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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Avoid anti-goldfish language! Be aware that when you accuse someone of having the memory of a goldfish, you are actually saying they have a prodigious ability to remember places and the overall spatial layout of their territory, allowing them to expertly navigate […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

From the paper: Interestingly, goldfish are able to use not only the information provided by con- spicuous objects in the environment, but also the geometrical attributes of the surroundings for spatial navigation, and conjoin geometric and nongeometric information to reorient themselves.35-38 In summary, these findings re- veal that teleost fish can reach the goal location by learning its position relative to the land- marks and other features of the environment, by using any available spatial information and by encoding the reciprocal metric and geomet- ric relationships relative to the goal, thus indi- cating distinctly they have the capacity to use relational memory mechanisms (Fig. 1).

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I forgot today was the trade deadline and was not prepared for this much #nwsl chaos

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I don't understand how speech to text on my phone seems to actively be getting worse all the time

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why independent media is so needed, in one post👇🏽 Framing matters

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Is there ever a week where this doesn’t come in handy?

Captain Haddock saying “what a week, huh?”, with Karl Marx replying “Comrade, it’s Capitalism”

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I just discovered they updated signal so you can pin more than 4 chats and it's probably a bad sign that I'm this excited about it

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Andres @andres4ny.social.ridetrans.it.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

On that last point: if the app won't let you do something, well, you're stuck. Crying "This app sucks" online into the void is about all you can realistically do. But a website? If they try to block cutting & pasting, you can override that. If it's full of ads (or other problems), you can […]

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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Clark Breyman (he/him) @clark.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

More amazing from @skamille skamille.medium.com/the-managers-pa… @RuthMalan - relevant to your interests: "My suggestion is one that I suspect some will dislike: I think you actually need to spend more time talking to people. You’ve got all of these […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm down to the last nine copies of this ISS Cat print, so if you want one, please order soon. It's in my shop along with other prints, badges and a zine: www.tomgauld.com/

A view of the International Space Station floating in the stars above the earth. A cat in a space suit floats outside. An astronaut within the station looks out of a window and says "In? But I just let you out."

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/1173503736136… Trying to seperate people into the groups "deserves to be exploited by big tech" and "does not deserve to be exploited by big tech" will not in fact prevent anyone in the latter group from being exploited by big tech

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

dentist gave me a prescription for extra strength motrin because "you'll want this" 😬😬😬

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I cannot get Action Network to send confirmation emails and I'm tired of trying. What alternative should I switch to?

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

i accidentally poked my cat in the eye and now i must throw myself into the sea

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Good thing all this unauthorized computer access is somehow not illegal and magically nobody is criminally liable for it or it would be really expensive and professionally damaging! www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-ant…

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@blair_fix/11733294… This is a fascinating analysis. Although it does not explain the dynamic in American politics where the states that benefit most from financialization tend to want to restrict it. A symptom of the conflation of business and industry? […]

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Gordon @gordon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Adversarial interop and open source can emerge during the early stages of disruption for this reason. You don’t have time to lock down and extract every little thing when there’s a huge greenfield in front of you. Moving fast has higher upside, even if you cede vast tracts of territory.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

If you have some time this weekend to change your relationship to the weirdness of AI, want to try being an early adopter of the Inference Cooperative—a member-governed platform with private, green-energy, and public models: inference.coop It's an attempt to build for AI what […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Sometimes asking a question technology could answer is a bid for connection, not laziness. RTFM/LMGTFY can be a choice to refuse relating—which people sometimes need! But I wonder if we're heading toward ATFAI (Ask The Fucking AI), and what that means for us […]

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

We live in a world of ever increasing abstraction held together by human trust in all the joints and footings. AI and other technologies that abstract away and replace human connection are quickly eroding all the load bearing bits.

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Wow, the justice system really works!

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Harold Jarche @harold.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@glynmoody/11730337… "For every 10cm of vehicle height, the odds of a pedestrian death rise by 11 per cent."

