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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

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RE: mastodon.social/@randahl/1173577534… If you were intent upon destroying the United States, hollowing it out as a working democracy, you would do nothing different.

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

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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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RM @rowlandm.disabled.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Three big things from the HILDA Annual Statistical Report: 1. Food insecurity increased in 2024, affecting more than 1 in 6 Australians aged 15 and over 2. Half of 18-29 year olds now living at home with their parents 3. Fatigue increases across the country, younger people report worse health […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I'm kind of obsessed with this old puzzle. You need to move the piano to the lower LEFT corner by sliding the pieces. Curious if anyone has done any math things with such tile puzzles? It's easy to move it to the lower right, and possible but kind of hard to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An "promotional" wooden puzzle from the Argonne van and storage co. It is nearly 100 years old. You slide rectangular blocks labeled as boxes.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I find it _interesting_ that most modern portrayals of fairy tales involve kings, knights, princesses and so forth - the privileged aristocratic classes on top of the social pyramid. Even if the protagonist of such a tale is poor, they are still secretly from privileged parents, and their story […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

People can find it difficult to understand the negation of an implication "⇒". Its possible it relates to the struggle of connecting informal to formal use. "Informally" we'll often write "⇒" without being clear whether the relation is "⇒ and ⇐" = "⇔" i.e. an equivalence, or ""⇒ and ⇍" i.e […]

Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I'm thinking of starting a Laurel and Hardy appreciation account, focussing on Laurel, called... Only Stan's.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Also Wikipedia just led me down the most delightful rabbit hole: "The Milton Report" which starts with the sentence "As the only professional astronomer in the province of Saskatchewan" and I just want to be friends with this poor guy across the decades since "only professional astronomer in the […]

Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

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When we were kids, one of my brother's favourite jokes was: "Be alert. Your country needs lerts!" I mention this because it possibly goes some way to understanding my sense of humour.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Eating dairy can be painful. I mean... yoghurt. (Yes, my daughter didn't find this funny either.)

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Mi casa su case?... NO!... it's mine!... all mine!... well, apart from my beautiful wife, parasitic children and their partners... oh, and dogs, and cats... which actually means I'm really just the cleaner, chef, supplier of money etc. and I'm lucky if I get my desk and computer to myself (one […]

Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

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We made a comic about the Hulk.

1 Waiter: Any room for dessert Mr. Banner?
2 Bruce Banner: I really wanted some but I'm way too full. This makes me so mad.
3 Bruce turns into the hulk
4 Hulk: I'll have the tiramisu.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

By the way, I recommend following @Unixbigot for her regular micro fiction (a story contained within a post). Two in one... entertainment *and* thought provoking insights! I mean, there are other great people I'd recommend etc. I should probably do some sort of list or something... but you're […]

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Yesterday I broke out the shorts as temperatures headed into the high 20s (°C everyone). And once you break out the shorts, there's no going back!... except... This morning's dog walk was below 10, wind and rain (though it almost seemed like hail). Brrrr... at least the legs dry quickly. The […]

Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

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"On your knees; hands behind your head!" "You haven't even bought me dinner" *Thwack* "shut up, convict. Where's the grow room?" "" "Speak!" "You told me to shut up" "Oh a wiseass. We'll find it—our Agents profiled your electricity use and heat emissions. We /know/ you've got a grow lab […]

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

If someone calls you a square, just remind them that a square is king of the rectangles. [Notes: 1. This may not actually help your case. 2. All advice like this that I give comes with the caveat that it might be complete rubbish. 3. Pity my students who are a captive audience, at least you […]

Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

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From "conversations I have with students": An ellipsis is three dots, whereas ellipses means more than one ellipse (a squashed circle).. You can remember the difference by noting the one that has the letter with a dot "i" rather than the "e", is the one that means the dots... the other one is […]

Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#Mathematics A trivial pet peeve, but I can't stop being annoyed at Blackboard bold fonts for the letters representing the standard sets. They commonly almost *but not quite* mimic what one would write on a blackboard i.e. the N, Z and C tend to be OK... but extra lines are added to the Q and […]

Ray*mond Li*terally @madbarrister.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

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I could be on America's Got Talons! #PetBirdOpinions #HashTagGames

Ray*mond Li*terally @madbarrister.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

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What do you call a pet bird with a mutant gene? An X-Parrot! #PetBirdOpinions #HashTagGames

Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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You'd think the fact that the son of the President of the "party of family values" 2nd marriage is to the daughter of Epstein's banker and it was funded by a Rusisan oligarch involved in the mass kidnap of Ukrainian kids during a KGB agent's illegal war Would be bigger news..

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

HRVP Kaja Kallas: "These are not accidents. They are calculated attempts by Russia to weaken our resolve, test our unity and play with fears of escalation. Putin will not stop unless he is stopped."

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I definitely did not envision retirement as helping start what is now a 12,000-member public health advocacy group and working daily to try to provide accurate scientific information in the face of rampant government disinformation. But here we are, and this work isn’t going to end any time soon.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

If you've never watched sixth graders playing soccer it's really cute. You assign them positions but then they just all chase the ball in a big gaggle while the two kids who hate soccer hang out away from the chaos talking and scheming to get one of the puppies from the dog park to come over so […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and […]

myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

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RE: sfba.social/@minmi/1172764408320103… Ok. I understand why people do this. With people, living things even, it's a good idea to go to the source to ask how it works, or why it does things. If you know how LLM content is generated you know that the LLM doesn't have any unique or […]

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beSpacific @bespacific.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

At roughly noon on Tuesday, #ThomasMassie, a #Republican from #Kentucky, stood up on the floor of the #House and read articles of #impeachment against #PeteHegseth into the record. Not a press release. Not a tweet. A privileged resolution, which means #MikeJohnson can’t bury it in #Judiciary the […]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026

Nice article detailing the massive, unprecedented and likely fossil-fuelled energy bloat NVIDIA aims to profit from in Australia. Amusing they admit this isn't for useful stuff (like video calls and emails) by calling them "AI factories" datacentremagazine.com/news/inside-...

News headline and excerpt reporting NVIDIA VP Raj Mirpuri outlining plans with partners to build 2GW of AI factory capacity in Australia by 2027, naming collaborators and describing the company’s DSX AI factory platform and expanded data centre capacity.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/09/2026

In an incredible move, Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada has announced a gender-affirming care clinic for trans youth, asserting tribal sovereignty and defying the region's ban. It is one of the biggest cross-movement solidarity moments in Canada. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Canada First Nation Leaders Announce They Won’t Comply With Alberta Trans Care Ban

“This is about more than one health service,” officials wrote. “It is about Indigenous sovereignty. It is about our responsibility to care for one another.”

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I just learned from a meeting with radio astronomers that AST SpaceMobile is already disrupting GPS signals with only a handful of direct-to-device satellites in orbit. This seems... bad. And like someone in some government somewhere should maybe care about this?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.

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Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Today I taught a class of just 5 students who are going to carry on in the next couple of years to do Specialist Maths (the advanced stream here). We were talking about trig. They'd done some trig but we talked about it from Thales measuring the height of an Egyptian pyramid to foreshadowing […]

Level 98 🇺🇦 @level98.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

The fire brigade are a bit fed up of being called out to fires started by those who hide their light under a bushel.

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Maija Koivula ⌘ @maijanlainen.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@juandesant I once read a book about Rousseau's life and he had an interesting insight into rich living when his writing was being charitably sponsored by a wealthy woman, I'd imagine he had many chances to meet characters such as this through this connection alone. And yes, it absolutely is a […]

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