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markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Just deactivated my twitter (x) account. Haven’t used it for years but just left it hanging. Now it’s gone altogether.
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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saraislet.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Please — and I can't believe I have to say this — please do not lick your employees.
Margin note in red: "please do _not_ lick your employees" How then can you be sure you are being truly heard? What techniques can you employ? Is it enough to have your subordinate paraphrase your words? I don't think so. What you must do is employ all of your sensory capabilities. To make sure you're being heard, you should watch the person you are talking to. Remember, the more complex the issue, the more prone communication is to being lost. Does your subordinate give appropriate responses to what you are saying? Does he allow himself to receive your message? If his responses — verbal and nonverbal — do not completely assure you that what you've said has gotten through, it is your responsibility to keep at it until you are satisfied that you have been heard and understood. This is what I mean by listening: employing your entire arsenal of sensory capabilities …
January 7, 2026 at 4:39 AM
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ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy
Did you know: you can avoid the need for backups by failing to do anything worth saving a copy of

Follow me for more computing lifehacks
December 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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tomek.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
This is my flag.

It stands for unity, freedom, peace, democracy, equality, civilization, diversity, rule of law, science, beauty and strength.

There is nothing more important to fight for.

#eu #europe
Flag of EU
December 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
Happy 76th Birthday, Tom Waits!
Title: The street tom waits grew up on. Image: a shabby, broken down old timey American street. Caption: Buildings (left to right): vern's all-nite pizza 'n' tattoo, accordion players' graveyard, abandoned clown-shoe factory, divorced salesmen's polka club, tomb of the unknown cabbie, bootleg ice-cream warehouse, saint frank's hobo orphanage, illegal umbrella incinerator.
December 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
AI World Clocks: https://clocks.brianmoore.com (h/t @nelson)
AI World Clocks
The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.
clocks.brianmoore.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
That point on, as an English person, Lea ing a bar in Germany and you slip between saying tschüss and cheers and end up just saying cheese
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
THIS.
October 18, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy
War ravaged Portland
The famous unicycling Darth Vader on a bridge in Portland. He is playing flaming bagpipes.
September 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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torynski.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy
https://www.theguardian.com/world/1825/sep/24/transport.uk

I love that info on the top:

THIS ARTICLE IS MORE THAN 200 YEARS OLD :)

#railway200 #railway #trains #media
Stockton and Darlington Railway
The first commercial use of the railways
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Now that’s graphic design!
A poster advertising cask ale “You cannot recreate me at home YOU MUST COME TO THE PUB”
September 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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fluffykittycat.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy
https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/#fn:2

The free web will never die so long as we never give up
September 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Pretty impressed with the Barbican.
#london #Barbican
Internal view of the Barbican, lots of orange carpet and concrete.
September 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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linux.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy
Looking to leave GitHub?

Try Codeberg — it's Git, but based in Germany (Europe), without all of Microsoft's nonsense. They're also on the Fediverse: @Codeberg.

But wait — it gets better!

Codeberg is open source, and you can even host your own instance. The software is called Forgejo, built by […]
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September 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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drjennings.bsky.social
The failure of the government and many Labour MPs to leave X after the 2024 riots suggests they just don't get the challenge they face or the power they have to fight back. Completely weak and callow.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 1
In his own voice, Elon Musk is fully committed to a replacement conspiracy theory as his main lens on UK politics.
September 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
I posted this 20 months ago in an unmentionable place. It has become no less true.
We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices.
August 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Kiddo: why do you put the full year with "20" at the front when you sign the school forms?

Me: _thousand-yard Y2K stare_
August 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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drmaddkap.meow.social.ap.brid.gy
“Soup of the Day” implies another, possibly more seductive, Soup of the Night.
August 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books
#holiday #vacation #reading
A happy book says: I'm so proud you chose me as your holiday read! I can't wait to start entertaining you! A smiling drink says: And I'm right here! Ready to keep you cool and refreshed while you read! A gleeful phone adds: Yay! So great! How about we kick things off with a load of the same old rubbish you always look at, plus some gloomy news and mavbe a few emails from work!! Hours later... The drink and book lie untouched. The phone is out of view but a bubble reads: Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll Scroll The book says “I hate that guy.”
August 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy
hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam

linux user: omg you got it working?
July 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
‘Combined Classics’ - my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Title: Combined Classics: get those notable novels ticked off more quickly! Image: a line of four books 1. 'Remains of the Day of the Triffids' by Ishiguro and Wyndham 2. 'Greats: Gatsby, Expectations, Glass Elevator' by Fitzgerald, Dickens and Dahl 3. 'Watership Down and Out in Paris and London' by Adams and Orwell 4. War, Peace, Pride, Prejudice, Crime and Punishment by Tolstoy, Austen and Dostoevsky
June 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
markno.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
Waiting for our plane at Manchester Airport, and we can see Jodrell Bank in the sunshine!
Approx 10 miles away.
A view across Manchester airport airfield. On the horizon a distant parabolic(?) reflector can be seen highlighted by the sun.
May 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM