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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h
"The people holding up the internet" A good-looking but somewhat depressing exposé about the people holding up current digital infrastructure as a hobby. sheets.works/data-viz/holding-up-th…
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The people holding up the internet
Four billion phones ask one text file what time it is. One lecturer keeps it in his spare time. We counted the rest.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Lunatraktors on the deck, kicking off 07:00 on The Kalimera Show, music and chat on The Internet! stream.mxtthxw.art #Music #LiveStream #Chat
The Lunatraktors album The Missing Star on a Technics turntable surrounded with colourful lights.
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Lit the fire 🪵🔥
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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I made a track but I'm unsure if I should release it as there's around a 10% chance it will destroy all humanity.
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Sun (lounger) bathing #CatsOfMastodon
Tiggs - a Siamese cat - basks in the sun on a sofa. Pink light is reflected from the cushion of a hot pink sun lounger cover
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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
I feel like I just live in a continuous AI nonsense headache. Bill Gates recently called AI the most dangerous thing humans have ever gone near. He said this on planet Earth in the year of our Lord 2026. It's been a year of fires, floods, famine, really endless disaster. He said this against a […]
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Early start to get to helsinkiruby.fi/tinyruby Looking forward to exploring Helsinki!
helsinkiruby.fi
tiny ruby #{conf}
A tiny Ruby conference in Helsinki, Finland. Now in its second year.
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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 07/09/2026
A ring built from the Julia sets found along the main cardioid of the Mandelbrot set. one of my favourite mathematical objects
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Two gentlemen visitors today… The black cat initially seems friendly but hisses to warn you away. The black & white cat has the tiniest meow ever. Both have received suitable snacks! #Greek #CatsOfMastodon
A jet black cat apart from a tiny hint of white belly furA mostly white cat with black ears and tail
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 13/09/2026
I was inspired by whatever the latest round of AI bullshit is to add a new shirt to #HTTPShirts... sellshirts.com/product/23563
A red tshirt with white text reading "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself - Hayao Miyazaki"
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Amber Griffiths @amberfirefly.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Have done a slightly scary thing and added some things I've made to a *shop*! Here it is, only UK shipping for now while I figure this all out: www.drawingsaboutthings.com/shop
Heavy Topics print photographed next to a little cactus in a pot with a smiley face. The print is black on cream textured paper, and shows a stack of books with some legs sticking out under them, belonging to a squished person. The books are called 'Very serious book', 'Complicated', 'Things and Stuff', and 'Heavy Topics'
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Time to dust off and update the “Things that have previously gone wrong” section of the ops manual… 5 months since last incident 😅
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Our homegrown tomatoes are really coming along now the growing season’s almost over…
A miniscule tomato, only slightly bigger than a petit pois! It does have a jolly red colour though
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Sue Smith @sue.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Blogged a bit about what I've been learning about models and harnesses www.sue.codes/blog/harnessissoftware
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Got a Saturday ticket for mutationsfestival.com so am going to see Mike D 🤩 Also really looking forward to Panic Shack, Warhaus, James Lavelle and loads of others!
mutationsfestival.com
MUTATIONS
Multi-Venue Music Festival, Brighton. ⬢
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
@pikesley Lizard of Earthsea is 👌
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Hugh @hugh.social.crablab.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Do I happen to know anyone that is (or knows someone) in proximity to Keswick, Cumbria?
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
live your life so you're not on this list 'weird little guys of FOSS' drewdevault.com/weird-guys
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Weird little guys of FOSS
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Hello fedi dev friends with resumes. I'm trying to revamp my resume to get a lot more specific about the exact role I want (Senior Frontend Engineer). Seems silly to me, but since I got virtually nowhere in past efforts reaching anyone even for an initial interview, I'm thinking I was painting […]
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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
Today's show - Does This Work? A very 90s playlist today with some classics from Gangstarr, Wu Tang plus some of my favourite 1990 electronic music tracks. Have a great weekend! Gangstarr – Name Tag Gangstarr – Step In The Arena Gangstarr – Form Of Intellect Massive Attack – Three Bora Teenage […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
I have been looking forward to this day for weeks. today is the day that my husband and I could harvest the carrot not a typo. There is just the one the others fell victim to the raccoon and to other .. perils (#picathecat ) I had such high hopes for this […] [Original post on sauropods.win]
A rather thick but extraordinarily stubby carrot. In fact it is spherical.
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Arthur C. Clerk's Mysterious World @fantasticlife.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Aphex Twin somewhere in Norwich. Attempted to do a Jimi Hendrix and set his laptop on fire. Venue filled with plastic tinged smoke and was promptly evacuated
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
2manydjs at Quarters Brighton was 👌 Perfect old geezer raving, because we’re home now!
