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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Sending a thought to all the Sysadmins out there today. "four, indeed"

Still from a Star Trek OS episode. Scotty is holding a weird dog with a unicorn horn on its forehead. Kirk and Spork are also in the frame, and all three are looking at something off-frame. TEXT "Continue circuit testing"

LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

re: new Mastodon interface - I like it, but there is this weird thing going on with the Notifications Button - there doesn't seem to be any way to "zero" it? This is what it looks like when I've loaded all the new posts. There used to be a checkmark at the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screenshot showing new interface buttons

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

How mobile phone games profile you to decide what ads to show you. Scary and fascinating.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Remember that weird neanderthal-ish bleach blonde from a few years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene? She's woken up and found a brain 🤯

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Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene
@FmiRepMTG

Oh he sent me an email, | think I'll respond.
So yes, actually you did do something wrong President Trump, let’s
first start with your broken campaign promises.
You protected your pedophile rapists friends instead of women who
were raped when they were just teenage girls and you STILL REFUSE to
release the Epstein files.
You started an unprovoked war with Iran that the vast majority of
Americans do NOT support. You killed hundreds of children at a school
in Iran and innocent people and are responsible for 21 U.S. service
members deaths and 865 wounded. Your stupid war that you claim
you have won like 50 times has destroyed our bases in the Middle East
and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military equipment and
weapons, while depleting our weapons and ammunitions.
You are supporting, funding, and aiding genocide in Gaza that has
resulted in approximately 22,000 children murdered, thousands of
children with amputations, and over 70,000 orphans. And your so
called Board of “Peace” has done nothing to stop war and is planning
to oversee the very profitable reconstruction and take over of Gaza.
One can only guess who all will get those blood money contracts, the
Epstein class and associates.
And let’s talk about the basics that every single US presidents
supposed to guarantee to its citizens. Affordable cost of living and
affordable fuel in which you have 100% failed to deliver and actually
driven inflation and irresponsibly driven the cost of gasoline and diesel
to record high levels.
So did you do something wrong?
Yes in summary, YOU are the snake that you warned us all about in the
poem you read over and over.
You never cared about putting America first or making America great
again.
You are the deep state, the Epstein class, and America last.
And my mistake was supporting you in the first place.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I think this crop of the photo gives the message of what I wanted to say better, somehow #SilentSunday

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

India House Edinburgh, before the renovation. Arched windows within an arch. #FensterFreitag

Looking out from a dark landing, onto a stairwell lit by lovely arched windows and a single globe ceiling lamp.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

India House in Edinburgh before the renovation. No idea what it looks like now. #FensterFreitag

Interior stairwell of India House, Edinburgh. View looking upwards towards skylight. Two globe lamps.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

This inappropriate, contaminated soil (spread out over a whole farm) killed all life in a river and the whole lake it empties into. Worth reading this article for insight into how the Environmental Agency in England and local councils are toothless against polluters. #ecocide

On my first visit to Furnace Book, in April 2025, large heaps of what looked
like soil and manure were clearly visible on the lower fields of Morgans Farm.
Jack has seen them up close. “The heaps were a very, very low grade of kind
of compressed clay topsoil, sort of slag mixed with chunks of ceramic, red
brick, tarmac scalpings - which are toxic to aquatic life and have to be
controlled and licensed in their storage and their implementation on
farmland, according to the government’s own laws. There was a lot of plastic
refuse in there, plasterboard, all sorts of foreign objects, which I would not
consider to be a clean, acceptable level to be putting all over permanent
pasture in a protected landscape.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/24/furnace-book-east-sussex-fishing-lake

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I feel offended beyond all words by politicians who have been wrongly advised that voters don't care about having a liveable planet. Stop with the climate "hushing". Looking at you, @ScottishGreens and @SNP #LeaveItInTheGround

This calls into question the strategy of “climate hushing” that some
Democrats in the US - and even progressive politicians in other countries -
have embraced, amid a widespread perception that voters care only about
the cost of living.

According to the Potential Energy Coalition polling, that is not the case:
about two-thirds of people in the US believe that if public officials refuse to
acknowledge the reality of global heating, they are putting people at risk. A
similar number said societies could not prepare for extreme weather if they
were not willing to talk about the climate crisis.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

€200 billion for "AI" and no money for building out sustainable energy and insulating buildings better.

- Mobilising €200 billion for Al innovation through
InvestAl and Al gigafactories.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. I love the three layers: the fish under the water; the reflections of the sky through the windows above and the water plants floating on the surface. #SilentSunday

Looking down at a pond in a greenhouse. You can see two big golden carp - one is looking at the viewer - and some soft green water plants. The water is very dark.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

I was digging through a drawer looking for something and came across my third and fourth mobile phones. The company I was working for bought me the Motorola - it was one of the most expensive phones at that time, and had a primitive form of email called WAP […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Front of two late 1990s mobile phones, a Motorola Timeport and an HTC semi-smart phone.

Back of two late 1990s mobile phones, a Motorola Timeport and an HTC semi-smart phone.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Big climate demonstration going on in Stockholm today. [photo Patrick Svensson]

View over Sergelstorg in central Stockholm. It is packed with people activating for society to stop disrupting the Earth's climate, which we are all dependent on.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

William Gibson mentioned this Bowie song in his stream today, and how it had risen up in his mind. I was not familiar with it, but now I see the lyrics I understand why it feels topical. Five Years, by David Bowie:

Pushing through the market square
So many mothers sighing (sighing)
News had just come over
We had five years left to cry in (cry in)
News guy wept and told us
Earth was really dying (dying)
Cried so much his face was wet
Then | knew he was not lying (lying)

| heard telephones, opera house, favorite melodies
| saw boys, toys, electric irons and TV's
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
| had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat, skinny people
And all the tall, short people
And all the nobody people
And all the somebody people
| never thought I'd need so many people

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

The repression of all beings who are not white males is one of the incentives that propel patriarchies. The chain of violence often starts with cruelty to animals, moves on to women, children, people of colour, the neurodiverse and people with non-standard sexuality.

Partial screenshot (leaves out the video)

reply: @ Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com

This is because domestic violence is a plank in the far-right platform—
not a coincidence, not a correlation, but the result of a concerted effort
to live and govern such that it is easier for men to beat their wives and
children, a goal the far right believes in and strives for

Original post: @nothoodlum.bsky.social - 10h
The man endorsed by Sarah Huckabeast in this video is Arkansas state Rep.
Austin McCollum.
McCollum was arrested today on charges of aggravated assault against a
family or household member, first-degree false imprisonment, and third-
degree domestic battery.
www.nwaonline.com/news/2026/au...

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

@straphanger I was looking at these old photos of NYC, and I was struck by there being no overhead "wires" for the streetcars to draw power from. Were they taking it from the rails somehow? From circa 1907.

Vintage photo of Macy's in New York. Lots of trams, no cars.

Slightly later photo of Macy's, with new tower in the background.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I was trying to enjoy my lunch at a place in Glasgow, but Dr Who kept staring at me! #FensterFreitag

Large cut out figure of David Tenant in a 12-paned sash and case window.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

This is a cool sentence for English learners to practice on:

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Felicity Hannah ©

@felicityhannah.bsky.social
My son just told me is favourite sentence is:
“I didn't say we should kill him”
because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning
20:51 14 Jul 2026

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