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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Analogous to how the far right extremists love to cry freedom of speech but only mean theirs, they love to clutch their pearls if other religions claim their freedom of religion rights. 'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City […]

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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

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Formula 1 races are so much more exciting when there is rain. Malaysia Sepang should return to being a regular fixture. #F1

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Was it my imagination, or was the Strictly celebrity who went out getting very very handsy with their partner at every opportunity, whether dancing or not? All looked so awkward and sleazy to me. #SCD

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

"Never has so much cash flowed into a new technology as is pouring into AI, eclipsing the sums splurged on railways or the internet when those technological revolutions sucked in capital." Reuters […] [Original post on glasgow.social]

Graph showing boom and bust of previous disruptive tech cycles. The AI boom is steeper and taking longer to level off before the inevitable bust.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 04/10/2026

I was immediately reminded of @catsalad

caption: "Correlation vs Causation". 4 images, in all of which, it looks like the animals caused the damage. A duck walking through gates that have been blown apart. A cat sitting in a crater in the cement. A seagull sitting at the bottom of a bent fence. A cat sitting on a broken sunroof.

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Members of the international community

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

New Airbus freighter has landed! Fond memories of my first job in aerospace after graduating: developing the maintenance schedule of the then yet-to-be-flown A300B4 freighter at BAe Aviation Services in Filton. I got the role through a temp agency. BAe asked for someone with MS Access skills […]

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

The criminality of England's oldies cintinues to shock. #MerseysidePolice today arrested a 94 year old #terrorist in Liverpool. Even worse, the terrorist #MargaretOwen is also a Jewish human rights barrister,. It's scary to think of the risks to #AndyBurnham's […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

If you don’t want your system to be able to lock people out of the pod bay doors, you can just program or configure it to not have the capability to lock people out of the pod bay doors. This remains true whether your system is written in assembly language or C++ or Python or uses some fancy […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I'm kind of obsessed with this old puzzle. You need to move the piano to the lower LEFT corner by sliding the pieces. Curious if anyone has done any math things with such tile puzzles? It's easy to move it to the lower right, and possible but kind of hard to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An "promotional" wooden puzzle from the Argonne van and storage co. It is nearly 100 years old. You slide rectangular blocks labeled as boxes.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117337020259… “Our viral marketing campaign for the Zoo — leaving a trail of steaks from the unlocked lion enclosure to the nearby kindergarten — has led to unexpected tragedy”

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

When the circular financing ends ... "Without an Oracle-backed lease, the project would not have obtained an investment-grade credit rating" "One contractual dispute is not a death knell for AI. But it suggests that the industry's biggest constraint is not insufficient demand or regulation […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 26/09/2026

we are pleased to announce that we have internalized the key lessons of the breakout science fiction hit “torment nexus 3: okay you dumb fucks, if you ever build the torment nexus then you must destroy it and here’s how” and created the Indestructible Torment Nexus, which is resistant to all of […]

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Magnifying glass leaning to the right means Find. Leaning to the left? Zoom grumpy.website/1811 (from the excellent Grumpy Website which you should visit regularly)

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

You can have a ridiculously shaped helmet in a Tour de France time trial, but it seems a padded bra is a push too far. road.cc/news/fake-bra-size-aero-gai…

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Much of the damage to university finances could have been avoided if the government had simply decided to exclude temporary student visas from migration data. Meanwhile, the head of the LSE warns against just relying on mergers in the hope of achieving efficiency savings. FT […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Markets can stay wrong longer than you can stay liquid, so don't bet against them. But if you know the market is wrong, you don't have to bet with it either. www.reuters.com/commentary/reuters-…

A chart showing booms and crashes: precious metals booming in the 1970s, crashing early 80s; Japan booming in the 80s to crash in the 90s; NASDAQ booming in the 90s before the dot.com crash in the early 2000s; and the NASDAQ/semiconductor indices booming now to even higher normalised levels - the coming crash not yet shown.

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

The US-Iran deal - I'm struggling to see what part of this the Iranian government would have objected to before the bombing started. What was the point of the war?

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

If he really wants an orderly transition, the correct move for Starmer is to give up his seat in parliament so that Andy Burnham can stand in a by-election. I didn't rate Burnham when he was minister for ID cards, but he was at least prepared to sit down with me over coffee after NO2ID […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

Final results for Holyrood are in. I'm disappointed that Reform matched Labour (17) ahead of the Greens (15), but overall there is a strong pro-indy majority (73:56 = 57%:43%) and what appears to be sustainable growth for the Scottish Green Party, alongside increased tactical awareness by a […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Still provisional, needing the regional and constituency counts to be finalised, but look at all the Green list seats! And with at least 2 Green constituency votes, this would mean more Green MSPs than Reform. ballotbox.scot/#list

Provisional calculation of list seats for the Scottish Parliament, showing 16 Reform, 15 Green, 14 Labour, 6 Conservative, 5 Lib Dem, 0 SNP

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Holly Bruce in Glasgow Southside, 2nd Green MSP to win on the constituency ballot!

