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People on bluesky - follow @ap.brid.gy if you want me to be able to follow you back. Ⓐ🏴 software engineer and occasional street food vendor. Sincereposter in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@thomasjwebb, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Riccardo Fanciola @rfancio.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

HELP NOUR EVACUATE GAZA
AND BECOME A DOCTOR
Nour is an 18-year-old college student who dreams of becoming a doctor. She was forced to stop her studies in Gaza when her university was bombed.
Nour has been accepted to study in Italy at the University of Milan alongside her sister, Joy.
We are raising funds to create a private scholarship for Nour so she can evacuate from Gaza this fall and continue her education. See more details at the link below, and please donate!
Your donation makes Nour's education possible, providing tuition, room and board, books, and essentials.
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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 6h

The twin problems with media beloved by nerds - 1) There's too much of it and I'm too overwhelmed to get into it 2) there's not enough of it and now I'm emotionally invested in something they never made a sequel for

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Here is the scam: * ask an LLM to generate a document that seems like advice on how to get more customers for MLM sellers * ask it to make it seems like exclusive secret information that can be applied easily online * list your advice document for sale on facebook marketplace targeting agents […]

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ErinReed Ky Gov. Andy Beshear, who vetoed a sports ban in in a state Trump carried by 30% and is likely presidential nominee, tells CNN's Jake Tapper he has one message for Dems: "We don't throw anybody under the bus." www.erininthemorning.com/p/ky-gov-bes...

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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”

The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 29/09/2026

I love this time of the year (in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere). It's finally cold enough I don't get uncomfortably hot when hiking but it's almost too cold when I start. It's a great time to spend all day outdoors and experience the whole range of temperatures nature offers […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 29/09/2026

If any friends in LA want to meet up with me, I'll be down there multiple times this month! I'll be at #GameSoundCon 20-21 and #MusicTectonics the following week. I'm also going to be in SoCal this coming week...

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

I'm worried about this pattern of people assuming the absolute worst of open source projects, even ones who eventually do the right thing. Believe me, I tend to assume the worst of humanity, but there are real costs to harassing maintainers before double-checking that what they're seeing is […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

RE: spore.social/@kzodasnowman/11732420… Fucker's literally just a Republican

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

Bot-jacketing real humans is an evil that cannot be blamed solely on big tech companies working on making dead internet theory true. The individuals doing this kind of trolling are also the problem. They're contributing to a general cynicism where people stop caring what's real altogether.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 28/09/2026

Peter Thiel says what I already knew a lot of people believe - that evil is at least competent because it means that you're doing something. This probably makes him well-loved by the vast swaths of people who are evil because they uselessly sit back and allow wicked people to get their way […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I'm kind of obsessed with this old puzzle. You need to move the piano to the lower LEFT corner by sliding the pieces. Curious if anyone has done any math things with such tile puzzles? It's easy to move it to the lower right, and possible but kind of hard to […] [Original post on sauropods.win]

An "promotional" wooden puzzle from the Argonne van and storage co. It is nearly 100 years old. You slide rectangular blocks labeled as boxes.

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Aaron D. Proctor @racetoperu.neocities.org · 26/09/2026

Bruno Kramm of Das Ich has passed away, per Reddit. www.reddit.com/r/industrial...

From the industrialmusic community on Reddit

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

I have not paid attention to the story about the lesbian bar and still don't really know what the story was, but apparently Jesse Singal was the one who first pushed it. He is basically Chaya Raichik, but gets taken more seriously by mainstream outlets. It's fucking always him.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Given that cops have been admitting to using Flock cameras to surveil, stalk, and harass women they know--- and in some cases, were in relationships with--- I have more questions.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

I didn't realize until a few years ago that in many parts of the world The Americas is considered a single continent. And I don't care much one way or another about that in isolation, because "continent" is an arbitrary concept. However, it makes no sense to turn all of The Americas into a […]

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Chris Lombardi @chrisaintmarchin.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy. www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-…

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 25/09/2026

[me bemoaning my electrolysis situation again, boring] The other thing that sucks aside from insurance not paying for electro for me because of loopholes and fraud is that all the electrologists near me are booked solid. I love my electrologist but even if money wasn't an object, I'd probably […]

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026

One thing that encourages me is that despite individual Democrats capitulating on trans rights, I think if the polling holds, we will elect the most pro-trans congress and senate in US history.

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Kory Bing @korybing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Watching the new @miniminuteman.bsky.social video about the abrupt and stupid decision of Drexel University to close the Academy of Natural Sciences, and I was mad about it before and now I'm REALLY mad about it www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyf...

The Plan To Destroy Americas Oldest Natural History Museum

YouTube video by Miniminuteman

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 24/09/2026

RE: kolektiva.social/@QueerSatanic/1173… The problem with antisemitism (and bigotry towards Palestinians, and any other kind of bigotry) isn't just that you might offend someone. Somehow, leftists have regressed to having the same understanding of this as Trump supporters.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/09/2026

Political winds do not only flow from voters to politicians, they go in reverse as well. Democrats running ads like these signal to the general public and their voter base that this issue now has support by both parties, and that hating trans people is publicly acceptable. They do harm to us.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 22/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@zzt/117315981046837397 Well shit, that's unfortunate. I don't think most nerd organizations have a good immunity system against entryists so maybe the foss community was always a ticking time-bomb. It's just weird how much a branch of machine learning has become a catalyst […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 22/09/2026

