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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

I have so much respect for #TheOnion’s actors. The absolute commitment to sincere, deadpan delivery of the most absurd things. Full commitment to the bit. I can do that in little one-off jokes, and it always makes me happy when they get the desired response. But these folks deliver whole […]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Goods gods. I hadn’t seen Koenig for a while… he’s just evaporated in this picture since the last time I saw him, like water on pavement in a Phoenix summer.

A photo of Takai and Koenig sitting next to each other in a diner, smiling at the camera. Takai looks to be in robust health for a man of his age, while Koenig looks nearly skeletal, like he’s in a final illness.

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Disembodied Head Lynch @goatburgler.bsky.social · 18h

People say that the ICC has no legal jurisdiction over the US and Israel because neither has ratified the Rome Statute but I don't think the Nazis signed off on the Nuremberg Trials and that didn't matter.

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h

‘Wildflowers don’t last long and don’t make anyone rich and yet if you heard someone call them “pointless,” you would know with certainty that it was foolishness. Be just as confident in defense of your own intrinsic worth.’ - Jarod K. Anderson, @CryptoNaturalist

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Bodo Tasche @bitboxer.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

All security issues have to wait. I am sorting wooden blocks 😍😍😍. If you also want to do something amazing with your kids in #Berlin: Hamburger Bahnhof has this amazing exhibit until the start of next year.

A group of kids standing in a see of wooden blocks and build walls and other things

A huge hall with steel beams and white walls. It is filled with tons of wooden blocks. People of all ages are playing and building things

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Just Plain Simple BridgeMakes⚪ @bridgemakes.friendsofdesoto.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

Wait, wait, hold up a second. I just found out that lemons are not a natural fruit but a deliberately cultivated hybrid between citron and a bitter orange. Guys! Life didn't give us lemons we made them ourselves!

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

Blocked a disabled Tech Bro that unironically said with his full chest in another thread not by me that LLMs are amazing, and that humans deserve to lose their jobs, and then equated his justification by saying no one cried when washing machines were invented to replace people that washed […]

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Steven Saus [he/him] @stevensaus.faithcollapsing.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

LibreOffice Rescues Microsoft Users With Abandoned PUB Files Microsoft’s exit from desktop publishing puts decades of documents at risk. Free software offers a path forward. #libreoffice #open-source #scribus #standards #the-document-foundation […] [Original post on faithcollapsing.com]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

I hate this endless turning of scifi and fantasy literature into capitalist IP farms, increasingly divorced from their source material. Rings of Power was worse, though. 🤨

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

“Because you watched Heartstopper Forever…”, Netflix suggests The Boys In The Band. Ok, now you’re just taking the piss. “You liked this sweet, cozy show? Then you’ll love this cesspit of raw human misery! It has gay guys! 😁👍” You can fuck *all* the way off with that suggestion, Netflix. 😡

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

“Because you watched Heartstopper Forever…”, Netflix suggests The Handmaid’s Tale. Are you serious? I know the HS movie had that irritating 3rd Act Breakup, but it was hardly Handmaid’s Tale level of unpleasant. FFS, Netflix, do better! 🙄

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

“Charles, it’s Amy Acton reaching out to you for the first time.” I have deleted, and reported as spam, easily a dozen of your messages and emails, and possibly more. Once more, you lie like an Ape.

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Mark H @neonbubble.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Supermarkets should automatically apply a 10% discount to your bill the first time you shop there after they've moved stuff around to compensate for you wandering up and down aisles wondering where the fuck the potatoes are now.

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Amazon tells me they’ve added a bunch of audio books to Kindle Unlimited — cool, sure — and also changed the name of the service to “Kindle+”. I get that everyone’s doing “+” now, from “ESO Plus” to “Disney+”, so whatever I guess. But it’s weird to add a bunch of stuff but then reduce the […]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish? Expert: No, software is constantly evolving. Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years? Expert: No […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Can we elect him President? Just make the US Canada’s 11th province and have done with it. Much less stress all around.

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Rain雨, the Radical Dame~ @reignofraining.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

This feels fitting after the past few days~ :woozy_baa:

A picture of a wizard looking towards the stars and the sun setting behind some mountains with the caption "sorry I missed your text I am processing a nonstop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berried in a cave"

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

The text message comes in, much like the hundreds before it: “It’s Amy Acton. My team just flagged you for me as a top Democratic grassroots supporter. "That’s why I’m not reaching out to everyone today. Instead, I’m specifically texting you, Charles. 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘵 […]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Thank gods this is just fiction from a video game, and not something that could ever occur in real life! 😅

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Security through obscurity is a terrible principle but in practice a lot of things didn't get hacked bc people ignored them, or didn't know they existed, or just generally got missed. AI makes it easy to probe all of these things at scale + makes it easier to find/develop exploits

