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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

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This week the battery in the old radio controlled clock in my kitchen died and, when I replaced the battery, it just went back to showing 8 O’Clock all the time. I suspect this is a consequence of the UK turning off the BBC Longwave transmitters and, with that, the time signal. It’s sad because […]

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rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Returned Tuesday from two weeks of cycling around the country, making sure all is in order. A fave encounter was near Hamamatsu, where the coastal cycle path was blocked for massive embankment works. Diverting through a golf course where a "no entry" sign had been set aside, I was accosted by a […]

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ @zhizhu.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

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"in early 2025, the entirety of the CDC’s #pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system team, which ...collecting #data on #women ’s experiences before, during and after pregnancy, was placed on administrative leave by the #Trump admn... we’re going to see […] [Original post on newsie.social]

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Meanwhile, in early 2025, the entirety of the CDC’s pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system team, which oversees a population-based surveillance system collecting data on women’s experiences before, during and after pregnancy, was placed on administrative leave by the Trump administration.

According to an upcoming report authored by academics and former CDC staff, seen by the Guardian, these actions by the federal government disrupted the collection and management of “one of the nation’s most important sources of population-based information on pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, postpartum experiences, and maternal and infant health” which has existed for over four decades.

“There are no other datasets like it. Teams like mine used to have access to this data before the portal was shut down, and so now there’s no way to study the more recent trends in maternal and infant health,” said Rita Hamad, professor of social epidemiology and public policy at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and co-author of the report.

“Now we’re very worried that the cuts to US safety net policies or barriers that keep people able to access those programmes are going to have detrimental effects on maternal and infant health.”

She added: “I think we’re going to see those geographical and maternal disparities widening. Or we’re not going to see it because we don’t have the data, but that’s what is going to happen.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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“Driving through Arizona on a Saturday morning, I saw a line of cars nearly a mile long stopped along a high-desert highway. I slowed, thinking there had been an accident. Then I realized that all of those people were waiting in line for food”. More than 450,000 Arizonans have lost SNAP benefits.

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Going Hungry in Trump’s Economy

The president said the “American dream is back.” Rural Arizonans don’t think so.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Who went through all the major platforms where the Pentagon might stream their barbaric firing squad "livestream" execution to see if it violated their policies? Me. I did it.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I just learned that the documentary Shifting Baselines f3m.ca/en/film/shifting-baselines, about the environmental destruction caused by SpaceX, is available through most US libraries streaming on Kanopy I'm in it. So is @planet4589.bsky.social. So are my goats and my llama! (RIP llama […]

WIST Quotations @wistquotes.friendica.world.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

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A quotation from Orwell > The relative freedom which we enjoy depends on public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in […]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

So Elon Musk just let it out of the bag that there are people in the USA including him… which implies, a not-zero number of others in positions of influence… who believe Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec should all separate from Canada. I mean… we’re beyond just one now… he’s essentially saying […]

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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The neo-Nazi Elon Musk is referencing to the neo-Nazi slogan: 'First the traitors, then the invaders', btw. and yes this means murdering the 'traitors' first. Did you know that Peter Thiel grew up in a town where the people were greeting each other with 'Heil Hitler' until he was 12 years old […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?

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Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵 @richardmedh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you're talking about AIツール, you can say あいつ for short.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic

One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Talked to someone who has been dabbling in translating fiction. This guy was horrified when I told him that if he uses machine translation for more than dictionary checks of individual words, he can't put his name on the translation and the work is ineligible under most standard publishing […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]

rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

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Okay, so it should be pretty clear to everyone now that Benjamin Netanyahu is also a duly elected fucking lunatic.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Jones Murphy @jonesmurphy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Netanyahu was funding Hamas since before Mamdani was born, in order to make Hamas into a rival to the PLO. Yet Netanyahu and many Netanyahu fans are blaming Mamdani for supporting Hamas. Netanyahu is currently funding at least 5 far more radical Palestinian factions in order to help them fight […]

rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

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So if you have a lot of credit card debt, we all know that paying off your MasterCard with your Visa doesn't solve the problem. Aha, but what if you have a friend that also has a lot of credit card debt, and they use *their* Visa to pay off your MasterCard. What do you think about *that* ? (Any […]

rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

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Political rhetoric does the rounds internationally, and I really look forward to this particular exercise in xenophobic cruelty finding its way to Japan. Boy, I just can't wait. Once again, the entire Trump cabinet of craven monsters need to be put on trial by a successor government. Minimum […]

Jesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 18/09/2026

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I almost never read emails from politicians but i just got one from @ocasio-cortez.house.gov titled "My Thoughts on AI" and it's actually quite good. Relieved to see her diverging from Bernie.

We can stop this, and we shouldn’t play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted AI development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the AI bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold AI companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that AI robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It’s time we hold them accountable.

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rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

An Asahi Shimbun backgrounder on Takaichi immigration policy this morning reads with an echo. The gist is that the center-right party of power looked at a radical right-wing insurgency fueled by xenophobic hysteria and thought "to save the center, we must give vent to our own inner xenophobe." […]

Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

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Hmmm wonder why #Trump banned CNN?! “The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” US intelligence report. That erroneous intelligence, submitted by a US Special Ops analyst, suggested the Chinese ship was transporting nuclear arms program components. The US […]

rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

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Sicklepod seed harvest from the back garden, grown from seeds gifted by the proprietress of the Monpemaruke cafe on Sakushima in Nagoya Bay. (The harvest of seeds is larger than shown here!) To make "habu-cha tea", the seeds are roasted, then some are boiled […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

A large round stainless steel kitchen tub filled with long thin brown seed pod husks, with a small ceramic condiment dish next to it containing shiny brown seeds.

