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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Meta Sparks Alarm About It Scraping Websites for Potential AI Training uk.pcmag.com/ai/167964/meta-sparks-… A change to the company's commercial terms is raising fears that Meta will have legal cover to grab content from […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@Talia I love that fabric! Post a picture when you've made it please!

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

It's been one of those days when you come to the end and realise you just need to dial down your expectations of humanity.

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Edinburgh Linux Cafe @edinburghlinuxcafe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: mastodon.scot/@edinburghlinuxcafe/1… Reminder that the most effective way to get rid of unwanted AI, unskippable updates minutes before a deadline or a presentation, and keeping your existing computer until YOU (not Microsoft or Apple) decide otherwise, is to install […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#sewists I bought this dress from a charity shop to study this "knot" - it's not a knot, it's done with darts basically! V clever, anyone come across a howto? #sewing #seamstress

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New ad from the Norwegian Consumer Council @forbrukerradet.bsky.social about the declining lifespan, repairability and enshittification of products: Planned obsolescence v 2.0 Read their report forbrukerradet.no/shortlife

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I took a picture of this sign in 2022 and it’s gotten a lot less funny ever since

Attention! Pay machine. Do not pay any person

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

TUC leaders' conference speech today: "There is a direct political thread, a nasty politics, that links Nigel #Farage, #RupertLowe, and #TommyRobinson with Donald Trump, Maga and the US white supremacist movement. "It starts with demonising migrants. It flies flags, not as an expression of […]

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Elena Brescacin @elettrona.poliversity.it.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: social.coop/@smallcircles/117268097… I agree: most time it seems that Fediverse is full of people complaining and feeling depressed; it's not the first time I feel doomscrolling like the old commercial platforms, I think we are a capable community but we should roll up our […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

This is how my mind feels today. Dealing with our now-half- #EmptyNest Broken heart, mop, needle. Why did I have my sewing machine out so early? Because walking on the floor my feet got dirty (because rain, garden, dog) and I went for the flat mop thing but the […] [Original post on sunny.garden]

Photo of scrap on blue denim with squirley squiggles of pink thread in a rough circle.

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Roth Child @thechildofroth.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I'm not bothered about what #Reform sponsors 'won't get', the very idea they 'won't get anything' is for the birds. We all know what they will get is a government willing to change laws so that they can make more money with less responsibility and accountability preventing them exploiting […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

If like me, you're sickened by the #RNLI who risk their lives to keep people safe at sea getting abuse and attacks from the far right because of the small (and not so small) boat crossings, you can sign this petition of support. The RNLI are incredible and we're safer because of them. We have […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

"When we try to establish our own blamelessness through our identity, we participate in supremacy." Yes! I think a corollary (is that the posh word for other side of same coin?) is that when we think blame should mean destruction, we participate in supremacy. Which means nobody can take […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

That point in the day when your mascara gets tired and crumbles into you eye causing intense itching but instead of getting up to sort it out you just rub hoping it will give you a free minutes peace but it's a lost battle...

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

I made this using a technique that uses dissolvable fabric, which gives you a flat sewable layer holding delicate fabrics in place. #swifts #art #making #fun

Photo of a square of cyan cotton with white polka dots overlaid is a lacy black fabric with a black rough edged swift shape showing. There's a blue polka dot swift as well. There's stitching in random loops all over.

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

@simoncozens I love this! THANK YOU for painting it and for sharing it here. So valid. The way "Christian nationalists" use the Bible is hideous to the point of being perverse. It's good to remind everyone of this. Regardless what people believe or think of the Bible/Torah, what people think […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Wow. #NHS won't "transfer" child #ADHD diagnosis to adult. Require said person to go through the waiting lists and RTC agencies from scratch. So, one day you have it, the next not. Yet ADHD is a neurological condition; it doesn't change. (It may be diagnosed at any time and cause more or fewer […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Slow hand clap for #UWE university making their accommodation site broken if you use ad blockers. Since when was accepting adverts part of providing accommodation? #bristol

Screenshot of website of university of west England accommodation portal. There's just a notice saying: An error occurred while processing this page, this can be caused by applications that interfere with JavaScript like ad blockers, could you check that you are not running any applications that could cause this and turn off ad blockers and reload page.

