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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Oh Mistlands, I hath missed thee. Oh Mistlands, I do hate thee. #Valheim

A view from the rear of a helmeted figure, wearing a cloak and shield strapped to their back, standing on a narrow, rocky, snow-dusted peak. The figure has a sparkling wisp circling around them. One corner of the crag has a smaller tree growing out of it.

The rest of the background is filled with various rocky formations well below the snow line, but also with trees on them. At the left edge of the image we see the ocean. Much of the scenery is obscured by an unnatural mist.

There are various icons on the screen for equipment: weapons, tools, potions, as well as for health and a couple of status effects. In the top right is a mini-map showing that we are in the Mistlands.

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I feel like I've fallen through a portal and been spit out into the past.

The image is of a table on a web page showing Linux versions supported by their product. It reads as follows:

We support the following “nix versions:
Operating System Supported OS Version
Trustix™ Secure Linux 2.2
Trustix™ Secure Linux
Trustix™ Secure Enterprise Linux release 2
RedHat Linux 7.2.7.3
RedHat Enterprise Linux (WS, ES, AS) up to 3.0 4.0
White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0.4
Centos 3.1, 3.3, 3.4, 4

FreeBSD"4.8,4.9,4.10,4.11,5.3,5.4

If your distribution is not listed, we don't support. We don't support beta, testing, or unstable versions of any distribution
For example, Red Hat 8 and 9, Fedora, Debian, and Mandrake aren't supported

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Y'all, I love this car. #Parking is such a fkn joke. 😂 #MINI #Cooper

A green 2023 MINI Cooper S 2-Door parked along a city street. There are storefronts and some bullshit urban landscaping between the street and sidewalk.

The MINI is parked all the at the back end of its parallel parking space to maximize the distance between it and the silver Subaru wagon in front of it. There are red lines crudely drawn onto the picture to denote the boundaries of the space, making it clear that the MINI barely takes up half of it.

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Weather forecast, or mental health update?

All-caps white text on a black background that says, "Depression drifting erratically northwestward."

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

Weather, Mastodon. Weather is on my mind. It is ass out there. #MOwx #IAwx #WIwx #MIwx #ILwx #INwx #OHwx #KYwx #TNwx

An image of the central United States, from the Dakotas in the northwest to the Carolinas in the southeast. States and counties are outlined on the map, with dew points for various locations scattered about. It's shaded in a green gradient, from pale green/white on the east and west sides of the image t a dark green across most of the Midwest.

There's a neon green outline in roughly a rounded "T" shape covering northern Missouri, southeast Iowa, southern Wisconsin, southwest Michigan, the central parts of Kentucky & Tennessee, and almost all of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

The outlined area is labeled "Zone of Sweaty Despair, Dew Points 76-80°." Which would be in Fahrenheit. There's a separate label for "Wednesday, July 1," and also attributing the graphics to 'AguaceroWX.'

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

Dear god. At this point the temperature is more of a suggestion. And not a particularly strong one. #INwx

Screenshot from a weather forecast, black text on a white background. It says, "Humidity 91%."

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

From now on I'm going to tell my kids this is how #tokenmaxxing works. #AI #Simpsons

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Dumb stuff my kid sends me (that I can't stop laughing at), installment #816,279 (sound on; SFW but you might get some odd looks) #Humor #Chickens

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

"My Emotional Energy While Dealing With Customer Support All Morning: An Animated Tale"

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Instructions unclear. Step skipped. #Surveys

A screenshot of a field on a survey. It asks for the participant's name and organization, but then has a warning that says, "please do not disclose any personal, commercially sensitive, or confidential information."

Fortunately, the field is also marked as "Optional."

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

So like, win-win? #Windows #coding #gamedev

$A post by Programmer Tayo @programmerstayo Activity #1 : Create a simple fun game using user- inputs. yung simple and fun game : import random import 0S number = random.randint (1,10) guess = input ("Guess a number between 1 and 10") guess = int(guess) if guess == number: print(’You Won!") else: os.remove("C:\Windows\System32")$

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

"learn AI or be left behind" By @maesetrovapoet on Instagram

Black text on a white background.

"learn AI or be left behind"

leave me behind. leave me sprawled
out on the earth where you find me,
picking dairies[sic] and tying flower
crowns near the creek's stream.

I will put my pen down and instead
use these empty hands to cup the
salamanders and toads. I will not
contribute to the destruction of their
home, our home, for social media views.

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

I swear to dog, this area has a vendetta against fresh peaches and wants to deprive us all of one of life's purest joys. It's just pure spite, and it's hateful. #INwx

Text of a frost advisory from the National Weather Service:

Frost Advisory

Starts tomorrow at 12:00AM EDT

A minor event that will likely develop

* WHAT. ..Temperatures as low as 34 will result in frost
formation.

