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Oblique Strategies @oblique-strategies.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Do nothing for as long as possible #ObliqueStrategies

A black-and-white photo of an Oblique Strategy card. The card reads: 'Do nothing for as long as possible'.

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"jamming their half-baked tech into critical systems" *Is there some form of "tech" which is fully-baked? Fossil fuels, probably. Everybody depends on it, it's 200 years old, it controls the govt *Fully matured technology that is the agent of our utter ruin

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@levelbot/117290462… This is happening because the lactobacillus are turning them into pickles 😋

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this week has gone on long enough tbh

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Deeply regretting agreeing to give an outreach talk this weekend

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Can’t sleep and I have been irrationally angry all day about the militarization of the Moon

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Merlin's Wisdom Project @merlinwisdom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

For chrissakes, get a new kitchen sponge already.

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Coworker has been going through Apollo photos prints and transparencies. These copies are from the Apollo era, but already archived elsewhere, so we need to get rid of them. Solution was to make “mystery packs” to hand out to visitors or at outreach events. #Moon #Apollo

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Boring Manager Rob 🅅 @bourboninexile.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to those that celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlMv...

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Hackers (1995) - I was Zero Cool

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

In 1967, the USGS made a 1:1 scale replica of craters near what became the Apollo 11 landing site…using explosives (see linked video). The craters on the moon were identified using images from one of the Lunar Orbiter missions, but the exact LO image was never documented. As part of a side quest […]

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

After having a loose consensus for several centuries, some groups in the US want to use a different coordinate system for navigating on the Moon. This is potentially disastrous. aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/opinion-t…

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OPINION: The moon is stuck in a Greenwich v. Paris moment

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Eagerly anticipating my copy of IEC Standard 62682 Alarm System Management arriving next week

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

There's a new bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is the U.S. But permanent Standard Time would be healthier and safer. (In fact, the U.S. tried permanent DST back in 1974, but stopped bec people were being killed commuting/walking to school in the dark.) […]

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/07/2026

The vast, vast majority of Americans were & are utterly unaffected by high levels of immigration. The "palpable sense of a national immigration crisis" was ginned up by right-wing media & a bunch of spineless, gormless dipshits in media & the Democratic Party went along with it.

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 17/06/2026

Yup. I know genuinely intelligent, even learned folks from my university days who swallowed the current far right version of reality hook, line and sinker. There are studies that smart people may be even more at risk, because they can come up with more convincing justifications for their beliefs.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

Also in exciting sky news, look to the west shortly after sunset tonight to see Venus and Jupiter right next to each other.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

the problem with the shittiest billionaires getting so directly involved in space is how much it turns off people who just want to be excited by space

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

It's Ed Balls Day. #EdBalls

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

uwu is just a quadruple-u

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

Having a little issue where we tie up our boat at the cabin.

A floating dock entirely covered with boisterous sea lions.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

@rollovereasy Wasn't there also an Instagram Museum of Lego? What other Instagram Museums should there be? Museum of Sandwiches? Hey my sandwich map is up to 60 listings! And I have 42 on my to-do list. I think this is my job now. acme.com/jef/sandwiches

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Bay Area Sandwiches

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

Back in the olden days, we had "decentralized" networks with multiple file servers and lots of workstations. The workstations would mount all the file servers over NFS. In theory, if one file server went down, people could continue to work using the others. Decentralized! In practice, if one […]

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026

Book idea. It’s written collectively by seasoned Wikipedia editors. Title: “WP:OR” - it contains interesting facts and stories that are known to be true by the contributors but which will never be published in Wikipedia because they are “Original Research” i.e. have no citation from a reliable […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

Has anyone done an alternative Mastodon UI that presents toots in actual chronological order, not reverse chronological? Most recent at the bottom, like with texting. Years ago I did a prototype Twitter UI that had this as a settable option. It was pretty great.

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Federal Workers Alliance for Democracy @workers4democracy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Federal workers have the right to refuse unlawful orders. We cannot promise there will be no consequences, but our oath to the Constitution comes first. Proud of these officers for taking the risk and standing on the right side of the law. #accountability #dhs #trump #supportfederalworkers

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

Clearly I am in A Mood today.

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

Jeff Goldblum is the Keanu Reeves of Eugene Levys.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

25 years ago today, the "All Your Base" music video was released by Bad_CRC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano

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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

High quality software addresses real user needs, is designed, written, documented, reviewed, evaluated, and tested by humans under a comprehensive process, released on a schedule that ensures critical lifecycle management activities are performed. It's not magic, it's not impossible, it's […]

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Phil Stooke @philstooke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Pictures of the B3 area began to come in. Remember this is 1976. The downlink was timed so the big Goldstone antenna would get most of the images. They were recorded on big tapes and flown to Flagstaff for the site mapping. This map shows ellipses in the east […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two maps show the east and west sections of Viking 2's B3 landing region. The surface consists of plains with craters, a few of them quite large, but generally it has no very obvious hazards - at the resolution available. This is not like Apollo site selection where boulders and small craters were visible. MUltiple ellipses were mapped. Were they safe enough?

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Phil Stooke @philstooke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Viking 2 needed much more data to help find a good site. The northern latitudes were seen less well by Mariner 9 so new Viking images were essential. The 44 degrees north region was chosen over the southern latitude band and the images started to pour in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Areas imaged by the Viking orbiters in the search for a landing site for VIking Lander 2. The two maps here stretch all the way round the planet between 20 and 60 north latitude, and much of the strip between 40 and 50 north was imaged.

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Trump is going to invade Iceland by mistake, isn't he. 🙄

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · 14/01/2026

Does anyone know why PROJ doesn't use lambda-naught in its documentation's formulas? E.g. the page for the Cassini projection cites Snyder 1987's formulas and uses phi-naught, but not lambda-naught. #gischat PROJ's Cassini eq: proj.org/en/stable/op... Snyder's Cassini eq: neacsu.net/geodesy/snyd...

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Really starting to get why dante wrote thousands of lines of poetry describing the eternal torture of various political figures of his time

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

experimenting with writing a mastodon-based comments section for my blog today (just whatever Mastodon replies there are on the post)

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Some men will invade sovereign nations rather than refraining from raping teens

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

*I wrote a long design essay about my adventures with the world's oldest and weirdest multitool. medium.com/@bruces/ancient-everyday…

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Dave Mayer @geologydave.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

I’ve been beta-testing the new @diggdotcom for about a month and I can’t figure out how they haven’t just recreated Reddit.

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FOSS4G Observatory @oss4geo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

In 2024, @gdal launched the first user survey and the feedback mattered! 🗣️ GDAL did a massive CLI modernisation that users are already enjoying from 3.11 release! 💻✨By 31st of December, you have the opportunity to share your feedback through the 2025 GDAL […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

"I asked chatgpt and..." without wishing to be rude, I cannot now take anything else you say remotely seriously

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

This is an important, eloquent piece by @aphyr - worth a boost I’d say: aphyr.com/posts/397-i-want-you-to-u…

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The Birdbassador @birdbassador.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

Once again another "I'm in the wrong field" paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…

Bar chart captioned "Lateral bias in sleeping positions of domestic cats." showing a preference for leftward (266 instances) over rightward (142 instances) sleeping positions.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

/2 The Roberts Court 6-3 majority is best understood not as a genuine or legitimate independent adjudicatory body but as a ceremonial adjunct to the Trump government, like a First Lady or a second-born prince in a constitutional monarchy.

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