Sign in

iiinova is part of the Atmosphere — an open, public network where you own your identity.

Everyday Cyborg

@digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy
29 followers 8 following 162 posts

Mathematician, occultist, and combat philosopher. Bipolar bisexual polymath with a robot heart 🌉 bridged from ⁂ retro.pizza/@digitalraven, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
675260735530 26.1K
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Jorijn Schrijvershof :jorijn: @jorijn.jorijn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
New instance, and I need to test federation, so here's one of my favorite photos of Kaylan (who unfortunately passed away a few months ago). Tuning server processes, so feel free to boost to make it work a bit. #CatsOfMastodon
A photo of a white Maine Coon.
0244 44
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]
c.im
Original post on c.im
3276 76
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.
147126 126
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Trump cut down all the remaining cherry trees in Washington that were a gift from Japan in 1912 The trees were cut down without approval, to build a golf course, along the Potomac biking & running pathways […]
c.im
Original post on c.im
6044 44
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
@zachweinersmith.bsky.social "I have a friend in Minsk, who has a friend in Pinsk, whose friend in Omsk has friend in Tomsk with friend in Anthropic!"
000 0
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For anyone not following the drama, there's been apparently a big development in ai math, along with some accusations of very bad behavior by OpenAI. But we don't have details yet. If I understand it, Buckmaster and Levent Alpoge made a big discovery on Navier-Stokes. Events go something like this:
17416157 416
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
@johnrogers.bsky.social I think it's improved by the player giving it "beep whistle boop beep beep WHISTLE beep!" in exactly the tone of a drill sergeant's "I didn't give you permission to die!""
000 0
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
Another brilliant idea! THIS is what the great John Lewis would call “GOOD TROUBLE” — Protesters in Minneapolis have reportedly been dressing up in jeans, body armor, and masks, and then walking into groups of ICE agents and accusing one or two of them of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
4164 64
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
@trixter oh gods I feel that. Haslab Omega Prime? I love my original, couldn't wait to get an updated one. Then had to explain that the original wasn't some childhood thing, it was the toy that got me back into collecting Transformers when I was 20 and that I had to sell it during a move.
000 0
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
I don't know what's making me happier — the Burnistoun reference in Strange New Worlds, or Limmy's Show in the new Lego Batman.
000 0
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
CatButtes :verified_coffee: @catbuttes.freeradical.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Watching the C4 Reform documentary and damn are they blatant about what is going on. I hope everybody involved gets the book thrown at them (and I hope the Electoral Commission are feeling petty and vindictive after some of the comments made about them in there). Well worth a watch if you are in […]
freeradical.zone
Original post on freeradical.zone
011 1
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
@trixter You monster
000 0
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
Probably the most on-brand thing I've done this year.
000 0
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026
The last few days have been A Lot, so I'm getting stoned and watching Adam Curtis documentaries
100 1
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 27/08/2026
in conclusion: i'm terribly sorry to tell you all that, but @neovim is #fashware.
2424 24
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 27/08/2026
RE: circumstances.run/@mawhrin/11716746… folks, i'm sorry to inform you that justin m. keyes, the primary dev of @neovim absolutely _hated_ the idea of removing an endorsement by a bona fide fascist from the main page of the neovim editor. what happened: i've opened a ticket […]
circumstances.run
Original post on circumstances.run
101 1
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Peter Cullen on finding the voice for Optimus Prime: He tried to make the voice of Optimus something similar to his brother's voice who was serving in the U.S marine corps. Before the audition, his brother told him: "Don't be a Hollywood hero, be a real hero. Real heroes don't yell and act […]
retro.pizza
Original post on retro.pizza
002 2
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Oh no. Oh fuck no. Not another great. RIP Peter Cullen. This week can get in the fucking sea
Two pictures side-by-side, one of Optimus Prime, a red robot with a blue head and grey face, and the other of Peter Cullen, an older man with short black hair and a greying moustache.
002 2
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
Whoever wrote the AP review of Coyote vs. Acme has never experienced what we call "joy" or "fun"
Screengrab of the review

Some Hollywood decisions defy logic. Like, who looked at the world of Looney Tunes, those unhinged cartoons of our youth, and thought: Let's add a bunch of personal injury lawyers.
100 1
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Christ on a bike, Tim Curry too? Fuck right off.
000 0
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Y'know how I know Dolly Parton was a good person? Nobody's getting fired or dogpiled for accurately quoting her own words
000 0
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
if you want to know how we got here, may I commend to you "Neoreaction A Basilisk" by Elizabeth Sandifer from 2017. learn much more than you ever wanted to know about Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin and Eliezer Yudkowsky (I also helped a lot with the book) you can buy a copy, but the author herself […]
circumstances.run
Original post on circumstances.run
12717 27
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Hazelnoot @fedi.hazelnoot.dev · 20/08/2026
I don't like transphobia, and I don't like censorship either. So here's a local mirror of amnesty international's reports.
enby.life
Amnesty International Reports on the Gender Critical Movement
Local mirror of Amnesty International's censored reports on the Gender Critical movement and its rising threat to safety and freedom in the United Kingdom.
11633 33
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
here's the magnet link for the Amnesty report on transphobes that they're now actively issuing DMCA notices against, because they've moved from victims to being active collaborators magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7645b71edaf7418aec5a8ed8147579fac6cd31f4&dn=amnesty-uk-2026-anti-rights-reports&tr=udp%3A%2F% […]
circumstances.run
Original post on circumstances.run
142 4
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Your last saved meme is now your moral philosophy (h/t @cstross
A white-on-black image of a man sitting on a bench with a briefcase by his feet, in a pose evoking the movie poster from Forrest Gump. Text along with the image:

