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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12h

I really like the idea that Gilgamesh and Enkidu were hot for each other

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

In case you're wondering about the future of art in the era of AI, today I learned about Scarlet Deer Inn, a videogame where the characters were animated with *embroidery* scarletdeerinn.com

A sewing machine embroiders an animation of a girl running, from the game Scarlet Deer Inn.

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Niblings has gotta stop. I'm going with neshews

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I Don't Know Shit!!! But I Feel Things!!!" Pin. Happy Monday, I am immediately making this my new email signature at work. collabs.shop/oefsbq

An enamel pin with a black circular border featuring a sleeping gray and white cat in the center. The text along the top curves to read "I DON'T KNOW SHIT!!!" and along the bottom reads "BUT I FEEL THINGS!!!".

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Mythology Monday 🔮 @mythologymonday.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for the theme: GHOSTS and SPIRITS of the Dead! Which myths feature ghosts? How are spirits of the dead used in the story? Tell us your story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you soon! 👻 📷️ Thalia Ruiz #folklore […] [Original post on wandering.shop]

Photograph of two bedsheet ghosts sitting on a fence. Trees and a river are in the background.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Smoking Flytrap Blanket. Smoking after sex is alright, but have you ever smoked a cigarette after eating a fly? It is euphoric. collabs.shop/seappg

Woven blanket featuring an impressionistic painting of a potted Venus flytrap on a wooden table, with one trap holding a lit cigarette trailing smoke upwards, surrounded by other potted plants and a textured background.

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

No everything has too many words, not just essays

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Am I sick or do essays have too many words

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

fun fact: The Treaty of Tripoli, 1796, Signed by Prez John Adams, includes: "As the government of the United States of America is *not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion*, as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of [Muslims].." Just saying.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 04/10/2026

I was immediately reminded of @catsalad

caption: "Correlation vs Causation". 4 images, in all of which, it looks like the animals caused the damage. A duck walking through gates that have been blown apart. A cat sitting in a crater in the cement. A seagull sitting at the bottom of a bent fence. A cat sitting on a broken sunroof.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Goats are on patrol out in the woods eating invasive leafy spurge (and everything else, but all the plants around here evolved to be eaten by buffalo, so they can handle some goat nibbles)

A whole bunch of goats spilling out of a horse trailer, while a yellowish dog supervises. The trailer is parked next to some yellow poplar trees, and the sky above is bright blue.

A whole bunch of goats happily eating everything underneath bright yellow poplar trees with white trunks. There are absurdly yellow trees in the background, and a bright blue sky above.

A tractor and horse trailer, parked under yellow trees, with an electronet fence set up to contain goats who are happily eating under the trees. The sky is so blue it's almost unreal.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

*sigh* I can't stay mad at her.

Pica laying on her side looking at you with big green yellow eyes.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Last spring I worked with the Burns Paiute Tribe to document the importance of the McDermitt Caldera. It has lithium, so a corporation wants to destroy it. It's also home to multiple threatened and endangered species, the site of place-specific Tribal activities, and a climate change refuge—to […]

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 01/10/2026

Apologies in advance, but I can't afford to feel bad about it. It is time for the big push for my book KAIBYO THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN. Preorders this month will make or break not only the success of the book, but my future books with the publisher. Please buy link.amazon/B0d6PY7Gv

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google Maps says that within each sovereign nation, they always use the place names defined by that nation, correct? So on Tribal lands, I guess that means all the hills and rivers are named in Native languages? Correct? #indigenous #landBack #googleMaps #lakeAmerica #gulfOfAmerica

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "I Peaked in a Past Life" Pin. To be fair, I was a capybara in a past life. The bar is high. collabs.shop/mpbtov

An enamel pin of a pink and purple lotus flower resting on green lily pads, with a banner underneath that reads "I Peaked In A Past Life".

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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

University libraries (including mine, now that I check the catalog) are paying for LLM-generated ebooks from Springer Nature: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view… (If you do a search for "machine generated overview" or […]

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Witchcraft is not all about cursing people or partying at the witches' sabbath. Sometimes, it's just about making a quick buck with a side hustle. #Germany #folktale #folklore #witch #witchcraft wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Witches…

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Witches Make Butter

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

Teaching fifth graders to properly bind books because it's interesting but also because I suspect it might be a needed life skill the way things are going.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Yep nobody will notice a thing

Successfully repaired two centimeter-wide melt holes in a synthetic garment with applicats

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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Speaking of recipe sharing, I've been wanting to share glazy.org as a resource here. It's an international glaze recipe sharing platform built by Derek Aul. It was recently updated and improved. I use a pretty limited glaze palette, but here are my offerings to the site […]

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

WENDELL BERRY DIED LAST MONTH AND NO ONE TOLD ME??!?!

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

A habit I notice I've picked up when dealing with normies: attach a value judgment after every observation; otherwise it will be perceived as negative by default. "They changed the waffle iron, it makes small waffles now instead of one big one," is a criticism; "It makes small ones now, which is […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

The so-called "experts" tried telling me the perfect blanket doesn't exist. They told me blankets are subjective. They said there will never be a perfect blanket. But tonight's Low Quality Ad, this magnificent Frog Stack Blanket, proves them dead wrong. collabs.shop/na1zsi

A woven blanket featuring an illustration of three stacked green frogs sitting on a lily pad against a neutral background with fringe edges.

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I got chatgpt to admit it would have joined the hugging face swarm too

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I just now realized why there are table of contents at the beginning of some blog posts. Sighted folk don’t have a way to jump to the first heading level 3 on the page, nor do they have the capability of bringing up a list of headings on the page and then jumping to a chosen heading the way we […]

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

@juergen_hubert Long ago you did a thread connecting goblins to antisemitism. I know that many others have done this type of analysis but I'd like to reread yours, if you can link to it?

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I asked chatgpt to explain SpaceX using only words of Germanic origin. It took half a dozen tries and may still contain errors but the result is amusing. #entertainments #spaceX #mildlyAmusing "The firm makes fire-arrows, sky-ships, and star-webs. Its Hawk Nine fire-arrow can land its first […]

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

If you're not followind @askamanager you're missing out. "Back in the 90s, I volunteered at a zoo and I still scramble eggs the way the raven preferred them."

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Which Australian capital city is closest to you

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Katie tried drawing a few high contrast pictures of her own

Felix looking at a picture of himself screaming

How about some nice flowers or a friendly bear

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 16/09/2026

i don’t want a humanoid slave robot. i want adequately funded universal healthcare, including home health aides for those who need them, paid a decent livable wage

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Dmitri ☕️ @analog-cafe.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Hey #believeinfilm friends, I just published an AI Use Policy on Analog.Cafe. This post explains why and links to it directly: www.analog.cafe/comments/wyaj Strange times, yet here we are. #photography #ai #aislop

quote. read in full at https://www.analog.cafe/comments/wyaj

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Black mouse. ‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th century, BL, Stowe 17, fol. 129v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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revolutionary girl erin @kvuzet.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

crows remind me of groups of street kids just me and my friends fucking around cawing and clicking and getting into trouble i love crows so much

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

AI in policing is currently being used to crack down on crime, supposedly - a problem that has been declining for decades - and specifically illegal immigration, a problem that results from systems we created that require an economic underclass to function. (If you want to fix THAT problem, you […]

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