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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

It's a wrap for FediForum Day 2, and the entire October 2025 FediForum. We had a blast, and attendees have told us the same.

Next: meet in-person in South Tyrol in Northern Italy in about a month at sfscon.it.

And to be notified of the next online FediForum […]

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

We’re thrilled to be bringing you a upcoming feature to help you find your people on Mastodon: Packs. (Or something… we’re still figuring out the name.)
As always, we want to build this important feature for the community WITH the community.
Read this blog post about our approach and let us know […]

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Eugen Rochko @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

Grasmere.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #lakedistrict #thelakes #cumbria

A calm shaded lake reflecting green trees illuminated by golden sunlight. In the distance, fells covered in auburn colored ferns.

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 18h

I like this very much. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Julian Brasington @julianbrasington.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Been doing a lot of these lately. Compressed charcoal on heavy cartridge paper.

#drawing #charcoal

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PepperTheVixen ΘΔ @pepperthevixen.meow.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Hey there! I'm one of the blind folks who read alt text on here. I'd like to say thank you for adding that so that I can also enjoy images of cartoon animals. A little effort from you means a world of difference for people like me
#accessibility #alttext #blind

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Vital, highly condensed, very well prioritized stuff on why the open social web matters so much—and how it can help people do the necessary work of society in our very rough moment—from @ben at #fediforum. The keynote is being recorded and I'm so glad, because I will be recommending it widely.

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Eugen Rochko @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Fog over Silver How.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
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#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #lakedistrict #thelakes #cumbria

Trees in layers ever more obscured by white, milky fog.

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Sue Archer @suearcher.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Mae popeth yn edrych fel ddoe, heddiw. #castanwyddeneccles

Everything looks like yesterday, today. #eccleschestnut

A horse chestnut tree, in full leaf, against a grey sky. Beside it is a green area bordered by a low stone wall, with other trees and in the background is a large Victorian house. The road in front is cobbled.

The tree is nearly bare, as is small laburnum tree is in front of the chestnut.

Telephone wires cut across the sky from a telegraph pole next to the tree.

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Eugen Rochko @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Standing on a stile on top of Low Rigg.

📷 Pentax KX
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🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #lakedistrict #thelakes #cumbria

A dry-stone wall extending into the distance, splitting the green landscape into two equal parts. A ray of golden sunlight descends on the middle part.

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FediForum @fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Sandra Barthel (@samvie) is coming to #fediforum and wants to talk about:

Political demands from the Fediverse to political leaders at the European level and its member states with regard to the digital summit on 18th of November in Berlin #eufediverse

Discuss interoperability extension within […]

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David Clubb @davidoclubb.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I hope the newly-renamed 'Walk Wheel Cycle Trust' can come up with a better Welsh name than 'Walk Wheel Cycle Trust yng Nghymru'.

I guess that was absent from the discussions when the rebrand of #sustrans took place 🤷

#cymraeg

A screen grab that says:
"Walk Wheel Cycle Trust yng Nghymru. Tua 1,600 milltir; rhwydwaith beicio cenedlaethol sy'n derbyn gofal gennym ni"

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Jen X. Zerofux @teruterubozu.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 2d

My friend @fjbh, who is not active on Mastodon, made a cool tool to find PBS sites that need funding the most called Keep Media Public (keepmediapublic.org) 1/2

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Bubs @multiverseofbadness.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Instead of my typical and obligatory shitting all over AI / LLMs in my blog, I tried a different approach with this article :

I actually spent some time in ClaudeAI and ChatGPT to see what they can and can't do well in regards to "vibe coding"

https://undistinguished.com?myart=20251005164731_p […]

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

In June, we proposed new Terms of Service for registered users of on our mastodon.social and mastodon.online servers. We did not do enough to consider the full impact of the terms, and the community was very clear that we needed to reconsider.

We've done that over the past few months. Today […]

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Anton Gorlin @antongorlin.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 6d

The rocks catching the last rays of the setting sun. Soft breeze whispers its secrets and the waves keep trying to sprinkle me. This is the kind of conversation that I enjoy. Sometimes I feel just a breath away from understanding it all.

#seascape #landscape […]

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a square seascape with rocks on 3 sides and a separate bunch of rocks in the very middle of the photo surrounded by the water. The sky is full of horizontal stripes with late evening peach colours. The rocks catch the last rays of sun painting them orange.

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Eugen Rochko @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Sunset at Low Rigg.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
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#believeinfilm #filmphotography #analogphotography #35mm #lakedistrict #thelakes #cumbria

A green landscape illuminated by the setting sun. On one side, a tarn, in front of it, a single tree. Behind it, a dry-stone wall. In the distance, mountains.

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@hetzner now listed on https://jaz.co.uk/projects/orgs-using-ap?

Do you know a company or organisation running their own Fediverse service? let me know!

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Repair Cafe Barry @repaircafe-barry.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 5d

We are all set up and ready for you to arrive at Barry library from 10am tomorrow!

Jo and Kev, our usual organisers, are sadly ill with covid so our social media volunteer, @alexisbushnell , and form filler extraordinaire, @Uselessgeneration , have stepped up to […]

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Lexi, a woman with light skin tone and bright pink hair, sitting in an electric wheelchair holding both arms up making the two thumbs up gesture. Around her are several tables with 4 chairs around each and an electric socket on the tables, ready for the repair cafe.

Lexi, a woman with light skin tone and bright pink hair, sitting beside Carys, a woman with light skin tone and long blonde hair, both in front of the repair cafe Barry sign and smiling broadly.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 5d

A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com

A scientist stands in front of an enormous contraption
"I created this device to test my theory that our entire reality is a simulation, but the readings I'm
getting suggest something much worse"

"What?" Asks a second scientist.
"We're living in a cartoon!" Says the first.
"Does it at least have a good punchline?" says the second.
The fiorst scientist carefully looks over the data, then eventually replies "Nope"

From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com

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Fireside Fedi @firesidefedi.social.firesidefedi.live.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@limebar just let me know that they're working on an amazing project with a lot of folks from the Fediverse!

A MTV style #fedi powered 24x7 #music #video #channel . I know there are a few creators on TubeFree.org that might be interested? Perhaps @labr or @enoent ?

More info here […]

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jaz :twt: :wales_flag: @jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 6d

@lexicaleigh great news!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 7d

A cartoon from my new book PHYSICS FOR CATS which comes out a week tomorrow! Preorder at you local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

Image 1.
Title: Slides for my lecture at the geology conference
Three diagrams of layered forms labelled with:
Sandstone,
Shale,
Igneous rock,
Limestone,
Granite.

Image 2.
Title: Slides for my lecture at the desserts conference
The same diagrams now labelled with:
Sprinkles,
Custard,
Chocolate,
Sponge cake,
Berry compote,
Biscuit base.

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Eugen Rochko @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

It’s dangerous to go alone #plushtodon

A little blue stuffed Mastodon toy being held up by one hand in front of the Federation Street sign.

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Das @srdas.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#dascdmx

A look inside the Biblioteca Vasconcelos in Mexico City. There are columns of bookshelves seeming suspended at various levels from the ceiling with walkways connecting and that keep going into the far distance. Light from glass skylights many stories up and interior lighting are throughout. On the bottom floor, slightly lower than the camera vantage is the skeleton of a whale

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