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(he/him/any) parent, software dev, leftist. BLM, sex work is real work, trans rights are human rights. Vegan. Living on land stolen from the Lenni […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.vivaldi.net/@firebreathingdu…, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 5h
My younger kid has realized that school is at least in part, a prison where kids are kept so parents can be farmed by capitalists, and that the grading, testing, major, and degree system serves to normalize and perpetuate hierarchies of importance among people. Also that many people have no […]
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Katrina Katrinka :donor: @katrinakatrinka.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5h
The buried lead: Vivian Wilson is a strong, inspirational woman who survived and thrived after dumping this dead-beat dad.
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Bodil @bodil.lol · 09/10/2026
Can confirm. I mean, being in the Epstein files per se isn't necessarily bad, like when you're in the Epstein files because Richard Dawkins used to complain to Epstein about how much he hates you, but I definitely know a couple of people who knew people who were _on the island_.
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Bodil @bodil.lol · 21h
It's remarkable how little of a surprise it is to me that my alleged uncle Robert C Martin is one of those people who believes LLMs are sentient but remain perfectly untroubled by forcing a sentient being to perform slave labour for him.
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rickf - a cynical professor @rickf.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
Interesting how the media keeps referring to the AI companies as "labs" as in "a model escaped the lab.." or "research at the labs shows that..." 'Lab' implies a place where experimentation and 'accidents' understandably might happen. Y'know, like Ebola or Covid. A 'company', on the other hand […]
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firebreathingduck @firebreathingduck.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
I don't expect anyone in my network to know this, but is there a way to disable GNOME localsearch-3 without removing GNOME itself? I have millions of files under my $HOME directory, so the so-called helpful file search utilities are pointless. After half an hour of trying things, I gave up and […]
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/10/2026
We may cover this tomorrow, but I just wanted to signal boost this. After months of pushing the administration to make good on its promises for trans youth, NYC appears to be taking steps to do so. I do believe the city can be doing much more, but this is a wonderful start from Mayor Mamdani.
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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux
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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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Lenny @f09fa681.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
(Boosts welcome!) Hi there! @theova and I are two software engineers with a combined 11+ years of experience building privacy-focused communication systems at @threemaapp in the Protocols and #Security team, now looking for our next opportunity. Our background spans protocol design, applied […]
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firebreathingduck @firebreathingduck.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Ten years ago all of my family's streaming services combined was $50 per month. We had fewer choices with more content, cheaply. Now we're paying $80 for a subset of those options *with ads*. I'm trying to convince my household to ditch everything and just make a $50/month donation to the […]
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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
If cops spoke like AI developers and AI users, It wasn't me that shot you or my gun. It was a bullet with misalligned objectives. #FuckAI #AI #AIHype
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firebreathingduck @firebreathingduck.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
I just found out that Islamic Relief USA changed its name to Islamic Development and Empowerment in America (IDEA). New website development.org They have a top rating at Charity Navigator www.charitynavigator.org/ein/954453… I make a monthly donation there for the relief […]
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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Say what you want about me. The receipts are public: - Instead of Instagram: pixelfed.org - Instead of TikTok: joinloops.org - Fediverse onboarding: fediverse.info - Fediverse Network Stats: fedidb.com - Digital Charter of Rights: respectfulplatforms.org […]
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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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Charlie McHenry @charliemchenry.connectop.us.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Can you believe this? #Tesla lawyers defending the use of the “N” word in the workplace environment. Literally arguing it’s ok to be #racist - Stands to reason given it’s #ElonMusk we’re talking about. #racism
A Threads post discussing Tesla's court case where the company's attorney defended the use of the N-word towards Black employees. The image features a Tesla dealership and a circular inset of Elon Musk with the text highlighting the controversial statements
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
There is an attempt to make people feel like being critical of using LLMs is not "hip and with it" Only old people who don't understand technology are unimpressed. Nothing could be further from the truth. Young people don't like the slop, the most tech people have the harshest words. The […]
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Abeloth Penfro KC @kneel.before.dog · 30/09/2026
A wiggly bum walk in the woods. #dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Does anyone work as a housekeeper for "care.com" they are the most popular service for finding people to hire for home cleaning in NYC but I don't like their uber-like structure. They say they do "background checks" and of course you can have cash tips on top of the normal rates. Their […]
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A handful of pro-Israel ppl are outside the Green party conference. They’re outnumbered by the pro-Palestine side, which includes the Jewish Greens bloc It sucks that I still have to deal with pro-Israel ppl after everything that genocidal state has done to my ppl - but good to see the solidarity
Mostly Palestine flags, and some Israel ones"Jews Against Zionism"
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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/09/2026
I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
A LinkedIn post from me that reads "DHH is openly a Nazi. You should not promote anything he is doing or relay his opinions on software development. It is shocking to me when I open this app and see people casually discussing his opinions on AI or interface design or whatever, as if he were a "thought leader". He is an open advocate for mass murder. It doesn't matter what else he thinks, do not promote his ideas." followed by the text "Only you can see this post because this content goes against our Professional Community Policies."
