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Lotta Cooties

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
The right-wing owners of Scientific American, once the pillar of science writing, have ruined the publication's content and reputation. An incredibly sad situation: www.thenation.com/article/society/s…
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The Fall of “Scientific American”
When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
I hate Reflect Orbital so very very much. They are trying to provide expensive, dangerous "help" for problems that already have better, cheaper, less destructive processes in place. The one thing this article fails to mention is not only could the light from orbit go out at any second, it would […]
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h
I love it when companies say "we will be profitable at scale" and then the scale makes it worse. Running 50 delivery robots a day made $177k and cost $832k in Q4 2024, and running 500 delivery robots a day made $648k and cost $7.5m […]
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h
Attorney General Rayfield: States, Not the Federal Government, Decide How Ballots are Counted www.doj.state.or.us/media-home/news…
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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13h
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]
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, different projects.

Philomena: Have they tried finishing one before starting another?

Expert: That's not how software development works.

Philomena: My mate Paul spent 20 years building a shed. Turned out he was just an alcoholic.

Expert: Right.

Philomena: Is PHP like that?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/10/2026
Russia was never a hoax
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026
Would you like to take a break from whatever you are rage-screaming about to rage-scream about a different topic? Now published, by me: theconversation.com/corporate-orbit…
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Corporate ‘orbital data centre’ proposals are dangerous for humanity
Orbital data centre proposals involve thousands of satellites, each one twice the size of the International Space Station.
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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 18/10/2026
It's very easy to get depressed by the state of politics right now, but then you see interactions like this one, and it rekindles your faith. A new generation of politicians will come forward and they will be different. #AbduElSayed #USpol #Politics
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Managing Barista and Janitor @proprietor.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT will be placed on our timeline in a moment, but I'm also sharing as a post. Due to the still-high levels of malicious spam coming from compromised accounts, wandering.shop will lock unused accounts as of 6 PM PDT this evening, October 18. We are not aware that we are (yet) hosting […]
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Balcony Illusion — by Oakoak in Paris, France 🇫🇷 streetartutopia.com/2026/04/10/stre… #StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural
Balcony Illusion by Oakoak in Paris, France
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/10/2026
For you youngs who weren't alive for this: Understand that the Chicks were an early rollout of the far right intimidation that we see targeting judges, members of Congress, and ICE protestors now.
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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Longshot: I'd be interested in chatting with UNT library folks. (Yes, @SafeguardingResearch related) Signal would be best for that, I'll share my username on request via DM #Texas #Dallas #UNT #Safeguarding
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Read the backstory on “Tommy”. More important: watch the video of El-Sayed to the end. Really significant moment for US Constitutional democracy. www.thehandbasket.co/p/tommy-teepel…
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'Tommy' from viral El-Sayed video is former Sen. Hawley staffer with Christian nationalist ties
Thomas Teepell is the son of a former long-time Bobby Jindal staffer who's close to Sean Feucht.
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Roy #EatTheRich Pardee 🇺🇸 ☘️ @rpardee.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Quitting #CorporateSocialMedia is like planting a tree. The best time to do it was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is today. www.rawstory.com/no-kings-2678101228 Don't be someone else's reason for staying on corporate social media.
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Fury as Meta accused of kneecapping nationwide No Kings rallies: 'We demand answers'
Outrage erupted Saturday after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta appeared to take down a social media account run by No Kings organizers — just as more than 3,000 No Kings marches got underway nationwide.“Meta pulled down the main No Kings Instagram accounts. We demand answers for why this happened during our ...
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Daveybot @daveybot.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Me: ugh, modern landmark architecture is just rich people showing off how much money they have. What happened to restrained displays of class and taste? 18th Century Scotland: PINEAPPLES!!!