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Met Maisy today; part Main Coone, 100% goblin #Caturday
Maisy a cat eats a frozen licky treat
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stib @stib.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026
Me too, little metal peeps, me too
three pieces of steel that have been drilled and countersunk so that the pareidolia kicks in and they look like three shocked faces
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phil’s masto don @phil.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
Long ago, the three nations lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the JavaScript Nation attacked.
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
I want to know when the clankers have been writing code in GitHub repos. I've blocked Claude, Codex, Cursor, Grok, but I guess I'm missing loads - what other agents do people block?
Blocker user list in my GitHub moderation area. It's got Claude, Codex, Cursor and Grok in there, but I'm looking for more
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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Friends don't let friends run DOGE/Linux
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Just cooked a very acceptable tomato bacon pasta in what became the flippin’ night before I knew what was happening. I ate my portion direct from the pan as only appropriate in such situations
It’s very dark! You might just be able to make out my camping stove 😂
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026
Right, a quick drive to Salisbury for www.themusicbaa.co.uk roots and dub! I’m helping with the gate and Reubs is roadie-ing and sound
themusicbaa.co.uk
The Music Baa | Where Live Music Roams Free
Discover live music events at The Music Baa, a family-friendly venue with camping in Salisbury's stunning countryside. Enjoy live gigs in beautiful rural surroundings.
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
20 years 💍
Emm and I in the gardens at Glyndebourne. Married 20 years today xxx
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
Got a lost homing pigeon on our office roof. Called the mobile number on its tag; was released from Guernsey should have headed to Enfield. Decided to stop in Brighton instead!
A fancy homing pigeon
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
“I remember the first time I read Alan Moore writing about magic and the nature of spells. He said that spells were literally spelling. Words can change you. This didn’t mean a physical transformation into a toad or a worm, it meant that your reputation would be such that people though of you as […]
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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
Start the morning with some naughty words courtesy of the Menace Clan. 07:00 UTC on The Kalimera Show - Music and chat of the free and open internet. You know, The Internet, where people used to chat shit on forums and have fun before all the robots came […] [Original post on go.mxtthxw.art]
Close up on a Menace Clan record on a turntable, colourful wall posters are reflecting in the black vinyl.
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
A post from Bluesky by Count Binface, saying

“Bin Day cometh”
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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
I feel like in 1999 we were reading news stories like “the next #eclipse will be in 2026” and we would have been like “Oh, so far into the Magic Space Future” and now here we are and it's all fucked
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Saustrup @saustrup.mstdn.dk.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
Wife's idea. It worked! 😂😎 #floppy #floppydisk #SolarEclipse
Looking at the solar eclipse through the magnetic plate of a 3.5" floppy disk. Sun visible.
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026
The crescent ~moon~ sun
A colander projecting many small silhouettes of the sun partially obscured by the moon
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
Turnip has a few shady spots on rotation, but this is the weirdest #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
Turnip the cat is nestled in the open mouth of a garden chimineaA snoozy boy cat naps in our garden chiminea. He is a doofus.
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 08/08/2026
Excited to announce that @fedipub (formerly known as Federails), the Rails engine for #ActivityPub that powers (amongst other things) @manyfold, has been awarded a grant in the latest round from @NGIZero. I’ll be building community, docs, rounding out features, and ideally making it usable in […]
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
I love this: My eight year old daughter wants to make video games: tau.dev/2026/08/07/canon A write-up of a MUD that was built to help his daughter make games
tau.dev
Canon
Teaching My Kid To Code With a Modern MUD
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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026
help wanted lake.computer/blog/help-wanted « I am very sorry that the software that I created & put online for free, without any warranty, explicit or implied, has not met your expectations. You are entitled to a full refund. I have taken the liberty to initiate it. You should already […]
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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
`$ git pus`
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Jason Parker (he/they) @handle.invalid · 03/08/2026
Hi all, it's time to take the plunge. I'm looking for one of a few different roles. 1) Penetration tester (or similar offensive security engagements) I currently lead the application security program for a billion-dollar organization. My experience includes independent research that led to the […]
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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
A computer can never be held accountable...
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026
I Tolerated This But Did Not Think My Children Would Be Next
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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026
TIL www.sortpedia.com/library/miracle-s…
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SortPedia - Interactive Sorting Algorithm Visualizer
Visual, interactive encyclopedia of sorting algorithms — from the classics to the truly cursed.
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Leah Price @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
I'm moving to Oxford. Where I will teach book history and build a manual humanities makerspace AKA book kitchen -- please come visit and advise.
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