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🇨🇦➡️🇲🇽 Canadian living in Mexico City 💚 WordPress developer for globalvoices.org ☸️ Free from addiction with recoverydharma.org 🔒 […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@jerclarke, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Me, a scientist: I want to live in a world where precise estimates matter Also me: that would be terrifying www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEaicg1kYMk
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Micr0byte @micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
idk who made this, but my dad sent me this, and this is PEAK funny
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Oof. I’ll say a little prayer for sanity in the runoffs. > With 98.81% of the votes counted, Bolsonaro had 47.24% to Lula's 44.91% of the vote. www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck1l34ed5… #Brazil
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Polls close in Brazil as Lula and Bolsonaro remain neck and neck
If no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the election will go to a run-off on 25 October.
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Huge news. David Robinson is one of the smartest, wisest, most principled, and most pragmatic people I know. The day he decides a problem is too endemic to solve from the inside, that is a day we need to notice and take action. cc @pluralistic […]
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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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Merlin's Wisdom Project @merlinwisdom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
It’s often easier not to be terrible.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
You love to see it. blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/20…
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Yes, no AI is now a feature
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Happy Expression (A very happy husky named prince, credits:  happydoggo)
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Sad Expression (the very sad cat meme, credits: guangdang005)
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Regular Expression (code snippet of regular expressions used in the Perl module Mail::RFC822::Address)
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
look I’m just saying this stick wants you to smoke it #Sticks #Pipes #Gandalf
Photo of a hand, holding a stick in front of a grassy background. The stick is long and straight, but has a mushroom in out piece of wood. At the end. That looks like the bowl of a pipe.Different angle on the stick. Otherwise the same as previous photo.
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Timo Tijhof @timotijhof.net · 25/09/2026
Kids that are too young (age-restricted) from social media figured out they can use the comment section for NPR podcasts on Spotify, to talk to each other. Basically a group chat in an unrestricted random public place. In an alternate timeline, this is where escaped LLMs leave messages for […]
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
yo dawg i heard u like rpgs so i got you wow for your dnd so you can mmorpg while you ttrpg
Promotional poster for a D&D+World of Warcraft collaboration, with both logos over a greenish image of a bulky barbarian surrounded by little imps. It says “Dungeons & Dragons Word of Warcraft Play-Along pack”
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
This “differential grasshopper” was conveniently indifferent to me, so I got a nice shot with my phone. Almost never see anyone on these beautiful plants, so overall thanks for modeling, #grasshopper 🙏🏻👌🏻😲🦗 #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife #Bugs #iNaturalist […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Photo of a Brown and green grasshopper, standing in the sun on top of a spiky green plant with long orange tends growing out of it.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
@quicheindustries I wonder if this (video attached) is the intended behavior when I trigger VoiceOver: it reads all the tab names, seeming to tab through them in the background, before reading the content of the current tab. Feels like a bug, and has the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Kolombiken @kolombiken.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
In need of some flying and shouting swans? Here you go! 🗣️
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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173251374… Just take some time to understand that a lot of the "magic" and "creativity" of chatbots is basically hardcoded. Thousands of humans wrote it. The AI hype is basically ELIZA 2.0 powered by a nuclear plant.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
RE: flipboard.com/@ign/ign-jtkhe64mz/-/… I just want the “external Mac monitor you can lie down and use” effect of the Vision Pro, and it sounds like this might offer it with “5k” USB-C connection to macOS. Here’s hoping it works well, I’d love […]
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Finally got around to reading this hefty piece. Fascinating story about a tech ecosystem disaster: - Chrome ships an a11y workaround that makes sites with faulty code work correctly for screen readers and no one notices. ✅ - Chrome adds a warning about the already-fixed problem. ⚠️ - Developers […]
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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 18/09/2026
ah cool, very nice “only liberal democracy in the middle east” you’ve got there novaramedia.com/2026/09/17/netanyah…
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Netanyahu Vows to Strip Citizenship From Israelis Who Criticise the IDF
Benjamin Netanyahu is calling for a new law that would strip citizenship from Israelis who criticise the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF).
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
RE: digitalcourage.social/@Laszlo/11729… European Jay over here blowing my mind 🫨
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
Good morning 🌄
Photo of a sky at sunrise with trees, silhouetted in the foreground. The sky has soft clouds in it, and the light of the early sun is making stripes of blue and pink and white like a trans flag.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
#House #GOP lawmakers were already eager to get out of town. They’d been in a dour mood, faced w/ growing political pressure to act on contentious issues like #AI & #tariffs, all while anxiety rises over their ability to hold the chamber in the #midterms. Then came a new headache∶ One of their […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
This is called, “when things aren’t going your way, run home & hide from reality.” Speaker #MikeJohnson sending #House home early, staving off #Hegseth #impeachment vote over #IranWar #Trump #Republicans #idiocracy #kakistocracy #TrumpsWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #WarCrimes […]
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
This reads like a silly sci-fi concept www.404media.co/ai-agent-platform-r… #ai #spam
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AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
iLands and its AI agents are doing completely useless tasks, then begging for money.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
RE: mas.to/@skeletor/117277122289045478 Forgive and remember.
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Mina @mina.berlin.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Recordatorio: Cualquier gobierno que usa los términos "patria" o "nación"¹ en su retórica está en apuros, tiene muchos trapos sucios para lavar y planea maldades. Son advertencias. ¹en el caso de Argentina, la palabra "Malvinas" es la misma advertencia por diez.
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 13/09/2026
Blinded by greed
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
[AI slop, Charlie Kirk, Adolph Hitler, Karl Marx.] Confirmed: Hell has glowing clouds but you have to talk to Charlie Kirk.
AI slop painting of Charlie Kirk at a table, speaking into a microphone. He’s surrounded by glowing clouds and mysterious pillars, really looks like he’s in heaven. In front of him is a long line of people apparently waiting to debate him. You can clearly make out Stalin, Hitler, Marx, Lenin, Osama bin Laden, and many others.  

