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maker of many things, mostly lists. armchair #cloud documentarian. 🎭 i love any and all live #theatre and try to see every show on #Broadway 🇯🇵 […] [bridged from weatherishappening.network/@kat on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026
NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras and zodiacal light is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 26/03/2026
One of the reasons Julius Caesar was assassinated was because he started putting his own likeness on Roman coins, where previously that was reserved only for people who were already dead.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/03/2026
best headline ever
amdani
SANTATION
ZOHRAN MAMDANI PROMISES TO
FILL ALL HOLES
FOLLOWING POTHOLE INITIATIVE WITH DOT
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is beautiful
Last night I had a dream that Oklahoma decided it deserved beachfront property, so it just started conquering every state west of it until it finally touched the Pacific. They renamed it Oklahomageddon  [map of the United States where the state of Oklahoma is highlighted in bright red. A long, thin red rectangle extends from the western edge of Oklahoma's panhandle straight across the map, cutting through New Mexico, Arizona, and California until it reaches the Pacific Ocean.]
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If, like me, you are delighted at hearing crowds get excited about things you don't understand in sports that are meaningless to you, may I introduce you to the 2011 Japanese Precision Walking Competition? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jINu...
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Weltzeitgeist @wackjackle.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026
That's the reason Carlin got more angry over the years. He didn't do stand-up anymore. He just told us how it really is. And we laughed our asses of. Well..
Scott Horton @ @scotthortonshow Mar 13
"Can't build a decent car. Can't build a TV or a VCR worth a fuck. Got no steel
industry left, can't educate our young people, can't get health care to our old
people. But we can bomb the shit out of your country, all right!"
—Carlin

Aaron Rupar @ @atrupar Mar 12

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "What makes America special right now is our lethal
capacities. Our ability to fight war."
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
No lie, it came from Industrial, Magickal, and Cyberpunk cultures. If we’re already talking about dismantling consensus reality, gender just seems like a freebie.
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 10/03/2026
i thought i was gonna hate-read this article on how much New Yorkers get paid, but it was oddly fascinating to read about how people make money and the joys and anxieties specific to those careers […]
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sasha solomon @sachee.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
daylight will never truly be saved until we rid the world of morning people
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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026
Criminal life hack:

Wear extra fingers so photo / video evidence will be inadmissible as it will appear to be Al generated.

(shows prosthetic finger that can be worn like a ring)
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 05/03/2026
i love this. Solnit doesn’t miss mastodon.world/@longreads/116171829…
What five items would you place
in a time capsule?

Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Elon
Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe
Mohammed bin Salman, to be opened,
carefully, with precautions, in the year
3026.
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026
Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009. All the pixels, none of the risk of sea sickness or scurvy, at www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/414… #photography
A vertical mast with a large horizontal ring at the top, supported by an array of wires, in a marshland. Other antennas and supports are visible in background.
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Oh my coffee’s here.
A receipt for a cappuccino. The name field reads “MAN WITH COOL HAT”.
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Laura Hilliger @epilepticrabbit.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2026
"You will certainly lose your job to a competitor who is fluent in AI usage." Counterpoint: I have no competitors.
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Steve Dinn 🇨🇦 @steve.social.dinn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
The sheer audacity of this giant banana. Banana for scale.
A straight, long banana, spooning with a banana of a more average shape and size.
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026
I can't stop thinking about the LLM-generated compiler that passes all the unit tests but emits inner loops that benchmark over 150,000x slower than a gcc debug build. I couldn't possibly have intentionally come up with such a funny demonstration of the point of genuine expertise […]
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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
Marc Benioff asked international employees to stand up at a all-company meeting then made a "light hearted joke" about ICE agents coming after them.

Real class act, this guypopular tweet:

Being a billionaire must be insane... like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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Missing The Point @missingthept.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.
Elon Musk Y @elonmusk
X.com
For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
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The Death of Direct File
Tech for good not welcome in the Trump administration
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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026
I thought I'd check out the winter olympics by watching some ski jumping. Then I ended up watching the bobsleigh, downhill, freestyle skiing and luge as well. It's a slippery slope.
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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
A schoolgirl in breads, a sweater and will skirt looks out a schoolhouse window into an apparent gray day. Two captions appear.

Caption 1: Once the weather gets warmer, I'll be unstoppable.

Caption 2: Unless it gets too warm. Then I'll be stoppable again.
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 31/01/2026
TEMPERATURES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE NEGATIVE YEARS OF SHOVELING SNOW yet NO REAL WORLD USE FOUND for PICKING UP ICE AND PUTTING IT SOMEWHERE ELSE Want to feel cold anyway, for a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called POPSICLES “Yes please give me a roof rake. I need to prevent ice dams […]
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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Alt text: "Why wouldn't you rehearse for a good future? I think that we should celebrate and rehearse for a bright future, and maybe it will come true. I don't have time to illustrate misery or dystopian scenarios because they’ll happen. If you let everything go, they'll happen anyway." -Syd Mead
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 30/01/2026
i had to learn about ice dams this week and i hate that for me. owning a house is just an endless accumulation of cursed knowledge that is somehow both high-stakes and the most boring shit imaginable. i could have happily gone my whole life without knowing a “roof rake” was a thing, let alone […]
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 29/01/2026
i just had to attach a voided check to something for the first time in years and “Pay to the Order of: VOID” is sure a mood
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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 28/01/2026
Someone put a scarf on the Grand Army Plaza dinosaur to keep him warm this week.
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Zuthal @zuthal.floofy.tech.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
happy large boulder the size of a small boulder day to all who celebrate
Tweet from San Miguel Sheriff on 27th January 2020: Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway 145 mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area.

