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#Treehugging #dotcommunist #hacker #atheist #Canadian expat trying to save the world in my free time. 🇨🇦 🇪🇺🌹 For the #Python nerds, I'm the guy who wrote […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@danielquinn, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
I'm heading to London today to campaign for Zack Polanski. It should be fun, as the race is tight. #ukpolitics #greenparty
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Rachel Gilmore tears Carney a new one over his new "national interest" oil pipeline: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn048D3YrOs #cdnpoli
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
My friend Andrew is doing nifty things with SVGs and audio on his site: andrewmcloughlin.github.io/home Try toggling the dark mode!
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Home - Andrew McLoughlin
A full-stack developer of scientific software.
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
He makes an excellent point: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCKj7gwbYrc #deliverism
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
I don't know what everyone was so grumpy about. The recent "Supergirl" movie was great!
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
What an amazing campaign video about #Meta #SpyGlasses from @bitsoffreedom ❣️ Filmed in front of the Meta offices in #Amsterdam featuring real Meta employees. :)
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
The neighbourhood kids have taken to scrawling all over the street with chalk such that the road is never without the art of a 6 year old or two. Today, the bin men came in their big truck, and one of them took the time to leave a message.
A message written in white chalk on paving stones: "Bin men love the art".
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
To those people who use "AI" to send emails and messages on Teams: you're not fooling anyone. We know you're too lazy to bother writing the message yourself and that you care so little about human interaction that you've delegated the task to a rambling nonsense machine. We're just too polite to […]
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version, which the company expects to […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
I'm not personally distant or sad, however I understand the sentiment expressed in this meme.
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Carney’s blind supporters are out of control. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBaB7CYF1gI
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Catawu/11729684408… This is why the focus on "STEM" in educational institutions is so misguided, and why the social obsession with "productivity" feels so hollow.
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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
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So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.

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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
This is exactly what it's like to cycle in the UK.
A narrow street with monstrous cars parked on the pavement on both sides and another car driving down the centre.  Drivers of all cars are shouting at cyclists about how they're inconveniencing them or posing a danger to others.
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Adam Conover understands the "AI" industry for what it is: a cult. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pauBYSQ1K_c
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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Patience. Persistence. Unity. Cooperation. Canada🇨🇦 #DoNotComply #FightFascism #CanadaStrong #ElbowsUp
Beaver toppling wooden statue of Trump
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😀🚲 @enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
#crashNotAccident from Ford Pinto to touch-screen dashboards, a century of govt trying to regulate auto manufacturers while coercing people to drive. 🙄 Maybe pull the other lever. #FuckCars www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-Oov9hPxg
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😀🚲 @enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
#CrashNotAccident #fuckCars I hope they find the traffic Engineer who did this (enabled sociopath Tesla driver to kill a mother and child) kron4.com/news/bay-area/tesla-driver-charged-with-murdering-2-in-san-jose-shows-no-remorse-prosecutors-say/
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
I just realised that the until-recently stable state of the world was likely engineered to support the flow of fossil fuels. It's hard to build an economy on a resource you don't have, so it was in the West's interest to build/preserve a stable world economy. Now that fossils are wanning, the […]
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/1172804247… The Paedo in the White House can dream all he wants, he's never going to invade Canada and all he's done is push them further away from the USA, everything that man touches turns to shit. The Oligarchs want to break up the EU, instead […]
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
The train prices in this country are fucking insane. £50 for a 1 hour trip, Cambridge to London.
A screenshot of the price of a return ticket: £50.10
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Now it's official: On Thursday, the EU Commission will propose a new law they call the #KIDSAct. It will ban young people from a range of different online services and be enforced by the Commission themselves. What a waste of political capital and legislative resources […]
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
"Unity doesn't mean uncritically supporting a government agenda. It means supporting one nother and pushing the government to do the same." Rachel Gilmore is onto something. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeYAfY0GN_o
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Alex Jones And The Power Of Deplatforming www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFfAQNTo5Rc Carlos Maza is back!
