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@tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy

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#Canadian (sorry). Being kind, empathetic and supportive to others, #vaccines, #vegans and #LGBT+ are cool; convoys and racists and *phobes are not. Computer Engineer […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mas.to/@tezoatlipoca, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 4h

They say that you should live your life such that the world would be saddened by your absence. This is very true. Someone noteworthy said it much better but I can't recall who and web searching sucks now, so you'll have to attribute it to me. There is an analogue for one's professional/work […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

In line at the grocery store, waiting for the ONE human cashier. "Sir, there's an available kiosk at the self-checkout if you'd like.." "No thank you, ill wait." She looked at me weird. "Can I ask why not the self-checkout?" "Sure. Im perfectly capable of scanning my own things. In fact making […]

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@verge/117366246883… omg this guy and his actually _helping people_, GET HIM!

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Victoria @prokopets.masto.ink.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

A hand-drawn comic depicting modern digital infrastructure as a precarious tower of mismatched white blocks and pipes, covered at the top in a large pile of brown sludge labeled “AI SLOP.” The tower is labeled “ALL MODERN DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE.” An arrow points to its base with the caption, “A PROJECT SOME RANDOM PERSON IN NEBRASKA HAS BEEN THANKLESSLY MAINTAINING SINCE 2003.” The illustration humorously suggests that modern digital infrastructure is built on old, obscure projects maintained by individual developers and is now being buried under AI-generated code.

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

ok #apple friends, looking to avoid a trip to the #geniusbar here. Doing some FriendsNFamily #techsupport on a 2013 macbook (A1502). Sidestepping the reason why it won't power on or diagnosing power issues (I don't have the tools or the charger for that), I have the drive out (I had one of […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@elliott4mp/1173268… Oh fuck we have #libertarians here now too. Someone get the wasp spray. No thanks Derek. While its not perfect (at the moment anyway) I kinda like the idea of government doing a bunch of things so I don't have to worry about them […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

In other news I'm halfway through season 4 of #Reacher. Ritchson isn't plumbing any new depths here but if you enjoy Reacher punching bad guys in the face I'd say it's as good as season 3. Not quite the masterpiece of Season 1, but a worthwhile entry and I'd welcome season 5 if it's as good […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

My company IT sends out security training and tests (about phishing etc.). They are mandatory and if we don't complete them in a timely fashion our email access is disabled. This isn't the threat that they seem to think it is. Oh no! _Anyways.._

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

_As the world is going to shit,_ your Hunt For Red October quote of the day: `When I was twelve, I helped my daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement because some fool parked a dozen warheads 90 miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a couple of hundred warheads off Washington […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

In honour of the world going to shit, I will now post a _The Hunt For Red October_ quote of the day, starting with `This business will get out of control, and we will be lucky to live through it.`

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Martin Holland @mho.social.heise.de.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The big debate about the “Navier Stokes blowup” and #AI has now two protagonists that are (only?) active here on #Mastodon: @tristanbuckmaster& @andreasthom That's something new for a story this big. It's especially unexpected since on the topic of #AI so much of all the talk happens on #X […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: social.gamefan.net/@gamewire/117242… > ASUS estore price starting at $6,299.00 (CDN) JEE-ZUS WEPT I mean, `Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 290HX Plus` `GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU+ 24 GB of GDDR7 VRAM` sure. That's pretty kick-ass. How much RAM comes with the base model? […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I follow enough #design and #apple and #tech and #software #design people on here on BOTH sides that my feed is extremely exciting today (there is apparently another Big Apple Event where they show off the CEO's New Clothes err Devices). Half the comments are OMG THIS IS AWESOME! GHOST OF STEVE […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Wait.. WHAT? RENT CAN GO DOWN? I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT COULD _DO_ THAT! pubeurope.com/@canada/1172419522202…

Canada (@canada@pubeurope.com)

Attached: 1 image Toronto rent prices declined by 1.8 per cent last month The cost of rent in Toronto continued a years-long decline last month but new data suggests that multi-bedroom… #Canada #Toronto #apple-news https://www.europesays.com/canada/202157/

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@tezoatlipoca/11720254209247… This whole #lakeontario #lakeamerica problem on Canadian websites really comes down to "noone understands how the web works anymore - and the people who do got laid off for CoPilot". My $0.02 is, as a corporation, you really shouldn't have a […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I don't get to work directly with our software team much these days. But I still get to go out for lunch with a few of them, part of our regular "lunch" crowd. Its been a bad year or two. SW morale is low. The new SW mgr is an idiot who doesn't advocate for the team, is merely the executive's […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Two books talking
Younger book "What's happening?"
Older book "The wheel of life has turned, my child... Our time on the front table of the bookshop is over, and, like brave birds flying south for the winter, we summer books must journey back to the shelves."

