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@acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Childless cat lad. Also opines about music at @acb [bridged from mastodon.social/@acb on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h
Just found this in my Mastodon feed. I don’t follow these people, it wasn’t listed as boosted by anyone I follow and doesn’t contain any hashtags, so either there’s a bug, spammers have found a way to shit their ads into people’s feeds or mastodon(.)social is experimenting with enshittification.
A promotional Mastodon post for a bar or something
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
the face of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on a bed of cushions and sticking her tongue out slightly
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, resting curled up on a bed, backlit by cold daylight coming from a window behind her
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
a closeup of the face of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on a bed
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I’m on a daytime train from Berlin to Hamburg, which turns out to be a Czech service originating in Prague. I just discovered that Česke Drahy have managed to enshittify onboard wifi: it won’t let you connect until you’ve watched a 30-second video ad. #enshittification
a screenshot of a phone captive WiFi connection screen with a video ad playing, a greyed-out Continue button and “Advertisement. please wait. 18 seconds”
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, loafing on a green and white bedspread
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
a close-up of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, loafing on a sofa, seen from the front
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
A top-down view of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, resting curled on her side on an office chair
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Apple: we’re fully embracing AI, and as such, developing a home security camera that doesn’t record images but gives you text descriptions of what it sees. The future is here. Apple’s text descriptions of what cameras see:
A photograph of Doris, an adorable yet decidedly inedible cat, sitting atop a dining table, captioned “Dinners in Stockholm” by the Apple Photos app’s Memories feature
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
[Quordle weekly challenge spoiler] Is this week’s choice of Weekly Quordle words a coincidence, or a deliberate spooky-season thing?
a solved Weekly Quordle, with four Wordle-like grids of letters, the solutions being GHOST, LUMPY, PROWL and SCALY
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Doris. #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
a close-up of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on her side on a sofa, resting her face and paws on a human’s hand
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
a view from above of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, loafing neatly on a grey sofa.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, sitting up atop the back of a sofa
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, loafing neatly on a green and white patterned bedspread, seen from above.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
A close-up view of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, resting on a grey sofa, her whiskers and ears pulled back
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, curled up on a green and white bedspread, looking at the camera.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
And then there’s this poster, by (I think) a LGBT rights organisation, riffing on the Nazis’ “Make Sweden Sweden Again” slogan, with explanations on what Sweden was like presumably when it was “Sweden”:
Poster with text in Swedish, consisting of the slogan “we will make Sweden Sweden again”, and explanations that in Sweden, homosexuality was considered an illness, and it was allowed to rape one’s wife or beat one’s children
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
The area of Stockholm I’m currently in appears to be quite right-wing politically, at least from election materials. Other than a few desultory efforts by the Miljöpartiet (Greens) and Vänsterpartiet (Left Party), it’s a wall of right-wing party posters […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
“Adjö Tidö”, or goodbye to the right-wing coalition
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #feliverse #Cativitypub #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, forming a neat circular loaf on a sofa, partly lit by sunlight
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Is it just me, or has Engadget degenerated to a Taboola-tier slop feed recently? Did they replace their entire editorial team with a LLM or something?
Part of a RSS feed of Engadget articles, most of which look like AI-generated filler
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Happy #Caturday! #feliverse #Cativitypub #tortitude #CatsOfMastodon
A view from above of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, curled up and resting on an office chair
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
@davidgerard So basically this?
Computer prodigy discovers a way to compress photos to mere bytes
13-year-old Eugene Hogwoof figured out a way to compress photos to unimaginably small sizes. A typical 20MB JPG file can now be converted to a mere 600 bytes.
The system works in two steps. First, it uses Al to generate a few words describing the picture and saving it on a file. Later, when the user wants to see the picture, the software uses Al to regenerate the image based on the description of it.
"The file is essentially a prompt, thats why its so small", said the Gen Al boy.
After converting all their family photos, the boy erased the files and destroyed the print pictures, saving precious space at their home. When questioned about the software never generating the same picture, Eugene stated that our brain memories are fuzzed anyway, so the pictures mimic how our brain regenerates images.
My app can even create photos from moments you had no camera at the moment.
His next step is to create a new compression method for video files, as he seems eager to destroy his dad's VHS memories.
Tears of joy: parents sob after seeing all their photos converted to the new format.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, forming a neat round loaf in a patch of sunlight on a sofa
