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Recovering American in the Netherlands. Queer, universalist, antifa, filker, once and future technical journalist, trying to fix the world one tiny bit at a time […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hachyderm.io/@stonebear2, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Kat @tak.notapattern.net · 21h

not all heroes wear capes

one of those annoying gas station screens that plays obnoxious audio at you while you’re just trying to get some overpriced gas in peace, except you can’t because we live in a capitalist dystopian nightmare where every surface must be yelling at you at all times. something is scrawled on one of the otherwise unlabeled buttons. what is it…?

close-up of the button, alongside which someone (HERO) has helpfully scrawled “MUTE” in permanent marker. readers, i pressed the button and i am here to tell you that it WORKED and i was able to spend the next few minutes in blessed, silent contemplation of how much it costs to fill the gas tank of the vehicle i am forced to own because of decades of under-investment in public transit infrastructure

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Angry sweet antiracist enby @vreer.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Tweet by Machine Pun Kelly (@KellyScaletta) "Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding inanm attic, writing a diary"

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StoneBear :potion_genderqueer: @stonebear2.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Friendly reminder that if you live in the northern hemisphere and you have a SADD light, now's the time to dig it out of the back of the closet.... #MentalWellbeing #sadd #psa

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Bjorn Beijnon 🇪🇺 @bbeijnon.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 1d

IO+ reviewed Dutch Parliament voting for the Hague Innovation Check. Result: Volt Netherlands ranked #1 on innovative voting about data. Data sovereignty is something you do:

🔁 Practice what you preach: Volt moved from Meta Workplace to European Haiilo.
🏛 Government sets the standard […]

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to figure out sometimes whether submissions were made using AI, but then sometimes they make it fairly easy.

Three citation urls that include the source being chatgpt.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

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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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 1d

文章合为时而著，歌诗合为事而作。

Serious translation: Prose is written for the era, poetry is written for the moment.

New Living Internet translation: Post takes as long as the world needs to hear them, post memes while they're still funny.

source […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

while researching the rubygems takeover situation, I ended up on the blog of someone who insists on using AI header images, and now instead of engaging with the actual post I’m stuck on “why is there a puppy on the table? WHY do the evil corporate overlords holding a sinister meeting have a […]

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 2d

banning people like antivaxxers and fascists has never been about “censoring the opposition” or “stifling healthy debate.” at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, that’s what they want you to think. it’s always been about limiting the reach of mass disinformation campaigns that seek […]

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Phaistos Disco @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Josh Crowley (sp?) @jdcrowley

If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

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Mark A. Rayner @markarayner.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 3d

100%! I would also object, decline and reject such actions.

#weird #signs #humor #humour

a sign on a door that says: REFUSE to be stored in black plastic sacks and placed in the containers provided

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Schroedinger @steveclough.metalhead.club.ap.brid.gy · 3d

To all refugees form #bluesky - welcome. This is a place of oddity, peculiarity, and lovely people.

It can take a little longer to find your place here, but you will, if you try. So welcome, and say hello.

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skribe 🇺🇦 :verified_mustard: @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

The colour you get when you sear a duck breast, is that a mallard reaction?

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Please be patient with the ghost infestation, we have called the relevant people

Fitness center will be closed on such-and-such date
Ghost hunting event being held

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Kiri 💾🐍 //nullptr::live @expiredpopsicle.vt.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Looks like we may have an influx of new people on the Fediverse after that mess on Bluesky.

Be kind to them. Adapting to the technical and social aspects of Fedi can take some time.

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Joshua Byrd 💽 @phocks.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

When a radical change is needed, many argue that it is impossible for individual actions to incite it, so it's futile for anyone to try. This is exactly the opposite of the truth: the impotence of individual action is a reason for everyone to try.

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Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy · 3d

ICYMI, the official database of books included in the Anthropic class-action copyright settlement is now live: https://secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

You can now file claims.

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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StoneBear :potion_genderqueer: @stonebear2.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Padres at Cubs for the final game of the wildcard. Two innings in a row the second baseman, Swanson, bobbles the ball but comes up with it fast enough to get the runner... the commentator's reaction? "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!" 🧙‍♂️

https://youtu.be/W9e05CXZYZo?t=645 (that's 10:45 if the timestamp […]

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StoneBear :potion_genderqueer: @stonebear2.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

So somehow I missed the donuts-on-fishing-lines bit in Portland? Anybody got a link? #portland #uspol #laughtivism

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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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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5d

also, remember to download and backup a high-quality copy of your bandcamp music!

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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 5d

English teachers: don't use the word "and" too many times in a sentence.

Tolkien: I think I'll write a sentence that uses "and" 20 times.

#akallabeth #tolkien

"In an hour unlooked for by Men this doom befell, on the nine and thirtieth day since the passing of the fleets. Then suddenly fire burst from the Meneltarma, and there came a mighty wind and a tumult of the earth, and the sky reeled, and the hills slid, and Númenor went down into the sea, with all its children and its wives and its maidens and its ladies proud; and all its gardens and its halls and its towers, its tombs and its riches, and its jewels and its webs and its things painted and carven, and its laughter and its mirth and its music, its wisdom and its lore: they vanished for ever."

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StoneBear :potion_genderqueer: @stonebear2.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5d

'scuse me while I shitpost (NOT SAFE FOR DRINKABLE)...

Social media post from Jake (@jacobhunni):
"Name this film. Wrong answers only."

The picture is of four hobbits in a cornfield.

Reply from Eric Idle, absolutely deadpan:
"The Second Breakfast Club"

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5d

BANDCAMP FRIDAY ALERT https://isitbandcampfriday.com

Full price of music to musicians today on bandcamp, no platform cut

Is it Bandcamp Friday?

Is it?

isitbandcampfriday.com

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

We moeten terug naar het oude ideaal, een waarin het internet in handen is van ons allemaal, en niet van de zeer rijken.

https://neerlandistiek.nl/2025/10/lang-leve-het-wereldwijde-web/

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