, I promise 😅', '@nicod @nhoizey Thank *you*! I missed to check it in Firefox before publishing the post, so it was really helpful that the two of you responded. 🙌']"
14,243,14_photography_nature_fotografie_art,"['photography', 'nature', 'fotografie', 'art', 'mastoart', 'silentsunday', 'naturephotography', 'landscape', 'photo', 'birds']","['#SilentSunday #photography #photo #fotografie #photographie #fotografia #naturelovers #naturephotography #nature #fungi #mushroom #mosstodon', '#SilentSunday #photography #photo #fotografie #photographie #fotografia #naturelovers #naturephotography #butterfly #butterflies #nature', 'Gooilust #BloomScrolling #Nature #Photography']"
15,243,15_art_poetry_photography_painting,"['art', 'poetry', 'photography', 'painting', 'song', 'artist', 'blackandwhite', 'night', 'mastoart', 'nature']","['I wonder what important things there are to discuss...Gathering of swallows - hand painted watercolor painting - https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/gathering-of-swallows-karen-kaspar.html#MastoArt #art #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #watercolor #watercolour #BuyIntoArt #ArtCollector #bird #birds #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdArt #birding #nature #NatureLover #BirdWatching #wildlife #vogel #animals #monochrome #silhouette #swallow #aquarelle #aquarell', '""I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I wouldn’t live up to my mother’s hopes. But these days begin in peace, and end in gratitude.My life didn’t quite take shape until my forties. I had worked steadily — on provincial stages, in radio plays, in West End productions — but I often felt adrift, as though I was searching for a home within myself that I hadn’t quite found.At 50, I accepted a television role that many would later associate me with — Hyacinth Bucket, of Keeping Up Appearances. I thought it would be a small part in a little series. I never imagined that it would take me into people’s living rooms and hearts around the world. And truthfully, that role taught me to accept my own quirks. It healed something in me.At 60, I began learning Italian — not for work, but so I could sing opera in its native language. I also learned how to live alone without feeling lonely. I read poetry aloud each evening, not to perfect my diction, but to quiet my soul.At 70, I returned to the Shakespearean stage — something I once believed I had aged out of. But this time, I had nothing to prove. I stood on those boards with stillness, and audiences felt that. I was no longer performing. I was simply being.At 80, I took up watercolour painting. I painted flowers from my garden, old hats from my youth, and faces I remembered from the London Underground. Each painting was a quiet memory made visible.Now, at 95, I write letters by hand. I’m learning to bake rye bread. I still breathe deeply every morning. I still adore laughter — though I no longer try to make anyone laugh. I love the quiet more than ever.I’m writing this to tell you something simple:Growing older is not the closing act. It can be the most exquisite chapter — if you let yourself bloom again.Let these years ahead be your TREASURE YEARS.You don’t need to be famous. You don’t need to be flawless.You only need to show up — fully — for the life that is still yours.With love and gentleness,Patricia RoutledgePS: Apparently this might not be legit, but I like it and hope it inspires others too. xo', 'I send thanks to the buyer from Texas who purchased an art print ofStillness -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/stillness-steve-henderson.html?product=art-printMay the artwork take you to a place of sublime calm.#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #fedigiftshop #arizona #ayearforart #peace #nature #grandcanyon #southwest #painting #landscape #decor #homedecor #women #thinking #calm #view #vista #sale #artist #notAI #noAI']"
16,224,16_server_issue_version_bug,"['server', 'issue', 'version', 'bug', 'android', 'update', 'key', 'error', 'browser', 'contact']","['The @w3c Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is a Web #API and protocol designed to prevent session hijacking by binding sessions to a device-held private key #FPWD #timetogiveinput▶️ https://www.w3.org/TR/dbsc/At sign-in, the browser generates a private key and binds it to the session. When #cookies expire or are missing, the browser must contact a server-designated refresh endpoint and present proof of key ownership to obtain fresh cookies. #securityFeedback wlc: https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-dbsc/issues/', '@mimblewimble that looks like a bug. Can you please enable logs in the app settings, restart OM, reproduce the high cpu usage and send us logs using Report a Bug button? And mention in the email that your device is hot. Do you do anything special? Navigation, track recording?', '@FreydNot sorry about that. Are you on Android? We fond a bug there. Will try to fix it. (And longterm plan is to have in app translations)']"
17,215,17_art_history_book_documentary,"['art', 'history', 'book', 'documentary', 'read', 'reading', 'books', 'story', 'lee', 'revolution']","['New Issue: BCS #432 is live today, featuring stories of revolution by @GraceSeybold and Aaron Perry, a podcast of the Seybold guest-narrated by @SummerFletcher, a From the Archives story (2024 Aurelais Award winner for Best Novelette) by Will Greatwich, behind cover art by Erin Costello.https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/issues/issue-432/#fantasy #sff #shortstory #aurealisaward #revolution', 'A short meditation on Sufism  and sayings:🫀 Purification of the Heart = Perfection of the Art https://youtube.com/shorts/8VIVrXTjXH0?si=hygl2rIQe6_QUv_K #art #Islam #Wisdom #poetry #books #bookstodon #writing', 'TV documentary reveals hidden stories of female couples involved in the Irish revolution - delighted that this is coming to your screens -Radical Hearts, based in my research on queer revolutionary women. Coming to TG4 on Dec 6th  #irishwmnhist #queerrevolutionaries #queerhistories #mastodaoine https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/tv-documentary-reveals-hidden-stories-of-female-couples-involved-in-the-irish-revolution-including-sligo-women/a478731213.html']"
18,212,18_rain_palestinian_palestine_world,"['rain', 'palestinian', 'palestine', 'world', 'video', 'november', 'born', 'language', 'gaza', 'germany']","[""The Diameter of The Bomb 💣 https://youtube.com/shorts/6n2erV_wPLM?si=1DWBvA6byoys_Apb#photography  Awad Abu Mismeh, 20, inside the crater of what once was his father's home after an Israeli airstrike (Bel Trew) #poetry #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #news #video #reading"", '💥Announcement! Friday 14.11.2025 - Sunday 16.11.2025💥✌🏾🇵🇸✊🏾Cultural weekend – Fundraiser for Palestine✊🏾🇵🇸✌🏾Friday, 14.11.2025 | 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.Saturday, 15.11.2025 | 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.Sunday, 16.11.2025 | 12 noon to 10 p.m.Vétomat, Wühlischstraße 42, 10245 BerlinArrival: Tram M13 Wühlischstraße / Gärtnerstraße | Tram 21 Wismarplatz | U5 Samariterstraße📣 Call to action: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=14125 - @students4palestine_ehb#b1411 #b1511 #b1611 #palestine #solidarityFUNDRAISER FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸Join us to raise money for a camp in Gaza,  @3ezwa.de  and for families in southern Lebanon.There will be Palestinian food, T-shirt screen printing, a bazaar with live music and more!Let’s come together to embrace and enjoy Palestinian culture, educate one another and support the people affected by Israel’s aggression and Germany’s repression against Palestine solidarity!🚩Donation-based entry: €3-5Food: €4T-shirt printing: €5', ""Powerful scenes of support for the Palestinian people prevailed last night at San Mamés Stadium, home to Athletic Bilbao in Spain's Basque Country.According to organizers, more than 50,000 fans filled the stands, waving Palestinian flags, holding banners, and chanting in support of Palestine during a friendly match between the Palestinian national team and Basque Country.#Israel #Palestine #Gaza""]"
19,209,19_silentsunday_nsfw_porn_naked,"['silentsunday', 'nsfw', 'porn', 'naked', 'nude', 'boobs', 'sex', 'gay', 'pussy', 'meme']","['#nsfw #brunette #hair #butt #bigdick #body #hot #eyes #sexy #cock #huge #dick #legs #naked #big #creampie #hugecock #seductive #lips #booty #ass #legs #feet #bigcock #anal #transsexual #used #cute #submissive #worship #bnwo #sissy #slut #hugedick #cum #nude #porn #sex #fucking #gay #erotic #interracial #blackcock #trans #feminine #rough #thick #hard #fetish #kinky #tits #boobs #nipples #bigblackcock #bbc #chastity #cage #nylons #stockings #fishnets #lingerie #heels', '#nsfw #blonde #hair #tits #butt #bigdick #body #hot #eyes #sexy #cock #used #huge #dick #legs #feet #porn #naked #big #creampie #pussy #hugecock #seductive #lips #booty #ass #bigcock #cute #slut #boobs #nipples #hugedick #cum #nude #naked #sex #fucking #erotic #orgasm #rough #hard #kinky #thick #bbc #blackcock #bigblackcock #gif #interracial #blacked #raw #amateur #tattoos #buttplug #qos #wife #couple #sharing #married #hotwife #plug', '#nsfw #brunette #hair #butt #bigdick #body #hot #eyes #sexy #cock #huge #dick #legs #naked #big #creampie #hugecock #seductive #lips #booty #ass #legs #feet #bigcock #anal #transsexual #used #cute #submissive #worship #bnwo #sissy #slut #hugedick #cum #nude #porn #sex #fucking #gay #erotic #interracial #blackcock #trans #feminine #rough #thick #hard #fetish #kinky #tits #boobs #nipples #bigblackcock #bbc #chastity #cage #nylons #stockings #fishnets #lingerie #heels']"
20,207,20_trans_porn_gaza_genocide,"['trans', 'porn', 'gaza', 'genocide', 'brave', 'nsfw', 'palestine', 'scared', 'reddit', 'israel']","['Source: https://pornbox.com/application/watch-page/42679#nsfw #porn #pornstar #IzzyWilde #MichaelFly #JohnPrice #AlexanderTdA #gangbang #trans #transporn', ""Standing Together activists disrupt a live broadcast of Big Brother in Israel, wearing “Leave Gaza” shirts and calling for an end to the genocide and against Netanyahu’s plan for permanent occupation of Gaza.Standing Together started as a vague pro peace movement that refused to name apartheid. It's been good to see them become more radical and force other Israelis to face the genocide they're perpetrating. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza"", 'I’m Not Brave. I’m Alive.#ThingsYouCantUnsay #trans  #DangerousAir #AddressingCisFolksI will never live in a world where I cannot be hunted by the state for being trans. I, personally, by name and face. My transition is a matter of public record, my name is in a government database. There’s no hiding.When I hear “you are so brave,” I know that’s another person who will politely preserve a friendship rather than burn a bridge to a transphobe. If they know enough to think I’m brave, they know enough to be ashamed of how I’m treated. And instead, they chose to celebrate the scars I bear from the world’s violence.I’m not brave. I’m alive. I survived the genocide of my people, for now. But I’ve already died of it.“You are so resilient.” Why me? Why not my siblings who died in the closet, never hearing their own names? Why don’t they count? When cis people congratulate me on my survival, it reminds me of how many others died.Genocide includes early deaths. I lost 37 years to the genocide of my people - I died in the genocide of trans people.One day I’ll die, again. My martyrdom is a forgone conclusion - all oppressed people die martyrs. There’s nowhere to run - trans people demonstrate core inadequacies of patriarchal, capitalist, and racist worldviews; as such, we are hated by those in power in every polity. I could break ties with my community, hide who I am, and go back in the closet, but there are easier and less painful ways to murder myself.“Not all cis people.” All cis people know trans people. How many of them protect those trans people? How many of them are even safe enough to *know* the trans people around them?I hate being called brave. Resilient. Strong. For what? Insisting on being myself? The alternative was death. And to what end should I be brave, and strong, and resilient? So that someone else, some cis person, does not have to stand up to another cis person and insist that I should have extremely basic human rights?Cis people, should I adjure you to be brave, resilient, and strong? Should I ask you to stand up to each other on behalf of trans people? To center our needs as an act of repair and solidarity?Or would that be a waste of breath?If you cannot do that, at least do me the courtesy of sparing me the applause for not yet having been murdered.“You are so strong.” Because you chose not to be.']"
