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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@superiorquotebot Making women the moral check on men is a longstanding antifeminist pattern

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@pluralistic Our elected officials need to read this book, stat

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@pluralistic whooaah I thought these companies were diabolical but it's worse than I thought

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Reading *Enshittification* by Cory Doctorow. Very good so far! Laying bare what we all intuitively know: the Internet has gotten worse. But not in a depressing way, in a way that clarifies what is going on, how it happened and (haven't gotten there yet but) what to do about it.

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Oct. 16: How do you feel about people reading your works without buying a personal copy? I am completely fine with it. 1. While the income from book sales is nice, I basically consider them marketing vehicles for my Patreon campaign where the bulk of my income comes from. 2 […]

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I'm buried by my task list And yet Do this next thing Maybe in the end there will have been time

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@futurebird do they have a different name for that key?

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

They used to be called "carriage returns" because in those days they were pulled by horses.

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I suppose they mean *other humans* don't get a vote, which, okay. But damn

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Not true, pain and fatigue get very big votes, as do hunger, bladder, bowels, nausea, vertigo, and any number of other things the body can do

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

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

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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@glyph is it a spike in productivity if it's a dive in quality, which no one fixes?

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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 · 09/10/2026

@filmfreak75 @autistics I can't comply. Even if I try to comply I end up not following instructions

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

Also related to the etymology of niece and nephew instead of a mishmash of nephew and sibling (ugh why)

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

Like cashews. Cashews are cute. No association with nibbling (ew, ew)

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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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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

@mythologymonday @juergen_hubert thanks for the mention Aimee! I actually was a beta reader for this project a year or two ago 😂 Hope it's going well Jurgen!

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

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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

You can text your reps using @resistbot (great tool for anyone in the US, fyi)

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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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Elisabeth M @independentpen.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@darkuncle oh how the websites hate my ad blocker. "We need to talk about your ad blocker." As if this is the difficult, yet healthy confrontation our relationship has been needing

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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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