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Voters in Glasgow, on May 7th remember that "Independent Green Voice" is a far right, non-Green, non indy-supporting con that the Electoral Commission should have dealt with many years ago. If you want to vote green, vote Scottish Green Party (SGP). Look for the logo.

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

""Today, I own six houses, five cars and six boats. ... The Reform leader ... said he did not mean to "boast", asking Greer: "In your Scotland, do you want more people like me, or fewer people like me?" "Fewer people like you," the Green co-leader replied." […]

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

I just saw the most amazingly corporate expression of "we did what the bosses wanted us to do, even though the research didn't support that." The actual phrase was: > The research employed a methodology that prioritized stakeholder voice over researcher interpretation. I wonder if a data […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

I have now chanced upon the latest big thread that people have been subtooting about for the last day or so. It has made my life no better than before I read it. Here's a picture of Charley cat sitting on a chair that she has recently decided she likes. She […] [Original post on glasgow.social]

White and black cat (cow-markings) sitting on a green chair (maybe looks blue in the photo). The chair is curved, which is great for cats to snuggle into. She was snuggled just before this photo was taken, but is sitting up now pondering whether to get up (she does).

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Scottish Green Party forecast to overtake Scottish Labour in Holyrood, to be 3rd biggest party after SNP and Reform, according to the Scottish Election Study. Not mentioned in the article, but the SNP are again predicted to get no seats from the list, due to […] [Original post on glasgow.social]

Table of vote share and seats for each party broken down by constituency, list and total counts.

SNP: Const.: 34%, 57 seats; List: 28%, 0 seats; Total: 57 seats

Reform: Const.: 18%, 1 seat; List: 19%, 21 seats; Total: 22 seats

Greens: Const.: 11%, 4 seats; List: 16%, 12 seats; Total: 16 seats

Labour: Const.: 14%, 1 seat; List: 14%, 14 seats; Total: 15 seats

Lib Dem: Const.: 10%, 7 seats; List: 10%, 3 seats; Total: 10 seats

Cons: Const.: 10%, 3 seats; List: 10%, 6 seats; Total: 9 seats

Other: Const.: 2%, 0 seats; List: 2%, 0 seats; Total: 0 seats

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Massive win for the Green party in the Gorton and Denton by-election; not even close in the end: Hannah Spencer (Green Party): 14,980 Matt Goodwin (Reform UK): 10,578 Angeliki Stogia (Labour Party): 9,364 Hopefully the UK government will now realise it needs to tack hard to the left. Chasing […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Is it even remotely plausible that Trump would take Greenland and then not move on immediately to Iceland? "Iceland: The North Atlantic island is a NATO member but has no military, only a coastguard service." "It hosts U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime-patrol aircraft in a rotational deployment […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

I suspect that this could be the start of a (slow) turning point for government enthusiasm for AI. Embarrassment of a Chief Constable before a Commons Select Committee is going to lead to new questions about integrity of data in police reports in his force, and probably beyond […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

Pro-indy SNP supporters should vote for Scottish Greens on the list vote in May if they don't want to waste their 2nd vote and want to help keep Reform down: "The [SNP]’s likely success in [constituency contests] would mean that, despite not being awarded a single list seat, the nationalists […]

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

🎉 Happy New Year! We're still hiring for several roles, with applications closing soon: - Assistant Economist (London/York) - Accounting Services Supervisor (York) - Media Manager (London/York) - Cyber Security Lead (York) Don't miss out, apply now! www.jrf.org.uk/careers

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

We need this in Edinburgh!

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

"Tony Blair is an undeclared lobbyist. Ellison is his client. And TBI is an influencing machine whose tentacles spread across both the political and media establishments: if you read any article about digital ID that doesn’t include the Blair/Ellison connection, ask yourself why." […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025

"At least four people have turned down their nomination for Cycling UK's annual 100 Women in Cycling award following the charity's decision to exclude transwomen and non-binary people from consideration, citing a Supreme Court ruling." […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025

The financial arrangement between Westminster and Holyrood is bonkers! A 2% increase in income tax for England, Wales and Northern Ireland would lead to a £1 billion reduction for the Scottish Government. "A change to UK income tax ... would not directly affect Scottish taxpayers, but an […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

"if someone has taken a life through dangerous driving, we have to ask: why should they ever be allowed to drive again?" Good question! APPGCW and APPGTS asking the right questions and reaching the right answers […]

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Christopher Kyba 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 @skyglowberlin.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

I'm offering a funded PhD position on nighttime lights #RemoteSensing in the Institute of #Geography at the @ruhr-uni-bochum.de jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/… I'd love for the ad to be seen by as many potential candidates as possible, so […]

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