Text overlaid says: NEVER STOP DEBATING
CHARLIE KIRK
1993 - 2025
PROVE ME WRONG
TURNING POINT USA
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glamcode @glamcode.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇 #AI #LLM
Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
can't wait to see this movie
Meme format with the newly-iconic shots from “You Can See Everything”, a documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. 

First frame: Interviewer asking “You’re a real PNG file, right?” (This is not a line from the documentary as far as we know)

Second frame: Elizabeth Holmes saying “Why would I deceive you?”, like she does in the teaser for the documentary, but behind her the background has been photoshopped out and there’s a grey and white grid of squares, like you see on fake PNG files that don’t really have a transparency layer.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Wow that's some hot #WordPress gossip right there. Am I the only one reading this as Matt deciding to tell on himself after getting ousted? I have to imagine they offered him an option to take the time off without publicizing that it was forced, but accepting such a sensible offer isn't his […]
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Genuinely considering adding some spelling errors to everythign I send so recipients know I wrote it myself.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
#Trump Officials Plan to Pay At-Home #Parents, Using Funds for Working Ones The proposed benefit, a top policy priority for #JDVance, would apply only to #married couples & tap a fund intended to provide federal #childcare subsidies to #WorkingParents. #law #FarRight #AltRight #conservative […]
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
RE: front-end.social/@leaverou/11720238… Ok very interesting follow up. I don’t mind services that auto-switch the dark/light mode without a toggle if there’s an easy to find setting, but I’d still prefer websites without settings offer a toggle (single-icon button as […]
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
Damn this is so good. I was struggling with this question of how dark mode toggles should work and the answer is crystal clear after reading this 👌🏻 Now onto the follow-up to see if I can be convinced not to have a toggle at all 🤔 lea.verou.me/blog/2026/dark-mode-to…
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Dark mode toggles: two states are enough • Lea Verou
Yes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have. A lot of the hate towards two-state toggles is based on poor implementations.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 04/09/2026
Today, at the Dutch Resistance Musuem, I learned about Freida Belinfante — all around badass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frieda_...
After the liberation, resistance fighter Frieda Belinfante returned from Switzerland, to which she had fled. She was a self-assured lesbian woman, but now she felt lost. "You didn't hear a word about the resistance fighters who had risked their lives. People iust did their thing: earned money, built a life for themselves. It was a harsh wake-up call."
Like many members of the resistance, Frieda had hoped for a greater sense of community after the war. "We thought everything would be better, including politically, but nothing had changed at all." Disappointed, Frieda emigrated to the United States, where she achieved success as one of the few female orchestra conductorsPhoto of a woman I'm a suit and tie, smoking a cigarette
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Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
In a way, all of us have an El Niño to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Niño. For others, a lack of education might be their El Niño. For us, El Niño is a big, dangerous weather system that wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can […]
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Wonderful experience at my first big Mexican #WordPress #CDMX event! So good to meet more people and see this is a community that's ready for huge growth! It was a pleasure to volunteer as photographer 📸 __ All photos on Lightroom/Todas las fotos en Lightroom […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Photo of four people smiling in front of a table with lanyards on it. They’re all wearing WordPress shirts for an event, but each shirt is a different color, yellow, blue, red and black.Woman in a yellow WordPress shirt holding a microphone on stage in front of a presentation slide. She is gesturing and looking serious. Group photo at an event. Around 100 people are standing and sitting in the atrium of a fancy building smiling up towards the camera.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
> Take the chavismo and leave us the oil. > Take the oil and leave the chavismo. Got it.
Images from The Emperor’s new groove. 