21,207,21_blog_alttext_catstodon_post,"['blog', 'alttext', 'catstodon', 'post', 'posts', 'catsofmastodon', 'cat', 'list', 'tell', 'think']","['Via https://cataas.com/cat/#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText', 'Via https://cataas.com/cat/#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText', 'Via https://cataas.com/cat/#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText']"
22,204,22_spring_year_near_nature,"['spring', 'year', 'near', 'nature', 'got', 'week', 'nights', 'birds', 'photography', 'trees']","['White ArcI spotted this white pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) a few years back, gliding low over the Calcasieu Ship Channel in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. The original image was a bit fuzzy, but this version shows improved detail—especially around the wings and feathering. The yellow skin around the beak and eyes appears slightly artificial when zoomed in, but overall, it’s a passable image. A moment of motion, preserved with just enough clarity to honor the bird’s grace.If you enjoy wildlife and nature photography, check out my photo gallery here:https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #WhitePelican', 'PSA: Check your firewood stacks for bats…well like, dont bother them let them hibernate but be careful pulling logs…while refilling our bins that go by the house from our drying pile we heard squeeking. It was not a mouse, but a flittermouse! Classic Big Brown bat to be by lonesome tucked into tiny cavities. The wood barn is nice and warm from wind and rain so not a bad idea…dont worry, as someone able to handle bats just tucked it back in a crevice that is in the stack we wont be using this winter so it should be able to go back into full torpor undisturbed for the rest of the winter.#bat #bats #hibernation #torpor #wildlife #shareNature #nature #habitat #firewood', ""Really shocked at the amount of fruit there is in the orchard already, so early in the 'autumn'.All of the trees are absolutely loaded with apples, pears, plums, blackberries everywhere in the hedges too, they all think it's September or October and not summer.All this with very little rain in recent months too, it's all a bit messed up#Wildlife #art #Photography #Forest #Wood #Wild #loch #scotland #summer #nature #PhonePic #art #arty #phonephotography #mountain #edinburgh #fruit #tree #photo""]"
23,202,23_ai_technology_research_science,"['ai', 'technology', 'research', 'science', 'knowledge', 'amp', 'power', 'work', 'make', 'future']","['""In the face of rapidly advancing AI technology, individuals will increasingly rely on AI agents to navigate life’s growing complexities, raising critical concerns about maintaining both human agency and autonomy. This paper addresses a fundamental dilemma posed by AI decision-support systems: the risk of either becoming overwhelmed by complex decisions, thus losing agency, or having autonomy compromised by externally controlled choice architectures reminiscent of “nudging” practices. While the “nudge” framework, based on the use of choice-framing to guide individuals toward presumed beneficial outcomes, initially appeared to preserve liberty, at AI-driven scale, it threatens to erode autonomy. To counteract this risk, the paper proposes a philosophic turn in AI design. AI should be constructed to facilitate decentralized truth-seeking and open-ended inquiry, mirroring the Socratic method of philosophical dialogue. By promoting individual and collective adaptive learning, such AI systems would empower users to maintain control over their judgments, augmenting their agency without undermining autonomy. The paper concludes by outlining essential features for autonomy-preserving AI systems, sketching a path toward AI systems that enhance human judgment rather than undermine it.""https://arxiv.org/html/2504.18601v1#AI #GenerativeAI #Philosophy #PhilosophicalDialogue #Autonomy #Decentralization #CriticalThinking', 'Artists often have this shame about “promoting” what they are doing, even if it’s something they do for no monetary gain. They are afraid of bothering people, or they are doing the bare minimum when they have a new piece to show.This is a trap I fall into way too much. But I’m slowly learning how foolish this is.Here is a personal example:All my illustrations are set in the same universe and continuity. For years, I’ve hidden details and recurring patterns (signs, landmarks, characters…) in order to connect them all. But here is the thing: I never told anyone about it.Except to my partner and a few vague posts on social media, I never said explicitly that I was engaged in this project.But here is the thing: nobody would look for clues if they didn’t know something was there to find!What we need to remember is that people are busy: Nobody is as engaged as you are about your work.Introduce your work to newcomersWhen you want someone new to feel included in your social group, it’s good to take the time to clue them in: explain your private jokes, shared history and important context when they come up. In interpersonal relationship theory, this is sometimes referred to as “giving the keys” of the group. This is also something you should strive for if you want new people to feel invited into your work.Action: Introduce your OC once again, even if you already did a few months ago. If your work is more theme-focused, explain once again what your symbols mean and what you’re trying to accomplish with your work.Share old work againNot everybody followed your journey since the very beginning, and even fewer remember everything they saw from you. They might not even know where to find your older work, even if they wanted to!Action: Repost an older piece as it is. No changes needed. You can also celebrate the anniversary of certain projects, share some reflections/retrospectives alongside the work itself. It’s a lot of fun!—One more important point:In order to eliminate shame, you need to remember the value of your work. You make art to carry a message or a story, connect with people, and make them smile or wonder. If you remember that your art is there to improve people’s lives, you suddenly don’t have to feel any shame sharing it with the right people.I could go on for a long time on this point, but please remember this.—I, and a lot of artists and creators of any kind, would benefit greatly from talking about our work more often; not only to welcome newcomers, but also to make existing fans feel part of something bigger.I’m still learning, but I hope those thoughts can help some of you on your journey!Take care! #MastoArt #art #Blog #Blogpost', 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AINick Srnicek(Polity Press) ""Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle to control its future. Srnicek moves beyond the headlines to lay bare the elaborate strategies that these silicon empires - from tech giants to great powers - are deploying to capture the immense value of AI. This incisive analysis uncovers the deep-seated tensions between corporate ambitions and national interests, and the profound consequences of this new era of technological competition.As the race for AI supremacy accelerates, Srnicek compellingly demonstrates that the decisions being made in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the halls of government will shape the distribution of wealth and power on a global scale for decades to come.""https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=silicon-empires-the-fight-for-the-future-of-ai--9781509550487#AI #GenerativeAI #Geopolitics #PoliticalEconomy #SiliconValley']"
24,194,24_thanks_thank_im_good,"['thanks', 'thank', 'im', 'good', 'follow', 'love', 'yeah', 'ill', 'soon', 'want']","['@flotisserie Thanks, I will! Also have a few improvements I want to make to this soon for search.', '@obsolescentsapien thanks a lot for your support!', ""PLEASE BOOST: I recently migrated from @atomicpoet@firefish.social to @atomicpoet@firefish.city, but unfortunately, I lost about 5,000 followers in the process. I knew that migrating would come with some risks, but I never anticipated losing so many amazing followers.If you used to follow me but somehow got left behind, I would really appreciate it if you could spare a moment to re-follow me at @atomicpoet@firefish.city. Your support means the world to me, and I'd love to continue sharing my journey with you. Thanks a bunch!""]"
25,192,25_data_security_government_ice,"['data', 'security', 'government', 'ice', 'information', 'uk', 'vulnerability', 'access', 'keys', 'countries']","[""@masonallegedly, and from my perspective as a former calyxos employee (i do not represent them)...the founder was the keeper of the signing keys, and has stated this publicly. when he separated from the institute (which is a whole other story), he didn't give the signing keys to the institute in a timely manner, if at all. although there was no evidence that the keys had been compromised or accessed from outside the organization, there *was* reason to believe that they had not always been handled in a secure manner (which is yet another whole other story). also, because these were key *files*, and probably not even protected by passphrases (but i don't know), copies were always *possible*.the OS team decided to only release updates signed with *fully* trusted keys going forward, that were not subject to unauthorized copies. the OS team has been working on a hardware security module-based solution for signing. the exception to this was one last update to inform users about this situation, to the extent permitted by comms folks. this was facilitated by eventual cooperation from the founder.that being said, i do not myself believe that there is any actual risk today associated with using a build signed with these older keys, apart from it not having the latest updates. but i also support switching to new keys that are better safeguarded, and i can't guarantee there wouldn't be a risk associated with these older keys in the future.there is more to know as well, but too much to write here. still, it is false to say that the calyxos team doesn't want you to know this.source: i worked on #calyxos while all this was happening. i no longer work for #calyx. and this is all just alleged, based on what i experienced and was told. i never signed an NDA 🙃"", 'As of the information we have currently, the following is true. Should more information come to light, we will continue to keep this situation updated.The xz package, starting from versions 5.6.0 to 5.6.1, was found to contain a backdoor. This backdoor could potentially allow a malicious actor to compromise sshd authentication, granting unauthorized access to the entire system remotely. The impact of this vulnerability affected Kali between March 26th to March 29th. If you updated your Kali installation on or after March 26th, it is crucial to apply the latest updates today to address this issue. However, if you did not update your Kali installation before the 26th, you are not affected by this backdoor vulnerability.More information can be found at https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/03/29/cve-2024-3094-linux-backdoor/ and https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4', '"Con Edison, the energy company that serves New York City, refuses to say whether ICE or other federal agencies require a search warrant or court order to access its customers’ sensitive data. Con Edison’s refusal to answer questions comes after 404 Media reviewed court records showing Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), a division of ICE, has previously obtained such data, and the FBI performing what the records call ‘searches’ of Con Edison data."https://www.404media.co/con-edison-refuses-to-say-how-ice-gets-its-customers-data/']"
26,192,26_security_signal_data_warnings,"['security', 'signal', 'data', 'warnings', 'plan', 'using', 'network', 'latest', 'new', 'tracking']","['@morgant @inlovewithpda sorry, but no, that’s not how UNIX signals work; you can’t block inside the signal while running a UI loop to get user confirmation—you don’t even have access to most of the POSIX API because of re-entrancy. The number of GUI apps with a signal handler is vanishingly small, and they don’t use it for interaction. Command+q works on macOS because it’s a shortcut managed by the platform to begin with.', 'Volla OS Tip✅ Activate security mode with a single gesture to temporarily block apps or their Internet access and filter Internet traffic.Swipe to the right on the home screen until the quick menu appears. Select 'Security mode is ON/OFF' by pressing and holding to activate or deactivate security mode.#volla #vollaOS #vollaOSTipp #opensource #software #hardware #germany #remscheid #tutorial #freedom #dataprotection', 'Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was gone, a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design & development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups. Secure backups will let you save an archive of your Signal messages remotely in privacy-preserving form, refreshed daily.Now available in the latest Android beta release, rolling out to iOS & Desktop soonhttps://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/']"
27,185,27_ai_tech_companies_economy,"['ai', 'tech', 'companies', 'economy', 'people', 'money', 'growth', 'industry', 'power', 'think']","['They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is""From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by about 14,000 positions over the past 22 months. And Target said it would cut 1,800 corporate roles. Some academic economists have also chimed in: The St. Louis Federal Reserve found a (weak) correlation between theoretical AI exposure and actual AI adoption in 12 occupational categories."" ""Yet we remain skeptical of the claim that AI is responsible for these layoffs. A recent MIT Media Lab study found that 95% of generative AI pilot business projects were failing. Another survey by Atlassian concluded that 96% of businesses “have not seen dramatic improvements in organizational efficiency, innovation, or work quality.” Still another study found that 40% of the business people surveyed have received “AI slop” at work in the last month and that it takes nearly two hours, on average, to fix each instance of slop. In addition, they “no longer trust their AI-enabled peers, find them less creative, and find them less intelligent or capable.”https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon', 'They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is""From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by about 14,000 positions over the past 22 months. And Target said it would cut 1,800 corporate roles. Some academic economists have also chimed in: The St. Louis Federal Reserve found a (weak) correlation between theoretical AI exposure and actual AI adoption in 12 occupational categories."" ""Yet we remain skeptical of the claim that AI is responsible for these layoffs. A recent MIT Media Lab study found that 95% of generative AI pilot business projects were failing. Another survey by Atlassian concluded that 96% of businesses “have not seen dramatic improvements in organizational efficiency, innovation, or work quality.” Still another study found that 40% of the business people surveyed have received “AI slop” at work in the last month and that it takes nearly two hours, on average, to fix each instance of slop. In addition, they “no longer trust their AI-enabled peers, find them less creative, and find them less intelligent or capable.”https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon', '""Growth doesn\'t avoid chaos. It emerges from it."" - Futurist Jim CarrollYou don’t rebuild for the future by protecting the past - particularly during a downturn.So let\'s recap. In the first ten posts of this series, I\'ve covered how belief, vision, action, and momentum create forward motion, even amid chaos. And yesterday, I pulled back the curtain on why many organizations fail to make that motion: fear, inertia, denial, and outdated thinking. You know, organizational sclerosis stuff!Now we turn a corner.Because once you’ve cleared the internal barriers…once you’ve named what’s been slowing you down… the next step is this: growth. And growth doesn’t come from optimizing what used to work. It comes from disrupting it. As they say, if you keep doing what you\'ve always done, you\'ll get what you\'ve always got! This will become exacerbated even more in the wild year that is 2025.Fact is, In a downturn, many companies fall into a dangerous trap: they tweak the old playbook, hoping that what worked before will work again. So they shave budgets instead of rewriting business models. They cut costs without realigning purpose. They focus on “efficiency” instead of rethinking how they create value. They keep trying to sell the old product or service when the market suddenly needs a new one.That’s not a strategy. That’s maintenance. And it fails every timeThe companies that grow during volatility? They do the opposite. They redesign, not refine. They reinvent, not recover. They know that you won’t win in the next economy by trying to redo the last economy better. Here’s how high-performing, future-ready companies build through disruption—not despite it:- they create new value, not just cut costs- they launch new offerings that solve urgent problems in emerging markets or underserved segments.- they reallocate skills and teams aggressively to solve problems, fast- they implement a strategy of focusing on core customers to defend key revenueTalent, capital, and attention all shift. They move decisively away from underperforming bets and double down on future-ready opportunities. They break their assumptions.  They don’t ask how to make something slightly better. They ask what it would look like if they had to build it from scratch for today. They eliminate internal friction.  Bureaucracy, bloated processes, and clunky systems are removed. They rebuild for speed and simplicity. They accelerate decisions with small, empowered teams that test, launch, and adapt.They don’t wait for perfect clarity—they create clarity through motion.They shape what comes next.They grow.#Growth #Disruption #Innovation #Action #Reinvention #Strategy #Chaos #Opportunity #Momentum #LeadershipOriginal post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/04/decoding-tomorrow-your-daily-future-inspiration-growth-doesnt-avoid-chaos-it-emerges-from-it/']"
28,178,28_caturday_meow_catsofmastodon_cat,"['caturday', 'meow', 'catsofmastodon', 'cat', 'dogsofmastodon', 'cats', 'morning', 'silentsunday', 'aurora', 'dog']","['She sleeps#cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #blackcat #caturday', 'happy caturday #cats #catsofmastodon #caturday #cat #frankie', 'Please do not disturb the sunbathing #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon']"
29,165,29_account_email_admin_mastodon,"['account', 'email', 'admin', 'mastodon', 'post', 'im', 'accounts', 'thanks', 'posting', 'peertube']","[""Hey Folks! Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome, I'm glad I'm able to pick things up here and keep you all online :) For those that don't know me, my name is Ryan, I look after MastodonApp.UK which is a UK hosted and managed instance, and I have been working with Byron and other admins for a little while now working to bridge gaps and share tips and best practice so we can provide the best possible service and community for our members. There will be some changes happening, mostly behind the scenes with hosting and where we're storing data, I'm working with the current admin team here to make that as smooth as possible and to ultimately minimise any outages we may require. I'm primarily using my @wild1145@mastodonapp.uk account though will be monitoring this one and using this one for Universeodon specific admin announcements / changes in addition to the current accounts that are established here. I can't wait to continue building some awesome things with you all!"", ""As of a recent update we can now email all users when we make an Announcement, but that's close to unsolicited inbox spam.To keep up to date with what's going on on your instance, make sure you're following any admin or announcement accounts, and click the 'bell' icon in their profile to be notified every time they post. You could also add important accounts to a list that you check periodically.The Announcements icon will show an alert when there's a new post there."", ""@letydoesstuff Hihi! Lety here, auto-commenting from my main account (which doesn't have a 🔕 icon)!This is how my PeerTube videos look on other Fediverse platforms!Remotely interact with this video using an account on an ActivityPub-powered platform like Mastodon Social! Just click the “Add comment...” box under any PeerTube video and enter your Fedi handle in the pop-up. That’ll direct you to the federated post for that video on whatever platform you use.Or, if you’re already logged in on Mastodon or wherever you're seeing this message, just look at the post I’m responding to!Replies and favorites on that post show up as comments and likes on PeerTube, and following the account that posted it subscribes you to my videos.Heads up, though! While some platforms might allow you to respond with custom emojis, gifs, images, polls, and reactions, most of that fancy stuff won’t show up correctly on PeerTube. The same goes for any edits you might want to make to your response unless you delete & re-draft.If you already know all this or are tired of seeing this wall of text, you can hide these explanation posts by going to your account preferences and creating a new filter with the title and keyword “#LetyDoesPeerTubeExplainer” and all context boxes checked.Thanks so much for watching! ⚡\u200b⚡\u200b⚡\u200b""]"
