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Stephen Mackenzie

@ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy
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Should probably edit bio and pictures 🌉 bridged from ⁂ glasgow.social/@ztephen, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 08/01/2026
I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇
A Citroen C15 van
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
Ha. What state would i be in if i _didnt_ read?
A new scientist magazine headline “READING FOR PLEASURE MAY BRING MAJOR BRAIN BENEFITS”
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weit_im_westen @weit-im-westen.nrw.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
#CowsOfMastodon #scotland #hiking #silentsunday #Photomonday
A cow on a meadow near the scottish west coast
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Guess what? Gas boilers were once a "middle class technology". So were televisions, and phones. That's the standard trajectory for any roll-out. Build the market, drive down the costs and an exclusive tech is universalised. Or did you have another route in mind?
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
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Tomasz Oryński @torynski.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
You know how Britain always complains about migrants coming on boats and not observing the law? I am coming to the UK on the boat and decided to observe the law. The law says that as someone with settled status I can travel on my European ID card. Guess what […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]
Screen from UK.gov pages with information that an EU citizen with settled status can travel to the UK on their EU ID card.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
theconversation.com/would-a-50mph-m… I remember when they put 50 mph speed cameras on the A77. In an instant everything went from a terrifying blur to a sedate, flowing experience. Much less stressful.
theconversation.com
Would a 50mph motorway speed limit really save much fuel?
Physics suggests slower cars use less petrol. But in the real-world, fuel consumption depends on much more than aerodynamic drag.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvp8d8y… well, they made it.
bbc.co.uk
Parton villagers reach James Clerk Maxwell church funding goal
The group looking to buy the historic church had reached its goal in four weeks, well ahead of schedule.
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iwein @iwein.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Xkcd 1732 was made ten years ago, but we're still _exactly_ on the "current path", which is, without exaggeration, the doomsday scenario. If we can't get the needle to move only a tiny bit over a decade, we need to be a lot louder apparently. For full accessible […] [Original post on mas.to]
Tail of xkcd 1732 from 2026 url in the main post
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026
That's so interesting.
The TV remote was
invented in 1893, and
was considered to be a
useless device until 1927
when the television was
invented.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crx2zz4… Just in time for the collapse of international aviation due to fuel exhaustion. Maybe this is a little pointless?
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5ydvw… Remember you can never go back.
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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 25/09/2026
Repost with an image of your favourite James Bond (wrong answers only)
Bob Holness infront of the Blockbusters board
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
music.apple.com/gb/album/the-wasp-f… Goodness me there’s a Vinnie Colaiuta song called “The Wasp Factory”
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The Wasp Factory by Vinnie Colaiuta on Apple Music
Song · 2021 · Duration 3:48
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Thinking of finally updating to ios27 but perhaps… I maybe… won’t? mas.to/@zzt/117316434097190804
mas.to
[object Object] (@zzt@mas.to)
this is the thing we were shouting about, it’s happening now your consent materially doesn’t matter to apple do you understand why we were shouting? why aren’t you shouting?
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Open Source hot take: A software project is allowed to be *done*. Not everything needs to add features or rewrite things. You can just be happy with functionality and focus on just maintainance. "Maintenance mode" is not always bad but can just show a mature product.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
www.sciencenews.org/article/exoplan… Almost, but not quite, exactly unlike Radio 2.
sciencenews.org
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck3wj23… Rather misleading headline, no? Basically a good idea but the fundamental problem with Scottish councils is funding.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026
www.dgwgo.com/dumfries-galloway-new… They’re nearly there…
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Moustaches are a terrible, terrible mistake, and yet each generation must make the same errors as those who came before them.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1kx0gy… Pull the other ones, they’ve got bells on.
bbc.co.uk
AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
It comes as the AI firm's boss has called for the technology's development to be slowed down, citing "serious" risks.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On the current game of "this open corruption is really bad optics, and I wish he'd stop" www.smbc-comics.com/comic/that-t...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - That Thing
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - That Thing
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 10/09/2026
If you're in government watching criminal-led blackshirt thugs in balaclavas wage war on the RNLI and you're hedging your bets because you're not sure who the majority of the country will side with, why do you even want to be in government? Why would you WANT to lead people you think so little of?
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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 10/09/2026
Just an ordinary hand
Photo of Apple's keynote where they show the iPhone Duo held in one hand in its folded and its unfolded form. The right hand would never be able to hold it as shown, so below is an edit of what the hand would have to look like.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
Dear John Apples, I still don’t want AI.
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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
OK, fascist-voting small-town working man, so you no longer believe in the equal value of all men & women. I don't think you know who the original beneficiary of this radical philosophical shift was: you were. If we're abandoning the equal value of all men & women, this isn't going to hit […]
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Lambert Heller @lambo.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Hey dear international followers, you want to make sense of what's going on with the AfD conquering Sachsen-Anhalt state elections? German journalist Mohamed Amjahid has a quick but nuanced analysis of what's going on. (In Germany, Amjahid is maybe best known for his coverage of German police […]
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-best-jo… Well this is exciting, a new Kim Stanley Robinson. And it is apparently massless as well!
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgynjl… Byeeeeeee!!!