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Star Trek: Voyager is 31 years old. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZzOQK7G8aQ
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
"You may think that the key to happiness is to be disciplined, and make a lot of money and get successful, and then all your peers respect you. You're wrong. The actual key to happiness is to live a 10 minute bike ride from all your friends." www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TqouS7Zy7Q […]
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Glyph @glyph.im · 12/09/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@datarama/117259444556… “Do they just make them up, or do you think they have their chatbots make them up for them?”
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
RE: chaos.social/@parmaene/117252973665… This is the most rational explanation I've seen for why we in the #Linux community need to oppose #omarchy. It's worth a few minutes to read it.
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Mark Carney has released an impressive bit of propaganda today. It's well written, brilliantly produced with visuals, b-roll, and graphs. He comes across as a statesman, ready to lead the country through difficult times, rather than the extractivist banker we know him to be. He's oh-so-careful […]
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
This guy's DIY audio visualizer
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
"Grindr to pay $48-million settlement over sale of users' info — including HIV status" The very last line of the article: "In its latest investor report, Grindr state it brought in $138 million US ($190 million CAD) in revenue in the second quarter of 2026." […]
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
#ukpol #ukpolitics #fuckai #AI greenparty.org.uk/2026/09/02/the-uk…
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The UK government is preparing to greenlight a new generation of hyperscale data centres but they have no idea what they are being used for
In a previously unreleased Freedom of Information reply the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology said it does not hold information about which companies, organisations or bodies are using the UK’s largest data centres nor the purposes for which they are used. The government plans to massively expand data centres across the UK using powers […] The post The UK government is preparing to greenlight a new generation of hyperscale data centres but they have no idea what they are being used for appeared first on Green Party.
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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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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Nigel Farage has been caught on camera accepting foreign money for the Reform Party. Not just a little shady, this shit is properly illegal. Maybe this will finally sink him. www.channel4.com/news/exclusive-nig… […]
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
This looks like a fun event happening here in Cambridge for anyone interested in #folkMusic, #labour, #art, #stories, and #poems: www.tickettailor.com/events/modifyt…
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
"AI is the accumulated unpaid cognitive labour of humanity compressed into a matrix of weights and then sold back to us for $200 a month." www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL1epW5hoO0
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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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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@cmconseils/1171808… #WealthCap
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Has anyone in my network ever used ActionNetwork? I'm trying to figure out how to use it effectively, but it's beyond frustrating in its limitations.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
RE: mastodon.scot/@LaChasseuse/11717778… I love this. #StarTrek
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
This is from a children's site promoting reading over the summer break. There is no option to continue here, just "enable tracking or fuck your kid's reading". Very nice. #ReadToTheBeat
A splash page reading:



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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
I'm being forced to use Windows today. Holy fuck is is painful. The ads... everywhere, apps getting up in your eyeballs about changes, updates, and upselling, and stream of notifications demanding I install stuff and reboot... Why people use it is obvious (their boss requires it), but why […]
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
"AI" has got to be the dumbest thing ever invented. All it does is produce "noise": the appearance of productivity where little or none exists. It's actually a net loss, since what used to be a 15min meeting is now a 20-page slop document that no one is going to read.
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
An interesting video about someone building a farm designed exclusively for the local climate and therefore not depending on any pesticides or external fertilisers. It has a very #solarpunk feel, though the opposition to automation feels rather problematic when you consider the math of trying […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
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Orion Ussner kidder @orionkidder.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
I'm genuinely scared Mark Carney's speeches will be studied in rhetoric and political science classes but without the context of his actions as Prime Minister of Canada. We will fail to see them as tactical: distractions from what he's DOING. #CanPol #politics #MarkCarney #LiberalPartyOfCanada #LPC
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
ZOMG! Carlos Maza is back! www.youtube.com/watch?v=itSlOoKo1t0
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Daniel Quinn @danielquinn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@mmoore/11708834567… @stephaniehobson you might dig this.
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