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Duncan

@DuncanMSussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy

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Former biochemist but escaped from the lab! Now an interdisciplinary social scientist. General/personal account. I care about politics/current affairs but it rather […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mas.to/@DuncanMSussex, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Trifecta: Meta screwed with the accounts of the non-fascist Brazilian presidential candidate: www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta… The American tech oligarchs are completely beyond control at this point […]

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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 11h

Mia Moore @StopTweetingMia

I had to finally delete my dead grandmother from my phone contacts and it asked me "are you sure you want to throw Grandma in the trash?"

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Quo usque tandem-cykel📎 @jdskog.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Fredag!

kleinergeist writes:

| don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Alright, first MapTap for a while! www.maptap.gg October 16 95🏅 94🏆 96🔥 98🔥 92👑 Final score: 951 #MapTap

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

🍂 As Europe and the north slips quietly into shades of amber, rust, and encroaching dark, our world softens into bloom. Down here at the edge of Africa, the canopy catches fire in violet. 💜 #Johannesburg in October.

An elevated, panoramic view across Johannesburg's leafy suburbs at dusk, dominated by the sprawling, vibrant violet canopy of massive jacaranda trees in full bloom rising above red-tiled house roofs. In the distant background, the suburban expanse stretches toward high-rise buildings on the horizon under a soft sunset sky with pastel pink and gold clouds.

Looking up a steep, quiet suburban hill entirely blanketed in fallen violet jacaranda blossoms, resembling a vibrant purple carpet covering the road. Massive jacaranda trees line both sides of the street, forming an overhead tunnel of blooms, with a single pedestrian walking up the center distance beneath a glowing streetlamp.

A quiet residential street framed by a dense canopy of blooming purple jacaranda trees, their branches meeting overhead to form a natural archway. Two runners jog down the shaded road in the foreground, leading towards a glowing, stone triumphal arch illuminated by warm golden morning light at the far end of the avenue.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passke… TIL that passkeys have remote attestation built-in. That seems pretty damn terrible. Don't use passkeys.

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Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.

Intended audience: non-technical citizens of the web

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Another successful week, by at least one measure.

Workplace sign “this is a velociraptor-free workplace, it has proudly been [2.59x10¹⁰] days since the last velociraptor incident”

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I regret taking 20 years to listen to late Talk Talk's albums. Up my straße now, would've been then. Acclaimed 35 year old albums are good, who knew? (If I disagreed I hope I'd not post, slaying sacred cows is rarely anything other than tedious.) But - two interesting things to me (long […]

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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

A beautiful, angry, and important post by @anildash about how a whole generation has been brainwashed into censoring themselves. I like the actionable recommendations at the end, though I’m missing “take a big stick, and beat the billionaires to death with it.”

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Jon Roach @fourt4.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Maya's anti-drone outfit #TraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors #TheTraitors

A Russian tank dressed in "hedgehog" anti-drone protection.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Well. I'd lumped Burnham in with Starmer as someone who dodges hard choices. And maybe that'll still true overall but getting rid of the state pension triple lock is both necessary and brave. I expect the usual suspects will still moan but using the savings for social care strikes me as savvy […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Small detail I've only just noticed in an album I've listened to on and off for almost two decades. In the penultimate track of The Golden Hour by Firewater, a deeply uneven album I'm still inordinately fond of, right at the very end … there's Withnail - "I demand to have some booze!". Kind of […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

So, as someone who's never got round to Ted Lasso - how come everyone seemed to rate it a few years back but the internet hates it now? Doesn't seem to be a "later series dropped off" thing, more like how the internet did a near 180 on TBBT a few years in. #TV #Television

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Jesus said his father's house has many rooms, but I just don't see how Joseph could have earned enough money for that.