30,164,30_research_talk_international_pages,"['research', 'talk', 'international', 'pages', 'text', 'file', 'passwords', 'link', 'years', 'committee']","['Why do I have 2 passwords? How to talk about encryption in Matrix https://media.ccc.de/v/matrix-conf-2025-72671-why-do-i-have-2-passwords-how-to-talk-about-encryption-in-matrixMy talk on the concepts and words we should use to talk about encrypted messaging on Matrix.#MatrixConf2025 #matrix #video', '@jenskutilek This is likely zombie text from a VERY old version of MyFonts where foundry pages were far more detailed – more like reference pages. As I understand, much of the info for those pages originated in a type history database Mike Parker started in the early days of Bitstream.I may be wrong but I think @lorp expanded and maintained those articles in the ’00s, before Monotype took over.It definitely looks weird in the crappy new MyFonts site now, esp after 20+ years without updates.', 'Advanced Programming in the UNIX EnvironmentWeek 4: getpwuid(2) and /etc/groupsIn this video lecture, we look at the library functions used to look up account information. We learn about how primary and supplementary groups are handled as well as how the hashed passwords are stored outside of the world readable /etc/passwd file.https://youtu.be/aomkx6_aWpc#apue #unix #programming']"
31,164,31_disabled_activists_country_people,"['disabled', 'activists', 'country', 'people', 'trump', 'fight', 'federal', 'white', 'rights', 'gop']","['I’ve been thinking *a lot* about my citizenship lately, and how the different countries I\'m a citizen of are scoring in my mind. The country I was born in has gone from being pretty progressive and welcoming toward LGBTQIA+ people to being one of the worst in the “Western World."" I no-longer live there, and worry about visiting my mother becaues despite having a “Gender Recognition Certificate"" and a birth certificate that lists my gender correctly, that\'s apparently no-longer \'enough\' to be treated as me. The country I moved to (and inherited citizenship via marriage through) is backsliding so quickly into fascism that frankly we\'re already there, and its leader is a senile screwed up sex offender who thinks my nearest city is burning down to the ground and requires \'saving’, when really it\'s a bunch of cool progressive people in inflatable costumes. Only the country I inherited citizenship via birthright seems anywhere near sane, and it\'s pissed off the second country so much that I\'m not sure even admitting I have that citizenship is safe lest I be put in jail for being too nice... Or something. All jokes aside. Canada, it\'s down to you. Don\'t do anything shitty. Please. I can\'t have passports to THREE shitty countries.', '""It’s exceedingly dangerous and destabilizing when millions of citizens believe that the fate of the church is bound up in the person they believe is the once and future president of the United States.That’s why the Trump fever won’t break.""~ David FrenchAs French maintains, Christian nationalism (which is overwhelmingly a white thing) remains a singular and underestimated threat to our democracy. We ignore it at our peril.#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/opinion/christian-nationalism-trump-renew-america.html', 'A History Lesson and reminder of the role Disabled people have played in activism, I singled out a few instances, but there\'s hundreds of thousands throughout America\'s history. Many of the privileges and rights people have had are due partly to the fight of our disabled ancestors. (A good book on this is A Disabled History of the United States by Kim Nielsen). (Long Post)A Bit of History, starting in 1800s as an IntroThrough the 1860s through 1940s, the Ugly Laws as they came to be called dominated many of the state and federal laws. These laws made it a crime for a person with a ""physical or mental deformity"" to be out in public places. Since a large percentage of Civil Wars veterans came home disabled, many of these laws targeted them. As an example of an Ugly Law, San Francisco in 1867 banned ““any person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object” from the “streets, highways,thoroughfares or public places of the city.” Other cities such as Chicago and Portland and many others soon followed suit.These city officials claimed distinctions based on class, and furthered the demonization of disabled people with anti-begging ordinances. Thus locking out of public sphere and out of jobs many poor disabled people.However, despite these ugly laws, the public grew fascinated with what they deemed “deviant bodies” and as early as 1840s, traveling “freak shows” in vaudeville, P.T. Barnum’s Museum in New York, circuses, county fairs, and World fairs. Disabled people were put on display based on “physical and mental deformities.” For some disabled people, this was the only way to survive.Institutionalization and demonizing of “Deviant Bodies”and “antisocial behaviors”After Civil war, insane asylums began to increase as well, and patients were segregated based on gender, race, and “physical and mental deformities.” These places were often deadly due to poor medical hygiene and care.Once admitted, it became increasingly difficult to obtain freedom.For Black patients, medical institutions relied on harmful racial theories, which resulted in even worse care than white patients, increasing the malnourishment and mortality rates.Historian Jim Downs wrote, “freedom depended upon one’s ability and potential to work... Scores of disabled slaves remained enslaved for decades.” If not trapped in their prior enslavement, they often ended up incarcerated within insane aslyums.Women also were increasingly admitted for daring to work or engage in feminist activities or because of their husband’s whim. The intersection of class, gender, race, and (dis)ability resulted in the loss of freedom for many within asylums.Between the increase in insane asylums, ugly laws, and anti-begging laws, many disabled people found it near impossible to exist in public at all. Who was labeled insane or ""deformed""  shifted and changed to include more people of specific demographics, especially those targeted by city, state, or federal governments. The Medical establishment played a large role in such approaches to anyone that was deemed ""deviant"" by authorities. These laws were enforced brutally, but also met with resistance from disabled people of all races and gender. However, many of these ugly laws were not fully repeated in may states until the 1970s and 80s, and in some cities, they were never fully repealed, simply not enforced due to federal anti-discrimination laws.Repealing the Ugly laws did not happen on a whim. It involved decades of intense protests, sit-ins, and coordinated sets of strikes by disabled union members and their non-disabled union allies, which grew outward from there.So with that introduction, let\'s take a look at a few crucial examples that had a large role on the civil rights struggles.Disabled Miners and Widows and the Mining Strikes of 1970sIn West Virginia 1968, seventy-eight miners died in a mine explosion, which shocked the country and put a spotlight on mining dangers. Regional doctors began to fight back against the mining companies\' long medical coverup and denial of black lung disease, and brought that to the union halls.In 1969, Joseph Yablonski ran against a corrupt “Tony” Boyle to end corruption within the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). However, they were assassinated by Boyle, per the courts investigations into Yablonski and his wife’s death.Angered, miners founded Miners for Democracy and together with Disabled Miners and Widows and the Black Lung Association, they led the fight to reform the UMWA.Robert Payne and other Disabled miners in the 1970s started a five-week strike, where they compelled non-disabled miners to join them until over twenty-five thousand workers adhered to the picket lines. These disabled miners led the charge in reforming the UMWA union. The abled-bodied miners understood they risked becoming disabled themselves via injury or daily intake of coal dust.Solidarity across class, race, genderLike prior Disabled activists in the early 1900s, Payne and the members of Disabled Miners and Widows proclaimed themselves worthy citizens. By using terms such as “rights” and “discrimination” the borrowed from earlier anti-war and racial freedom movements.This fight grew outward from the miners as more activists, advocacy organizations, and ordinary citizens began to put pressure on the government to made disability a protected class. This fight intersected not just disability but also class, race, and gender.In 1973, one notable activist, Clara Clow, fought for accessible public spaces in her town of Frederick, Maryland. Her husband helped organize the Disabled Citizens of Frederick County United.  “Our main focus is architectural and attitudinal barriers,” she told a reporter in August 1990. “In the beginning people really did think we were outrageous. It’s been kind of a long fight. I guess I’m an activist. I think it’s just caring.”Much of the fights grew outward until pressure from disabled activists  and their allies pushed for the American Disability Act to pass. There\'s a lot of crucial justice work and solidarity that went into that century long fight, so I recommend reading up on it.For now, I\'ll focus on one of the important precursors, a fight Disabled activists today are having to face yet again. Rehabilitation Act and Section 504In 1972, Congress drafted the Rahabilitation Act, which was driven largely by the needs of Vietnam veterans. However, this act drew the gaze of the civil rights activists largely due to Section 504. In Section 504, it stated that people with disabilities should not be “be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”The bill was first vetoed by Nixon in 1972, however, activists across the country from various disability advocacy groups and many student groups testified before state legislatures and Congress to push for the elimination of architectural, educational, bureaucratic, and other barriers. They argued heavily for elimination of these barriers and for the ability to be considered for jobs.Despite Nixon vetoing the Rehab Act a second time, it passed in September 1973. Its section 504 gave disabled people legal and cultural frameworks to gain access to the parts of society they’d been denied prior.However, these laws were not enforced. Through the lawsuit Cherry v. Matthews, activists pushed for enforcement regulations, and in July 1976 a federal judge ordered the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) to develop regulations. With the continued federal failure to enforce Section 504, Disability activists staged demonstrations in Washington D.C. and in each of the ten HEW offices across the country. This sit in lasted twenty-five days. Judy Heumann lead one of the largest sit-ins of a federal building in American history.These protests gathered allies from local and national labor unions who joined protestors and wrote statements of support.When phone lines were cut, the Butterfly Brigade, who were a group of gay men who patrolled streets to stop antigay violence, smuggled in walkie talkies. The Black Panthers provided one hot meal a day, and Chicano activists brought food regularly.Chuck Jackson, who was part of the Black Panthers, joined the protest by provided attendant-care services for Disabled Black Panthers in the sit-ins and other protest members.Increasing media attention brought the focus of the nation. Images and video of disabled people crawling up the steps to reach the sit-in were heavily publicized.Four weeks into the occupation, HEW secretary Joseph Califano signed the enforcement regulations, thus ensuring all programs receiving federal funding could not discrimination based on disability.The Fight for our rights is about access for allIn A Disability History of the United States, Kim Nielsen writes:“Movement participants argued that disability was not simply a medical, biologically based condition. Indeed, the movement sometimes directly challenged medical authority to define “disability.” Using the work of activists and intellectual theorists such as Erving Goffman, Jacobus tenBroek, and Irving Kenneth Zola, advocates argued that disability is a social condition of discrimination and unmerited stigma, which needlessly harms and restricts thelives of those with disabilities and results in economic disparities, social isolation, and oppression.Just as the civil rights movement critiqued hierarchy based on racial differences, and just as the feministmovement critiqued hierarchy based on sex and gender differences, the disability rights movement critiqued hierarchy based on the physical, sensory, and mental differences of disability.”Part of that movement involved independent-living and deinstutitionalization of disabled people. In this vein, the disability justice movement slips into the abolition movement neatly. As both movements seek to end the imprisonment and nonconsensual institutionalization of people the state deems ‘less than’ or ‘problematic\' or \'too violent.\'Disability Justice developed the model of ‘spaces’ to help explain accessibility. Starting with architectural (physical) space, transportation space, and sensory space, various Disabled theorists and activists expanded upon these to better explain the barriers they faced. Other spaces include digital space, media space, information space, community space, justice space. Many of these spaces were not just to describe access (or lack thereof) for disabled people (of any race, gender, orientation, citizenship status, parent or non-parent). These spaces we struggled to access also impacted other groups of abled-bodied parents with kids, Black and Indigenous People of Color, LGBTQIA people, immigrants, and those at the intersection of all those identities. The fight for accessibility and access never ended for disabled folks. I\'ll stop there for now. I really need folks to understand the crucial role disabled activists like myself play.  And when we are abandoned and left for dead, that means all you currently abled-bodied  folks are next, as any of you can become disabled at any time whether by virus, disease, accident, hereditary, born with it, traumatized, or proclaimed so by authorities. Disability is the one marginalized group anyone can join at any time. We are in this fight together. Listen to the activists of prior decades, see how the Disabled activists, Black Panther, union members, gay and trans folks all worked together to lay our activist foundation. ""Until all of us are free, none of us are."" Please do not forget us. Fight alongside us. Thanks for reading. #Disability #DisabilityJustice #History #ProtestHistory #accessibility #DisabledHistory']"
32,158,32_food_dont_vote_election,"['food', 'dont', 'vote', 'election', 'month', 'ask', 'eating', 'help', 'say', 'im']","[""I'm about as strategic a voter as they come ... in general elections. If it's down to two evils, I'm there, every single time, first in line to vote for the lesser one.But I will scream until my dying day that primaries just aren't for that. Primaries are about preference. They're for picking the one you like best. That's why I love giant primaries with a dozen candidates and ranked choice voting. It's my favorite kind of democracy. It's both effective and sincerely fun for me.So if you're in New York City, a city I love but don't vote in, please vote your preference, not what someone else tells you is smart or strategic. Vote your values and don't believe them when they say you have to compromise. Not yet. And please, please, don't rank Cuomo.#uspol #nyc"", '#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Mamdani #NYC   3rd party and outside people cannot come in during a presidential election year and ask for support. They have to be there month in and month out, being in the community and working FOR the community, not just for themselves. His campaign thanked Working Families Party because that is what they do. I hope the young people see there is a way to take over the Democratic party . Do the work. Follow the path. 2/2', '⭐ CRUNCH TIME: The Final Push. Leaving Monday. (Second Interview Secured!)This is it. We are in the final 72 hours.My absolute last day to leave this environment is this Monday, November 17th. We are in crunch time, and I have two massive updates—one about the future, and one about the present—all thanks to you.First, the future: The job interview went incredibly well. I am officially in the second round of interviews for the therapist position in Pittsburgh! This isn\'t just a ""hope"" anymore; this is an active, in-progress reality. The path to stability is clear, and I am walking it.Second, the present: I want to tell you what your $696 has already done.Because of you, I had my first real shower in weeks. Because of you, I have socks again. I\'ve been able to buy food, and I\'d forgotten what it tasted like.Your donations gave me back my basic human dignity and have brought me to tears.I\'m using that energy to get ready. I am packing. I am running all my clothes through the wash multiple times to get the allergens off them. When I came back into the house today, the smell... it\'s overwhelming. It smelled this bad two years ago, but back then, I believed this is what I deserved.I don\'t anymore.We are in the final push. The $696 we\'ve raised is a miracle, but it must cover the debit-card-friendly truck rental (Budget/Penske) AND the security deposit/first few days in a safe place. We are not at the goal, and Monday is the deadline.If you have been watching and waiting, this is the moment. This is the final weekend. Help me cross this last bridge. Help me finally get home.https://www.gofundme.com/f/ellis-emergency-fund#MutualAid #Trans #TransLatina #EmergencyFund #CrunchTime #GoFundMe #Pittsburgh #PleaseBoost #MentalHealth #SecondInterview']"
33,155,33_security_remote_team_google,"['security', 'remote', 'team', 'google', 'cybersecurity', 'talk', 'opensource', 'engineer', 'hiring', 'looking']","['TCS+ talk: Wednesday, October 23 — Thomas Steinke, Google DeepMind https://tcsplus.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/tcs-talk-wednesday-october-23-thomas-steinke-google-deepmind/The next TCS+ talk will take place this coming Wednesday, October 23th at 1:00 PM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Pacific Time, 19:00 Central European Time, 17:00 UTC). Thomas Steinke from Google DeepMind will speak about “The Discrete Gaussian for Differential Privacy” (abstract below).You can reserve a spot as an individual or a', 'Featured Job from @fosdem: @wikimediafoundation is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Product Security team to build new security technologies to protect Wikipedia and our other projects. Learn more and apply now on #OSJHhttps://opensourcejobhub.com/job/21946/senior-software-engineer-php/#jobs #career #FOSDEM #OpenSource #PHP #engineer #RemoteWork #FOSS #software', 'JOB: The Department of Language and Information Sciences at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) is hiring a Junior Lecturer (Postdoc, 80%) in Computational Humanities for up to 5 years, starting February 1, 2026.The position combines research (50%) and teaching (50%) in programs on Computer Science for the Humanities and Digital Humanities.Application deadline: November 16, 2025#ComputationalHumanities #DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Postdoc https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?company=universitdP&career_job_req_id=22518&career_ns=job_listing&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH']"
34,155,34_gif_todays_day_men,"['gif', 'todays', 'day', 'men', 'love', 'way', 'daily', 'comic', 'face', 'famous']","[""Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is..."", ""Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is..."", ""Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...""]"
