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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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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 28/09/2026

Spraying with latex in a respirator under a blacklight. Must be that time of year again... #halloween

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 27/09/2026

So there are some reasons why one might stay on legacy social media. Maybe not good reasons, but reasons. For example, Facebook decided tonight it was time for me to learn that combine harvester demolition derby is really a thing and hell, I'd probably pay money to see that. Dumb? For sure […]

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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. Trump🤡 plans to delete it Enforcing civil rights without these reports will be difficult for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, pushing US agency closer to Trump🤡’s agenda, experts warn www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it

Enforcing civil rights without these reports will be difficult for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, pushing US agency closer to Trump’s agenda, experts warn

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 25/09/2026

At this point I have done this so many times.

Back to school bingo card.

Row 1:
"Can you all hear me?"
PTA wants money
"This is my first time doing this "

Row 2:
PTA wants volunteers
Mention of school mascot (free square)
"I SPEAK REALLY LOUDLY"

Row 3:
Tepid applause (x50)
You're in the wrong classroom
Teacher pretends to know your kid

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 24/09/2026

When the boss says "follow the instructions exactly as I wrote them" and I do:

A curb in Laramie, WY is being painted yellow by a city employee who is visible wearing high-visibility gear in the distance. The curb is painted yellow, along with significant portions of the sidewalk, street, gutter, a plant growing between the cracks in the pavement, the wheels of a couple bicycles locked up on the sidewalk, etc.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 23/09/2026

Sorry for the YT link but this has to be the best #cooking tutorial ever filmed. www.youtube.com/shorts/2qF7RtzN6ts

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 23/09/2026

Sorry for the YT link but this has to be the best #cooking tutorial ever filmed. www.youtube.com/shorts/2qF7RtzN6ts

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Vulvarine @zwergi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

We’ve officially reached the point where hearing your spouse’s voice on the phone isn’t enough proof that it’s actually them. That sounds ridiculous until you realize voice-cloning scams are already here. Have a code word. Call the person back directly […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from another platform:
Just had the creepiest scam ever happen
20 minutes ago.
| got a call from my wife telling me she forgot her
wallet and needed the credit card to pay for her gas.
Except my wife was at home with me, and drives a Tesla.
Same voice, bit... off, weird cadence but 100% sounded
just like her. If she wasn't there, and it wasn't about
gas | would have fallen for it.
| entertained it for awhile to get more out of it, | was so
confused. Must be some sort of voice deepfake.
The responses were too fast for ai, | think it was a voice
filter. | wish | had thought to record it.
The future is about to get fucked. Warn your loved ones,
do verbal passwords with your kids.
Bit taken aback.

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Errol Cavit @errolnz.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Lockheed F-105G Starfighter demonstrating a common manoeuvre for the type, at Deutsches Museum, Munich. #avGeek #aviation

A very pointy fighter jet with small wings, hung from a museum ceiling. It is banked left, and a pilot figure is starting the seat ejection procedure, half out of the cockpit.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/09/2026

Once again amused by my #dog, who continues to be started at the fact that the thing he just shoved with his snout actually moved.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/09/2026

Saw a suggestion for when you're stuck finishing a book you're writing, which is to re-read it and... that is EXCELLENT advice. Anyhow I'm re-reading my book and found a part I wrote years ago where there's an actual Nazi (more precisely Aryan Brotherhood) character whose name I kind of […]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/09/2026

One of my favorite pastimes on social media is blocking Trump supporters. Say something that supports him, I block you. Click the like button on a post supporting Trump, I block you. So as you can imagine I see a lot of profiles of guys holding dead fish […] [Original post on social.taupehat.com]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 20/09/2026

I have an idea for a paper that would totally win the #Ignobel prize but I'm too lazy to do it: a statistically rigorous study that sums up the amount of time saved across the world by people not having to rewind things anymore.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 20/09/2026

If somebody were to take a bulldozer to every single brick-and-mortar chain shoe store that doesn't carry wide widths beyond pretty much just New Balance leather tennis shoes with velcro straps, it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever to my ability to find shoes to try on that actually fit.

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Spocko @spocko.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I remember a time when your could tell the henchmen from the goons. #Batman #RetroTV

Batman TV show scene showing 2 men wearing black shirts that say henchman. A man is sitting in front of them.

Batman TV show scene showing 5 men wearing black shirts that say G. O. O. N. on the front.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 16/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@associatedpress/ente… Yesterday I was working out and saw Law and Order SVU on one of the TVs, it's got Mariska Hargitay and Ice-T on there in the office discussing a case in front of a yarn board […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Supreme Court ruling has dropped. Injunction stands! @heidilifeldman

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 13/09/2026

Here's how I imagine the conversation went: "Your time is up. You're eighty years old, you've had at least one stroke, your health is failing, your final term ends in two years, and you are in competition with Vladimir Putin as the most despised person […] [Original post on social.taupehat.com]

Screencap from RTÉ with headline reading "President Connolly expressed 'strong view' of Irish people on war and genocide to Trump"

Photo shows Donald Trump walking ahead of Catherine Connolly as both leave Áras an Uachtaráin. President Connolly has a bit of a grin or slight smirk on her face. President Trump looks acutely uncomfortable and angry.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 13/09/2026

Why use cloves when a head will do? #garlic

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11/09/2026

[Police Brutality] The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department has a long and sordid history of having to settle excessive force lawsuits, and when you see some of the deputies it's easy to see why. Anyone who's spent any amount of time in a gym knows what people look like when they're on gear and […]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11/09/2026

At least this one is solvable, even if a bit too much so...

