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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

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Speaking for others 🧵 | another in my series of "if I had the energy I'd write more about this" | I saw someone link to invidious & someone else said that they were depriving creators of the rewards they are due. I came here direct from a video that I stopped watching at the ad break. I wondered […]

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I finally finished Murderbot season 1. I watched it while house sitting somewhere with Apple TV, but my gig ended days before the last episode aired. I enjoyed it nearly as much as the books. I really hope they make more. #MarthaWells #Murderbot

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

What's currently a good way to generate transcripts from long video/audio files? I tried using the speechrecognition python library and crashed my computer 😂

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

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What to do When you Don't feel ok Rest or push Either way experience tells me that I won't feel ok I read a parenting suggestion that a crying baby often stops when taken outside because the large change in environmental stimuli alters their senses. Accordingly I think I'll try taking a steamy […]

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

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Andor is on my mind again because I just rewatched it all the way through as my boyfriend wanted to see it for his first time. I really enjoyed this video interview with Denise Gough on Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo: youtu.be/V-gdodXHv4U Warning: major Andor spoilers #Andor

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

Something I never thought I'd say: I like when my bed companion snores. I find it reassuring that my tossing and turning isn't inhibiting their rest.

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Flipboard Science Desk @sciencedesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

Global temperature rise may feel like it’s gradual, but the changes it brings can turn out to be sudden, massive, and self-reinforcing. A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. Is it too late to save them? Maybe not. Read more from […]

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

Is it the pain? | "My pain" / "the pain" — it's so much a part of my life I refer to it in generality. Maybe I'll say "chronic (lower) back pain" sometimes, but among those who know me it’s unnecessary. During this time I am learning. I absorb information, often difficult information. I need […]

Micr0byte @micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

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I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice. You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified. Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice […]

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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Still warm from the kiln, covered in warm earth tones—I’m so relieved this piece came out successfully on the other side of firing. I worked on it over the course of a month and remembered to document moments of process which I think I’ll share in a thread […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Me standing in my back yard holding a large pot in front of me with both hands. It borrows its spherical form from Nigerian water vessels and has a short, flared neck. It is about 16” (40cm) in diameter and 14” (36cm) in height.

The pot has been divided laterally into six parts and each section has been decorated with carved lines in alternating patterns: a symmetrical abstract leaf motif and a large double diamond pattern. The colors are dark brick red, olive green, dark purplish brown, dusky pink and aqua. The interior is glazed glossy aqua to reference the water this form would historically have contained.

Behind me is dense foliage and small blue patch of sky. I am smiling and wearing a black and white top and red paints, only partially visible from behind the large pot.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2025

It's Halloween and I forgot to buy candy [dream I just woke up from]

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025

One of the reasons why I vastly prefer local legends to fairy tales is that the former are often set in recognizable real world locations which are fascinating in their own right. For example, I am currently researching a tale about a #dragon , and I just learned that in its #cave there were […]

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coffeepaws @coffeepaws.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

#FungiFriday

An orange tree fungus growing from a piece of wood on the forest floor.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Nonverbal phases. Pain levels interfering with desire to communicate. Minor communication feels unnecessary. I'm visiting my bf. Fortunately he accepts my variability. This visit he's been immersed in his interests & I love that. He showed me a streamer he enjoys. I thought the streamer talked […]

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

One of the most difficult parts in a relationship, I've found, is knowing when to wake someone up when they're sleeping well. Most of the time the answer is NO but sometimes you let them sleep too long & that causes problems. This decision is difficult because it requires interfering with their […]

Stefan Bohacek @fediverse.stefanbohacek.online · 09/10/2025

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Hey fediverse, today is the World Sight Day! How about, as a small gift for the blind and visually impaired folks on here, we step up our alt text game! Visit alttexthalloffame.org to learn why this is important. #AltText #ImageDescriptions #accessibility #WorldSightDay

A chart showing the percentage of the last 35,957 images posted with alt text from various fediverse servers:

beige.party - 100%
jorts.horse - 95%
mastodon.art - 83%
aus.social - 78%
chaos.social - 75%
meow.social - 68%
troet.cafe - 68%
c.im - 67%
hachyderm.io - 67%
mastodonapp.uk - 63%
kolektiva.social - 57%
norden.social - 56%
mamot.fr - 54%
mathstodon.xyz - 54%
piaille.fr - 51%
infosec.exchange - 46%
mastodon.online - 45%

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise. Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctor’s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who aren’t fully vaccinated.

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Etymonline is one of the most underappreciated sole-curator resources on the internet. Its not made by a company, just a very wonderfully lyrical person who does it as a labor of love. www.etymonline.com/columns/post/bio

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Andy Piper @andypiper.org · 06/10/2025

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Hey! I'm talking about Mastodon and the Fediverse at #EmpoderaLIVE on Wednesday. Sadly, I do not speak Spanish, and I'm not very familiar with Spanish-language Fedi spaces. Can you lovely people recommend me some servers to look up & suggest to folks? Gracias!

