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AI6YR Ben

@ai6yr.bsky.social

Mostly lurking. I was @ai6yrham over there on Twitter. Find my main posts at https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr plus many emergency/disaster/public safety bots at https://m.ai6yr.org/public/local

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Oooh, they were turning on evacuations left and right yesterday, wonder if they were having a problem figuring that out.

24.02.2026 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alerts, Warnings & Orders

I wonder if it's this one
socoemergency.org/emergency/wa...

24.02.2026 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That bot monitors wildfire evacs (and other evacs) in California. Automated...I think someone in Sonoma County was toggling some computer stuff and didn't realize they were turning evacs on/off.

24.02.2026 18:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah, more corrosion in there than I would have expected. I'm sure you'll get it moving in no time though.

13.02.2026 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of issues here w/ownership and privacy of information. Feel free to request a Mastodon account on my server!

04.02.2026 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This (somewhat suspicious) recall was for some reason targeted at Halal/muslim food distributors in Minneapolis only. I have great suspicions of why this exists.

30.01.2026 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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President Trump Orders Decertification Of All Canadian Made Aircraft, Likely Affecting Numerous Wildfire Platforms. Scoopers, Twin Otters, Beavers, Q400s could all be affected.

This evening, President Trump put out a statement on social media saying he will decertify β€œall aircraft made in Canada.” This statement could have wide reaching consequences for the wildfire aviation world.

open.substack.com/pub/thehotsh...

30.01.2026 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4

Goons: "Are you a citizen?" Me, channeling Ricardo Mantalban: "CORINTHIAN LEATHER!"

21.01.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Let me know if you create an account on my server and I will approve

21.01.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI6YR's Mastodon This is the personal Mastodon server of Ben, AI6YR. Friends and friends of friends welcome (I personally approve everyone who joins here, so it might take some time!).

If you guys want an account, you can put a request on my server at m.ai6yr.org

20.01.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, that was it... prefer platforms where those kinds of folks aren't allowed. I'm lurking here, but I am not bridging from Mastodon, especially since I am posting heavily on what's going on in Minnesota, etc.

20.01.2026 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was playing with Meshtastic and just switched to Meshcore, meshcore has far better success at me reaching and communicating with people...

20.01.2026 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Having great success with Meshcore, as of yesterday, looks like that is the technology to pursue for mesh communications. (Meshtastic, not so good).

20.01.2026 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, just lurking again. Not bridging my Mastodon posts.

18.01.2026 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mastodon The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

Hi all, I have cut the Bluesky bridge on my Mastodon instance. If anyone wants my posts, you can create a Mastodon account elsewhere (mastodon.social is the biggest instance).

17.01.2026 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

Yikes!

16.01.2026 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that's my bridge to Mastodon. i also have a direct here, though I only use this one to reply to people who aren't bridged back.

15.01.2026 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We've been jammed in "Santa Ana wind" mode for a week, which luckily is not a fire danger, but it's freakish as well. Usually it's at most a day or two... a week is unheard of. Heatwave too.

15.01.2026 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow! Nope. Hadn't heard that one!

14.01.2026 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate
⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content
⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps
⬆️ Second warmest troposphere
⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs
⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice

New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

14.01.2026 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 347    πŸ” 223    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 24

Wow, that's accurate.

14.01.2026 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It's pretty clean over on Mastodon...

14.01.2026 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Woohoo! Anyway, glad you are a real person, the last two dozen have been AI bots, LOL.

14.01.2026 03:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is enough, will approve.

14.01.2026 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oops!

14.01.2026 02:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's a feed on Mastodon at @GiftArticles@tomkahe.com which posts all the gift articles posted on BlueSky (and Mastodon too I believe, not sure) so people can latch onto them and see what people are reading, too.

13.01.2026 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm getting sick of this dystopia, I would like to get off, please.

13.01.2026 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Way to go antivaxxers!

12.01.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That was considerably before such a thing as "drone pilot school". Probably just as drones were getting off the ground... I think it was a $10K drone even.

11.01.2026 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0