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AquaClaire @aquaclaire.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

In ancient Egypt, a shimmering golden fabric known as ‘sea silk’ was made from the anchor threads of Pinna nobilis clams: very fine but exceptionally tough and durable. A similar textile has been made with fibres from Atrina pectinata clams, cultivated for food in Korean coastal waters. The […]

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂

Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I know eclipses are all the rage right now, but consider the quiet elegance of a dog toy syzygy. There. I finally used it in a sentence. Now it's mine forever. (Not really #DogsOfMastodon or #astronomy.)

Three dog toys in a row across a backyard, near to far.

Pictured are Backyard 1, Backyard 2, and Backyard 36. Backyard 3 through 35 are out of frame.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

I spent a couple of hours fighting with the Frontier Airlines app AND the website with TWO browsers just to pay for my bags. Happy that I finally got an emailed receipt that says I paid it, but, I don't know, does this look right to you? And how hard do you have to […] [Original post on mas.to]

A wacky receipt:

Total Cost
Airfare $77.16
Transportation Tax (domestic) $5.38
Electronic Commerce Charge $10.00
Carrier Interface Charge $46.00
Flight Segment Tax $10.60
U.S. Passenger Security Fee $11.20
Passenger Facility Charge $9.00

Total 313.96000000000004
Payment Type Visa
Payment Amount $163.96
Status Approved
Payment Type Visa
Payment Amount $150.00
Status Approved

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Cocoa is enjoying a little peanut butter surprise. #DogsOfMastodon

Black dog with white paws licking a chew toy that has peanut butter inside of it.

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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Forced Out of DNC for Criticizing Party Leaders, David Hogg Speaks Out: 'I Wasn't Wrong' | Common Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/david-hog…

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

A few weeks ago I shared a #GoFundMe for some very good friends of ours, Lucas & Emmie. Emmie had open heart surgery two weeks ago and was recuperating at home. Suddenly she's back in the hospital tonight facing another surgery tomorrow to drain fluid from around her heart. She had to take an […]

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

We came back from a week-long trip to find our newest orchid, a Platystele Beatricis, getting ready to pop out some blooms. We got this little guy in the mail on June 4 and it seems to have acclimated quickly in our grow tent. The vendor was Tarzane Group of North […] [Original post on mas.to]

A Platystele Beatricis mounted on a wood (cork?) backing. The mount is only 2.5" x 1.5" and a banana over three times its length is lying on the table next to it.

A closeup of the orchid. It's mounted in the middle of a cork rectangle. Sphagnum moss, tied down with four evenly spaced horizontal strands of thin, black cord, take up the bottom half of the mount. A Roosevelt dime sits on the moss showing how tiny this orchid is.
The orchid has about two dozen leaves varying in size from a couple millimeters to a little over the width of the dime.
Five delicate stalks radiate in all different directions. Each one has a tight cluster of unopened flowers at the end of it.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

I found this pretty little lady on our patio furniture. The goog says it's a female Emerald Jumping Spider (Paraphidippus aurantius). #SpidersOfMastodon #spiders

A fuzzy jumping spider with a green and yellow segmented abdomen. Each segment also has a couple of white dots with black edges.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Cocoa's doggie tv is on and set to the Squirrel Channel. #DogsOfMastodon

Black dog at a window. The blinds are up and the dog is staring intently out the window.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Please boost. My wife and I have created a #GoFundMe for some very good friends who are going through a lot right now. Lucas is a powerful #LGBTQ+ advocate who was the youngest grand marshal that St Pete Pride ever had. When he married Emmie a few years ago, I had the honor of walking her down […]

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

oh my

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Be sure to read "Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump" By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. My wife asked our local library for a reserve. She's 23 out of 258! I hope they bought a lot of copies! #RegimeChange

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I finally added mesh walls to all three sides of my #Vivosun #GrowTent. The #orchids seem very happy now. Many sprouts appearing and one flower stalk in bloom and another on the way.

Image of the inside of a grow tent. It includes the back and right walls. Each wall is covered by a wire mesh made from a rectangle of galvanized garden fence. Multiple orchids, mounted on squares of tree fern, hang like portraits on the mesh walls.
Also visible in the image are LED lights and a ducted circulation fan at the top, and a humidifier at the bottom.

Image of the inside of a grow tent. It includes the left and back walls. Each wall is covered by a wire mesh made from a rectangle of galvanized garden fence. Multiple orchids, mounted on squares of tree fern, hang like portraits on the mesh walls.
Also visible in the image are LED lights, a webcam and a ducted circulation fan at the top, and a humidifier at the bottom.