Tweet from Aanya @xoaanya:
"insane levels of vibe coding"

Screenshot:
Account Verification
We have just sent the code 435841 to your
phone number: xxx-xxx-6521
Please enter the code below to access your
account:
(six empty text frames appear)

Retweet from Monoculture Debatteur @NotADebacle:
"Zero factor authentication"

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Riot Gnome Pin. Jeff Bezos originally wanted to employ gnomes at Amazon warehouses, but he didn't realize how strong their unions are. If you tell a gnome he can't take a bathroom break your warehouse is getting torched. collabs.shop/bitnjj

An enamel pin of a garden gnome wearing a red hat, blue shirt, and green boots, holding a lit Molotov cocktail.

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

If you shoot a machine gun at a running person, the bullets only hit the dirt a foot or two behind them. #70sMoviesTaughtMe #HashtagGames

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 11/09/2026

I feel bad for people who need diesel for their work vehicles. On the other hand I am enthralled at the impact this has had on the coal-rolling douchebags around here. Gasbuddy, filtered for diesel fuel:

Map from gasbuddy.com showing diesel fuel prices in and around Santa Rosa, CA. Prices range from $7.69 to $8.69 per gallon.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 10/09/2026

This is the perfect collection to build a rat-rod from honestly. Get a 350 from the junkyard, bolt it all together, put something a human can sit on inside the tub and you're golden.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 09/09/2026

I was always a big fan of Spock's approximate precision. #startrek

Four-panel photomontage from Star Trek: The Original Series. The upper panel, lower left, and lower center panel all show Mr. Spock leaning over to peer into the "science vizor" - a device which shines bright blue light onto his face. The bottom right panel shows him still leaning over but with his head turned toward the camera. A caption has been added which reads "Captain, the Romulan vessel will impact Enterprise in approximately 12.4397 seconds."

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A friend refers to the "a pedestrian was struck by a car" construction as the "exonerative" tense, and that shall be its name henceforth and hereafter.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 02/09/2026

In this episode of "Stuff you don't see every day" or, why it's good to have an ear for unusual aircraft noises

A large white airship lumbers through a cloudy sky. Some trees and phone lines are visible in the foreground.

Screencap from https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a06751 showing the flight path of N125LT, an airship described as "2023 Pathfinder 1 LTA Research and Exploration LLC"

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 02/09/2026

I - a #sysadmin - have spent the better part of the past two decades of my professional career working in and around #datacenters It's like an antihipster thing: I was into it before it was uncool.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 01/09/2026

This is hilariously accurate social commentary disguised as something else: brokeassstuart.com/p/why-gta-iv-sho…

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 31/08/2026

Walking away from Google like

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 31/08/2026

Reason number eleventy-gazillion of why I freaking hate freaking Zabbix: some absolute bell-end decided to key a discovered item off the GUID associated with a job rather than some persistent attribute of that job, and then to ensure the alert never ever clears no matter how thoroughly the […]

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 31/08/2026

I did enjoy telling them that I was leaving.

Google search box. Search query is "migrate custom domain from gmail to proton"

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I want the next president to issue an executive order renaming San Francisco Bay "Yahoo! Is The Best Search Engine Bay" to see whether Google Maps dutifully switches to the new name or admits they're only pretending they strictly use federal place names and actually have a choice in the matter.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 26/08/2026

Twice in as many days, the wrong famous 80-year-old has passed away. There is no god. RIP Tim Curry.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 26/08/2026

This has been puzzling me. Not that I care much about this dumbass rich guy or his inability to get laid without paying $140 to someone working out of a trailer park in Ohio but... based on my experience rich guys have a fixer to procure prostitutes […] [Original post on social.taupehat.com]

A 46-year-old white man with short dark hair and several days of beard growth stands for a mugshot wearing an orange top. An image caption reads "San Francisco 49ers owner arrested"

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/08/2026

The fact that I'm now comfortably stacking the leg press machine might be a sign that my legs are strong enough. Maybe.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 22/08/2026

[uspol] I finally figured out who Scott Bessent reminded me of.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 20/08/2026

Gave my #dog the last dose of eye drops he was prescribed. Then I showed him as I threw the bottle into the trash. He wagged his tail so hard.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 19/08/2026

Rohnert Park, California. Holden SS-V. Rebadged or real? #cars

Dashcam snapshot of a black Holden Commodore SS-V at a traffic light. To the left of it is a white California Highway Patrol cruiser also waiting on the red light.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 17/08/2026

[#uspol mention of drug abuse] The President of the United States is a crackhead.

"Truth Social" post from Donald Trump:

Based on my very good relationship with Kim
Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the
fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed
to participate in Joint Military Exercises with
South Korea. These exercises are not only costly,
with much of these costs paid for by the United
States of America (as usual!), but send a signal
that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a
Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has
been President, has been unthreatening and
respectful. Therefore, and based on the fact that
it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary
of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the
Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat
unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of
South Korea if they would like to join us in the
Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran,
and they said, “No thanks!” Thank you for your
attention to this matter. President DONALD J.
TRUMP

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 16/08/2026

Do not, and I cannot stress this strongly enough, confuse the betamethasone valerate for the toothpaste.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 15/08/2026

I will never pass as Canadian because for all the wonderful things I can say about #Canada there is no world in which you should pronounce "Regina" like that.

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Mike Ely @social.taupehat.com · 15/08/2026

It's 2026, and "devil's lettuce" now refers to actual lettuce.

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