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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
@ObsidianUrbex it’s just like the 1970’s all over again.
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social good luck!
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅 www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1w… #pervertglasses
A bin with some ad busting layover stuck to it. Under the ray ban and Meta logo it reads "smart glasses amnesty bin" next to a pictogram of a person throwing the glasses into a bin. 

Further text reads: Wearing hidden camera glasses massively increases the likelihood of people thinking you're a nonce

DROP THEM IN AND WALK AWAY WITH WHAT'S LEFT OF YOUR DIGNITY
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Anna Lighthouse Emoji @venite.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Non-Dutch friends often ask me how it’s possible that everyone has a bike here. It’s very easy. You just try a few of your friends’ bikes, then pick the one you like best, take a cutting, and grow it to the size you prefer. #cycling
Three Dutch style bikes in a rack, overgrown with vines and leaves
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My latest for @newscientist.com
Two scientists walk past numerous enormous shelves, each divided into sections containing a huge array of weird items. One says:
“We still don't know what any of this is, where it came from, or what it does, but you have to admit we've shelved it all beautifully.”
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
Kudos to the Guardian for this description
Who’s leading them?
Its leader is Daniel Thomas, better known as Danny Tommo, the right-hand-man of the far-right extremist, fraudster and violent criminal Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – who wants people to call him Tommy Robinson.
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026
*It's not much of a story (although it's factual), but that is a great pop-science headline www.independent.co.uk/news/science/…
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
@roxiqt.com
@roxiqt

People who prefer ketchup over mustard are annoying because as soon as you say you like mustard, they go on and on about how much they hate it. Like, okay. You have the same flavor palette you had when you were 5 but that doesn't mean you should insult what I put in my coffee.
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026
BALKONKRAFTWERK
Mocked up album cover for "BALKONKRAFTWERK" with the band Kraftwerk on a brutalist concrete balcony. The building is monochrome; the band is wearing red shirts; the title font is dot matrix.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If there is one thing that could induce us to kill each other, it's the conflict-driven business model of the big social media companies. When will the government insist that a harmonious society is more important than their goddamn profits?
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026
@ObsidianUrbex that looks like a painting. Beautiful.
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Bob Downie @geomannie.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026
A timely safety reminder from Natalie Horberg 🤔 #roadsafety #drivinglaw
Cartoon of two women in car front seats. In front of them is a modern touch screen typical of modern cars. Caption is of the passenger saying to the driver "Remember it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead use the giant iPad built into the car".
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026
Several years of Deutsche Bahn business travel taught me something unexpected: eventually you stop fighting the system and start learning its moods, failure domains, and hidden virtues. I wrote down the practical folklore that actually helps: apps, routing habits, delay survival, seat choices […]
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ImaCrea @imacrea.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@rasterweb/11654283… > " I never expected to find my news from strangers on a federated social network that half the internet has never heard of. [...] But there's something quietly beautiful about a place where people just... share what they know. No brand […]
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026
@Codeberg I’ve been trying to create my first codeberg repo today but just keep getting 500 server timeout errors. So then i tried to raise an issue. Guess what happened when i clicked submit - yes, a 500 timeout error! Any ideas please? (In settings/account, i see “Activated” beside my email […]
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Clianthus 🏴‍☠️ :verified: @clianthus.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026
Here's a newly stitched murderpillar to start your Friday. You can find the pattern online for free if you search "murderpillar" and look for images. I made some slight changes to the text and left out the lower border. I went for 18 count fabric but the text […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]
An unframed cross-stitch. Text, in black thread reads "one sunny Sunday the caterpillar hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry .... And then the murders began"
Along with the text is stitched a caterpillar in the style of Eric Carle's The Very hungry Caterpillar, with the body made of various shades of green, the head a burnt orange colour with blue/purple antenna.
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Doreen32128 ready to rumble! @doreen32128.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
The US President is praising Allah and the President of Iran is defending the Pope. Welcome to 2026.
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026
"Disable your ad blocker to read this article." Nah. <Closes Tab>
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
#retrocomputing #daisywheel I have a TextWriter that I love. It has a centronics port and accepts and prints raw ASCII. I used to have it booked up to a Windows pc via a usb converter and it printed just fine using the windows raw text driver. Now I’ve moved over to Apple and it will not work […]
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
#retrocomputing #daisywheel I have a TextWriter that I love. It has a centronics port and accepts and prints raw ASCII. I used to have it booked up to a Windows pc via a usb converter and it printed just fine using the windows raw text driver. Now I’ve moved over to Apple and it will not work […]
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
With windows it would print whatever text there was in whatever you sent it, so it worked fine with eg. Word documents. Looking for similar functionality. Currently thinking of setting up a small windows server to act as a print driver, and sending prints to that from the apples. Not sure if […]
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026
Do you have opinions about robots? Are robots good, or bad? How many robots do you have? Do robots exist?
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026
Good lord! Didn’t know notepad could do that! Huge apologies to @csilverman for the bad plagiarism.  
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026
Hooray! 🎉
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026
Just deactivated my twitter (x) account. Haven’t used it for years but just left it hanging. Now it’s gone altogether.
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Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥 @saraislet.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026
Please — and I can't believe I have to say this — please do not lick your employees.
Margin note in red: "please do _not_ lick your employees"

