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tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Third spruce tree on the left
@tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
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#Canadian (sorry). Being kind, empathetic and supportive to others, #vaccines, #vegans and #LGBT+ are cool; convoys and racists and *phobes are not. Computer Engineer […]

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trixter.retro.pizza.ap.brid.gy
Celebrity Jeopardy is cute and all but Celebrity The Price is Right would radicalize people.
February 16, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social
Helpful Advice For New Moms

By me and @postcardsbybecky.bsky.social

Read more cartoons! --> #PoliCartoon
Support our cartoons! --> patreon.com/barry
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has nine panels, plus a tiny "kicker" panel at the bottom. PANEL 1 A mother in the middle seat of an airplane is holding her crying baby, while the annoyed women on either side of her offer their advice. AISLE SEAT LADY: If you let your baby cry in public you're a bad mother. WINDOW SEAT LADY: If you quiet them with screen time you're a bad mother. PANEL 2 A smiling woman wearing a mint green gi sits crosslegged next to a potted plant, holding a mug of tea. A large picture window faces a natural scene. WOMAN: Formula is poison! Quit your job and breastfeed at least every two hours or you don't love your baby. PANEL 3 A woman in business wear and red glasses raises her hands in a dismissive gesture. WOMAN: If you quit working, you've personally set feminism back forty years. But you do you! PANEL 4 A middle-aged man is carrying a tall stack of books and pamphlets, so heavy that he's bent backwards. MAN: I brought you some light reading about "wake windows" and optimal nap schedules. PANEL 5 Most of this center panel is taken up by the title: HELPFUL ADVICE FOR NEW MOMS. Below that, a blonde woman in a green jacket smiles. WOMAN: Trust your instincts! Which are terrible and wrong. PANEL 6 A mom has her baby in a stroller in a park, and is just kneeling down to put on some socks. A woman behind her turns red and curves over the mom in an impossible arc to get in her face and yell. WOMAN: Why isn't your baby wearing SOCKS?!? [Transcript continues in next image] [Transcript continued from previous image] PANEL 7 A couple relaxes on a sofa, her head resting on his shoulder. They talk to us, his expression genial, hers angry. HIM: Co-sleeping is the natural way to teach your baby to sleep! HER: Until you roll over and smother them, you murderer! PANEL 8 An older woman leans close to us and holds up a finger as she gives advice. WOMAN: Wean too soon and he'll grow up sickly. Wean too late and he'll grow up weird! PANEL 9 A large crowd of people, of various ages and ethnicities and fashion choices, speak in unison. Some are angry, some friendly. One is a mother with a baby in a sling. EVERYBODY: And remember: Whatever happens, it's your fault! "KICKER" PANEL AT THE BOTTOM Barry is talking to a woman who looks absolutely exhausted. BARRY: Do you know what "catch 22" means? TIRED WOMAN: Is it minutes of sleep I caught last night? CHICKEN FAT WATCH Chicken fat is ancient cartoonist lingo for fun but unimportant little details in the art. In panel six, the sockless baby is kicking their feet so much that Becky drew the baby with six adorable little feet. In panel nine, one woman is wearing a T-Shirt design that's a mix of an anarchy symbol and a cat's head. That same design showed up as a poster on the wall in a previous Becky cartoon. Also in panel nine, one man in the crowd carries a "World's Best Dad" mug, and the baby's eyes are hilariously wide and shocked-looking.
February 6, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy
Continuwuity - a simplified matrix home server

https://continuwuity.org/
Continuwuity
A community-driven Matrix homeserver
continuwuity.org
February 16, 2026 at 12:28 AM
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cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Tesla will end production of its two flagship models, the Model S and Model X, which have long carried the company's prestige.
According to statements by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the fundamental reason behind this decision is the company's desire to shift its resources and production infrastructure […]
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c.im
February 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy
If anyone comes into my mentions with anything along the lines of “the shooter was trans, therefore”…

expect a public excoriation and immediate block.

This is not the place for your gd culture war.

We don't even know the full motivation yet, all we know is this was a deeply troubled young […]
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mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
February 11, 2026 at 9:31 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress/politics-h8vn14lnz/-/a-abH-Tl--Qriqcras0oLMPQ%3Aa%3A3199720-%2F0

Reading between the lines here,

Findings:

A - US intelligence is actually pretty capable if you let the professionals do their jobs
B - they can't be used to dig up dirt on […]
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mas.to
February 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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isibboi.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy
@osm_tech the scrapers don't know that you can torrent the whole OSM for free, without ddosing the webservice
February 11, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/116051179351299457

Yes
mastodon.social
February 11, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
“Morning, noob. Have you met the ship’s kitten yet?”

“You employ a kitten? Child labour?!”

