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

@pbloem Strangely, my current laptop has one. Yes, it's a tiny bit faster running compute intensive loads, but also cranks the fan up to the point where it sound like the poor computer is trying to do a vertical takeoff and so I generally leave that key alone.

Cropped image of the keyboard on a Alienware m15 R5 GeForce RTX 3070 laptop on which FN+F1 is some kind of boost/performance/"full speed" key.

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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

@futurebird @alter_kaker I know you don't like the browser based UI, but I'd recommend JupyterLab -- Honestly, It's become my default working environment for Python for a long time, implementing and testing stuff bit by bit in notebooks even if they'll eventually be stand-alone scripts […]

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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 · 14/01/2026

@grammargirl Is this a phone-only thing? Is the portal just a website that could be opened on a computer (or even a tablet)? I've never *tried* filling out web forms or anything on a phone, but generally would have assumed it would be impossible or at least entirely unreasonable.

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

@ricci Eh... it's pretty much what I remember movies being like, period.

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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 · 10/01/2026

@Alephwyr I'm constantly dumbfounded by headlines that just don't parse as anything until I realize they're sports related. Then they still don't parse to anything I can make heads or tales out of, but at least I know why.

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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 · 09/01/2026

@futurebird I've always thought of Apple phones as status symbols. I figure standing out and being recognizable is pretty much the point? If someone just wants a phone, they'd get a generic Android and pay 1/10th of the price.

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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

@futurebird Like impossible stuff *actually* happening and most people being just "okay" with it all because they don't really get that the stuff happening really *is* impossible. And a subset of folks realizing that all of the reality they are experiencing has to be fake in some way for it to […]

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

@futurebird Idea: A [fantasy|horror|sci-fi] setting with the normal physical impossibilities and tropes on tap that the genre expects, most people going with it and taking it all as given. ("Oh, magic's real.. Okay", "Oh, FTL and anti-gravity are possible? Okay") And a subset of lucid people […]

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

@futurebird I love this! How have I never heard about this cheese? "Jefferson's policy to refuse gifts while in office led him on January 4, 1802, to pay Leland $200 for the cheese" " reported to still be there as late as March of 1804 (at which point it was described as "very far from being […]

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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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Steve Leach @stevenaleach.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

@futurebird "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nameless Island is an island in Sitka, Alaska, United States.[1] Nameless Island was named in the year 1809 by a Russian navigator, and the present name is a translation from the Russian.[2] " […]

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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

Seriously, I keep trying to imagine what personal possessions (not including cars or bank accounts) anyone could POSSIBLY own that would add up to $100,000.00, and I just can't do it. But the system says I'm going to start being charged an additional fee.... for not having enough to be worth […]

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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 · 28/12/2025

@hrast I definitely can't imagine an advantage. I don't now what "sticky feed" means, but any which way I try to picture it text is read left to right and top to bottom. "Scrolling" posts sideways... wouldn't work. You could have left and right looking "previous" and "next" clickers, but each […]

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