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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h

There are very few flowers in the garden now. The bees seem to be doing their last rounds before winter #silentSunday

Picture taken at ground level of a bunch of light purple flowers with an orange center. There are some bees present in some of the flowers.

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Cut my hair and went to Sainsbury’s. Got ID’d on checkouts. Today is a good day! :awesome:

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

@evan it’s really forbidden as it’s been deleted

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Donncha Ó Caoimh @donncha.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

The Stones Arches of Ballydehob The tide was full, and the water had gone completely flat, so the stone arches came out twice in the frame. We were lucky. The weather back home in Blarney was atrocious, with rain falling from cloudy skies […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A stone railway viaduct of twelve arches crossing still water on a bright day, its arches and the white cumulus above mirrored almost perfectly in the surface, with trees on the left bank, grass in the foreground and a long grey building visible through the right-hand arches.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

No amount of reservoirs can protect the UK from water shortages if it doesn't rain. If it doesn't rain, there's no water to store. Furthermore, water is not the only resource that will be impacted on warmer world. [2/2] #climatechange #heatwave #weather

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Reading at the news about how the UK is entering a drought and how we are entering our 5th heatwave, I am baffled at how climate change is not part of the discourse at all. The BBC news website allows "certain news" to be commented by readers, the highest comments on these pages are all about […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

There's a new crater on the moon due to SpaceX accidentally crashing a leftover junked rocket body yesterday. Give me your best name suggestions! (Please note that *I* have absolutely no control over naming craters on the moon, there's an IAU committee for that, this post is a joke. I will […]

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

@sundogplanets @AmeliasBrain I always thought they were scavengers too and not really predators 💀 TIL

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

The first trillionaire is such a sad moment in the history of humanity - that after so many eras, so many stories, institutions, dreams, our species has arrived at such an *idiotic* mis-allocation of resources. Our entire species. Everything we have. This is where we are.

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Dr. Dan Killam @dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Pulse oximetry has previously been noted to have a bias against people with higher skin melanin content. It over-measures blood oxygen for Black people and others with more melanin, because most oximeters were calibrated for people with light skin. This can lead to someone with a real blood O2 […]

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

@heidilifeldman Have a wonderful time in Ireland. If you like seefood try seafood chowder with soda bread. There’s no welcome like an Irish welcome.

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

@Kjaerulv Is there a way to disconnect your car from the internet? 👀

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kjaerulv @kjaerulv.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning www.bbc.com/future/article/20260513…

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

no post has ever made me feel more seen than this one.

The classic:
Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

@brucelawson not to mention their attitude towards the protesters and Reform continues to grow…

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

@brucelawson solidarity to the workers but those salaries will come with higher costs overtime

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

@sundogplanets the one jumping and doing zoomies and headbutts so cute 🥰

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

There are songs that don’t actually grow on you but plant seeds in your heart and grow with you. And every time you listen to it, it blossoms. I feel this hearing this entire album youtu.be/T5KKQ1RK5Sk

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

I'm still working on this AI data center environmental effects talk (which, let me tell you, is seriously fucking depressing), but I wanted to share the best article I've come across on this topic, in case anyone else is interested in knowing exactly how much to hate slop-AI* use […]

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Morten @bech.mstdn.dk.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Stumbled upon this one. #Murica is broken.

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

@sundogplanets this is soooo cute. I bet the llama is loving it too 🥰

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

We should bring Nate Hagens to the Fediverse. I love his channel “The Great Simplification” if you haven’t watched yet please do! I’ve been learning so much. youtube.com/channel/UCWJOjGOpN8oSVr…

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

@jon I love using Vivaldi and is my preferred browser across my devices. Thank you!!

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

32 years ago I started working on my first browser, Opera. I left Opera in 2011, but two years later I co-founded Vivaldi. Thus I have been making browsers now for 32 years, with a short break there between 2011 and 2013. I have always felt that this work is important and no less today than […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

We read a lot about the "powerful algorithms" that Big Tech uses. But the algorithms are not powerful. The people owning the big tech corporations are and the algorithms are just the manifestations of their choices and values.

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Jesper Lund @je5perl.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

The Commission stands with Big Tech in an utterly wild letter that puts pressure on the democratically elected European Parliament to abandon their rights respecting vote on #ChatControl 1.0 just two weeks ago, and instead give Big Tech two-more-years of mass […] [Original post on eupolicy.social]

Letter from the Commission to the European Parliament asking them to vote tomorrow (26 March) on extending the interim CSAM derogation, aka Chat Control 1.0, without any amendments. Source: Politico article.

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

@bontchev love the article! Sharing it with my friends.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

If only Carney had the courage to say something like this on behalf of Canadians... Prime Minister Sanchez of Spain: “Because the question is not whether or not we are in favour of the Ayatollahs. No one is. Certainly not the Spanish people and of […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palanti… Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't […]

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

Is anyone following Honey’s “Cookiegate scandal”? After a year and many lawsuits, young Journalist/YouTuber Megalag returns with further details on the business practices of PayPal’s Honey. His videos are managing to reach a much broader audience and shedding a light on deceitful big tech […]

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026

@brucelawson thanks for the reading, Bruce. big tech lobby never fail to surprise us year on year

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025

@brucelawson loved this. Thank you for sharing. Some part of me is happy when people finally decide they can see a problem, but it’s always disappointing how they go about in solving it.

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Evan @vanzick.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2025

“Oh sing for the trees that are felled on our watch, for in singing together we decry what we lost. Those who seek to destroy cannot see what we know. That from hopes coppiced roughly new green saplings may grow” youtu.be/ZXv3DT7Z620

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click share. How come? I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility across the Fedi, it would really help out.

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