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Matthew Brown is a geeky #writer from Kent (#UK). I #blog lots. I develop with #PHP for the fun of it (and professionally). I think I am funny - puns abound (you […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@lordmatt, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
There are more referers to github.com/curl/curl from mastodon.social than from Bing. Just saying.
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Sean C. @filmfreak75.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
#ThisIsSoStupidButItMadeMeLaugh www.instagram.com/p/DWJgw4NDPRn
A creative LEGO mashup creation shared by the account "brothersbrickofficial," combining Thomas the Tank Engine with the 1989-era Batmobile.

The vehicle rests on a light surface and features the sleek, elongated body of the classic Batmobile, but rendered in Thomas's signature bright blue with red side and hood striping and yellow accents on the front bumper. 

Instead of the Batmobile's iconic jet turbine nose, the front features a brick-built gray face of Thomas the Tank Engine with large expressive eyes, raised black eyebrows, and an open-mouthed grin.

Behind the front fenders, the long streamlined chassis extends back to a dark gray cockpit roof structure and rear bat-fin style tail wings. The vehicle has rubber wheels with silver and red-accented rims.

At the bottom center, a plain black title caption reads "Thomas the Batmobile". 

The black top header shows the account username "brothersbrickofficial" next to a green LEGO brick icon and a music credit reading "Thomas & Friends, Mattel · Thomas The...".
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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
Well, that pretty much is going to gut their sales. The kids use AI as sobriquet for bullshit and crap
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Sean C. @filmfreak75.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
#ThisIsSoStupidButItMadeMeLaugh we all know at least one person who triggers this reaction… www.instagram.com/p/DW2K98amUBB
Digital illustration shared by the social media account "darkmoodstudio," featuring a grumpy cartoon black cat against a muted blue-gray textured background.

The black cat sits upright facing forward, glaring directly ahead with an annoyed expression, narrowed yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a raised curved tail. In its right paw, it holds a small white teacup emitting wisps of steam.

Arched over the top of the cat in bold black serif letters is the phrase:

"YOU SMELL LIKE DRAMA," 

while below the feline, centered on two straight lines, the caption finishes: 

"AND A HEADACHE PLEASE GET AWAY FROM ME".

Along the black header at the top of the post, the account username "darkmoodstudio" appears alongside a verified blue checkmark and a circular profile badge reading "Teezy Carnival".
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Sean C. @filmfreak75.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
#ThisIsSoStupidButItMadeMeLaugh the CEOs have some explaining too do… www.instagram.com/p/DbjpWz6NFRI
A humorous digital graphic shared by Instagram account "chriscostello.design" satirizing AI tech branding.

At the top, bold serif text asks: 

"Why Do AI Company Logos Look Like Buttholes?" 

with "AI Company Logos" emphasized in an italicized blue font.

Below the headline, a row of five cute cartoon cats stand with their backs facing the viewer, tails raised, looking backward over their shoulders with wide, sweet eyes. 

In place of their anatomy, each cat displays a well-known AI logo centered on its rear:

A gray tabby cat with a multicolor circular ring logo (Meta AI).

A light-orange cat with a black spiral swirl logo (Mistral / Cohere style).

A small calico cat with the interlocking black spiral emblem of OpenAI.

A solid black cat with a multi-rayed starburst/sunburst logo (Perplexity AI).

A white cat with black spots sporting an orange asterism flower/spark logo (Anthropic Claude).

The background is a clean, pale off-white, and the upper black header displays the poster's username "chriscostello.design" next to a circular profile picture.
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Sean C. @filmfreak75.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
my various hidden disabilities make stuff like this rage inducing for a variety of reasons… …and since daily life is rage inducing enough lately, i’ll need to back burner this for a bit
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Sean C. @filmfreak75.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
#ThisIsSoStupidButItMadeMeLaugh schools would look for a way to ban them www.instagram.com/p/DXAdFUeksrl
"An absurd, surrealist meme shared by the account "nocontext.jar," pairing an iconic children's book illustration with bizarre text.

