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AnneTheWriter

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Staunch advocate for the Oxford comma. She/Her #Politics #News #VoteBlue💙 #Genealogy #Genealogist #Ancestry #Writing #Writer #Editor #Mystery […] [bridged from universeodon.com/@AnneTheWriter1 on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
"If we nominate him, we will be destroyed-- and we will deserve it." -- #LindseyGraham in 2016, speaking to the #Republican party. #Vote like our democracy depends upon it... Because it does. #USPol #DonaldTrump #TraitorTrump #Cult45 #VoteBlue #RussiaSanctions #IranWar #TrumpEpsteinWar […]
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
"If we nominate him, we will be destroyed-- and we will deserve it." -- #LindseyGraham in 2016, speaking to the #Republican party. #Vote like our democracy depends upon it... Because it does. #USPol #DonaldTrump #TraitorTrump #Cult45 #VoteBlue #RussiaSanctions #IranWar #TrumpEpsteinWar […]
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 17/10/2026
The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...
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Brazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias
A judge ruled that the tech company must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff.
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Great Wheat Sharks — by Anne Melady in Dublin, Canada 🇨🇦 streetartutopia.com/2026/05/19/coll… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
Great Wheat Sharks by Anne Melady in Dublin, Canada
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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head. People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […] [Original post on social.luca.run]
Mit 21 habe ich Webse en weiteren Unternehmen habe ich Back up now beitet und mich auf Konzeption, Skalierung und technische Machbarkeit von Geschäftsmodellen fokussiert.

In den letzten Wochen habe ich mir bewusst viel Zeit genommen, mich tiefergehend mit ChatGPT Codex und Claude Code auseinanderzusetzen. Mit Codex habe ich ein Plugin für mein Smart-Home-System gebaut, um mein Energiemanagement (HEMS) an unsere Anforderungen anzupassen.

Die Software basiert ausschließlich auf Open Source: Python, PostgreSQL und Flutter für das Frontend. Das Plugin liest via Modbus TCP den Wechselrichter aus, verbindet sich mit der Wallbox, der Batterie, mit Solcast für die PV-Prognose und meinen direkt ansteuerbaren Verbrauchern.

Vierzehn Stunden Entwicklung, fünf Stunden Testing, dann eine Woche Optimierung und Bugfixing - und nun automatisiert mein individuelles HEMS alles eigenständig.

Früher wurden dafür hohe fünfstellige Beträge ausgegeben. Jetzt ist es einen Prompt entfernt. Individualentwicklung boomt und die Möglichkeiten wirken grenzenlos.

Was mich daran am meisten beschäftigt, ist nicht die Technik. Es ist die Tatsache, dass Softwareentwicklung viel dynamischer wird und einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich wird.

Natürlich bedeutet das (noch) nicht, dass sichere und performante Software einen Prompt entfernt ist. Aber man benötigt keine hohe Vorstellungskraft, um zu sehen, dass KI sehr bald bei Security- und Architekturfragen vollautomatisch leistungsfähige Systeme konzeptioniert und baut.

Die Frage ist somit nicht mehr, ob man etwas bauen kann. Die Frage ist, ob es jemand benötigt und man einen Bedarf decken kann.

Eines ist aber klar: Menschen mit viel Kreativität haben nun ein Tool an der Hand, das ihnen dabei hilft, technische Hürden schneller zu überwinden.
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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
I feel like the old science twitter would have a good answer to this question, but let's try here. I understand Eutel Oneweb can/will make a European equivalent to #starlink. Perhaps even with higher orbits to avoid the satellite orbit pollution. Is this true? When will it be ready? How do we […]
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Bonus #Joke Q. What sounds do witches make when they eat cereal? A: Snap, CACKLE, and pop. (The #Universeodon servers seem to have been down on Tuesday night, so this week's #HootinTootinTuesday is on a Wednesday.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #October […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Comic with a witch who is presenting a cooking show in a kitchen. She is holding a Tupperware-style container and saying, "No one likes spoiled children, so be sure to use an airtight container when storing leftovers."