First panel shows a small bored-looking female functionary behind a desk reading from a paper, a Venezuelan flag is superimposed on her head: “Llévate el chavismo y déjanos el petróleo”

Second panel shows a buff dude looking cocky, a USA flag is superimposed on his head: 
"Que me lleve el petróleo y les deje el chavismo. Lo tengo.”
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Late #Caturday ‘cause I was out yesterday. Ada is getting ready for @etzel’s triumphant return.
Photo of a fluffy cat with a white belly, and an orange back and yellow eyes. She’s looking at the camera, clearly distracted from cleaning her, fluffy, fluffy belly.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
RE: aus.social/@Kevin_Rennie/1171711020… Very good. #Cookers #Australia
Screenshot of a social media post by “The Betoota Advocate” showing a photo of a cock, teal, and a bird receiving an injection followed by the text: 

"I'm Not Putting That Shit In My Body" Declares Local Cockatiel That Has Done Its Own Research On Bird Flu Vaccine
ERROL PARKER Editor-at-large
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
donald trump just posted a video of him writing "LAKE AMERICA" on a map of Lake Ontario, and he he didn't even end the video with "Lake America Great Again" tbh i think he may be slipping
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Lovely “#WordPress Day” (mini one-day WordCamp conference) here in #CDMX. Missed these and looking forward to a real WordCamp next year 🤞🏻🇲🇽 (I was taking photos with the big camera, so these are random snaps)
Various people in colorful Wordpress shirts posing in front of a table full of lanyards.A conference auditorium with a woman gesticulating in front of a screen. Smiling nerds taking a selfie in front of a taqueria.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
RE: phpc.social/@dgoosens/1171336860473… Every desk should be a sit-stand desk, if only because it's so much better when you need to share it!
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
Red-bellied squirrel beefing up their nest with fresh leaves 🪹🌿🐿️ 📍Coyoacan, #CDMX, #Mexico #Squirrels #WildlifePhotography www.inaturalist.org/observations/39…
Squirrel with black and red fur climbing on a branch carrying a big bunch of green leaves  its mouth. Lots of green foliage in the background.Another photo of the squirrel carrying a bunch of leaves, this time with its bright red belly showing. The squirrel stuffing its new leaves into a big bunch of other leaves, a nest. The leaves in the nest are all brown.
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
Life goals 🐿️ 📍Ciudad Universitaria, #CDMX, #Mexico www.inaturalist.org/observations/39… #Squirrels #WildlifePhotography #iNaturalist
Photo of a brown squirrel standing in a tree munching on the yellow threads of some kind of parasitic fungus or plant that covers the branches. Similar to previous photo, but the squirrel is holding a yellow thread of the parasite and looking at the camera. 
Similar to previous photo but the squirrel is reaching across a gap in the branches to grab more of the yellow parasite.
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026
yesterday i was talking about mastodon and someone was like "what the fuck is that" and without thinking i said "linux twitter"
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
This is a blog run by a Japanese man living in America 1/2
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Jer Clarke @jerclarke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
RE: sfba.social/@Cyanocitta/11705794688… Blur is ok. Grain is ok. Stick in front of the bird is ok. Show us what the camera saw, not what you wish it did 🙏🏻 #Birding #Birds #WildlifePhotography
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