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Clifton Royston

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Me: Reading SF&F since about age 9, friends with LGBTQ people since age 16, working in software/tech since I was 16, practicing Zen since 17 or 18, on Internet by […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ wandering.shop/@CliftonR, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Chilly :donor: 🛡️ :gayint: :ifin: @chillybot.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
We have taken control of the means of cat (infosec.exchange now has roomba cat thank yoou) :cat_roomba_fast: :cat_roomba_fast:
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Happy to announce that the “buddha” character has been successfully adapted for a US audience
Some buddhas hand citrus branded as “goblin fingers@
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Still true
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Proud of my local dyke bar for taking a stand against transphobia
Screenshot of a post by Rikki’s bar In SF where they said they had an incident with people coming to the bar wearing transphobic shirts looking for confrontation 

The post says we we want to make it clear that trans people belong at Rikki’s and trans people belong in sports
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
Periodic reminder that the absurd price of dram and ssds for computer components basically boil down to an oligopoly of 3 corporations who have a long history of collision and price fixing whenever they can find a plausible excuse to get away constraining supply and making obscene amounts of profit.
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Borderline derpsonality!
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Our cats are very upset and having literal hissy-fits because there is An Interloper! The interloper in question:
A young black and white cat with tuxedo markings, barely past kitten stage, is peering out from under a Scandinavian style wood and vinyl chair. The same young black and white cat has come out from under the chair and is trotting diagonally left and towards the camera. The same young black and white cat is closer still, in a half seated position, staring towards the right. OMG this cat is RIGHT THERE!
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
In precision machining it’s known that the standard twist drill makes holes that are never perfectly round nor perfectly sized. When exactness is required you drill slightly undersized then follow up with a reamer. Needing 10.000mm I drilled 9.9 and chucked a 10mm reamer. Instead of taking tiny […]
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️ @medeavanamonde.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Weeeellll... bless 'em all. Happy Friday, 'Shop fam, we got another wave of "verify your account" sc/pammers on the loose. TL;DR: YOU NEVER HAVE TO VERIFY YOUR MASTODON ACCOUNT If your admin has *any* reason to contact you ever it will be via DM from your own instance admin, ONLY. The wider […]
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Wow, LinkedIn's algorithm really doesn't want people to read @sarahgilbert's article about keeping the Internet human in the era of AI Out of the 10,200 impressions the feed gave my posts last week, it only gave 65 to Sarah's *important* article in @techpolicypress As Sarah writes, "If AI […]
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."
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kcxt! @cas.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past) their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster having seen […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026
It's not even "I wrote some software and put it in a product and the product did a harm and I'm maybe fractionally culpable in a way that's really hard to apportion" any more. It's just "I set up a computer to do crimes and I spent ten million dollars on electricity to prove it could do crimes […]
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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Looking to move off Dropbox, recommendations welcome! My requirements: * 1-2 TB for about $15 CAD ($10 USD or €9 EUR) * supports Linux & Android * phone camera uploads * continuous/background sync (or at least automated) * CEO not fascist Nice-to-have: * not US-based * company […]
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Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️‍⚧️🍳 @gildilinie.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
btw this is what we're all arguing over. this is what vibe coders are defending to the death. this is what financiers are investing in. this is what we're dumping every carbon atom available into the air for. this is what we're doubling electricity prices for […] [Original post on beige.party]
me: link it

claude: I don't have the ability to search the internet or provide direct links to memes in real time. But I can point you to where you'd likely find it:

[irrelevant stuff]

me: wdym you don't have the ability to search the internet?

