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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@KingShawn The hard part is accepting the size of the plurality of voters who not only vote out of narrow self interest, but are constitutionally incapable of conceiving that anyone else votes for different reasons.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@sisterratched Just a simple challenge response. The deepfakes are good enough to fool your less savvy relies, guaranteed.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Remember - in this era of AI deepfakes, you need a family code word to use if anyone calls anyone else for help. It's pretty easy to agree one.

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Good News Community @good-news-community.mastodon.cosmicnation.co.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

A Przewalski’s horse has been born in the wild in Kazakhstan for the first time in around 200 years. The foal is an encouraging milestone in efforts to return this once-extinct-in-the-wild species to the landscapes where it once roamed. 🐴🌿 Read more […]

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2… Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@brouhaha Or to quote the immortal Tim Minchin, "if you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out." (2006)

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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Cope on Russian social media 😎 While the Kremlin's monster dreams of selling diesel to Donald Trump, in Krasnodar, locals have been engaging in chaotic brawls since early morning to get their hands on the last remaining supplies of diesel fuel at gas stations.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@dangillmor This. It's a spectrum, from those who have to for work, thru independent workers who tried to escape and saw income collapse and went back, via folks whose whole social graph refuses to leave. It's easy to say, hard to do, and we shouldn't judge too harshly. Just keep reasoning, keep […]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026

I think there's a lot of climate and energy people in Australia who'll laugh this off as impossible but the tech economy is not logical and renewables being cheap does not shave a single joule of enthusiasm for tech's seething desperation for fossil fuels right now.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@kim_harding So, government subsidised facilities for abusive foreign billionaire firms that have done an end-run around the employer-employee regs we've spent 250 years fighting for. Ugh.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Help #lazyweb - I have very intentionally not touched any Meta tools or products for years. Now I am helping a local amateur dramatics group to update their Facebook page. What is the best way for me to see this page as others who are not logged in as an admin see it? Please don't guess. Only […]

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

tfw someone rocks up with an SLR and a bunch of other kit and is all like "let me handle the photos" so you don't bother with the phone but then it turns out they are a terrible photographer and don't know how to use their camera so you have no pictures 😡

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

«Understanding these aligned rationales helps us better understand our enemies as they cohere across divergent goals and worldviews, all nonetheless opposed to left imaginings of the future. Many of them are indeed assholes, but their efficacy comes less from certainty in their own rotten […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

“Billionaires, “ the teacher said “were a cognitohazard of the late dirt ages. In that time it was normal to force humans to perform labour for four to five decades before being permitted a period of limited rest known as retirement. The billionaire class found ways to steal even the limited […]

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Corollary: These effects hit *a fortiori* for families either in negative equity, or aware the chance of finding themselves in negative equity is non-trivial.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Houses being less "home, place to raise a family" & more "asset class, massive leveraged investment" has broad toxic effects across economic and cultural life. A relatively minor, but still pernicious one is; the prudent/frugal mantras of "don't overcapitalise" & "don't do anything that might […]

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

If you had told me in 2015 that in 2026 there would be a US president actively closing down renewables and replacing them with oil, and boasting on TV about importing oil from an enemy combatant nation, I would not have believed you. Re: mastodon.social/@MAKS23/11741302744…

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Attached: 1 video 😵‍💫 Trump on Russia: The oil deal with Russia is a big deal. That’s massive amounts of oil coming into our country. I want to thank President Putin, to be honest with you.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The new girls know the drill now, and the new boy is getting used to the breakfast routine #chickensofmastodon #chickens youtube.com/shorts/hDJjndkVKyM?is=9…

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Scary Monsters (and Super Ryans) 👻 @dunstable.mstdn.games.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The banning of Handmaid's Tale is deplorable, but predictable. Of course the fascists are going to try to ban it, because it is a tale of resisting and fighting fascism. They're afraid of people opposing them. But why is Ryan North getting banned? How thin-skinned do you have to be to ban an […]

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The US, Israel and Russia don't just fund and amplify the right wing. They also infiltrate and weaponise leftist movements, particularly fringe pro-Palestinian & anti-war groups, using fake radicals to sow division, provoke violence and turn activists into unwitting assets of the states they oppose.

Screenshot of two posts from the social media account Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral).
The first post, dated May 23, states: "Reminder that both Israel and Russia long infiltrated the global pro-Palestine movement and some of the most toxic anti-West accounts you see are people brainwashed by their influence operations or assets directly tied to them. The goal is to dismantle international order." It includes a Palestinian flag emoji followed by a red upside-down triangle emoji.
The second post, dated June 27, 2025, states: "150 pro-Palestine activists got duped by a US born Kremlin agent James 'Fergie' Chambers. He convinced the group to enter a Belgian factory making military gear for Ukraine, smashing computers and damaging vehicles. The activists believed they were disrupting supplies to Israel." Below the text, there is a night photo showing a large group of people gathered outside near a metal chain-link security fence.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@roytoo If the first try isn't, I'll tweak and try again

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Now we pop them in the fridge and wait for two weeks.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Boil the vinegar and water mix with a tablespoon of sugar and a teaspoon of salt and then pour the boiling mixture over the bay leaves, garlic and peeled hardboiled eggs.

Glass jar with the eggs and bay leaves in the vinegar and water mix.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Prick through the whites of the hard boiled eggs, just as far as the yolk, with a fork.

A fork stabbing into a peeled hard-boiled egg surrounded by other eggs.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

A generous half-handful of whole black peppercorns.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Crush some garlic and throw it in the jar along with the bay leaves.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Three leaves from our baby bay leaf tree.

Three small dark green bay leaves about to go in a glass jar

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Hard boiled the eggs, peeled them, and popped them in the fridge.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

8% vinegar diluted 50% with water.

A bottle of double strength, white vinegar

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

A remake of They Live but the glasses replace AI slop with the prompt.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

⚠️ Hegseth says the US will perform a public execution. Other countries with public executions include Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Afghanistan.

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NEW: Pete Hegseth says the execution of Fort Hood killer Maj. Hassan will be public.
Hegseth: "He's going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be. And we'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public..."
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026

I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

IPCC scenarios are projections, not predictions. "The future has not been written. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." We get to decide what the world will look like in 2100. gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Solar Energy Corporation of India just auctioned 1 GW of renewable power that has to match a coal plant's schedule — checked every 15 minutes, penalties for shortfalls. It cleared at ₹5.25/kWh (~$55/MWh), fixed for 25 years. New comparable coal PPAs opened at ₹5.38-6.30 plus fuel price inflation.

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Søren Have @sorenhave.dk · 06/10/2026

“For policymakers, the AMOC’s instability poses an unusual challenge: How do you prepare for a far-off disaster that may never happen — but that, if it does, would disrupt life in Europe on an unthinkable scale? But governments are increasingly concluding uncertainty itself is no excuse for waiting”

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

When home sap was 3 bands of hairless apes on a shoreline in Africa, the only thing we could fuck up was the kelp supply on couple of km of tidal pools. Now we can fuck up the whole planet, but if you want to work to prevent that, you STILL have to play exactly the same political games as the […]

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

My favourite way to filter co-workers to see whom I can get on well with is the simplest bit of workplace humour in chat - write a message in normal informal English, apply strikethrough style to that, then repeat the message in business bullshit LinkedInSpeak. If they don't get it.... Yeah.

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Garth Coghlan @wildwoila.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"Ultimately, an organization’s Unique Selling Points are the aggregate unique talents of all the people they hire. Building an organization with the right combination of people is, and always has been, the ultimate moat. To then shove this all through AI is to filter out all the talent you’ve […]

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