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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Popular accounts of the discovery of the structure of DNA suggest that Rosalind Franklin missed the significance of the photo she famously produced, and that the flash of insight was James Watson's alone. A new paper by science historian Alistair Sponsel and crystallographer Brian Sutton argues […]

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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 15h

If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Oatmeal Stout That is bread in a bottle, and I will die on that hill. (Possibly from starvation, alcohol poisoning, or both.) #NoEffort #IntoxicatingFoods #HahtagGames

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I stand with Jack Smith! 🤚 Because…👇 Donald J. Trump belongs in prison, not the presidency. Any Questions?! 😎✨

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Ed Wiebe @edwiebe.scribili.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I found a slime mold. I think it’s funny.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't understand the need to say dickwad CEOs can't make good stuff. This is the world we live in. A lot of my favorite things in the arts and sciences come from absolute bastards. The real argument should be about how to channel dickwaddery into good social outcomes, not whether the stuff works.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. Nothing could be further from the truth. Young people don't like the slop, the most tech people have the harshest words. The […]

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Screenshotting this because I don't want to step on Tuta's toes too much by pointing out in the replies that Nextclous is also a good replacement for online calendars and file sharing.

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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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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

I've been getting lots and lots and lots and lots of Sendgrid-themed phishing, but this one is a work of art: ----- In memory of David Mixner, a prominent LGBTQ+ activist who passed away earlier this year, our CEO has decided to apply an LGBTQ+ pride theme to outgoing emails and footers. This […]

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

New Elle Cordova short This time she gets political and she's brilliant as always. #ElleCordova youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w6W5B-E

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Remember, "I don't know, I lack sufficient information on this topic" is NEVER an acceptable answer. Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

New Elle Cordova short This time she gets political and she's brilliant as always. #ElleCordova youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w6W5B-E

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

And soon I discovered I was in love with the world So there was only one thing I could do

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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The UN has approved a resolution to adopt a new world map that more accurately depicts the size of continents. The U.S. was the only country to vote against, calling the measure a "radical ideological project." Several countries abstained or raised objections related to territorial and border […]

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I've been playing Palworld lately, and it's positively addictive. Meet my level 46 battle chicken #Palworld #Gaming #GamingOnLinux

This screenshot shows the status page for a 'pal' in Palworld, in this case a Chikipi, widely considered the weakest pal in the game.

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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Alito and Thomas dissented, of course. Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to lift block on mail-in ballots rule www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/supreme-cou…

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Just upped my monthly contribution to my local Mastodon instance. Please support your local instance if you have the means. Decentralization is what keeps the fediverse free and weird.

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TildalWave (~👋) @tildalwave.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Today's prize. I love these cauliflower mushrooms, they look like someone's brain escaped the confines of their skull and fell on the forest floor. They can be quite substantial, this specimen is about double the size of my own brain. Very good to eat, too […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

A single specimen of a trilobed Sparassis crispa aka cauliflower mushroom of generous size growing in the shadow of the base of a pine tree.

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I think my XML might be self-aware and fuckable

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Ugh. Gonna be late for this delivery. I had a trailer tire blowout in the final stretch. So now I'm parked off the highway waiting for road breakdown to arrive. There's a thunderstorm moving in. With any luck, it'll pass trough before the technician arrives. #TruckLife

Picture of the rear tires of a tractor trailer. You can see that the inner tire is off the rim and there's damage to the sidewall.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

The truck stop I chose to stop at tonight only has 4G cell phone service. I'm struggling to get even 1 Mbps. This is the worst thing that has ever happened. :(

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Catnip Madness Shirt. I tried to wean my cats off of catnip once. They immediately switched over to crystal meth. Moral of the story: Never tell a cat what to do. collabs.shop/hvmytv

A light gray t-shirt with a vintage-style black graphic featuring three cats, catnip plants, and bold text that reads "CATNIP MADNESS", along with captions like "PUBLIC ENEMY No. 1" and "A WEED FROM THE DEVIL'S GARDEN!".

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Too much of our economy consists of nonsense created by people with so much money they literally don't know what to do with it. Money with no place to go, no one who is thinking carefully about how it is spent and shaping the market rationally. So the market become surreal and irrational.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Updating the VPN server just now. Needs a fresh reboot. Okay, I'll just pop over to Mastodon and see what's shaking while I wait. It's not working? Oh.... it sits behind the VPN, which is down for the moment. DOH! #SelfHosted

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

It's the fall, so that means a-woo school starts again. #husky #awoo #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #dogstodon #humor #humour

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

If the Trump family can keep the money it has accumulated this term, the next generation of Trumps will be far richer than Donald Trump ever was until his 80th year. Americans traditionally let bygones be bygones after a president leaves office, on the theory that ex-presidents rarely cause […]

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

@histodons I am actually curious if anyone with a background in history knows of the kinds of resources that would journal how black Wall Street, how a black community built prosperity, despite all the racist policy, excluding them from normal financing, and that sort of thing. How well can […]

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The tropical storm down in Texas knocked the power out at home for about a day, and so darkmoon was down. It took a while to get someone there to kick the server once power was restored, but it's back up now. :) It should have booted automatically when the power came back on, but it didn't […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.

Ice cream trucks are required to play music so lactose intolerant individuals have time to hide.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

When I started this job nearly four years ago, I took a picture every day of something I thought was interesting or pretty wherever I ended up that day. Then I posted the pic to Twitter. I did that for a full year. Right after that, I moved to Mastodon. I should dig those out and post them here […]

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Put Lake Ontario back where you found it. Right now.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

From now on, anytime someone asks me why I put so much time and effort into this arguably dumb account, I will simply tell them that I do it for Tim.

Reply from Tim to one of my posts: That made me laugh. I don't laugh much.

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

the dog days are over. the dog nights are struggling to be born. now is the time of dogs playing poker.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Dammit! The truck's vibration just walked my Dr. Pepper off the desk and made a huge mess.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

This is interesting. I sometimes wonder about my system's SDD health. I might look into this Performance Co-Pilot. (Not to be confused with Microsoft's disastrous Copilot spyware.) As usual, you can probably adapt this info for whatever distro you use […]

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Mark T. Tomczak @mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Thinking about the era of technology where the easiest way to display images was to take all the air out of a tube and point a death ray at your face. It's fine though. There was a thin screen between you and the death ray that caught all the death and turned it into pretty colors.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I think i just removed myself from a scammer's call list. I wasted at least five minutes of his time.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

If Mitch McConnell is dead then how did he just put out a new statement advocating that we label the Ghostbusters as a terrorist organization? Checkmate, conspiracy theorists.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

I attempted to make some progress on my fuuuuk bot today, but I'm having a bit of difficulty making it log in or do anything. There's a lot I don't know, yet. Ah well, I'll figure it out eventually.

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Bruce Heerssen @bruce.darkmoon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

There is a lot happening on this truck stop bathroom stall door.

Photo of the back of a bathroom stall door. The door is brown, open at the top and bottom, and framed by gray wooden walls. There is a mass of graffiti written and carved into the door, as well as a small sign that reads, "set a goal SO BIG That you can't achieve it until YOU GROW INTO THE PERSON WHO CAN. — UNKOWN"

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