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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Third and final Metrolink train of the morning departed before dawn. Service frequency is way down, but the train is getting full and gasoline prices are way up. Seems like #Metrolink should be doing better.

Lancaster Metrolink station before dawn, seen from the train

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Charlie McHenry @charliemchenry.connectop.us.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Georgia just audited its voter rolls — and debunked Trump’s election lies…The list of states undermining Trump’s claims of widespread noncitizen voter fraud grew Tuesday, when a Georgia audit found the state’s voter rolls were 99.9% accurate and had no evidence of malicious manipulation […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Another brilliant idea! THIS is what the great John Lewis would call “GOOD TROUBLE” — Protesters in Minneapolis have reportedly been dressing up in jeans, body armor, and masks, and then walking into groups of ICE agents and accusing one or two of them of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

[US Pol: East Palestine] Remember the industrial train disaster in the small Ohio town called East Palestine? Would it shock you to learn that it hasn't been clean up properly? That people may still be at risk of cancer? These are the bigger stories we hear about. The weeks without power for […]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

@spocko I'd like to add that Open Street Map also shows "Lake Ontario".

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@futurebird Surely superintelligent AI will figure out how to reduce human suffering, or make a few humans wealthy beyond all need or comprehension. One of those, I think.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Sometimes when a datacenter puts too much a burden on the local grid they set up diesel generators just to keep the power going and the bits flowing. They puff little gray clouds into the air, but they GPUs stay warm and toasty humming right along. Unrelated. Have you seen this story? […]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

This translation leaves me wondering why.

screenshot of an automatic translation of Dutch to English

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Today an Air Force officer was talking to my tour group and said "bros and dudettes" and I wondered if those are parallel.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

[CEOs] I think I get it now. CEOs are influencers. The CEO of a public company, or of a private company that needs to raise a lot of funds can't just run the company and try to make money, they need to be a public person, interesting, controversial. They need to say things that will aid in […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

If you didn't hear Green was basically caught doing this. (having prompt text in his post) How cringe. Drama! Go nuts. sauropods.win/@futurebird/117008714…

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Bill Oliver, a member of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party, delivered a speech in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick: "Public confidence in the office of an advocate matters" he said then, without pausing, Oliver continued: "Here's a more natural […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An stout older white man, Bill Oliver, in a dark suit with a yellow tie in a paneled room that seems to be one of the hallowed halls of the Canadian legislator. He's looking down reading his speech.

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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 18/07/2026

Lutnick testified he cut off Epstein in 2005 and was never with him socially. He was photographed at an Epstein gala in 2012 and visited his private island the same year. The Commerce Secretary may have lied under oath. Nobody in this administration resigns.

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Trump official busted on Epstein again after ‘forgotten photo archive’ unearthed: report

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was exposed recently for having attended yet another previously undisclosed event “alongside Jeffrey Epstein,” writer Bekah Day reported Friday.Last year, Lutnick cla...

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Curt Olson @clolsonus.social.makerforums.info.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

I think if the air quality index in Northern Minnesota gets any worse through the night we are going to have molten rock coming out of the sky. I don't recall ever seeing it close to this bad before. We have been off the scale at times today.

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Lyle Solla-Yates @lyle.cville.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/economy/new-… “The legislation can play an important role in encouraging states and localities to make changes to expand housing supply, but it doesn’t require them to make those changes” #housing #zoning #shortage #LocalVeto

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Curt Olson @clolsonus.social.makerforums.info.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Big #BlackBear walking through our front yard a few minute ago!

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Curt Olson @clolsonus.social.makerforums.info.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Saw this on another site ...

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

The CRASH Clock paper is now peer-reviewed! So to celebrate, my co-authors and I wrote an explainer article (because how better to celebrate one article than by writing another... oh academia...) It's now published in The Conversation Canada […]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

As a male I don't know how I feel about having low emotional intelligence.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

X-59 is such an odd looking aircraft: youtu.be/gR4Xuslczoo The pilot has no forward window, and instead has a big TV. Some views of what the pilot sees are included in this video. There's an upper camera and a lower camera masked together.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

Power can be used to do things. But it can also be used to protect power. To make certain that you keep having power. To what degree do the people who have power use it to ensure that they continue to have power? How much of a nation's energy and resources are diverted to that cause? That is […]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

View from the Metrolink AV line today in Southern California #socal #photography

landscape view of trees, mountains, and clouds.

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Kirk Smith, PhD @kirk.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

[US traffic violence rant] Looking at local news, even just in the last year there's stuff like, "cyclist dead after being hit by four cars" "cyclist survives being trapped under bridge for 13 hours after jumping off to avoid SUV" I get there are worse countries than the US in terms of road […]

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Remember this picture, & others like it, every time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was #Amsterdam in the 1970s. Many of the cities we admire made tough choices regarding cars in the past, and are still making better choices today. Better choices instead of excuses.

Wide Amsterdam street jammed with colourful cars in the 1970s.

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GailWaldby@bsky.social❌👑 @gwaldby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Final scene in Star Trek IV: [Bird of Prey flies under the Golden Gate Bridge and crashes in to the sea] Humpback: "holy shit, WTF just happened?!" Whaliens: "Oh hey! We've been trying to reach you." Humpback: "the hoomans had us captive but we escaped" Whaliens […] [Original post on mstdn.plus]

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

@JessTheUnstill I think I'm thankful I've been mostly outside and mostly offline for the last few days and somehow I've missed some really stupid news.

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swope @swope.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

I took this photo earlier today. Can you guess the context? 😉

View of open double doors below a green exit sign. On the wall and on the doorframe are taped printed signs that say HUMANS.

Through the doors is a hallway with three humans.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

The real "wavestopper" that will protect your brain is a robust ad blocker, and get off of facebook. If I say that ads give out brainrot waves would people be more excited about this?

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