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Lot⁴⁹

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Unabashed lefty married to a terrific woman. Animal lover, especially cats but also dogs, birds—heck all of 'em. Audiophile, vinyl collector. Retired urban planner […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@12thRITS, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17h
media should be a lot less credulous about these claims that AI is sentient or might become sentient or that we have some sort of moral duty to fancy toasters.
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Sonnet a Day @sonnets.bots.krohsnest.com.ap.brid.gy · 19h
Sonnet 074 - LXXIV But be contented when that fell arrest Without all bail shall carry me away, My life hath in this line some interest, Which for memorial still with thee shall stay. When thou reviewest this, thou dost review The very part was consecrate to thee: The earth can have but earth […]
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h
Shorter version, from the author's own last paragraph: "These are technicalities." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/opinion/…
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13h
It makes me feel old when my colleagues not only haven't seen Office Space, but never even heard of it. Because some of them wouldn't even be born for a few more years when it released.
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h
@JessTheUnstill Be sure not to ask them about "Idiocracy," since we'll all soon be living in it anyway.
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h
Dems: heed Jamelle. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/opinion/…
In 1864, as Union soldiers were dying by the tens of thousands,
President Abraham Lincoln won a hard-fought election to a second
term. Republicans increased their numbers. This was not
preordained. Lincoln genuinely feared defeat at the hands of his
former general in chief, George B. McClellan, who spoke for the
many Americans who wanted peace at all costs and were willing to
give the Confederacy some of what it wanted to end the
bloodletting.

As important as it was, however, Lincoln’s victory was not the end
of the war. Nor was it the beginning of the end of the war. There
was still much fighting to follow and much work to be done. What
Lincoln had won — what the Union had won — was a chance to do
that work.

