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Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan: @ozdreaming.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

This mural on Harvey Street @ 2400 Mass Ave is nearly finished! Much gratitude to Cambridge Redevelopment Authority for sponsoring this community art project, Liz and Ainsley for the design and execution, and everyone who came out with brushes in hand to […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Photo of a mural on the side of a concrete building, reading "Welcome to North Cambridge". The design includes brightly-colored silhouettes of buildings, flowers, bunnies, a soft-serve ice-cream cone, pedestrians walking a dog and pushing a pram, a road featuring both a cyclist and a bus, and a red-line car approaching a "T" symbol. Participants are touching up the paint of several design elements.

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@ozdreaming @knizer ooof. Thinking good thoughts for your kid, and I hope they're not traumatized.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Right now society at large is paying most of the bill for people who drive giant pick-up trucks and SUVs, my humble proposal is that we should stop doing that and ask them to pay it themselves.

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@somershade.bsky.social you also missed the PRO-ice protesters outside the building that night. 🤯

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@timberwraith/11737… this reflexive identification with power, plus the white-people obsession about not "hurting feelings" is a large part of how all of this slop is getting pushed on us, too

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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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Spocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Saint Paul, MN – Dozens gathered at the Minnesota State Capitol to unveil the MN Stolen Neighbors Quilt. 12,500 quilt squares – each square representing a Minnesota immigrant taken by ICE from the start of the second Trump term to the end of Operation Metro […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

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Filambulle @filambulle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Hélène Hein : Amish with an Escher twist. #carrefoureuropeendupatchwork #helenehein #saqamember

Amish Reimagined
Amish with an Escher twist
Hélène Hein
ALLEMAGNE 2026
Lidée de réinventer cette ceuvre m’est venue lors d'une exposition Escher a
Paris. J'ai joué avec les dégradés de Road to Paris pour créer de la profondeur .
depuis le bloc dorigine, en gardant dessin et quilting simples dans l’ esprit
amish. Le foundation piecing a cette échelle fut un défi!

Inspiration to reimagine this piece struck in an Escher exhibition in Paris. |
played with the gradations from Road to Paris to create depth, moving outwards from the original block, keeping the design and quilting simple, in the Amish
spirit. Foundation piecing at this scale was a challenge!

The Amish quilt in black, blues and cream squares and triangles.

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's Monday, so I just submitted another request for body-worn camera footage collected by the Somerville Police Department in the last week. I've been doing this since the 1st, and so far the response has been that the cameras aren't deployed yet. Please let me know if you see one in the field.

A screengrab of a mail reader showing a series of emails from me asking for files from body worn cameras on the police.

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Which Australian capital city is closest to you

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Absolutely horrific: Thanks to a false intelligence "generated with the help of artificial intelligence," the US military nearly carried out an operation aboard a Chinese ship because the incorrect intelligence said it was carrying nukes, according to @cnn.com. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I am not a morning person. That said, I will get up and chirp if I'm going to school and like my classes. I get to choose my classes now. I fuckin' love school. 😆

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

This is just to say that my spouse, @hakamadare , filmed himself explaining how to relight the pilot on our furnace via comparison to the Weimar Republic of Germany in the 1930s. I came across this video again tonight, and it still brings me great joy. "The feeble flame of liberal democracy in […]

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Robert W. Gehl @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I know others have said this, but... the web sucks now. Used to be I could read a dozen bespoke blog posts about niche topics, but now it's 10000 SEO ready slick lookin' posts that say nothing in 1500 words. And I can't find the answer I was looking for.

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I think I've figured out why I have more patience for my FiL these days, as compared to my MiL. I'm not bearing as much of the care burden, obviously, but I've also gone through similar things before with family, whereas MiL's family members all died young or […] [Original post on mas.wrong.tools]

Outdoor dinner between two elderly parents, left side of table, and two adult kids, right side of table. Looks cozy. The elders are wearing bibs to eat lobster.

