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Nol Malone ☭ @anolandria.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

I love them both. 🥰❤️

The image shows two people sitting on a subway or train. On the left, there is a person with bright blue hair styled in pigtails, wearing headphones, and looking at a smartphone. They are dressed in a dark coat, patterned tights, and colorful shoes, with leg warmers and holding a bag.

On the right, there is an older person wearing a military-style green coat and a cap, holding a cane and appearing to be resting or sleeping.

Above them, the text "there are two types of communists:”

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1h

A colleague recently sent me a conference website to look at (something to do with satellites). Looking through the panels, I noticed that there was one panel that was 100% women speakers, with a women moderator, and it wasn't called "Women in XYZ". Is this how you pass the space conference […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Looking at the reigns of murderous dictators, I find that almost none of them survive long enough for prehistoric archaeology's methods to be able to tell the time before them apart from the time after them. Hitler's twelve years, Stalin's twenty-eight -- those are blips in our chronology. We […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 1d

This morning I took a look at the spam I received overnight. Excluding what my system rejected (so, messages that never reached my inbox), 87% came from MSFT or Google - straight from the mail servers of those two companies.

Yet many people choose these big providers - now near monopolies - […]

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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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Cassandra is only carbon now @xgranade.com · 1d

I said a thing in visibility-limited replies that I'd like to actually bring out into a more general context: political movements that don't make room for people to have unproductive emotions makes about as much sense as building bridges with zero safety tolerances.

People are, well, human, and […]

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 3d

Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's neo-fascist guru—plans to Flee USA.

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

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Panicked Curtis Yarvin—JD Vance's guru—plans to flee USA

‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Is it just me or is Uriah Heep's "Weep in Silence" really, REALLY similar to Pink Floyd's "Time"?

Like. There are songs on The Wall that follow on thematically from each other using the same basic "Brick in the Wall" riff that sound less like each other than these two.

Never been a Uriah Heep […]

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Evan Prodromou @evan.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Mind-blowing fact from @ben during #fediforum : in an fundraising experiment, he was able to raise more donations for #propublica on the Fediverse than on any other social channel. 🤯

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

running docker on a raspberry pi

Shipping container loaded on top of a small wooden stern boat which it is clearly too big for

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 2d

You gotta know there's a whole bunch of zero days and exploits and back doors and shit that NSA and CIA career officers are desperately trying to not mention to any of the brown nosing politicals because you absolutely know Trump would burn a whole $10MM zero day chain just to figure out the […]

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David Weir @davidjamesweir.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Your annual reminder that modern physics is done in diverse teams of anything between 1 and 1000 people, by people of all backgrounds imaginable.

Breakthroughs are not made single-handedly by at most 3 white men. Arguably they never were.

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 2d

A note for the golf haters: This course was built many years ago along the banks of the Hennops River.

South Africans are already grinning.

That river is gross, after about 3 decades of massive mismanagement by the various metro municipalities through which it passes.

It's not just the truly […]

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 2d

My daughter has turned into a golf girlfriend.

I didn't know this was a thing. Twice a week, I drop her off at the country club, and she walks along beside her totally-not-a-boyfriend while he and his buddies play golf.

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Before Exchange itself became popular, I mean, not just the hating ;)

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 2d

I'm so old, I hated Outlook/Exchange before it became popular ;)

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/dont_even_consider_microsoft/

'Don't even consider' Microsoft? Gosh

Comment: A millennial does battle with Redmond's enterprise tools and comes away reeling

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@malmorrow Oh really? I would've thought that one came from hunting.

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Heard a very sharp man today pronounce kubernetes as "Kay 8 ess" and it did wonders for my own professional insecurities.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@mattblaze this answers an old question of mine, which is why don't we simply embed alt-text into the exif data. Now I know, thank you

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

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

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the xnu gamer @mothcompute.vixen.zone.ap.brid.gy · 2d

movies used to come in sets of 1200 floppy diskettes. like if you remember

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

We appreciate that certain politicians have recently admitted their naivete in entrusting the voices of their governments to corporate / for-profit social media.

To these politicians, we say: https://joinmastodon.org/hosting

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One-and-only Allen Versfeld @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Dear gambling industry: STOP TRYING TO HIJACK THE WORD 'GAMING'

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william.maggos @wjmaggos.liberal.city.ap.brid.gy · 3d

The web is not a community space. It has great and shitty content. And we disagree on what we categorize as either. It's full of whatever people decide to put up on their own sites and the vast majority of it never gets seen (cause there are no algos). That's the nature of huge decentralized […]

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