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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

c.org/7RCmkLNHGr - the Hackney Mosaic Project is under threat as Hackney Council is trying to sell off the space the Project uses. If you know the Hackney area, you may well have seen the Mosaic Project's work, particularly their spectacular mosaic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

One of the spectacular mosaics in Shepherdess Walk Park made by the Hackney Mosaic Project (image reproduced from their website at https://www.hackney-mosaic.co.uk/shepherdesswalk )

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

To quote Douglas Adams, this is a subject about which I suspect Charles Windsor knows about as much as an Ilford-based gnat knows about life in Beijing. I get that, as a VIP, he is expected to give opinions about subjects far enough outside his backyard to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screenshot of a BBC News article about the King apparently giving a speech about online security. They missed out his synopsis on threat vectors for some reason.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Yet again, why an ISP like @aaisp is a Good Thing: Morning outage. Checked router, could see IPv6 connectivity, but no IPv4. Rang support, got through to one person, explained the situation, they concurred, changed a setting and it was fixed within three minutes. No hold music, no escalation […]

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

@marymessall I'm going to go for a partial disagreement here. He speaks as if every job supported by logistics was necessary, productive or useful; which it plainly isn't. If your job in cubeville is ultimately 'sell thneeds to everybody!', well, you may be paid enough and you may have a job […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@dalias/11735450786586… Stop believing the narrative of despair they want us to take in from "1313 CVEs!" and dig into the actual data, or look for reports from others who have. It's a huge lie.

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

This is Just to Say (by Cato, a tabby cat): I have stolen the plums that were on the counter and which you probably would have preferred I did not I'm not sorry they were so rolly so fun I put them under the couch #Caturday #CaturdayEveryday #Cags #CatsOfMastodon

A container of small purple plums on the counter. Some of them have tooth marks.

Cato, a tabby cat, looking innocent. (He is not)

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@mhoye We got word of someone doing this by mistake at Imperial College (ic.ac.uk) back in the early 90s, on one of the really big Suns they had. ‘Not popular’ is an understatement.

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Harriet :verified: @savvykenya.famichiki.jp.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117198… Age verification on the internet is surveillance, in addition to a security risk

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trimaris @trimaris.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Die richtigen Namen #LakeOntario

Die Karte zeigt die originalen Namen der "Großen Seen": gichi gami (Lake Superior), michi gami (Lake Michigan), karegnondi (Lake Huron), erielhonan (Lake Erie), ontari'io (Lake Ontario)

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Hope you’re having a great birthday, @villtin!

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Lina Lastname @lina.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

new blog post! lina.sh/blog/hijacking-e164-arpa i hijacked some telephone infrastructure of a few islands over the span of multiple months; and accidentally logged information of a few hundreds of thousands of phone calls going to military bases in the process.. it's a really really […]

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

L’état, c’est moi… Not ‘US envoy’, but ‘representative of the man who would be king’. Which is bitingly appropriate; Kushner has no official place in the US government, few merits of his own and is only of use as a minor representative of his father-in-law’s syndicracy.

A screenshot of a BBC News headline describing Jared Kushner as a representative of Trump, rather than the US. The full text reads: ‘Trump envoy Kushner meets Netanyahu after Hamas talks on peace plan’.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Well, it was a no-planning effort, it was a bugger to keep the image still, but I got some decent pictures of the eclipse. Would have been better with a cardboard box and light isolation, but handheld telescope plus sheet of paper works well enough!

A sheet of A4 paper is taped to a folder, which is placed on the ground resting against a bag. On the paper is projected an image of the 95% eclipsed Sun, which is being produced by holding an old-style handheld telescope at the Sun. As paper doesn’t have retinas to burn, this is a preferable method of eclipse watching.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

@Zendadaist I notice one of the old nuisances has crawled out from under his rock.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@davidgerard Definitely fond of the 1901. Massive sugar overload, but that goes with the territory.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@bjornfr.bsky.social I do like it; wonderful dramatic light and angles.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Panel one: a climber reaches the top of a towering cliff. There, among the clouds, a serene figure with a long beard, wearing a robe, sits crosslegged on the bare rock. He is "The Great Wise One of the Mountain"

Panels two, three and four: sitting serenely crosslegged on successively lower clifftops we see the Assistant Wise One of the Mountain, The Post-Doc Research Fellow of the Mountain and a group of PhD Students of the Mountain

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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

The Wikimedia Foundation has declined to voluntarily recognize Wiki Workers United, despite the union announcing majority support among eligible US staff. A new community petition calls on the Board of Trustees to direct the Foundation to recognize the union and begin bargaining in good faith […]

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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just off #BBCR4 World at One, arguing the importance of discovery science (like Jodrell) for long-term economic growth. I said I was heartbroken at the news: evidence just look at how exceptionally excited me & @mamaphysikerin.bsky.social were when we got to stand inside Lovell back in 2017 🥰 🔭🧪

Two blonde women with absolutely massive grins on their faces, in hard hats, inside a massive white radio telescope!

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9r… - I am beyond furious about this bit of news. The Lovell Telescope has - from day one - been a project that has produced incredible results on a shoestring budget, using whatever Lovell could scrounge to produce an instrument that has reshaped […]

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

The computer at the bottom of a canal negroniventurestudios.com/2026/07/1… Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of 1988 custom silicon that was right about almost everything.

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Anyone who opposes the rollout of the Torment Nexus is just a social justice warrior!

