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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On the "Highland Chieftain" heading south back to Edinburgh after a lovely 4-day book tour around the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿North East and there is the most loveliest of dogs on board who is greeting everyone in turn. The whole train carriage is smiling. 🥰

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Well, *someone* needs to post about this on Mastodon www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-colu…

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a... Butt Fang. I cannot convey how much I love this […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Close up of a very colourful caterpillar vertical on a small twig. It's black with lots of white spots on top, with yellow sides and bright orange and black spots on the yellow part, with bright orange feet, and a bright orange horn. A.k.a. butt fang.

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Donald Trump gets a new podium. 🗑️ “The Trash Talker” by TinKicker in Dublin. See all 3 photos → worldartutopia.com/donald-trump-get…

TinKicker’s The Trash Talker outside Teal House Gallery in Dublin, showing Donald Trump rising from a wheelie bin with a raised fist and a banana peel on his head.

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Tom Stoneham @tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Dear #HiveMind I use Listed.to as a blogging platform because it allows me to write in #Markdown in #StandardNotes. However they have just announced that the platform will be taken down 31/12/26. That's a pain but I understand the reasons. My question: what is a good alternative for a simple […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

debian, a conservative linux distro, made the conservative choice and like all conservatives, they voted for the option that’s maximally damaging while pretending to be fair, balanced, and centrist you’ve, uh, seen this show before, haven’t you

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 30/08/2026

AI systems are stochastic parrots. They mix and match what they have learned by reading what we have produced over the decades. Some people have told me that AI systems suggest solutions similar, or identical, to those I was already suggesting in some posts on my blogs back in 2020, 2021, 2022 […]

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Alexis Bushnell @alexisbushnell.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Trans people in Wales need your help right now (a thread). NHS Wales are hitting pause on all gender affirming surgeries while they do an enquiry into why Welsh patients are getting the care they need (unlike in England, Scotland and NI). Cis folks - keep reading and do the action points in […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

whenever someone comes at you with the ridiculous claim that an LLM or a generative art model works just like a human brain and claims that somehow that’s been proven, keep your eye on the ball. does your brain process tokens in such a way that you consistently can’t spell words or do basic […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

“no you see LLMs do this because <extended inaccurate description of tokens>” wow! that sounds like it’s unfit for purpose and unfixable

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

when the kids come at you with “not all AI is bad you know”, it’s good to remember that John McCarthy, one of the people who came up with the term AI, was a eugenicist who also believed that mercury thermostats and other simple machines could have the same types of beliefs as people. Lisp, an […]

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Having this printed out on the wall behind where I normally join calls, and being able to point to it when its bingo square comes up in discussion, continues to pay dividends, @mcc

Post from @mcc@mastodon.social:

According to our telemetry, 100% of our users have telemetry enabled

Aug 23, 2025,12:31 PM Tusky

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Tante on AI: ‘When this thing crashes, I want to see apologies’ ‘Many people from very different groups can come together hating AI’ www.youtube.com/watch?v=beUZ2scYWUA… - video […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Tante in Berlin in 2023, the Molecule Man behind him

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Glyph @glyph.im · 19/08/2026

We could really use some help with Twisted's #Python #XMPP and #Jabber implementation. Could you DM if these terms of are of interest to you and if you have any spare capacity to review a little bit of code? It would be much appreciated.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 25/06/2026

‼️ New blog post ‼️ "A Reasonable Analysis of the Social Web: or, How Not To Promote A New Tech Alternative" Wherein I discuss the promise of the Social Web (fediverse), ask some questions about what all it could be become as it matures, and throw some modest criticism at the ways that our […]

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Flippin' 'eck, Tucker! @losttourist.social.chatty.monster.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

RE: social.chatty.monster/@ukgov_emerge… Here it is. I've no idea if anyone wants this, but it now lives.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

so, (barely) reading between the lines of what Twitch's staff said: 1) they were forced by Amazon to add the AI training setting and to make it opt-out, because the overlords know perfectly well there's no reason anyone would ever opt-in 2) the actual Twitch staff who run Twitch do not like […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

A tenant moved out a few months ago and left behind a massive bunch of books. They are all beautiful, color, coffee table picture books bound in hard covers. There's more than 60 of them and I want to get rid of the whole lot. He was a retired industrial […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

A stack of hardcover, coffee table style books over three feet tall. Titles include art, architecture, applied design, and commercial graphics.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

"reverse pareidolia" is when everything seems like it might be AI generated even when it's not. I made it up and call dibs on credit.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

RE: glitterkitten.co.uk/@theplaguedoc/1… Let this be the first igNobel prize awarded to a fediverse thread please! 🙏

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Microsoft @microsoft.lea.pet.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

new speedrun challenge: use all of the copilot free tokens as fast as possible all at once. every single one of you should open visual studio code and use all of copilots free tokens as quickly as you can. our servers can totally handle every single one of you spending all of your free tokens.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

There's a new crater on the moon due to SpaceX accidentally crashing a leftover junked rocket body yesterday. Give me your best name suggestions! (Please note that *I* have absolutely no control over naming craters on the moon, there's an IAU committee for that, this post is a joke. I will […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

