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Más ar an Bsky atáir, ní bhead in ann t’fheiscint ná do leanúint mura leanair-se @ap.brid.gy.

Polannach ag foghlaim na Gaelainne ⁊ a staire (.i. inna […]

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aonghusoha.bsky.social
Féile Cyril agus Methodius, aspal na Slavach. Agus cumadóirí aibítir ar leith, Coirillis.
Cyril agus Methodius leis an aibítir
February 14, 2026 at 11:42 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@TOrynski/116057770738999580

This magical time of the year when the air in Poland has the smell of a fine peated whisky.
mastodon.scot
February 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
An interesting (though not very surprising IMO) read about #anglophone #linguistics and English bias: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17447143.2015.1102921

> Asking a linguist how many languages they speak is like asking a doctor how many diseases they have.

Chomsky managed to […]
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mstdn.social
February 11, 2026 at 11:41 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Grianghraf suimiúil a dheineas de thaisme tá seachtain ó shin i meitreo na Bruiséile, nuair a bhíos ag FOSDEM.

Níor thugas aire don luas comhla is ní raibh ar intinn agam na daoine sin a chur sa bhfráma mar sin, ach d‘éirigh liom an toradh.

#StreetPhotography #metro #brussels #microfourthirds
Cúpla daoine, bean is fear, ina stad ar ardán meitro – táid siad le feiscint go soiléir trí fhuinneog an mheitreo, ach níl cruth na traenach soiléir in aon chor toisc gur bhog sí agus tá sí ina paiste doiléir timpeall na ndaoine. Deineadh le hOlympus E-M5 mk. III agus an lionsa M.Zuiko 12–40 mm f/2.8 @ 1/10 s, f = 19 mm, ISO 200.
February 9, 2026 at 9:38 PM
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kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy
#ember has just rediscovered hydraulic fracking - but make no mistake, what was in 2000-2010 presented as the ultimate technology of apocalypse (‘earthquakes’, ‘toxic mud leaks’, ‘methane coming out of the tap’ and, in general, a total mayhem) has been […]

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Ember graphic which shows how geothermal fluid is passed through a fracked rock which is euphemistically called 'artificially fractured rock'
February 9, 2026 at 11:10 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Do bhuaileas um chúpla sacán inniubh.

#birdsofmastodon #DarkTable #olympus #fieldfare
Sacán ina shuí ar chraoibh croinn, tá toraidh thirim ar an gcraoibh leis. Sacán eile ar an gcrann céanna. Sacán ar chraoibh croinn agus toradh an chroinn ina ghob Agus grianghraf eile le sacán ar an gcrann.
February 8, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Well, everyone, you can now submit a comment to let the FCC know what you think about SpaceX asking for 1 million satellites for "AI datacenters" whatever the fuck that means.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-26-113A1.pdf

Comments due March 6.

I am having a very hard time believing […]
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mastodon.social
February 5, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy
This is actually a great debunk of some persistent myths surrounding Chornobyl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ftGqBYJEaY
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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kravietz.agora.echelon.pl.ap.brid.gy
A classic story from #ukraine occupied territories as told by Eric Gebaide from Save Ukraine in Davos:

> “There was a young woman who was 19 in a hospital giving birth. She needed a C-section. She was told, while she’s in labor, that unless she takes on a Russian passport, she’s not getting a […]
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agora.echelon.pl
January 23, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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flere-imsaho.circumstances.run
accept it as a fact. don't demand compassion from people who are on the business end of your guns. don't expect pats on the head because you “didn't vote for trump”. stop making everything about yourself. shut up for a moment. plan to fix your mess. act on fixing your mess.
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27d
look fair enough but i never know what any of us are supposed to do with this information lol
January 21, 2026 at 1:58 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Just some screenshots with data and their sources (see alt text), for no particular reason today.

#NuclearPower #nuclear #greenenergy
Death rates per 1 TWh of electrical energy produced, measured based on deaths from accidents and air pollution per terawatt-hour of electricity. Brown Coal: 32.72 Coal: 24.62 Oil: 18.43 Biomass: 4.63 Gas: 2.82 Hydropower: 1.3 Wind: 0.04 Nuclear: 0.03 Solar: 0.02 Nuclear power is safer than wind turbines (people die eg. when falling from the turbine during maintenance) – that’s including casualties of the Čornobyľ disaster and Fukushima. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh In 2023, 23 percent of natural uranium used in EU final nuclear products originated from Russia (equivalent to 3,419 tonnes (tU), Figure 4). Replacing the Russian supply of uranium ore does not pose a significant challenge as natural uranium is available abundantly, with Russia providing approximately 5 percent of global primary supply. However, Europe is fully dependent on imported uranium. The EU should renew investment in logistics, strengthen partnerships with stable uranium-producing countries including Canada, Australia and Namibia, and support the development of alternative supply routes from Kazakhstan and other central Asian producers. Ie. Europe imports most of its uranium from other countries than Russia and does not need to import Russian uranium (although European nuclear plants do depend on imported fuel). https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/ending-european-union-imports-russian-uranium Uranium contributed only about 6% (1403 mln eur out of 22964 mln eur total) of European import value of energy products from Russia in 2024. Before that the percentage was much smaller. Russia earns orders of magnitude more on gas and oil. https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/ending-european-union-imports-russian-uranium “Combined death toll from Chernobyl (…) – 2 workers died in the blast. – 28 workers and firemen died in the weeks that followed from acute radiation syndrome (ARS). – 19 ARS survivors had died later, by 2006; most from causes not related to radiation, but it’s not possible to rule all of them out (…). – 15 people died from thyroid cancer due to milk contamination. These deaths were among children who were exposed to 131I from milk and food in the days after the disaster. This could increase to between 96 and 384 deaths, (…) There is currently no conclusive evidence of adverse health impacts in the general population across affected countries, or wider Europe. Combined, the confirmed death toll from Chernobyl is less than 100. We still do not know the true death toll of the disaster. My best approximation is that the true death toll is in the range of 300 to 500 based on the available evidence, but this comes with significant uncertainty.” https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima See reports from UNSCEAR and WHO reporting thyroid cancer diagnoses in thousands. With ~99% survivability rate that’s dozens to low hundreds casualties, unclear how many attributed to iodine intake. https://www.who.int/activities/mitigating-health-consequences-of-chernobyl/ https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/areas-of-work/chernobyl.html Wikipedia has a well-sourced overview too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster
January 18, 2026 at 8:15 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Ana-shuimiúil ar fad. Tá 28 miliúin Polannach ag a bhfuil cearta vótála ann. Agus de réir dealraimh tá 23 miliúin úsáideóirí Xitter sa Pholainn (cé ná raibh ach ~5M díobh tá bliain ó shin), níos mó ná sa Ghearmáin nó san India. Níl aon chuma amhrasach air sin ar […]