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Aure Free Press :verified: @free-press.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

ENJOY YOUR LABOR DAY WEEKEND! #AureFreePress #News #laborday

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Douglas Edwards :neurodiv: @dedicto.zeroes.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Keep in mind that #Luddism does NOT mean across-the-board opposition to technology. Many of the original #Luddites were skilled operators of what in their day was high technology. #Luddism means willingness to destroy specific technologies that are judged to be socially harmful. It means […]

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Cambridge Day @cambridgeday.com · 05/09/2026

MIT professor dies after bike crash at Memorial Drive intersection The intersection at Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive had been flagged for safety concerns... www.cambridgeday.com/2026/09/04/mit…

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MIT professor dies after bike crash at Memorial Drive intersection

The intersection at Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive had been flagged for safety concerns

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Remember, their record profits are your unpaid wages

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000.

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Hoooly crap, the Middlesex & Suffolk MA state senate race is ... Lander vs Brownsberger with a difference of 3 votes??? That is wild. #MAPoli

State Senate Massachusetts primary election results from WBUR website, showing senate seat of "Suffolk & Middlesex" with each candidate having 50% of the vote. The challenger, Daniel Lander, is shown with 12,132 votes. The incumbent, William N. Brownsberger, is shown with 12,129 votes. That is a 3 vote difference in Lander's favor, with 99% of the votes counted.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I want to share one of the statistical observations I wish more people would talk about. This is about crime rates. This is about murders. Over the past four decades the number of murders in NYC has fallen even as the population has increased a little. There were 2,245 murders in 1990. Last […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/09/2026

AND ITS CALLED IN THE FIRST FEW MINUTES! Ed Markey, incumbent, beats the anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton in the primary race for Massachusetts Senate. Congressman Moulton had made targeting trans people part of his repertoire in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election. He goes down.

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Warner Crocker @warnercrocker.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I don’t know why folks are upset (again) at Google for changing the name of Lake Ontario in maps. They’ve long since proven how desperate they are to float in Trump’s reflecting pool of horrors. Here’s hoping that at some point the algae will overtake them all. #Google #politics

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

@ObsidianUrbex it looks like an incredibly crowded Minority Report scenario, but I don't know what it actually is for real!

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@somershade.bsky.social woah, I hadn't heard about that resignation. Is the letter public?

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Find you a candidate for public office who makes you feel the way I feel about Evan MacKay's run for state rep in #CambridgeMA ! www.evanforcambridge.com #MApoli #uspol #elections

Photo of me, a white person with blonde hair and wearing a Flo Mask. On the mask I have written "Evan 4 Cambridge." I'm also wearing a trans flag button from Evan's campaign.

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RE: mastodonapp.uk/@wood5y/117161602409… Okay, this is some fantastic messaging to me, a person who's considering the switch. Probably should've done it before now, but the second best time is now, right?

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Wow, also, reading Decker’s campaign manager claim that Decker is an adamant supporter of LGBTQ rights is … quite something when contrasted with how Decker has treated her LGBTQ constituents I’ve met, including MacKay. Decker just goes right on mispronouncing MacKay’s name, to this day. Like […]

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Tbh, I wish I were a Cambridge voter in this primary race. I would 1000% vote for Evan MacKay. I agree with the reasoning in this op ed: csindie.com/whose-voice-whose-value… I also can’t ignore Decker mispronouncing MacKay’s name every […]

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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

real. fuck your ai overview

a transparentish cat with a background gradient with the text "I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as good intended.