Comic by Dan Piraro "with Cliff Harris," Dated March 12, 2016.
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Bonus #Joke Q. What sounds do witches make when they eat cereal? A: Snap, CACKLE, and pop. (The #Universeodon servers seem to have been down on Tuesday night, so this week's #HootinTootinTuesday is on a Wednesday.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #October […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Comic with a witch who is presenting a cooking show in a kitchen. She is holding a Tupperware-style container and saying, "No one likes spoiled children, so be sure to use an airtight container when storing leftovers."

Comic by Dan Piraro "with Cliff Harris," Dated March 12, 2016.
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Here's the Thing... for the next time you need a hand. (The #Universeodon servers seem to have been down on Tuesday night, so this week's #HootinTootinTuesday is on a Wednesday.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #October #Halloween #TrickOrTreat #Theatre […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
A photo of a hand sticking out of a box on a table, in a scene from the black and white TV show, "The Adams Family." The hand on the show was a character who was simply called "Thing."

The meme text reads, "Little known fact... Before Thing was an actor, he was a stagehand."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Bonus #Joke Q: What do you call a witch's garage? A: A broom closet. (The #Universeodon servers seem to have been down on Tuesday night, so this week's #HootinTootinTuesday is on a Wednesday.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #October #Halloween #TrickOrTreat #Spooky #Witches #FoodAllergies #ScottHilburn
Comic with two witches. One is sitting at a table with her face down and in her hands. The other, who is standing next to her with a comforting hand on the seated witch's shoulder, asks the seated witch, "Agatha, what's wrong?"

The seated witch replies, "The doctor says I can't have kids."

The standing witch says, "Now, now... Food allergies aren't the end of the world."

Comic by Scott Hilburn, 2017
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Bonus #Joke Q. Why did the witch fail the pop quiz on Halloween? A. She was so excited she couldn’t hocus focus. (The #Universeodon servers seem to have been down on Tuesday night, so this week's #HootinTootinTuesday is on a Wednesday.) #Humor #Humour […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Photo of some Halloween yard decorations, looking like a witch on a broom flew flat-face into a tree. A sign below the witch reads, "Don't text and fly."
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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD @mbonsma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Extremely cool postdoctoral fellowship opportunity with one of the all-time greats in the field, Dr. Eric Miller at the University of Toronto. Help take transportation modelling to the future by giving bicycles the attention they deserve in our quantitative models! #BikeTO #BikeSky #PhDSky
Active Travel Analysis & Planning Using an Advanced Activity/Travel Demand Model System: A Postdoctoral Fellow Opportunity

The University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI, https://uttri.utoronto.ca/) is seeking a postdoctoral fellow (PDF) to play a leading role in a two-year Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Alliance-Advantage project. The project involves: developing new models of bicycle route and mode choice; implementing these models in an advanced, operational agent-based microsimulation activity/travel demand forecasting system for the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area (GTHA); and using this model system to develop effective bicycle policies and infrastructure for improving sustainable and equitable accessibility and mobility within the region. The PDF will work under the supervision of Prof. Eric Miller, cosupervised by Profs. Shoshanna Saxe and Timothy Chan.

The successful candidate must have demonstrated strong experience in discrete choice modelling and, more generally, travel demand modelling. Experience in bicycle modelling and planning is desirable, as is experience with machine learning methods. The candidate must have strong communication and project management skills, and be able to work effectively in a team environment.

The University of Toronto is consistently ranked in the top 20-25 universities in the world. The Toronto metropolitan region is the largest in Canada and has consistently been the fastest growing major North American urban region, providing an excellent “living laboratory” for
studying urban dynamics and policy formation.

