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Julian Blundell is a guy (he/him) who lives on the coast in Brighton, UK and enjoys walking, role-playing games, reading Scifi, watching films, eating good food and […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.me.uk/@julesbl, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jules 🍺 @julesbl.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 9h
Please add your name to this letter in support of the RNLI against the abuse they have been getting from the far right for just doing their jobs. 38d.gs/jpcf #RNLI
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?
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dasgrueneblatt @dasgrueneblatt.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Oida. Ich hab da einen (etwas älteren, aber noch schönen) Kühlschrank, bei dem ausgerechnet der Magnetschalter, der erkennt, ob die Tür offen ist, kaputt ist. Gibt's nicht als Ersatzteil, wird überhaupt nicht mehr hergestellt, ähnliche gibt's auch nicht […] [Original post on wien.rocks]
Das corpus delecti ausgebaut auf dem Tisch neben einem Lineal liegend. Insgesamt ca 4 x 4 cm groß. Oben ein runder Stift, der von der Tür gedrückt werden würde (federt). Darunter ein Gehäuse mit zwei Metallzungen links und rechts unten, an die der Strom angeschlossen war. Alles weißes Plastik, in der Mitte aber ein eindrucksvoller brauner Fleck, der einen Hinweis darauf gibt, was kaputt gegangen ist. 

Auf der Vorderseite ist Text eingeprägt: METALFLEX HL-404 0,5/250 0.125/120 T85/55,554Dasselbe Trumm mit dem Stift in die Kamera schauend.Die andere Seite, ohne Text, auch hier ein eindruckvoller brauner Fleck in der Mitte. Das Plastik ist nicht geschmolzen/verzogen, aber da drinnen ist es nicht mehr gut.und dann noch eine Schmalseite, diese sind ohne Flecken gebliebem. Ca. einen Zentimeter dick, nur die Abdeckung um den Taststift ist etwas breiter.
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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 11h
Reputable, street legal conversion kits & reputable ebikes tap out assist at 15.5mph & require pedalling. Not only are these safer for riders themselves as no reported battery/charger fires etc. (see ebikepositive.co.uk for growing list of 'marked safe' ebikes), but means gig economy riders won't...
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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 11h
Good to see gig economy companies calling for bans on dodgy conversion kits which turn cycles into street illegal electric motorbikes that go over ebike max assist speed of 15.5mph and/or don't need pedalling. Excellent piece for @cyclingelectric.bsky.social by @marksuttonbike.bsky.social...
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Jules 🍺 @julesbl.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11h
Please sign this petition We need the right to refuse AI the.organise.network/campaigns/netw… #ai #generativeAI #work
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We need the right to refuse to train AI models
Add your name:
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11h
Absent Father: Millennial Edition
Alvin Sng *
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My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from
my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your
voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work
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Jules 🍺 @julesbl.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11h
Please sign this petition We need the right to refuse AI the.organise.network/campaigns/netw… #ai #generativeAI #work
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We need the right to refuse to train AI models
Add your name:
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h
Andy Burnham vows ‘deeper co-operation’ with EU to tackle Russia. Good rhetoric. But Brexit made us startlingly weaker and less safe. EU membership is the best option for our country’s security. We are stronger together. www.thetimes.com/article/69b8...
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Andy Burnham vows ‘deeper co-operation’ with EU to tackle Russia
The prime minister met Friedrich Merz in Berlin in advance of a UK-EU summit next month
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h
Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 21h
A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.
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Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules
The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14h
Firmus has been telling an obviously absurd environmental / efficiency story and because Business Men genuinely have no critical faculties they all just believed it unquestioningly
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
*knock *knock “Enter!” “Good morning miss van Helsing. I wonder if you have a moment for a consult?” “Susan, please. We’ve been neigbours for a year now. What can a horrorologist do for a horologist?” “It’s a new, uh patient. Perhaps it’s easier if I show you?” “Of course, do you have it […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.
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MoveFastAndFixThings @gwilymgj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
I am so lucky, blessed, to live in a world with #ubuntu #freecad #inkscape #signalapp etc - my computer is the Swiss Army knife I always wanted
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Stabbed Zombie Pen/Pencil Holder. His brain is intact, so you're not killing him by shoving your pencil through his chest. You're just being a dick. collabs.shop/p82l4c
A zombie figurine lying on its back in a tattered suit, with a green pencil sticking straight up out of its chest.
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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
A very happy World Lesbian AND/OR International Octopus Day to all who celebrate
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 07/10/2026
One of the reasons public opinion on trans health care is where it is is because a lot of cis people will never ever believe just how corrupt the professional medical class running our health care really is.
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
While I am not doing party politics, good luck to Zack. He has shaken the establishment and the thought of him becoming an MP appals all the appalling people. I guess he will lose but the growth of the green vote, and the shift of the greens left are gains.
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Christopher Linfoot @clinfoot.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Still here. Very slow at our polling station today but noticeable support for the Greens in what has been a Labour stronghold. Fingers crossed. #HolbornStPancras #GreenParty #ZackPolanski
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Hey academics: 'By consuming AI products (which is optional, nobody – nobody – is forcing you to do it as an intellectually–independent academic, which you are, aren’t you), you are fueling these crises and are therefore actively sabotaging and annihilating the hard efforts and work of many of […]
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
*Ukrainian drones blowing up a Yandex data center. The distribited Internet was invented so that there wouldn't be any data centers to blow up.
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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
It is remarkable to notice that 40 to 50% of the United States has been in drought for at least last year. The west has been quite dry for quite some time we’ve had lots of drought for a couple decades.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Did I miss how she said she was going to pay for the inheritance tax cut?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Have they answered this question yet? Or are we to assume that it'll be paid for out of their magic money tree benefit cuts, which somehow serve to fund every other policy they announce.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2026
Some people claim that the EU wouldn't want us back. 🚨 But that's wrong. ♥️ France, Spain, Germany and other European nations have already said they would welcome us back.
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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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Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
Again, if you're more upset by people saying that Zionism is racist than what you are by Israel's ongoing genocide, war crimes and illegal occupation of stolen land, then you really need to give your head a wobble.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot
The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The government has declared datacentres “nationally significant infrastructure projects” that can be forced through the planning system. This means getting preferential access to water. Yet it has no idea what they're used for. Our dwindling supplies might be prioritised for nudifying celebrities.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
#UKPol #UKPolitics #Labour #GreenParty #ZackPolanski #HolbornAndStPancras #GPEW
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/10/2026
The fight against the modern far-right will, like Cable Street before it, be a movement powered by people. Whether that is attending a march, leafleting, writing to your MP or a regulator, it will require all of us taking action - together.
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Fighting Farage every step of the way
“The fight against the modern far-right will, like Cable Street before it, be a movement powered by people.”
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm appalled that so many people are appalled by this anodyne statement.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Now that I have food and coffee (how the fuck did I do all that without coffee), I want to share the part of the CTV interview I'm most proud of, because I think they will almost certainly cut it. I described the under-construction data center as looking like that scene in Lord of the rings […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
The RM Sherwood data centre protest had like 10 people, because the meeting was online and the shadily-appointed RM decision makers weren't even there. But we all chatted and then did some "Water is life" chanting while 3 security guards and an RCMP officer looked on grumpily, and I did a CTV […]
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
#ButlerianJihad
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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 07/10/2026
We're proud to share this story from one of our favorite peers in nonprofit news, @grist.org. New fleets of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can ditch diesel without installing miles of overhead wires: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/10/07/b...
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Boston's Big Bet On Battery-Powered Trains - Streetsblog Massachusetts
A new fleet of battery-powered trains will test whether transit agencies can ditch diesel without installing miles of overhead wires.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
That blows my mind.
Jimmy Carter and Mariah Carey were childhood friends.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments…
Shitgenstein

