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αxel simon :pride_heart:

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Not here to subjugate or serve. :vegan: :antifa: 🏴 🧅 Decentralisation proponent Unrepentant ska fan 🌈 friend Defending Freedoms on/& the Internet with @LaQuadrature […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.fr/@axx, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

And what exactly the fuck kind of screw is this, #IKEA? Explain yourself.

Close up photo is the back of an IKEA LED lamp made of plastic and held together by unusual screws: the screw heads are round, flat on two o opposing quarters and raised in two opposing quarters. The raised quartets are slopped so that a spanner bit ("snake eyes") can screw them in, but not out.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"Suggested donation: 750$", really? Are you taking the piss, #GoFundMe? 17.5% tip? Wow. Who is even setting these ridiculous levels?

Partial screenshot of a GoFundMe donation page.
The "Enter your donation" section shows the following suggestions:
£2,000 £1,500 £1,000 £750 £500 £200
with the 750 option marked "suggested"

The actual box is filled with 50 GBP.

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Tip GoFundMe services
GoFundMe doesn't charge a platform fee for organisers. Only a transaction fee is
deducted from each donation (see pricing page). This is possible through optional donor tips to support GoFundMe:
with a slider bar set at 17.5%

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Sadly discovered that Jim Miner, original guitarist for hardcore punk band Death By Stereo and tattoo artist extraordinaire is quite sick. And the US system being what it is (which is: inhumane) a crowdfunding has been set up to help. Toss some coin if you can. #mutualAidRequest #punk #hardcorepunk

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Ian Hislop grenade

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Ian Hislop generator

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

To the untrained eye, this may look like a piss take. It is, in fact, true and important in all the scary strategic ways.

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David Dufresne @davduf.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Allo L'Elysée - c'est pour un signalement Un éborgné, une main arrachée: deux lycéens. Mr Macron, vous finissez votre second mandat comme vous aviez débuté le premier, avec les Gilets Jaunes: dans le sang. Votre Présidence restera comme une période désastreuse. Votre République est déshonorée.

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Et pour la millième fois : c'est la police qui fixe le niveau de violence des manifestations. C'est la police qui fixe le niveau de violence des manifestations. x.com/mdiplo/status/108197758151425… www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2019/01/B…

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Pourquoi maintenant ?

par Laurent Bonelli (janvier 2019)

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Il faut refuser l'angle du préfet : « le procureur de Béthune Etienne Thieffry a assuré ne pas être en mesure d'affirmer (…) "si cet adolescent avait formellement récupéré une grenade qui a explosé dans sa main, ou si la grenade aurait atterri sur lui". » C'est sans importance. C"est une […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Pourquoi un adulte jette-il une grenade assourdissante sur un enfant ? POURQUOI UN ADULTE A-T-IL JETÉ UNE GRENADE ASSOURDISSANTE SUR UN ENFANT ? C'est l'angle qu'il faut pousser, il doit y avoir une réponse à cette question. C'est horrible, inacceptable et profondément inhumain d'avoir des […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@hrbrmstr Is there any more news about this right now?

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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Thanks, Ms. Rachel. Very based ideed.

FOXNews
MS. RACHEL'S CONTROVERSIAL STANCES
backed DS Candidates Includign El-Sayed and Angie Nixon
Supports Pro-Palestinian causes
opposes ICE
Says 'I don't think anyone needs a billion dollars'

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I can't believe i have to say this, that we still have to say this, but: the death penalty is bad. It's stupid, it's cruel, it doesn't work. It is vengeance, it is not justice and it is certainly not reparation. A society can't fix cruelty with cruelty, and can't prevent killing with killing […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The other co-author is maybe a bit more interesting, when it comes to the discrepancy i'm pointing out, in that he recently co-authored a paper entitled "Large language models exhibit speciesist bias against animals" – which happens to be the latest entry on his personal website's "Selected […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

To be a bit more specific, it's the Guardian asking, it's William MacAskill and Lucius Caviola, who are respectively "a Scottish philosopher and cofounder of the effective altruism movement" and an "Assistant Professor in the Social Science of AI at the University of Cambridge". Not surprised […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"Could #AI be conscious?" asks the Guardian, continuing with "Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications." Really? I mean, we *know* many, many non-human animals are conscious and we collectively have no plan to navigate the ethical […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@ploum Also, i don't see how this is a version of Pascal wager. In what way are you better off acting like some unprovable thing is true since getting it wrong could come at great cost? There is nothing unprovable here: either LLM-based code contribution are of sufficient quality and useful, or […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@ploum Err, this feels a bit like you wrote the conclusion before the logical reasoning. "LLM generated contributions will eventually slip in despite some guardrails such as "human review is mandatory". The longer a project stays in the "middle ground", the more ineluctable the slop infection […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Seeing otherwise rather progressive American gleefully cheer for an inmate's death, or ask disingenuous questions like "oh, I'm supposed to feel bad that they are scared to die now?" tells you a lot about how, at a rather fundamental level, there is cruelty in the American society and psyche […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Le ministre israélien qui défend le type du FN pas très malin élevé à Soral¹ parce qu'ils sont avant tout tous les deux d'extrême-droite, c'est quand même un Ouroboros de caca que seul 2026 pouvait nous offrir. 1. je sais, les deux vont ensemble

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: social.sciences.re/@hmedievale/1173… Grosse, grosse surprise, un spectacle dit « historique » sur le catholicisme, c'est surtout l'occasion de faire de la propagande et de passer sous silence les contradictions et les horreurs de l'Église catholique. Comment, qu'ouï-je […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

In case you missed it, #Microsoft deleted the data of tens of thousands of small non-profits that until then had benefitted from their free licence program. The orgs logged to find all their data in Microsoft 365 gone. And unrecoverable […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Oh no. This can't be. But the big "AI" companies were saying their models were doing science. Anyway, cure for cancer should be dropping any day now. @resuna ohai.social/@resuna/117274624138257…

Resuna (@resuna@ohai.social)

Attached: 1 image https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.15567 "We are treating AI like an omniscient research partner when it is actually just an extremely fast librarian with a severe hallucination problem."