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

So it goes without saying that the way to mash up Boom Boom and Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! is to sing the Vengaboys lyrics in the style of John Lee Hooker. But how best to mash up (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction with Satisfaction by Benny Benassi? Truly a mystery for the ages. #music

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

[LotR spoilers (books and movies)] My local was showing the extended Lord of the Rings, and that's now wound up. On a rewatch they hold up. Some stuff's aged badly (cliché now or notably undiverse), there's some Hollywoodisms for expediency and it's distracting how "not conventionally […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Mildly fun game: MP Recall 🏛️ I named 37/649 current MPs in five minutes. 🟥 8/403 LAB 🟦 3/118 CON 🟧 6/71 LD ⬜ 2/11 IND 🩵 3/8 REF 🟨 1/8 SNP 🟥🟦 1/5 DUP 🟢 4/5 GRN 🟩⬜ 2/4 PC 🟢🟡 1/2 SDLP 🟪 2/2 YP 🟨🟩 1/1 APNI 🟫 1/1 RB ⬛ 1/1 SPK 🟦🟥 1/1 TUV Can you beat me? toys.jamesomalley.co.uk/mprecall […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

So, the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. My last mini-thread on my old politics account was, I think, on this and I expected it'd be a Labour hold. Two things I've heard affect my view. 1/? #UKPol #UKPolitics

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Pretty fun map today - no US locations so my standard moan doesn't apply. Only thing I'd criticise is having Valetta as a medium difficulty pick doesn't really work. If you know where Malta is at all you basically have it! #MapTap

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Today I found out that Teen Titans Go! has two crossover episodes with The Repair Shop. A US animated show about teenage superheroes crosses over with cosy UK reality-ish TV about repairing old furniture. Is this the most bonkers crossover in television? Or are there even weirder ones out […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

It sucks how social media discourse sometimes results in a feedback loop where each sides' arguments just get progressively worse. On another site there was an AI argument, involving a poster who tends to get a lot of pushback regardless of the (highly variable) quality of their points.

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Lucky ✨ @lucky.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

the French titles for Pokemon Winds and Pokemon Waves are making me laugh like an idiot. me when i'm posting about my virtual critters but i'm a little toxic about it

Pokemon Vents

Pokemon Vagues

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You're right to push back on that—those were sheep I told you to slaughter, not the Achaean leaders. That's on me. Would you like to explore *other ways to get back at Odysseus and Agamemnon*?

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Doing my first migration from my politics alt into this account as toot.community is shutting down. Seems reasonably smooth actually? Some failed migrations of followers, which are a shame, but they're mostly from Threads so it at least makes sense.

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

[Ludwig S2 spoilers] I'm enjoying Ludwig S2 (fun, silly cosy crime) but half way through I'm very confused at how politics works in Ludwig-world. Some stuff is relatively minor - Cambridge apparently has multiple MPs (is parliament massive or is Ludwig's Cambridge more Oxford sized?) and […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct - apparently I'm way less hooked into the gaming world than I used to be as I didn't know about this in advance! Deeply torn about the OoT remake. Just can't get over how uncanny valley Link looks, you know? That shiny look isn't too bad on the NPCs but it just […]

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Today. Tomorrow. Forever.

Graffiti: FCK AFD

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

A few pints in on a Sunday and relistening to Cardiacs' LSD - incredible album but one I think got counterintuitively hurt by increased exposure due to the circumstances (14 years in the making and completed posthumously). Cardiacs is almost like popular music by a completely different set of […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I am not interested in old souls, where are my ancient souls at? I want friends who are extinct marine arthropods at heart.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@datarama/117214107554… I am *so* here for watching people advocate for their favourite map projections. This might be my favourite type of nerd debate. Thank you, Fediverse. (Also: xkcd.com/977)

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

[mozilla, twitter] Remember Threads? That facebook twitter ripoff that nobody used? More people use that than twitter

