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Ali @ali.river.geek.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

Stacked series of long exposure astro landscape images depicting thousands and thousands of trails from satellites over the conical volcano Taranaki Maunga in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Od jutra w wydawnictwie REBIS można kupić „Dzieci Saturna” Charlesa Strossa w moim tłumaczeniu, space operę (i jednocześnie hard SF) o cywilizacji robotów, która została w układzie Słonecznym po wymarciu ludzkości (czyli coś o długoterminowych […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Piesek Laki na kanapie z egzemplarzami autorskimi Dzieci Saturna

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Jako że jest jesień, to warto się zaszczepić, dziabnąłem się już na grypę (w tym roku zamiast na cztery wersje grypy szczepionka jest tylko na trzy, bo jeden szczep okazał się zbyt miękki i wymarł) i na COVID (w Polsce dostajemy Spikevax XFG). Szczepionka […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

Zdjęcie szpica miniaturowego stojącego przed otwartymi drzwiami do apteki, na których jest zakaz wstępu dla psów, z prawej strony duży napis "PUNKT SZCZEPIEŃ".

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There aren't many days when you can kayak off Start Point, renowned for one of Britain's most dangerous tidal races. But yesterday the stars aligned, so I bunked off work. Delighted to see Rupert Kirkwood (the Lone Kayaker) out there. He took this picture of me +1. Before you ask: yes, it's real. 🧵

In my kayak, watching a bluefin tuna leaping beside me.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

RE: sfba.social/@not2b/1173682896958754… It is really sad that IT nerds already used the name "daemon" for something completely not daemon-like, since it would be perfect for moronic LLMs modern sorcerers try to control with their spells, sorry, prompts.

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Kay Burki @burkay.fedi.at.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Sign the European Citizens' Initiative: Fast, convenient, affordable, and above all climate-friendly transportation for all Europeans. #railways #EU #Europe #TrainTravel #Verkehrswende #Kostenwahrheit citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initi…

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Why is Mitch McConnell doddering around Washington DC picking up small stones? Because the technicians accidentaly uploaded Moon Rover software into his head. (Soviet-era jokes are now weirdly appropriate to the US)

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

if i rig up a random number generator to a bomb, program it to generate a number between 1 and 20 every five minutes, set the bomb to go off if i roll a 20, begin the random number generator, then leave the room, i am liable for when the bomb goes off. the fact that a deeply stupid […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

It is likely that these companies *do* keep copies for future training. But they don't want to share this data or make it searchable by the public. If someone destroys an old rare book to scan it the public should get a copy of the scan. This is about protecting our culture, history, and […]

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 27/08/2026

viable alternatives: * @drew's vim-classic, a fork of vim 8.3 code base, * @mrmasterkeyboard's evi, a fork of pre-vibe-coding vim 9.1 codebase

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blogdebart.eurosky.social @blogdebart.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

Na drugą nóżkę: finansowanie straciło badanie, w którym już wstępne wyniki pokazywały, że wymiana kuchenki z gazowej na elektryczną poprawia stan chorych na astmę bardziej niż niektóre leki. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Replacing gas stove can help asthmatics as much as some drugs, US experts find

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this "Say Perhaps To Drugs" Pin. No, I am not encouraging you to do drugs. That would be highly irresponsible of me. I am simply encouraging you to *consider* doing drugs. collabs.shop/6fftbo

A rectangular black enamel pin with white and red text that reads "SAY PERHAPS TO DRUGS."

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Mateusz @murawski.mastodon.com.pl.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Daję dłuższy fragment, bo to jest bardzo na czasie w związku z ostatnimi zmianami na przykład w pyszne.pl i problemami kurierów. Świetną metaforę dzisiejszej ekonomii technologii można znaleźć w mandze “Battle Angel Alita”. Świat był tam podzielony na dwie części: lśniące, podniebne miasto […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I'm re-reading Neptune's Brood by @cstross and this quote hits a bit harder nowadays than when it was written in 2013, in the era before the slop engines: "As I said, these things bore only a thin veneer of intelligence: Once you crack the ice and tumble into the howling void of thoughtlessness […]

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Dawid Bojarski @spikain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Widzę wasze niezadowolenie cenami Steam Machine, ale musicie zrozumieć, że taki jest koszt wolności* *wolności waszego starego do tego, by LLM okłamał go w sprawie wartości odżywczych pianki montażowej

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

[Sexual molestation by Elon Musk] "In 2022, Business Insider reported that Musk exposed himself to a flight attendant on his jet, rubbed her leg, and offered to buy her a horse if she would give him a hand job. (Note that many men do not have to offer to exchange horses for hand jobs, because […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

"Hahaha, those people long time ago, they were so silly, giving heroin to children as a cough remedy! ChatGPT, can you explain this to me?"

