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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Boarded for flight 25 of #worldtour2025 heading to SF. I will say that first class on a 777 is way better than on a 737, which is the other option flying Kona to SF. I’m not sure facing backwards is going to be my jam.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Tiffany has a “Bird on a Rock” collection this year. So another company fired the creatives and went with the $20 #chatgpt sub.

BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@mike 🤣🤣🤣

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Mike Lawton @mlawton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Do you ever stop to think how many companies you despise, but they have your business anyway because they are a monopoly?

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@mlawton I do and it annoys the heck out of me since I don’t have a solution

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 4d

We haven’t played great but I still feel very hard done by Anthony Taylor #LFC

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Mike Lawton @mlawton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

This is the fourth time the commentators have watched the replay and said there is absolutely no foul at all. All four against #LFC

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The Iconfactory @iconfactory.iconfactory.world.ap.brid.gy · 4d

:tapestry_app: Tapestry Tip: If you lose your timeline reading position when returning from a helper app in iOS 26, you can open the View Menu > Jump Back to return to where you previously left off.

The new Windowed mode on iPadOS 26 is wonderful but it’s […]

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 4d

How little must Slit rate Gomez if he still can’t get on the field as a sub for Konate again?!?! #LFC

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Liam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 7d

The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91.

She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 8d

@bigzaphod Can I file a feature request for #tapestryapp with you? I’d love to be able to set which app to use on a type basis? Specifically I want to open BlueSky posts in the BlueSky app but web links in the internal browser.

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

*If you're into technology-art you see a lot of ship-in-a-bottle stunts like this... but a sort-of-functional LLM that's built out of a zillion Minecraft blocks, that's peculiar

https://youtu.be/VaeI9YgE1o8?si=e3ipdNpQcnsvi8-b

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Let’s just never talk about this game or week again, okay? #LFC

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Sequence of disasters from Konate. The sale of Quansah, the failure to land Guehi and the long-term injury to Leoni are looking like a dreadful combination for us.

#LFC

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Hard to believe we’re not making any changes at the half. #LFC

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Seriously though we had several really good chances and took none, WTAF do you expect?!?!

#LFC

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 8d

This is why you play a right back at right back 🤷‍♂️ #LFC

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 8d

Is Frimpong starting in the Salah spot and Dom at right back, or vice versa? #LFC https://mastodon.social/@peteyjlawson/115294542561510664

Pete Lawson (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Interesting line-up... #LFC #GALLIV

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 10d

🤯🤯🤯
https://xoxo.zone/@mathowie/115285367055616555

Matthew Haughey (@[email protected])

This week I learned that September 26th is the most popular of all birthdays during the year, probably because it's about 40 weeks from roughly the week between xmas and new years, which explains why half of everyone I know seemed to be born this week.

xoxo.zone

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Matthew Haughey @mathowie.xoxo.zone.ap.brid.gy · 10d

This week I learned that September 26th is the most popular of all birthdays during the year, probably because it's about 40 weeks from roughly the week between xmas and new years, which explains why half of everyone I know seemed to be born this week.

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

*Alexander Calder underground sacred museum in Philadelphia

*Nice that it doesn't undersell how weird he was

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/sep/19/garden-master-of-mobiles-alexander-calder-philadelphia-herzog-de-meuron

Garden of unearthly delights: inside the eerie underground lair for ‘master of mobiles’ Alexander Calder

The great kinetic artist has never been properly celebrated in his home town of Philadelphia – until now. But is a $90m subterranean labyrinth, created by Herzog & de Meuron, really the answer?

www.theguardian.com

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13d

This week's #thursdayfivelist theme is #sentencing - songs with titles that are a complete sentence. The Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes edition.

It Ain’t the Meat, It’s the Motion https://youtu.be/muy5lAw_wsw?si=vNSIOKQnYx4nqua3

I Don’t Want to Go Home […]

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BillSaysThis @billsaysthis.curmudgeon.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 14d

I used to be a Completist but now I’m a “Keep My Interest”-est #entertainment

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Enemy of the State (1998) was so prescient, and getting moreso every year.

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