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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Reminder: if you want other people to read a toot because you think it's important, you need to boost that toot, even if you favourite it. Favouriting doesn't by itself show it to your followers or anything else. With no algorithm controlling what you see, boosting is the only thing that makes […]
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firebreathingduck @firebreathingduck.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Agreed 100%. Two "Yes, and also" points: 1. I have spoken with dozens of rape victims. For every rapist that tattoos his criminal intent on his forehead and makes rape jokes on social media, there are dozens or hundreds of men that you would never, ever guess are rapists. A guy I went to […]
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
Transgender girls have a biological advantage at... winning homecoming queen? That's apparently what Clayton County Public Schools in Georgia believes. They have blocked a transgender girl from running for homecoming queen in her high school Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Georgia School Blocks Trans Homecoming Queen, Citing Title IX
A Georgia school district is saying Trump’s Title IX crackdowns means only cisgender women can run for Homecoming Queen.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 30/09/2026
Hey y'all, I don't usually share GFMs but Katra is a good friend and the fact that her job was terminated literally a day before her bottom surgery is atrocious. Definitely go give her some help if you can.
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DW Innovation @dw-innovation.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
"A data-driven analysis of global energy trends suggests many developing countries are moving directly from traditional biomass to electricity, avoiding the long fossil fuel pathway taken by Western economies." 📺 #DDJ #video report by Kira Schacht […]
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Xi is many terrible things....but as far as anyone knows, he didn't rape a load of kids, so.... #Trump #XiJinping #GeoPolitics
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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
I've been raising a couple dozen chickens from day old chicks for a few months now. It takes these heritage breeds about 5 to 6 months from hatching to laying eggs. it's been about four months now and I'm hoping they are Swedish chickens. You see, I check the nesting box every day, hoping for a […]
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I live with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. MECFS imposes severe energy limitations that interfere with any form of exertion, including mental. At its most severe, it feels as though your body is shutting down, like a living death. Thank you, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Trans people and trans kids getting equal rights IS the moderate position. If you want the progressive position, you're going to need to give trans people free healthcare and college and housing and basic income. And cis and non-binary people can have that too.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
This is what happens when you get loud and demand Dems not drop trans people. We CAN get orgs to realize this. But we can’t stop with Kaptur. She’s the worst but not the only one. There is NO acceptable anti-trans vote or statement or ad from a Democrat. None. GET LOUDER!
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Over thirty years ago, Dutch scholar Teun van Dijk wrote a lengthy article called "Discourse and the Denial of Racism." Among other things, he discussed the frequent combining of "positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation" - put another way, "I'm not bigoted, but isn't this thing a marginalized group supposedly does just awful?"

...Speakers follow a double strategy of positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation. It is within this latter strategy also that disclaimers, such as 'I have nothing against Arabs, but . . .' have their specific functions. ... The denial often serves as the face-keeping move introducing a generally negative assertion, following the invariable but."

Don’t conclude from the bigoted thing I’m about to say that I’m a bigot.
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Ray*mond Li*terally @madbarrister.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
The regulation A.I. needs is not a million hoops that only the most well funded players can afford, but simply unlimited, absolute liability. If your A.I. results in any harm whatsoever, you whole company goes under. Watch the funding dry up.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026
Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: aus.social/@Unixbigot/1173125739386… I’ve been using and evaluating alternatives to Raspberry Pi for many years. Hit me up if you want a single board computer reccomendation. I also have a bunch of alternatives in stock leftover from reviews and projects. Finally, if you’re […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
#Networks Suspend Pool Coverage of #Trump After White House Bans #CNN, #MSNOW & #Politico The move was an escalation of Trump’s showdown with the White House #press corps after he moved to bar journalists from the 3 outlets. Major #television networks agreed to suspend their pooled coverage of […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
[Call to Action for the Bernie Bro Nerds] You know who you are and I know you're on here. Bernie is confused about "the AI issue" and in the absence of better evidence buying some of the doomer hype. So, if you have some old campaign contacts, or know someone who knows someone, I think […]
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firebreathingduck @firebreathingduck.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@GregStolze/1172874… I've been a big fan of Greg Stolze's tabletop RPG projects, and his fiction, since I got Wild Talents.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11726935770… But in short: "FLOSS without Antifascism is not even doing the job it was set out to do because having fascists around will ensure that many marginalized groups do not gain any of the potential benefits." (and the bar FLOSS sets itself is […]
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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
RE: chaos.social/@tris/1172876705071567… Fucking hell. #KDE accepted fash-tech Framework as a “patron” in March 2026: ev.kde.org/categories/patrons This isn’t looking good.
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Bodil @bodil.lol · 13/09/2026
RE: eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/11726255… It helps to recall that OpenAI's business model literally is to achieve AGI then ask it how to become profitable, and to do whatever it takes to keep the VC cash flowing until then, including pretending to have reached AGI already, and […]
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Jérôme @jerome.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Saying "Free Palestine" got Macklemore dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour The singer Pink said: " What I need is to be able to say, as a Jewish mom, ‘that scared me, and it scared people I love’ Continuing weaponizing this fear that we can't support Palestine. As if continuing seeing the […]
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firebreathingduck @firebreathingduck.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
I've had a devil of a time getting my household interested in Linux, and I didn't want to force it. I tried that with siblings twenty years ago, and it was a mistake. But my 20-something son just had to disable Windows Defender to get a Steam game update to finish in less than two thirds of […]
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026
In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban
“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-villa… this is an extremely important read, even if you don’t care about the Rust game engine Bevy. anti-AI policies are broadly popular, and pro-AI policies destroy communities. this article is an excellent summary of a project going from an apparent […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
List of Search Alternatives Suggested in "Search is Broken" Threads #search #ongoingList #searchEngine marginalia-search.com Message boards, academic uruky.com Pay to search, no ads
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
a list of games, developers and studios to boycott. handy! store.steampowered.com/curator/4628…
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