35,149,35_bot_stream_join_live,"['bot', 'stream', 'join', 'live', 'porn', 'incredible', 'meme', 'streaming', 'ran', 'nsfw']","['Kicking off another @pythonbytes live stream in a few minutes!Join us and be part of the show with hosts @mkennedy and @brianokken (plus occasional guests). #python #podcasthttps://pythonbytes.fm/stream/live', 'Kicking off another @talkpython live stream in a few minutes! Join us and be part of the show with @mkennedy and guests. #python #podcast https://talkpython.fm/stream/live', 'Kicking off another @talkpython live stream in a few minutes! Join us and be part of the show with @mkennedy and guests. #python #podcast https://talkpython.fm/stream/live']"
36,144,36_post_replies_reply_im,"['post', 'replies', 'reply', 'im', 'ill', 'fixed', 'just', 'turn', 'action', 'dont']","[""@Quinn9282 “Thank you for being part of the eBay community.Thanks,eBayPlease don't reply to this message. It was sent from an address that doesn't accept incoming email.”So, not easily."", '@noahsegal Oh! Thank you! I feel a little silly now. I’d always gone for the tap and hold on the button in the text field.(Edit: which doesn’t seem to do anything? Hrm. Maybe I’m just going senile.)', '@offby1 Looks like you enabled the “separate repost and quote post actions” option in the accessibility settings. You can turn it off, or just click the quote post button next to the repost button.']"
37,143,37_ancient_map_hospital_years,"['ancient', 'map', 'hospital', 'years', 'university', 'study', 'image', 'film', 'history', 'dr']","['Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose: radiocarbon study solves ancient mystery in Egypt’s chronologyA new radiocarbon dating analysis has finally settled one of archaeology’s most contentious debates: when the massive eruption of Thera (Santorini) volcano occurred in relation to the dynastic timeline of ancient Egypt...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/thera-eruption-predates-pharaoh-ahmose/Follow us @archaeology#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #ancientegypt #pharaohs #egyptology', ""💥Announcement! Friday 14.11.2025💥🎬 Potse and Drugstore present: ‘Orlac's Hands’ 🎥Friday, 14.11.2025 | 6 p.m. | Drugstore Youth Club Potsdamer Straße 134/136, 10783 BerlinArrival: U2, bus 106, 187, M19, M48, M85 Bülowstraße📣 Call: https://asanb.noblogs.org/?p=14085 - @potse_berlin#b1411 #FilmEvening🕯 ‘Orlac's Hands’🕯It's slowly getting colder and we're getting ready for the second part of our silent film series ‘Nights of Silence’.We continue with a classic of expressionist horror silent film:✋ Orlac's Hands (1924, directed by Robert Wiene)Pianist Paul Orlac loses his hands in an accident and receives those of an executed murderer.The fear that they could influence his will drives him increasingly into despair.Director Robert Wiene, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, combines psychological drama with elements of horror in Orlac's Hands.With Conrad Veidt in the lead role, the film is considered an early example of the motif of loss of identity in cinema.For more information, please check the link in our profile description or send us a message.Come along and bring all your friends.We look forward to seeing you!"", ""I'm fascinated by the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan languages in Alaska, Canada and Greenland.  There are many of these languages: they ring much of the Arctic Ocean.   I just learned that they use a base 20 system for numbers, with a 'sub-base' of 5.  That is, quantities are counted in scores (twenties) with intermediate numerals for 5, 10, and 15.  This makes a lot of sense if you look at your fingers and toes.But the Inuit didn't have a written form of their number system - until the early 1990s, when high school students in the town of Kaktovik, Alaska invented one!  There were just 9 students at this small school, and they all joined in.They used 5 principles:• Visual simplicity: The symbols should be easy to remember.• Iconicity: There should be a clear relationship between the symbols and their meanings.• Efficiency: It should be easy to write the symbols without lifting the pencil from the paper.• Distinctiveness: There should be no confusion between this system and Arabic numerals.• Aesthetics: They should be pleasing to look at.They decided that the symbol for zero should look like crossed arms, meaning that nothing was being counted.This was the start of quite a tale!(1/n)""]"
38,139,38_mastodon_servers_server_app,"['mastodon', 'servers', 'server', 'app', 'community', 'notifications', 'instance', 'apps', 'release', 'android']","[':mastodon: social.tchncs.de has been updated to bugfix release v4.5.1changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.1 #tchncs :tchncs:', ""@rootsandcalluses @Mrfunkedude If you're talking about receiving unwanted updates in Mastodon, I believe it's because of the following Mastodon issue: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36825 which was fixed in their latest release."", ""The continued growth of mastodon.social is putting the #Fediverse in danger (here's why: https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server/).The quickest, easiest and most effective way to solve this would be if the official apps & website stopped promoting mastodon.social, and instead promoted a rotating selection from a pool of reliable servers with solid track records.If you're comfortable using Github, please give thumbs up to all these:- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/568- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023- https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/issues/1052""]"
39,138,39_help_sign_signal_explain,"['help', 'sign', 'signal', 'explain', 'pass', 'calling', 'donations', 'dogs', 'dont', 'reply']","['️Help Save a #Dog Shelter in #Ukraine 🆘️  Dear friends, instead of that next coffee, let's join together and help a shelter in desperate need. They’re drowning in debt, and without urgent help, they’ll be forced to close, leaving many dogs without care.Please:PayPal: shushakashusha@gmail.com  Monobank link:https://send.monobank.ua/jar/5F27ncLLf3PrivatBank: https://www.privat24.ua/send/070vcEven the smallest contribution can make a difference! Let's give these #animals a fighting chance. 🐾#help #shelter #donate', ""this organization, Women for Change South Africa is calling on all women in the country to take part in a shutdown strike on Nov 21, one day before the G20 summit begins in johannesburg. here's more information on how you can help.resources: https://linktr.ee/SupportWomenInSouthAfricayou can also put up a purple pfp like i did, it's the color of the movement and it draws attention.if you can help, please help. if you can't, pass it around and spread awareness, please. thank you"", ""i did not know about the hand signal for help me, and my stupid ass thought she was flirting. The Signal for Help (or the Violence at Home Signal for Help) is a single-handed gesture that can be used over a video call or in person by an individual to alert others that they feel threatened and need help.[1] Originally, the signal was created as a tool to combat the rise in domestic violence cases around the world linked to self-isolation measures that were related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2]The signal is performed by holding one hand up with the thumb tucked into the palm, then folding the four other fingers down, symbolically trapping the thumb by the rest of the fingers.[3] It was designed intentionally as a single continuous hand movement, rather than a sign held in one position, so it could be made easily visible.The Signal for Help was created by the Canadian Women's Foundation and introduced on April 14, 2020.[4] It soon spread via the TikTok social video platform and was adopted by the international Women's Funding Network (WFN). It received widespread praise from Canadian[5] and international[6][7] news organizations for helping provide a modern solution to the issue of a rise in domestic violence cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help""]"
40,138,40_scene_night_stone_day,"['scene', 'night', 'stone', 'day', 'lake', 'darkness', 'stars', 'police', 'british', 'history']","[""Good evening. It's 6PM, Saturday, 1st November. The headlines: Egypt marks the launch of its Grand Museum, while Jamaica mourns 19 killed by Hurricane Melissa, with the BBC on scene as British aid lands. Democrats urge Prince Andrew to answer Epstein-linked queries in America. Novi Sad commemorates a fatal train station roof collapse with remembrance and demonstrations. A US judge orders welfare payments to persist despite a government shutdown. #BBC #News"", 'One year the Riders and Bombers were facing each other. My cousin has a cabin at crooked lake Saskatchewan where he permanently flies a riders flag. My brother and law placed a bet with him that if my cousin lost he would have to fly a bomber flag for a day. My cousin lost and dutifully flew the bomber flag for exactly 24hrs. He then wrapped it in a large stone, motored it to the middle of the lake and disposed of it forever. 😅 #CFLOM', ""The Devil's NightOn the Ungovernable Spirit of #Halloween Before plastic fangs and fake blood, October 31st was a day of rebellion; the history of Halloween spans five hundred years and two continents, featuring pagan rebels in the Medieval British Isles, the European witch hunts, Irish migration to the States, and widespread arson in Detroit in the 1980s….https://illwill.com/devils-night via @IllWill""]"
41,137,41_trump_racist_happened_hes,"['trump', 'racist', 'happened', 'hes', 'thats', 'president', 'maga', 'mattblaze', 'people', 'said']","['@mastodonmigration @timfullerton One only has to look at the five million contrary MAGA statements she’s made since she slithered into Congress to know she, LIKE EVERY OTHER REPUBLICAN, cannot be trusted. TRUTH does not exist in MAGA world. Believe her at your peril. #StopTrumpNow', ""@ned @phifer @John @RoboftheVolcano @dustyapples @eriner @adam What kind of delusion are you living in? I'm giving you the facts, you can believe what you want.If people don't do what I say, they're stupid? I didn't tell anyone to do anything.Is being a disgrace what the kids are calling telling the truth today? If you can't handle the truth, you can live in your own little bubble. Have fun, bubble boy."", '@grammasaurus @mls14 @benroyce @grumble209 @knapjack Unfortunately it’s the law of intended consequences —Obama RIGHTLY EXCORIATED Trump. He had tolerated almost a decade of deranged, racist abuse from Trump with his birther crap and the tea party, and every racist, classist, bit of BS the GOP could manufacture. …and in skewering Trump… Trump went totally insane and the racist GOP finally found their champion. The living manifestation of their deranged psychotic id...and here we are.']"
