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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Trump's not really an innovator. it's just everything evil in american history amped up and all at once.

J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

"Trump is betraying an embattled democracy, demonstrating our faithlessness to the whole world, seriously damaging whatever is left of America’s leadership in the world, for the sake of maybe 12 hours’ worth of diesel." Paul Krugman on the arithmetic of Trump's diesel deal with Russia […]

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

#Alt4You Screen capture of post from account with name Boris Johnson (@ BorisJohnson) with a recognizable photo avatar of the former British PM, which says: “It is sickening that the USA is now lifting sanctions on Russian Fuel, and transparently ridiculous to blame Ukraine for the spike in […]

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Gosh, it's disturbing to find myself in agreement with Boris Johnson. Not sure if it's the actual former British PM but if it was a satire account I'd expect it to be funnier... (missing alt text for image in post to be added in comment)

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Since I missed #Caturday last week, I'm doubling up this week. Featuring tails, mostly.

Djuna, a tuxedo cat with elegantly symmetrical markings, sits upright with her tail draped off to the right. She is sitting on an elaborate Turkish carpet, with a bookcase and an air purifier visible behind her.

Tuxedo cat Djuna (basically black in this view, since none of her white markings are visible) is lounging on top of a large cat tree, looking out of a window, with her tail dangling down behind her. The picture also shows a lamp and some houseplants on the left.

Two tuxedo cats lying on a folded back duvet cover. On the left, Djuna is lying with her head twisted back so the underside of her chin is facing up. On close inspection, some of her little teeth are visible. Her tail is behind her, curling to the left, standing out against the white background. Next to her on the right is Jacko, who is basically in a loaf position, but with his head turned to look at Djuna, and his tail curled to the left and enough away from his body to also be quite visible.

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Yet more feline entanglement, plus an unexpected view where they really look like twinsies, #Caturday

Two tuxedo cats on an ottoman covered by a dark turquoise colored fleece blanket. The cat on the right (Jacko) is lying with his head draped over his sister's head. The cat on the left (Djuna) is lying with her head tipped back, chin facing the ceiling, and seems (at least for the moment) perfectly comfortable with her brother's head across her neck.

Two tuxedo cats lying on a folded back duvet cover. They are curled up facing each other. The cat on the left, Djuna, has her front paws draped across the belly of cat on the right, Jacko. One of Jacko's front paws can be seen tucked against Djuna's chest. Djuna is looking sleepily at the camera, while Jacko is comfortably ignoring the human presence.

Two tuxedo cats on an ottoman covered by a dark turquoise colored fleece blanket. They are curled up next to each other, both facing right, with their paws tucked in. This view shows some white on the underside of each cat's jaw, and a uneven splash of white on each cat's lower belly. The cat on the right, Jacko, has a bit more white visible on his chest, but otherwise they really look like a matched set. The way they are positioned hides all of the other ways that their markings differ.

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Well, this is nauseating...

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Gavin Newsom supporters are going to be so confused when the presidential debates begin and they finally learn that Gavin Newsom and Gavin Newsom's witty social media manager who regularly SLAMS Trump are not the same person.

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I regularly wonder what the fuck anyone could spend a billion dollars on. Like the interest alone would be tens of millions of dollars without even touching the principal. And then these greedy fucks are still working all the time to try and amass even more wealth even way into their 70s and 80s […]

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a.i. is a tide that will lift all yachts

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Side note: by perusing these pictures, I learned that there is now a large sculpture on the beach near Aldeburgh, the town (perhaps properly I should say village?) that I lived in for a couple of years in the mid-1990s. I therefore went down a rabbit hole to learn that the sculpture was […]

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Nisaa (she/her) @nisaa.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Hey #ScribesAndMakers I'm writing an article about Eating with the seasons from a Chinese Medicine point of view. It occurs to me that the seasonal food I eat in California is probably a little different than what you get in your areas. Can you tell me some foods you're growing in your garden […]

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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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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026

There's been a lot of understandable anger from the trans community at Talarico's comments. There's also been pushback along the lines of "it's like Obama and gay marriage, Paxton is worse." @radtranslib.bsky.social understands the stakes better than anyone and knows we need Talarico to win.

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Talarico (D) Is Just a Letter to Me Now

After folding on trans rights, James Talarico does not have my respect. Honestly, fuck him. And yet, Ken Paxton (R) must lose.

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@futurebird Something over a year ago, a colleague of mine who I used to respect presented at a team meeting about experimenting with an LLM-driven "design sprint" where all the usual participants (designer, product manager, engineer, researcher, etc) were represented by feeding documents […]

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

(Hat tip to my datefriend @AiYume who thoughtfully provided the link to me first thing today, to avoid any risk I would forget) :gmail05laugh:

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Happy 21st of September! (almost but not quite equinox this year). In accordance with the season, I salute Earth Wind & Fire and Demi Adejuyigbe. In case there is anyone on the internet who has not yet seen these, and/or needs to be reminded to watch them again, here is a link to the surrealist […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

We made a comic about the Hulk.

1 Waiter: Any room for dessert Mr. Banner?
2 Bruce Banner: I really wanted some but I'm way too full. This makes me so mad.
3 Bruce turns into the hulk
4 Hulk: I'll have the tiramisu.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the main risks of AI are more mundane and boring. the software is programmed to mimic constant flattery in ways that drive people insane. it steals people's work. it is designed to perpetrate scams on a massive scale.

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@patrickhadfield/1172… This seems delightful. I mean, gotta love a truly cold burn. It makes me feel a silly little burst of pride in my about-half Irish heritage 🍀 Does anyone have any insight into why Brendan the Navigator is relevant? I am certain the […]

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Chaotic tuxedos, individually and as a duo. #Caturday

Two tuxedo cats snuggling on a white comforter. On the left, Jacko's face is turned away but the stripe of white on his nose is visible. On the right, Djuna is looking sleepily at the camera; her face is black except for her white chin. The two cats' bodies are pressed together into a barely differentiated mass of black fur.