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

@fishidwardrobe It definitely isn’t a silly question, and the gun tackle I rigged up to get fencing equipment up to the loft was ad hoc, but worked so well I kept the bits afterwards. Good rope helps with the twisting problem, but doesn’t cure it totally - […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A typical loft hatch - a hole in the ceiling of a hallway leading up to the roof void. Through the hatch dangles a gun tackle - a lifting arrangement consisting of two pulleys and a rope linking them, with a hook hanging from the bottom pulley; a backpack is suspended from the hook.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

‘Sewing, Bottomley?’ ‘No, sir. Reaping.’ (Except that neither Farage nor Jenrick have the charisma of Horatio Bottomley - but there is a very secure place available for spivs and chancers…)

A headline from the BBC News website in which one deeply corrupt and amoral politician complains about the lack of protection afforded to his partner in crime.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Disaster Area (home desktop) decided to crash yesterday. Consulting the entrails: your PC, she is six years old and has had a hard life; your CPU would like a very long nap at some point in the future. Dagnabbit. Consulting the price for a like-for-like […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A picture of the inside of my desktop. The motherboard is black. The CPU heatsink and fan are black. The graphics card? Black. The inside of the case? Guess. This is why it’s called Disaster Area.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

There is a part of the Henley regatta course, a hundred metres from the temple island, where you can sit on the bank of the Thames, dangle your feet in the water, and watch people race. It is very relaxing, and your feet are probably the most exciting thing […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A middle aged man in a dark t-shirt watches two coxed fours racing at the Henley Masters regatta on a very hot and blazingly sunny afternoon; he is cooling off slightly by sticking his bare feet in the river.

Looking down at my feet, just in the river to ankle depth; the river itself is green and rich in plants, mostly water lilies. If you look carefully, you can see about 30 small dark fishes in the water.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Mel Brooks is 100, and without him, @vaticancow would not exist! Happy Birthday, Mr Brooks!

A dark-haired man wearing sunglasses holds up a small black-and-white plush cow and smiles at the camera; he is standing in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican.

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C. @cazabon.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

This new "tags.pub" instance that just blasts out boosts of anything with a matching hashtag is ... annoying. Pointless. Practically abuse. It just boosted a post of mine with *seven* different accounts. Didn't ask for permission to follow/do things with my content. Its account overviews say […]

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

When you've Irished up your coffee too much. #coffee #whisky #humor #humour

a cup of coffee from above with bubbles that make it look like a face smiling drunkenly

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Several bars and restaurants have brought their best minds and resources together to introduce a new high end cocktail to the world. The Reflecting Pool

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Daniël Franke :panheart: @ainmosni.ainmosni.eu.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

We need more places to openly take stands like Thomas House.

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Lina Lastname @lina.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

just found out the vatican used to name their nameservers after the archangels, having had `michael.vatican.va`, `gabriel.vatican.va` and `raphael.vatican.va`; as well as having other servers named after the apostles this goes kinda hard as a naming scheme, i can't even lie

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Jim Killock @jim.killock.org.uk · 12/06/2026

RE: thecanadian.social/@ElbowsUpforDigi… Repeat performance. Safe social systems banned by safety legislation in favour of unsafe but compliance-compatible tech vultures pecking away merrily at the dying body of human dignity.

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 07/06/2026

Been meaning to do this for years... HTTPShirts is now live for all your HTTP-based clothing needs. sellshirts.com/marketplace/httpshir…

A screenshot of a web storefront showing a collection of tshirts in various colours, mostly with HTTP error codes on them

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

@davidgerard The parakeet. It’s time to give Inverness up. Do it now, before it gets too messy.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

A visual novel plotline sprung to life: - Kids at a high school in Rome had been telling each other for decades that there were secret rooms under the school. Teachers laughed it off as playground rumors - During a protest sit-in, the kids took the opportunity to go where they’re not supposed […]

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

@fooflington Firstly: no reeking shopping malls in eye-meltingly bright colours. Secondly: natural light where possible. Thirdly: suitable music.

A screenshot of the front cover of Brian Eno’s seminal 1978 album ‘Ambient 1: Music for Airports’, showing a very abstract map-like illustration of a river and its tributaries in a green landscape.

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The Icarian @theicarian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Trump Is Replicating Vote.gov to Recreate Musk's 2024 Election-Rigging Platform Ashley St. Clair turned down $40 million to remain silent. They're offering her the GDP of a small country for a reason—and it's not because Elon is weird […]

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

@bjornfr.bsky.social I can recommend this one. Hand-towel sized, so very handy for travelling!

A lilac hand towel sitting on a white counter - it bears, embroidered, a picture of a lilac blossom and the words ‘How Do They Rise Up’.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Ten years ago today… George (an optic nerve glioma) was successfully evicted and I still have two functioning eyes, so all in all it was a win; thank you Moorfields. The towel definitely helped.

A dark-haired man sitting in a hospital bed with a bandage over his left eye. He is holding up a white towel which has the words ‘Don’t Panic’ on it in large friendly red letters.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11660585802… 'As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth’s final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom […]

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Abelard thinks that the historic setting of Prague Castle would make the perfect location for Donald Trump to meet Vladimir Putin. ‘Just think of the gravity that these ancient stones could lend to proceedings!’ I think he might not want to say that too loudly, but he has a point.

A small plush Saint Bernard sits on the monument in the gardens of Prague Castle; behind the monument, a wall rises up many metres to a series of windows, one of which is world famous for ad hoc use as an exit.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

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“Tory 3.0”

The British far right has spent fifty years failing to find a leader who looks like he could run the country. Last Thursday, it did. This is Tory 3.0.

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 09/05/2026

You've been visited by the giant alleyway gull

A seagull standing on an outer window sill. The perspective makes it look like it's 1.5 floors tall and standing on the ground outside.

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Gideon Hallett @gmh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

@munchkinstein Also (as Controller of BBC2) gave the green light to a new comedy programme called Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

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