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crafty.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy @crafty.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Has anyone ever done the whole "print your own transfer decals" thing on non specialist paper?

Any advise? Any processes that were followed?

Boosts welcome
#fedihelp

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Periodical reminder:

😷 Masks work.
💵 Billionaires should not exist.
🚲 This machine fights climate change.
🌊 We all need healthy oceans.
✊🏽 Land back.
🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights.
🛂 Borders are violence.
👊🏽 Fascists are to be punched.
🇵🇸 Palestine will be free.

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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 5h

I would've asked why don't they just always freeze it then?

Seems a bit random to have a bazooka and a scalpel available, and only sometimes course the scalpel

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Ben Cox @ben.s.djehuti.com.ap.brid.gy · 10h

"Won't that destroy jobs?"

That's the wrong question. "Jobs" are only nouns in the current colloquial sense in a society where you need to earn money to survive.

"Jobs" and employment levels are also a terrible way to measure the health of an economy, as we've discovered. If literally […]

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Auscandoc @auscandoc.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 10h

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/ubc-enzyme-technology-successfully-completes-first-human-trial-for-universal-organ-transplants/

“Their research found enzymes that remove present surface layer A and B antigens, and convert them into O type antigens.”

UBC enzyme technology successfully completes first human trial for universal organ transplants

A new medical advancement out of British Columbia marks a major step towards helping thousands of transplant patients across North America.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

*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

www.nature.com

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

ātaahua ❤️

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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@Ali @foxylustygrover.bsky.social more than that, this is the Taxpayer's Onion poll... and if that's saying the left can govern alone, that's a serious problem for the right wing

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 2d

Starve them out. Don't make their life easy.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Paco Hope wishes ill for JK Rowling @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

Photo of a white plastic bag with a UPC bar code. The text of the product name reads “BALLCOCK SHANK NUT BAG.”

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Nick Young @nickofnz.bsky.social · 1d

Luxon caught out again.

Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... #nzpol

Orchardists reject Luxon's claim sector is 'crying out' for workers

The Prime Minister is urging young people to look for work in the sector amid changes to the Jobseeker benefit.

www.rnz.co.nz

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AJ Sadauskas @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Manager: "And just a reminder to download Megahappyfunproductivityapp if you haven't already done it. It's really important in helping us to stay on top of our deadlines and work together effectively."

Me: :Downloads the stupid app:

Notification: "You have a message!"

Notification: "Here's […]

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LiteralGrill @literalgrill.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Ya know, right now would be an AMAZING time for Mastodon's leadership to break bread with the Black programmers that really wanted to help make this place less racist.

Bluesky just banned a prominent Black user from basically being seen by anyone. **Because Bluesky's CEO is mad about their […]

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Evan Prodromou @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · Aug 24

I don't want to be alarmist, but "troops occupying major cities" seems like the kind of milestone that we'll look back on and regret that we didn't stop.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I did not see that coming. The #perplexity #comet #browser is so easily weaponized against its user! 😮
https://layerxsecurity.com/blog/cometjacking-how-one-click-can-turn-perplexitys-comet-ai-browser-against-you/
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Spoiler: I did see that coming. From lightyears away.

CometJacking: How One Click Can Turn Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Against You - LayerX

Executive summary New research by LayerX shows how a single weaponized URL, without any malicious page content, is enough to let an attacker steal any sensitive data that has been exposed in the Comet browser. For example, if the user asked Comet to rewrite an email or schedule an appointment, the email content and meeting […]

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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 3d

I know what my suggestion would be 😏

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Orthanc @orthanc.nz · 3d

Like if you want to make the economy go brrrr then what you want is for people to spend money on the money go round.

Giving more to the people that are comfortably well off doesn't achieve this, the money gets saved.

Particularly if the see you've crashed the economy into a mountain.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist
Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS""

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 4d

"Happy eighteenth birthday, you are now an adult for taxpaying purposes but not for benefit or wage purposes"

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Pertissue Fisher came out to the hallway of her apartment in her nightgown to find armed agents yelling “police.”

She had a gun pointed in her face.
She was handcuffed.
She was held until 3 AM before being released.

Fisher isn’t suspected of any crime.
She lives in the building.

Alicia Brooks […]

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Ika Makimaki @pezmico.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 4d

🚨
Aotearoa New Zealand Local election resources!
Remember to Vote!

Re-posting a collection of useful links for fedizens voting in the #localelections25 #nzpol #poti2025

Originally tooted yesterday as a reply but for better visibiility here it goes again:

https://localelections.nz/ - Gen Zero […]

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4d

Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to.

Graphic: @standplaatskrk.pl

Tardigrade in neon rainbow colors inside a circle with the caption “Just because I can survive harsh conditions doesn’t mean I should have to”

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Phil Tanner :tinoflag: @phil-tanner.mastodon.philtanner.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@calico-gf.bsky.social and don't forget to simultaneously complain about the dropping birth rates and wondering who's going to be paying the pension funds...

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