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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 8h

I just watched the first episode of Colombo with my husband and one of Colombo's gotchas, one of his "no sane innocent man would ever do this"s, is "Why, when you were at your vacation home four hours out of the city and got a call that there was an emergency at home, why did you drive back and […]

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U.S. Elaine @uselaine.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Mark Zuckerberg blocked the Indivisible Team from their accounts today. That tells you how dangerous it is to use any Meta platform. Boost what you can on all the channels! They fear democracy! #NoKings #Indivisible #VoteEarly

People by a highway hold letters that spell VOTE EARLY.

A small portion of the large crowd at the No Kings/Vote Early demonstration, holding various signs up to passing traffic.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20h

Insulating homes and investing in heat pumps would be more effective in reducing living costs, creating jobs, and boosting the economy than drilling for new oil.

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Heat pumps and insulation would cut UK living costs more than new oilfields, study suggests

Warm homes plan would create 50,000 jobs, compared with about 1,100 for Rosebank oilfield, thinktank finds

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Guinevere 🎲🎲 @guineverecryptic.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Fabulous photos from the @thetimes.com cryptic crossword championship! Photo of the day has to be the perfect toilet sign placement in this one of Simon from @crackingthecryptic.bsky.social talking to @amoebacrosswords.bsky.social 😂 stewartwilliams.pixieset.com/thetimescros... #cryptic #crossword

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

anyone wondering what’s bad about FUTO funding netbsd and netbsd not turning down the money is welcome to explore FUTO’s YouTube channel, which platforms right-wing cranks and spreads disinformation, FUTO’s site, which is full of fascist dogwhistles and references to other fascist disinformation […]

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

One of the ecology postgrads working with me at the moment, Dee Patel, has spent this year doing lots of data curation work, and now stats analysis, on my 23-years of ongoing high frequency bird counts between Ōtautahi-Christchurch city and Lincoln town in Canterbury, NZ. That's where I […]

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essjax @essjax.m.essjax.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Solar is live and the house is currently pumping many many kWh back into the New Zealand grid for free. 8.2kW flooding out of here when the clouds allow. You're all welcome. The sun isn't mine, I'm happy to share 🌞

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Rupert V/ @rupert.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@jennycohn.bsky.social They're going to let AI manage their portfolio for them. 🍿

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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I know it's rare for locals to want outsiders to weigh in but I'd like to hear from people _not_ from Toronto: what do _you_ think about the provincial government removing bike lanes along a major street in Canada's largest city, purportedly to reduce traffic? Up-to-date Star story (🎁) #bikeTO […]

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Koen Hufkens, PhD @koen-hufkens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Don't use it in the first place. Next question, please?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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😀🚲 @enobacon.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Getting people on bikes is not rocket science. The project *is* the network. You can't just do short disjoint segments of gold-plated mid-block cross-sections. Users need to consistently feel that the city has prioritized their comfort and safety at every crossing. Just like Seville, or Bogata […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

hey, could the Youtube product manager who decided that when a Dutch household puts on a video from the Dutch national news, the audio should automatically be replaced with a TTS voice reading a machine-generated English translation, come meet me in the darkest corner of the Amsterdamse Bos […]

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Shane Gillis was just telling JOKES." Yep, he was. That was what he finds funny, and now we understand him (and those who laugh) to be the sort of person who finds that sort of thing funny. What's being objected to isn't that he's being misunderstood; it's that he's being understood very well.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Richard Berger is not the ONLY HSI agent to lie to frame Democrats. So did Ricky Patel, when kidnapping Newark Mayor Ras Baraka. So did Ryan Ribner FIRST when assaulting David Huerta, then spying some more on SEIU. emptywheel.net/2026/09/29/a...

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After Assaulting David Huerta and Then Lying about It, Ryan Ribner Lied So He Could Spy on SEIU - emptywheel

HSI Agent Ryan Ribner has been lying again.

