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#gardening I have a confused daylily blooming in October... I think they all bloomed in late-July/early-August. Not sure what is going on with this one. #LosAngeles #Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Daylily

vertical (portrait) photo of a daylily. The lily has maroonish petals with a bright yellow center. It is poking through a black metal fence and has lots of green leaves in the background.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Hey academics: 'By consuming AI products (which is optional, nobody – nobody – is forcing you to do it as an intellectually–independent academic, which you are, aren’t you), you are fueling these crises and are therefore actively sabotaging and annihilating the hard efforts and work of many of […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Of course. #US imposes #sanctions on #ICC hours after former judge wins #NobelPeacePrize The #Trump admin imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court Friday, hours after one of its former judges won the Nobel Peace Prize, putting the US on a diplomatic collision course ‌with […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

What a superb rebuke to Trump, who is determined to make the U.S. a wholly lawless state. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/…

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I will wager it is just your average Republican citizen doing what Republicans do. I am so over this. I am so sick and tired of the epstein nation telling the rest of us that it’s queer people or trans people or brown people picking fruits and vegetables and cleaning the toilet toilets that are […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Every single aspect of this data centre (probably like all of them) is nakedly corrupt. I don't know how anyone is supposed to fight against that. That protest was both incredibly sad and incredibly uplifting at the same time.

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I love this!!! 🤣🤣🤣

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Femme Malheureuse @femme-mal.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Yes. I've used LibreOffice for years now and I'll keep using it going forward. LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature Zack Whittaker 8:25 AM PDT · October 6, 2026 techcrunch.com/2026/10/06/libreoffi…

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Link below, too, but just in case: news.mit.edu/2026/margare... #RIP

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Gee, who could have been the source for this one? "In recent weeks, the vice president has attempted to campaign as a voice of patience and even empathy as the White House grapples with a series of brutal polls and the possibility of losing control of the House and Senate."

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The Trump administration pushed the FBI to investigate Los Angeles protesters in violation of their constitutional rights and the bureau’s policies, a former FBI supervisor alleges in a new whistleblower complaint."

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Hegseth announced the creation of “Project Meridian,” a new effort to “creatively look to the future and identify the domains that we must conquer and capabilities we must master,” and “ruthlessly map the trajectory of wars, domains, and technologies to ensure this war department, your war […]

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Dan Stowell @danstowell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

James is 100% correct. Also: Wikimedia's statement is great - very clear, detailing the damage and explaining why it matters to all of us: diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/opena…

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was an undergrad in late 90s Oxford, visiting American students organised an ex-pat frat night and it was quite something to see this weird combination of hyperaggressive masculinity alongside lightweight inability to cope with booze They wanted to project strength, but to Euros looked weak

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

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Jock Rutherford 🌻🇨🇦 @jockr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Supreme Court's top judge starts judicial year by stressing need to protect democratic institutions | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/politics/richard-wa…

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Jock Rutherford 🌻🇨🇦 @jockr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10…

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

A reminder; "Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's files have exploded back into the headlines with millions of newly released documents exposing elite networks and power dynamics." #ChelseaDaniels, 2 Feb, 2026 […]

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

October is off to a humiliating start. #cat #cats #catsofmastodon #october #pumpkin #humor #humour

a cat looking very grumpy after its hooman balanced a tiny pumpkin (gourd) on its head

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

Graphic showing a single lane 9 m wide track for metros, a 35 m wide road for buses with four lanes, and a 175 m wide road for cars with seven lanes, making the point that one single track of Metro replaces seven lanes of car traffic. Mobility in cities is about space.

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impfmilf @impfmilf.troet.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

#Bloomscrolling #Herbst #Flowers Moin!

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It's the kind of auroras right now where it just looks like a greenish smudge to your eyes, but then you take a photo and it's ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE Please enjoy this lovely instrument (a camera) that lets us see a bunch of colours too faint for our eyeballs!

