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essjax @essjax.m.essjax.com.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Get this: You can just go in there and have a look through 92,000 books and just borrow one or a few, and they don't even charge you. I mean you can also use their 3D Printers and sewing machines and computers and all that stuff, but they also have like a million (92,000) books you can read for […]

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18h

@hikingdude I do look at my followers at (infrequent) intervals. I'm mostly concerned about zero follower accounts. I'm set up now to approve new followers, but I do need to go back and do some weeding. I have a few blocks and/or mutes for weird behaviour, too.

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@allysseriordan Hi Allysse, there's two post come up apparently on your blog via NetNewsWire, dated 18 July and 10 May of this year. Clicking on them links off to a different blog (Lucidity???), and they don't appear on your actual blog AFAICS. Not sure what's happening here; I've seen both […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I'm not trying to be difficult, really, but when I'm asked "why didn't you make this photo in color?", they might as well ask "why wasn't this rendered as a sculpture?" or "why didn't you write a poem?". They're all just different media.

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

From the Times's daily briefing: Ukraine: Drone units have been forced to cancel missions and others have been left virtually defenceless against Russian jet-powered drones after speed restrictions were imposed on Elon Musk’s Starlink service So now there is no doubt about what side Musk is on […]

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@ftrc Looks like a pretty unpredictable table!

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

today's notable post from Threads: phoebebawmann 2026-10-13 • • • • The climate crisis is not a test of whether individuals can become sufficiently virtuous consumers. It is a test of whether governments can confront industries powerful enough to resist meaningful regulation. < […]

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@MikeFromLFE I've probably been on Tamsulosin for 10 years and Finasteride for maybe 4 years. I do very occasionally feel light headed, but I just put that down to being extremely old! Haven't had your problems from Finasteride (well, maybe a bit, no more than many me I could see with their […]

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Colin Beveridge @icecolbeveridge.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I think the sensible course is to meet halfway and call it superficial intelligence.

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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

The local Pauline Outta Tronno campaign is stepping up, laying out the whys and wherefores. #LakeMacquarie #AusPol

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Pauline Hanson Voted Against:

- wage increases for workers;
- childcare funding for families;
- housing affordability policies;
- public school funding;
- renter's rights.

Pauline Outta Tronno.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What these guys did was bigger than Brexit. They showed how you could produce work of an academic quality and distribute it through the media, to improve the standard of national debate. I wish more organisations would learn from what was accomplished here.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2023

the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016) www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#…

Screenshot of meeting notes for UTC Meeting 149. Text reads:

Mouse now present. 6.502 members represented.

[149-A94] Action Item for Landlord: Capture and exile the mouse that just fell out of the light fixture.

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Felipe Tofani | FTRC.BLOG @ftrc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I was interviewed by the fine people behind Berlin Photo Studio on their series called Developing Stories. I talk about finding my own way through #Berlin with my film pictures. You can read it all here […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Abstract black-and-white close-up of interlocking ribbon-like arches with fine parallel grooves forming a looping negative-space oval, emphasizing sweeping curves, texture, and high-contrast light and shadow.

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@huxley This is in Kenilworth, not far away!

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Round the back of the Castle, I heard some screeching. Merlin bird sound app suggested ring-necked parakeets. And then an old fellow with his dogs came by and said, you listening to the parakeets? So I think it's pretty much confirmed!

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I have just seen a pair of (probably) #RingNeckedParakeets fly into the copper beech across the street, and then fly out again. Rapid flight, long narrow tail, showed green on the back as they flew away!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@Edent I get your RSS-only posts via NetNewsWire, and as far as I can tell the "Changes to Atom and RSS" post displayed properly in NNW.

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Left it a bit too late to do a Silent Sunday image post today!

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

RE: fediscience.org/@petersuber/1165507… Brilliant. And scary. Although it told me various things I thought I had set differently. Off to check now.

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I really enjoy #PostCardsFromAfar, exchanging postcard sized prints of my original photography. Sign up for the new month... share your creativity & have fun! Names will be drawn mid-month. You will be matched with a person to send a postcard to. You only have to send one postcard to one person […]

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You are invited to sign the World Scientists’ warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Together, the signatories declare a planetary emergency and represent a global scientific call for urgent action to stabilize the Earth system and improve human well-being. To sign: forms.gle/BAfifGWesmoY...

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Endorse the World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice

Scientists are invited to endorse the article World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. The full paper can be read in roughly eight minutes and the summary can be read in one minute. Tog...