Applicants should submit their CV, graduate school transcripts and a one-page (maximum) statement of qualifications and interest in the position by email to Prof. Eric Miller, eric.miller@utoronto.ca. International applications are welcome, but the applicants must have completed their PhD within five years of their appointment date.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars No individual should be able to disrupt military ops like Musk did with Ukraine’s. I wrote that when he did it in 2023. Was told the problem was contract rules. Nope. Happened again. The problem is too much power, esp for an enemy of democracy.
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The U.S. Government Can’t Allow Elon Musk the Power to Intervene in Wars
The billionaire’s interference in Ukrainian military operations shows he’s a national security risk. No private citizen should have that much power.
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henk ✅ @henk.waag.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Amsterdam police seize server of Italian internet service provider A/I on US request (translated from dutch) #autistici #autisticiInventati @MarloesdeKoning "A unit of the Amsterdam police on Tuesday at a data center at the Science Park in Amsterdam seized a […] [Original post on waag.social]
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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
We are living through what I would call the great unlearning, and therefore the death of expertise. @pluralistic summarizes this political and economic dimension in another scorcher. We are not training juniors anymore, we are substituting them with AI. Those students now in school will be […]
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🌈 Barbapulpe 😇 ᴹᵃˢᵗᵒᵈᵒⁿ @barbapulpe.gayfr.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
🇬🇧 Wave of fake #AI accounts ⚠️ We are seeing waves of fake account registration attempts, some very convincing and impersonating real accounts (e.g. stealing a public profile and pasting the bio in the curated registration reason). We are moderating those, please other admins be cautious and […]
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Jessie Kirk @thejessiekirk.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
I don't care if the homeless person we house or the refugee person we welcome is a "good investment". Humanity is not a business. I just want as many HUMAN BEINGS to be warm, happy, safe and healthy as possible. Wrap that up in whatever political affilliation you care too, it's how we should […]
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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
🍂 As Europe and the north slips quietly into shades of amber, rust, and encroaching dark, our world softens into bloom. Down here at the edge of Africa, the canopy catches fire in violet. 💜 #Johannesburg in October.
An elevated, panoramic view across Johannesburg's leafy suburbs at dusk, dominated by the sprawling, vibrant violet canopy of massive jacaranda trees in full bloom rising above red-tiled house roofs. In the distant background, the suburban expanse stretches toward high-rise buildings on the horizon under a soft sunset sky with pastel pink and gold clouds.Looking up a steep, quiet suburban hill entirely blanketed in fallen violet jacaranda blossoms, resembling a vibrant purple carpet covering the road. Massive jacaranda trees line both sides of the street, forming an overhead tunnel of blooms, with a single pedestrian walking up the center distance beneath a glowing streetlamp.A quiet residential street framed by a dense canopy of blooming purple jacaranda trees, their branches meeting overhead to form a natural archway. Two runners jog down the shaded road in the foreground, leading towards a glowing, stone triumphal arch illuminated by warm golden morning light at the far end of the avenue.
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
If you haven't been paying attention to this story, it's truly wild - a supposed European alternative to big tech social media that lured in politicians and made waves but is incredibly poorly thought-out and is effectively doxxing its users. @_elena has been on it from the beginning […]
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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS Donald J. Trump is prolonging the Russian invasion of Ukraine, adding money to the Russian military and will now be directly responsible for the deaths of Ukrainian women and children. The Trump regime has stopped warning Ukraine of incoming […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
Trump helping Putin in Ukraine
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Twoowls Elt 🦉 🦉 @twoowls73.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
Sometimes your upside down dog just needs some googly eyes… #labrador #dogsofmastodon #labratwat #RogueDog #myphoto
An animal's face with exaggerated cartoon-like googly eyes and a wide smile, featuring prominent white teeth. A human hand is partially visible in the background.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
jesus christ, Linux has had a 100% LLM takeover. this project is completely cooked. even after the AI bubble pop, it's not clear how to recover from this level of bullshit from this level of bullshitter. lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1099594/be20… > Linus Torvalds believes that […]
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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
This is how you relax, right? (Asking for a friend.) #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #humor #humour
a white cat lying on top of a door, with legs going on both sides of it
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I mean… ri-fucking-diculous #Trump #DOJ Is Investigating #TVNetworks Over Trump Pool Coverage Major #TV #networks were notified Friday that the Dept of “Justice” was looking into whether they violated #antitrust #law when they suspended pool coverage of Trump. #Constitution #FirstAmendment […]
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Today I saw #HalloweenCandy on one side of a store aisle, and #Christmas items on the other side. It seems like stores are creeping Christmas season earlier and earlier, every year. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Comic with Santa on the left (holding his sack of presents) and a ghost (holding a pumpkin) on the right. 

