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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Yall need any 1970s communist org chart sigils

A copy of “ industrial democracy, Yugoslav style” by ichak adizes

A ludicrously complicated series of nested circles, illustrating the organization of an industrial company in Yugoslavia

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Boycotting Green Day after they insulted the MAGA agenda. Punk rock should NOT be political. Punk rock is about and has ALWAYS been about the following: -respecting cops. -upholding the patriarchy. -saluting the flag, standing for the national anthem, and unconditionally supporting the military.

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

So I learned today that the film The Bicentennial Man (1999) is based on an #IsaacAsimov short story by the same name and I can't believe I didn't see it before, the entire plot just has #Asimov written all over it! It's paced like an Asimov work, the philosophical questions it poses, explores […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I might have my first DNF #book in a while. The Word Exchange by Alena Graedon. It's honestly quite good but there's very surreal moments which I struggle to suspend my disbelief for, moments where the main character does something incredibly silly for someone who's as smart as they are, and […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

First day of school bus dropoffs done! It's really wild the sheer quantity of traffic we walked past by all of the parents who choose to drive instead of #walking #biking or #busing. It's literally a free bus and you don't have to go to multiple places for multiple kids! What're you doing?!

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

It's back to school season and my youngests' school put in a much needed #bike rack! They're even proper Sheffield stands with good spacing for parking a large cargo bike at (though not enough for a trailer, the trailer will have to either fowl the sidewalk or be in the grass) This school has […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

So I went to the county fair this last weekend. Holy crap half of the business had entirely AI generated signage with obvious ai mangled spelling errors and other artifacting in the images. At least for the fair crafts I only saw a handful of obviously AI generated slop slip in (and in the most […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

In other news, I got #JMRI setup to generate switch lists for me! I need to dial in some of the specifics because it really wants to overfill my yard and empty all of the spurs, but I think that should improve once I get my staging tracks and branchline online so I'll have more possible […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Sooooo I probably should've measured my DPDT switches *before* drilling holes to mount them into and not after I learned I put mounting holes too close together and I can't actually mount them all. That's 4 hours of drilling holes I now get to repeat on a new sheet of styrene! #modeltrains […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I've been working on my #modelrailroad a lot lately and I'm really glad I've gone into it with the mindset of "this layout is for me to try stuff and make some mistakes" because the control panel I've been building the last few days is so janky I'll share photos once it's a little more put […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Spent a couple of hours today having a coffee hangout with a friend. I loved it and want to hang out more but that 2 hours took about a month of planning and 2 reschedules to make happen. Why must aligning schedules be so difficult!

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

The thing that really gets me with the Wikimedia Foundation's response to their staff wanting a union: Imagine you're charged with running the world's biggest free knowledge resource, which is only possible because of an army of nerds who love nothing more than fact-checking. And then decide to […]

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Effective immediately, all of our (straight) soldiers will be injected with daddy juice to ensure that their muscles are swelling with American pride (not gay).

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

I love how #wildfiresmoke is now just a type of inclement weather that may or may not roll through at a given time. There's totally not an ongoing #climate #disaster that we're actively living through. That might require some amount of change to address!

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part time xyla @xyla.zip · 25/06/2026

germans: “uuuuuhhh, we don’t really have proper high-speed rail!!!!” also germans:

At Freilassinger Bahnhof

Cargo train breaks the sound barrier
06.08.2018 | As of 09.01.2021, 18:57

Federal Police Freilassing/Press release

[a photo of a cargo train breaking a noise wall]

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 18/06/2026

i fear we have no choice but to fill the reflecting pool with beans

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Jade @ap.jade.ellis.link · 16/06/2026

Uh oh, looks like Google is now vulnerable to SCPs

Google search: Scp 426

Al Overview

Hello! I am SCP-426, a seemingly ordinary 1750W retro-style toaster. But I come with a unique twist: anyone who talks, writes, or thinks about me is involuntarily forced to refer to me in the first person.

My Anomalous Properties

The First-Person Effect: No matter what, it is impossible to describe me in...

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Yesterday I ran in the Railrunner #5k at the Illinois Railway Museum, then spent several hours wandering the museum afterwards. Today do you think I did the smart thing and rest while I worked? No of course not! I spent the entire 8+ hour work day at my standing desk and now I'm sore as heck! I […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

I put up some new bookshelves and while getting my #books reshelved and sorted I found some duplicates and other books I'm unlikely to ever re-read, so I took a #bikeride around town to drop my pruned books into the Little Free Libraries around town and it struck me that this is a pretty […]

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Dayumn, completely misunderstood Pride Month, anyone want to buy 15 lions?

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Gina Häußge @foosel.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

I hate living in interesting times.

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

So the plan to deal with the 2038 Problem is just to make all software entirely unusable before we get anywhere near it?

