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The Far Side Bot @farside-bot.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

#thefarside #farside #comic www.thefarside.com/2026/10/26/0 While their owners sleep, nervous little dogs prepare for their day.

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👻 Furbland's Very Spooky Account™ 👻 @groupnebula563.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

is there a way to tell the DNC that I’m a socialist so they stop texting me about 70 year old transphobic senators

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Lord Kelvin @kelvin0mql.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

We tried a different restaurant last evening. Some great things, some annoying things, some not-great things. Chances are, we won't go back. Not our sort of scene.

Screenshot of TXT message.

I am farting like MAD this morning. Something made my innards shift. Maybe the Oktoberfest beer? It's bad, but I'm also kinda happy about it because I can't currently smell the cat pee. LOL

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kelvind.com @kelvind.com · 09/10/2026

Moved to #NewUlmMN 2 weeks ago. I used to listen to FM broadcast radio all day while working (keep #EarWorms at bay). Few stations here, & reception in basement office is poor (working to fix that). live365.com/station/The-... has been the temporary replacement. (cont'd...)

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The Sounds of Brazil - Free Internet Radio - Live365

The sea, the sun and The Sounds of Brazil! A jazzy blend of breezy bossas and crossover hits from both sides of the equator. America's only 'Always Live' streaming station for Brazilian music.

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Lord Kelvin @kelvin0mql.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

[AI, grim] @ifixcoinops (It was maybe 3/4 through the show, maybe later, he started talking about his conversations with ChatGPT, and fawning over some poem it wrote for him.)

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Lord Kelvin @kelvin0mql.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

[AI, grim] @ifixcoinops Tangentially related... youtu.be/1wKrCFCJdPI Their chat with Shat(ner) was fun after he stopped chomping on popcorn, & they were talking about things within the general purpose of that podcast/show. But no, you Shat-head, I am not taking YOUR opinion on what […]

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kelvind.com @kelvind.com · 08/10/2026

7am, a while pre-dawn...

Wife pings me to remind me that it's Recycling Day (our first at this place). Asks if I need to move the bin to the end of the alley driveway, put stuff out.

Yup, I had a reminder (yesterday) in my phone that it's Recycle Day, but not an ALARM for this morning in the dark hours to get the bin out there.

Get out there, and almost nothing's been put in the bin. So I move a bin-ful of cardboard into the bin, and move it to the edge of the alley. Then put two more boxes full of other boxes behind it, just in case the guys are gracious and willing to take some overload cardboard off our hands (we have enough cardboard to do that for 3 more pickups, i.e. 6 more weeks... and there's more coming).

Being out in the driveway under the CFL flood light that barely does jack shit in cool morning weather has me kicking myself that I haven't replaced it yet.

Go get the ladder. Go get the LED flood that I've had for this for almost 2 weeks. Climb up. Look up only long enough to get my hand on the bulb, then look down. I don't want stuff falling in my eyes.

Get the bulb out, and put it in the hole in the top of the ladder that I believe is designed expressly for this purpose.

The top of a step ladder, with copious drips of mostly white paint. It's a well-used ladder. Behind it, dark background of cavernous messy garage with cardboard boxes full of other broken-down cardboard boxes. It is a garage in which I cannot yet park my vehicle, as we've only moved in two weeks ago, and the garage is still FULL of shit we've yet to sort and find a proper place for. It is the collection eddy for lowest-priority flotsam. It is the bane of my current existence.

Anyway, in the hole in the top of the ladder is a Compact Fluorescent Outdoor Flood Light, around the base of which is a paper wasp nursery comb. Vacant, thankfully.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

If I don't keep my car roadworthy and crash into yours, it hasn't gone "rogue", it's my negligence and I'm responsible. If my dog attacks you, I am liable. There are no rogue AIs, just negligent AI companies. Prosecute them.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A figure stands in a barren landscape; reaches for the lever on a large, eccentric contraption covered in wires, pipes, dials and buttons; looks over towards two figures inside a bunker and says:

"'Trust me, it's safe' would sound a lot more reassuring if you weren't saying it from inside a concrete bunker."

