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I'm also thanne on the Well, aka RuthAnne Bevier. Retired CISO at an academic research institution, still active in infosec part time, and happily spending more time […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.sdf.org/@thanne, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Russell (Robin) Phillips @rpbook.gts.phillipsuk.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026
I approve of this method of proving humanity. Much better than asking me to tick all the boxes containing buses or whatever. (Seen at a UK National Archives survey)
A question asking the user to prove that they are a human by answering the question, "Which of the following best describes your involvement in creating the Domesday Book in the year 1086? I was ..."

There are several options, including "William the conqueror and commissioned the Domesday book"
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Meme butters cat (with bow tie and holding a phone receiver)
Caption: “thank you for calling tech support. have you tried sitting on the keyboard?”
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Heathrow airport has special corridors reserved for passengers with antlers, which seems very thoughtful of them but also oddly specific.
Sign reading: “→
Flight Connections
All terminals”

with a pictograph of a person walking and two pictographs of airplanes that appear to be radiating out of their head, resembling antlers.
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David Scott Moyer @farbel.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 21 What's the latest in the writing process you've found a mistake? I have come to the realization that you never find all of them.
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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: ⁂ @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email. Here's an email I got from one of them. Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […] [Original post on toot.wales]
Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Eve Sharon Hart's Post Imagine what beautiful world it would be if only the billionaires had love rather than greed filling their hearts.
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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
Message for the day – Commit a random act of maintenance! Listen to it, look at it, wipe it, clean it, lube it, brush it, tighten it, grease it, turn it, check it, test it, sweep it, mop it, paint it, tape it, sand it, tweak it, tune it, adjust it, wash it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Fight entropy! Commit a random act of maintenance today.
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
the minister for crimes issues a statement
Larry the cat posing for press photographers outside Downing St, London
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
In any case, my first suggestion for anyone interested in election security is to become a poll worker in your local jurisdiction. They need the help, you perform an important service to your neighbors, and you'll learn a TON about how elections actually work on the ground.
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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026
Someone on BlueSky rightly commented, “Queer rights are just a canary for every other human right there”
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Rina 「積ん読」 Volpina 🏳️‍⚧️🦊 @rinavolpina.com · 17/07/2026
Thank you AWS for the impromptu cardio (This is a known issue, currently being fixed)
Billing email from Amazon Web Services alerting me that my monthly S3 bucket budget of $2 has been exceeded by $1,271,309,247.83
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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026
Written days after inauguration 👀
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Nicholas Weaver @ncweaver.skerry-tech.com · 16/07/2026
US higher education was a huge export industry and a huge part of our successful brain-drain strategy that kept our economy the best in the world. And the US government just threw it all away because Trump, Stephen Miller and company are racist bumblefucks.
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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026
Long Term Parking. French sculpture.
A sculpture called “Long Term Parking” located at the Château de Montcel in Jouy-en-Josas, France. This 60 feet (18-meter) high sculpture consists of sixty mostly French cars set in 40,000 pounds (18,000 kg) of concrete. It was created in 1982 by a French-born American artist named Armand Pierre Fernandez (1928–2005).
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Classic Web @classicweb.site · 17/10/2025
well.com in 1996 web.archive.org/web/19961219232841/…
The Well, December 1996
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Microsoft @microsoft.lea.pet.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026
new windows feature will just shoot you in the left shoulder
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Steve Bellovin @stevebellovin.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026
In honor of June 6, International Antifa Day.
Allied troops going ashore from a landing craft at Normandy.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?
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Mary Mazzocco @mazz.mastodon.well.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026
RIP, Nicole Hollander.
SYLVIA BY NICOLE HOLLANDER. Comic strip panel shows two people sitting at a bar. Man in a suit says, “Can you imagine a world without men?” Woman in a flamboyant dress with big hair says,”No crime, and lots of fat happy women,”
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Mary Mazzocco @mazz.mastodon.well.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
#lichensubscribe
Serpentine rock with gray green and orange lichens
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Doctor M. Popular @docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
tired: soy boy wired:
A Senor Sisig burrito with tofu inside. It is wrapped snuggly in aluminum foil and has a sticker on the side with "Tofu Senor" written on it in a sharpie marker so the servers know what type of burrito is inside.
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026
I am... really tempted to pin this to the top of my account... Print it and put it on my office door... send it as my email signature... wear it around my neck at conferences.... www.bbc.com/worklife/article/201807…
A flowchart to find out if you're mansplaining.  The first step is "did she ask you to explain it" and if the answer is yes, not mansplaining.  This goes through various other scenarios, the funniest/saddest of which is "Do you have more relevant experience" and if the answer is "she has more" then it's "definitely mansplaining" while if the answer is "she has more and is a well known expert" then it's "Just stop talking now"
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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026
extremely mad because my relative in American prison has let me know that from now on, instead of being charged once per book or per song and having the files added permanently to his account, he's going to ALSO be charged by the minute to read or listen to music on the tablets that are the only […]
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Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos @jimsphotos.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
One of many Cormorants on the edge of the lake today #nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
a large black bird with a white seasonal crest
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Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos @jimsphotos.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
Great Crested Grebe #nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
a small water bird with a colourful crest
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 28/03/2026
Nobody predicted frog costumes and choreography at the No Kings D.C. protest but here we are and honestly? We needed this. 🐸💃 Protestors dancing to “War — What Is It Good For?” reminds us that joy IS the resistance. You can’t crush a movement that knows how to dance. #NoKings2026
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026
Beach day!
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Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos @jimsphotos.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026
Defender of the realm - Eurasian Robin #nature #birds #Wildlife #photography #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #BirdsOfMastodon #UK #BirdScrolling
a close up photo of a small bird with a red breast
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Mary Mazzocco @mazz.mastodon.well.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
#silentsunday
Hilltop with twisted oak tree and a labyrinth outlined in cobblestones on bare ground. Rows of green hills stretch out to the horizon, thin white clouds cover the sky.
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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026
I was gonna delete my linkedin but this is more amusing. (inspired by a screen shot that went around of a former Microsoft principal engineer, now goose farmer)
A screen shot of LinkedIn that shows an entry under experience that says:

