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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Sentient robots are coming for our jobs? Please! I spent over an hour giving my oversized floor washing hockey puck a full clean-up down to the last filter. I can't wait for a slick T-1000 to take over. Where do I sign up?

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The Heart of the TARDIS @theheartofthetardis.politicalmemes.org · 08/10/2026

#meme #memes

$(N\:‘;A el Hangover & w ‘élf @PromptAlan still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept Al slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them 6:42 PM - Sep 27, 2026 - 4.3M Views O 12« |$

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 13h

Anyone know of any student-led anti-GenAI campaigns in UK schools? My daughter hates the amount it gets used *by the school itself* and wants to do something…

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Wife: I learned all about sunscreen and skins cancer tonight. It’s really important. See? You didn’t grow up with that. What level of sunscreen did you grow up with? Thirty? Me: Uhh… four? Wife: Four!?!?!? Me: I remember seeing as low SPF 1/2. Wife: WHAT?!?!? […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Bottle of Coppertone from the 1980s.

SPF 4 “moderate protection sunscreen”

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I hope this email finds you medium well with a side of fries, the coleslaw salad and some of those delicious deep fried pickles that I see that guy over there eating.

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

This meeting should have been a Greek chorus

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Is anyone else on @mastodon.online seeing their #SpamFilters as a "loud" warning even when they are set to silently hide the posts? Is this a bug or a new feature that I missed somehow? #mastodon

Screenshot of mastodon.online in a mobile browser showing a post that matches one of my filters, in the timeline with a "matches filter..." notice, even though the filter is set to remove the post and nit show it.

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 07/10/2026

“code is really cheap to write now that we have LLMs” [instantly blows $4,629 on tokens]

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Is anyone else on @mastodon.online seeing their #SpamFilters as a "loud" warning even when they are set to silently hide the posts? Is this a bug or a new feature that I missed somehow? #mastodon

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Ibuprofen did not quell this morning's headache so took a Dipyrone. Up next: Paracetamol with caffeine... 🤕

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The Watcher by the Wall I found this stag at the edge of a field in Killarney National Park in October 2022, standing under an old tree behind a mossy stone wall. I think we were just headed for a late breakfast when someone spotted him in a field off the road […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A red deer stag with wide antlers stands under an old, gnarled tree in a bright green field, looking straight at the camera, his brown coat wet and matted, behind a mossy stone wall, a wooden fence post and a single strand of wire, with yellow ragwort and dried seed heads in the foreground.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

TN-9 candidate Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “Gas is too high. Groceries are too high. Wages are too low… and blaming immigrants is part of the problem. The reality is people are struggling because the billionaire class is greedy.”

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kwyxz @kwyxz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Un maboule a porté Contra sur Vectrex. On reconnaît bien tous les stages et le gameplay a l’air fidèle. Le titre est archi validé youtu.be/sCS9uagMYD4

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Errol Cavit @errolnz.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze at Deutsches Museum, Munich. A folding autogiro for U-Boats which wasn't useful in practice. #AvGeek #Aviation

A very simple engine-less autogyro hanging from a museum ceiling. A dummy is strapped in ahead of the rotor mast.

FLYING LOOKOUT
Within just a few minutes, the crew could assemble the engineless gyrocopter Bachstelze (wagtail) on the deck of a German submarine. Attached to the U-boat with a rope, its pilot was expected to observe enemy ships up to 50km away, which would be attacked by the U-boat. As the U-boat gained speed, the pilot would climb aboard the fragile aircraft.
The airstream propelled the rotor blades and carried the Bachstelze up to a height of 200m, like a kite on a string.
When the Bachstelze went into service in 1943, allied anti-submarine systems and air superiority had already made patrols extremely risky for German U-boats. Their captains would often prohibit the use of the “flying eye”. In the event of danger, they would have been forced to cut the cable and leave the pilot stranded on the high seas.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Sites on ChatGPT. Oh boy. There goes Wix down the drain... chatgpt.com/features/sites

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I’m obsessed with the Mitsuoka Viewt, a Japanese homage to the 1963 Jaguar Mark II, riding on a new Toyota Yaris chassis underneath.

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: beep.town/@aws/117359217511421189 tired: Amazon drone delivery wired: Amazon catapult delivery

beep.town

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I'm going to make myself a nice, hot cup of #tea.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I still remember the day in 1976 when Gary Kildall typed in "dir" to an "A>" prompt on his hazeltine green-screen character display to show me a directory listing on his 8080-based, eight-bit computer running the first release of CP/M, the first real microcomputer operating system (that Gary […]

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

man, ten years ago, millennials used to be so good at killing industries. can’t we get together and do one more, for old times sake?

