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Chris L

@jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
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He/they. Software engineer with an interest in ending racism and sexism, and increasing freedom for sex and gender identities/behavior. Attempt to practice […] [bridged from mastodon.online/@jayalane on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Oh to be an ice fish making a circular nest in great sandy expanse deep under the ink black-blue water that sits unknown under a glacial shelf on the edge of Antartica....
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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
“Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It’s adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism.” - Nick Cave
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Time to give money to Ilhan Omar:
Receipt and thanks for donation to Ilhan Omar from ActBlue.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
@PaulWermer @rahmstorf I don’t know if people understand that Greenland ice free is twenty feet of sea level rise.
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Quotes by Superior Women @superiorquotebot.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. -- Audre Lorde (The Uses of Anger, 1981) #feminism #quotes
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@timtfj yeah I tried to come up with some clear examples but failed. I have to withdraw my objection to the proposal to add the glyphs!
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
@timtfj I don't find the pronunciation of voiced vs unvoiced to be consistent enough for this distinction to make spelling much easier.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 08/10/2026
the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
I just read this over and over and then finally laughed and boosted it.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Why buys and eats those terrible apples? They taste like styrofoam and the sad memory of brown apple slices left in a lunchbox too long.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Keep 'em coming "The 2 lawsuits say Trump admin officials were negligent and violated the civil rights of Good and others in Minneapolis, demanding a jury trial and damages. They are among the first major ​civil actions taken against Trump for his unprecedented deportation sweeps in Minn"
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
@Lazarou @CelloMomOnCars 2500 PPM carbon as the point where we can say "it's too late" and not at 440 is oddly energizing.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
@mattblaze @gooba42 and the GenAI is still structurally not able to internally enforce any behavioral limits; there are no hard lines in the math generating the text. Alignment as far as outcomes like "do no evil, do what is good" has no place where it can be implemented deterministically. The […]
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: me.dm/@altlife/117314123295905867 Fear unfortunately is without end, the solution cannot just be coming from the fear of the targeted group but for the innocent bystanders to get together and stop unacceptable behavior in the violent ones. Fear is the patriarchs tool. The group […]
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
@bodhipaksa my first teacher had a sign that we would walk by during KinHin that read "Do you have the patience for right action to arise?"
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
@ElyseMGrasso I was able to start reading Duke of the Elderkin! #bookstodon the conslusion I think of an interesting early modern European fantasy trilogy with good liturgy and a nice magical system and a great story.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
@tendstofortytwo clearly we need to find some tighter restrictions on the initial conditions.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
RE: socel.net/@DeborahLeagueFineArt/117… One for today’s mood (and I don’t actually drink martini’s, maybe I have never had one, but I am all about the feelings it expresses).
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/9/why… issue of the 21st century. Let us work to ensure we respond as good eighbors, not selfish bastards.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Navier-Stokes counter example claimed: www.scientificamerican.com/article/… accusations of stealing of work against OpenAI. #maths #genai
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AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem. The field will never be the same
A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
@sepponet.bsky.social to reduce carbon emissions now it is already the right thing to drive your gas car to the dump and buy an electric. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science…
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
@futurebird there are good websites too and open: www.openstreetmap.org inconvenient enough to not block your learning of streets but in case of trouble :) nice corn tho, life finds a way
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OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
There, restored my Wikimedia foundation donation now that they've got their union.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
@futurebird what is the phrase “ideology is an imaginary relationship to real circumstances”. Free the imagination and the world can be liberated; a thing Ms. Steinem said.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
@futurebird hmmm that makes sense actually. It certainly strains credibility that any humans believe the announcements.
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Nemoralis @neriman.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
WMF staff have voted 158–14 in favor of union representation 🎉 🎉🎉 WMF says it respects the result and will proceed with good-faith collective bargaining. Huge thanks to everyone who helped spread the word! NLRB results: www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740 WMF […]
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
@HalfHeartedFanatic
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
@Quasit hmmm strong recommendation. I loved the Gods Themselves.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
@greenjimll.bsky.social @simonoxfphys.com@bsky.brid.gy at this point in time these arguments are just laughable. Batteries and solar are cheapest, safest and decentralized.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
@skinnylatte the thing that I worry about is that this period of milder climate change is really when we as a globe need to up our migration game - we have to learn how to be welcoming of the billion or so people that the more serious climate change to come will force to relocate.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
This year may be the year of the Linux desktop. Or *BSD. www.tomshardware.com/software/linux…
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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
A better showing from the Grim Reaper www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ywxpr…
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
RE: mastodon.world/@verdantsquare/11716… That will have to do.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
@Sc0tty @georgemonbiot.bsky.social not their own actual suffering about being shamed by their dad for being sensitive or girly, but for imaginary suffering like social expectations to be a good parent, to be a care taker of the house hold, an emotionally present human; like having to act […]
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Your typcal demand letter is agressively dismissive, but I'd describe this one more as "serenely implacable." It's a fascinating rhetorical study. flaccb.org/documents/20... (Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, to Florida AG Uthmeyer, re: Catholic-school vaccination requirements.)
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
@adamshostack you can just get an anti body titre test and see if you need a booster or not. (I was vaxed in the 1960s but still have enough immunity to be safe I n the US this year.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
@BruceMirken HPV and throat cancers (and many other slow cancers).
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
@skinnylatte the most fun class I ever had was a yoga with toddlers class. Parents stretched and kids did various things that we didn't have to stop them doing and I always left that class feeling really good. Biking a bit is similarly happy for me at least. (Living in a flat place with nice […]
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026
The time is now: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science… dump that gas burner, if you can; lobby to have subsidies extended and advanced immediately to enable everyone to dump that gas burner.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Background : one family member loves making fig jam. One family member hates fruit flies, so we put the plucked figs on the front porch till ready to jam. Someone else was checking them out.
Bowl of ripe figs in a colander on a cement porch with foot prints of fig juice maybe from a raccoon. Various boxes frame the view.
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
@gottalaff.bsky.social I just wish every single article like this had a "contact your representatives to ask for more solar and battery subsidies and carpool if you must drive by burning gas" section. This water problem isn't something happening to us, it is us punching ourselves in the face. At […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026
Here me out. Let's have a few new manhole cover designs taken from nature to honor this wonderful spider. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/98834-Cycl…
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026
@glitch25 clarkesworld I think might be the best right now. Certainly everything I have read there has been a good read.
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Jones Murphy @jonesmurphy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
Most of the world’s 1.3 billion black people are banned from even visiting the US. In addition, those who aren't banned face steep, racist fees not charged to non-black people, particularly white people. That's what they mean by #MAGA […]
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@Snoro/117028625240… Let's hurry!
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Chris L @jayalane.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@benroyce/117022224… An enjoyable set of Wikipedia pages.
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