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Jones Murphy @jonesmurphy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

During my 6 years living in Rome, I learned that there's never been any Columbus Day in Italy. Every time his name came up, Italians were shocked that there's a Columbus Day in the US. They overwhelmingly know FAR more about Columbus than Americans do, including Italian-Americans. It was similar […]

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Ambivalent Dictator For Life @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

"I went to the Nazi bar and I didn't see any politics" says more about you than you maybe realise

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers Russia's Yandex bot traffic was nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers […]

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Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Age yourself with a childhood crush

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

“Uh, hi. I wonder is it possible to fix the luck button on my phone?” “Wow you don’t see those any more, it’s in good nick otherwise?” “Yeah, I’ve kept it because I like the physical luck button. I looked it up on ihexit.com but it said repair difficulty impossible. So I brought it to you.” […]

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

YAYYYYYYY and also lmao what are these losers even for, are they fuckin MAD that the thing everyone said would work but that they hated, is working?

All that train usage has led to exactly what businesses want: a surge in foot traffic. A live chart showing pedestrian movements around the city centre shows above-average numbers across almost every site monitored since the CRL opened on September 13.

[my highlight] That chart is available on the website for Heart of the City, an organisation created to advocate for inner-city businesses; it turned down the opportunity to comment for this story.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Periodic reminder that the absurd price of dram and ssds for computer components basically boil down to an oligopoly of 3 corporations who have a long history of collision and price fixing whenever they can find a plausible excuse to get away constraining supply and making obscene amounts of profit.

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I'm very proud of my colleagues from our Research Data & Software group. One of the young female software engineers gave a seminar yesterday about the modernisation of our 30 year old in-house library for telescope & instrumentation control, and afterwards someone asked about using LLMs for this […]

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essjax @essjax.m.essjax.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The US president is giving another one of his awful speeches where he is talking about pillaging the earth again. "Mining is great! Coal is beautiful!" he says. "The democrats want us to mine less, and we won't mine less!" His aide leans in to assist. "Mine fewer" he says, in a stage whisper […]

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

1) Putin doesn't have diesel to spare. 2) Diesel is cover for lifting sanctions. 3) Putin's statement sounds like he's offering an Iran escape hatch, which I've been predicting. 4) Half of the MASSIVE bribes Putin is offering now don't exist. 5) But he does mention security coop -- Kash.

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Alt Text Health Check @alttexthealthcheck.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Results from tracking 18,116 images across 1,038 instances from the mstdn.social federated timeline. Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 26 images (1.5x the average).

beige.party - 91%
mastodon.nz - 89%
wandering.shop - 87%
chaos.social - 85%
mastodon.scot - 84%
hachyderm.io - 82%
mastodon.art - 81%
tech.lgbt - 79%
mastodon.ie - 79%
ieji.de - 76%
openbiblio.social - 76%
mementomori.social - 70%
mastodon.top - 69%
mamot.fr - 69%
social.tchncs.de - 67%
aus.social - 66%
troet.cafe - 66%
wisskomm.social - 64%
zug.network - 64%
toot.blue - 63%
infosec.exchange - 62%
famichiki.jp - 59%
piaille.fr - 58%
mastodon.online - 56%
mastodonapp.uk - 56%
mastodon.gamedev.place - 54%
mas.to - 53%
fosstodon.org - 52%
kolektiva.social - 51%
norden.social - 50%
mstdn.ca - 46%
sfba.social - 45%
mastodon.uno - 43%
fedibird.com - 37%
c.im - 34%
techhub.social - 33%
mastodon.nl - 32%
nrw.social - 32%
mastodon.social - 27%
mastodon.world - 20%
g0v.social - 19%
mastodon.nu - 16%
newsie.social - 15%
universeodon.com - 15%
masto.ai - 13%
mastodont.cat - 13%
masto.es - 11%
m.cmx.im - 4%
o3o.ca - 4%
nofan.xyz - 0%

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Thailand eliminates rubella as a public health problem. The milestone, verified by the WHO, is the result of a vaccination programme that began in schools in 1986 and expanded to all one-year-olds in 1993. Thailand is the seventh country in the region to achieve elimination […]

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"[The] fundamental content of mathematics is ideas and understanding, not only proofs. If mathematics were done by computers that mindlessly searched for theorems and proof but sometimes made mistakes in their proofs, then I expect that it would collapse. But usually when a human mathematician […]

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Stuart Wilkinson @fairtradestu.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The second anniversary of this post is coming up, and surprise surprise these little "end of life" laptops are continuing to run well with #linux and do what we need then to, which includes spending less on tech so we can buy more actual books for the school […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

A mastodon post from October 2024 showing a photo 8 laptops running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and libre office, the post explains the school has added Ubuntu to some old windows 10 devices that their IT support told them were end of life.

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