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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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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I have no idea why so many people consider #Slack the standard for work communications. I regularly hear notifications and have _no idea_ which chat in Slack has a new message. Slack has so many menu items and sub-menu items, that's starting to look like a Microsoft product. The "unread" […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The more time goes by, the more the #NothingNicetoSay comics version of Fat Mike inches closer to being true. As foretold by the prophecy. www.spinmagazine.com/2026/09/nofxs-… (Sadly, the @internetarchive 's captures of the specific comic I have in mind […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Yesterday, an English fascist tried to slash and stab the inflatable boat refugees were travelling on, after they had been transferred to a rescue boat but while a rescue worker was still on it, in case you are wondering how England is doing right now […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

So now there is a "friendly fork" of #immich called Noodle Gallery, and while its features look interesting and for some of them downright very cool, it's also very LLM-flavoured. So much so that I find their feature comparison page extremely grating, making me feel like I'm reading a LinkedIn […]

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

Seen on a train.

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@IzzyChambers I know, that's kind of the point though :) I've tried with both the laptop's built-in microphone and my Sony earbuds microphones (which are bad, despite the earphones being great).

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@hugo I understand it's considered anti-social to double the communication channels during the meeting, as people can't seem to know when to treat the two as separate and when to merge them. (even if the chat is built-in to the video call meeting tool)

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Has anyone had success improving microphone sound quality, background noise reduction in particular, on #Linux? I've tried Easy Effects (input) profiles, Noise Torch, HushMic, using my mobile phone with AndroidMic… every time, my colleagues just end up telling me the sound is terrible. It […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Evening #London mood.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Has anyone made a child friendly device using #postmarketos ? Ie: no login process, only shows a limited number of curated apps, ideally can only go from showing app menu to one of the apps and back. The #Phosh interface and experience looks more complicated than I was hoping for.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Ikea cafés are no longer selling their cheap, #vegan / plant based hotdogs in the UK. They still have one option, mash and plant balls – and of course the vegan's last resort delicacy: fries – but what a rollback on what was some form of progress. Their tills also can't even tell you what the […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#Wise keeps wanting me to "start earning" on the cash I have on my accounts with them. I keep looking at their offer and going "still backed but the horribly unethical Blackrock is it? Thanks, I'd rather choke on a bag of rusty nails."

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@JessTheUnstill maybe the next time the fae remembers that person a new version of the old person is popped into existence, like some kind of magical twins. Also, the Nolan brothers automatically get a text so they can make a film out of it.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Solar panels out of China are getting so "offensively cheap" that Beijing in trying to limit their production to fight price deflation. Imagine that. Trying to reign in producers because their products are getting *too cheap* […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Make note of how the far-right's apologism of black-clad masked men with a military fetish when they see them as "brave patriots": "brave, passionate patriots who had very real reasons for covering their faces, including the very real fear of losing their jobs simply for standing up for Britain" […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Really, Tony Abbott (rich, conservative) and Rishi Sunak (rich, conservative) have a lot to answer for here. They are off making money now and not dealing with the consequences.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

We may need a line of t-shirts, polo neck shirts, tote bags and stickers in the UK that read: STOP WHINING ABOUT THE BOATS

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:heart_cyber: JesseBot :they_them: @jessebot.social.open.engineering.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Does anyone know the artist here? I want to buy stickers of this so badly :blobcat_pensive_pray: #vegan #sysadmin

Digital art of a "no" sign (circle with slash through it) on a white background that has a picture of a bunny and heart on one half and a serve and fire on the other. Instead of red it is green with the following words around the border: we do not test on animals. We test in production.

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the main result of #Brexit – beyond all the poverty, sadness and shrinking horizons – ended up being the end of the Union: www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/0…

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

"DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation" Really? Surely you'd think a company like #DigitalOcean would have a bit more discernment thant this. Not linking to fascist Arch Linux (Farch? O-Fashy? ) website announcement.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Zoom out to cardiovascular diseases overall, and the trend is even more dramatic. People in rich countries today have roughly a quarter the chance of dying from cardiovascular diseases as they did in the 1950s at the same ages. Back then, there were no statins, no cholesterol testing, no bans […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Medical innovation has transformed our lives, but hardly anyone realizes it. You can tell people that global life expectancy has doubledin a century and watch it fail to register – it just sounds like an abstract number, and numbers don’t convey how different life used to be. So let me describe […]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

@pluralistic fun talk tonight, thanks. One thing you might enjoy being corrected on: goldfishes actually have pretty good memories, and the story gets better because it was a teenage boy who proved using the scientific method, about 20 years ago (yikes, I remember reading that article when it […]

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