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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

And yet the people who do the rescuing are all volunteers in the UK. People who go to the aid of others without question, and without asking anything in return. They are the best of us.

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

On shore wind turbines are the cheapest and quickest form of new wind energy we have available. Some people may object to them on asthetic grounds, but we have to decarbonise our energy supply and insulate it from the whims of the fossil fuel markets. This needs to go ahead despite local […]

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Chris Meder @evcurvefuturist.com · 29/09/2026

Plug-in #EV share of new passenger-car sales/registrations around August 2026, counting BEVs + PHEVs/EREVs. The remarkable thing isn’t Norway approaching 100%. It’s who else is on the list. Different continents. Different incomes. Different grids. Different governments. Same technological S-curve.

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I will not be calling AI "superior" no matter what Trump has to say about it. I hope he's roundly ignored by the industry and public. I think SI should be reserved for Sentient Intelligence, if / when that day comes. ( Shout out to Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton ) #AI #Trump

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\ˈthē-ˈˈärd-ˌvärk\ @theaardvark.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

I just failed to type the letter "o" in the word encounter and invented a whole new word with a myriad of possible uses.

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I was very happy to read this today. IPP sentences (indefinite detention) have been a bloody stain on the UK justice system for too long. A fuck up driven by rigid legislative wording in the Criminal Justice Act 2003, which mandated a statutory "presumption of dangerousness" eliminated judicial […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Feeling more than a little schadenfreude at the news Milo Yiannopoulos got snatched by #ICE and deported, given he was a vocal advocate for doing the same to others. Only downside, he's back in the UK now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/au… […]

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Dave Robinson @dave.europhiles.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Not bad for a five year old Kia e-Niro with 52,000 miles (83,000km) of wear on the battery.

An image of a car dashboard display showing 100% battery charge and a projected range of 314 miles.

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

OpenAI is cutting off model access to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX, citing a fundamental lack of trust. OpenAI explicitly stated it cannot be confident Elon Musk’s companies will respect its terms of service, pointing to past contract and usage violations by xAI and X […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

With all the devastating news about Nepal today and remembrance posts for Dolly, I completely missed that we also lost Tim Curry yesterday too. Another household name that will long be remembered for his great performances and all the fun and laughs he shared #TimCurry […]

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Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping techcrunch.com/2026/08/25/x-sends-c…

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🍉 –Hans Bot– 🙃 @hansbot.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@verge/117161538517… Tax the tokens. When they add value, VAT is appropriate indeed

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

RT @brianoneill.bsky.social Honestly, if this somehow wrecks Mar-a-Lago a lot of long-held beliefs I have about the afterlife will be hastily reconsidered.

Southern Maryland Weather Center
@SOMDWXCENTER

Hurricane Dolly now has a high chance of forming in the Tropical Atlantic.

In an unbelievable coincidence, Dolly is the next name on the Atlantic hurricane list, and country music legend Dolly Parton passed away today at age 80 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Invest 96L currently has a 70% chance of development as it moves across the Tropical Atlantic.

If this system becomes a tropical storm, it will be named Dolly.

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@hkrn/1171525593697622… Even the Chinese aren't immune to grifters spreading misinformation.

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@flipboarduk/technolo… In other news, all Pixel 11s shatter when you hit them with a sledgehammer.

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Trump & Epstein: Biz partners. @mugsysrapsheet.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

"If a #DEI hire" is someone who got the job despite being qualified to do the job, then we'd just described the entire T**** White House." 👍

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

The raccoon has returned. #picaTheCat was displeased. I'd been putting off putting a motion sensing light in the roof garden, but I'm not putting it off anymore. I live seven floors up in NYC this is not what I'd expect. But, they can climb from a tree to the […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

Pica looks at the raccoon through the glass door. Her ears are back. We only knew it was there because she was hissing.

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

After publishing the results of Discovery Week, we can now give you a first sneak peak at Mastodon 5.0, our next big version. It will bring a new visual look to your screens, a refreshed and calmer layout, as well as a new composer […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Federal Agent Shoots Man in #Minneapolis, Prompting Tense #Protests The agent shot a Venezuelan man who was resisting arrest, an official said. Protesters & law enforcement officers clashed for hours, as city officials urged people to go home. #Trump #law #Constitution #CivilRights […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title:
Who is Haunting The Library of Forbidden Tomes?

Image: five panels showing characters in a gothic library

22% - tormented souls, frozen between life and death (a ghost reading a book)
4% - dank, fetid horrors from the icy depths below (a black slug like creature with a single eyestalk reading a book)
15% - cold, lifeless bones possessed by a corrupt sorcery (a skeleton reading a book)
11% - frigid and malevolent ectoplasmic vapours (a shapeless apparition reading a book)
48% - regular readers happy to away from the heatwave
(A mother, small child and toddler in buggy, all reading books)

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@flipboarduk/technolo… What's stopping Apple from putting Chinese memory chips in products produced and sold outside the US, and reserving local chip production for local sales?