The Dunmore House Pineapple. It’s a Georgian building that looks like, well, a pineapple. It was made in 1761 when pineapples were some of the most fashionable objects on the planet, and, honestly, there isn’t much more to it than that.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
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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Kolombiken @kolombiken.front-end.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
#SilentSunday
Sun shining through green foliage streching over water, in the background a blue sky, a few clouds and a little bit of a fir forest.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
There are all these services that claim they can remove you from mailing lists, protect you from data breeches, or alert you when your data are on the dark web. I'm really skeptical of all of them. * Are there any standards or regulations about running such services? * Are there any […]
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Ian Robinson @ianrobinson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
Good grief. A college in Illinois tried to cancel its Flock contact and it refused | The Verge www.theverge.com/tech/1009411/elgin…
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
"Franklin D. Roosevelt had his fireside chat radio addresses, he said. John F. Kennedy was a master of television. “President Trump uses Truth Social,” Mayers added. He was mere seconds into his argument when U.S. District Judge Paul Oetken, a Barack Obama appointee in the Southern District of […]
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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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Relaxing slow-mo trimming video. Music from Dorothy Ashby's "Afro-Harping" makertube.net/w/sjFBPBELVSQ8RoeWQzE… #pottery #ceramics #crafts #relaxing #PeerTube #MakerTube
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Trimming a Bowl | Relaxing Slow Motion
Showing how I trim a bowl and polish the surface so that it's ready for carving and decorating. Music: "Come Live With Me" by Dorothy Ashby from the album "Afro-Harping" Tools: Mudtools Do-All Trim...
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Antichrist Deeply Uncomfortable With Perceived Connection to Peter Thiel “I have never met Peter, I’ve never spoken to him, and I have no desire to be connected to him,” clarified the Son of Perdition. “We do have a lot in common..but I find him deeply off-putting” thehardtimes.net/culture/anti...
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Antichrist Deeply Uncomfortable With Perceived Connection to Peter Thiel
HELL — The Antichrist issued a sweeping denial of any relationship with Peter Thiel this Wednesday following numerous remarks made by the... Continue this tale
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🇩🇪 🇺🇦 🇨🇦:nonazis: @manyroads.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Another #Trump #Maga Failure "Measles is surging in the US. These graphics show how bad it has gotten" #Politics #News #USA #Government #Democrats #MAGA #UN #EU #Canada #Economics #Security #Europe #UK #Measles #CDC #Healthcare #MAHA #Science #Vaccinations […]
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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
New solar-powered clam just dropped, part of a small club that partner with algae in their bodies for food! Geloina expansa lives in mangroves in South Asia and farms algae called zooxanthellae in its gills, the same type that corals partner with in a process […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]
photo from the paper (Catherine et al. 2026) showing Geloina gills, which have a brown area that is full of dinoflagellates called Symbiodiniumpicture of G. expansa by the legendary Guido Poppe, who literally wrote the book on shells. it has a greenish tinged periostracum. it is shaped quite a bit like a venus clam and is in the same order as them.
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J.R. Orci @orci.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
We are a shithole country. Fort Hood shooter's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmy0r96xy…
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Fort Hood shooter's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
"We'll make sure that people are able to watch it," the US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Unreal. #Trump has dragged us back to the #barbaric days of #PublicExecution. I am sick. #Pentagon says the #FiringSquad #execution of #FortHood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be #livestreamed. I’ve said it before, there are sooooo many things wrong with these people. They are basically the […]
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Tim J @timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet? Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic […]
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2026
A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.
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Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules
The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
New York City Mayor Mamdani posted about a New Yorker who was shot by an ICE agent today in the City. The NYC said: Abolish ICE.
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
OMG ICE just shot someone in Marble Hill! There was a five year old kid in the back of the car. Marble Hill is in the Bronx, although technically it's part of Manhattan. It's a quiet almost suburban like neighborhood. I have family who lives there. (They are OK.) I think they said the man who […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]