Younger book "But I like it here!"
Older book "All things must pass. The beach reads table you knew is already gone. The time of autumn books is upon us."

Younger book "Will we ever return?"
Older book "The cycle is eternal: the Christmas bestsellers and prize nominees will come and go, but people will always want something nice to read on holiday."

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5… Well, it would be easier if #app #developers just made decent mobile web services so you could just use your device's #browser instead of making some 12GB monstrosity that uses seven different […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Sigh. I did NOT know that #timcurry was the #broadway casting for #mozart in #amadeus counter to #IanMcKellen's Salieri. Don't get me wrong Tom Hulce and F. Murray Abraham are the GOAT but I would have loved to have seen the Tim Curry stage run too!

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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Hear me out what if we used the meta settlement money to pay for free transit, free sports and extracurriculars, more libraries, and safe streets for all kids?

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Erik @erikcieslewicz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I cannot stress enough what a boon Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is. Free books, delivered directly to the door of people with babies and young children. Such a treat for us to give our boy a new experience like that every month for years. In fourth grade he tested at reading at a seventh […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Good job death. <slow clap> OF all the people born in 1946 you could have taken the fat bloated bloviated orange turd in the White House but NOOOOO you had to take one of the few remaining beacons of hope and kindness in this work. Death, you miserable piece of shit. Rest peacefully Dolly you […]

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Sean Coates @sean.scoat.es.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Ten years ago today, all* of #Canada gathered together to watch The Tragically Hip's last show. Gord Downie, the band's lead singer and main songwriter, had been diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer, and The Hip went out on a farewell tour (though they did not call it that). I did not get […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Intrigued by workmen doing work things along the sidewalk of our street frontage, I went outside to see (they're laying neighborhood fibre). My several decades older neighbour was also out there. Nodding towards the (entirely non-caucasian) work crew out of earshot, he says "Couldn't they find […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Logging in at work for the first time this morning, #Windows, #Outlook or #Teams just prompted me to "Sign in (to Microsoft) to enable offline mode."... for something. <pained expression>

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

So I just started re-reading a #novel series that I first read over a decade ago and re-read every few years. We all have our comfort reads. When I quit #smoking 7? years ago I discovered something fascinating - as my sense of taste and smell came back, my culinary tastes changed. Turns out I'm […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Cutle - its like #wordle but you draw a line to cut a random shape in half. New shape every day. pfiffel.com/cutle

Cut the shape perfectly in half!

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 13/08/2026

Cutle #263: 🎉 50:50 🎉 (2026-08-13) - pfiffel.com/cutle

Cut the shape perfectly in half!

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Jesse Chilton🇨🇦🇺🇦 @jchilton666.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Went into the city (#Toronto) to see favourite band (#rush) play last night, after waiting what seems like #forever. Had excellent dinner out with #friends before, a fantabulous rock show, then late night snack at Apache Burger in #etobicoke on the way home. #Traffic was kind, nothing broke down […]

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Flagship fediverse servers are fundamental to the growth of our network. They don't shutdown without notice, and generally are more trusted and actively moderated and updated. That being said, as a dev/admin of two flagship servers, it's our responsibility to build and support FULL account […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

My former manager (semi-retired to a different role) send me a congratulations on my work anniversary this morning. 13 yrs ago today I joined this company. (I had worked here before, left for a now defunct #Canadian fruit-related tech company, then returned after they imploded - so really its […]

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Dark Phoenix 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @darkphoenix.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

This is how you do it... An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels, make honey, and teach employees how to become beekeepers share.google/lxr80f4r48r4nekHO

An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels, make honey, and teach employees how to become beekeepers

An Ohio solar farm invited 3 million bees to work beneath its panels, make honey, and teach employees how to become beekeepers, and it is working.