The background features a watercolor illustration reminiscent of Marcus Pfister's classic picture book, "The Rainbow Fish." 

Set against misty, layered shades of ocean blue, several aquatic creatures swim together, led by a fish adorned with sparkling, multicolored scales. 

Surrounding it are other soft-toned fish, including a pale blue fish with large black eyes at the top right and a small yellow-green fish below.

Superimposed directly over the center in large, bold white lowercase letters with heavy black drop shadows is the jarring question: 

"what if nipples clicked in and out like pens"

Along the black header bar at the very top, the account username "nocontext.jar" is shown next to an avatar image and a music tag reading "Tobu · Candyland (Zushi&Vanko Remix)...""
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
A win today for the Greens at least, beating Reform as the Tories collapse #UKPol #UKpolitics #ReformUK #Greens #GreenParty #GPEW
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
from etsy "big phone scary"
a classic brick 80s cell phone. It's has been categorized as "retro Halloween decor"
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Saustrup @saustrup.mstdn.dk.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I fell for the Booking.com WhatsApp scam today. There has apparetly been a #databreach at #bookingcom, which provides a little bit of truth to this "please verify your credit card now" scam. They knew my name, my phone number, the hotel I was staying at and the exact dates. That, a little bit of […]
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Deep Space 90210 @ds90210.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Garak: If you wouldn’t trust their advice then don’t trust their criticism
Garak: If you wouldn’t trust their advice then don’t trust their criticism
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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
October is off to a humiliating start. #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #october #pumpkin #humor #humour
a cat looking very grumpy after its hooman balanced a tiny pumpkin (gourd) on its head
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Michel Patrice @michelpatrice.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
#AOC #Climate #Climatechange
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Just put my homemade cosmic microwave background rug over the baby’s crib
A homemade latch hook rug of the cosmic microwave background map, hung on a rod over a crib
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Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) @lordmatt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
I'm in a coffee shop trying to think. How the eff does any writer work in this noise
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Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) @lordmatt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
I had a huge panic last night when my #phone refused to charge. It is an #HMD so I was confident it was fixable but at 17% battery, I was not looking forward to my homeward trip today. Fortunately I had #WiFi; I googled the problem; the fix was: Plug it in and restart it. I have no idea why […]
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That Guy You Read On Accident @otakureview.urusai.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Irony: one of my daily sources of anxiety is being unable to open my bottle of anxiety meds because my hands get too sweaty.
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Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) @lordmatt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
Where do you get your #audiobooks?
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#writesky #amwriting #writesky #writingcommunity #writer #writerreality
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Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) @lordmatt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Effective altruism forgets to take into account inflation. A quick net present value calculation would show that investing in societal good now would be more valuable than in twenty years mostly because twenty years of compounding good is a heck of a lot.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/
A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."
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Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) @lordmatt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Drinking coffee to chill and kill some time might not have been the right choice. Now I feel like doing things.
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Frank Sonderborg @fsonder.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
It means no worries for the rest of your days
Name the compound:
HCOONa   Handwritten text in image:Matata
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Sean C. @filmfreak75.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
@autistics #ActuallyAutistic www.instagram.com/p/DcivPPYDbG8
A comforting digital illustration about personal pace and life expectations, framed at the top with an Instagram header for the verified account jess.a.creates.

Against a soft peach-pink background, an illustrated orange tabby cat dressed as an RPG warrior adventurer sits cross-legged on the ground. 

The cat wears a blue helmet with ear cutouts, pauldrons, leather armor straps, wristbands, a sword sheathed on its back, and holds a small round shield. It looks upward with a wide-eyed, innocent, and slightly bewildered expression. Spread out beneath its paws is an opened grid map marked with dotted trails and a red "X".