How then can you be sure you are being truly heard? What techniques can you employ? Is it enough to have your subordinate paraphrase your words? I don't think so. What you must do is employ all of your sensory capabilities. To make sure you're being heard, you should watch the person you are talking to. Remember, the more complex the issue, the more prone communication is to being lost. Does your subordinate give appropriate responses to what you are saying? Does he allow himself to receive your message? If his responses — verbal and nonverbal — do not completely assure you that what you've said has gotten through, it is your responsibility to keep at it until you are satisfied that you have been heard and understood. 

This is what I mean by listening: employing your entire arsenal of sensory capabilities …
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025
@0xabad1dea I’m living in the future, me!
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tomek @tomek.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025
This is my flag. It stands for unity, freedom, peace, democracy, equality, civilization, diversity, rule of law, science, beauty and strength. There is nothing more important to fight for. #eu #europe
Flag of EU
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!

Title: The street tom waits grew up on. 
Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. 
Caption:
Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025
AI World Clocks: clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)
clocks.brianmoore.com
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 15/11/2025
@strypey the Beano is pretty good.
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025
That point on, as an English person, Lea ing a bar in Germany and you slip between saying tschüss and cheers and end up just saying cheese
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025
THIS.
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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025
War ravaged Portland
The famous unicycling Darth Vader on a bridge in Portland. He is playing flaming bagpipes.
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Tomasz Oryński @torynski.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/1825/sep/… I love that info on the top: THIS ARTICLE IS MORE THAN 200 YEARS OLD :) #Railway200 #railway #trains #media
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Stockton and Darlington Railway
The first commercial use of the railways
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025
Now that’s graphic design!
A poster advertising cask ale “You cannot recreate me at home YOU MUST COME TO THE PUB”
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Fluffy Kitty Cat @fluffykittycat.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025
bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projec… The free web will never die so long as we never give up
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025
Pretty impressed with the Barbican. #london #barbican
Internal view of the Barbican, lots of orange carpet and concrete.
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Linux Is Best @linux.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025
Looking to leave GitHub? Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg. But wait — it gets better! Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by […]
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
The failure of the government and many Labour MPs to leave X after the 2024 riots suggests they just don't get the challenge they face or the power they have to fight back. Completely weak and callow.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.
We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices.
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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025
Kiddo: why do you put the full year with "20" at the front when you sign the school forms? Me: _thousand-yard Y2K stare_
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Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist @drmaddkap.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025
“Soup of the Day” implies another, possibly more seductive, Soup of the Night.
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MarkN @markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025
@skribe I don’t read much SF now, but since you ask, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
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