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Graham Dunning @grahamdunning.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Tickets on sale now for the next NOISE TABLE at Walthamstow Trades Hall, Wednesday 28 October. Furrowed & Colin Webster - live lathe cutting & abstract saxophone Hannah Dargavel-Leafe - shipwreck field recordings and live wind sound Karina Townsend - continuous systems via DIY bagpipes […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Every election should have a “none of the above” option and if that gets the most votes then they have to do the election again with new candidates

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

My manager is a good egg. He’s just driven our leftover office lunch buffet bits over to a local homeless charity.

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Ew, the person before me in this AirBnB was watching GB News 🤢 *scrubs self*

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@sundogplanets I suspect a colleague does the same to me. Do they not think that we could just do that ourselves if that’s what we wanted? 🙃

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

My current earworm is the lovely Red, Red by Doug Burr. I think I discovered it on a blog many years ago when I was doing an internet radio show. I’ve never heard it anywhere else. youtu.be/EwFLJ3-n85E #earworm #americana #FingerPicking #DougBurr It’s because I’m playing a phone game […]

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Jaap Burger @burger-jaap.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Stellantis, where's the order button?! Citroën is set to relaunch the 2CV as the hottest electric vehicle on the market. Ready in two years, fulfils the upcoming EU E-car requirements. And the price? O la la! €15,000 (just under 100,000 🇫🇷 francs) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

View of the steering wheel and central display, featuring a rotary-dial telephone depicted in comic-strip style

An interior photo taken from above through the open roof shows a soft yellow sofa, with cosy lights all around

Interior photo featuring a soft yellow sofa (rear), cosy lights

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@dazwright.com are you on tour? Straight from Greece to Czechia?!

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”. —Melissa Lee, Monash […]

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 08/10/2026

omg this is such a silly joke and I'm still giggling about it @xkcd.com

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Eva Marie Saint dying at 102 is one of those reminders of how compressed our modern history is -- like, it hardly even seems like 'history' when someone who was still alive last week was already 20 years old when Nazi Germany fell.

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I was ROFLing last night when GK Barrie (love her) said something about “non-mahogany” relationships. #eggcorn

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

My cat thinks that churu contains crunchy bits that taste like medicine.

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I just did an excellent typo: spreadsheep 🐑

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#GreatBritishBakeOff Does anyone else think that Shannon looks like the Mona Lisa? 🖼️ #UKTV

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Louise Locock @proflouisel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Annual reminder for National Trust members to vote in the AGM to keep out the so-called 'Restore Trust' Tufton Street right-wingers. Best way is to use the quick vote tactically to prevent fragmentation of the progressive vote. But if you wish to choose yourself, AVOID the following candidates […]

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I want to share with you the gist of a mind-blowing conversation I had with my doctor today at my annual physical. She asked about my mood, which led to a conversation about how AI is ruining everything, which prompted her to mention that she doesn’t use the AI transcription app that her […]

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@pete We use Hugo at work, but I probably only understand it in the very specific way we’ve set it up, so I don’t know why I’m telling you 🙃. We’ve been using it successfully for a few years now though, if that counts in its favour.

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Talked to someone who has been dabbling in translating fiction. This guy was horrified when I told him that if he uses machine translation for more than dictionary checks of individual words, he can't put his name on the translation and the work is ineligible under most standard publishing […]

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Jez Higgins @jezhiggins.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

"Street food concept" is just wanker-talk for "burger van"

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Well you don’t see that everyday: Chinese plates in Amsterdam. The stickers declare they’re on a journey from Qingyang to Iceland #amsterdam

A van with a 甘M license plate from China, a lot of country flag stickers, and a message in Chinese about Iceland or bust. Also a sticker that says “pizza tour”. Are they traveling the world to sample pizzas? goals.

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@dazwright.com I looked up Meganisi. That long skinny bit at the bottom looks exciting, for optimal land:sea ratio!

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@dazwright.com I might need numbers to understand that 🙃. Also jealous of you being in Greece. Whereabouts?

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Uh uh, uh uh “a big computer did it and ran away” is now a valid defence, gotcha

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Are you interested in learning how to use Git for the first time? (or almost the first time) we're looking for Git beginners to give us feedback on a Git tutorial! The tutorial will be open source when it's released, so you'll be helping many future beginners! Sign up here […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Intending to write another column about the treatment of #ME/CFS patients this week, pegged to new research findings on the biological basis. My question for sufferers: Are any of you still being offered inappropriate (psych/GET etc) "treatments"? Please email george at monbiot dot info. Thanks.

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

people wanna be “one with nature” but can't even be nice to pigeons

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this is a UK anti-AI petition that is sensible and about actual harms supporters.openrightsgroup.org/civi… by @openrightsgroup

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I have another brilliant idea to save money and time. Instead of promoting an LLM to write an email this new system will simply send your target the prompt and the email will be generated on their end with *their* tokens should they choose to open it. We can hide this all in an embedded HTML […]

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

[Great British Sewing Bee spoilers] #GreatBritishSewingBee Anna has been my favourite all the way through for what she’s made and also her personal style. Although Beth’s final dress was also stunning! #UKTV

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Graham Dunning @grahamdunning.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Making a 3 panel pamphlet for the next gig I'm putting on. A programme, I guess, but formatted like a leaflet for a local tourist attraction. How many noise gigs come with a pamphlet?

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@pete Those tramper things are brilliant, a lot of gardeny type places have them. My mum uses them a lot when we’re visiting places and I used one while recovering from surgery at the Birmingham Botanical gardens (they have a few available).

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Yeah, thanks BT 😬. What do you want me to do, make an appointment in my diary?! How about just let me know when it’s ready?! #NotificationsFromTheFuture #ThanksIHateIt

Text message from BT informing me that my latest bill will be ready to view “in a few hours”.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The year is 2026. Nobody wants a gamified experience on a website. Don’t give me a badge. Don’t even perceive me

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Julia @catnip.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Gah, staying in an AirBnB and just stubbed my big toe on the bed footboard in my sleep. Beds should not have footboards. Totally unnecessary.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Shocker, the deskilling machine successfully deskills school kids - to the tune of them being a full year behind their peers who are "left behind" by *checks notes* actually learning! Students who don’t use AI are ahead on every measure […]

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I've just seen this Peter Drucker management quote that I think encapsulates AI perfectly: > There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. A lot of people are using AI to automate processes that exist, instead of asking what the process accomplished in […]

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