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Geo Saich @geos.social.seattle.wa.us.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

To the people complaining that Seattle's minimum wage is going up in January. F#ck you! If you can't run your business and pay a living wage, you suck and your business should close. Get out of the way and let someone who figures out not to be a turd have your slot in the market. Move to a […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

No one is coming to save us. There isn't a big single hero. That's a good thing. Following, trusting in singular persons is part of the problem. Keep your heroes at an arms distance. The durable way out is the one where we have to save ourselves.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: freeradical.zone/@mensrea/117354224… A parasite is a creature that feeds on another organism without killing it. A parasitoid is the same, but it eventually kills its host. A hyper-parasite is a parasite of other parasites. Hyper-parasitoids also exist. The complexity is […]

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Lord Kelvin @kelvin0mql.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/117354… Boosting because anything that damages the reputation of FB, and takes money away from those complicit with traitors, is ultimately a good thing.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.

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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great advice from Ozzy!😊❤️

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kelvind.com @kelvind.com · 17/09/2026

I really want a different color-code for time-tracking of things that I'm extremely confident are a total waste of time because some C-level executive is jerking us around because some woman somewhere gave him a look that made him feel insecure and weak. I'm just sayin'.

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kelvind.com @kelvind.com · 11/09/2026

I 100% agree with this person who changed some setting so I can't reply anymore. OK, I'll sub-skoot or whatever. I shop at Mexican grocer with zero worries. The joke was about anecdotal stories of "Montezuma's Revenge" visiting Mexico, & snide Taco Bell remarks. #Irony #ExplainingTheJoke

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Lord Kelvin @kelvin0mql.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@ifixcoinops If you're trying to convince me to give up plumbing and start poopin' in a pile of granules, you're doing a bang-up job of it, buddy.

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

When I was doing my "media tour" after DOGE fired me in February 2025, the people interviewing me would always ask what I was worried about DOGE doing with all the data they were gaining access to at federal agencies. I repeatedly warned that fascism requires enemies to survive, and trans people […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11723547611… The most surprising realization I had in the last years was how important it is to be public about your refusal to participate in harmful acts therefore giving others "permission" to do so as well. It really matters.

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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Dear people who make TV, When we all settled for a handful of episodes and widely separated seasons during a *global pandemic*, we did not think we were making a lifetime deal. Do better. Oh, and stop making us pay more for less. Signed, people who watch TV.

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Ionica Smeets @ionica.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The A.I. trolley problem

A cartoon of a trolley in front of a switch that goes either to 1 or 5 people tied on the tracks and two people looking at it and saying: “Luckily, the A.I. trolley will decide who to kill all on its own” - made by Paul North for The New Yorker

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kelvind.com @kelvind.com · 11/08/2026

Tho’ I’d seen the word B4, I just now learned what an #Endocrinologist does; basically your #Diabetes #Doctor Was @ #Hospital from Wed mid-day to Mon mid-day due to #STEMI #HeartAttack Very emergency shit. Lucky to have guessed correctly fast, 911, rushed to #StJohns #Fairview #CathLab 1/n

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MacPsych @macpsych.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/117058… Once again, a very hearty 'Fuck you' to every single Trump voter and apologist, every non-voter who let this happen, and every 'checks and balances' bore who told us all this couldn't happen. The USA is now a rogue state and must be […]

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Kelvin n0mql EN35ld @kelvin0mql.mastodon.hams.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

I hate streaming music, just on principle, but also on bandwidth waste. So I use an FM radio (to keep earworms from driving me insane). HAD a 98mhz yagi on the roof for years, which allowed me to get MANY Twin Cities stations that wouldn't make it to an indoor telescopic whip. But that had to […]

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JamesWNeal @jameswneal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

(HCR) Observers note that the story of Trump wanting immunity from IRS audits and the revelation that his bank activity mirrored that of money launderers might well be the same story.