Police are like a box of chocolates

They'll kill your dog
010 1
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 12/08/2026
"The strongest effects were found not in employment, but in well-being. Participants consistently reported lower stress, greater security, improved mental health, and higher life satisfaction. In most cases, these improvements were more significant than any changes in labor market participation."
socialpolicyblog.co.uk
Basic Income Experiments: What Works and Why Politics Matters
Comparing four basic income pilots, the study finds strong well-being gains but shows political and institutional factors decide reform outcomes.
410651 106
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
openlavs is a project to map gender-neutral/unisex khazis that accepts user submissions — I've just added some I know of that are waiting for review — for people who are out and about and need it As the UK adopts yet more anti-trans bullshit policies, this is important. All boosts appreciated. […]
retro.pizza
Original post on retro.pizza
000 0
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is maybe the perfect example of @gregpak.net bit that replacing every instance of “AI” with “cocaine” gets to the deeper truth of the attitude.
928078 280
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Mr. Encyclopedia @eopoint.com · 03/08/2026
It's actually pretty easy to get people to say nice things about you when you die. Simply be someone worth mourning.
0312 12
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Yes, I am celebrating Rod Liddel's death. He was a disgusting bigot and a nonce who wrote about why it shouldn't be illegal to view CSAM and how he couldn't be a teacher because he wanted to shag pupils. If people are so worried about their own words and actions being used post-mortem to […]
retro.pizza
Original post on retro.pizza
002 2
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
[X-Men 97 S2E7 Spoilers] @trixter Definitely. Not everyone can be redeemed, but Kurt wouldn't be himself if he didn't try.
000 0
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
[X-Men 97 S2E7 Spoilers] And that was the focus of the episode! This is a show that has the confidence to do "Bishop and Polaris flirt harder than Rogue and Gambit, then go on a date involving riding dinosaurs and blowing shit up" to the b-plot.
100 1
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
[X-Men 97 S2E7 Spoilers] Seern a bunch of Discorse about how the message is "bigots need defending because you can change their minds!" and I'm like... are these people completely incapable of media literacy? (Yes, of course they aren't, it's only a small break in their whining that the […]
retro.pizza
Original post on retro.pizza
100 1
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
@trixter Same. It's what the BBC iPlayer does as well, and people complain about "ads", but it's like... they're showing you things you already have access to!
000 0
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
Fixing that takes weeks and real money and is stressful as hell. Is anything still in your infra? You don't know until you've looked. It's shit, it's horrible, there's a reason it's a fucking crime. ...unless, of course, you just planned the whole thing out in advance for the lols with another […]
social.circl.lu
Original post on social.circl.lu
106 6
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
The whole Hugging Face/Openai thing just reeks of scam. It's a publicity stunt, it helps keep them in the media, trying to scare people into being wowed by their horrible next word picker. folks are assuming that it must of happened... because they said so? If it happened, it would be fucking […]
social.circl.lu
Original post on social.circl.lu
3538 38
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
Apparently ALL the opposition letters mentioned how 20,000 bright satellites would absolutely destroy astronomy, so that's nice. Ok, well, this section is 100% gaslighting, which I expected. "No no no, radio astronomers, you are overreacting! We will totally not clobber your bands and we […]
mastodon.social
Original post on mastodon.social
2223 23
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026
At my HEMA club, someone has demanded I fight her at least once every practice, even if that's not the focus of what we're doing. I think my 14-year-old self thinks he's died and gone to heaven.
010 1
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
@stefano "Did my updated terms and conditions not come through with the price adjustment? Saying that any attempt to use my services in relation to GenAI would be a breach of contract with a €1000 penalty? That was the price of shaving my rate."
001 1
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
They contest the fines. They completely ignore licensing and regulation (see below). They are not good members of our shared community, and make no effort to show they can change, or even want to. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
reuters.com
Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities
Exploding electricity demand from AI data centers is driving companies to build off-grid power plants at a pace outstripping environmental oversight, with potentially big risks to public health.
3410124 410
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
You gotta watch the video for the noise. It's insane. Every time I see somebody ask "hey, why the backlash against data centers?" I'm puzzled because those people don't seem to understand data centers are *bad faith neighbors*. gizmodo.com/this-viral-d...
gizmodo.com
This Viral Data Center Sounds Like Satan’s Buzzsaw
My God, the looks on the faces of the people who have to live next to this...
281072530 1.1K
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
How am I only just finding out that there's a live-action/animated legal drama of COYOTE vs. ACME coming out next month?!?! Internet, you have failed me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu-4SgTw73M
000 0
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here’s a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.
Source: Movement Advancement Project (MAP) LGBTQ Equality Maps

See original source of US LGBTQIA safety study for tabular data by state.
817112 112
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Trixter of the Moon Council @trixter.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
All right, kitten-related mutual aid post time again. 😮‍💨 $0/$100 <-- will update progress here! My last couple litters of foster kittens did a number on my kitten room, and I need a new climber and a new rug. (Also at some point some new flooring, but that's a later problem.) It looks like […]
retro.pizza
Original post on retro.pizza
001 1
Reposted by Everyday Cyborg
Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026
Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
114137692876 13.8K
Everyday Cyborg @digitalraven.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
@lackingsaint.bsky.social Rent-Seeking Bastard Grey, surely...
000 0