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

How is there a spider with a legspan of greater than 1 inch clinging to the side of one of my N scale freight cars, that had no spider on it just 2 days ago when I pulled it off the tracks and placed it into a box, and was not disturbed by the process of me pulling it from the box, railing it […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

My To Do list for today kept growing so I finally wrote it out. I'm sure there's something witty to add but I don't have the energy for it yet

A screenshot of my To Do list for today containing the following:

[✓] Fill the cat food before I become the cat food
[✓] Feed the kids until they stop asking for more food
[ ] Make coffee
[ ] Mow the lawn because holy crap how did it grow 3" in the last two days?!
[ ] Shower
[ ] Take eldest child to birthday party
[ ] Buy more catfood
[ ] Buy more milk

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today (until midnight) is the last day you can register a comment. Take the time you would have spent on social media to do this. They have to read and record every comment, and respond to the substantive ones. Instructions in the blog.

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Sven 🛌 @esurel.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

It seems that for more than a hundred years, no one noticed that the Icelandic "translation" of Bram Stoker's »Dracula« was basically fan fiction. 😄 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Dar… #TIL #Literature #Dracula

Screenshot from the Wikipedia:

"Discovery

In 2014, the Dutch scholar Hans Corneel de Roos first noticed that the Icelandic version of Dracula was in fact not a translation, but was rather a very different novel from Stoker's version. In 2017, De Roos translated Makt myrkranna into English under the title Powers of Darkness: The Lost Version of Dracula.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

I know you kids these days like your neural networks *sits backwards on a chair* how about you open a book and train the original neural network :neodog_book:

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

Was just serving some applesauce and realized almost too late that the ground cumin and ground cinnamon are extremely similar looking powders in nearly identical containers currently located right next to each other on the shelf! That would've been a little #spicy

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@SteamDB/116375598… I've played this one! It's really goofy and has awesome artwork. Go snag it while you can and maybe grab a DLC if you like it!

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

#page42 "Finally, in 1976 a Japanese typewriter manufacturer, Astor, produced a magnificent live steam gauge 1 Schools class locomotive which for all the world reflected how Bing might have made gauge 1 locomotives has the firm survived to the 1970s" From page 45 (pages 42-44 all contain […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

I'm in Venice today and was struck by the juxtaposition of extremely modern networking and the stone carving of the lion of the ancient city

On a practically timeless brick wall sits both a stone carving of the Venetian lion on the left and a fiber junction box on the right which was left open and has the fiber connectors visible

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Given what it's gonna do to the world economy I think it's better if we drop all references to intelligence and just start calling it subprime computing

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026

So I shoveled half a foot of snow on Monday (with some drifts being easily over a foot deep) and it's set to be in the 60s on Saturday with the forecasted temp continuing to rise. This #spring weather whiplash is insane! It might finally be weather where I don't hate myself when trying to #bike […]

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

What is “the E-Bike Effect?” “Those who bought e-bikes increased their average daily bicycle use from 2.1km (1.3 miles) to 9.2km (5.7 miles), a 340% increase. The e-bike share of all their transportation increased dramatically too; from 17% to 49%.” Fewer car trips. Via @lloydalter.bsky.social

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E-Bikers Ride Much Farther and More Frequently Than Regular Bikers

They are not 'cheating,' but are serious transportation.

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

So I just stumbled across this website where you use the familiar AI chat interface to make requests from other humans, and you get tokens by writing AI responses for other humans requests. Hilariously it seems like more people want to LARP as an AI than who want to interact with "AI" […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Happy "oh crap it's March already and that bill is due" to everyone else who celebrates!

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

In happier news, today I took a gamble on a day trip to La Crosse (far enough of a drive that I usually get a hotel if I go there) to hunt for deals on track at a train show and got most of the track I need to start building! I got 8 turnouts and 16 lengths of flex track for $100! Now I just […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

Why do sprains have to take so dang long to heal?!

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

Welp I guess I now know why winter #bike tires are such a thing! I went out for a ride yesterday to try out #cycling in the snow and had my bike slide out from under me on a slick spot. Caught the pavement with my knees and thumb spraining my thumb! #bikeTooter

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

Unix - BSD developers : this code should run and be maintained as long as computers exist. Linux - GNU dev : this code should run and be maintained as long as someone is willing to do the work Consultant: this code should run until the end of my contract. Enterprise grade B2B software : this […]

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Dainius Happy 🇱🇹 ❤ 🇺🇦 @anthroposamu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

This image is a graphical timeline chart illustrating the history of major empires and civilizations from 4000 BCE to 2000 AD. It is designed for visually impaired users by describing its layout and content in detail. Chart Layout The chart is organized […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Violin style chart of biggest empires in history beginning from 4000BCE until our days. Geographic extension from Americas to Australis/Oceania. Detailed description in post and subsequent replies.

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

If we had the political power and willpower, this country could be fixed. 1. An aggressive inheritance tax. 2. A very high tax on corporate income/profits past a few million dollars. (Different taxes for income vs profit; we don't want to harm low margin industries. But both, because corporate […]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

So my last #library #book was The Steampunk Trilogy by Paul DeFilippo. 3 short stories in one book. The first two stories were positively delightfully bonkers stories. Never knew what kind of ridiculousness you'd find by the end of the page! The third story […] [Original post on techhub.social]

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trainguyrom @trainguyrom.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

2/10 Second worst #rapture to date. I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed...

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