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
[Swedish elections, racist campaign posters from Nazis] It’s less than a fortnight to the elections in Sweden, and these billboards from the Nazi party (“Sweden Democrats”) have just appeared. Gone is the shitty drawing of a friendly bee that was their Pepe […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, standing on the top of the back of a sofa
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, resting on her side, using a human’s hand as a pillow
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Just finished reading this, which I picked up on my last visit to London. It’s a graphic-novel/comic-book biography of the (in)famous Mitford sisters (you know, the posh 20th-century English sisters who counted among them two fascists, one communist and the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
the cover of a book, with an independent-comics style illustration in the form of a neoclassical façade, bearing the title “Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters And Me” by Mimi Pond
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, sitting up on the edge of a polygon of sunlight, looking at the camera. She has green eyes and long white whiskers on the left side of her face. Behind her one can see shelves with DVD/game cases and a game console
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on her side on the edge of a polygon of sunlight on a wooden floor
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, sitting up on the edge of a polygon of sunlight on a wooden floor, looking at the camera. A sofa is visible behind her.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #feliverse #Cativitypub #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on an office chair, seen from above
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, loafing neatly in a patch of sunlight on a sofa, a grey blanket in front of her
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, loafing neatly on a blanket on a sofa. She has green eyes and both white and black whiskers.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, loafing tidily on a wooden floor, a red heart-shaped cat toy next to her. Behind her, two coffee tables and a bookshelf can be seen.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude
a closeup of the face of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, as she lounges on her side on a sofa. She has green eyes.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on her side on a sofa
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on her side in a polygon of sunlight on a wooden floor, one paw over a fluffy red heart-shaped cat toy
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
Welcome to the UK's new Prime Minister, who has his work cut out for him: www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/p… #ukpol #LarryTheCat
A two-panel cartoon. In the first one, two men stand inside an open door with a 10 on it, with one saying to the other "Welcome Mr. Burnham - I must give you the briefing all Prime Ministers receive upon entering Downing Street". In the second, he is shown feeding a white/tabby cat, saying "His litter tray is in the Cabinet Office and he needs feeding at least twice a day. He likes…"
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, sitting up on the edge of a polygon of sunlight on a wooden floor. Behind her is a coffee table stacked with books
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging partly in a parallelogram of sunlight on a wooden floor, holding a coloured fish-shaped cat toy in her front paws
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
Just finished reading this. Very informative, and gripping, going from early forms of electronic navigation (such as WW2-era radio beacons) through to the satnav era and the various technical and political decisions and intrigues that shaped it. In an […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
The cover of the book "Little Blue Dot: How The Global Positioning System Shaped The Modern World" by Katherine Dunn
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging in a patch of sunlight on a wooden floor, her front paw resting on a bright red heart-shaped cat toy.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #catsofmastodon #tortitude
the face of Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, looking up as she lounges on a human’s lap. She has green eyes and both black and white whiskers.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on her side on a midcentury-modernist-style sofa, looking forward, her front right paw extended
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026
[hilariously mistranslated menu, indecent language/imagery] It’s been 0️⃣ days since someone mistranslated the Chinese word for “dry” into English as “fuck”:
a Chinese restaurant menu, with English translations under the item names. One item’s translation reads “Fuck the duck until exploded”
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026
Just finished reading this book. It's a tour of humanity's dealing with large (yet finite) numbers. It starts off with human (and animal) instincts for number (such as subitizing up to 4 and estimating quantities), various technologies for writing numbers […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Book cover: "Huge Numbers: A Story of Counting Ambitiously" by Richard Elwes
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
Happy #Caturday / Glad Midsommar! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, lounging on a plaid blanket with an artificial flower crown on her head
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
Doris #WhiskersWednesday #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
An up-close view of a sleeping tortoiseshell cat's face, featuring her nose and whiskers amid soft, patterned fur.
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026
Taken from @warandpeas; reposted with alt-text:
Stop Using Anti-19th-century Language
Instead of:

grippy sock vacation
depression
simp
"I'm crashing out"
bed rotting

Say:

being sent seaside
melancholia
incurable romantic
"My hysteria persists"
neurasthenia
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acb @acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026
Happy #Caturday! #Cativitypub #feliverse #CatsOfMastodon #tortitude
Doris, a tortoiseshell cat, resting curled on her side on a wooden floor, her face resting on an action-painting-patterned fish-shaped cat toy.
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