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Charles Castleberry
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Retired software architect, traveling the world, living out of my backpack, currently in Cuenca, Ecuador. Taoist, Buddhist, reader, gamer, INTJ, Bacon Number […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@MythingPerson, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 6h
#PositiveNews: What went right this week

🍃 #Renewables overtook coal for the first time representing a “historic shift” in the global #Energy transition.

🥗 New #Food report says it is possible to feed 10 billion people while keeping within planetary boundaries.

www.positive.news/environment/...
What went right this week: the good news that matters
Renewables overtook coal, a report revealed how to feed 10 billion, and the ‘European green capital’ was revealed, plus more good news
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h
I was briefly *very* confused by this “Mr Rodgers” fact. 😂
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Attached: 1 image TIL Mr Rodgers wrote Diana Ross's 'I'm Coming Out' after going to a drag club where he saw a bunch of Diana Ross drag queens. That is the snake eating its tail and I love it! https://youtu.be/bMUlMtMowqg?si=wPR8GRwGS-J3gXMD #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1o2sskm/til_mr_rodgers_wrote_diana_rosss_im_coming_out/
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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d
David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
So, it took me two weeks to get back to Katabasis

I liked the ending well enough, but the MC was an unhappy, deeply unlikeable mess for 2/3 of the book, and half the remaining time she was just listless. I have rarely spent so much time inside the head of a character I liked so little.

It was […]
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
I just want companies that I think are cool to not start (or turn out to be) supporting fascists. I really don’t think that’s a lot to ask.

And how the fuck is this a thing I have to deal with in the Year Our Common Era 2025, ffs? 🤯
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
Ah, damn it. @frameworkcomputer’s been giving money to projects run by fascist types and, when asked about it, the CEO went with the big-tent, “Who am I to judge?” answer. They were going to be my next computer, damn it. ☹️

BTW, their forums? Super polite. Even the folks showing up to say […]
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anarcat @anarcat.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@frameworkcomputer i have also posted a discussion on your community forum, as it seems multiple federated posts here have not been able to bring your attention to this problem yet https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986
Framework supporting far-right racists?
Hi, I am not exactly sure how best to frame this, but recent events have got me wondering where exactly Framework, as a company, stands with regards to human rights and equality. If I understand correctly (and please do correct me if I am wrong), it seems like Framework has started sponsoring Hyprland: So I presume this is fact: Framework, as a company, has decided to sponsor a Wayland compositor who is well known to be led as a rather “toxic and hateful community”. Separately, but on the ...
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
I bet it would be so quiet, living there. 😌
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Attached: 1 image TIL there are 10,000 mysterious man made caves in Mustang, Nepal . Archaeologists found 2,000–3,000-year-old partially mummified human bodies and Buddhist art. Likely used as burial chambers around 1000 BC and later as homes in the 14th century, but who built them and why remains a mystery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustang_Caves #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1o1zzk4/til_there_are_10000_mysterious_man_made_caves_in/
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Ok, that’s slightly nauseating. 🤢
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Today I learned (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image TIL Lucky Charms were created when a General Mills employee added Circus Peanuts to Cheerios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus_peanut #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1o1tymw/til_lucky_charms_were_created_when_a_general/
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Alexander Skarsgård. Holy mackerel. 🤤

I’m just sayin.

https://youtu.be/aTAacTUKK00?si=FZDrTZ5FsCYhRcQb
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
*Curing Alzheimer's in mice

*Skeptics will go, "heyn that's in mice," and rightly so, but curing it at all, that's a big deal

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41392-025-02426-1
Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
The writing and acting Asian comedies are usually too broad for my tastes, but this is kind of hard to resist….

https://youtu.be/60LwuOjunXw?si=oTuYg7vVrXM73iVg
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
This explains that one comment I saw, about Gimcrack Hitler hating on a country music song. Now I know why. 👍
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We are at: A country singer, Zach Bryan, who just played the largest ticketed concert in the US, wrote an anti ICE raid protest song. https://abcnews.go.com/culture/story/zach-bryan-controversy-new-music-ice-raids-immigration/?id=126288648
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
@peteorrall I like your pronouns. 😁😂
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
It’s so amazing, to spend the day writing. To wake up and know where a chapter begins & know roughly where it needs to go, and then follow the path of events along their natural course until they arrive roughly at where you intended. And then to put it down to ferment — to wait until you can […]
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
This is the first use of conversational AI that I’ve ever felt I could get behind.
https://officiell-info.se/@positivenews/115331641073509205
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Nature’s voice? Trees speak up in AI-powered experiment -> https://www.positive.news/environment/natures-voice-trees-speak-up-in-ai-powered-experiment/
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
My vision only became a little blurrier in the last 3 years, and even now I can still generally focus if I work at it. I’ve been blaming it on video gaming, but it might simply be aging.

But it “worsens until around age 65”, and I’m nearly there. So does that mean mine won’t be getting much […]
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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 3d
my wife found this online somewhere recently, and I don't think I've agreed this hard with anything in a long time
Screenshot of a page of a book, first line is highlighted: The real luxuries in life: time health a quiet mind slow mornings ability to travel rest without guilt a good night’s sleep calm and “boring” days meaningful conversations home-cooked meals people you love people who love you back
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Eugen Rochko @gargron.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Apparently you can make me watch and share a 12 minute product advert if you hire Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement for it and let them loose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbO1z13WP8o
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Paul Southworth @pws.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 4d
The Trek bike I repaired belonged to a young woman whose mom was there as well. I spent some time explaining what I was seeing on the bike and what to do about it. But the cool thing was afterwards she went and sat with other fixers for hours getting involved in other repairs. Her mom said she […]
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Piggleston Pecanpants @lilpecan.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this.
What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they […]
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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
This is a cool idea, but I hope some of these shoes are fully enclosed. Because most of these look like really pretty lacework, and one of the minimum thing I need from an outdoor shoe is to keep my feet dry if I step in a puddle.
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Step forward the ‘fully biodegradable’ shoe that leaves no footprint -> https://www.positive.news/society/footwear-but-no-footprint-designers-step-up-with-fully-biodegradable-shoes/
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A comment on You Suck At Cooking's YouTube video "LGBTQ+ Sandwich" that said "bro why do i hear abt how people hate lgbtq. this looks good asf".
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d
Karin Immergut is an ex-AUSA. That’s no guarantee of character, obviously. There are plenty of ex-AUSAs who are hacks, grifters, climbers, and throne-sniffers. Look at Emil Bove. But some of them give a shit about the rule of law and won’t pretend the emperor has clothes./1
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d
BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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Charles Castleberry @mythingperson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
You couldn’t ask for a more reliable judge, to uphold the rule of law, than one literally named “Always good”.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d
Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...