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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

During World War II, the British Royal Navy experimented with using ice reinforced with wood pulp to build an aircraft carrier. Now researchers led by a team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel have extended that idea from the 1940s by adding plant-based crystals to ice, creating […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Anthropic is bragging about rolling their own from-scratch in-house version control system because git couldn't keep up with their 30,000 commits per day, and it doesn't seem to occur to them for a nanosecond that they are not fixing the actual problem in their engineering practices but making […]

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@xssfox that's it, everyone back to using index.php? for everything

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@tomwarren.co.uk @wdormann coincidentally *their* shitty AI is the most useless

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Every company: "People have opted out of every mailing list.🤔 If we make a NEW slightly different flavor of mailing list we can default opt-in everyone again!"

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Welp I better hurry up and get everything done in this solar system in the next couple bill years

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Life is short; pick fun words, use embroidered vocabulary and communicate fabulously

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@NewsDesk @AxiosNews or while we are on this idea, Russia could replace its leader with someone who would stop invading.

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@0xabad1dea Viennese crossing like 4 borders to go shopping

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

My "bedazzLED" denim jacket tutorial is up on @makemagazine 's site without a paywall now! It's a practical wearable project that's looks cute even when it's not illuminated. makezine.com/projects/bedazzled-jea…

There colorful Illuminated flowers on the back of a denim jacket

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

@xssfox living off the land harvesting nature's bounty

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The #Trump admin has officially blocked European election monitoring of the US midterms in November. The US elections have been monitored since 2003. “In recent years, the OSCE has been unable to monitor elections in #Belarus, #Georgia, and #Tajikistan due to the refusal of these governments […]

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

a sentence will always look like poetry if you hit enter a lot

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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

okay i've taken this too seriously on its own terms. when a billionaire says "dictatorship is efficient" what he means is that it's easy to bribe.

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rar is win @xyla.zip · 06/10/2026

(boost pls 🥺) i NEED a person who owns the winrar bag. like, not in the romantic sense,, i just wanna have a photo of it with the ikea rat plushie placed on top of it. i can arrange the details, ship the rat to you, pay for the shipping, whatever. i just need the photo picrel

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@jonny i just saw Meta is hiring someone to do meta sandbox protection. (Great timing) You could do something pretty funny

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Georgia is going to be a hotspot for election interference by the Trump regime. Excellent reporting on the friction between the executive director of the Elections Board (who essentially asked Trump regime to interfere) and two Board Commissioners […]

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/10/2026

This November, Colorado voters will decide on anti-trans ballot measures. Now, Colorado's leading medical societies have formally condemned the surgery ban for transgender youth and announced their position against them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"Vote NO": Colorado's Top Medical Groups Formally Oppose Anti-Trans Ballot Prop. 135

There is not a single major medical group in the country that endorses blanket government restrictions on gender-affirming care like the one outlined in Prop. 135.

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Bagged Halloween candy on my counter: "You'll never hold out for a whole month"

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b4ux1t3 :trek_ds9_sisko:#1️⃣ @b4ux1t3.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

So, uh, job search update: About a month ago now, I pleaded on mastodon for help. I didn’t really have a goal in mind. I was just miserable at work, not getting paid enough to do too much work. I posted a big long, rambling post that ended with, effectively, “will someone please help me” A […]

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Popular accounts of the discovery of the structure of DNA suggest that Rosalind Franklin missed the significance of the photo she famously produced, and that the flash of insight was James Watson's alone. A new paper by science historian Alistair Sponsel and crystallographer Brian Sutton argues […]

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@markarayner "you shall pay dearly for this adorable outrage"

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Just put my homemade cosmic microwave background rug over the baby’s crib

A homemade latch hook rug of the cosmic microwave background map, hung on a rod over a crib

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Tim W RESISTS @tim.union.place.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Hey #UnionPlace family! I need your help. We've got about 230 active users. The cloud hosting bill for the instance is a bit over $500/mo. We're down to about $100/mo of income from people-who-are-not-me. That means I'm out of pocket $400+/mo to keep this going, and that's not super […]

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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Beware. If you are looking for Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's film "Naza" based on interviews with 24 Israeli soldiers, that is currently in film festivals and cinemas, you won't find it online. Instead you will find the IDF's "Naza - The True Story" that presents a very different picture of […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026

Taylor Lorenz is preparing for her "why I left the left" right-wing grifter pivot. Do not trust her. www.thefp.com/p/two-drinks-with-tay… (If you do not know "the free press", it is Bari Weiss's right-wing false-balance propaganda outlet, so talking to them *at all* is […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Is there a QR code generator that 1. is a website 2. is free, no account needed 3. is not secretly also a link shortener 4. does not look like a scam 5. does not include extra branding (the way the Chrome one does) a friend just asked me this and I really could not find one

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@wdormann I can't wait for the day somebody hacks it and for one glorious day it will be a rickroll

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@mntmn i would simply be 10x and use the 11th for looking at cat pictures

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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

👻 After three visits, I still get goosebumps as I push open the heavy doors and step inside once more. This spectacular control room was built in the 1920s in Art Deco style. Natural light enters through an immense central skylight. Levers, switches, and dials […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

An abandoned Art Deco power plant control room features a grand domed skylight illuminating vintage control panels. A central structure and metal railings are also visible.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

new: A third-party surveillance company is telling cops that it wants to add facial recognition to Flock footage and ALPR reads to help them "close the gap" in what Flock offers. Company offers racial analysis, gender analysis, behavior analysis […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

No one is coming to save us. There isn't a big single hero. That's a good thing. Following, trusting in singular persons is part of the problem. Keep your heroes at an arms distance. The durable way out is the one where we have to save ourselves.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

my friends wanted to pass on the reminder this Spooky Season that black food dye (often made from activated charcoal, which is used for treating poisonings) can cause your medications to be ineffective

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@heidilifeldman this is what a cleverly evil regime would have done from day 1. A gov this incompetently evil took 2 years to find a strategy that didn't keep punching itself

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

“ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inte… ICE will have to be wholly dismantled.

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: aus.social/@jimbob/1173460853173758… I remember this TNG episode, don't mess with the dude who lives there

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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Cool movie poster I saw in a restroom in Portland recently. You may or may not recognize the film. #film #posters #Portland

A red movie poster for "Guerre Stellari" that looks like an old western movie poster.

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