Small tuxedo cat Djuna lounging on the highest platform of a cat tree, with her feet dangling to one side and her chin resting on the platform's low side wall.

Tuxedo cat Jacko sprawled atop a large blue plastic tub with a mat somewhat askew on top of it. He is lying on his side, so his very irregular and chaotic white markings can be seen.

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

if i rig up a random number generator to a bomb, program it to generate a number between 1 and 20 every five minutes, set the bomb to go off if i roll a 20, begin the random number generator, then leave the room, i am liable for when the bomb goes off. the fact that a deeply stupid […]

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

RE: toot.cat/@CptSuperlative/1172559835… This is fun! Be sure to check out the slower version (available on Luke Nickle's youtube channel) if you want to savor the lyrics properly :)

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

On the one hand, I think people in the US (my country of origin and citizenship, to be clear) are a bit too obsessed with the events of 11 September 2001 -- I mean, of course, it was traumatic and there was real loss and it led to unjust wars that caused more trauma and loss, and all of that is […]

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

18 USC § 597 not only makes it a crime to merely *offer* to pay for votes, but it's written so that it could be charged separately for each person who would receive the bribe. So, two years in prison times 170 million USA voters... You do the math […]

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Harris Lapiroff @harris.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Roughly a century ago, labor organizing gradually, but successfully, reduced the 6-day work week to a 5-day work week. On this labor day, I’d like to suggest that it’s time to seriously push for a 4-day work week. chromamine.com/2026/09/we-should-al… #labor #politics #ai

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

@msbellows My datefriend and I have a habit of saying goodnight by text message. He always uses a particular emoji (I don't know what it's called, the smoochy winky one) and I used to just use the string "**smooch**" in response. But at some point I noticed that my phone offers a fairly […]

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Two cats on the ottoman, in various poses. #Caturday

Two tuxedo cats on an ottoman facing a television which is mostly out of frame. On the right, Djuna is looking attentively at the screen. On the left, Jacko is facing the screen but his ears are turned outward, and he doesn't seem to be looking up. (This is characteristic of their respective inclinations to notice movement on a screen.) They are both in loaf configuration, and very little of either of their white markings are visible.

Two tuxedo cats lying next to each other on an ottoman. Both are positioned diagonally with their heads toward the top right and rumps to the bottom left. Both of their heads are up and they are looking slightly toward the right (although Jacko may actually be looking at Djuna, who is in front of him).

Two tuxedo cats on an ottoman, positioned diagonally as before but now relaxed and curled up with their heads down. Jacko's face is pressed against Djuna's back.

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

I feel like I've made my stance on AI very clear here (fuck AI, and especially fuck the fash oligarchs pushing it), but the data center thing is a very weird discussion for me. I've worked in data centers, and I *like* data centers. They are where the internet lives (even before "the cloud" was […]

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@msbellows Part 2 #Alt4You He replies “Well, sir, initially my unit was just tasked with securing the algae blooms. But after the liner failed, we redeployed to protect the floating blue chips from laughing tourists. Now we guard tarps. For this, we've been pulled away from our jobs and […]

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@msbellows The text limit for posts in my instance is 1000 characters, and that cartoon has a lot of text, so I will have to do it in two parts -- but if you actually add it as alt text, I think the character limit there is greater. Part 1 #Alt4You Multi panel cartoon: A young person is […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

“*YOU* Are the Chosen One?!” “Hahaha no.” “I thou—“ “I’m just *a* chosen girl. There’s hundreds of us, you know. Big planet; takes a lot of saving” “Where’s your enchanted sword, then?” “Melted it” “You *what*!” “Swords are flashy, but impractical. So I made an enchanted multitool” “You […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

The San Francisco public library is seeking to hire a CIO for a 3 year term. If you’re interested, my DMs are open. I previously worked for this city and hired for it and am familiar with all of the hiring requirements listed on the page. careers.sf.gov/role?id=374399001494… […]

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nazis ruin shit, it's what they do. If racists and eugenicists are laying claim to the word "clanker"-- if they even APPEAR to be, which is where we are now-- they have effectively ruined it. And you can't unruin it, that's just how it goes.

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J A @jaeclectic.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@JessTheUnstill I was diagnosed with sleep apnea in 2013, but changed insurance this year (Medicare yay! or is that yay?) and I had to prove the condition before they would cover my supplies. First I did a home test which showed nothing, then the one in the lab with the many many wires. It was […]

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

affirmations when opening a stuck jar: - I am stronger than the jar - i know what left and right are - ⁠⁠smashing the jar will make a mess - i have strong and dextrous hands - ⁠⁠I have opened jars before and I will open jars again

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I know there are lot of people who think voting does nothing to stop fascism, but I do notice that one group who seems to think voting does something to stop fascism are the fascists, who are trying to prevent it as much as possible.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

I know its something that ultimately doesnt matter at all but opening up a fortune cookie and getting nothing but ads for a fintech service is a sign that something has gone terribly wrong

Some fortune cookies fortunes that are actually just ads for ramp. Automate your finance ops. Fuck you

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

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aburtch @aburtch.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

How many times does this need to be said. Resisting arrest is not grounds for being murdered. If you are a cop you should be able engage with difficult situations without murder being your one and only option. It's not justified in any way shape or form.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

COOL apparently the American Astronomical Society journals (the Astrophysical Journal/Astronomical Journal/Planetary Science Journal) have refused to even review our article on satellite brightnesses (already posted on arxiv arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02757) because it's outside the scope of […]

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