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Mike J👹🐀 🤘🏻 @mikej.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Anybody remember when the US Embassy in Moscow had a listening device built into a gift carving of the great seal of the US? Just thinking about it for no reason today. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec…

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Jonathan Mosen @jonathanmosen.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

I want to share a personal view on the discussions around banning social media for people under a certain age because I fear the voices of blind people and others who belong to communities that are not necessarily geographical are not being heard. One of my favorite podcasts is called Feel […]

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

My wife had to renew her #passport and we were worried it might not get to her in time for a trip in August (or to vote in November). It was nine days from online application to opening the envelope that just arrived on a Post Office holiday.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

Someone should make an American flag mosaic using pieces of the Reflecting Pond paint for the blue stripes. #TuckFrump

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Cocoa got a new floral collar today. She's going to see her trainer for the first time tomorrow. #DogsOfMastodon

A young, mostly black dog at a window, some white on her nose, has interrupted her squirrel watch to look inquiringly over her right shoulder toward the camera. She has a new collar, white with pink flowers. She is a Good Grrl.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Only one small phalaenopsis is in bloom in the grow tent right now. #orchid #GrowTent

A cluster of small moth-like flowers, pink-purple veins, fading to white at the edges.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Our dog silently staring a hole through a #squirrel. Squirrel spent a lot of time fooling with a net dome over some lilies of the valley. Turned out there was a juicy, ripe wild strawberry just inside the netting. Me too, squirrel. Me too.

Photo out the window, back of dog head inside, squirrel in the distance outside.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Just received my Platystele Beatricis miniature #orchid from Tarzanegroup in North Miami, Florida. Can't wait to see how it does in my #GrowTent. Image when blooming, shown with a US Quarter for scale […] [Original post on mas.to]

A small orchid plant mounted with some sphagnum moss, tied to a block of cork. The largest dimension of the block just fits across the width of my palm.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Earlier today I subscribed to BritBox. About 5 minutes later my bank called to say it rejected a charge against my card from CinemaHub.stream. Not sure if CinemaHub was being shady, and now I'll have to spend the next week changing all the accounts to my shiny new […] [Original post on mas.to]

"Armida in Machine Gun Mama", a 1940s era poster featuring a woman firing a machine gun.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

After months of planning and delays, today I finally installed a small piece of welded wire fence panel on the back wall of my #orchid #growtent. It replaces a rather kludgey setup with horizontal dowels supported by dangly vertical chains. This is so much better. A […] [Original post on mas.to]

Mounted orchids hanging from dowels supported by repurposed pendant lamp chain. Three sides of a small grow tent are visible.

The chain and dowel kludge has been replaced on the back wall by a rectangular piece of welded wire panel.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

I amused myself by finding an unusual perspective of a relatively common object. Any guesses what this is? #Photography #RiddleMeThis

What looks like a slice through crumply, silvery layers of who knows what.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Wrigley's looking pretty awesome and he knows it. #DogsOfMastodon

Brown chiweenie dog wearing teeny sunglasses, looks out from his carry-bag. A person in a denim jacket is carrying him.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Last fall we planted a few peony roots that we got from White Flower Farm in Litchfield, CT (we've been visiting and buying online from there for about 45 years). We planted three different ones and all three bloomed this spring. This one is called Bowl of Beauty, a […] [Original post on mas.to]

Bowl of Beauty bloom, pink petals around the outside (guard petals) and creamy inside (modified stamen).

Same flower a few days later. The central stamen tissue has turned white.

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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

"After 16 years, the #EndTheBacklog campaign has successfully driven rape kit reform legislation in all 50 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico." This is "a nationwide breakthrough in efforts to eliminate the backlog of untested rape kits and help prevent future backlogs" […]

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Did you know that 8647 is a prime number? That means it's #Indivisible !

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Linus was very funny today. I brought him to my dentist appointment since it was nice out & left him in the car with the windows open. When I came back he was deep asleep. I unlocked the car, got in, tried to say hello, buckled up, started the car — all without […] [Original post on masto.ai]

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Cocoa has opened an account at the local TD (Twig Deposit) Bank. She was lucky there was a branch right here in the backyard. #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon

Dog lying in the grass, chewing on a stick. Several other sticks are on the grass nearby.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

My wife and I are babysitting the granddog. Cocoa is chasing rabbits right now. #DogsOfMastodon

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

I'm teaching the granddog calculus. After learning to manipulate multiple variables to maximize attention, it was time for a snooze. #DogsOfMastodon

Black and white dog snoozing on brown sofa. Somehow her back legs look twice as long as her front legs.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

New puppy Cocoa settling in nicely, and not crazy at all. #DogsOfMastodon

Image of puppy (about 8 months old) taken with flash so eyes look demonic.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Oh, boy! There might be a new member of the family soon! #DogsOfMastodon

A black dog, with a little white around the nose and a thin line of white going up between the eyes, looks up and to the right beseechingly.

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2026

The White House has a brand new app so you can keep up with their version of history. Look at the version number. 🙄 #TuckFrump #WhiteHouse

Google play store page for a new app. The version number is 47.1.0.
Get it?
47 heh-heh heh

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Hari Seldon's dead hand @lefty.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Our first #tulips have started to bloom. The pink ones in the center are called Big Love. The white ones near the rim are White Emperor. #FlowerFriday #FlowersOfMastodon #flowers

Large black flowerpot with tulips blooming. Pink flowers in the center; white flowers in an outer circle.

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@RonSupportsYou @ronsupportsyou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

"Democrats on Monday officially claimed a second upset in Florida’s recent special elections when The Associated Press declared an electrical workers union leader to be the winner of a tight state senate contest in reliably Republican West Tampa" […]

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