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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Imagine reading a blog post that goes on for five paragraphs and then just ends abruptly with the last paragraph saying like "Later on, that simple and reasonable assumption would lead to two ruined pairs of underpants and a fire extinguisher refill." And then it just ends. You'd go "Huh […]
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 02/09/2026
Wrote more on this, if additional words are what does it for you: dmitryopines.substack.com/p/policy-par...
dmitryopines.substack.com
Policy Participation Trophies
We need to get better at calling out an insane double standard in how policies are talked about.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddvyyz… Let’s hear it for the craven ones…
bbc.co.uk
Apple Maps renames Lake Ontario as Lake America after Trump order
The iPhone maker follows rival technology giant Google in relabelling the Great Lake.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 01/09/2026
I don't know if anyone outside of Canada has been following the saga of the island that appeared then disappeared but there has been a big development. It has re-appeared. And that's the top story on CBC News right now: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Screenshot  of main cbcnews.ca page: Lost island in northern B.C. lake — that appeared then disappeared — located, B.C. Hydro says
Newly formed island found along shore of Williston Reservoir after drifting for 30 kilometres
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An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir
Used bookstores navigate 'suspicious' bulk orders amid AI book-shredding fears
Canadian booksellers worry buyers are scanning, destroying books to train AI
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To shelve or not to shelve: How the American alcohol response varies widely by province
'That choice to not shelve product, that's been a very powerful symbolic message,' says tariffs expert
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Élections Québec to mail voter information in French only for 1st time in a provincial election
Élections Québec will send voters information documents in French only for the first time in a general election to comply with changes to Quebec's language laws, the agency said in a news release on Tuesday.
Canada -Montreal |
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Schools in Edmonton and across Canada cancel international field trips
Boards are calling off trips due to trade war, unrest, 'evolving global context'
Canada |
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Liberals sweep 3 federal byelections in Ontario, Quebec and B.C.
Carney government secures majority in crucial test amid U.S. trade war
Politics |
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2 tankers carrying Saudi oil hit in Strait of Hormuz as war shows no signs of stopping
World |
3 hours ago
'It is Lake Ontario and it won’t change,' business owners in Niagara region respond to Trump renaming lake
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
Three-quarters of 'sustainable' salmon farms broke environmental rules. None lost their accreditation. www.theferret.scot/three-quarters-o… @theferret looked at inspection reports from the body which […]
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wjpww… Still don’t understand the tram thing.
bbc.co.uk
Princes Street to reopen seven weeks after building fire
Edinburgh's main thoroughfare was closed following the blaze at the former Debenhams building in July.
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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
Multiple deaths after police vehicle and car crash during pursuit www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx272ly… Why don't we have mandatory speed limiters on cars? Apart from the fact that the motor industry doesn't want them... #FuckCars
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Petar Toushkov @cellfourteen.social.petertoushkov.eu.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
A bookstore keeper after 10 pm in Sofia, Bulgaria. #catsofmastodon #caturday
A cat chilling after work hours at the display window of a bookstore in Sofia, Bulgaria
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77grkz… Smart glasses spoil it for everyone.
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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026
It's been a number of years and I still don't have a convincing answer to what exactly it was Meatloaf would not do for love.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c4gw160q3… Starship in not-exploding-on-touchdown shocker.
bbc.co.uk
'Incredible': SpaceX rocket spotted off Christmas Island coast
A SpaceX rocket that blasted off from Texas in July and crashed into the Indian Ocean hadn't been seen since - but now Christmas Island residents say they have spotted it being towed just off their coast.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-… Er. I’m concerned this hasn’t been fully thought through. Surely if anyone should have a storm named after them it should be […]
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
There is no "war on the motorist". But there is a war, waged one-sidedly by the motoring lobby, against public health, the safety of pedestrians and liveable cities. Against us, in other words.
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Svenska högtider och vanor @svenskavanor.se · 31/07/2026
På 1990-talet hade USA en president född 1946. På 2000-talet hade USA en president född 1946. På 2010-talet hade USA en president född 1946. På 2020-talet hade USA en president född 1946.
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[object Object] @zzt.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026
it’s weird that Patrick McGoohan predicted both the rise and consequences of a technofascist surveillance society and also multiple people dying due to Big Balls
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Ann Annas @ananas.jorts.horse.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025
You suffer from brain worms I suffer from mental eelness We are not the same
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
What emergency alert? England and Wales only?
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
From a review of a recent AC/DC concert randomly linked from my feed: “…the crowd exited smiling and, in many cases, well-juiced. Outside the arena exit gates, rows of teens were waiting to drive their parents home.” #music
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Depths of Wiktionary @depthsofwiktionary.wikis.world.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026
English entry for "can't park there, mate" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:

Phrase
1. (originally UK, humorous) A banterous phrase often uttered when coming across a crashed, broken-down, stuck, wheel-clamped, or otherwise immobilised vehicle, especially when said vehicle is in an unusual position.

Usage notes: Said with the tongue-in-cheek implication that the owner of the vehicle is able to, and should, move it. Mate can be replaced with a different form of address, such as sir.
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Stephen Mackenzie @ztephen.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2g90v… “Brave Sir Robin, he ran away…”
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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026
reading a '90s paperback that's kinda meh but my god it smells amazing. #books
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