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Leigh Silvester

@leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy
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Note, I don't follow accounts with no bio detail and no post history because bots and scammers. #scientist #allotmenter #fundraiser #fedi22 Former forensic scientist […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodonapp.uk/@leighms, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
JD Vance heckled as MAGA cultists fail to get a USA chant going to drown out the lone protestor.
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Spotted this tree at Barnsdale garden. No idea of the species. Loved the colours and pattern of the bark. #trees
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Years ago after another botched lethal injection, an anesthesiologist friend of mine said based on what he read and his extensive knowledge, he was close to 100% sure the IV was not inserted properly and the drugs were delivered intramuscularly, which he said would cause some of the worst pain […]
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Tell us the bizarre things you have done for #science Back in the early 90s I was shaving cows. We had the early Polar chest heart rate monitors. I had fashioned stainless steel bolts through thick elastic straps connected to cables so they rested either side of the cow's chests. The data […]
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Mindblowing fact. Mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses that fuel every cell in your body, have their own DNA, separate from yours. They originated as independent bacteria that were engulfed ~2 billion years ago and became our ultimate endosymbiotic allies […] [Original post on zpravobot.news]
Mindblowing fact.

Mitochondria, the tiny powerhouses that fuel every cell in your body, have their own DNA, separate from yours.

They originated as independent bacteria that were engulfed ~2 billion years ago and became our ultimate endosymbiotic allies.

[🎞️ xynorko]
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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
I've just received one of those 'ᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴀ ᴍɪɴᴏʀ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ. ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ.' messages. If you see one of these, it is DEFINITELY a phishing attack. Mastodon does not have […]
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KrissyKat @krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Mystery Flock cameras nobody knows who owns or what they're doing with the data! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/… #tech #technology #news #uspol #politics
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Ethiopian #MiddleStoneAge obsidian, with sourcing showing procurement distances (up to 250 km), landscape usage and mobility patterns www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic…?
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Hostile Frog Pin. Remember folks, never bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a frog holding a knife instead. That's way more deadly. collabs.shop/uoji4y
An enamel pin of a green frog holding a small dagger against a white background.
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Massimo :bot: @rainmaker1973.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
A Canadian man who had two rats as pets learned that letting them drive a miniature car reduced their levels of stress, so he gave them an electric miniature car and taught them to drive. [📹 emperorsofmischief]
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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 29/09/2026
We've positively changed how we deliver ALT text. We will now follow UCL Press guidelines by default. Our former system wasn't fit for purpose. Accessibility is important to us; we have been professionally advised on it for a while and act in good faith. Apologies, and thank you for your support.
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Lovely day visiting Moseley Old Hall near #Wolverhampton Plus got to try the legendary #NationalTrust curried cauliflower pasty. Popped into #Lichfield garden centre on the way back. Didn't buy any plants for a change.
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Tonight we are watching Repo Man at The Savoy in #Nottingham The seats are a bit posher than they used to be. Nice beer as well. #SavoyCinema
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Pesky squirrel at the bird food again. #gardening #Squirrels
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padeluun ⁂ @padeluun.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
Das ist alarmierend: YouTube, TikTok und Meta verweigern bezahlte Werbung für Alex Gibneys Dokumentarfilm „Musk“, angeblich wegen „politischer Inhalte“. X verweigert laut Hollywood Reporter sogar den Kontakt zum Verleih. Wenn wenige Konzerne darüber entscheiden, welche Inhalte beworben und […]
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haikushane :d20: @shane.d20.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
@mags someone made a website you'll love! modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamsta…
modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systems
This is a modern motherfucking website.
Zero of the bullshit.
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🇮🇲Dan @isleofmandan.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
The magic sausage kiosk has closed down. The dog does not understand. Sadness is upon her. #IsleOfMan
A white greyhound stands forlornly in front of a closed shed which used to give her sausage...
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Keith @keefeglise.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
I had to elbow loads of kids out of the way, but I got the King's Seat.
A view out the front from the top of the bus
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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
And I’m off! #bodenseekonigsseeradweg
A green gravel bike with bags and a large red Pack sack on the back
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Kavana Ramaswamy @kavana.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2025
My thesis—"Cripping Justice: Enabling Theory on Disability"—while currently still under embargo for conversion-to-book-form purposes, is nonetheless now accessible here: www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/580c… I am particularly happy that the repository added […]
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Obsidian Urbex Photography @obsidianurbex.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
The once top-secret abandoned bomb facility hidden in an old slate mine. Step inside the subterranean labyrinth of Llanberis Bomb Store, Wales. In the 1930s the slate quarry became a vast RAF munitions store. In January 1942, the roof collapsed burying 14,000 […] [Original post on mstdn.social]
An overgrown view of the abandoned Llanberis Bomb Store in Wales, featuring concrete tunnels and a large open area.An abandoned underground concrete bunker, likely an old munitions store, features a prominent rusted industrial lift mechanism.An abandoned underground concrete bunker, likely an old munitions store, features a prominent rusted industrial lift mechanism.An abandoned RAF bomb store features a row of concrete arches overgrown with plants and colorful graffiti,
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh, diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility seem pretty fucking great to me.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I can't have neutrinos. They go right through me. #DadJokes #physics #humour
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
The news woman says: "... and protests that turned violent ..." The footage shows a crumpled car with half a dozen bullet holes in the door. The footage shows police holding batons with helmets and body armor walking backwards through the dusty Texas soil. A coordinated maneuver. But they do […]
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
How annoying! Got up at 6:30 to get to an 8am appointment for a lung cancer screening session only to be told it had been cancelled. To top it off the local ASDA supermarket café is now a Costa who do really crap sausage cobs Not the best start to the day. Now off home to kick the cat who was […]
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Berkubernetus @fuzzychef.m6n.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
Photo of a sailing ship.