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

RE: social.coop/@shauna/117297867018522… i feel like some trickster god doesn't want me going to this wedding because i grabbed a quick bite to eat before my flight and my tooth came out 😭

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

love to have my flight delayed by 4 hours, spend half an hour on hold before getting to talk to an agent, have the agent accidentally end the call, wait on hold another half hour, only to be told the only flight they could possibly have rebooked won't work because i spent an hour waiting on hold […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

just thinking about the spaces in my life where i've chosen efficiency over resilience, and whether/how i can reverse that decision

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malte @malte.radikal.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Women often latch on to men's wear and men's fashion trends - to an extent that we often do not even notice it as "men's wear". The opposite is much more rare. When men browse the women's section, one takes it as "cross-dressing". I envy the range of shapes and colors in women's clothes, but […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

This makes me really sad to read. I totally get the anger at AI being used here, but the move from "I feel anger" to "therefore I am justified in venting my anger without empathy or compassion" is just like... what are we doing. How is this going to make anything better […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Why are armadillo and quesadilla pronounced differently in English? Why are we like this?

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I'm so hungry but I don't want to make her move 😭

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/1172705774343… Not all boards are created equal. It depends very much on the governance rules. Generally speaking, member-elected non-profit boards are the most powerful counterbalance to bad leadership, although they're quite rare. Self-perpetuating […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@reesecommabill I'm curious what % of your etsy nwsl legos sold are spirit themed given just how often we tell people we got ours on etsy (a dozen or more times per game).

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

www.rubyhack.ai under at least california but almost certainly federal law, doing this is illegal. openai should be criminally liable for this. focusing on whether or not it was an "agent swarm" is like focusing on how many computers were part of a botnet: legally irrelevant. individual […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

This abbreviated pop house version of American Pie is one of the worst covers I've ever heard

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

[Abuse, assault] Was just living my life today and randomly remembered an old show I was a fan of where one of the main male characters was punched once, slapped once, and sexually abused by his therapist once, and the narrative never seemed to think any of that was really a problem to be […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

judging people you've never met for doing morally questionable things is also a form of parasocial relationship

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

just clicking around slack at random, hoping that someday, eventually, the notification for the thing i read days ago will disappear

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I'm not Christian but I love the idea of a themed advent calendar. Anyone have recommendations or cool ones they've seen? Or things that are not advent calendars but have the same general structure?

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

RE: recurse.social/@lindsey/11721529568… It's entirely possible I can name 100 women's soccer players so I'd probably ace this.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Why I don't believe in hypocrisy blog.shaunagm.net/posts/2026-09-04-… "Calling something a hypocrisy is very interesting as a gesture because it establishes the person who’s calling it out as having better perspective and a moral judgment, but also puts the burden […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

"Are you fighting for freedom or are you fighting for privilege? Because privilege is the ability to monopolize. Privilege is the ability to do what was done to you to other people. That the way that we heal pain is not by transmitting it, it's by transforming it. **And so what I'm saying is […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

i had to use a friend's laundry machine and as i put everything in the screen flashed "optimizing with AI!" personally i think notifying me that (a) i'd forgotten to put detergent in and (b) i'd accidentally put my clothes in the dryer instead of the washer would be excellent optimizations but […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

RE: social.coop/@shauna/117179319325429… Back in like 2022 I saw a quote tweet of an anti-vaxxer whose unvaccinated daughter had died from covid. The quote tweeter said something like, "How crazy do you have to be to keep denying the importance of vaccination after your own daughter […]

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

People can only take in information that they have capacity to deal with the emotional consequences of. The tone that you share information in greatly influences who will take it in. An optimistic tone will decrease the chance that cynics will take it in, and vice versa. A shaming or righteous […]

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @natematias.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

“Canada’s willingness to support research that challenges commercial and political threats to democracy is deeply necessary at a moment where authoritarianism is on the rise around the globe” www.ft.com/content/8cc488a5-54c2-41… - @ethanz

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