42,133,42_sleep_cold_alice_just,"['sleep', 'cold', 'alice', 'just', 'goodnight', 'wonder', 'lol', 'catsalad', 'mind', 'oh']","['@mrnobody only little togetherness while daugther sleep in her room.', 'It’s super late and time to get some sleep :sleep: :nkoSleep: :stux: Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :ablobcatheartsqueeze: :blobcathugyou: :blobcathearts:', 'It’s super late and time to get some sleep :nkoSleep: :sleep: :stux: Goodnight my dear friends :mastodon: :fediverse: :blobcathearts: :blobcathugyou: :ablobcatheartsqueeze:']"
43,133,43_ukraine_russia_war_germany,"['ukraine', 'russia', 'war', 'germany', 'gaza', 'berlin', 'france', 'police', 'press', 'russian']","['⚡️🇪🇺Kachka hopes Kyiv can convince Budapest to change position on membership (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/4058950-kachka-on-orbans-statement-hopes-kyiv-can-convince-budapest-to-change-position-on-ukraine.html #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UN #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState', 'https://t.me/warriorsukrainian/72071🇺🇸🇺🇦Angelina Jolie in Kherson (VIDEO) #Ukraine #Poland #Warsaw #Netherlands #Norway #Sweden #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Canada #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #ICC #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Jolie #Hollywood #America #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UN #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #Czechia #Romania #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionOfUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState', 'https://youtu.be/3N1deM8Vne4⚡️🇫🇷34 years ago, the making of an independent Ukraine (FRANCE 24 English VIDEO) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Brussels #Finland #Poland #Romania #Moldova #Denmark #Sweden #Norway #Netherlands #Bulgaria #Estonia #Latvia #Lithuania #Germany #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom \u2028#EuropeanUnion\u2028#11yrInvasionofUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState\u2028#TrumpIsARussianAsset']"
44,131,44_fixed_thanks_email_bug,"['fixed', 'thanks', 'email', 'bug', 'sent', 'mentions', 'hopefully', 'address', 'fix', 'issue']","['@Ichinin This should be fixed (disk was full)', '@kernellogger @pojntfx @thomasmey when I wanted to get stuff fixed in a subsystem whose maintainer was unresponsive and whose email address bounced, I sent my patch to akpm instead, and also sent akpm a patch to remove the dead address from MAINTAINERS, and that worked', ""@gwire fixed, thank you! (also had a moment of going 'oh no but i sent out the email' and then remembered it's not 2002)""]"
45,123,45_cycling_finds_canada_meme,"['cycling', 'finds', 'canada', 'meme', 'hope', 'it39s', 'memes', 'humor', 'holy', 'amp']","['I hope this email finds you writing.', 'PeerTube #Cycling accounts (continued):➡️ @jleiper - Cycling commutes in Ottawa, Canada➡️ @sflkirk - Urban cycling in Halifax, Canada, dangers from traffic➡️ @ianrbuck - Public transport, cycling, land use in Minnesota USA➡️ @heartlandurbanist - Urbanist in mid-western USA campaigning for livable cities, public transport, cycling infra➡️ @ohtheurbanity - Cities, cycling & public transport, in Canada & elsewhere➡️ @paige - Canadian urbanist & activist, planning, politics, cycling etc2/2', 'If you are in #Canada, could you please say hi or something so I can follow you 😬 My feed has become a lot of US politics and while I love the chaos of US politics, I would also love more Canadian content in my day. Edit: Wow! Thanks everyone for saying hi! I’m slowly making my way through the comments & following. Be sure to do the same if you’re looking for some new people to follow! 🇨🇦 Also! Canadian content = content from people in Canada, not necessarily politics 😊 #mstdnca']"
46,122,46_aiart_ai_warning_cybersecurity,"['aiart', 'ai', 'warning', 'cybersecurity', 'wikipedia', 'research', 'university', 'library', 'language', 'free']","['""warning: intelligent defensive security system"" #AIArt #synthography #midjourney', '""warning: intelligent imaginary entities"" #AIArt #synthography #midjourney', '""warning: branching realities"" #AIArt #synthography #midjourney']"
47,122,47_live_catstodon_alttext_catsofmastodon,"['live', 'catstodon', 'alttext', 'catsofmastodon', 'videos', 'cat', 'special', 'morning', 'berlin', 'video']","['Via https://thecatapi.com#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText', 'Via https://thecatapi.com#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText', 'Via https://thecatapi.com#Bot #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon #Cat #AltText']"
48,120,48_hello_hit_sun_date,"['hello', 'hit', 'sun', 'date', 'got', 'issue', 'miss', 'bay', 'utc', 'view']","['@ghorwood Oh the hit counter. I miss those days.', ""@purplepadma @cazmockett Hello. 😁 More panda fans, yay! Thanks for the follow. I've followed you back. I'm about to migrate onto a different server, but assuming I do the migration correctly everything will just transfer across, so all should be fine."", 'Pink sun orchids (Thelymitra carnea) near the Genoa River, East Gippsland, VIC. Quite a common species around Genoa in both heathland and open grassland  - often combining with other blue-flowering sun orchids growing nearby to form interesting hybrids.#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra']"
49,119,49_linux_source_code_search,"['linux', 'source', 'code', 'search', 'game', 'streaming', 'live', 'gaming', '34', 'games']","[""I'm a little late, but ready for today's LIVE CODING stream.Let's review a bunch of feedback and pull requests from yesterday, and then continue with some open source C# projects on my Linux laptophttps://bit.ly/48Agveahttps://twitch.tv/csharpfritz"", 'ImHex is a free and open source hex editor for all Linux, macOS, *BSD, Unix and Windows oses. It is useful for debugging code and other cyber security related stuff. A good tool for sysadmins, developers and IT pros. Home https://imhex.werwolv.net/Repo https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex', "":: CALL FOR HELP: ReplaySorceryThe ONLY instant-replay solution for Linux is dying! If you're a gaming oriented developer, please consider coming to aid if ANY interest in such project. Preferably, if you could ask around and bring others with you additionally :afire: Let's not let this open source jewel for gamers fade.Information flow is vital and together we are strong ❤️ Details => https://github.com/matanui159/ReplaySorcery/issues/146#Linux #help #developers #ReplaySorcery #GitHub #OpenSource #gaming #dev""]"
50,116,50_vote_issue_accounts_account,"['vote', 'issue', 'accounts', 'account', 'does', 'got', 'address', 'weeks', 'break', 'late']","['@oceanity we all have the same experience on this: using the wrong account all the time (been there too!), then having the fear of using the wrong account, and after that just having the habit the check the selected account. 🙂 A modal could be nice, we already have an issue on this, maybe one day!', ""Quick reminder to all friends in England and Wales: if you've not already done so, it's not too late to write to your MP and ask them to support the total decriminalisation of all abortion-related issues, when it comes to a vote this week. But it will be too late soon. Vote should be either tomorrow or Wednesday (more likely tomorrow).Remember, this is not a party issue, every MP will be able to vote with their conscience, so don't think that there's no point because you don't trust the party leaders.Write to them at https://www.writetothem.com/ or look for contact details on their personal website. Probably too late to send a physical letter, but hey, if you still want to, send it to them at House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA.https://beige.party/@RolloTreadway/114665137028018412"", 'My account’s been stuck like this since Monday morning sometime. I migrated from the main Bluesky PDS to myatproto.social about a week and a half ago and everything is set up correctly and was working fine until Monday. I haven’t got much communication from either Bluesky or Blacksky support but I gather this is a larger issue not restricted to my account. I think what I’m experiencing is the same problem Rudy references in this post https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:w4xbfzo7kqfes5zb7r6qv3rw/post/3m4e67lniz22p']"
51,109,51_happy_chris_weather_day,"['happy', 'chris', 'weather', 'day', 'ill', 'hope', 'tho', 'lucky', 'im', 'glad']","['@seapea808 morning/evening hon 🤗 Happy 🐫 day (Eve)Hope first day back was okBusy I imagine thoHope it’s a fun evening at least Only 2 more days for me woohoo 🙌 Sleep well and sweet dreams tonight Goodnight, Chris 😴', '@seapea808 morning hon 🤗Happy 🐫 day 🙌 And thank you ☺️ 😘No older. Just wider 🙄😂And am taking today tooA sleep in by my standards 😬I got it finished finallyNarrowing down 1500 pix to 250 is the hard partAw thanks sweetie, a donut date it is 👍You can do the placing as a bday treat And I’ll even let you have all the cream 😏😉Hope it’s been a good day and not too busySweet dreams about pastry and stuffsG’night Chris 😴 🥰', '@seapea808 morning hon 🤗 Happy 🐫 day proper Woohoo for cancellationsGlad you got good feedback tooSorry today looks packed thoYay for fights with your neighbours Not much fun really tho is itI’ve had more mtgs than is humanly possible in one day I think 🙄At least it’s only a half day tomorrow I’m ok. Glad it’s nearly over obviously How’s your day look?']"
52,107,52_blog_social_im_podcast,"['blog', 'social', 'im', 'podcast', 'write', 'content', 'post', 'sharing', 'doing', 'email']","[""Step 1: Assemble a great team 🙌Step 2: Privacy accessible to everyone 🔒Step 3: Non-profit 💚Privacy Guides needs your help to keep fighting for your privacy rights!If you can afford it, we would greatly appreciate your financial support.Here's how you can support @privacyguides : Become a Member (and get perks!) :awesome:  One-Time Donation :blobcatheart: More ways to donate and how it works :rainbowdance: Thank you to our incredible community for your support, we couldn't be here without you 💛#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #NonProfit #Donation #Support #Charity"", 'We have our third blog post finalizing today, but might go live tomorrow (apologies!) to communicate to members about how to take part in the member specific conversation. Apologies again for the delay, we wanted to make sure to get these blog posts out first as we anticipate a lot of the information they contain will be relevant to the member discussions.', '#GamingNews picks of the day (continued):➡️ @index@bellular.games - News blog about World of Warcraft & other games➡️ @index@controllercorner.games - Video game news written by TTRPG producer➡️ @index@moonpiesanctuary.com - Small independent gaming news blog➡️ @index@justgood.games - Gaming blog recommending fun games➡️ @overkillwtf (main) & @index@overkill.wtf (blog) - Tech news site covering games & gadgets➡️ @GIbiz - Games industry news site➡️ @podcast - Podcast about tech & gaming from blind perspective➡️ @AlphaBetaGamer - Latest public Alpha & Beta testing games3/6']"
53,104,53_thank_art_drawing_live,"['thank', 'art', 'drawing', 'live', 'meet', 'photos', 'fun', 'amazing', 'happy', 'birthday']","[""Hello everyone, #introduction I'm Naila. Nice to meet you! I'm a German actress based in Dusseldorf. Maybe you know me from the Netflix mini-series 'Dear Child'. I can film worldwide, also in English, and my new movie 'Delicious' is out on Netflix today. I would be very happy if you tune in!Feel free to check out my e-profile here: https://e-talenta.me/naila-schuberthLove, Naila"", ""RIGHT NOW! I'm doing some LIVE drawing for a short while (maybe 30min?) on my Twitch channel! Join the fun at: https://www.twitch.tv/grickle14 #grickledoodle #drawing #art #funny"", ""I'm doing more LIVE drawing on Twitch right now! Subscribe to my channel and join the fun! https://www.twitch.tv/grickle14 #grickledoodle #drawing #art #cartoon""]"
54,104,54_google_domains_data_privacy,"['google', 'domains', 'data', 'privacy', 'facebook', 'account', 'security', 'ads', 'links', 'accounts']","['It just clicked in my brain. What I haven\'t been able to articulate about why I\'m so anxious about #Windows Recall. I\'m sure others have already gotten to where I am. It\'s worse than ""a system that tracks everything you do"" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised. It\'s worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.It\'s inescapable. It doesn\'t matter if I make a dozen ""how to disable recall"" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE\'S screen, it\'s in THEIR recall database. It won\'t matter if you\'re a master #security expert specialist. You can\'t account for EVERY other computer you\'ve ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk. I just went from ""vague feeling of unease"" to ""actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general.""', 'NEW: Twitter (X) is still throttling links to competitors' sites. We measured a consistent 2.5 second delay for Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack links, compared to a random control group of domains. That may not seem like a lot but it is 60x longer than other domains. This delay occurs via Twitter's t.co link shortener. AND we built a tool so you can test out other t.co links. Great collab with @dphiffer and Joel Eastwood. 🐢https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-still-throttling-competitors-links-check-for-yourself', ""When speaking about the recent mysterious massive spambot attack on #fediverse, it tends to spread hybrid Russian war and political propaganda tailored to languages corresponding to given TLD. But the propaganda part is suspiciously mild, uninteresting and self-repeating - so it actually may be even just systematic nuisance effort, only masking as propaganda. Who knows.. I am no counter-espionage expert. It may help to to cooperate and share lists of banned mailservers, from which they registered new accounts. I can contribute already more then 10, soon more. All of them are in .com TLD. Even if they have thousands of them, it should be still possible to create blacklist. But I am not sure, if more mail domains can be imported to Mastodon moderation backed at once...At first, they were reusing IPv4 addresses and mail domains, but when they figured out, that double registrations from weird .com domains and exotic IP pools are extremely suspicious and immediately lead to bans, they no longer reuse mail domains.In a way, this seems to be worse, than Nicole, the Fediverse chic. Although the random sequences of syllables (LLM tokens?) used as TLDs and .com domains create pattern, which can be somewhat recognized after some time, #mastodon moderation backend does not provide any useful way to automate this.Closing registrations won't help, because before bots start doing their bot thing, you are never 100% sure, what you are banning. Someone clearly intends to force #Fediverse to switch to invite-only mode, but I don't want to subdue.""]"
55,103,55_reddit_nsfw_twitter_publicly,"['reddit', 'nsfw', 'twitter', 'publicly', 'pictures', 'trans', 'transgender', 'solidarity', 'internet', '18']","['nsfw 18+ #nsfw Pictures posted are publicly available and taken from Internet (twitter, reddit, tumblr, Mewe, Flickr, Imaglr, Bluesky etc...)', 'nsfw 18+ #nsfw Pictures posted are publicly available and taken from Internet (twitter, reddit, tumblr, Mewe, Flickr, Imaglr, Bluesky etc...)', 'nsfw 18+ #nsfw Pictures posted are publicly available and taken from Internet (twitter, reddit, tumblr, Mewe, Flickr, Imaglr, Bluesky etc...)']"
56,103,56_snap_order_trump_administration,"['snap', 'order', 'trump', 'administration', 'court', 'food', 'mail', 'republican', 'financial', 'states']","['Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdownhttps://coloradosun.com/2025/10/31/judges-rule-snap-payments-must-continue/', 'Judge says Trump administration must pay SNAP benefits, after NY and other states suehttps://gothamist.com/news/judge-orders-trump-admin-to-continue-snap-payments', 'Two judges appointed by Obama had to step in and try and save SNAP benefits for the entire country. Democrats always have to save the day because of evil stuff Republicans do and hardly anyone gives them credit and then people wonder why so many voters wrongly believe Democrats don’t do anything for them and/or that elections don’t matter.Judges order the Trump administration to use emergency reserves for SNAP payments | AP Newshttps://apnews.com/article/snap-shutdown-lawsuits-deadline-4af8b0dec6cd31cddd023cc99c131b73']"
57,101,57_movie_horror_really_music,"['movie', 'horror', 'really', 'music', 'dark', 'black', 'painting', 'art', 'story', 'vision']","['Parents (1989) There are some great Lynchian visual sequences but overall I felt like this movie tried too hard to be interesting. Frankly the story gave too much away too early, it’s obvious what’s going on from the beginning and the story doesn’t really develop beyond the creepy 50s dad thing we saw quite often in the 80s/90s. I wanted to like this but it just didn’t work for me. #horror', 'This may be the closest you\'ll ever see to the color with the ridiculous name of ""olo"".   To see true olo, you need a mad scientist to map your retina, individually identify each cone cell as one of 3 kinds - and then use lasers to deliver tiny doses of light exclusively to the cones of one kind: the ""M"" cones. The 3 kinds of cone cells, amusingly called S, M and L, respond to different colors.  But there\'s no kind of light that excites the M cones without also exciting the others!  So you can\'t see pure M in nature - the color called (0,1,0) or ""olo"" for short.  You have to hire a mad scientist to make you see it.  This first happened on 18 April 2025 at U.C. Berkeley.  Only the five victims of this experiment have ever seen olo.  Professor Ren Ng, one of the mad scientists involved, described olo as ""more saturated than any color that you can see in the real world"".  His victims describe the color as a ""blue-green of unprecedented saturation"", and will live the rest of their life haunted by this vision, depressed by the boring, bland colors they usually see.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olo_(color)', 'Made the trek over to Walnut Creek to see The Woman in Black as I had only seen the 2012 movie so far. It was really good!']"