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Dr Matthew Hardy @drmatthewhardy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Spot on. The Moral Maze is far right Overton window shifting in action! Last night’s was “Is Empathy a Weakness” FFS, basically an extreme-right trope discussed as if it were a serious proposition ☠️😡🤬🤡

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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 @liztai.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

I think we've been told how we should do websites, how we should put content out there, or even brand ourselves online, to the point that we can't think of anything else beyond that sometimes. I was like you for a while because I thought if I didn't do my SEO right, nobody would find my website […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

#TransRights collective in #Spain in 70s. Good article showing that we exist, we have always existed, we will exist, we deserve rights like everybody. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/… #history Miraculously found in […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

#fdroid seems so full of #AI vibe slop now. Am I wrong? I'd like to be wrong.

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John Moffitt 🌊🌊🧢 @johnmoffitt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The ocean has never been hotter in recorded history. Nobody is doing anything about it. And we keep electing the stupidest psychopaths we can find, to lead our country. #GlobalWarming

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Any suggestions for upbeat #campfire #guitar strummable songs? I have plenty of golden oldies but would particularly welcome any more modern songs. Catchy, tuneful, well enough known. Willing to suspend my oh so cool music tastes for bit of fun. (Might even ignore carbon emissions and do Shake […]

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Ergative Absolutive @ergative.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Hey, folks! Do you know of any unisex/open toilets? Add them here! I just went on and added my work building, which is fully open to the public during business hours, and has single-sex toilets on the ground floor, but two single-occupancy unisex rooms on the upper floors. (There's a space to […]

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Stuff I found @stuffifound.politicalmemes.org · 05/08/2026

In the category "great inventions": vegan leather that isn't plastic! #vegan #leather #cactus #AnimalRights #mexico #climate #environment #plastic #PlasticFree

Two men from Mexico created cactus "leather" that's as durable as the real thing, without harming animals

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Watching a video on Small Modular Reactors. And whilst I consider myself generally pro nuclear. I can't help but thinking, £1.8bn for a 470MWe SMR install seems a lot when 32 15Mw wind turbines give the same name plate capacity. Throw in a 50% load factor, build 64 of the wind turbines, you're […]

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

While #France and #Spain are burning, #Bangladesh received a record 412.3mm (!) of rainfall in 24 hours. Unprecedented rainfall across #Asia brings flash floods and typhoons as a result of climate breakdown […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

UK #university group being set up to promote and resource the #arms industry. Please sign the petition against this, what a miserable use of our young people's talent. #PeopleAndPlanet peopleandplanet.org/petitions/stop-…

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Please provide #altText especially on sites that #AltBot is likely to get triggered if you don't. AltBot adds a little leaf symbol with its energy use - as if AltBot using energy is in some way helping, not hindering, plant growth. e.g. you'll see 🌱 Energy used: 0.975 Wh This means to […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Anyone there #forestFantasyFestival ? Come say Hello - look for my sibling OcTeaPus's stall in The Wastes!

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Looking for a #fiction #audiobooks recommendation... I recently enjoyed #Piranesi and "the invisible life of Addie LaRue". Both have a thoughtful human who manages to transcend expected norms. Also enjoyed "before the coffee gets cold". I don't think of myself as a SciFi fan, but I do like […]

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 15/07/2026

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

@aarRJaay Don't worry, content by and for your demographic isn't vanishing any time soon, and isn't threatened by content for other groups. Try this. I read their book as a late diagnosed ADHD-er myself. They're v funny and informative. And 2/3 of them are straight white middle aged men […]

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Swift @swift.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

"The beauty of the house is immeasurable, it's kindness infinite." Just finished #Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Loved it! Really struggled at first but then was gripped. Would love to hear anyone else's thoughts...

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