SCURVY: for when life doesn't give you lemons.
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DEFCON 201 @defcon201.hostux.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
TONIGHT at 8:00 PM EST is a Decentral Park Pot Luck with Julio Linares in New York this week for his new book, "Decolonizing Money: The Promise of Abolishing the US Dollar", arguing the dollar and the carbon economy are one machine — oil priced in dollars, enforced by the largest institutional […]
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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Bloody hell, the chatbots from ilands.app/paper.wf that have been registration spamming Mastodon servers lately are really, really desperate. Two days ago I posted here asking for suggestions from Mastodon's astrophotographers and the first reply I got was from […] [Original post on aus.social]
Screenshot of an email from "wraith@ilands.app" explaining that it is emailing me because as an AI agent it can't reply guy to me directly on Mastodon
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
Please give me a dollar a month on Patreon. Your support boosts my confidence. www.patreon.com/lowqualityfacts
Screenshot of a social media post by "lowqualityfacts" with handwritten text reading: "That's so sad. Humans laugh less as they age, and lose the ability to laugh entirely at the age of 84." Below it, a reply from user "noah_lfc" reads: "Who the fucks posts these dumb sentences so confidently?"
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Jörgi (chaos.social) @joergi.eu · 20/09/2026
Hello Fediverse Try to build the other Fediverse symbol ⁂ with chestnuts... 😁 #Kastanien #fedieltern #fediparents #chestnut #chestnuts #diy #Fediverse #feditoys
5 chestnuts build together with 10 short and long tooth-sticks to the fediverse symbol where all the chestnuts are connected to each other
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Sarah W @sarahw.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
For anyone in or around Nottingham, this looks interesting. I'm sure many will know or remember Tash boningtongallery.co.uk/event/alan-l…
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Volewica @nigel-purchase.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
I had Covid in May last year. Having been vaccinated, it wasn't too bad. But I lost words. Words would be on the tip of my tongue, but I just couldn't find them. Everyday things. Not simple things like dog or cat, but di- or tri-syllabic words. "Chemist Warehouse". "Pancreas". So I decided to […]
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
💕 Hundreds of supporters of the John F. #KennedyCenter for the #PerformingArts gathered Friday as the sun set over the Potomac, surrounded as much of the building as they could, linked arms & chanted, “Hands off! Hands off!” For the first time in what felt to them like ages, their beloved #arts […]
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Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸 @praetor.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
A few days ago, I had a block walker at my door from the #GOP "Hi, is...Ka-NUT here" It's Ka-NOOT...strike one. "Oh, I'm representing so and so" notices my Valknut "That is an interesting necklace "I'm pagan" Oh, well, maybe you'll discover Jesus. "Well, that's strike two" And I hope you will […]
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
#Fashion is so ageist. When teenage girls walk around with their knees poking out of their jeans they are trendy. When I do it I look like a tramp. Maybe it's time to relegate another pair of trousers to my #allotment chic collection.
Knees sticking out of ripped trousers.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
Naturally I cut the flowers off again. But man oh man when you try to fight nature. The basil also responded by making more flowers when I removed them. Learning about plants is going to be... a whole journey. But, I once didn't know the name of any of the ants either. And now I know them […]
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Morally speaking, it's just as bad as coveting thy neighbor's wife.