But it has become clear that AI, broadly defined, has fundamentally changed both offensive hacking and defensive cybersecurity. This is not because AI has become sentient or because human beings have lost control of it or because of “swarms” of “rogue agents,” but because AI is proving something that we have always known: much of the software that runs the internet, our devices, our accounts, and our lives is vulnerable, or out of date, or has security flaws that human beings never noticed, or was installed by someone at a company who left the company six years ago and has been replaced four times and no one knows how to find them now or how to update it. This doesn’t mean that all of the vulnerabilities that have been found with the help of AI have been obvious or trivial; skilled hackers and researchers, driving AI tools, seem to be better than humans alone at finding vulnerabilities. But, critically, AI and large language models have made it extremely easy to essentially brute force the internet; if every piece of software is a door, AI makes it exceptionally easy to turn turn the knobs of every door to see if it’s unlocked, even on buildings that human beings had never really bothered to try to open. What we are learning at an alarmingly fast pace is that not only are some of the locks easy to pick, in some cases the door is wide open or there’s a giant hole in the wall. The recent spate of people using AI to hack their internet of things devices to run new software shows that, in some cases, it takes essentially no expertise to actually use AI to hack something.

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

I have to confess, people “not being Christian enough” was not a problem that I’d expected that we’d have. Which was naive of me, since it’s been true in the west for most of 2,000 years.

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

This reminds me of Richard Bach’s There’s No Such Place As Far Away. Ostensibly a children’s book, but very much not. a.co/d/00BLtGIJ

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Hunter King @hunterking.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Exploit my site and you have ZERO chance of being invited to my birthday party. And there will be a pool.

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Chapter 137: In Which I Remind Myself Most Assiduously That Not All Opinions Need Be Expressed Aloud (Nor On Mastodon), No Matter How Passionately They May Be Felt

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 22/10/2026

sorry for the x screenshot but sort of a good synopsis of the days events

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

That point, as you’re coming down off novocaine, when your odds of spraying water out of your mouth after every drink drop below 33%. 👍

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

My dentist has seized on the idea that bruxism (grinding your teeth) is caused by sleeping with your mouth open. (“Is your mouth dry? No? Are you sure?”) She spent time explaining this to me yesterday and, when I went back today to see someone else in her office, I heard her repeat it to another […]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Bethesda released a #Fallout4 DLC that adds some kind of simulated-memory thing where you get a whole bunch of new scenes with your spouse (who died during the prologue sequence). This is *not* an inducement to play the game again. I spent so much time building head canon to justify that […]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

While I’m deeply suspicious of anything that sounds this much like AIPAC giving ground in the face of their “kiss of death” rep for endorsements – are they just retargeting their efforts to work just as aggressively behind the scenes? – still, it shows a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of a social media post from Jewish Insider reporter “Marc Rod”, which includes a photo of a person holding an AIPAC info folder and the text:

"SCOOP: AIPAC will no longer endorse congressional candidates or earmark donations to congressional campaigns. The group's super PAC,
United Democracy Project, will continue to operate and it will urge members to donate directly to pro-Israel candidates.”

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Felix Hlatky @mellifluousbox.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

If you haven't seen it yet, we have a new forum for user feedback. If you want to share your opinions on the new 5.0 design (or other topics), please submit it there so our team can see and process it. If someone already submitted what you wanted to share, there is an upvote function […]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I’m not really a fan of JRPG-style fighting in games. But this looks very weird and cool. 😁 youtu.be/fsQNtkewRZU?si=-fVnLGEyTx8…

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I wonder if Rick Riordan spent any time computing how many demigods were reasonable to exist in his universe. Like, “X number of gods, 50/50 male/female split, Y% of them horny as hell, Z pregnancies per year…” Because there are a fricken ton of these kids running around and… the sheer number […]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Voting on its own may not get you the results you want, in a system largely captured by malevolence, incompetence, or oligarchic influence. But not voting removes your voice from the electoral system and makes you even easier to ignore. This is true in every electoral system: Israel, the US, or […]

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

there is an old white guy wandering around talking to people about how he is an avid cyclist, he's just not for THESE bike lanes, and how everyone here is not from the neighbourhood, etc., so I showed him my photos of mites and other arthropods and talked about bugs until he excused himself […]

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Me: That’s amazing, my dude, what a wonderful, #cozy goal. I’m super happy for you. Also me: 🤭

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Krutonium:// @krutonium.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Psssst Wanna buy a double strength key?

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Typography: It matters. (And don't forget the kerning!) #weird #typeface #fonts #font #humor #humour

a pumpkin decorated to say "trick or treat" but the font makes trick look like F*uck

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Over half of democrats and over 3/4 of republicans are voting for reasons that have nothing to do with the person they’re voting for. These are terrible reasons. Vote for someone who will try to enact the specific policies you want — or, at worst, will work for more of them than the other guy […]

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

We are sensing a pattern

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Thank gods my friend who talks regularly to ChatGPT isn’t on here, or I’d feel guilty for half of every day.

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