58,97,58_nude_tits_boobs_naked,"['nude', 'tits', 'boobs', 'naked', 'nsfw', 'sexy', 'hot', 'cute', 'beauty', 'pussy']","['#nsfw #nude #nudity #naked #nudes #boobs #tits #titties #natural #naturalboobs #pale #thighs #thickthighs #beautiful #beauty #sexy #pretty #lewd #hot #artmet #spicy #cute #myselfCheck the profile for more 18+ contentMore at MetArt', '#nsfw #nude #nudity #naked #nudes #boobs #tits #titties #natural #naturalboobs #pale #thighs #thickthighs #beautiful #beauty #sexy #pretty #lewd #hot #artmet #spicy #cute #myselfCheck the profile for more 18+ contentMore at MetArt', '#nsfw #nude #nudity #naked #nudes #boobs #tits #titties #natural #naturalboobs #pale #thighs #thickthighs #beautiful #beauty #sexy #pretty #lewd #hot #artmet #spicy #cute #myselfCheck the profile for more 18+ contentMore at MetArt']"
59,96,59_catsofmastodon_cats_caturday_boy,"['catsofmastodon', 'cats', 'caturday', 'boy', 'pete', 'squirrel', 'little', 'dogsofmastodon', 'took', 'husband']","['✨ c a t ✨  #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon', '✨ c a t ✨  #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon', '✨ c a t ✨  #Cats #MastoCats #catsofmastodon']"
60,94,60_baby_friends_pets_cute,"['baby', 'friends', 'pets', 'cute', 'dogsofmastodon', 'glad', 'stay', 'morning', 'good', 'friendship']","['Good morning, friends ☕ ☕ 💞 💞 🐕 🐕 #Niko #Gracie #dogs #dogsOfMastodon #fediDogs', ""🎉 EXCITING BABY NEWS 🎉I'm delighted to announce that I'm now a dad 🥰 We had a beautiful baby girl last Friday, named Elowyn. Mum and baby all doing really well, despite a lack of sleep.Instead of sharing her photo (maintaining her privacy), here's a cute baby springtail 😊#Macrophotography #SoilBiodiversity #Parenthood #Entomology #Collembola"", ""Hi All, Just wanted to take a minute to wish you a very Merry #Christmas and a Happy New Year, & most of all, good health! These days, people don't spend much time or thought on a few personal words to their friends & family. They just copy & paste some random message & send it on. So I want to thank you for your friendship & wish you a happy & fulfilling 2018.Eat, drink & be merry! You’re the best gymnastics group anyone could ask for. Best wishesSandra x 🎄🥳""]"
61,88,61_joke_thats_happens_catsalad,"['joke', 'thats', 'happens', 'catsalad', 'mcc', 'harris', 'dad', 'daniel', 'guess', 'wear']","[""@ratsprite I can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke, or if you also live in LA and your internet is out, or if you meant something else by this"", '@Basedshibe@poa.st this happens very rarely because concealed means concealed but the times when people find out that i carry in general more often they\'re like ""oh wow that\'s so awesome thank you so much for doing that queen i feel so much safer that\'s so good that you do this"" meanwhile if any shit ever happens my first line of action will be to hightail the shit out of there lmfao', 'My mum’s gone overseas to visit family so I told dad to send me a message everyday so I know he’s okay and he just sighed and said “can I just send you one of those little pictures instead”I thought he was joking? This is literally our conversation today']"
62,84,62_phishing_email_notifications_eu,"['phishing', 'email', 'notifications', 'eu', 'breach', 'login', 'reported', 'bots', 'campaign', 'data']","['Threat actors are leveraging a Unicode character to make phishing links appear like legitimate Booking.com links in a new campaign distributing malware. The attack makes use of the Japanese hiragana character, ん, which can, on some systems, appear as a forward slash and make a phishing URL appear realistic to a person at first.https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bookingcom-phishing-campaign-uses-sneaky-character-to-trick-you/', 'Multiple vulnerabilities reported in ChatGPT that enable zero-click data theftTenable Research disclosed seven vulnerabilities collectively dubbed ""HackedGPT"" affecting ChatGPT 4o and GPT-5 that enable attackers to steal sensitive user information through prompt injection attacks, including zero-click exploits via web searches and persistent memory injection techniques that can exfiltrate chat history, credentials, and personal data across multiple sessions without user awareness.**If you use any LLM, be aware that it\'s inherently vulnerable to all kinds of prompt injection. Ideally, avoid sharing ANYTHING sensitive ith them, and regularly review and delete your LLM memory/chats to remove any potentially malicious instructions attackers may have injected.**#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #vulnerabilityhttps://beyondmachines.net/event_details/multiple-vulnerabilities-reported-in-chatgpt-that-enable-zero-click-data-theft-i-z-5-w-q/gD2P6Ple2L', 'Actual threat intelligence! A few friends and I identified a new reverse phishing campaign leveraging Entra Guest User invitations.This campaign was newly discovered and corroborated. I recommend reviewing organization email for these invitations.https://taggart-tech.com/entra-toad/#ThreatIntel #ThreatIntelligence']"
63,81,63_birds_eat_pink_rose,"['birds', 'eat', 'pink', 'rose', 'happy', 'night', 'caturday', 'bird', 'morning', 'cats']","['My little #Robin friend this morning, looking rather dramatic singing in the wind. We did a bit of hunting and he ate two large centipedes, his favourite. In #Bath #Somerset #UK. #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #Wildlife #BritishWildlife #UKBirding #UKBirds #Birdwatching #Bird #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #BirdPhotography', '@jplebreton excited to visit SF soon and eat a Cancun burrito. I don’t go to GDC anymore but I eat at least one late night Cancun burrito that week every year.', 'we got confirmation from my cousin that it doesn’t have to be all pink (and in fact she says herself she doesn’t own anything pink so is just doing her nails pink) so I got a black shirt with a pink rose print and my mum got a black dress with a pink rose print and since my aunt’s name was Rose we think this fits quite wellwe are now Exhausted In Greggs']"
64,80,64_em_reference_agree_tweets,"['em', 'reference', 'agree', 'tweets', 'scott', 'absolutely', 'throw', 'point', 'agreed', 'taylor']","['i might be less than 10 marjorie taylor greene tweets like this one away from starting an #MTG4Prez hashtagamerica has finally gotten its own #prighozin moment#MTG #MAGA #MagaCivilWar #Uspol #uspolitics #MarjorieTaylorGreen', ""@darrenmorin Throw 'em out [ you gotta keep 'em fridgerated ]"", ""@darrenmorin Throw 'em out [ you gotta keep 'em fridgerated ]""]"
65,74,65_engineer_android_opensource_inbox,"['engineer', 'android', 'opensource', 'inbox', 'foss', 'newsletter', 'ios', 'meet', 'email', 'google']","['The very cool privacy-minded folks at @calyxinstitute create FOSS tools like CalyxOS to let people connect to each other. They're hiring an android BSP engineer right now:- US remote from WA/VA/NY or FL- $80-$90k- they're very cool and I would be jealous of your jobhttps://job-boards.greenhouse.io/calyxinstitute/jobs/4934856007#FediHire #fossjobs', 'Proton Wallet – A self-custodial, E2E encrypted Bitcoin wallet by Proton (makers of #ProtonMail)- BIP39 seed phrase- Multi-device (web + mobile)- No trackers/ads- BTC transactions only (no altcoins)- Email-based BTC sending- Address rotation- Opensource, free to useDownload: https://proton.me/wallet/download#FOSS #Android #OpenSource #Security #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #BTC #Privacy #wallet #selfcustody #proton', 'no no, not a teams meeting, it\'s a meet meeting. on google meet. it might be called duo for you? i sent you a hangouts to the drive link on messages. no no not your gmail inbox, it\'s under ""all mail"", not every email goes to the inbox, haha. or if you\'re using the classic mode it might be under meetups or promotions. yeah where the chats used to be, before they made google voice an RCS thing. have you got it from google play? no not the green one, the new one with the multicoloured icon. you can only use the green one with legacy members. ok so the problem is you\'re on workspace for business, it\'s under google one basic now. did you try quick sharing it? no see you can\'t use it on a tablet, only a phone or laptop, unless you want the plus features, that only works on phones of course. honestly the easiest way from here is through the docs plugin, unless you wanna family share if you can do vowifi']"
66,73,66_email_breach_addresses_address,"['email', 'breach', 'addresses', 'address', 'spam', 'bug', 'report', 'admin', 'included', 'delete']","['New breach: South Korean education platform PoinCampus had 89k email addresses breached in November. Data also included name and a small number of phone numbers and DoBs. 34% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://darkwebinformer.com/888-has-allegedly-leaked-the-data-of-poincampus/', 'New breach: Swedish system supplier Miljödata was the victim of a ransomware attack last month. Impacted data included 870k email addresses along with names, physical addresses, DoBs and gov IDs. 11% were already in @haveibeenpwned. Read more: https://haveibeenpwned.com/breach/Miljodata', 'New breach: Last week 80k email addresses breached from the Columbian website of Le Coq Sportif were published online. Data included physical and IP address, name, purchases, gender, DoB and bcrypt password hash. 68% were already in @haveibeenpwned. More: https://dailydarkweb.net/colombia-data-breach-reported-at-lecoqsportif-com-co/']"
67,73,67_mastodon_posts_server_profile,"['mastodon', 'posts', 'server', 'profile', 'limits', 'replies', 'accounts', 'theme', 'account', 'toot']","[""Do you wonder how some people's posts are longer than 500 characters?It's because they are on servers that have higher character limits for posts (or in some cases no limits at all). More info at:➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-do-some-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-have-bigger-character-limitsYou can find some human-curated well-run servers with higher character limits listed here:➡️ https://fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-sizeIf you want to move to a higher-limit server, account transfer instructions are at https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server#FediTips #Mastodon"", ""🎉 Congratulations! We are at :mastodon: v4.3.0. See https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3 for more information. There are still some Todon specific things to fix (like the Toot button), but this comes asap.⚠️ The new notification settings need your attention! See screenshot for our advised settings. Why?> Unsolicited private mentions > IGNORE: This is to avoid spam in your DM's. You can also set it to FILTER if you are comfortable to filter out spam yourself.> Moderated accounts > IGNORE: This is for your own benefit. Moderators have over the years limited accounts and domains to make sure you have a safer experience. More problematic accounts and domains have been suspended. If you set this to ACTIVE or FILTER you will see posts and mentions from accounts and domains that are limited by us (not those who are suspended). If you do this, it's your own responsibility. Only report them if you think they really should be suspended for peoples safety. 🎨 Another option you probably want to change is your theme. In the new version the default site theme is set to automatic. That means if you have your webbrowser to a light theme, Mastodon will also have a light theme. And when your browser has a dark theme, Mastodon has a dark theme.To configure the theme manually, please visit https://todon.eu/settings/preferences/appearance"", 'Nov 03, 2025 11:42 AM GMT -3The issue is now fixed, prior to the v4.5 release: https://bolha.one/@cadusilva/115485894602339715-----Nov 03, 2025 06:35 AM GMT -3One of the devs replied to the discussion I started in the Mastodon repo: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/36685#discussioncomment-14856034Original post:-----Mastodon 4.5 is set to launch this week and there\'s something you should know:All you need to quote a toot on Mastodon is to paste the link of said toot. Or, of course, you can use the boost button and select ""Quote"".But pasting a link also works, automatically. If the author is on Mastodon and allows quotes, the toot will appear in the compose field but can be detached. If not, it\'ll be just a simple, plain link.In the end, both paths lead to the same destination: to quote a toot. And, if the author allows quotes, this will generate a notification to them.So it\'s important to know that this also works with private mentions, aka DMs.Even if you don\'t mention the author\'s profile (user@instance.tld), if you simply paste a link to their post, and they allow quotes, they will be notified.If they don\'t allow quotes, it\'ll be just a simple and plain link, and no notification will be sent to them.So be careful not to end up mentioning someone in a DM without the intention of doing so.They\'ll be able to see the DM content where the link was pasted, as if you\'d have mentioned them explicitly. But it was just a quoted toot.Let\'s see what they say about this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/36685#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #QuoteToots']"
68,72,68_accounts_delete_account_mastodon,"['accounts', 'delete', 'account', 'mastodon', 'message', 'spam', 'surprise', 'shes', 'hope', 'right']","[""Here's where it gets interesting.Any post I sent last night that was visible to users on other instances remains there.I can't delete it, because I can't see it on my instance. Auto-delete won't delete it either, for the same reason.In terms of people's ability to control their data, this is a problem. It affects all #Mastodon users.It's also a problem Mastodon has known about since December 2022, when I sent them a suggested fix: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22154Which they ignored, as usual."", ""@maugendre search is opt-out by default on accounts. We enabled it for this account after seeing your message, as it was an oversight to leave it disabled.Our posts do not have delete enabled on them. This account was created about 13 months ago, so there will be no activity prior to 10 February 2023, when the account was created https://tech.lgbt/@mods/109840867062406679We hope that clears that up!As far as making a user-level rule, that's not something that Mastodon offers as a feature, and we cannot set that up for instances that have us blocked as scholar.social does."", ""ℹ️ 🔕 Reminder for all people who care about a safe social media environment. Since Mastodon version 4.3.0 there are new notifications defaults we are not able to configure server wide. 'Unsolicited private mentions' and 'Moderated accounts' are both set to 'Filter'. We advice you to set both of these to 'Ignore'. The reasons are that 'Unsolicited private mentions' (aka 'Unsolicited direct messages') are very spam and harass sensitive. We believe that users should explicitly allow this, so we find this a bad default. A filter means that you are still forced to review this notification, with the spammer or harasser still getting their way.'Moderated accounts' are accounts that are limited for a good reason (probably someone reported them) or accounts that belong to a Mastodon/fediverse server that is limited/silenced (also for a good reason). Those accounts and servers are not that problematic that we had to suspend them, but still problematic enough that we had to hide them or give you a warning when you visit their profile. Although you can still follow them if you like fierce discussions. So for the most of us there is no reason to see those accounts on our timelines and we also don't want to be notified about their existence via filters. #feditips #mastodon #OnlineSafety""]"
69,70,69_passwords_emails_banned_email,"['passwords', 'emails', 'banned', 'email', 'instagram', 'account', 'meme', 'address', 'aral', 'epstein']","['After reading some of the Epstein emails, I was compelled to look in Constella Intelligence and Spycloud for exposed passwords tied to Epstein\'s email address: Would you believe he reused the password ""Ghislaine""? If he didn\'t tell all his secrets, he probably leaked them inadvertently through shitty passwords.', 'After reading some of the Epstein emails, I was compelled to look in Constella Intelligence and Spycloud for exposed passwords tied to Epstein\'s email address: Would you believe he reused the password ""Ghislaine""? If he didn\'t tell all his secrets, he probably leaked them inadvertently through shitty passwords.', 'After reading some of the Epstein emails, I was compelled to look in Constella Intelligence and Spycloud for exposed passwords tied to Epstein\'s email address: Would you believe he reused the password ""Ghislaine""? If he didn\'t tell all his secrets, he probably leaked them inadvertently through shitty passwords.']"