Has anyone ever gotten a meaningful discount from one of those employee benefit discount things (e.g., PerkSpot)? Like, if you buy a coupon book from some borderline scammy fundraiser for, like, a high school soccer team, those are actual coupons that will actually lower the price of the product […]

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's not notable or new that reactionary straight white male bounders get in their feelings when marginalized people achieve recognition of any kind. it is notable that the NYT is printing pro segregationist gibberish in support of an openly white nationalist administration. 1

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 21/09/2026

Support for anti-trans politics is linked to authoritarianism more generally (see Riley's Law). I think that is key to understanding how strongly that's associated with paternalism and law-and-order crap among anti-trans Dems. They don't want anti-maga sentiment to turn into anti-systems […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 21/09/2026

One good thing us tech nerds can do to staunch the damage done by political campaigns is to assist people in ad blocking. No one actually wants to see ads, especially the vitriolic, repetitive campaign ads. In a moment where there is a massive anti-maga backlash in the US electorate, the […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 21/09/2026

I need to go camping soon or, failing that, something that involves camping chairs and dirt and me experiencing both temperature extremes.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 20/09/2026

When homophobes are caught being queer, it's almost never in a wholesome way but something more sinister, involving power imbalances, exacerbated by the darkness they promote politically. So of fucking course Boebert's likely bisexuality is expressed in an evil way (improper relationships with […]

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quasisocial 🏴 @quasisocial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

THIS IS NOT A DRILL I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL very very exciting

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Thommy March15 :pink_knife: 🏴 🏳️‍⚧️ @pinkboi.thecave.social · 20/09/2026

Mary Peltola is saying she doesn't "want men in women's bathrooms." It used to be that GOP governors would veto anti-trans bathroom bills. Just last week maga Democrats were telling trans people to calm down and suggesting that anyone who would say that Democrats will make things worse is "not […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 20/09/2026

In a dream sequence I had last night, a travelogger made a video "Are You Guilty of Whenaboutism?" And it was just about people bringing up trips they went on while someone is talking about a totally different trip they were on. And I mashed that share button to say dammit, I'm guilty of this […]

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 19/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@thomasjwebb/117298… These talking points accomplish nothing for the people who make them. Whether the society a person was kidnapped from practiced slavery doesn't matter, it's a red herring and special pleading for white America. But in fact some people […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 19/09/2026

Governments will literally say “I’m protecting the family” then arrest someone’s daughter.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 19/09/2026

Turkey receives a lot of refugees and it's been a major destination for queers fleeing yet more conservative regimes. It's really bad for queers everywhere in the world for the religious right to get everything they want anywhere, but especially there. Queers in Turkey have always done a good […]

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seyon @seyon.ciberlandia.pt.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

ffm.to/getmean #BoyHarsher new album releasing also today #darkwave #goth

Boy Harsher - GET MEAN

Choose your preferred music service

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 17/09/2026

For when you want the environmental impact of crypto, but the vulnerability to state actors seizing your assets of Paypal.

Screenshot from e-mail from paypal that reads:

"Crypto payments. Simplified.

Accept crypto payments quickly and easily. Customers pay in crypto and you get paid near-instantly in USD with no need to hold or manage crypto."

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 17/09/2026

Original Antiquities Magic: the Gathering Dragon Engine card modified to have the Dragon Tank boss from Chrono Trigger as its image. It is an artifact creature, 1/3, 3 generic mana to cast, Illus. Anson Maddocks. Text says "2: +1/+0 until end of turn." and flavor text says "Those who believed the city of Kroog would never fall to Mishra's forces severely underestimated the might of his war machines." The Dragon Tank is a steampunk-looking dragon machine, with a gear wheel it moves on and a chimney next to its dorsal spikes.

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 16/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@gwynnion/117281990… And TV shows about archaeology will present this as a "mystery" why such a "great" civilization fell, and leave out the perspectives of the associated ethnic group that's still around and happily living without that thing they toppled.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 16/09/2026

For @xtramagazine.com, I wrote about the risks involved with Democratic candidates turning transphobic for the general election. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

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Democratic candidates’ transphobia spells disaster for trans people | Xtra Magazine

The Democratic party’s anti-trans heel turn could have drastic consequences beyond November’s midterms

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 16/09/2026

The world of open source playing into respectability politics by taking copyright more seriously than it takes itself and placing a vast rhetorical ocean between us and piracy may have been a mistake. We had to deal with all these false accusations of misappropriating code, including in court […]

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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 15/09/2026

So Ed Sheeran decided to tour with Macklemore (The Wokest White Rapper), two insanely Irish acts, an anarchist from Denmark, and Billie Eilish's brother and thought he could suck imperial dick without any consequences, and that just turned out to be completely not the case.

Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 15/09/2026

It's a false dichotomy to say that either AI agents have a mind of their own and "go rogue" or they are simply doing what they were programmed to do. Sufficiently complex non-deterministic functionality can behave like simple life and do things no one explicitly programmed it to do. We don't […]

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Þommy @thomaswebb.net · 15/09/2026

"Back in my day, we didn't have autism" As a little kid, my grand-uncle would walk around the house talking in Morse code, beeping with his mouth.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...

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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads

and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Macklemore says “free Palestine” and the ADL applauds him losing gigs for it. Kanye West puts out a song called “Heil Hitler” the org can’t be bothered to have an opinion on it. Instead, they insert themselves into the concert venues to do trainings on hate symbols.

In addition, the ADL has been working to put together a "best practices" guide which will include training venue workers on anti-Semitic symbols, statements and other totems. Those materials will be available to workers at both of Ye's shows.