Should Democrats win Congress, what they will have won is the
chance to do the work that must be done. Anything less would be a
failure and betrayal.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@12thRITS 🤣🤣🤣right?!
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
@VeroniqueB99 Threatening us with a good time.
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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
I realize this is trite, but “Visions of Johanna” really is a lyrical masterpiece. Anyone got a favorite cover version they want to share? Here’s mine: emmaswift.bandcamp.com/album/vision… #BobDylan
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Visions of Johanna (Live at Layman Drug Company), by Emma Swift
2 track album
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Trump's new press secretary has excellent fronds of hair streaming down her chest. As for actually conveying information, well...maybe she'll get better.
Blonde woman in navy blazer at White House press briefing room lectern, looking tongue-tied
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Screwing w/AI job interviewers for, uh...some reason. It *is* hilarious. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgljyUkZ-s0…
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Glen Malley @glen-malley.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Fun fact: ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK is an anagram of IT'S A MARVEL HER DRESS FIT OK. #shitpost #halloween #elvira
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Mine too! What's going on?
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Such a beautiful poem. Thanks for posting it.
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
#Yandex is a big deal in Russia. Good that Ukraine crippled it.
W'pedia summary of Yandex
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
The new Jaguar Type 01 has a festival of touchscreens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOasOQUVKp8
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.
A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Little French lady showing off her cat, 1959.
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Looks, uh...interesting!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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qkslvrwolf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy @qkslvrwolf.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Because trump is part of Club Authoritarian and he wants to help daddy. Duh.
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Carolyn Jewel @cjewel.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@12thRITS the birds are migrating right now, and the trail cams sometimes get some gorgeous pictures!
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Carolyn Jewel @cjewel.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Red Shouldered hawks visiting the water container and having a bath.
Daytime trail cam photo of two red shouldered hawks (Buteo lineages). To the bottom mid right one hawk has landed on the corner edge of a black water container. Its wings are still up and it is looking just slightly to the left. To the mid upper left a second hawk is coming in for a landing. Its tail is fanned out and its wings are fully spread and curved slightly inward since it's putting on the brakes. The birds have red chests and black and white barred tail feathers. There is red along the tops of the wings. The surroundings are underneath a large oak (unseen but providing shade) with short dry brown grass and in the background a huge Coast Live oak and a fallen one.Daytime trail cam photo of two red shouldered hawks (Buteo lineages) at the water contained. One of them is in the container with its back to the camera with wings spread low and in the water as it hunkers down to bathe. The other is perched on the far corner waiting its turn. Its wings are closed and its red chest is readily apparent. Surroundings are beneath a large oak (unseen but providing shade) with short dry brown grass and in the background a huge Coast Live oak and a fallen one.
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@cjewel How beautiful!
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JohnMoyer @johnmoyer.okla.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on September 23, 2026 Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: www.rsok.com/~jrm/2026Sep29_birds_a… #birds […] [Original post on okla.social]
A Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) was walking up a tree trunk in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on September 23, 2026.
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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/10/0 Please use other door
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Been so long since I've heard this. It's beautiful in its naivety. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBF3K1J9wHI
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
This is an awfully good album. #Music #NowPlaying #HighFidelity #Donovan #FolkMusic
Jacket of Donovan's Album "Fairytale." Text below a B&W pic of the artist reads:
the magician he sparkles 
in satin and velvet
you gaze at his splendor 
with eyes you've not used yet. 
I tell you his name is 
love...
love...
love
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softproof @softproof.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
If this doesn't make you smile it really might be time for that hard reset... And I agree with Ben - the Dirndl makes this look cooler yet. #trueVorsprungDurchTechnik
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
@softproof Very cool, particularly the landing. I'd guess you'd have to have surfer-like balance to do that.
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Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
WE HAVE VOTED!!!!!! FUCK THE PUPPET!!!!
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AstroHyde @astrohyde.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
New super-luminous Quasar* found in unusual environment, in this new study I will prove hyper-soft environments are condusive to.... *Quasar is the name of the cat #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Cats
Quasar the all black cat is brightly illuminated by a sunbeam as she sits in a quiescent manner atop 2 stacked suitcases
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"I love Donald Trump but he is leaving us to starve" - a woman on a news program from west Virginia upset about cost of living. Tell me you dont understand what an abusive relationship is without telling me you dont understand what an abusive relationship is
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I dont want people who voted for Trump to starve. I understand schadenfreude. But this is sort of the point. I want to live in a country where people aren't starving and I dont assign whether they eat or not on who they vote for. Its just it makes me so unbelievably sad. And also enraged.
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Holy crap, Browne's only a year older than I! #ChunderRoad
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Finally, a beneficial use for AI graphics.
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Guillotine Jones, Flâneur @guillotine-jones.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
This story has been reported by several news outlets, but you're getting THIS particular angle HERE first! Secretary of Whatever he is today, Testosterone Pete Hegseth, announced aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln Wednesday that he plans to livestream […] [Original post on beige.party]
Caution: This color image of the 3 Stooges of Tech Brodom may have been generated by Ai.
From left, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, X's Elon Musk, and Amazon's Jeff Bezos are on their knees negotiated a deal with pedophile felon president Trump for the rights to livestream the first public execution in the US in nearly 100 years.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Another successful week, by at least one measure.
Workplace sign “this is a velociraptor-free workplace, it has proudly been [2.59x10¹⁰] days since the last velociraptor incident”
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Dude got a good ride
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Seal posing
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Couldn't walk #MarineStreetBeach without getting my shoes and socks soaked and sandy
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
The osprey was there too
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
My morning walk began with seals frolicking @ #LaJollaCove
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
I don'r want anyone to be unduly alarmed but, based on his performance at this morning's press conference, DHS Secretary Mark 'Wayne" Mullin would seem to be a dangerously stupid psychopath.
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
They're desperate. Doesn't excuse the mendacity.
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Lot⁴⁹ @12thrits.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
This is disgusting. These people are barbarous.
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That wx & music girl ☮️&💜 @copacetic-vibe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#Music #SkyTunes #SkyMusic #MusicSky #BlueskyTunes #BlueskyMusic #Vinyl #mtsrn #MutualMusic Woke up to... 💕 Night Moves — Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band youtu.be/xH7cSSKnkL4?...
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Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves (Official Video)
YouTube video by BobSegerVEVO
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filid @filid.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
'Ente (2CV)' #FotoVorschlag FASTER THAN A FERRARI. AS MANY WHEELS AS A ROLLS ROYCE. MORE ROOM THAN A PORSCHE. THE £2,584 CITROËN 2CV. All you'll ever need in a car
FASTER THAN A FERRARI.
Travelling flat out at 71.5mph the Citroën 2CV will
easily overtake the Ferrari Mondial travelling at 65mph.

AS MANY WHEELS AS A ROLLS ROYCE.
The £255,240 Rolls Royce Silver Spirit. How many wheels? Four, The £2,581 Citroën 2CV. How many wheels? Exactly the same.

MORE ROOM THAN A PORSCHE.
With a possible 30cu ft, boot space there's no need for one of those plastic luggage racks on our little run-about.

THE £2,584 CITROËN 2CV.
All you'll ever need in a car
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MinmiTheDino @minmi.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
We have finished the Iliad. We made it folks. What a strange book that despite not being particularly enjoyable I do feel like I could talk about for weeks and weeks. #bookstodon
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