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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish? Expert: No, software is constantly evolving. Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years? Expert: No […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@davidgerard lmao i've never seen an article so comprehensively undermine its own headline. Headline: "Not every billionaire is a policy failure!!!" Article: "That's right, only most of them are."

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

@Edent if it's unethical to use then it's unethical to review. In some cases you don't know if it's unethical until you use it, but in this case, to me, it seems clear cut?

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

The Trump-Vance-Miller persecution of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is a chilling manifestation of the dictatorship the regime is trying to complete. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oc…

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Lars Hupel :verified: @lars.mastodon.hupel.info.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

nothing like self-hosting in a home lab to convince me that self-hosting is not a reasonable solution for laypeople against Big Tech

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sodiboo :pride_heart: @sodiboo.gaysex.cloud · 21/08/2026

@cadey@pony.social with alt text

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST ALWAYS DO THE HACKING HAHA WHAT ARe they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

"we shouldn't make fun of someone's name even if their name has 'wee' in it" <-- me, a hypocrite, lying to my daughter #dadlife #parenting

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Activists? Activists?

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

me 5 seconds after a normie asks me what the fediverse is

Frequently used meme of Lenin addressing a crowd

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This story is a perfect example of how broken reporting of the mobs roaming Britain's streets now is - and the political response. What would have been the appropriate response if this hadn't been a sports team? Trash the hotel? Force them out into the street? What about other people staying there?

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Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1172378000… A recurring thought through all this insanity is "what if we just spent that money on [the obvious way] instead" and it always seems like the economics would be way less shitty, so

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

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Ed Bridges @dredbridges.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Saw this today and it resonated a lot with a conversation I had recently about the British public sector’s embracing of #outsourcing and the many dreadful things which have arisen from it (eg, venture capital running care homes for vulnerable children). #UKpolitics #UKpol

A sign reading: “THERE IS HARDLY ANYTHING IN THE WORLD THAT SOME MAN CANNOT MAKE A LITTLE WORSE AND SELL A LITTLE CHEAPER, AND THE PEOPLE WHO CONSIDER PRICE ONLY ARE THIS MAN'S LAWFUL PREY” - a quote by John Ruskin (1819-1900), social theorist and art critic.

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

one of the things that really annoys me about US-dominated tech is that i have to imagine what Americans might categorise shops as. I can't search for a "chemist", because Americans don't say "chemist", they say "pharmacy". I can't search for "DIY shop", because Americans don't say "DIY shop" […]

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eepy august [0x08] 🏳️‍⚧️🇲🇰 @august.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

affirmations when opening a stuck jar: - I am stronger than the jar - i know what left and right are - ⁠⁠smashing the jar will make a mess - i have strong and dextrous hands - ⁠⁠I have opened jars before and I will open jars again

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Cartoon image of a street with much of the space taken up by a car with a single driver, while the rest of the street has people tightly packed in a bus, a bus shelter and riding bikes in a bike lane. Adding insult to injury, the driver says “damn those bike paths and bike lanes taking all the space.”

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

It’s just depressing. Further education has been cut to ribbons. Higher education is in crisis. Labour turns its eyes to the bit of the education system which is turning out the highest literacy rates in the western world and goes “that’s the bit that needs to change”

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

if anyone else is unreasonably* annoyed by Acrobat Reader automatically opening PDFs downloaded from the web, Teams, etc even when it is not the default app, you can disable it in Preferences > General > "Always open PDFs saved from the web" (and other nearby […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot of Adobe Acrobat Reader's Preferences then General section, highlighting 4 checkboxes that I have disabled to avoid PDFs opening when I do not want them to. They all start with "Always open PDFs...".

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

OpenAI: we put our evilest AI in a sandbox that did in fact have an internet connection but mediated through a proxy that was only supposed to allow downloading python junk. It circumvented the proxy and we failed to notice for FIVE DAYS that it was going on an interstate crime spree with the […]

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drs1969 (David Smith) 🇬🇧 @drs1969.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/politics-oea… It's utterly MAD that heat pumps that warm a house are GOOD THINGS ( with a govt subsidy of £7-9k) but heat pumps that cool a house are BAD THINGS that use precious energy. Truly we live in the […]

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taco, cultist bird/cat :verified420: :neocat_floof_devil: @fedi.birdcat.online · 24/07/2026

i think vrchat reminds me too much of going to bars and not being able to socialize because i don't know anyone and then going home and wondering what's wrong with me fundamentally as a human being because i don't know why people have fun at social events like that

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 24/07/2026

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

KEY POINTS
• The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based
claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 23/07/2026

“woke” is what they say because they can’t say slurs anymore

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

if you're into #punk check out fairplayer.band/player some pretty cool Catalan punk bands on there. having fun funding new stuff, based entirely on how cool their names and logos are. you know, the old fashioned way! #PunkRock #DIY #DIYMusic

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Fairplayer

Fairplayer is a decentralised streaming platform

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/07/2026

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

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Shauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Congrats, Spain! I hope the head of the federation doesn't sexually assault any of the players during the closing ceremony 🤞🤞🤞

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

@TimWardCam sorry I meant when the whole family is out at dinner, parents will often give their (young) children an iPad with cartoons or YouTube on it, as a way of keeping them quiet and placated at the restaurant.

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

i wonder how many parents cheering the social media ban regularly sit their children in front of an iPad when they're out for dinner? #ukpol

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

Just to note: When you take a self assessment for ADHD or Autism and it asks something like: "do you have difficulty with ABC?" And your response is "I don't have difficulty with ABC. I've developed a System that I use to deal with ABC, and when I follow the System, I can do ABC. So it's not […]

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

RT @misterjayem.bsky.social‬ Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 18/06/2026

Okay so I have a lot of issues with a lot of Freddie De Boer's takes, but this one is a must-read top to bottom. Maybe you'll manage to get yourself a good deal on a smoke detector, too freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/google…

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Google Made a Sad Boomer Mark Out of Me and There's Nothing I Can Do About It

I hate writing this so much

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vksxypants @vksxypants.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

As a child, I worry about my parents' use of social media. They have been taken advantage of many times by nefarious actors preying on their innocence and ignorance. The government needs to step in and ban them from Facebook, disable links in emails, block all adverts, and remove the ability to […]

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2026

working theory: we get fewer vulnerability reports late in the weeks as the researchers have all run out of tokens by now...

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