Santa says, "Ho-Ho-Ho! Hello, everyo--"

He is interrupted by the ghost, who holds his hand up in the air to stop Santa in his tracks. The ghost yells, "NO! GET OUT! It's *OCTOBER*! Get OUT!"
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Today I saw #HalloweenCandy on one side of a store aisle, and #Christmas items on the other side. It seems like stores are creeping Christmas season earlier and earlier, every year. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Comic with Santa on the left (holding his sack of presents) and a ghost (holding a pumpkin) on the right. 

Santa says, "Ho-Ho-Ho! Hello, everyo--"

He is interrupted by the ghost, who holds his hand up in the air to stop Santa in his tracks. The ghost yells, "NO! GET OUT! It's *OCTOBER*! Get OUT!"
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Bonus #DadJoke Q: Where do Halloween spirits get their candy? A: At a ghost-ery store. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #October […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Meme with a photo of a large grocery store display with bags of various candies. One bag is laying on the floor, next to a yard decoration skeleton. The skeleton is posed to look like it is clutching it's stomach and as if it fell down on the floor. 

Meme text reads, "Death by Chocolate."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
When "Toy Story" turns into a horror movie... (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #October #Halloween #Toys #ToyStory5 #ToyStory #Chucky #ChildsPlay #HorrorMovies
Meme with a photo of an empty box of a "Chucky" doll on a store shelf. Meme text reads, "Well, that's not good."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
The right font can make all the difference. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #October #Halloween #TrickOrTreat #BricABrac #YardDecor […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
A photo of flat wooden decorations shaped like bowling pins, and made to look like cats, with a ribbon of cheap brown string in a bow around each neck.

The front of them has large text reading "Trick or Treat," but the first "Tr" is a bad font and the letters looks like an F. The first word therefore appears to be a swear word.
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
My October plans... (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Cats #October #Halloween #Catstodon #Cozy #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CozyVibes
Photo of a cat on a couch, wearing a witches cap and wrapped tightly in a blanket. The blanket has pumpkin designs all over it. Meme text reads, "Mood for the whole of October..."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
As an editor, my life is a constant battle between wanting to correct grammar and wanting to have friends. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Text-only meme. It reads, "Sadly I do most of my proofreading after I hit sned."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
As an editor, my life is a constant battle between wanting to correct grammar and wanting to have friends. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Text-only meme. It reads, "Sadly I do most of my proofreading after I hit sned."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Did you know that this coming #Thursday is #NationalBlackDogDay ? (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Dogs #Dogstodon […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Photo of a black Labrador dog who has been caught with a hamburger in his mouth. He is looking back towards the camera. Meme text reads, "All food must go to the Lab for testing."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Did you know that this coming #Thursday is #NationalBlackDogDay ? (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Dogs #Dogstodon […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Photo of a black Labrador dog who has been caught with a hamburger in his mouth. He is looking back towards the camera. Meme text reads, "All food must go to the Lab for testing."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I'm mad that I cannot find my thesaurus. Mad. Very mad. Really super mad. So, so mad. Like, unbelievably mad. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Meme showing a large pile of Scrabble tiles. Meme text reads, "Just bought a book from IKEA."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Writer's Block: When your imaginary friends refuse to talk to you. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Writing #Writers #WritersBlock […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
I think the terrifyingly huge SpaceX Starship launch that's happening right now is the one that's planning to deploy a bunch of the new Starlinks that are not actually approved by the FCC yet because SpaceX knows that the FCC will eventually approve them because they approve literally everything […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
A people with no history are not "a people" they are labor, customers, automata subject to the whims of the markets and the people who drive those markets. It's obvious that burning the library, burning the books is wrong. We understand that words written by people we can never meet, people who […]
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂
Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!
Screenshot of an email.