Above the cat, dark hand-drawn text inside four stacked, rounded white rectangular speech bubbles reads:

"You are not behind.
there is no map
and everyone is
pretending there is."

A small boxed watermark for @jess.a.creates sits in the lower right next to the map corner.
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Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) @lordmatt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026
A little while ago, I wrote a blog post brainstorming new and interesting potential uses for #Webmention mostly because I think #Webmentions are cool and more people should play with them […]
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Dan Peterson - Latent Mirror @latentmirror.com · 25/09/2026
The last version of Hobby Hero had an LLM write every hockey game - box score, three stars and a story, 20 times a matchup. It read like the real thing and cost like it too, so I shut it down. The rebuild is plain math: a goal model per team, fed recent form […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Hobby Hero artifact preview from Latent Mirror
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Via our friends at @bremaininspain.wsocial.eu #BrexitDisastee #RejoinEU
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
List of Book Marketing Scammers #bookmarketingscam #writingcommunity #author #writing #amwriting #writer #writerslife #indieauthor #shortstory #authors #amediting #fiction #booksky inventingrealityediting.com/2...
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Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos @jimsphotos.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Blue tit #nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
a small yellow and blue woodland bird
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Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#authorhabits #writers #authors #writeaway #writinglife
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Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos @jimsphotos.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Eurasian Robin #nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
a small red breasted woodland bird
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Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos @jimsphotos.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Wren #nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
a small brown woodland bird
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Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) @lordmatt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
My blog's #ActivityPub powered posts have stopped showing up for me on mastodon.social and some other instances too. Does anyone have any guesses or ideas as to why?
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
🆕 blog! “Are LLMs still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks?” Last year I ran an experiment to test the ability of modern LLMs to correctly answer a relatively straightforward question. Every single one of them got it wrong. Some missed information, some made up false statements, none were […]
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Matt 🔶 (LordMatt) @lordmatt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
If I keep on getting older, the only dating site for people my age will be carbon dating.
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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
It's another brotherly #caturday! #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #humor #humour
a grey cat squishing an orange cat inside a shoebox
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
The single largest emitter of methane is Energy Transfer in Louisiana www.theguardian.com/environment/202…
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US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis
Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.
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Joshua "Headless" Byrd 🎃 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
Shout out to this project. "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost." Absolutely incredible. standardebooks.org
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Pizza Cake Comic [Unofficial] @pizzacakecomic.com.web.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
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KrissyKat @krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
The sky is trans 🏳️‍⚧️
The sky looks like a trans flag
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low (SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe — neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn, when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago. What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]
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Jesper Kamstrup Linnet @jesper-linnet.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Happy slightly tired #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold
Closeup of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) sitting on a terrace floor on a sunlit spot. He is slightly hunched over, eyes closed, looking somewhat tired. He is starting to build up his winter floof (but we're still far from peak floof).Closeup of a grey Siberian cat (Knold) sitting on a terrace floor. He is sitting a bit more upright than the first photo, and his eyes are now narrow slits. The floof is more evident on this picture due to his more majestic posture.Closeup of a floofy grey Siberian cat (Knold) sitting on a terrace floor next to a chair. He is sitting upright with his front towards the camera, eyes still quite narrow.
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Chris Lombardi @chrisaintmarchin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
Cancer-striken Joe Biden stands for hours as Trump dozes off during 9/11 memorials - Irish Star www.irishstar.com/news/politics/can…
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Cancer-striken Biden stands for hours as Trump dozes off during 9/11 memorial
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden were compared as both attended seperate September 11 memorial ceremornies, with many pointing out Trump's closed eyes
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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
#Dragon vs. #lion. Hours of Jean de Montauban, Bretagne ca. 1450. Rennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1834, fol. 79r. #medieval #MedievalArt
#Dragon vs. #lion. Hours of Jean de Montauban, Bretagne ca. 1450. Rennes, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 1834, fol. 79r.
#medieval #MedievalArt
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