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Isn't it weird how the internet just doesn't seem to cover every subculture and scene? Not a new observation, I know. But it's one thirty am here and I've just seen two bands live that had an air of Fat Dog about them. Not a band I hear buzz about online. But they're clearly an influence on […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

lol @ senior people in Reform admitting to crimes on camera, and this airing on terrestrial telly during their conference. #UKPol #UKPolitics

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Anyone have any thoughts on alternative search engines to Google/Bing/derivatives thereof? On Vivaldi I used StartPage for a while but found it hard going in terms of the quality of the results and some aspects of the design. Qwant is really good for basic searches (maybe even better than old […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Recently rewatched Lord of the Rings (Fellowship) at pub. Long story short, holds up but can see the wires a bit when condensation is needed. But I'd forgotten how autumnal the film is. The world is clearly already fading (obvious Shire parallels to real life etc) - the hobbits leave at harvest […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Realise I've been using this account a lot to just chat into the void about local live music but ... Yeah, Brighton Psych Fest. It's a shame that a high profile headliner (Angine de Poitrine) are doing the Manc and Edinburgh events but not here. On the other hand the clashes are brutal as is […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Forgot my toots mirror to Bluesky and get cut off. To both of the people who follow my BridgyFed account, soz for the ugly cutoff!

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Went up to that London for Outbreak festival at All Points East. Lots of stuff I'd want to see but which probably wouldn't make it off my shortlist for a full gig, so pretty fun day. Well run festival, drinks decently priced (in context) but air quality really bad due to … London, plus it being […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

The Guardian's Film Reveal game wouldn't accept Zardoz as a valid answer to a Sean Connery film released between 1970 and 1990. #FirstWorldProblems

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Yesterday, Ace the new puppy downstairs only barked at Odin a few times, and today, he didn’t bark at all. So we decided it was time to let Odin get within booping range, and it went great! Ace now understands that Odin is the Public Universal Friend and not the monster who lives upstairs

Odin the Newfie and Ace the German Shepherd Puppy together in a yard

Sharing a gentle boop

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Das @srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

I remember hurrying towards my hotel, and stopping just to take a quick pic, hoping the couple in the window wouldn't see me and think I was some weirdo, as I walked past the chaotic back of this building in the shattered darkness. #Fensterfreitag […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

The back of a 3 storey building with numerous split air condition units and pipes HVAC duct going up. Most of the windows are covered and dark, except one in the center and a man and woman are in a well lit room. The back of the building is mostly in the dark except for the light spilling onto it from the street lamps (not in pic) on either side. A white wire fence is in fromt of the building and signs are on it.

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DuncanMSussexPol @duncanmsussexpol.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Only 63% of the vote when your main opposition is a bin. Fucking lol. Game on for whoever the opposition coalesces around (probably the Tory, sadly) next time. #Clacton #ClactonOnSea #ClactonByElection

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@eunews/11708259849… Every time someone complains about how much decarbonization costs, remind them that climate change damages actually costs more

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Second moon just dropped. Cool to see the eclipse through a God's ray, and really unexpected that leaves projected it into buildings, like natural pinhole cameras.

$90% solar eclipse refracted in a God's ray$ The eclipse projected onto a building through the leaves (zoom in)

The eclipse projected onto a building through the leaves (zoom in)

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@classicweb/1170715… I'm of the opinion that the mid-2000s were the best era of web design at the time. Like how the 90s (in the West) were a strong contender for the best decade to live in. But actually going back would be very hard and not much fun […]

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Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

My solar glasses stocks have been going up the whole month of August! And I've got a feeling they'll peak right around January. #WallStreetGenius

Duncan @duncanmsussex.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@ObsidianUrbex/1170816… @carrieonwriting some sea friends!

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

🦭 It's been a while since I shared some silly seal photos! Along with exploring abandoned buildings, I also volunteer as part of a UK-wide network protecting and rescuing seals. Taken with a zoom lens; always keep a good distance. Seals come ashore to rest.and […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

seal posing on a rock

baby seal touching nose, tongue sticking out

seals on the beach

seal in waves being splashed