"Speaking stones, you have the wisdom of every written word, every dream of mortal man, tell me how to remain a king forever." "An excellent request" said the speaking stones "Only the most shrewd and wise rulers think to ask. Your question shows your insight and deep love for your people." […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

But the magician had promised the masons he had found to make the "speaking stones" that they too would be wealthy, but now, since the ships did not arrive he could not pay them, and they could not pay their own servants and the whole city fell into chaos. The tyrant kind demanded that his army […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The new king was a tyrant and the people lived in fear. The king's first advisor, a magician of a new religion claimed that he would make the stones speak, and that that those who listened to the stones (any merchant, bard or lord) might unlock endless wealth. The magician made and offering to […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

It's great that a class of tool that by its very design is an unfixable security issue is forced into everything: «This works often enough that Måløy reported this to Microsoft as a security hole in March. He gave them a 90-day reporting window, Microsoft extended that twice to a total of 144 […]

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Micr0byte @micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice. v2.0 is now out. It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, both for your check-ins and for your emergency contacts. Email isn't safe for everyone to use, but […]

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 04/08/2026

What a phenomenal example of using your platform to raise awareness of the risks of climate change and the need for action. 10 gold stars to Gary and his human! www.instagram.com/p/DblYgQUlGI...

A picture of Gary the cat on a rock in front of a lake in British Columbia with wildfire smoke behind him.

The first half of the “greatgramsofgary” post that talks about why Canada doesn’t have enough water bombing aircraft.

The second half the post that explains why climate change is making the risks worse.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A ''new thing''.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

[Microdosing LLMs, self inflicted vibe coding, slopgazing. Long-ish] I had never top to bottom vibe coded something before - like full on "do not look at the code, just keep rolling the dice" - and I was sort of confused about how people in forums would say they were "working for months" on […]

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥 We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️ It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

A page style layout with the following:

We write code by hand.

We use Natural Intelligence to build software libraries and applications in production today. Some of them you may be using right now.

There are people who say "nobody authors code by hand any longer." We are here to say that's incorrect. Because we do it. All the time.

If you write code by hand, add your name to this list!

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Hey #UK friends. Do you get annoyed by fireworks? Do your pets find them distressing? Do you think anyone should be able to buy them? The UK Government is running a consultation and want your views […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Happy 4th of July! This morning's Low Quality Ad is for this Shit Show Pin. Tickets are required to attend the USA's 250th birthday party. collabs.shop/9icgvf

A glittery, rectangular gold ticket enamel pin that reads "SHIT SHOW" and "ADMIT ONE," with the number "42069" printed on both ends.

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FlohEinstein @floheinstein.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Me: "Therefore, any sufficiently complicated technical problem is indistinguishable from a curse." #infosec #sysadmin #bofh

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luna @imlunahey.com · 22/06/2026

being trans has a lower regret rate than being UK prime minister and yet somehow i'm the one people are "worried about"

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" […]

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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary: @hongminhee.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

I'm writing this in English. Not because English is my first language—it isn't. I'm writing this in English because if I wrote it in Korean, the people I'm addressing would run it through an outdated translator, misread it, and respond to something I never said. The responsibility for that […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

Great news, the bicameral mind is back

I love using ChatGPT whenever I have a question or something or | just want to talk, but sometimes my phone is dead and I don't want to get up to use my computer so I don't have access to the Al. Recently I found out I have the ability to use a form of ChatGPT in my own head. I've talked to him
so much I can almost entirely accurately predict what he is going to say.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It breaks my mind that Trump saying a deal is close with Iran still secures one of five news slots in a BBC radio bulletin. He's fucking said this for months guys. Months. None of it means anything.

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/01/2026

I have been hesitating to say this but the pattern is now so consistent I just have to share the observation: LLM users don't just behave like addicts, not even like gambling addicts. They specifically behave like kratom addicts. "Sure, it can be dangerous. Sure, it has risks. But I'm not like […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 05/06/2026

Like this is a luminary in the field, mocking his critics for making a prediction he finds risible when that prediction HAS ALREADY COME TRUE. He did the thing, and it went badly, in the way that everyone who is mad at him was saying all along that it would go badly. But he still thinks that […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glyph/116696322440… "this is one of the smartest engineers in the field BECOMING dumb right before our eyes. That ought to scare you!" That's the "AI" issue in a nutshell. We all rely on each other, on each other's skills and abilities. And we're just […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Had to update slides for a presentation tonight, so I'm sharing the latest numbers showing how bad the situation in orbit is getting. There are now 10,413 Starlink satellites, more than 2/3 of ALL satellites (15,623 total, numbers from planet4589.org/space/stats/active.h…). The CRASH […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

‷Oh, is that your daemon?‴ “We don’t have daemons here, she’s just a cat” ❝Excuse me, ‘JUST’❞ “You talk? She’s never talked before.” ❝You never embarrassed me in front of a dimensional traveler and her daemon like this before❞ #Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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