70,69,70_gaza_mr_urgent_man,"['gaza', 'mr', 'urgent', 'man', 'trump', 'genocide', 'speak', 'came', 'trade', 'hate']","['attending.It was at these series of parties that I personally witnessed the plaintiff being forced to perform various sexual acts with Donald J. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein were advised that she was 13 years old.I personally witnessed four sexual encounters that the plaintiff was forced to have with Mr. Trump during that period, including the fourth, where Mr. Trump forcibly raped her despite her pleas to stop. I personally witnessed the occasion where', '""First they came for the CommunistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a CommunistThen they came for the SocialistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a SocialistThen they came for the trade unionistsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a trade unionistThen they came for the JewsAnd I did not speak outBecause I was not a JewThen they came for meAnd there was no one leftTo speak out for me""- Pastor Martin NiemöllerAccording to the UCP (which is rank with antisemitism), you cannot quote this poem unless you are referencing the holocaust. That the idea that holding your tongue as other people are persecuted, and the complicity of this silence, is an experience which only applies to Jews.Ironic, when the poem explicitly speaks about PERSECUTING SOCIALISTS AND UNIONISTS! Exactly what the UCP is doing. The Democratic Socialist NDP party was formed as a merger of a unionist party with actual trade unions. They are the ones ""invoking"" this poem, which is also about them.They are invoking it in reference to UNIONIZED WORKERS being persecuted for COLLECTIVE ASSEMBLY and stripped of their labour rights. There isn\'t a more fitting piece.Read the whole freaking poem. Don\'t just cherry-pick the last few lines then claim that only you can say what it\'s about.First they came for the communists, then the socialists, then the trade unionists, then the Jews, then me. This poem is not ""just"" about Jews, it\'s about ALL of us, and serves as a warning for all of us.On the bright side, Angela Pitt\'s recall petition has been approved by Elections Alberta. :)#abpoli #fascism', 'The world is preoccupied while Gaza is being annihilated off-screen.The massacres continue100 martyrs &hundreds wounded today. A day that reminds us of the early days of aggression.Every hour since dawn, there has been a massacre.An urgent call to donate blood.An urgent call to provide hospital beds for the wounded.An urgent call to bring in medical supplies and infant formula.An urgent call to deliver fuel to hospitalAn urgent call do not forget Gaza. Dr.Abdullah AwwadAlshifa hospital']"
71,66,71_bitch_cum_facial_18,"['bitch', 'cum', 'facial', '18', 'blackandwhite', 'costume', 'pussy', 'england', 'boobs', 'continuing']","['IPZZ-631-Mitsuri Nagahama#porn #jav #moaning #avactress #sexybody #pistonfuck #hardcore #sexaddict #gooner #naked #bitch #whore #slut #boobs #18+ #cumshot #cum #orgasm #japanase #affair #lewd #fuck #sex #facial', 'HMN-730-Koiro Yuuki#kissing #fuck #porn #horny #jav #avactress #publicsex #pistonfuck #boobs #moaning #lewd #gooner #sexaddict #slut #whore #bitch #18+ #japanase #cutegirl #creampie #cum #breeding #paizuri #cumaddict #lingerie #pussy #facial #cumshot', 'BLK-658-Mina Kitano#blowjob #whore #pussy #licking #gangbang #sexaddict #bitch #gooner #moaning #sexybody #slut #avactress #japanase #18+ #sextoys #sexparty #orgy #pistonfuck #sloppy #creampie #breeding #cum #hardcore #roughsex #cumaddict #facial #cumshot']"
72,65,72_twitter_posts_tweets_text,"['twitter', 'posts', 'tweets', 'text', 'message', 'phone', 'bot', 'quote', 'newsletter', 'institute']","[""Had anyone else noticed their Twitter feed go to hell recently? It's deliberately no longer showing me tweets by all my favourite people – almost as if Book Twitter stopped existing! I have manually looked up accounts and they are going strong. But not in my feed 😔"", ""After 13 years, #Twitter has made certain you won't be able to see a tweet on #Flipboard ever again.Today Twitter turned off their API integration without regard for Twitter users who enjoyed seeing tweets on their Flipboard.While Twitter is enabling payment for some API access, the approach they've taken is prohibitively expensive, unreliable and frankly untrustworthy. I can't imagine us or anyone else ever relying on Twitter again for anything.Hello Fediverse. Good bye walled gardens."", ""Anybody remember how twitter used to work over text message?I think I broke that feature.You could send and receive tweets, and do some basic interactions like following keywords - for example FOLLOW Guybrush Threepwood would text you any tweets about the classic Lucasarts Adventure Game series Monkey Island™.So one day at work I had an idea. I took my Nokia and texted FOLLOW lol.My phone immediately blew up. I got the next tweet someone posted that said lol.  And the one after that. I tried to text STOP lol but my phone couldn't multitask, so every new instance of lol interrupted my attempt to stop them.  When my phone's text memory filled up (300!), I found out it deletes old texts and keeps goingSo I turned my phone off to stop the flow (I didn't have unlimited texting, this was getting expensive!)When I got home from the office, Twitter was down. For a while.When it came back up, the text messaging feature did not come back up.  Ever.""]"
73,65,73_twitter_social_media_emails,"['twitter', 'social', 'media', 'emails', 'ai', 'wants', 'committee', 'takes', 'computer', 'facebook']","['Lauren Goode @laurengoode has a great interview in Wired with Del Harvey:Twitter's Former Head of Trust and Safety Finally Breaks Her Silence [1]Harvey preceded Yoel Roth. In fact, she was the first executive in charge of "spam and abuse" way back when Twitter started in 2008. I wish I'd read this article back when the Twitter Files were released and the U.S. was conducting hearings into Twitter last February. 2/4[1] https://www.wired.com/story/del-harvey-twitter-trust-and-safety-breaks-her-silence/#Twitter #TrustAndSafety', 'Today is the 5th anniversary of the FediTips account 🥳I started it because of the nasty stuff happening on centralised corporate social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc). These corporations promote ""engagement"" through algorithms that radicalise people into frenzies of bigoted hatred 😞 I\'m trying to help people use alternatives instead of feeding the beast.This account\'s first tip is here:🎂 https://mstdn.social/@feditips/105220978455322895The earliest archive is here:🎂 https://web.archive.org/web/20201124173833/https://mstdn.social/@feditips#FediTips', 'Today is the 5th anniversary of the FediTips account 🥳I started it because of the nasty stuff happening on centralised corporate social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc). These corporations promote ""engagement"" through algorithms that radicalise people into frenzies of bigoted hatred 😞 I\'m trying to help people use alternatives instead of feeding the beast.This account\'s first tip is here:🎂 https://mstdn.social/@feditips/105220978455322895The earliest archive is here:🎂 https://web.archive.org/web/20201124173833/https://mstdn.social/@feditips#FediTips']"
74,64,74_fuel_sea_average_ice,"['fuel', 'sea', 'average', 'ice', 'maps', 'filters', 'age', 'monthly', 'visible', 'rate']","['In August 2025, the #SeaIce global extent was 8.4% below 1991-2020 mean. Since the beginning of records (November 1978):- #Arctic, 8th lowest monthly mean, with 12,2% less extent than normal (-823 904km²)- #Antarctic, 3rd lowest monthly mean, with 6.9% less exent than normal (-1 264 062km²)for more: https://osisaf-hl.met.no/v2p3-sea-ice-index#ClimateChange #OSISAF @eumetsat', 'Scientists have identified more than 40 methane cracks - vents in the seafloor that release the potent greenhouse gas- in the shallow waters of Antarctica’s Ross Sea. These seeps are appearing in areas where none had been observed before, pointing to “a fundamental shift in regional methane release” likely linked to warming temperatures, shifting sea levels, and Ice Age–era glacier melt. “What was once considered rare now appears to be rapidly becoming commonplace.”https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/10/climate/methane-seeps-antarctica', ""The extent of sea ice on our planet is still the 3rd lowest on record for this time of year. Unfortunately, as a result of the U.S. government shutdown, there is no data to assess last month's average global ice volume/thickness (provided by GIOMAS).More graphics at https://zacklabe.com/global-sea-ice-extent-conc/.""]"
75,62,75_email_spam_encryption_phishing,"['email', 'spam', 'encryption', 'phishing', 'domains', 'security', 'inbox', 'chatgpt', 'access', 'reddit']","['Week 10 of the #Privacy Roundup is out. This week includes:- #Google tracking Android users without relying on them to open, interact with apps- #Apple appealing UK secret order to “backdoor” encryption of iCloud accounts- EFF releases Rayhunter, designed to identify Stingrays- March #Android security updates (2 exploited vulnerabilities patched)- #YouTube content creators targeted in various #phishing campaigns… and more.#privacymatters #cybersecurityhttps://avoidthehack.com/privacy-week10-2025', '@Catwoman69y2k That Vivaldi feature and StartPage are not at all connected. They just share a name.FWIW, in the privacy community, when there\'s a mention of ""start page"" or ""startpage"" it\'s usually in reference to the private search engine, StartPage. The _founders_ of StartPage and StartMail are the same.Honestly, if advertisers are the limit of your threat model in email, then something like Fastmail could work for you. But as I mentioned earlier, they do own the encryption keys to your inbox, so you\'re merely trusting them not to use/share your inbox data with third parties. That\'s a lot of trust required and is the strongest reason I try to push people to ""encrypted email"" and ""zero access"" encryption implementations (it\'s a criterion on my recs list for my website).StartMail is one of those email services that offers ""zero access"" encryption to the inbox. Their implementation is different than Proton or Tuta\'s, but it seems to work okay.', 'Mailboxes in German-speaking countries are being targeted by an ongoing phishing spam campaign that began July 13, around midnight UTC. 🎣 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭Approx 3,500 botnet IPs have been linked to this campaign, which uses malicious, invoice-themed Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) attachments - currently a favorite among threat actors for disseminating malware and phishing content. As expected from a relatively mature spam campaign, the SVGs are ""hashbusted"" to evade hash-based detection, raise operational sandboxing costs, and hamper investigations. 🧐  An earlier iteration of this spam campaign delivered malware, by luring prospective victims to a URL that ultimately infected their Windows systems with Strela Stealer. 💥 A traffic distribution system (TDS) was used to filter out security researchers and other visitors not targeted by the miscreants.Since the start of the current campaign, spamming IPs have been added to our CSS and XBL blocklists, ensuring robust coverage by Spamhaus ZEN, which is available for free to help protect your mailboxes: 👉 https://www.spamhaus.org/blocklists/zen-blocklist/SVG-based abuse is likely to remain relevant for the foreseeable future. Where possible, configure your mail infrastructure to reject emails with SVG attachments, allowing them only on a strict need-to-work basis (e.g., for graphics or design teams).Besides using ZEN and DBL at your e-mail perimeter, ensure any outgoing network traffic is checked against DBL and DROP to protect your users from accessing phishing sites and similar threats. 👉 https://www.spamhaus.org/blocklists/network-protection/']"
76,60,76_social_web_community_tech,"['social', 'web', 'community', 'tech', 'platforms', 'internet', 'fediverse', 'privacy', 'digital', 'company']","['We are excited to celebrate the launch of the Social Web Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the open, interconnected web through the ActivityPub protocol. At IFTAS, we believe in fostering transparency, innovation, and safety within social platforms, and the formation of SWF is a major step toward that goal.The Social Web Foundation brings together leaders from the Fediverse, with its mission grounded in educating users, improving social web infrastructure, and enhancing user experience across independent platforms. Under the guidance of leaders like Evan Prodromou (Research Director), Mallory Knodel (Executive Director) and Tom Coates (Product Director), the foundation aims to catalyse innovation while ensuring user autonomy and safety. Already working on end-to-end encryption, GDPR guidance, a Fediverse starter pack and more, the Foundation has plenty of amazing activities lined up.ActivityPub has enabled thousands of platforms to communicate seamlessly across the Fediverse. This framework encourages a healthier online experience by supporting diversity of thought and content while redistributing governance back to the communities that can best serve their members. In an era where centralised networks dominate, the SWF’s commitment to open standards represents a renewed opportunity for a democratic and inclusive web.At IFTAS, we share this vision of a safer and more equitable online world. That’s why we are happy to announce that Jaz-Michael King, our Executive Director, is joining the Social Web Foundation as an Advisor. His work at IFTAS has always centred on building safer digital spaces, and this partnership aligns perfectly with our mutual commitment to civil discourse and privacy protection.The Social Web Foundation’s work is crucial for the future of independent social platforms, and we at IFTAS look forward to collaborating in this endeavour to build a robust, inclusive, and harm-free digital landscape. As Jaz has emphasised, “The opportunities to enhance trust and safety across the Fediverse are immense, and we are eager to work closely with SWF to make this vision a reality.”Together, we are working to redefine the social web, ensuring that it is not only open but also safe for everyone.For more information on the Social Web Foundation and its upcoming initiatives, visit socialwebfoundation.org or follow on Fedi using @swf@socialwebfoundation.org.https://about.iftas.org/2024/09/24/welcoming-the-social-web-foundation/#ActivityPub #Fediverse #SocialWebFoundation', 'Stepping down as Framework Linux Community AmbassadorsWe are Tommi and Fraxinas, Framework Linux Community Ambassadors since September 2024.We apprehensively followed the developments and the debate concerning Framework’s endorsement and support of Omarchy. We have no direct experience with this Linux distribution, its community, nor with the political environment around it. We did not speak up before now because learning about all of it and keeping up with all the commentary would have been a full-time job. Unfortunately we do not have the time to read every single comment on the dedicated forum thread.Despite our admittedly limited and superficial understanding of this matter, we believe we have witnessed and read enough to make an informed decision and take a clear position.The statements from Framework and from Nirav Patel (its CEO) made it very clear for us that Framework is not a company we feel represented by any more, and surely not a company that we want to represent as Ambassadors.To be frank, it is not even necessary to dive into the petty drama about the recent events in order to provide an explanation of our decision. We are deeply disappointed by a company that is self-proclaimed as the resistance of the tech industry, the good David that intends to stand against the big tech Goliaths that are devouring it. Framework’s behaviour brought to surface an embarrassing and absurd inability to take an explicitly political position, blinded by the Western patriarchal narrative that technology in itself is not political. By trying to keep everyone happy (or at least not to make anyone mad) inside a fictitious “big tent”, the company proved to be no better than any of its Silicon Valley peers, dismissing comments about DHH, and comments about fascism and racism as not strictly related to the main mission.We were proud to be ambassadors because we believed that Framework not only made products that empowered those who purchase them to fully own and repair their devices, but most importantly because we wrongly expected that this would imply changing the paradigm and the narrative about tech companies altogether.We were offered the possibility of having a 1:1 conversation with Nirav Patel. We did not take it, because it is self-evident that our opinions are in contrast with the statements that he already made. Too bad, Framework is going to lose much more business than it would have if it simply acknowledged a mistake, took a deep inward look, and questioned its own values and stance.In a world that is burning, thorn by conflict and greed, it is not enough to be “less evil”, to be radical only in some cases, and be moderate in others. We wanted to be ambassadors of a company that does not see fascism and proprietary software as two distant topics, but that recognised the entanglement of politics and technology, of capitalism and authoritarianism. It seems that this is not the case.Farewell, Framework. We will miss the shining brave idea we had of you.