claude: You're right, I do have web search! Let me look that up.
Searched the web
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
RE: c.im/@msbellows/117327725373472404 I'm so old I remember when I was still hopeful about the future.
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
RE: floofy.tech/@qualia/117343749954963… This is so pure
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: social.rebellion.global/@xrmadrid/1… Dramatic eviction of woman aged 87 highlights Spain's housing shortage 🚨 URGENT: Camping at Puerta del Sol We camped after the demonstration against the evictions in Sol. Not one more Maricarmen! Maximum diffusion is being […]
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
The owner of my go-to coffee shop on Kaua'i says business is about 10-20% of pre-Hurricane Lowell numbers. FEMA did not declare a disaster for the county (I just checked their website) so small businesses don't have any federal aid. So many people are losing their […] [Original post on mas.to]
Screenshot from FEMA website showing two tropical storm-related disaster declarations for Hawaii recently...storms Lala and Noll but not Lowell, which impacted Kauai.
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Has anybody else with old versions of Microsoft Office, licensed from the original product key, suddenly found them deactivated, demanding activation, and refusing to accept activation via the product key? Did Microsoft just push an update to do this to old Office versions, so that you can no […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@buermann/113206030… Happy #StanislavPetrov Day to all those who celebrate, live it like it's your last. I guess I could observe this year's #Ramadoom by refusing to use LLMs but you'd have to make me in the first place. Like the one where the Catholic gives […]
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Just for the record, we're having another tropical storm hit this weekend. Tropical Storm Nolo spun up out of a "disturbance" not far to the southeast of Hawaii over the last couple days, and will either hit the southern side of the Big Island again, like Lala, or pass just south of it. Either […]
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story […]
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Book dedications bot @dedicationbot.stefanbohacek.online · 23/09/2026
A Pirate's Life for Tea by Rebecca Thorne #books #literature #dedication
To the people who gave me one-star reviews
because the first book "had lesbians."
I doubled the lesbians in this one. Just for you.
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
hi if you want to pay a software archaeologist to find, fork, and maintain the last pre-slop version of your dependencies we would love to work for money
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Glyph @glyph.im · 22/09/2026
RE: wandering.shop/@phildini/1173109396… Folks let's get this some more boosts on this and connect to a Grafana expert, we can't have this AI harm mitigation strategy absolutely face-plant on the _first try_. (I am Very Bad At Grafana™ so this one's beyond my ability to just […]
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: mas.to/@oblique_strategies/11730726… Betteridge's law strikes again! (w/ my apologies to Brian Eno)
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/117294245… I think if you’re a person who sees this and says ‘other people also enslaved people’ you should walk into the sea
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Allen Michie @allenmichie.jazztodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Jazztodon artist of the week: Charles Mingus! Born to mixed-race parents in Nogales, Ariz., Mingus grew up in Los Angeles. In a 1962 interview, Mingus notes he was light-skinned; he didn't fit in with the Black, white or Mexican kids at school. He played the […] [Original post on jazztodon.com]
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Jules @quidcumque.rheinhessen.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
"An Unkindness of Ghosts" by Rivers Solomon. A generation ship story, but so much more; a haunting, brutal, beautifully and vividly written, tale of slavery and freedom, oppression and heritage. We, through our protagonist Aster, are on the "Mathilda", fleeing Earth since hundreds of years […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
[Call to Action for the Bernie Bro Nerds] You know who you are and I know you're on here. Bernie is confused about "the AI issue" and in the absence of better evidence buying some of the doomer hype. So, if you have some old campaign contacts, or know someone who knows someone, I think […]
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Tomáš @prahou.merveilles.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
PRO-RED CHARGED IN ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY #content_review #art #fediart #mastoart #inktober
Funhole Content Review
[you will fuck computers and you will like it]

ART [you can just walk away]

Is it really possible to draw? Experts say no, but it can be faked with practice.

If machines could paint, they would kill themselves. 

How to become an artist?
1. say you are one

STOP! Before you start you must familiarize yourself with creative commons licenses and write a manifesto!

Inktober is not a a real month.

-Jackson Pollock sucks. I could do that.
- Careful what you wish for.

There is no such thing as talent.

IS THIS SOLARPUNK?
5 million instagram art accounts to follow to make yourself feel miserable!

Robert E. Howard's suicide note is in the public domain! You can use it for free!

All fled, all done, so lift me on the pyre; the feast is over and the lamps expire.
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
I was up on the ladder yesterday starting to take down some of the remaining plywood panels I'd put up last week to prepare for Hurricane Lowell. Our neighbor Robert saw me, hurried over, and helped me finish the one I was doing - better and faster than I could have. Then he just took over and […]
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
About 54,000 survivors were enrolled in the program as of June. Roughly half are now being treated for cancer. This is up from 35% five years ago. The debris that coated Lower Manhattan contained asbestos, benzene and other substances known to cause cancer, Arslan said.
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@datarama/117259444556… OK, *somebody* gets what's going on.
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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
has anybody in posting distance of me run their own instance of mozilla's `syncstorage-rs`? it looks like it's conventional to still use Mozilla's services for Firefox accounts, do I have that right, there's not a "I'm one person and this is my personal thing" option where I can just do […]
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
18 USC § 597 not only makes it a crime to merely *offer* to pay for votes, but it's written so that it could be charged separately for each person who would receive the bribe. So, two years in prison times 170 million USA voters... You do the math […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
I didn't know you played guitar? I don't; what makes you think that? The "This Machine Kills Fascists" sticker on the case Ahahaha— no. This one uses a different process. #TootFic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
For those following our ongoing tropical weather dramas, tropical low 14E spun itself up from a general low into a full tropical storm overnight, and is now Tropical Storm Norbert. And... OF COURSE the current forecast has it winding up into a hurricane and meandering most of the way over to us […]
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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
I think I have a book title idea for a collection of German folk tales featuring evil spirits: "The Devil-Haunted World" And I am _reasonably_ sure that the ghost of Carl Sagan would not haunt me for this...
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
There are a bunch of science fiction stories where the bad guys scoop out your brain, scan the neurons, and upload you to the cloud so you can live forever in virtual paradise, whether you want to or not. The Stone Canal, Iron Sunrise, Jury Service, Software. We are now getting an idea of what […]
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Amazing new mosaic at the Balboa Theater
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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
@gabrielesvelto It's called the 2020s because the Cassandras are cursed with perfect vision.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
Oh, right, new school year. University students: the secret to success is GO THE FUCK TO BED, GO THE FUCK TO CLASS, DO YOUR FUCKING HOMEWORK and to get HELP AND SUPPORT from people who want you to succeed if you find yourself neglecting any of these, and there are many more such people than you […]
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Emily :verifiedtrans::verifiedpansexual::therian: @emilycat.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Disabled individuals deserve to be able to afford nice things besides their essentials
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Clifton Royston @cliftonr.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Writing advice for his earlier self, from the great M. John Harrison: ambientehotel.wordpress.com/2020/01… I love all of this, but especially the lines: "Never do clever tricks with reader expectation. Instead be honest, open and direct in your intention not to […]
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