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I hope this #email finds you mildly amusing.

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eightbitraptor @eightbitraptor.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

DHHs "technology adoption" argument on stage with Matz that resistance to LLMs is like the initial resistance to early Rails because it was "new", "slow" & "didn't scale"; dismissed by incumbents, but eventually succeeded & "revolutionised" the industry, likely isn't wrong. But it misses a […]

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Wizards of the Coast has really been dropping the ball on a whole new segment of D&D players: Retirement Communities. You got millions of people all hanging out in the same place all the time with nothing to do. Get them into TTRPGs. Make large print versions of key books, oversized high […]

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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On hidden camera, pardon brokers Jack Burkman & Jacob Wohl told a 60 Minutes source $300,000 could help a felon get a presidential pardon. Three hundred grand. Wild. When a pardon has a price tag, justice is a luxury item & you can't afford it. #TrumpsCorruptCongress #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 27/09/2026

RE: kinkycats.org/@Jaimieserotica/11731… it’s the YUP that really sold me

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Nura @postmarketos.org · 27/09/2026

After a one and a half year selection process, the new name of the operating system formerly known postmarketOS has been announced during the mystery talk of our very own conference. From now on this project is known as Nura! Blog post: nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename Mastodon […]

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Are you as tired as I am of seeing scroll containers everywhere? That they make all interfaces wobbly and give a feeling of poor construction? Like you can’t rely on things if they are not stable and move that easily for no good reason

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Torsten Grote @grote.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

After lots of hard work, F-Droid 2.0 was finally published 🎉 🥳 ⛓️‍💥 🎈 f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-… This is a major update, so many things have changed. Good to get familiar with the new app and revise your settings. Soon, everybody will […]

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

AO News: "Fat Bear Week opens for Alaska’s heavyweight crown. Can Chunk, the 1,200-pound champ, win again?" apnews.com/article/fat-bear-week-al… Vote here: explore.org/fat-bear-week #fat #bear #week

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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.

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urig @urig.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

How the mighty have fallen. Not one, but two grammar mistakes on #TheGuardian's International homepage at the moment. What a sad thing to see. www.theguardian.com/international

Screenshot of The Guardian's International homepage showing to top news stories. One says "Trump set to press Zelenskyy at UN to agree energy ceasefire with Russia" (missing the word "to") and the other says "NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News, the fourth other networks that..." (should have said "the four other networks")

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

do I know any electronical engineers who would be willing to review Glasgow revD1 schematic/layout before we send it to the fab tomorrow evening? it's in KiCAD and available on github.com/tachiniererin/glasgow/tr… if you have the time and inclination

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GitHub - tachiniererin/glasgow at hw-revD1

Scots Army Knife for electronics. Contribute to tachiniererin/glasgow development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

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TC Won't Give In To Lies @tcatinreality.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Another obvious need Private jets are pure luxury, except in the rarest of security situations. As such, they should carry very heavy luxury taxes - on purchase and on operation. In zero instances should they be a tax-avoiding business expense. #TaxTheRich Private jets pollute up to 14 times […]

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django @django.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

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"We are deploying responsibly developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance.”
- SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed. You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
- NAOMI KLEIN

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Khalid ⚡ @khalidabuhakmeh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Anyone consider themselves a #Blazor Consultant and would like to try out an experiment with me? Looking for a handful of professionals who like working with the technology. #dotnet

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Tom Lyon ✅ @aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

70 years of hard drives! OTD 1956, IBM announces the RAMAC 350. www.computerhistory.org/revolution/… Hard drive platters started at 24", peaked at 48" (very rare), shrank to 0.85" (just before flash). 14" dominated for a couple of decades. Now 3.5" drives dominate […]

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Michael | VoltPaperScissors @voltpaperscissors.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I am currently prototyping a 3D printed shell that holds a coin cell and up to 5 LEDs that slide into small slots. Everything is clamped by a binderclip for easy assembly/disassembly. This will be a quick DIY workshop for Festival of Lights in Berlin (I hope) […] [Original post on chaos.social]

an earing made from the 3d printed shell with a green LED that lights up a tiny jelly fish made from paper

The shell that looks like an opened mussel.

an earing made from the 3d printed shell with 5 yellow LEDs spread infront of a blue cone shaped piece of paper.

an earing made from the 3d printed shell with a red LED that lights up a tiny heart made from paper.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Anyone with the wherewithall to donate £36m to a political party should not be allowed to donate a single penny to a political party.

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