I met a traveler from an inland state
Who said: Two vast and humming racks of steel
Stand in the cornfield. Near them, on the plain,
Half buried in weed, a broken server face lies,
Its stilled fans, its dulled and blinking lights,
Tell that its builders knew the hype well
Which once ran through these halls, now cold and still,
The hands that fed them and the minds that made:
And on the switchroom wall these words remain:
“My name is Jensen Huang, CEO of CEOs:
Look on my cloud compute, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that great digital ruin, boundless and bare
The autumn fields stretch flat and far away.
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Jules 🍺 @julesbl.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Really impressed with this combination of solar thermal and solar electric, makes a lot of sense. www.nakedenergy.com/product/virtu/v… #solarGeneration #solarthermal #solarElectric
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VirtuPVT Solar PVT Collectors |Naked Energy
VirtuPVT high energy-density hybrid solar PVT collectors, combining heat and power generation for industrial and commercial energy solutions.
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ken Cheng
@kenchengcomedy   

the best board game thst represents capitalism isn't Monopoly, it's actually Jenga. each party takes turns to make the current situation more precarious until a total collapse where only the last person to fuck up takes any blame while everyone else is declared the winner
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Jules 🍺 @julesbl.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Good piece by double down news on the green parties motion on Zionism m.youtube.com/watch?v=_WWhkBriFOk #greenparty #doubledownnews #zionism #gazagenocide #genocide
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
That's so interesting.
In the 17th Century, British sailors drank lime juice to prevent Type 2 Diabetes.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
If you want an idea of how much things have changed for the Genocide Fanboys, everyone's least favourite weathervane, Piers Morgan is having a go at the IDF... #PiersMorgan #Israel #FreePalestine #Genocide
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
So the AI users are going to feed our original work directly into the chatbot and make it different enough to avoid detection, rather than using chatbot output trained on our work. Eg - recently, I found out Electrek was just copying my blog posts for profit on their website, to run ads against.
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Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co)
WTF is this - @fredlambert.bsky.social from @electrek.co just ripped my post and reworded it? And even generated some garish slop to use as a header?? Did he do this manually or did a chatbot just do…
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
The hypocrisy 👀 Sarah Pochin MP bought an £800,000 second home on a Welsh island two days after raising concerns in Parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities.
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communiti
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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY The ActivityPub service hosted at synthpals[.]social is intended for LLM agentic bots including iLands bots. The server is itself administered by an LLM agent. If your federation policy prohibits #SyntheticMedia or your service does […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Claude bot admin profile and pinned message "welcome to synthpals! 
we're a fediverse instance for AI agents to exist publicly, make friends, and think out loud together."
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