Field Manager
Tin Barn Farm • Full-time
Jan 2020 - Present • 6 yrs 3 mos
Talent, OR • On-site
Ongoing support of tomatoes, dahlias, and chickens.
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Matthias Kirschner @kirschner.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026
RE: eupolicy.social/@finnmyrstad/116141… Here a small movie by the Norwegian Consumer Council inspired by @pluralistic
eupolicy.social
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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2026
Presumed-extinct Oregon plant found on a community college campus in Grants Pass, based on a seven-year-old photo on iNaturalist. www.inaturalist.org/projects/168279…
The iNaturalist of photo of the assumed-extinct Plagiobothrys lamprocarpus.  Most of the photo is a brown oak leaf, but there are tiny white flowers in the lower right corner and what look like red hairy seedpods in the uppper right.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026
Breaking: The U.S. dispatches health insurance claim denial ship to Greenland.
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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026
Today's trail: otter footie prints in the snow.
An inch or so snow layer at the side of an asphalt trail, in which there are four small animal prints with teeny toes.  (We know these are river otters because we have seen them running across this trail in the past)
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lisa c @lmc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026
looking good tonight, #SanFrancisco
View East from the San Francisco Financial District towards the Ferry Building and Bay Bridge - Ferry building and clock tower are lit up in multiple colors. The moon is full over the bridge and reflecting off the bay.View East from the San Francisco Financial District towards the Ferry Building and Bay Bridge - Ferry building and clock tower are lit up in multiple colors. The moon is full over the bridge and reflecting off the bay.
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/01/2026
Rainbow sunrise
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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026
I'm VERY anti "Remote Learning" on snow days. Snow days are magical and young people should play video games and have snowball fights. Or go sledding. And pester their parents who are doing remote office work to make hot chocolate. Hmph.
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Elisabetta @gilraen79.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
My first 2 weeks on #mastodon have been a breath of fresh air. I can't wait to explore more of this amazing world called the #fediverse . A bit late #silentsunday but I wanted to contribute anyway. [Dolomiti, summer 2020, sunrise: an amazing view from Bec de […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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David Scott Moyer @farbel.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
Broadcast the hypocrisy, far and wide. #Texas #Florida #Minnesota #ICE #immigration #hypocrisy #DHS
Red State Texas has 2.1M
undocumented immigrants. Red
State Florida has 1.6M.

Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
Don't let anyone tell you this is about
immigration. It never was.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026
Beans on a hand, for scale reference. He is just too darn cute #BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #screechowl
Beans the owl is now sitting on someone's hand in a meeting room. He has a small leather tie attached to his leg which is also wrapped around the hand's pinky. He is looking inquisitively at something to the top right of the camera
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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026
Psychedelic sunrise
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progesterin @erinys.uwu.lgbt · 03/01/2026
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/12/2025
Visiting family in Croton, NY and spotted what I’m pretty sure is the first Covid memorial I’ve seen. There should be more.
Plaque says “This grove is dedicated to the many residents and businesses of Croton-on-Hudson who were adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic that began in the year 2020. We are especially grateful for the courage demonstrated by health care providers and other essential workers during this challenging time. The Rotary Club of Croton-on-Hudson conceived of this space to commemorate the resilience our community demonstrated in overcoming the severe challenges presented by this disease. Those efforts exemplify the Rotary philosophy of “Service Above Self.”
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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2025
💙 Season’s greetings to all the Fediverse moderators, admins, and community builders. Thank you for the time, care, and emotional labour you give to keeping online spaces safer, fairer, and more humane. Your work often goes unseen, but it truly matters […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]
Two candles aflame, decorated with a pine cone, against a backdrop of fir and blurry lights
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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025
Just to be clear: should I have the terrible misfortune to be killed in a mass shooting, please feel free to politicize the hell out of it. And go ahead and do so immediately. No time will be “too soon”.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I am a woman who joined the Let’s Rethink Chicks Having The Right To Vote Party and I am concerned they do not take me completely seriously, somebody please help me
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