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

#ScribesAndMakers 6 September: How do you listen to music? Why do you choose to listen that way? Streaming platforms? Physical media? Live? Due to my age, finances & principles I've never had a paid music streaming subscription. Yet I admit that I've copied many songs without paying in my life […]

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"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." 😳

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1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

100%! I would also object, decline and reject such actions. #weird #signs #humor #humour

a sign on a door that says: REFUSE to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey yesterday. I've seen it many times; it was my boyfriend's first time. Here's my current take: When HAL cites "human error" he's actually correct. The human errors include turning over control to AI, & training that AI to lie. Heywood Floyd represents the villain […]

Das @srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

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Beautiful colourful Mexico City! (From last weekend) #DasCDMX #Travel #TravelPhotography

A woman sitting on a green iron park bench, with arms bent up at the elbows holding on to the straps of a fan and white and purple flower and a small white skull headdress. The woman's face and arms and back of hands are decorated with an off whitish paint. A bag and pain supplies of the painter decorating the woman as La Catrina are next to her

Store display window at El Nuevo Mundo with a skeleton dressed in orange garb and hat. A lot of different colourful fabrics mostly orange are displayed radiating from behind the skeleton and to the walls.

Two vendors in a small but very colourful pottery store with plates and mugs and other items on shelves on either side and hanging or displayed on walls and above the vendors too

A smiling lady in a red sports shirt with stripes on the shoulders, sitting behind and surrounded completely with candies and nuts and all kinds of sweets (dulce)

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

I'm an amateur, at this point would-be writer. I don't know how others do it. I'm coming to believe that I can't write at a keyboard. When I sit down "to write" my focus changes to production. I can easily start generating what I'd almost call "automatic writing"—clichés, saying things I don't […]

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

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Do You Feel Lost? I feel short-term lost but it’s better than when I felt long-term lost—even though short-term lost includes my daily activities, health, and where I sleep. I know who I am, therefore I'm not lost. Coincidentally I found this video relevant: youtu.be/yVS10nrdWu8

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icastico @icastico.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

Finished watching Reservation Dogs. Can’t recommend the series highly enough. Really brilliant magical realist take on rez life. The characters remind me so much of the students I taught in Bernalillo NM - Pueblo kids, mostly - with indomitable humor and grace in the face of tough circumstances.

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

I've been feeling bad & posting embarrassing thoughts

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

I've been playing a lot of this game at squaredle.app I want to quit but others might enjoy it I first found it from a post here I tend to play word games, crosswords They're usually the least ad-soaked, least addictive, most conducive to my brain & computing capacity Daily games are […]

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

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Found all the cables needed to use the projector, watching Superman.

Foreground is the foot of the bed and part of a bedroom leading to curtains and a window shade on which a projected image of Superman on the ground is seen.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

Just passed a church sign that read: A family altar can altar a family. ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ Seems like if your message depends on wordplay that you'd be certain of what you're saying!

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2025

I think we should treat people who get scammed and come out and talk about it like heroes. And this is important: no matter how "obvious" the scam might seem in retrospect or from the outside of the community it prey'd on. The more I look at scams the more I think this is major factor in how […]

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

2 ways I use Mastodon | 1. A safe social space. I've enjoyed many life-buoying interactions. 2. I rattle off ideas that I do not have the available concentration to develop into longer writing yet. I have the habit of later embedding & growing my own toots into blog posts at […]

Nisaa (she/her) @nisaa.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

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#ScribesAndMakers 29. What is your proudest or best moment with your creative endeavor this month? I finished the embroidery I've been working on since July! I'm now working on making it into a bag. I'm super happy with the embroidery. It has been a learning experience and (mostly) a joy to make.

A piece of embroidery. A black cloth with a sea wolf facing a swan. The swan is done with gray and black stitches, yellow feet, yellow accents on the wing and face, a red eye and yellow beak. There is green back stitch outlining the tail of the sea wolf, and the “scales” are filled in at the center of the tail in three alternating shades of green. The tail is filled with sarma/satin stitch in green. The torso of the sea wolf is finished in one shade of green. There is yellow outlining around the swan and blue around the sea wolf. End description.

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2025

Attacking science, education, facts, knowledge, truth is necessary for millions of people to choose illogical policies. What ties it all together is money. The politicians & pundits of the Right are foremost entertainers. They're rewarded in our system. Left figures are most comparable to […]

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025

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2/special purpose.] Cognitive dissonance is the opposite of peace of mind. I believe that cognitive dissonance is existentially painful; reduction of or distraction from cognitive dissonance is essential. The notion of white supremacy was invented to legitimize […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

Highlighted portion of podcast conversation, spoken by Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika to John Biewen on Scene on Radio S2 (Seeing White) E2: How Race Was Made, March 1, 2017: "they enslaved people and then they later sort of deployed the science and all these other cultural forms to match and support the idea that they could exploit these people because they were inferior."

The above is from the transcript linked in this post, page 14 of 15. Longer excerpt: and they enslaved people and then they later sort of deployed the science and all these other cultural forms to match and support the idea that they could exploit these people because they were inferior. So, it really to me, even though you know once you really look at that the idea that exploitation comes first is just, you know, it's just a more rational explanation. John Biewen: Right. And even some of this history that we heard about, you know, all kinds of people enslaved all kinds of people, including and in many cases people enslaved people who look like them. Chenjerai Kumanyika: That's right.