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rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

If all this fumbling about by the US "Secretary of War" ultimately triggers a global confrontation, the English can humorously call it the War of Hegseth's Bottle.

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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

''Historic Turning Point' Israel Moves Toward Recognizing Austrian Party Founded by Former Nazis The Austrian Freedom Party's leader gave a speech backing Israel's right-wing agenda that was welcomed by members of the Israeli government. Austria's established Jewish community vehemently rejects […]

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rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

It's precious how self-styled "conservatives" in the US complain that "things are too political." As if their own extremely bad political decisions haven't been the direct cause of the enormous mess in which the world now finds itself. #USpol

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rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

People keep talking about "the Manosphere". Look, I have two manospheres, and that's plenty enough already thank you very much. I don't need another.

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's backing band have quit the tour too. #EdSheeran #Beoga #FreePalestine #IrishArtistsForPalestine

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We have made the decision to depart
as Ed Sheeran’s band on the
remaining US Loop tour, following the
silencing of Macklemore by zionist
lobbies.
We are a traditional Irish band who
never saw ourselves playing in
stadiums of that size and that
opportunity is not lost on us. We have
been friends with Ed for over 10 years
now and will continue to be. We
believe in dialogue as a means of
progressing the plight of the
Palestinian people.

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As musicians, playing to those crowds every
night is the stuff of dreams but to play in
venues that silence anyone advocating for a
Free Palestine is simply not an option for us.
It’s important that everyone knows that the real
enemy is the zionist lobby. They have worked
tirelessly to silence artists who want to speak
freely about a genocide happening before our
eyes, for fear of retribution.
Research how much Robert Kraft has done to
fight the BDS movement. That will give you a
sense of what we’ve all been up against.
We were there for Macklemore’s performance
and speech. We fully supported his message, so
did most of the audience in Met Life Stadium
which terrifies the lobbies. Go back and read
the transcript if you're in doubt.

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We are Irish people who understand
colonialism. As founding members of the
Irish Artists For Palestine movement, we
are committed activists for justice and will
continue to be.
This whole episode is once again serving
to distract from the real issue, over 1000
Palestinians have been killed since the
most recent so-called ceasefire.
Up the workers.
Free Palestine.
B=OGA

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 14/09/2026

Hegseth blocked dozens of promotions for women and minorities this month, and for the first time in over a decade no active duty female Navy officer made one star admiral. Survivors say every unit now has its own Hegseth, a known predator everyone quietly warns each other about.

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New horrors in military detailed as insiders tell all: 'Every unit has a Hegseth'

When news broke that a Navy officer’s sexual assault claim was dismissed as a workman’s compensation issue, Dawn, a retired Marine, took a bat to a tree in rage.Dawn is one of the survivors of militar...

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@llimllib/117260168640… This is a thing that people say to me with surprising regularity to me, too. "But you're such a *good* programmer, glyph, that's why you don't see the value in AI. It helps with reversion to the mean, which means that for below-average folks […]

Bodil @bodil.lol · 12/09/2026

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And here we are, the Zionist lawfare group UK Lawyers For Israel has written to the Home Secretary demanding that she proscribes Doctors Without Borders as a terrorist organisation. No, really. And I wish I could tell you I was confident this government would tell them where to stick it […]

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rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Saudi East-West pipeline attacked, currently shut down, extent of damage as yet unconfirmed. This seems … pretty bad. That's another 5 million barrels per day (!) offline, and a reply to Treasury Secretary Bessent's declaration that pipelines will make the Strait "irrelevant." Maybe gateway […]

Grassroots Joe @joeinwynnewood.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

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"I’m not (yet) saying that our government is cooking the statistical books. Instead, I’m saying that it took the necessary steps to make that legal, and possible. In recent weeks, the Trump administration quietly rewrote the rules that kept political interference out of our economic statistics […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@sundogplanets AST SpaceMobile’s satellites are massive. These aren’t small CubeSats doing modest experiments. These are some of the largest commercial satellites ever deployed, with solar arrays spanning over 700 square meters. They are industrial-scale infrastructure requiring robust […]

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rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

So Nigel Farage and Reform Ltd are a sinking ship. The only remaining* question is whether they take the UK to the bottom with them. * Gotcha! #UKpol

rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

With the staggering debt burdens of major Western economies, apparently one potential outcome is the rise of corporate bonds as a safe asset class to compete with government paper … ? Early days of course, and no idea what the overall consequences would be, but it seems like something that would […]

Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

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Wow, the Anthropic authors settlement sounds like a shitshow. Not only it is a pitiful payout for contemptuous theft of work that has done nothing to solve the issue. Not only are fake claimants trying to grab the authors’ shares outright (somehow necessitating the *author* to disprove the […]

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the three-day monk @3daymonk.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Shameful! “HBW Leads agreed to pay the Department of Corrections $10 per inmate hour worked. Prisoners employed at the call centers earn $2 per hour, plus possible bonuses for generating leads or completing surveys. The remaining $8 per hour is allocated as overhead for Oklahoma Correctional […]

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rollover country 🗾🚴‍♀️🇯🇵💨 @fgbjr.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

There is progress in identifying conditions under which life might have gotten started on Earth, which is great. But to twist the familiar question: Where are the upstarts? Doesn't the fact that we don't see a bunch of independent energy-arbitrating self-replicating structures springing into […]