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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2026

Yesterday’s Alex Pretti memorial ride in Portland ended by passing the Portland ICE facility and of course ICE tear-gassed the crowd, including kids on bikes. Thursday in Salem, Oregon, feds tore a US citizen’s rotator cuff yanking her out of a car window. The Minneapolis surge really is […]

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tjhowse @tj.howse.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2025

Remember this important comparison when reading an article about a new breakthrough in carbon sequestration and storage: Check whether the price per unit of atmospheric carbon stored is better than buying some coal and putting it in a hole. Pro tip: It never is, and will never be. CSS is a […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

Does any country have measuring tick marks (inch/centimeter) on their currency? I think about this every time I use a dollar bill to (roughly) measure something. A dollar is just a tad over six inches in length, so it sorta works. I always think there should be real marks (inch on one side […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

I wonder if Trump is starting to regret not being able to threaten to take away funding from public broadcasting anymore?

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026

"Israeli strikes kill 30 Palestinians, including children, as Gaza ceasefire inches forward" Inches forward, how, exactly? Has Israel, on any single day since the beginning of the ceasefire, ceased fire? Has there been a single day since the start of the ceasefire during which Israel didn't […]

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nycki @nycki.bark.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

I'm #colorblind and I use xkcd.com/color/rgb frequently. Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

One of the oldest errors of war– they invaded The Winter People in the middle of winter.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

Always thought they didn't like the "Black" but it turns out they also don't like the "lives matter" part either.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

I love how if you search "Is He Dead Yet" on DuckDuckGo, the search engine has absolutely no confusion and knows who the search is about. Meanwhile, Google no longer seems to publish trending searches but only what *words* are trending but not whole phases. I suppose that's to keep "Is Trump […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

YES! It wasn't budget slashing, just snow. Mauna Loa Observatory data is back from Jan 9th on. The data suddenly becoming unavailable right at the beginning of the year had me seriously spooked. www.co2.earth/daily-co2

Graph of daily average CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory last 31 days, a scatter plot showing a gap of missing data from Jan 5th to Jan 8th of 2026.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

#Monsterdon The terrible romance side-plot does work nicely as a break from the terrible lizard plot at least.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

#monsterdon... I don't recall Godzilla breathing fire. Of course this is the first one I've actually watched, but... Is this lizard supposed to do that?

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

#monsterdon Shouldn't it be a giant pile of fruit if it's a mutated iguana?

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

I'm still hung up on radiation creating "a hybrid"... hybrid? hybrid of what and what.. and what does that have to do with radiation? #monsterdon

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

"soylent greed" is a killer name for SOMETHING will one of you please run with this and make some good trouble.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

Woh... Craigslist is down. I'm pretty sure I've never seen Craigslist go down.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

It looks like Mauna Loa Observatory data is down. Is this a technical glitch, or an intentional attack by the science denying disgrace to humanity currently in the White House? It looks like no new data since Dec. 31st. This is, essentially, the most important piece of data in the world and […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

Funny, Google has made YouTube links sent by text message useless on Android now. There's no way to get the URL. It'll play on the phone *in the text message program*, but... no. I'm not gonna squint and watch videos on a phone. Especially not outside of an appropriate browser with an ad […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

@stevenaleach We must dive the Potomac, find the mummified rind of the cheese and destroy it to free the country from the terrible curse.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

There is something deeply wrong with this country and I think I've found the source. A totem, a moment, and artifact that has poisoned the American psyche since our nation's inception. I speak of course of "The Mammoth Cheese of Thomas Jefferson." Basically this "founding father" as had a big […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

On the surface? It sounds charming, right? Harmless. But think again. No one said "this is too much cheese, this is unseemly, cut it out" they just... went along with it. Munched on it for months! No one could question it. And this is the root of the evil in the soul of this country. We are […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

Watching "Andor" and I've got some questions about this design... The clarinet body stuck on the end of a flute is bad enough, but the added tube hanging under it isn't actually plumbed into the main tube in any way and wouldn't really be part of the instrument.

A cropped screenshot from S1E12 of "Andor" showing an alleged instrument that appears to be made from parts of a flute and clarinet combined into one tube, decorated with a second tube with stylized keys and mechanisms attached.

A screenshot of a mocked up instrument from Andor: A metal clarinet body has been combined with a flute and is held like a transverse flute by the player, while a second steampunk style tube is suspended below the main tube toward the head, likely consisting in part of parts of another clarinet along with various steam punk greebles attempting to look like more keywork though the second tube is not actually plumbed into the main tube and isn't really part of the mock-up instrument.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

can someone come and take our president pls?