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Im a sucker for old-timey newsreels and so sometimes I get lost in British Pathe's newsreel archive (which is _fantastic_ and all here: www.britishpathe.com). I think its the clipped, overcranked mid-Atlantic delivery that gets me. (Also, on less fluffy news […] [Original post on mas.to]

A clip from a colour filmed newsreel fluff-piece about Salesman training from 1961: https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/36343/

In it, several Mad-Men 60s suit wearing dorks with overly brill-creme hairstyles stand around investigating various pieces of equipment that presumeably they are learning about to sell. In the background are several colourful charts such as a pie-chart titled "Use of Time!", where a typical sales person's 24 hr day is broken down into sleep, sales research, calling prospects and other activities. Even back then in 1961 they knew about work life balance because at the bottom of the pie chart is "Work to Live? or Live to work?"

The other chart is titled "The Elusive Miss AIDA", where AIDA stands for Attention, Interest, Desire, Action (in today's sales world D is Decision), but the core concept is the same: get their attention.. make them interested... get them to WANT it (or coerce them into making a decision.. that they want it) and then smoothing the way for action.. which is I guess where they pay you lots abunch of money.

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@poshelnahuymedia/… This reminds me my friend Jack. I worked at #blackberry for a bit and one of the "perks" at the time was employee pricing on devices. After the lackluster launch of the #playbook #tablet, it was a yardsale - we could grab up to […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

ok who designed this form? The field is `Unplanned Request` The only options are `X` and `x`.. which is... supposed to be `yes` and `smaller yes`? `less yes`? Or is `regular yes` and `EMPHATIC YES`

Snip of part of an Excel form.

The field is `Unplanned Request` The only options are `X` and `x`.. which is... supposed to be `yes` and `smaller yes`?

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

I follow/subscribe to a lot of content creators on #youtube, but I don't _really follow_ them, you know? Like their stuff comes to the top of my feed and Ill browse whats new, maybe watch a thing or two.. but I don't go out of my _way_ per se. Except for interviews by #RickBeato. Ooo. New […]

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/07/2026

Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Hey, how did the #kitchenerwaterloo #palestinian festival go yesterday? Sadly, I was not able to go, but I drove by and it seemed quite packed. #kitchener #palestine #waterloo @waterlooregion @WaterlooEvents

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Dear #kobo, i appreciate the "series" view of My #Books. But could you...put them in order maybe? The publish by date and series order are known on the backend...

A view of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time novel series in Kobo e reader. The app's "series" view is great for grouping books, but doesnt display them in any kind of order.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

But what *is* music? Do the dunes not sing? Were they not made by the hand of the creator to sing to us?

"click on every object built to produce music"

There are sand dunes, boots, a helicopter, cymbal, violin, and shoes. I have check everything.

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

My employer's campaign to _prevent me from #working_ continues. Our owning overlords changed over a year ago and our new corporate IT function.... is draconian. First our Windows PCs were reimaged with a restrictive corporate W11 image. Could still get stuff done because we had access […]

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Dan Q @dan.m.danq.me.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it […]

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

A screenshot of a threads post showing a picture of Count Binface by “natedaleymusic” reading:

I can’t lie. I’m hooked.

I just want to see just how well a joke candidate, with no real policies, a seemingly thin grip on reality, and who seems more concerned with being a talking point and making a farce of the democratic process than actually serving local residents, fares against Count Binface.

Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Sigh. The downside to #digital #sovereignty and #selfhosting all your own data/services in a #homelab is you're really boned when the power goes out and you're not home to bring everything back up. YOU know you have to power on the external drive enclosure before booting otherwise you get […]

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Third spruce tree on the left @tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Friends birthday this afternoon. Road trip into the city. So it means an hour by car to #TTC #kipling station, then an hour on the subway to get downtown. All things considered not too bad for a 100km drive. (and saves #QEW congestion, parking downtown hassles) Its weird on one hand "going […]

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Fediverse onboarding is difficult. But it doesn't have to be. I've been working on a brand new fediverse.info that brings together everything, in one place, making this place easier to understand and join. Once you join, we can help you find […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The new fediverse.info landing page

The new fediverse.info landing page in dark mode