iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jef Poskanzer @jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Golden Gate Sunset 17oct2026 The annual Golden Gate Sunset season started tonight, with the viewing point near the Ashby freeway exit. You can find each night's spot using my map: acme.com/jef/ggs

sunset in the middle of the Golden Gate, with a pelican

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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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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@i0null There’s a dog version of this where the dog says “have you tried barking at it?”

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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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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Isn’t that how Macedonia ended up being North Macedonia?

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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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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

@jef Yow! That is a large whatever it is. Sea snail?

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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

@hacks4pancakes Happy birthday! It's my FIL's birthday today too, but he's 94. Your element on the periodic table is probably a lot less radioactive.

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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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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

@jef @jwz Bummarita sounds like a cocktail you have after a bad day. Goatse sounds, er, unappetizing.

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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

@ashok @mattblaze I hope you will stay too. I enjoy your posts and your photographs.

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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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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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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

@jef I almost got clipped by a cyclist running a red light today myself. I was crossing the street and watching for cars doing that, need to remember to watch the bike lane too. He was going pretty fast.

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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

@jef Looks like it was smiling for the camera. Or maybe trying to decide whether you might be a large gopher.

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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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thanne @thanne.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

@waldoj @jtk It is. The other is all too plausible.

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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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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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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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