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"Alien": "Advice Loudly Ignored; Everyone Neutralised"

Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I've read loads of Jack Reacher novels in airports and planes over the years. The Jack Reacher series has been good - even if we haven't had book 2. Yet. Just binged the Neagley series. Not bad. Hope it continues.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Why is it cis and trans women and not cisters and transisters?

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OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 30/09/2026

Faster map tile updates for mappers isn't the only win. 🌍💚 The #Mapnik improvements also save us around 10kWh of electricity on a typical weekday. That extra efficiency has also given us enough headroom to postpone hardware upgrades. 🚀

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Dentists today: "See! We are real doctors!"

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Are you a US citizen who can vote but you aren't registered to vote? Are you embarrassed you didn't get around to it? Couldn't be bothered because the US political landscape is ... well we can all see it, I get it. Get registered and vote this time. Do it as a prank. Just get it done.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Unpopular movie takes: In Arrival, General Shang convinces himself. In The Sixth Sense, Anna literally came second when Malcolm explained what he was doing.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

For those of you who remember Izzy from Irish Twitter or from her work for a better Ireland, her mother passed away this week and was a pioneering force in her own right […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

If you had heart palpitations and were in #Dublin, what public hospital would you go to?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Is it just me or is the Apache project kind of the hospice for open source?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

If I wrote a piece of fan fiction about the CEOs of DHL and FedEx getting together, would that be considered 'shipping regardless of their gender?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

The British royals do a lot of charity stuff. Have they ever done a Chuck Roast for charity?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The person who should be getting the most flack is Robert Kraft, not Ed Sheeran. He's problematic too, but he's not the main problem. I like that Macklemore is trying to point that out.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm taking two TGV trains today. Does tgv stand for train goes va-va-vooooom!

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Just a thought, if the Democratic party spent the next two years investing in Congressional races and state races and didn't run a Presidential candidate, it might actually be a way to reset politics in the US. First, to fix things in the US you require Congress and the States. A cooperative […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The economy is getting so bad for Trump supporters that they are now Klarna-ing the Libs.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Even before I started working as a software engineer, there were conspiracy theories that "the government" was putting backdoors on computers to get information from people. It's been decades now. Has some government department maintained staffing and funding and infrastructure to receive this […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

This week, I heard something that shocked me. In a federal appeals court, lawyers for Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, argued that military retirees were subject to freedom of speech restrictions because of their connection to the military, and that if they didn’t like those restrictions […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

As an only child, I always thought this sibling thing was really hard. Now on day two of my first trip with my sister and her sister and this is super easy. What were you all complaining about?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

If I write a shell script while walking up a dozen steps, have I completed a twelve step program?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Today's deep thought: in atmosphere, the glass is always full. However, if the glass was in a vacuum, would it still be full? Philosophically, can it be a vacuum if it contains a cup? And in terms of physics, wouldn't atoms be constantly escaping from the solid so if could never really be a full […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I think there's a good chance that Talerico will win his Senate race. I also think there will be a depressed Black vote in that race. My worry is that people will draw a set of very stupid conclusions on this. Paxton is a singularly bad candidate and his scandals have gotten too big. That will […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

A knot essentially measures minutes per hour.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Dear #Ireland, Since Trump is visiting here, I'm wondering when the fuel protests will be happening? I've lived here over half my life, but I grew up in the US and as a Yank I feel like I have a duty to go. However, I haven't heard anything since his visit was announced. Obviously the fuel […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

One of the things I find really weird about the cases of Lydia Fairchild and Karen Keegan is that we have no idea how common tetragametic chimerism is. The former came out of a DNA test in a paternity case - not hugely common across the whole population. The latter was for a kidney transplant […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Found myself watching the last episode of The Queen's Gambit. The scene where Beth sees Mr Sheibel's shrine to her accomplishments always wrecks me. I think it's pretty common that as a kid you don't necessarily understand the kindness and hope that some adults in your life have for you. The […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Am I the only Gen Xer who was disappointed when he actually saw a real road runner? Like, they're not terrible birds, but the Looney Tunes Road Runner just had way more personality.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

The obvious problem of a handheld phaser is power and energy density. But it's also thermal management. So not only do they need an incredibly dense battery, they need to dissipate heat. However, if there was a way to soak up heat and store it in the battery, you might be able to have a ray gun […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

TIL: "lord" is derived from "loaf ward" and "lady" is derived from "loaf maker". This amuses me.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

The US Fed is going to raise interest rates in September. Trump is going to go ape shit. Betrayal completely unhinges him.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

If you live in the US, please file bug reports if Google Maps gets a place name wrong.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@rfceditor/11717515… Just curious, why? RDAP is a replacement for whois, right? It serves DNS results?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

This is interesting. This account is making short B&W clips from a contentious open mic night in an LA comedy club. They're all anti-woke crap and the "stars" are some up and coming Gen Z Canadian influencers from #Alberta. Don't know if the account is theirs or someone else. Not sure if it's […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

I don't do anything via fiverr but I signed up a long time ago. Nice to see they're really leaning into neo-feudalism.

As a freelance marketplace, part of our job is to protect you from abusive clients
and other risks, but that protection only works on-platform. We've seen reports
of bad client experiences that, once investigated, happened oft-platform, where
those protections don't apply.

‘That's why moving business off-platform is against our Community
Standards — today we removed hundreds of accounts for doing exactly
that.

‘We'll keep enforcing this policy going forward, for any account, regardless of
level or tenure,

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Looking back, there was a lot of philosophy and ethics in my life growing up. I nearly got a minor in philosophy in university, but it started before then - the consequences of being the son of a nun. Especially since my mom had her quibbles with Catholic ethics. Also because she was a nurse […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Dear Universe, Yes. We get it. 1946 produced some truly lovely people. Can you also take out the trash from that year? Love, The World

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

I have an old laptop that I was thinking of turning into something like a freewriter. I got kmscon working the way I wanted but then couldn't find a good text... receiver? Wordgrinder seemed to have too many features. So I wrote braindump - gitlab.com/lyda/braindump Run it on a file […]

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I'm a grumpy atheist so folks can just ignore this, but if the whole Jesus was a deity thing was real, is there any reason to believe she wouldn't be a trans woman of colour living as an undocumented immigrant in the US? Also, she'd still be Jewish, right?

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

So Farage couldn't go to the count because of security - but the poll workers and other candidates went. And the police said they hadn't warned any candidate away. Just a reminder that people who can't laugh at themselves make terrible, terrible leaders.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Looking at trailers, movies seem to be looking good this year. However a number of them seem set in the 70s. Weird.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Has anyone considered Saoirse Ronan as the next 007? That would be entertaining.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Just a reminder that if you're positive that petrol and diesel prices are high because they're ripping you off, you can switch to an EV and really stick it to them. They're actually high because Trump started a war in Iran, but EVs also screw him and his oil company buddies.

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Kevin Lyda @lyda.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I saw the clip of Matthew Morrison walking in on his girlfriend and another guy on 9/11. My parents got divorced due to my dad cheating, and I had a relationship end that way as well. It's not an experience I'd recommend. It's interesting however that it's usually those who have been cheated on […]

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