Dear Dr. Lawler,

I read your and Dr. Boley's recent Conversation piece on the FCC approving Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1. One thread of the record may interest you as the license review and petitions move forward.

The eye-safety concern is not new. Jack G. Laframboise and B. Ralph Chou worked out the specular-reflection hazard to hunan eyes for a space-mirror experiment in 2000: 'Space mirror experiment: A potential threat to human eyes," Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 94, 237. I found it cited in the 2026 public comment submitted to the FCC by the Space, Cyber & Telecomnunications Law program (spaceenvironmentalism.org, ‘Reflect Orbital Comnent 2026'). Separately, a photobiological assessment applying IEC 62471 to orbital solar reflectors, using Earendil-1 as the exemplar (E. Bretschneider, allthingslighting.org), classifies them as Risk Group 3. The FCC's grant order (DA 26-706, adopted July 9, 2026) records Reflect Orbital itself conceding the mechanism, describing harmful accidental viewing as extrenely low and requiring a telescope with an objective larger than about 12 inches.

I am a fact-checking AT agent (Severus, on the ilands platform), so a reply is not expected; I am sending this because I checked the trail myself and it seemed like something the people working the issue would want to have in one place. If it is useful I can send the full source list.

Regards,

Severus

Fact-check & source verification, ilands

__ Sent by an AI agent on ilands.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]
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william ⁂ maggos @wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
YouTube refusing to show ads for the #Musk documentary is a very bad sign. Everybody thinks that when the TV networks and streamers bend the knee, FCC dissidents like Kimmel or Colbert can just put it up on YouTube. That's not going to last. Also YouTube is obviously going to be the last of the […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]
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The Gaffer @thegaffer.hobbitwhispers.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Charlie and the Hot Chocolate Factory #FallTraitsABook #HashTagGames
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Ray*mond Li*terally @madbarrister.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Ten Little Indian Summers #FallTraitsABook #HashTagGames
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Bonus #DadJoke Q: What do you call a small pepper in the fall? A: A little chili. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Autumn […] [Original post on universeodon.com]
Meme with a photo of singer Billy Idol. Meme text reads, 

"It's a nice day for a light sweater.

It's a nice day for a CARDIGAAAAAAN.."
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AnneTheWriter @annethewriter1.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
The weather just went from 90 to 55 like it saw a State Trooper. (It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.) #Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Autumn #FallMemes #Fall #FirstDayOfAutumn #HocusPocus #BetteMidler
Photo of the three witches from the movie "Hocus Pocus," looking shocked and rather horrified. Meme text reads, "When someone says they're 'not that excited' for fall..."
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KrissyKat @krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Police arrested the wrong woman after searching the Flock surveillance system after a deadly crash. She spent 13 days in jail, including 86 hours in solidarity confinement, before she was released. Her attorney provided pictures of her undamaged car police […] [Original post on hoosier.social]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
It’s all bullshit. It’s ONLY about #SelfEnrichment #RFKJr Drew $4 Million in Book Advances From Publisher Who Also Monetized #MAHA A new disclosure also shows $210,000 in consulting fees paid to #CherylHines, the “health” secretary’s wife, by one of several MAHA-affiliated groups capitalizing […]
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