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kravietz 🦇 @kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

#Russia state TV aired a program about #Ukraine crowdfunder Serhii Sternenko, calling him “terrorist Sternenko” because he collects money for drones, but they did not in any way obscure the QR code in original Sternenko videos. Sternenko praised this effort […] [Original post on agora.echelon.pl]

Still frame from Sternenko's interview with another activist, Misha Pravilnyi, with the QR code visible in the corner

Still frame from Russian TV where they show Sternenko's interview in the background, calling him "terrorist"

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Another banger by Ted Chiang on "AI": "Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

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Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist @drmaddkap.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

I’m rewatching old Star Trek episodes to see which ones pass the B’kdel Test: (1) Two named Klingons (2) Talking to each other (3) About something other than honor

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m0bi ⁂ @m0bi.mastodon.com.pl.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

📰 "Czy to pierwsza wojna światowa Broligarchii? Broń sterowana sztuczną inteligencją, dwaj niekontrolowani autorytarni przywódcy, brak władzy prawnej i toksyczna mieszanka męskości: witamy w pierwszym poważnym konflikcie manosfery. Sztuczna inteligencja, podobnie jak wojna, jest kolejną […]

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026

Cześć, słyszałem, że lubicie linki do tekstów, więc podsyłam link do tekstu z linkami do tekstów (spośród których wiele też ma linki do tekstów) open.substack.com/pub/jeczjan/...

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Mizoginia w Dolinie Krzemowej, od internetu kabel i Klaudiusz (ale nie Ševković)

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kravietz 🦇 @kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

An interesting case study in drone wars - last year #Germany passed a series of XC-2 assault drones (X-wing style) to #Ukraine, and these were susceptible to jamming and electronic warfare (EW), duly reported by #Russia channels with jokes and ironic comments. German manufacturer took the […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

The future I want: Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism. The future I seem to be getting: Fully Automated Luxury (for 1%) Heterosexual Boiled-Earth Authoritarianism. The part that gets fully automated is the authoritarian oppression.

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flere-imsaho 🇺🇦 @mawhrin.fedi.circumstances.run · 02/02/2026

> There is a rather nasty young woman called Rebecca Watson, who seems to be running some > kind of a witch-hunt against Lawrence Krauss because of his defence of Jeffrey Epstein. — richard dawkins (via @blakestacey )

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Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

RE: mas.to/@nemo/115977538504295603 Ironically enough, to get secure and Google Gemini-proof phone, your best bet nowadays is to get a Google Pixel and install GrapheneOS (with no "AI" bullshit embedded).

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

So, I've watched the first episode of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy and I generally liked it, except for the very beginning. The concept that 32nd century Federation would use the notion of "felony murder" is just so... US-brained it hurts. It's like having someone prosecuted in a modern police […]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

To w sumie wrzucę tutaj moje tłumaczenie na polski komiksu XKCD o wyborach przez internet, tak zupełnie bez związku z wydarzeniami w polskiej polityce :-) leslie.hell.pl/blog/2024/06/08/xkcd…