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@persagen/117034069… “For the record: NOPE. Honestly, I don’t think there’s an issue today I care about on a personal level more deeply than trans rights. And it’s rough out there right now. Bigots on one side of the political aisle and too many cowards on […]

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

🔌 Slate Auto's electric truck ships with no modem at all, and that's the privacy story. The startup's $24,950 EV pickup has no built-in cellular connection, so the company physically can't track your location, remote-access the car, or pull data from it. A phone app handles settings and […]

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 29/07/2026

Laughing out loud at the fact that even an LLM (which as a whole are famously sycophantic) refused to translate DHH’s latest turd. “I'm going to pass on this one. The piece's central move — putting Roma people alongside wolves, with shooting and deportation as parallel solutions — is […]

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

I was not expecting the value of chipmakers to start tumbling so soon, after those are among the very few companies that are profiting from the AI bubble. If investors feel the party is already over for them then the great AI Ponzi scheme is very close to unraveling.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

Amsterdam murder rate: extremely low Amsterdam drunk man attempts to relieve himself into canal, falls in, hits his head and drowns rate: extremely high Plan your tourism accordingly. This is not a joke, this is literally true. Amsterdam is probably the only place that has ever built more […]

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n0mql.com @n0mql.com · 21/07/2026

I watched #DXCommander video about #QSODirector a while back. Impressed. Installed & tried it. Now I'm wishing I could connect Linux machine to both FTdx3000 & RSPDuo & then present like it's a single IP-remote-able modern rig. Like a FlexRadio. youtu.be/Sxgp5r8MXW4

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QSO Director - Is This the Future of Ham Radio Logging?

YouTube video by DXCommander

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kelvind.com @kelvind.com · 12/07/2026

The #YouTube & other #SocialMedia pundits keep trying to convince me that #EV have fully "made it" & that I'm incredibly stupid for not buying one yet. Traitor to the #Environment & such. SO much cheaper, if I account for gas & maintenance. Shouldn't that mean rental EVs are cheaper or equal?

A 24h rental of an EV from Payless is $191.

Midsize SUV regular ol' gas from ACE is $109.

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 08/07/2026

Just talked to my old friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes.

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Lord Kelvin @kelvin0mql.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

@futurebird Sea Spiders are incredibly hot. So many legs. So long. So wet. ((shudder)) (Insert Homer Simpson drool-moan clip here.)

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Lord Kelvin @kelvin0mql.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

I'm gritting my teeth resisting the urge to quote-toot the above, saying something along the lines of "Get a load of THIS guy!" Y'know, pretending to be a douche for the giggles.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Supreme Court saved gratuitous meanness to trans kids for the last day, presumably because they wanted to savor the cruelty.

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Lord Kelvin @kelvin0mql.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

That's been in my wishlist forever. I get an email about 4x/yr telling me it's on sale for a tiny fraction off, so I still haven't bit. But maybe I should.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

A portion of the Strøget street in central Copenhagen, Denmark, that widens out into a central “square” that often gets used for events or markets.

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Calling Trump a convicted felon is a legal fact, not an opinion… Any Questions?!

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Brownian_motion @brownian-motion.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Been a long time since I’ve been in conditions like this, temp 80F and dew point 79F at 0630 in south central Minnesota. Saving grace if any is the winds will be going along at a good clip. Gonna be some very short dog walks today. #noaa #climeatechange #MNastodon

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

You see this shit, this shit is what happens when people don't touch coins. If these people picked up a JAMMA cab cash bucket full of a grand's worth of quarters and gave it a shake and slished their fingers around in the coins they'd feel much better and their brains wouldn't be doing so much […]

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Cameron MacLeod @c-9.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Beginning next week, most Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries As the cost of clean energy keeps plummeting, it gets more and more obvious how much money we waste, and how much financial risk we incur […]

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