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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist

@RMiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy

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Hi I'm: • abstractionist • colorist • queer • aspiring author • unwilling subject of the tyrannical United States • dreaming of life in #Puebla #Mexico […] 🌉 bridged from mastodon.art/@RMiddleton on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2025

2/2 where my impulses conflict. I am capable of comparing & prioritizing options based on results from past experiences. The best examples I can think of involve media. There are many enticing headlines & video titles that I refuse to click based on my opinion of the source. I watch almost zero […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

One of the downsides of getting older is I can't process as much caffeine as I used to. I've been exploring decaf coffee beans for a year or so and I'm happy to say that there are some pretty good ones. Good ones: almost as good as regular coffee from a good coffee roaster! It's my […]

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

Spooky season puppet cuteness youtu.be/eujd4SOF_zI #31minutos #video

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

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

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

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 😂

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

#nature #ocean #shhhhhh

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

I made it out of the house It's beautiful except for the men with loud cars

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

No one is pure, of course. Don't speak for others. I like when people say: This is what I do, take it or leave it. It would be fabulous if there were cooperative alternatives to all the systems currently in place. But it's important to note that users are currently captured. It's not a free […]

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

linking to their own site but it was a kickstarter. When I arrived at their kickstarter link I was confronted with invasive privacy popups. So I'm linking to the movie instead. It's on YouTube so that means I chose to delete tracking from the link. And you well know that YouTube is offensively […]

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

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 […]

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

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

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

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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Live Tapes @livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025

D'Angelo & The Soultronics The 2000-07-16 North Sea Jazz Festival archive.org/details/dangelo-2000-07…

D'Angelo & The Soultronics The 2000-07-16 North Sea Jazz Festival : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

D'Angelo & The SoultronicsJuly 16th, 2000The Hague, Netherlands @ Congresgebouw - North Sea Jazz FestFM/SBD > ? > CDR > EAC > FLAC > WAV...

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

Example: Star Wars Andor. 🙃 I'm not foolish enough to think that this fantasy fiction is true, but it's an easy single example to cite. The historical information that I'm absorbing is much heavier because it's true. I think Andor is a well-produced story depicting a fight against fascism. S2 […]

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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 […]

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

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.

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]

Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

So... I feel the same about illicit words as I do about all language: speak carefully. Do I mean what I say? Colorful & casual speech can be fun. For me it stops being fun when it degrades my attitudes towards myself & anyone whom I care about. I believe that my views in this area diverge from […]

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 Rartsy Humanist @rmiddleton.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

7. Do I believe in "magic words"? Again I think it's intent. There's a kind of swearing I dislike. Dehumanization. Yes, I believe that it can vent emotions to cuss out one's enemies or oppressors. If it serves a purpose of undermining false authority that's useful. I think it's a question worth […]

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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

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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

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

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

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!

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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2025

"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." 😳

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

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 […]

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

I #amwriting slowly. After the post above I decided to make a table of scenes. That's how the story is developing in my mind, in disconnected scene snippets. For each one I'm listing: Scene | characters | outcome Later I will string the scenes together to advance the plot. For example yesterday […]

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

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)

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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

It might sound absurd for "a nobody" to say that they feel politically silenced but 🤐