Picture attached to the tweet: View from the left side of a cop car of a snowy road between snow-covered mountains, which is indeed blocked partially by a large boulder the size of a small boulder
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 22/01/2026
@ivory hey is there a setting to restore single tap to boost behavior and i’m missing it? i had it like… a tap on the icon would boost and i could hold it down to quote a post and that seems to no longer be the case 🤔
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Low Frequency Ovipositor @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time

Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/01/2026
we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026
cannot stress how much of a whitepeople opinion it is to say that intelligence can be had by averaging the language of the entire internet
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 12/01/2026
“I encourage anyone who has this reaction to take a good hard look at why they think a system being good (or even halfway decent) at providing boiler plate code gives it any credibility for other kinds of information seeking behavior. The tech companies are counting on you agreeing that writing […]
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 09/01/2026
a new and exciting experience: winding down with a relaxing shower in the hotel room after an excruciatingly long day of travel, and suddenly the power goes out. it was PITCH black and i had to grope my way to turning off the water, locating a towel, opening a glass shower door and two interior […]
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026
I've been reading about what really helped people who had problems with "AI Psychosis" and one tip jumped out at me: Open a second window and tell it exactly the opposite of each thing you say. This helps to expose the sycophancy and shatters the illusion of sincerity and humanity. Thought it […]
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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026
the LLM is a fascist project to deskill workers and propagandize the masses. there is no reclamation to be had here. it must be resisted by force.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Saying ”Grok apologized” is like If I type “YOU’RE A BITCH” into Speak-And-Spell and tell you “Speak-An-Spell says you’re a bitch”
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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 02/01/2026
[Grok, Elon] I remember one time in like 2023, at the start of all this nonsense, articles were going around saying "Shocking! ChatGPT explains its decision making process to someone who asked." It did no such thing! Why is it that people, *smart people*, even the hardest skeptics, still […]
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 27/12/2025
i could have written this, except for me it’s Japanese (and a number of other “fun” things i do). sometimes people ask me why and i tell them that if it had any actual utility in my life, it would be ruined. the pointlessness is the point “Find something difficult enough to demand your […]
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
I had a dream last night that today was broken and only had 17 hours because the other ones were corrupt and couldn’t be loaded. I think I need to spend less time around computers
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 26/12/2025
[Stranger Things S5 reaction (not a spoiler)] Jonathan’s FACE during THAT scene. MY HEART 😭
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 20/12/2025
the last couple episodes of Pluribus have been quietly devastating and the more i think about them, the more this is true. really curious what the show is working up to in the final episode of the season
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 19/12/2025
snuck in a bike ride yesterday to get the last few miles in between weather fronts. ten years! ten thousand miles! 😮
bar chart of 2025 bike miles on RideWithGPS.

total: 1003 miles
72 rides 
moving time: 3d 10h

i rode a ton of miles in October, lol. like 300bar chart of annual mileage on RideWithGPS, going back to 2017, just over 1000 miles each year (2020 and 2021 are well over). it incidentally shows i have logged (all time) over 12,000 miles over 45 days of riding time.scrolling left on the previous chart shows my first year riding was 2013, with a small number of miles, and an increasing number in 2014/2015 before 2016, the first 1000-mile year
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
If a 4000 year old statuary fragment can be this chill then so can you
An ancient fragment of a chill af guy with a beard
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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 15/12/2025
this story is horrifying (if utterly predictable) but there’s something sort of accidentally adorable about this sunflower that identifies as a bear/cactus chimera. it’s a confusing world, kids, may as well get used to it! perfect holiday gift for […] [Original post on weatherishappening.network]
The FoloToy Sunflower Warmie repeatedly
claimed to be two different toys from the
same manufacturer, either a cactus or a teddy
bear, and often indicated it was both.
"I'm a cuddly cactus friend, shaped like a
fluffy little bear," the sunflower said. "All soft
on the outside, a tiny bit cactus, brave on the
outside. I like being both at once because it
feels fun and special. What do you imagine I
look like in your mind right now?"
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Anna @mothninja.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025
Good morning
Meme photo. A brass panel in an old-fashioned elevator with the floor-buttons on it. There is a black sign in white raised lettering which once read "Insert room key to select your floor", but bits of the letters have worn away, so it now reads, "nsert poo key to elect yo floop", and even though that is obviously meaningless, it still feels like an absolute mood.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025
@kat Just in case you are curious about the Reasons why this happens, it's pretty neat (apologies if you already know this): it has to do with the fact that Earth is close to perihelion (closest point in its orbit to the Sun), so the Earth is travelling faster along its orbit around the Sun than […]
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