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

"They're walking their children, they're walking their wives". Umm... WTF?

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

I spent at least all of last year trying, again and again, to cancel an Amazon "Prime" subscription I never signed up for (or at least didn't intentionally sign up for). I kept going to "Membership" and clicking "End Membership" and kept being told I now had X days left of Prime. And yet it […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

Having another day where I feel like I need to go around saying "sorry for the USA I'm sorry about America I try to make it not like this but nobody listens to me"

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

And there will be no consequences. This is why all trade and travel should be cut off entirely from any county that hadn't joined the ICC.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/12/2025

"Watch the ball drop on 2025"... no... it drops on 2024, gets raised again in 2025.

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

Re-watched a short bit of Hunger Games last night while searching for something to relax before bed. It struck me just how many of our stories, especially in SFF/speculative fiction, are about people getting more and more traumatized. What if we used our collective imagination to tell story […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

I could chase down the studies on dowsing (which have been done) I could explain about confirmation bias, gambler's paradoxes and the workings of the human mind. I could enter the debate. I don't want to do this. The interface between the mythical and the material can be porous in our minds […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

I've mostly completed moving in to the new place, but am now getting a steady stream of obnoxious messages from the management company's payment portal telling me I've "not yet completed" the renters' insurance "setup step". I keep telling the system to f*** off and it keeps telling me I need […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/12/2025

Started moving instruments today. One load of saxophones - I'd rather expected the baritone and it's bulky case to be pretty much a load by itself. But it, three altos, three stands, and a case full of accessories all packed nicely into a single trip […] [Original post on sigmoid.social]

A loaded bicycle cargo trailer on 20" wheels, stacked high with instrument cases and folded sax stands, secured with rope above and open frame trailer sides. It is behind to a 20" ebike, the rear of which is visible, with the trailer bar attached to the seat post. The setting is a yard with snow in the background, the rear of a house to the right side of the frame.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Wow. 2026 is gonna be a GREAT year for #Jazz standards entering the #PublicDomain! "Body and Soul", "But Not for Me", "Confessin'", "Embraceable You", "Exactly Like You", "Georgia on My Mind", "I Got Rhythm", "Lazy River", "Love For Sale", "Memories of You", "Mood Indigo", "On the Sunny Side of […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025

Should Exist: Air-lock tents on screen frames for sliding patio doors. Just a zippered tent with enough room to step into that gets swapped out for the screen frame in the winter. Yes I should quit smoking. Definitely. But in the meantime, not wasting heat or chilling the plants when I step […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

Something basic has changed with how I think about time since 2016. Most of my life I'd think of points down the road as such-n-such years/decades, or what age I'd be at some point, etc. Now, if I'm thinking of any multi-year span I now think how many election cycles or presidential […]

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Why is it that you sleep *in* a bed, but *on* a couch? Someone can be "on" a bed as long as they aren't reclined (at which point they are "in" the bed). But if you're sleeping on a couch, you are never "in" couch... Also, pets are never "in" your bed, they're "on" your bed - which is also odd.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

My new address is the farthest I've lived from the same little corner grocery store since I first moved to #MadisonWI in 2019. And yet that grocery is now tied with three others for being the closest to the new place. All FOUR are a half mile from me now. I'm not sure if I should be irritated […]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Emergency autonomous landing due to pilot incapacitation. youtu.be/K3Nl3LOZNjc @nyrath @isaackuo we live in the future.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

Moving, bit by bit, into a new place. It's an efficiency in a building with a common area including a public bookshelf, couches, etc. Soon on the list of things to move (into my tiny efficiency) is a nice-ish digital piano with fully weighted key action. I've got a few options of where to put […]

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Brad Grzesiak 🦆 @listrophy.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

Me: *explains NIST Boulder situation* Spouse, a public health nurse: OK. Sorry about your laser clock. Goodnight.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

O hive mind: Can you point me to 501(c)(3) nonprofit news organizations that are explaining the depth and breadth of Trump world corruption? The "mainstream" press is doing such an abysmal job on this, and I want to donate to journalists who get why this is so important to flag for public notice.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

Interesting - it looks like makeup over a bandage?

A zoomed and cropped image from DJT's Truth Social post from Dec 14th, shows his hands at his sides with what appears to be flesh toned bandaging on the back of the right hand, blended and disguised with makeup.

Original post: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115720167024828284

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