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Jeff Moss @thedarktangent.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
With all the new G's (New GTLDs that ICANN has approved) coming up like .pdf now is a great time to disable search from your browser bar so you don't accidentally end up at a malicious site. For FireFox or Tor Browser do: - about:config - set browser.fixup.alternate.enabled false - set keyword […]
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
I spent all day on election activism. There’s a county clerk here who is interfering with duly appointed election watchers’ access to the polls. I was settling down for the evening, when I read this opinion and it reminded me of why I am working so hard to make sure the U.S. election is free and […]
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Misinformation-Superhighwayman @damienwise.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Vale Margaret Hamilton. She was a Software Engineer. She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering: "When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a […] [Original post on aus.social]
A B&W photo of a person standing next to a stack of printed paper as high as the top of their head. This is Margaret Hamilton, at work as a Software Engineer and the leader of a team of extremely specialised programmers who worked for NASA. The photo was taken in 1969, and it shows a physical form if her work since she joined the Apollo project in 1965 (she joined at the age of 29 by my calculation). My interpretation of the expression on her face is a mix of pride and mild amusement.  She has glasses, long, straight hair, and neat office attire. Margaret Hamilton has her hands placed gently on the stack of printouts to keep it all balanced upright. The pages appear to be arranged in bundles, ranging from 8-10 centimetres thick, to 20cm thick or more. The resulting stack of printouts is physically impressive for being an unusual feat, and it represents something even more impressive: it's the printed form of the source-code she and the team she led wrote for the NASA Apollo project. Their software ran on the Apollo Guidance Computer that was that on board each Apollo command module and Apollo Lunar Module. The Apollo Guidance Computer onboard the Eagle was an essential flight instrument for Neil Armstrong when he piloted the craft to land on the surface of the moon.
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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Got my flu and Covid shots today, in opposite arms which should help me with direction-finding to 5G towers.
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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Dave Grohl Dedicates 'My Hero' To Jack Smith, Wears Iowa Hawkeyes Shirt To Really Twist The Knife - Above the Law abovethelaw.com/2026/10/dave-grohl-…
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Dave Grohl Dedicates 'My Hero' To Jack Smith, Wears Iowa Hawkeyes Shirt To Really Twist The Knife - Above the Law
Smith's never been to a Hawks game, but he will go to a Foo Fighters show.
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Saustrup @saustrup.mstdn.dk.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I fell for the Booking.com WhatsApp scam today. There has apparetly been a #databreach at #bookingcom, which provides a little bit of truth to this "please verify your credit card now" scam. They knew my name, my phone number, the hotel I was staying at and the exact dates. That, a little bit of […]
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Donald Trump just called Dr. Annie Andrews "Trannie Andrews" on Truth Social in an attempt to help her opponent raise money. Join me in flooding Dr. Andrews website with tons of small donations right now so that this backfires on Trump spectacularly. 💙 drannieandrews.com
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
I want to share with you the gist of a mind-blowing conversation I had with my doctor today at my annual physical. She asked about my mood, which led to a conversation about how AI is ruining everything, which prompted her to mention that she doesn’t use the AI transcription app that her […]
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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Is there a QR code generator that 1. is a website 2. is free, no account needed 3. is not secretly also a link shortener 4. does not look like a scam 5. does not include extra branding (the way the Chrome one does) a friend just asked me this and I really could not find one
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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
An embarrassing episode epitomizes the #GOP’s failures to pin down #JackSmith #Republicans have struggled mightily to substantiate Trump’s desire for Smith to be charged criminally. But rarely has it seemed to backfire like it did Tuesday. Sen #EricSchmitt of Missouri crafted an apparent […]
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
Riley Gaines, famous for turning her 5th place tie with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas into a far-right career agianst transgender people, has officially had her lawsuit against the NCAA thrown out by a judge today. The judge found no evidence for her claims. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Riley Gaines' Title IX Lawsuit Against The NCAA Struck Down After Judge Finds "No Evidence" Of Funding Claims
Gaines’ attorneys argued her civil rights were violated because she competed against a transgender athlete.
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