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@PixelProphecy Yes, some of us here started when computers were real, solid presences (pre Cray). But also tiny. I was supporting structural analysis programs that helped engineers with some of the first motorway junctions (curved bridges, OMG), in 12K 24 bit words (48 KB!) and no hard disk. The […]

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

So, so important to understand: "The model is not lying to you. Lying would require it to have a concept of truth. It is bullshitting you. It produces plausible-shaped text with total indifference to whether the world matches. When it’s right, it’s right as a side effect of its training data […]

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@TerribleMaps Amazed that Duran*2 apparently beat Black Sabbath!!!

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

And why have I been forking out my own money over the last 10+ years to support researchers when the NLA doesn't give a fuck? THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@hikingdude @craftymoni There'll be a new one opening next month, I'll let you know!

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@hikingdude That is lovely. I take part in #PostCardsFromAfar (rub by @craftymoni though she's not very active here). Each month you take part you send one postcard to an assigned person, while someone else sends (or should send) a card to you. I really like it. I usually send 5x7" cards (13x18 […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Battersea Power Station, London, UK, 2024 All the pixels, none of the flying pigs, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/540… #photography

A large industrial building with four prominent smokestacks at each corner, across a river at night.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

"NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts." www.psychologicalscience.org/public… An interview with Sylvia Chou, an 18 year vet of NIH, and former program director at the National Cancer Institute (#NCI). h/t @lschiff […]

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Internet Archaeology @internetarchaeology.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

New in IA71: Archaeological Excavations at the North Annexe, #York Guildhall by Benjamin Savine (York #Archaeology) et al. doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.10 As part of a programme of refurbishment and redevelopment of York Guildhall, archaeological investigations revealed a deeply stratified sequence […]

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

... Success!!!!! Some hot water and a LOT more plunging, and the sink started to empty! Added more hot water, plunged a bit more and it was draining freely. Yeah! However, oh no, when I looked round some of that muck was coming up into the bath. Luckily after getting the worst bits out and […]

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

As expected, no joy. Dis-assembled, more drain snake probing, won't go round the second corner. I think I've succeeded in pushing all the gunk down there, where the sink drain pipe runs under the bath. I got a thin flexible rod from a neighbour, it won't go round the second bend either. Tried a […]

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@kaiser_franz Wow, that deep monotone works _really_ well!

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

... Dis-assembled again, more finger probing, several good goes with the drain snake. Re-assemble, put some drano down, add a bit of hot water. Nothing's moving. Gloves on give it some well with the plunger, still no joy. I've decided to leave it 10 minutes, see if it loosens up then. If not...

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Oh dear. I'm in the middle (should be the end) of a "simple" #plumbing job. Took the U-bend off the bathroom sink to try to get better drainage. It was surprisingly clean, but I cleaned it some more. Ten I discovered that the waste pipe from there (which runs under the bath) was almost full of […]

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Today we had the most unusual PhD defense of my career. Leon Houben fell 15 m in the Alps, landing on his head and loosing his memory while working on his PhD thesis. When he met me again, he had to google me. He had to re-learn everything and wrote two more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

House of the Temple, Washington, DC, 2023 All the pixels, but no human sacriifices whatsoever, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/532… #photography

An imposing Masonic temple at night, with Ionic columns, ornate features, flanked by human lions statuary.

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@hikingdude You can get ICC profiles done for a combination of your favourite paper(s) and your compatible ink. I did that, at a cost of £15 for one combo. Didn't solve the nasty green b&w problem, but colour was better. Anyway, I ended up throwing that compatible set away, so it didn't end up […]

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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

@hikingdude I wonder if the answer depends on the printer? It certainly depends on your aims in printing. If you're printing what are essentially drafts, to get a fresh view of your compositions, then 3rd party's fine. If you're going for permanence, exhibition class, for sale etc, then Canon […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Midtown, NYC, 2022 All the pixels, but smaller than they are in person, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/518… #photography

An abstract composition of NYC midtown skyscrapers.

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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

“ #OpenAI may deny its culpability, but it’s now facing dozens of lawsuits from the victims of the Tumbler Ridge shooting, along with the province of BC. It’s not even the first time this has happened. In April 2025 a shooter entered the student union at Florida State and killed two after […]

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ☠️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ☠️ Now it's all like oh no! the computer did an oopsie! no one is to blame, nothing can be done! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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