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

MAMAS open gardens day today! Come by any of these gardens between 1-4pm today to meet other volunteers and learn about the MAMAS Gardening Collective: Central Hill garden (Grand View Avenue at Walnut Street, near Somerville Central Library) Area 52 garden […] [Original post on mas.wrong.tools]

MAMÁS open gardens day, 8/16/26, 1-4 pm!
Come by any of these gardens between 1-4pm to meet other volunteers and learn about the MAMAS Gardening Collective:
Central Hill garden (Grand View Avenue at Walnut Street, near Somerville Central Library)
Area 52 garden (corner of Mossland and Elm Street, near Porter Square)
Hyperspace garden (42 Elm Street, near Porter Square)

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Hey, mastodon, and esp my friend @therisingtithes! Is this "Trinidad folktale" familiar? It was in an assigned reading for my summer class, an excerpt from a 1992 book. Feels totally possible to me that it could be BS, particularly given the time period and […] [Original post on mas.wrong.tools]

Screenshot of a pdf of a book. This page reads:

FOLKTALE : WISDOM OF THE MEDIATOR
Trinidad

Once upon a time there was a poor devout man with an old,
blind mother and a bitter, barren wife . His life was miserable ,
so each morning he rose early and went to the temple to pray
for the blessing of God to relieve his family's suffering.

After twelve years of prayer, he heard a voice -- the voice
of God. "What one thing do you desire?” “I don't know, " he
said. "I really didn't expect you to ask. Do you mind if I go
home and ask my mother and my wife? ”

After receiving permission, he ran home , and first met his
mother.
"Son , if you will ask God to restore my eyes so that I may
see again , you will never be indebted to me for anything."

Then the man went to his wife and told her of God's promise. "Forget your mother; she is old; she will soon close her eyes for the last time . Ask for a son who may care for us, and perhaps bring us wealth."

The mother was listening , and she came with her cane and
began to beat the wife . “No , it must be my eyesight. " The wife
fought back, pulling her hair, and a terrible fight ensued.

The poor man ran from the house to a wise adviser, an old
man who had mediated many conflicts , and he told him his
dilemma . "My mother wants eyesight , my wife wants a son ,
and I, I wish for a bit of money so we can eat everyday. What shallI ask? Whose needs come first?"

The adviser thought for a moment , then he answered:
"Ah, my friend , you must not choose for any one
of your family alone , but for the good of all. Although you may ask only one
thing of God, ask wisely. Tomorrow morning you shall say...

Screenshot of a pdf of the next page of the book. The text, from page 44 of "Conflict: Creative or Destructive Dynamics?" continues with the rest of the advice from the mediator, as follows:

'Oh Lord, I ask nothing for myself; my wife seeks nothing for herself; but my mother is blind , and her desire is, before she dies, to see her grandson eating milk and rice from a golden bowl.'

(Dorson 1975, 511-13, abridged )

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

This is profoundly fucked up.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/08/2026

Trans men used the bathroom they were required to use in Kansas under their new incredibly severe statewide bathroom ban. As a result, the police were called on them. They call themselves the Kansas Compliance Crew. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Police Called on Trans Men Using Women's Restroom As Required By Kansas Law

“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A LOT of us are non-drivers. And given the big public costs and consequences of driving, we should be making that easier, not harder. Are we putting our public money in the right places? Our SECOND messaging collaboration with @nondriver.bsky.social. Spread the word. #UrbanTruth

“Non-drivers make up 1/3 of the US population. Does your government invest at least 1/3 of the transportation budget making walking, biking, and public transit great?” — Anna Zivarts.

Tagline at the bottom says “Budget for the mobility we want, not the mobility we have.“ Via the Urban Truth Collective collaborating with Anna Zivarts

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

The mutual aid garden is work and has struggles, but it's always super exciting to pick veggies with my neighbors. #mutualaid #garden

A small green cardboard box full of cherry tomatoes of different types.

A red bucket with various beans and tomatoes inside.

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Crystal Huff (they/them) @crystalvisits.mas.wrong.tools.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I found this video about tenant union organizing in NYC really exciting and inspiring, and even more so when I realized it was put out by the mayor's office. #rentcontrol #USpol #union #organizing www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5dvGKI26ZA

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