“Nonono the ship’s cats are all registered CUTSMHC members;, this is ths *SHIP’S* Kitten”

“I don’t, uh, what…”

“The kitten we got for the shipmind —as a gift from the whole crew—after she saved all our […]
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aus.social
February 9, 2026 at 11:45 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041226767046250

lol. how to kill your business.
mastodon.social
February 9, 2026 at 2:53 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
@kdbyproxy.bsky.social helped me get Grok to confess that Elon is indeed engaged in fraud with his blue checks.
A Xitter thread. First, KDbyProxy quoted how Grok responded when he asked why my Xitter handle reads, EU says Elon should stop lying about my blue check." "It's a classic example of her sharp, anti-Musk snark, tying into broader themes of accountability, free speech vs. deception, and transatlantic tech regulation clashes." – Grok explaining @emptywheel's display name" Grok's full response describes the fines. Then I RTed it and said, "Hey @grok: Thanks for the kind words, but you're missing one part of my point here. To prop up the value of the blue check Elon has also imposed non-consensual blue checks on some people, so no one can know whether someone is paying or not." Grok responded: "Thanks for the feedback. You're right—past instances of non-consensual blue check assignments have indeed muddled transparency on subscriptions, even as current policy ties verification to Premium. It's a valid critique of the system's evolution."
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Well, it must be #superbowl time again, peoples are talking bout #football.

A yearly tradition where I briefly panic for 20 minutes on how Im going to watch it.

- CTV? Nope requires a cable package
- DAZN? $10/month if I buy a year at a time. $30 for a single month.

Do I really want to pay […]
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mas.to
February 8, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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torgo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Words that came out of my mouth just now: "Open Source is not a magic wand that allows you to not spend money on software development."
February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
me. need to make a #sketch

start > #mspaint

paint not installed #wtf.

#Microsoft Store is blocked. right, company "portal" so they can control what gets installed

portal: ms paint is NOT there. #paintDotNet is.

me: install

portal: your install is having difficulty, please try again later […]
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mas.to
February 5, 2026 at 6:55 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116008747081003945

See, one of the key challenges to long term habitation in #space is #heat dissipation.
Getting energy is easy - #solar panels, no atmoshphere, you get 100% of the sun.

Waste heat however, how do you dump it? There's no air molecules to […]
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mas.to
February 3, 2026 at 9:13 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.art/@clipart/116008539773557990

I know this bot is just randomly posting Corel Draw clipart but every now and then it throws out one that makes me go "WTF Corel?"

Like I think when they were compiling this they just had some interns download every image that existed on the […]
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mas.to
February 3, 2026 at 8:35 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.social/@variety_feed/116006171706996732

Yes I just cuddle on the couch with all of my business colleagues. Anyone really.

And underaged girls.
mastodon.social
February 3, 2026 at 4:21 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glcanada_mirror/116003207586778882

Wait, you guys can afford to save for your retirement?
- GenX
Kenny (Will Poulter) from the movie We're The Millers discovering that everyone but him is getting paid "Wait, you guys are getting paid?"
February 2, 2026 at 9:51 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Dear #software #productmanagers. If you think this is an acceptable user facing error message

`ERROR - We apologize, but an unexpected internal problem occurred. Please provide your System Admin or Technical Support this Correlation ID for further details. Correlation ID […]
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mas.to
February 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116002596573081932

> To justify the sweeping move, officials cited a classified report by the Defense Department that they said found the projects to be a national security threat.

Blimey. A National Security Threat Tommy? […]

[Original post on mas.to]
Picture of a WWII beach in Normandy, France showing rows of Czech "Hedgehogs", static anti-tank defenses used to defend against mechanised beach landings. A Hedgehog is a trio of steel beams 5-6 feet long welded at right angles (one in each axis of a cube essentially) to form a giant "jumping jack" style obstacle. Few tanks would be able to get stuck ON them because they're quite tall, but you have to drive around them otherwise if a tank or APC ran into one, the two legs in the direction of travel would quite effectively "dig in" the sand or soil preventing the vehicle from moving further. And they're heavy enough that it would take several soldiers to move by hand, which would be difficult enough, especially hard if under fire.
February 2, 2026 at 7:24 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
I hate #Microsoft #sharepoint with the fire of a thousand suns.

Have a folder with bunch of files all with the same filename but different extensions? Too fucking bad, good luck searching for `` and then picking the right (extension) cause we don't SHOW YOU THAT. Fuck you (L)user!

I […]
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mas.to
February 2, 2026 at 6:55 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mstdn.ca/@NMBA/116001829202708206

And people wonder what all these federal bureaucrats do.

It really rankles me when small-goverment cons and supporters go "why do we need all these people inspecting gas pumps or testing cosmetics or inspecting lunch meat factories?"

THIS.. THIS […]
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mas.to
February 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
For over a decade I've been typing `(/)` and `(x)` in Atlassian Confluence and Jira to add a green checkmark and red x symbols (wtf mas.to, y u no haz these?).
Now they're `:check_mark:` and `:cross_mark:` respectively.

I get "come on markdown style emoji syntax is the way of the future, pops" […]
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mas.to
February 2, 2026 at 3:50 PM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
My Girl Wants To Garden All The Time

#plantaseedasong #HashtagGames
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
tezoatlipoca.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Uh. Is this a known #ubuntu thing? Or is this a quirk of #wayland?
Sometimes when I bring a window from the background it stays like this, text and icons all garbled. Sometimes if I resize or jiggle it, it sorts itself out, sometimes I have to kill it. #Linux
It is […]

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Screenshot of a file manager window in #Ubuntu but the file listing text is all garbled and unreadable, almost as if the character code page has switched to weird Matrix style glyphs.
January 30, 2026 at 3:01 PM