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Roasting House Coffee @roastinghouse.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

#whatisit ? Out for a walk, these splodges started to appear in the dusty dry ground. Anyone know? Location: South #Yorkshire, UK

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

“Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best – ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.” Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, former astronaut and test pilot, let's fly at Trump's order to force the Navy to abandon electromagnetic Carrier catapults in favour of STEAM power. What's next […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Over one in four people in Clacton would rather have Count Binface as their MP than the leader of Reform UK. 100x more votes than he got against Andy Burnham. 👍🏼 Farage was so scared of being photoed next to a 🗑️ he didn't even turn up for the count results […] [Original post on mastodon.me.uk]

Count Binface says he's winner among candidates 'who bothered to turn up'

Count Binface has taken to social media to declare:

I came first in the Clacton byelection! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results.

The self-declared “entirely independent space warrior” who emerged as Farage’s strongest challenger – aka comedian Jon Harvey – also said in his “victory speech” posted on X:

Well a new dawn has broken, has it not? Literally, because it’s past 6.30 in the morning here in Clacton-on-Sea.

Citing the 9,455 votes he received at the poll, Binface said that just eight weeks ago in the Makerfield byelection he got 95.

That means, I’ve got – against Nigel Farage – 10,000% more votes than I got against Andy Burnham. What does that tell you?

Well it tells you that Nigel, who said that he didn’t want to be humiliated, maybe has been. As for me, I’m over the moon – I’m over your moon, I’m over my moons – and what comes next, well we shall see.

But you know what, we know this for a fact: over one in four people in this constituency would rather have Count Binface as their MP than the leader of Reform UK. And I’m just getting started.

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Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

X open sources its ranking algorithm, letting users see if they’ve been ‘shadowbanned’ techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/x-open-so…

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 13/08/2026

Bit of #minipainting in between switching between 3 different contexts… why this mini today? Oh, no reason… #BinDay

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@hkrn/1170888421105510… If you take any AI generated code and enforce your own style guide, run it though lint or a code beautifier, you're highly likely to change the watermark and make it unrecognisable as originating from any one company. Code is too low entropy […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Sarahp/11707819375… Most Mastodon users at this point are probably a dedicated hard-core group that are intent on sticking around regardless of how other social media spaces change. #mastodon #bluesky

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

`git blame`, or as they say in france, `g'accuse`

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@flipboarduk/uk-gover… The man is smoking something. The French would likely deploy their own navy to block ours. Diplomatic cooperation would collapse and the EU would levy sanctions on us. No regard what so […]

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Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag: @niall.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Some real 100% Electric trucks taking a break from real work. The Yellow Pak'n'Save branded one does a regular route which used to cost $500 per day in diesel. It now costs $80 per day in electricity. 2nd shot shows us about to charge one with our Hikotron DC Charger. #EV #ElectricTrucking #ZeroCO2

Two proper big Electric trucks. One is just a tractor unit, the other has its trailer on.

One proper big electric truck dwarfing our DC Charger and two Tesla EVs

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

We're excited to share the results from Mastodon's first #DiscoveryWeek! In case you missed it, earlier this year our Head of Design @imanijoy arranged a week of workshops and surveys to get to know you, learn about your needs and wants, and discover how you're using (and want to use) Mastodon […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Captured continuously by the AfarTV 4K livestream on Greenland’s west coast, near the entrance to the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Ilulissat Icefjord, this video shows a massive passing iceberg that stops, collapses and rolls over with tremendous force. The entire event unfolds over […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

Should be a quick investigation. We already know Tice has NO standards. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/au… #reform #uk #ukpol

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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 @liztai.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

“I can talk now!” Lecture people about the ethics of using AI all you want, but please do not lecture the disabled. Leave it to them to decide whether they want to use AI or not. I find this story very inspiring. His brother vibe-coded software for his brother. He actually said at one point […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Sarahp/11700987464… Sounds like a scattergun approach to find The Next Big Thing™ Count me out – on principle.

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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 @liztai.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Still can't believe my article was no.1 on Hacker News today! I wanted to tell all my rl friends but only 1% are tech folks like me 🫠 Is this a big deal? I don't know I feel like a little kid who got his essay published in the paper 😆 Article in question […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

RE: mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/1169987001… There's a chance the guy could get 5 years in prison for doing this. Personally I'd rather refuse and let them confiscate my phone than do something that would lead to incarceration. Not that I'm likely to visit the US any time soon. Not […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@hkrn/1169008547246869… I'm sure that's only because they've not been trained on it. And when they are, any messages written now and saved will be easily readable. Not a smart way to hide anything of consequence. #AI

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

RE: mstdn.social/@hkrn/1168584731855497… I loved my Psion. They were so well put together and really useful. Thanks David !

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Google open sources their Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) libraries to support age ID verification. 1. Authenticate your birth date with a trusted authority (the Issuer) and receive a cryptographically signed digital certificate. 2. A website requiring an age ID sends you a random maths puzzle. 3 […]

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Mackaj @mackaj.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

@GreenFire I wonder. If the Earth ever became inhospitable to biological life, and AI was the only legacy we could leave behind, would that be something we should do?

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