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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h

Bees. Aberdeen Bestiary, England ca. 1200. Aberdeen University Library, MS 24, fol. 63r. #medieval #MedievalArt

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Orthorexia? Superficial values upheld by society to oppress women? Oh ok, apparently it’s proctitis that means she can only eat bison meat and certain organic vegetables. Righto then.

Photo of Miranda Kerr with the headline ‘Real reason behind model’s unusual diet’

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Trump: “Our finances have like, never been better.” Two trillion debt. One step away from national collapse.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Stop! That! Train is a total hoot but the one bad thing about it is it made me sad RuPaul isn’t actually America’s president.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

This is utter, utter madness. Pal Action has used red paint, hunger strikes and a touch of hands-on property damage. Their temporarily sabotaging the factories of defence contractors (that are supplying a genocidal maniac) now means millions of moody British teenagers no longer have access to […]

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Brett Cannon @brettcannon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Since the US tech companies can't decide if they are going to call it "artificial intelligence" or "super intelligence", I'm just going to call it "large language models" going forward. It's accurate and doesn't mistake LLMs as intelligent or in any way conscious.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

People who know about tech - do celebrities use wired headphones to prevent people tapping their phone calls? And if they do, are their fears legitimate?

Picture of various celebrities with wired apple ear buds. The caption reads ‘Hate being caught with a tinfoil hat on but there's a reason why celebs wear wired headphones and not AirPods/bluetooth.’

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I should add the most important part: this entirely impractical - unless you want to carry your spouse about with you, I guess - bag costs AUD$299.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

APRIL FOOLS HAHAHA (just joking it’s October and this is real).

Screenshot of a page from Lululemon’s website featuring their ‘Big Ass Bag’ with a photo of a woman holding an absolutely enormous (ludicrously capacious) 80L shoulder bag.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Everyone else probably already knows this but it dawned on me today that the designers of the iPhone just wanted a way to disappear into a screen anywhere because they were already internet addicts and they wanted their addiction to be portable. And now we’re ALL internet addicted thanks to […]

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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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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Every vendor at the street fair

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Just got a mass email from our bank that essentially says, "If you give your username and password to an AI agent, you're on your own." You've. Been. Warned. 🤣

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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]

A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement. She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.

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wendythedruid @wendythedruid.thistlenfern.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom." — bell hooks, "Love as the Practice of Freedom," in Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (1994) #LGBTQ #Pride #ProgressPride #QueerJoy #TransRights #Community #LoveWins #Photography thistleandmoss.com

Black-and-white portrait of a woman with braided hair looking toward the camera, seated indoors. A lamp and part of a chair are visible in the background.

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Back in the 1980s Tudor Griffiths taught Computer Science in the local school. Two maxims he repeated almost every class have stuck with me for decades. "A computer is exactly as smart as the person telling it what to do" and "A computer can and will make mistakes, and it'll do it a million […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Just finished Whistler - my first Ann Patchett but certainly not the last. WHAT a novel. WHAT a writer. Very glad I impulse-bought a stack of her books with a gift card, because now I have a treat ahead of me (and know I made the right choice). Next up is Commonwealth.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Finished Dave Eggers’ Contrapposto last night and found it an incredibly moving, deftly sketched outline of a man’s not-easy life, a meditation on art and creativity, a polemic against pretension. Deeply enjoyable.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Thank god we had clothes on when these guys turned up #tokyo

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Losing all those toots in the Great Forkiverse Switch was a good lesson in impermanence.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

House prices falling by a percentage not seen in 40 years does not mean house prices have fallen to affordable levels - it is just that we have seen them increase so much year on year, that falls seem significant BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE IT JUST MEANS THE HOUSING MARKET HAS BEEN BROKEN

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Got stuck in Bangkok en route to Tokyo and this is the view from the hotel lobby #flooding

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

When will Australia get s2 of Ludwig, does anyone know? S1 was essentially perfect.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@chadbourn.bsky.social Does it actually have many real people using it any more or is it mostly bots and propaganda agents?

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 27/09/2026

i don’t know how i manage to still be astounded by any of this, but it’s astounding how closely the enron story mirrors the ai bubble. to me the only difference is the scale of the fraud, how many billions are involved, and how many people will be utterly destroyed when it all pops

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Sleep apnoeia is no fun. The risk of dying is quite obviously shit, of course. The comorbidity with snoring brings further risk (spousally induced concussion), but the massive joy killer is the constant tiredness. The first thing you notice when you get treated is the spring in your step; you […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

This article was incredibly reassuring and in fact completely reset my expectations and experience of my run this morning. Thinking ‘this feeling of discomfort is just my body adjusting to the new status quo of being in motion’ rather than ‘this feeling of discomfort is because I am old and […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: front-end.social/@sarajw/1172737134… Wasn’t expecting a video about Ferrari’s poor design choices to bring me to tears but then we’re not in a normal timeline any more, are we

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Total clickbait. The baby isn’t even that big, let alone huge.

Paparazzi photo of Lady Gaga with a baby in a sling, accompanied by the caption “Photos confirm star's huge baby secret”

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Teenagers sleep a lot. The opposite happens when you reach the other end of the hormonal rollercoaster. Help me, I can’t live like this!!

Apple Health sleep highlight showing my August sleep average of 6 hours 35 mins per night, compared with my September sleep average of 5 hours and 53 minutes per night 🫠🫠🫠

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Is the Nordic warmth in the room with us, Vogue Australia?

Screenshot of a Vogue Australia article with the headline ‘A Haussmannian apartment in Paris balancing elegant restraint with nordic warmth’. The accompanying photo shows a starkly monochromatic room with white-drenched walls and furniture, a nearly black floor, and one blond wood chair.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Shadow home affairs minister says Opposition will support opt-in social media algos as long as they don’t ’impede on people’s rights and freedoms’. Obviously he meant to say ‘impinge’ - but regardless, in what universe would limiting a tech giant’s ability to manipulate users impede on anyone’s […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Late to the game and I doubt there’ll be anyone on here who also cares about The Traitors but I’ve finally started watching this new season and nearly everyone has gigantic ‘Turkey teeth’ and slightly impeded sibilants. So want to know if it’s just because they’re reality stars or if they were […]

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Joan Crawford was fair and right about the hangers honestly.

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

What on earth is this kind of web ad - never seen it before! In an article on The Independent, a single word is highlighted with the tiny word ‘ad’ in the top right corner of the highlighted rectangle. When you click on it, it takes you to a completely […] [Original post on theforkiverse.com]

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Tim_Eagon @tim-eagon.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

It was proven today that the Fediverse liked Dolly Parton as much as it likes cats. #DollyParton #Fediverse #Cats

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Alsy at best @aletha.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Dolly was a shining example of the best kind of person. Her humanity, her drive to succeed and to do good in the world, her immense talent, her intellectual and emotional acuity - it’s hard to think of another celebrity who inspires (and deserves) the kind of universal love and loyalty she […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

For all my #gardening folks out there, don't do that! Not...at...all...al right?

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