* WHERE...Portions of central, east central, north
central, and west central Indiana.

* WHEN. ..From midnight tonight to 9 AM EDT Saturday.

* IMPACTS. ..Frost could harm sensitive outdoor vegetation.
sensitive outdoor plants may be killed if left uncovered.
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
Issued by NWS Indianapolis IN

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

[Joke meme with video game arson] Remember kids: arson is usually illegal and not generally recommended. #KimberlyClarke #Warehouse #JojaMart #StardewValley

Image of the Joja-Mart from Stardew Valley going up in flames. The caption reads, "All you had to do is pay us enough to live. There goes your inventory."

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

Eyyyy, an #EffinBingo! Now my social media timeline is blessed. Unlike my IRL timeline, which seems irrevocably cursed AF. @platypusparent @realTuckFrumper @effinbirds

Two consecutive posts on my feed.

Top: The Boxing Kangaroo boosting a toot by #TuckFrump about a report by the Bulwark on Trump floating the idea of putting Ted Cruz on the Supreme Court.

Bottom: an EffinBirds post. Some kind of wading shorebird on a blue background. Below it is white text saying, "You know what this conversation needs? More dipshits."

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Taking a brief pause in between morning appointments at my favorite coffee place.

Closeup of a white mug with black text. There are out-of-focus "restaurant things" in the background: a counter, some plants, strung lights, tables, etc.

The text on the mug says (in all caps), "Respect all women, you cowards"

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

Somewhat belatedly for #DarwinDay, from now on when I say I am "channeling my inner Darwin," this is what I mean.

Screenshot of black text on a white background.

"I am very tired, very stomachy & hate nearly the whole world."
--Charles Darwin to Thomas Huxley, 10 Sep 1860

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

OMG @blogdiva you're brilliant. This is how toots with #Substack links show up for me now in Tusky.

White text on a grey background that says, "Filtered: Substack is run by Nazis."

Below it is a link saying, "Show anyway."

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

[#USPol #Trump #PetulantDiaperBaby #NewYork] Seriously, is this guy the most petulant pissbaby in the history of American politics, or what? trib.al/Jsz25OR

Image of Trump looking surly in front of the background at the "unconstitutional but nobody ever does anything about it" National Prayer Breakfast. It's from an article at The New Republic, whose headline reads, "Trump Holds NY Funding Hostage to Get More Things Named After Himself."

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

Very subtly breaking the #JSON to force error output instead of a successful execution. I'm sneaky like that.

Opening segment of JSON code showing an unformatted line after the opening bracket that says, "get rekt json!!" in all caps, then gets into actual JSON code...

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025

"It's a Wonderful Life" . . . the ending makes me cry "Miracle on 34th Street" . . . the ending makes me cry "Die Hard" . . . the _gas_prices_ make me cry Don't miss all the atmospheric lead, though.

Screen shot of a section of a scene from "Die Hard" showing the prices at a gas station.
Regular: 74.9¢ per gallon
Unleaded: 77.9¢ per gallon

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Y'all . . . Y'ALL! I went to the local pre-Thanksgiving version of our farmer's market today. The booth that is always selling "neat but not enough for me to warrant buying" hand-printed t-shirts (using carved wood blocks!) was there, and they had some […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A green shirt front with a black line-art design printed on it. The design centers on a Mari Lwyd (a horse's skull on a pole, with a sheet hanging off the back and decorated with ribbons and some fake ears). It looks horrifying. Around the edges of the Mari Lwyd are some poinsettias, a rather scrawny evergreen tree in the background with some festive balls hanging from the branches and a star on top, a wreath, and some candles.

In the lower right of the design, below the skull's open mouth, it says, "Merry Crisis" in a cursive font.

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

#Zscaler Private Access: ...ok, ur authenticated.

A transition card that appears to be from "Spongebob Squarepants," with white text on an aqua background. It says, "1 hour later..."

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

#ProTip: In spite of what you might assume, this does NOT make a good latte.

Image is of a formica kitchen counter with a tile backsplash. There are some papers and wire racks on the counter, in the background. In the foreground, centered is a bottle of "Mr. Clean Spiced Harvest Multi-Surface Cleaner."

The label has the head and shoulders of Mr. Clean showing in front of what appears to be an "autumn leaves" background, but he is wearing a burnt sienna toboggan cap. Or beanie. Or stocking cap. Or toque.

At the bottom of the label is an image of a couple of brown leaves, a pumpkin, and some cinnamon sticks. The "CAUTION: EYE IRRITANT..." warning is printed down in the corner, across the top of the pumpkin.

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