Komiks ze schematycznymi postaciami ludzkimi, dziennikarka przeprowadza wywiad.
- PYTANIE INŻYNIERÓW LOTNICTWA O BEZPIECZEŃSTWO SAMOLOTÓW:
- NIC NIE JEST W 100% PEWNE, ALE DZISIEJSZE SAMOLOTY SĄ NIESAMOWICIE NIEZAWODNE. LATANIE TO NAJBEZPIECZNIEJSZY SPOSÓB PODRÓŻOWANIA.
- INŻYNIEROWIE BUDOWNICTWA O BEZPIECZEŃSTWIE WIND:
- WINDY SĄ CHRONIONE PRZEZ WIELE SPRAWDZONYCH MECHANIZMÓW ZABEZPIECZEŃ. PRAKTYCZNIE NIE MOGĄ SPAŚĆ.
- PYTANIE INŻYNIERÓW OPROGRAMOWANIA O E-WYBORY:
- TO PRZERAŻAJĄCE.
- ZARAZ, NAPRAWDĘ?
- NIE UFAJCIE PROGRAMOM DO GŁOSOWANIA I NIE SŁUCHAJCIE LUDZI, KTÓRZY MÓWIĄ, ŻE SĄ BEZPIECZNE.
- DLACZEGO?
- NIE WIEM JAK TO ŁADNIE UJĄĆ, ALE CAŁA NASZA BRANŻA JEST KIJOWA W TYM, CO ROBIMY I JEŻELI BĘDZIECIE NA NAS POLEGAĆ, WSZYSCY ZGINIEMY.
- MÓWIĄ, ŻE ZAŁATWILI SPRAWĘ CZYMŚ CO NAZYWA SIĘ "BLOCKCHAIN".
- AAAAA!!!!
- COKOLWIEK WAM SPRZEDALI, NIE DOTYKAJCIE TEGO.
- ZAKOPCIE TO NA PUSTYNI.
- W RĘKAWICACH.

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Michał Bleja @blejamichal.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

Mam lifehack dla wszystkich mieszkańców miast sfrustrowanych odśnieżaniem auta, korkami, brakiem miejsc parkingowych, cenami paliwa i ubezpieczeń, awariami, przekręcaniem liczników i remontami dróg. Otóż: MOŻNA NIE MIEĆ AUTA.

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

If you're a gamer and using Epic Games, today the giveaway is Disco Elysium, highly recommended. :-)

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m0bi ⁂ @m0bi.mastodon.com.pl.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

Piotr Ikonowicz. Socjalista, opozycjonista i więzień polityczny w PRL, społecznik. I jakiś mediaworker, nie wiem, czy wypłatę dostaje w rublach?🤔

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TechAltar @techaltar.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

Now that it is official US policy to promote regime change in Europe and to dismantle the EU I wonder if we will take sovereignty over tech more seriously

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 25/11/2025

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission @collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

It’s painfully accurate, isn’t it?

A photo of presumably a shop window, with two placards. One reads: “we welcome all races, all religions, all countries of origin, all secular orientations, all genders. We stand with you, you are safe here”. And the other reads: “restrooms are for customer use only”. Caption reads: “the essence of liberalism in one photo”.

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025

The universal icon for LLMs have become sparkles, as in "magic," which is, perhaps apt because it's ultimately mostly illusion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKcBYI82_28 I think, perhaps, it should instead be a reverse ouroboros. I can't think of a more apt iconography for LLMs than a snake […]

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

We need to talk about these hideous flag cones countries have been using for a couple of years now to give the appearance of a waving flag in the background of a conference when filmed from the front

A picture of military generals walking out of a room with several flag cones from Italy, Brazil, France, Canada, and Serbia being displayed

A picture of someone applying the Israel flag over a cone with many non-flag cones in the background

A picture of Anthony Blinken at a press conference of the US Embassy of Jerusalem with almost real looking flags in the background, but since this picture is taken at an angle, one can see that they're cones

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

Od niedawna można się szczepić na COVID (zapisy przez IKP), ja się zapisałem na dzisiaj do apteki gdzie również można się zaszczepić na grypę (farmaceutka wystawia receptę) i zrobiłem sobie dwa dziabnięcia na raz, a przede mną był jakiś senior co się […] [Original post on circumstances.run]

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Leszek Karlik @leszek-karlik.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025

Napisałem krótki tekst z okazji 7 rocznicy zamachu terrorystycznego w Charlotesville, niestety obawiam się że zeitgeist i social media tak działają, że ataków z użyciem samochodów jeszcze trochę zobaczymy w przyszłości. (Oraz bardzo polecam podcast Weird Little Guys, Molly Conger robi kawał […]

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alxd of the Story Seed Library @alxd.writing.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2025

I am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special! […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing): arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 Quote: "LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users […]

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