this seat is taken for the weekend
#catsofmastodon #cats #Humor #caturday

We tried to sneak out and take Henry (the high-energy three-year-old springer) on a good long forest hike, but Buddy (the thirteen-year-old springer) used up one of his very few daily turbo tokens to get past us and hopped into the car.

So we made the best of it and split into two teams as soon as Buddy ran out of juice. I then took him for a long drink of water and helped him back into the car, and we listened to an audiobook while we waited for the other team.

He was very pleased with himself.

#DogsOfMastodon

@rbreich

You can't spell Brawndo without Bro,

Bro.

This Virus Stole a Human Gene and Won't Let Go of It https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/10/04/0054248/this-virus-stole-a-human-gene-and-wont-let-go-of-it?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

👁️𝅒👁️

The piano had been sitting in the train station for years.

No one knew when it had arrived there. After the station opened, everyone was sure of that.

Felicity was not so sure. She'd been one of the first passengers to use the station, and she was pretty sure it had been there then.

And then there was the way the transport authority kept talking about removing it every couple of years. Awould be promptly forgotten about.

So she found herself sitting down at it, despite not knowing how to play. Just to satisfy her curiosity, she said to herself.

'Hello piano.'

There was a rustle, and some sheet music blew across the platform and into her lap.

'I cant play, sorry.'

Then she looked again, and saw the keys illustrated beneath the notes.

She tried picking them out.

Slowly a tune formed.

A train arrived, and passengers alighted.

One of them, an older woman, smiled at her.

The weeks passed, and she made half and hour in her commute to see what would happen.

Her playing improved.

One day the older woman sat down next to her.

"There used to be a music school here" she opened with.
Felicity looked over to her.
"Glenys. My mother was one of the last students. I've seen old photos of this piano."

Felicity thought about this, and paused in her playing.

"I think it is still teaching", she said softly.

"Teachers are always waiting for the right student."

"Do you know how it got here?"

"I can guess. The music school burned down."

"Oh. So..."

"Best not ask, and just enjoy."

#microfiction #tootfic #IAmWriting #GhostStory #microfic #SFF #Fantasy

@yaelwrites people do that? Gross.

The timing I chose to watch Pantheon feels very creepy to me

Happy Halloween to me!

drink your feelings
https://eatf.art/glass

Not sure why this imaginationless reactionary murder-covering-up sack of shit has any buzz right now but if he does it's because the dumbest, most imaginationless assholes at The Bulwark, the Times and Neera Tanden want him to while exactly zero other people, and FEWER Democratic rank-and-file, do.

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/stop-trying-to-make-rahm-emanuel

I’d love to connect with other mature PhD students to share experiences. I’m 41 and just getting started researching citizen science in river health monitoring and restoration.

#PhD #AcademicChatter

I never thought I’d see the day #AlGore goes out there to DEFEND #AI data center buildout because it’s Not That Bad For Climate Change, Actually.

Al got AI-pilled.

#AlAndAI #InconvenientTruth

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/al-gore-has-a-surprisingly-calm-take-on-the-ai-data-center-backlash/

I quit the Death Star because its culture is broken.

@randahl I've never fired a gun in my life, and I never will. Fetishising tools for killing is a vile sickness, especially the guns designed and optimised to kill people. I hate guns and I hate shithole USA which worships them.

#boktober 001

AG Davenport Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Rollback of Fuel Economy Standards https://www.njoag.gov/ag-davenport-joins-lawsuit-challenging-trump-administrations-rollback-of-fuel-economy-standards/

@NorcalGma2 one of my daughters is named Dahlia. 🥰

Watching the supercell descending on my city was scary, the hailstorm almost took out my roof.

I have more leaks than the Pentagon after hiring big ballz.

El Niño isn't fucking around.

#elniño #climate #hailstorm