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Twitter/X Users by Country 2026 Poland: in 2023: 4M in 2024: 5.4M in 2025: 23.3M India: in 2023: 27.3M in 2024: 27.3M in 2025: 23.1M UK: 2023: 23.1M 2024: 25.9M 2025: 19.3M Germany: in 2023: 14.1M in 2024: 17M in 2025: 17.4M Finland: in 2023: 1.5M in 2024: 1.6M in 2025: 7.7M
January 17, 2026 at 8:54 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Bhuaileadar na cairde seo umam inné. Bhíodar ag dul i bhfolach taobh thiar de chraobhacha áfach is ní rabhas in inmhe dea-ghrianghraif a dhéanamh díobh.

#hare #fieldmouse #microfourthirds #olympus
Giorria sa tsneachta, tá craobhacha croinn le feiscint roimis atá ag ceilt coda dá chruth. Luch fhéir Pholannach (apodemus agrarius) sa tsneachta. Luch fhéir Pholannach (apodemus agrarius) ina pholl agus craobhóga beaga ós comhair an phuill á ceilt.
January 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
RE: https://mastodon.green/@gimulnautti/115870414881854841

I generally ignore YT shorts entirely, but #timothysnyder is always worth listening to.
January 10, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This New York Times video journalism about Trump goons' murder of a Minneapolis woman is essential. No both-sides bullshit when one party -- the regime and its vile propagandists -- is relentlessly and provably lying […]
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mastodon.social
January 8, 2026 at 6:55 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
#timothysnyder has interesting thoughts on #maduro kidnapping by #Trump.

https://snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-the-precedents

Notes no signs of regime change (despite removing Maduro) and benefiting from oil requires huge long-term investment.

Says it’s rather for propaganda: creating […]
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mstdn.social
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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davidstifter.bsky.social
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 25
The DiⒶgnostic team wishes everyone a successful 2026!
We continue with proposed dialectal differences in Early Irish. The word for ‘house’ occurs in various forms in Irish sources. The nominative singular is simple: the oldest form was teg < *tegos, but it is most commonly...
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January 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Is dócha gurb é an chaoi is fusa stad a chur le cogadh ná do chogadh féin a thosnú, cogadh is féidir leat a chur ina stad am ar bith…
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Effects of German Energiewende in 2025. Meanwhile France breaks records in electric energy export.

Source: https://energy-charts.info/charts/import_export_map/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&interval=year&year=2025
A map of Europe showing import and export of electric energy by country in 2025. Germany (which shut down their nuclear power plants) imported 21.9 TWh, France (which keeps their nuclear plants) exported 9.3 TWh. Overall most of Europe seems to have stable power supply thanks to France, Sweden, and Norway. Spain exports some of its power to Portugal. Other energy importers are the UK (30.3 TWh), Italy (48.9 TWh), and Belgium (14.2 TWh). Czechia and Slovakia export moderate amounts (7.6 TWh and 2.3 TWh respectively), Poland (mosly coal, water, and wind energy) imports small amounts (1 TWh). Map from energy-charts.info.
January 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
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davidstifter.bsky.social
𝗗𝗶Ⓐ𝗴𝗻𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 24
Let’s continue with the discussion of previously suggested dialectal features of Old Irish.
The modern regional distinction between the negative particle ní < OIr. ní· (most dialects in Ireland) and cha < OIr. nícon· (Scottish Gaelic and parts of Ulster Irish), has been...
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December 30, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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aonghusoha.bsky.social
tuairisc.ie/port-stat-ao...

SAM ag cuidiú le Putin, go héifeachtach. Drochthuar don bhliain atá le teacht. Agus má thagann Vance i gcomharbas ar Trump, go bhfóire Dia orainn uilig
Port Stát Aontaithe Mheiriceá faoi ionradh na Rúise athraithe ag Trump
Ní ina chomhghuaillí de chuid na hÚcráine atá Meiriceá níos mó agus iad sásta seasamh a thógáil atá ag teacht le héilimh na Rúise
tuairisc.ie
December 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Have Most Deterministic Newtonmas!

(or at least the remaining time of it)
December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
silmeth.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Trying my #WacomOne Pen tablet on #plasma6 #wayland desktop.

libinput debug-events sees tilt of the pen, Kwin Debug Console sees the tilt values too. But #krita, #Gimp, and Firefox seem to always get (0, 0) values for tilt. Tilt works under X11… What’s going on?
November 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM