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Pottery by Osa @potterybyosa.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Outdoor dinner with my mom and husband on our wedding anniversary weekend. Another celebratory garden bouquet 💐 Mismatched #pottery, as always—two cups and vase by me, one cup by David MacDonald, candle by #EastFork, mom’s manufactured dishaware.

A decorative clay vase filled with colorful flowers, including orange and purple blooms, sits on a wooden table next to a lit candle in a turquoise holder. Green foliage surrounds the flowers, and a blurred background features lush greenery.

A beautifully set outdoor table features three plates of pasta with chicken and roasted vegetables, accompanied by decorative napkins and mugs. A colorful flower arrangement and a candle add a cozy ambiance to the scene.

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llewelly @llewelly.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

@futurebird they were called "brackets" because in days of yore they were made from the humeri of baby brachiosaurs.

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine. If you […]

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Cress 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌻 @lexicaleigh.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Afternoon, Twters! My friend got me this AMAZING mug for Halloween this year, it's just been filled with hot chocolate and mini marshmallows. Had my flu jab this morning, so I think I've earned a little treat. Happy Autumn, all!

A halloween mug: looks like a witch with a removable witch's hat on it to keep hot drinks hot in the cooler months. It's mostly black with an orange and white collar, orange shoes, and a black and white striped handle.

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jcrabapple @jason.gts.snakepit.us.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

We're about to invest in a snow blower and I just know I am about to buy this thing and it is not going to fucking snow this winter.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

They used to be called "carriage returns" because in those days they were pulled by horses.

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

torvalds is really speedrunning all the major “dickhead manager discovers the slopbot” points and of course, observers know what comes next: trying to shout over every breakage, every maintainer that leaves, every instance where using LLMs has proven to be a horrible fucking idea nobody […]

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Jungle George 🌬️🍃🐉 @junglegeorge.mastodon.africa.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Fell into the lavender haze, where the jacarandas do the dreaming for you. 🌸 #Johannesburg #Jacarandas

A white pelican stands on a grassy slope, with blooming purple jacaranda trees in the background.

A quiet street tunnels beneath a dense canopy of purple jacaranda blossoms, with a few vehicles passing through in soft early light.

A suburban Johannesburg street on a sunny day, arched by tall jacaranda trees in full purple bloom, fallen petals carpeting the road beside green lawns.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

AI does not disrupt. AI entrenches. AI turns money into more money; AI turns investment into dependency. We are living in a funhouse mirror of that right now where the combination of overly-plausible demos and first-one's-free incentives are swamping the actual balance-sheet math. But the […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Anybody have dark sky connections around the Lone Pine, CA area? Can the town slap them with some nuisance lighting fines? That would be funny.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

It's also very frustrating to constantly have my opposition to AI be taken as an opposition to abstraction, or to automation, and a desire to do every little thing by hand. But it's the opposite. For a whole bunch of reasons, AI anti-abstracts. It adversarially creates oceans of duplication to […]

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zrb @zrb.social.hildebrind.space.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@asokel @casualkellinfan.bsky.social melborp ruoy evlos ll'taht ,02$ meht evig dna uoy ot siht did ohw ytitne eht dnif ot evah tsuj uoY

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zrb @zrb.social.hildebrind.space.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@whitequark we're all chasing stable boring predictable software I guess

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zrb @zrb.social.hildebrind.space.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@asokel @casualkellinfan.bsky.social .xif ysae, melborp nommoc .noisnemid rorrim eht otni dekcus neeb ev'uoy ,ees I hO

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Pasu / ⏁⍜⌿⏃⋉⊑ @pasuteru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

even Kerfur said happy birthday to my wife @yourfoxsis.bsky.social today wow!!!!

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Jessie Kirk @thejessiekirk.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I don't care if the homeless person we house or the refugee person we welcome is a "good investment". Humanity is not a business. I just want as many HUMAN BEINGS to be warm, happy, safe and healthy as possible. Wrap that up in whatever political affilliation you care too, it's how we should […]

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zrb @zrb.social.hildebrind.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@puppygirlhornypost2 * could you turn yourself in please * is this coffee legally binding? * when do I go back to my room

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Amber :neodog_box: @puppygirlhornypost2.transfem.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

things to say to the police detective where were you the night of the murder sell me this confession i brought my own handcuffs let me speak to the district attorney directly where do you keep the evidence what are your intentions with my trial i am going to be the one asking questions

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I’m pushing this reply to top level because it’s extremely important: is.badat.dev/objects/a142a17d-9320-… > I asked whether that risked cutting off bright new developers that we would rather hang onto; Torvalds answered that the kernel project only wants serious […]

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

this is the one and only reason that the Linux kernel is going out of its way to hide which commits are LLM generated by abolishing the Assisted-By tag, simultaneously with torvalds fully slopcoding a core “improvement” to the kernel’s memory management if you don’t believe me, here’s part of […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

It was -7C according to my (very old, mercury) thermometer when I went out to do chores this morning. Quite a bit colder than forecast SIGH. I hope the few tomato plants still hanging on in the greenhouse didn't freeze, because we didn't pick them clean yet...

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

what do I recommend? fuck another OS. hold these motherfuckers responsible. why in fuck should Torvalds have a place in polite company anymore? why in fuck should Stallman? any the Linux Foundation employees? any of the slop-loving fuckers at the OSI? why should any of the people whose actual […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Companies when IT says they need more budget to improve security: "how can we afford that?" Companies when the inevitable security incident happens: "we definitely can't afford this" The IT department when that happens: "we fucking told you so" Blame is always going to land on the IT folks […]

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

There is a certain type of cafe catering to a certain type of tourist in South Asia whose entire thing can be summarized as: cannot have any spice at all? Come have our food which has no spice and also absolutely no seasoning or salt! Those places are very much not for me. Sadly I just ate at […]

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zrb @zrb.social.hildebrind.space.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@casualkellinfan.bsky.social they can't cross moving water, get in the bathtub and run the faucet

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I can't wait for that fat piece of shit to die.

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zrb @zrb.social.hildebrind.space.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@danielrigal.bsky.social "humans infest island normally populated by crabs"

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The BBC really will put any old shit in their "Science" News. The island isnt 'infested" with crabs. The crabs live there. BBC News - Crew searching for Amelia Earhart arrives at crab-infested island www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Crew searching for Amelia Earhart plane lands at remote island infested with carnivorous crabs

Researchers will sleep on their ship to avoid giant crabs that can lift heavy weights, split open coconuts, and may have played a role in Earhart's demise.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

my anger about this has to go somewhere, someday. the anger is just growing, constantly, with nowhere to go, as the cowards are hiding behind their residential proxy mafia

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

once again i'd like to be compensated for these damages

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

currently blocking around 30 unique ai crawler bot IPs per second (!) on our gitlab

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

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xssfox (crossy) @xssfox.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Three nice things today: - I helped someone fix their misadjusted derailleur and stuck chain - I experienced the sun set and Melbourne's skyscrapers silhouette - I received socket adapters which now allow me up put my big sockets on my tiny torque wrench, which is seemingly a fairly regular […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Surveillance video obtained by our Houston station, ABC13 shows the moment an unmarked SUV carrying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ⚠️ran over a man during a pursuit at a shopping center in Texas on Saturday. The video out of west Harris County shows a white pickup truck stopping […]

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stand a little out of my sun 🍉 @fiend-unpleasant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

"... I never had one, that's why they never bothered me" is too good of a line for this shitty movie. #monsterdon #MonsterdonDoubleFeature #TheBat1959

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Colin Burgess @thundercove.net · 12/10/2026

I love it when one fallen log has it all going on… #MentalHealthHike #trees #plants #mushtodon #lichensubscribe #mosstodon

Mosss, lichens and mushrooms on an old log

moss, lichen and mushrooms on the end of dead log

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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

> “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Phone call with the conservative uncle: -The problem with all this Socialist and communist ideology is that it doesn't consider people are different. We don't have the same interests, capacities, desires. That's why it's bound to fail. Me: Right. Everyone has something different to offer and […]

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Misofist @misofist.girlcock.club.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

[subpost, AI & consciousness, also I'm coming down from my first acid trip but this is stuff I've talked about before] We are made of matter and electricity and chemicals and they are messy messy messy but they all follow rules. If you add up all the rules you get a person. You are the process […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

This paper title is 🔥🔥🔥 "Systematic non-compliance of satellite megaconstellations with IAU brightness limits" arxiv.org/pdf/2610.10834 Congrats to the Global Meteor Network team on a great paper demonstrating how bad SpaceX and other satellite operators are on following through on […]

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David Huggins-Daines @dhd6.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@sundogplanets reminds me of how we went to the dark sky reserve a few months back to see the Perseids and we saw no Perseids but plenty of satellites 🤬

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