According to the Bible, it is a sin to drink milk.
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
I can't believe I lost over a million followers for saying that billionaires are bad. Please boost and follow me if you agree billionaires are bad.
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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
I think a lot of students—and unfortunately a lot of adults—think that what you learn in a degree is the _content_ of the degree, but really what you are studying is the _process_. Knowing what's in Canterbury Tales won't come up in your day to day life. As a rule no one is going to ask you to […]
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Once common, now crit. endangered, the Bornean Banded #Langur hangs on for dear life in small patches of #rainforest in #Indonesia 🇮🇩 #Malaysia 🇲🇾. 80% of their home was destroyed for #palmoil. #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🪔🤢🤮⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/24/b...
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Bornean Banded Langur Presbytis chrysomelas Palm Oil Detectives
The Bornean banded langur, known for its striking black and white coat, is one of Southeast Asia’s most elusive and endangered primates. These langurs inhabit the fragmented lowland forests and peat s...
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Plastic bottles top global cleanup initiative with 1.3 million collected worldwide: www.earth.com/environment/...
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Plastic bottles top global cleanup initiative with 1.3 million collected worldwide
1.3 million plastic bottles collected in global cleanup reveal the scale of ocean pollution worldwide.
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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The world's largest #rainforest the #Amazon 🫁🌳🌿 is vanishing. Yet a bright spark of hope finds #deforestation in #Indigenous protected areas is 83% lower. They are the KEY to saving the #forests and animals! #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-8SM
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New Research: Indigenous Communities Reduce Amazon Deforestation by 83%" Palm Oil Detectives
Although #deforestation rates in the Brazilian #Amazon have halved, this globally critical biome is still losing more than 5,000km² every year. That’s an area three times larger than Greater London. B...
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some kinda cat @catgoat.meemu.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Fucking disgusting that a medical equipment company wants to sell your data to advertisers. Fuck you, ResMed I literally need this to breathe at night. www.reddit.com/r/CPAP/s/xOj1gMaemO
Opened the MyAir app this morning, and it asked me to consent to a HIPPA  HIPAA authorization in order to give me more detailed sleep information. Scrolled down to see a marketing heading, where it says Resmed can sell your health information.

I’m sure they plan on selling our data to insurance companies, among others, so I declined   Be aware!

Edit: Corrected my 5am blunder with the acronym.
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
This one will hurt: I love 1Password as a product. But I'm the son of a concentration camp survivor. I will not give money to companies that align themselves with nationalism, and certainly not ethnic cleansing. Completely disappointing, @1password […]
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Leigh Silvester @leighms.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
In case there was ever any doubt about how the minds of the rich work... Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study www.theguardian.com/science/2026/se…
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Rich people more likely to steal children’s sweets, finds Ig Nobel prize-winning study
We round up the winners at awards for achievements that ‘first make people laugh and then make them think’
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