A nighttime scene, with silhouetted trees in the lower corners of the photos, and bright green auroras across the horizon, with some pink and red pillars above, almost blocking the Milky Way, visible vertically across the sky.

Same idea as the previous photo, but now the green in the lower part of the sky is also reflected by a small pond.

More bright green auroras with red and pink pillars above, the Milky Way sticking up out of the middle, and a bit of green reflected in a small pond with silhouetted trees.

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Billz 😘💙 @billzismyname.queer.cool.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

She is comforted by the fact that her bloody hatchet is close by. #CatsOfMastodon

Carly: An adorable grey baby (cat) sitting next to a catnip toy shaped like a bloody axe

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catsynth / amanda c @catsynth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

A contented cat #CatsOfMastodon #Hipstamatic #Leonard #Indio

A brown and white cat is lying on a rug of similar color and smiling.

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Jeff Koftinoff @statusbar.com · 04/10/2026

#Photography #TowerOfLondon For some reason I did not expect to see a chapel inside the Tower of London June 24 2026

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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

“ #Florida voters are weighing whether to scrap residential property taxes and the state's governor has a solution to that potentially huge revenue loss: tax Canadians more. Canadians who own property in Florida describe the threats to shake them down for more money as just the latest insult in […]

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Jay @jaygooby.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Sun (lounger) bathing #CatsOfMastodon

Tiggs - a Siamese cat - basks in the sun on a sofa. Pink light is reflected from the cushion of a hot pink sun lounger cover

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Duckbilled Plattypus. @pattykimura.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: zeroes.ca/@maggiejk/117379317903663… Holy Heck! Thanks to Trump, Bobby2, and DrOz, you have lost all HIPAA and medical privacy not just to ChatGPT but to its corporate owners to use, spread, and monetize without oversight or regulation if you use AI for a Second "opinion". The LLM […]

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cageyratfish (they) UTC-7 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

nessy loves my red sleeping bag #Caturday

tuxedo cat Nessy peeking out from a litle nest in a rumpled red sleeping bag with a black lining. she's gacing away from the camera & her little white eyebrow whiskers show against the red background

front view of Nessy snuggling in her red and black sleeping-bag nest

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Funny how the American President empathises with the Rapists rather than the victim, wonder what that could be about? /s #Trump #Cornell7 #Misogyny #Patriarchy

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there". Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined. You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Senate Democrats proposed a measure that would trigger cuts to the Office of Management and Budget’s funding after President Donald Trump ran several ads paid with federal taxpayer dollars. Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the Appropriations Committee’s top Democrat, introduced a bill Thursday […]

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

When you take MAGA’s “mass deportation now” program and the ICE policies it has engendered together with the rabid attacks on transgender people and civil rights, it’s clear that the far right now embraces an eliminationist ideology. MAGA doesn’t have rivals. They have enemies whose right to […]

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Third #AircraftCarrier & thousands of #troops head to #MiddleEast as #Trump weighs new #Iran strikes The #US #military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a US official said Thursday. The troop movement, which includes a third aircraft carrier […]

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Michael to be promoted to the highest level of the Order of Canada. (Companion) #canada #michaelJfox www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/articl… Explainer of the three levels […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Post-frost garden cleanup done the best possible way

A whole bunch of black, white, and brown goats happily rampaging through a garden with a bunch of dead sunflowers, dead corn, and dead zucchini plants. The grass around the garden is green and they're happily eating that too. The sky above is cloudy.

A whole bunch of goats happily munching on dead corn stalks in a garden row. The sky above is cloudy, with some scrubby woods just starting to turn yellow in the background.

A white goat with a beard happily eating an entire corn cob while looking at the camera. There's lots of corn stalks in the background.

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***Dave Hill 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @three-star-dave.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@davidaugust A hearty salute and thank-you to our Neighbors to the North for standing up to That Idjit with more bravery than his enablers ever dreamed of.

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