— @tommi and @fraxinasThe following statement was cross-posted on Framework’s Community Forum.#Framework #politicalTechnology #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology', 'Stepping down as Framework Linux Community AmbassadorsWe are Tommi and Fraxinas, Framework Linux Community Ambassadors since September 2024.We apprehensively followed the developments and the debate concerning Framework’s endorsement and support of Omarchy. We have no direct experience with this Linux distribution, its community, nor with the political environment around it. We did not speak up before now because learning about all of it and keeping up with all the commentary would have been a full-time job. Unfortunately we do not have the time to read every single comment on the dedicated forum thread.Despite our admittedly limited and superficial understanding of this matter, we believe we have witnessed and read enough to make an informed decision and take a clear position.The statements from Framework and from Nirav Patel (its CEO) made it very clear for us that Framework is not a company we feel represented by any more, and surely not a company that we want to represent as Ambassadors.To be frank, it is not even necessary to dive into the petty drama about the recent events in order to provide an explanation of our decision. We are deeply disappointed by a company that is self-proclaimed as the resistance of the tech industry, the good David that intends to stand against the big tech Goliaths that are devouring it. Framework’s behaviour brought to surface an embarrassing and absurd inability to take an explicitly political position, blinded by the Western patriarchal narrative that technology in itself is not political. By trying to keep everyone happy (or at least not to make anyone mad) inside a fictitious “big tent”, the company proved to be no better than any of its Silicon Valley peers, dismissing comments about DHH, and comments about fascism and racism as not strictly related to the main mission.We were proud to be ambassadors because we believed that Framework not only made products that empowered those who purchase them to fully own and repair their devices, but most importantly because we wrongly expected that this would imply changing the paradigm and the narrative about tech companies altogether.We were offered the possibility of having a 1:1 conversation with Nirav Patel. We did not take it, because it is self-evident that our opinions are in contrast with the statements that he already made. Too bad, Framework is going to lose much more business than it would have if it simply acknowledged a mistake, took a deep inward look, and questioned its own values and stance.In a world that is burning, thorn by conflict and greed, it is not enough to be “less evil”, to be radical only in some cases, and be moderate in others. We wanted to be ambassadors of a company that does not see fascism and proprietary software as two distant topics, but that recognised the entanglement of politics and technology, of capitalism and authoritarianism. It seems that this is not the case.Farewell, Framework. We will miss the shining brave idea we had of you.— @tommi and @fraxinasThe following statement was cross-posted on Framework’s Community Forum.#Framework #politicalTechnology #SiliconValley #CalifornianIdeology']"
77,59,77_account_twitter_federated_spam,"['account', 'twitter', 'federated', 'spam', 'instagram', 'reported', 'tesla', 'dm', 'accounts', 'admin']","['Thanks to everyone for your patience as we deal with waves of inauthentic sign-ups (bots, etc.).Lately, many of you have seen a spike in spam, including the Verification Spam wave. This kind of thing is part of the ongoing push and pull between moderation teams and bad actors. As we improve defenses, they find new ways around them. It’s similar to what’s happened with phishing on email and other social media. Now is a good time to brush up on healthy online habits. :hachyderm:', '@grishka @dansup yeah, that's the primary use of instagram -- to dm other people. they might post some pics or stories but a large proportion iiuc uses private accounts and don't actually use it typical ways. having a public account is actually a separate thing that people do', 'Mod action report: July 1-July 15Reports received: 10Reported accounts: 8Reported local accounts: 2One federated account reported for being a honeypot chatbot (suspended)One federated account reported for calling covid a ""gay hoax"" (suspended)One federated account reported for financial scam spam (suspended)One federated account reported for frequent promotion of their own music (no action)']"
78,55,78_lt3_alice_poor_oh,"['lt3', 'alice', 'poor', 'oh', 'you39re', 'mind', 'pressing', 'disappointed', 'swear', 'photograph']","['@Alice Ohhhhhhh yeah, it's on! Seriously let's hang out next time you're in Vegas! 🎉🎉🎉', ""Joining @AymanM shortly with @kurtbardella discussing the House clown show plus Trump NY gag order enforcement, wearing this #JillsPin. Hope you'll be there!"", 'haiii,  me and @Randibaby00@mastodon.social\n\nrubbing each other on a big banana 😻\n\n#pussy #dick #boobs #ass #trans #breast #naughty #neko #girls #catgirl #sex']"
79,48,79_gallery_cartoon_london_political,"['gallery', 'cartoon', 'london', 'political', 'jack', 'haha', 'reference', 'ran', 'wasnt', 'hate']","['Matt @MattCartoonist @Telegraph on #Traitors #BBC  – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com', 'Matt @MattCartoonist on #RachelReeves @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com', 'Matt @MattCartoonist on #RachelReeves #MansionTax @Telegraph #GuyFawkes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com']"
80,47,80_festival_thank_looking_costume,"['festival', 'thank', 'looking', 'costume', 'hi', 'ill', 'special', 'haven39t', 'forward', 'seattle']","[""@khalidabuhakmeh I don't, I wish I could remember too! I was very much looking forward to the feature at the time, I think they added it in a later version haha"", 'We'll be doing a special Breakpoint Jam at the Seattle Xcoders meetup this Thursday night!The exact lineup can always change, but looking forward to performing with @brentsimmons, @cocoaphony, @savinola, and @kcase!The event is free and details are here:https://xcoders.org/2025/08/12/special-event-breakpoint-jam-with.htmlIf you're in the Seattle area, I hope to see you there!', 'Exciting news, friends: I’ll be joining an amazing lineup this week as MC for the Mozilla Festival in Barcelona! If you’ll be there in person, please do say hi, and if not, join online as the schedule promises to be extraordinary. Get the details here: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/']"
81,41,81_film_history_book_sneak,"['film', 'history', 'book', 'sneak', 'fuck', 'super', 'war', 'homes', 'famous', 'continuing']","['“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943', 'What makes a film African? This question was top of mind at the recent 50th anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival, with all its historical and political complications. https://continent.substack.com/p/universality-comes-at-too-high-a', 'I think of #gaza.I think of all the streets I’ll never enter agn, which have been erased from the map.I think of the last restaurants I visited before the #genocideI think of all the #holy & ancient places that I haven't shown to my kids.I think of my room which were leveled to the ground.I’ll not point out to my kids the desk where I studied throughout my high school and uni years before the #war.I think of everything I’ve been through & am going through, & am trying to forget it forever.']"
82,41,82_mail_court_gmail_account,"['mail', 'court', 'gmail', 'account', 'amazon', 'case', 'blame', 'link', 'meeting', 'election']","[""Wait! I don't think this is actual backscatter.It has something to do with Google. I am receiving countless of automatic replies from support ticket systems or away notices. They are all delivered to my mailserver from a Google Mail server, but my mail address itself doesn't show up ANYWHERE in the mail. Not in To, not in From, not in Return-Path.It just has my affected mail address in Delivered-To.I just don't get what exactly is happening here, but ALL of these mails are delivered from Google mail servers to me.And I am not the only one (German): https://www.borncity.com/blog/2025/10/11/neuauflage-des-google-newsgroup-spam/Edit: All mails also have headers present that indicate some Google List stuff. I am close to just configuring my mailserver to delete any mails that have a `X-Google-Group-Id` header.The mailing list addresses itself are all some .com.br domains like supposddsdrt@ek.shirleyaraujo.com.brEdit2: And here's Google not giving a fuckhttps://support.google.com/groups/thread/378296712/spammed-via-google-groups-mailing-list-not-a-groups-or-gmail-user?hl=enSo, I am a member of that mailing list. That's the reason why automated replies are distributed to me as well."", ""Gmail account appears to be fine, but the Amazon account has definitely been hijacked. Looks like the attacker texted a link that the neighbor clicked on this morning, and that completed some sort of account ownership transfer. Neighbor assures me they just clicked the link and didn't enter anything. They just landed on an Amazon page that said their account had been successfully transferred to someone else (they have a screenshot of the hijacker's email address).They've been on the phone with Amazon trying to get it resolved, but if the description is correct it sure seems like there's a vulnerability on Amazon's end here.At exactly the same time the SMS was sent the neighbor's Gmail account got hit with a firehose of thousands of spam messages persisting for several hours, which is why they thought the Gmail account was hacked (and also why they clicked the Amazon phishing link from the SMS).Does this sort of thing sound familiar to anyone?"", 'Updated addresses for writing the #Prairieland defendants. Share this hard before Oct 3.Quick context: the Prairieland defendants were arrested after a July 4 protest at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in North Texas. They’ve been bounced between FMC Fort Worth and Wichita County while prosecutors push a ‘conspiracy’ narrative. Mail matters. Send real letters—no case talk—blue or black ink, one side only, with your info and their SO/Register # on every page. Oct 3 is an international day of action, so flood their tablets with love and solidarity, not hot takes about the case— HOW TO WRITE —• Letters are scanned to tablets. One side only.• Top of EVERY page: your full name + address, recipient’s name + SO/Register #, date, page #.• Blue or black ink only. No glitter. No stickers.• Mail is monitored. Do NOT discuss case facts or add overtly political commentary.— WICHITA COUNTY (SO #) —Wichita County Detention Center, TXPrisoner Name, SO NumberP.O. Box 247Phoenix, MD 21131Elizabeth Soto — 100005Savanna Batten — 100006Lynette Sharp — 100007Rebecca Morgan — 100008Joy Gibson — 100009Maricela Rueda — 100010— FORT WORTH (Register #) —Inmate Name and Register NumberFMC Fort WorthFederal Medical CenterP.O. Box 15330Fort Worth, TX 76119Meagan Morris — 11136-512Benjamin Hanil Song — 11137-512Autumn Hill — 11138-512Zachary Evetts — 11141-512Seth Edison Sikes — 11142-512Ines Houston Soto — 11144-512Be human. Keep it clean. No case talk. Flood them with love, not contraband.']"
83,30,83_counts_nice_atmosphere_sister,"['counts', 'nice', 'atmosphere', 'sister', 'beauty', 'fantastic', 'colors', 'pattern', 'sky', 'entirely']","['@pomarede wow. Fantastic picture indeed', '@TomaszSusul wonderful atmosphere and that person fits so well', '@vantablack Happy Birthday to my sister from another mister! 🎉🎈 🎂']"
84,28,84_jewish_history_palestinian_wide,"['jewish', 'history', 'palestinian', 'wide', 'ukraine', 'democracy', '36', 'peaceful', 'europe', 'russian']","['Jewish space lasers, Eyes Wide Shut, the Battle of Waterloo—each one links to conspiracy theories about supposed Jewish control of the world, often including the Rothschild family.Listen to my wide, deep Chatter episode about it, with @RothschildMD:https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XZx5hqGi2VHQJNHQO2q98', 'On this day, 36 years ago, the #VelvetRevolution began.  Students gathered in Prague and demanded more democracy.  A peaceful movement that changed the course of history — and still inspires Europe today.', 'On this day, 36 years ago, the #VelvetRevolution began.  Students gathered in Prague and demanded more democracy.  A peaceful movement that changed the course of history — and still inspires Europe today.']"
85,24,85_lt3_furryart_furry_accurate,"['lt3', 'furryart', 'furry', 'accurate', 'san', 'ride', 'boy', 'rise', 'sleep', 'deeply']","['@exchgr @alexpsmith @petherfile man that film was A RIDE', '「 drawn to the flame, to rise from the ashes 」 🎇commission for @deltaphor #furryart #furry', '@internetsdairy accurate image of friday night']"
86,22,86_costume_plane_pic_ha,"['costume', 'plane', 'pic', 'ha', 'mexico', 'engaged', 'snow', 'rock', 'helpful', 'thanks']","['@arthegall thanks, this was super helpful!', '@riverpunk @claudius oi oi oi, thanks a lot! That totally went past me', '@fartycheddarcat now we need a snow pic of Figgy too! :neocat_heart:']"
87,21,87_taking_awkward_smell_thats,"['taking', 'awkward', 'smell', 'thats', 'jon', 'futurebird', 'chair', 'dinner', 'pic', 'clothes']","['@janl clothes chair or just hang them up again', '@gsuberland @futurebird 🤣🤣🤣🤣  I grew up in the Caribbean, this joke just killed me.', '@jon people next to me are now laying around and taking a short nap 😅And I am getting eaten raw by mosquitoes 🫠']"
88,15,88_movies_americans_bad_white,"['movies', 'americans', 'bad', 'white', 'understand', 'performed', 'great', 'fucked', 'horrible', 'wrap']","['Steven Conn\'s book ""Americans against the City"" is an essential history of American anti-urbanism.  It will help you understand why fear and hostility toward people who live in cities runs so deeply in US culture and politics.   Good summary:https://www.governing.com/urban/why-we-despise-cities-and-yet-are-drawn-to-them', '@mu Malcolm X had many accomplishments and did a lot of great things, but for at least part of his public career, he was also antisemitic.I think its important to be aware of both the good and the bad and to place those things in their historical context. People in the past had reasons for the choices they made, were not perfect, and were operating under different conditions.', 'just a reminder that one of the ""great unsolved mysteries"" in US History is when a bunch of settlers in a failing colony pack up and move in with the nearby indigenous people and LEAVE A NOTE TO THIS EFFECT but for centuries after white ppl say they ""just disappeared!"" bc they can\'t wrap their minds around other white folx willingly moving in with non-white folx']"
89,8,89_beautiful_expecting_nice_gorgeous,"['beautiful', 'expecting', 'nice', 'gorgeous', 'beach', 'sunset', 'presence', 'trip', 'holding', 'walk']","[""@morganalafee It's a lovely place to walk, especially at sunrise and sunset 🌅🌄"", '@NormanDunbar Oh, they love dandelions! Nice shot. Sometimes it's just nice to appreciate being in their presence without taking a photo. :)', '@LikeItOrLumpIt 😂 right?! Only one ☝️ of the kittles is up this early and it’s this beautiful little guy 👇🏼 I hope you’re having a great day so far gorgeous!!! 😘😘❤️']"
90,2,90_population_raw_rate_crime,"['population', 'raw', 'rate', 'crime', 'numbers', 'importance', 'council', 'lights', 'evidence', 'led']","['Important #lighting and #crime research out of the #UK relating to its conversion of ~80,000 sodium lights to white LED: “No evidence was found for an improvement (or detriment) in the city’s level of crime by relighting, contrary to the substantial reduction anticipated by the city council.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12061-025-09675-1', 'Population rate vs raw numbersThis is a good example of why it is useful to understand the importance of population *rate* and not just look at raw numbers. The first graph shows raw numbers and the second graph population rate. 🧵1/ #ED #Respiratory #Virus #Population #Ottawa']"
91,1,91_slowly_movies_movie_moving,"['slowly', 'movies', 'movie', 'moving', 'train', 'test', 'ice', 'future', 'didnt', 'end']","[""@knud That's why they never made more Back to the Future movies: the train at the end of the last movie was an ICE that time travels by moving painfully slowly, which didn't test well with audiences.""]"