Meljoann

- multidisciplinary hyperjack arthole
- weirdo music, video & writing
- she/they
- lgbtqia+

Website: https://www.meljoann.com
Faircamp: https://faircamp.meljoann.com
Owncast: https://stream.gravitons.org
Peertube: https://tv.gravitons.org/a/meljoann_vids/video-channels

Public Key

npub1nuuauk3mt2t8fqmzfeq3xvxzq0u0malqtepk54gvvjm7yzyaprtqqcgjr3

NIP-05 Address

meljoann_at_topspicy.social@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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Publishing to

relay.damus.io

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub1nuuauk3mt2t8fqmzfeq3xvxzq0u0malqtepk54gvvjm7yzyaprtqqcgjr3

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2026-07-31 13:15:39 UTC

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urrghh! The juxtaposition of the words “Mastodon”
and “influencer” is really doing me head in

2026-07-31 07:09:32 UTC

What the hell… Can we not keep this shite off our precious Masto
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/117/013/325/735/635/141/original/eb274010a4dd7902.png

2026-06-05 09:48:19 UTC

VJing last night: I feel like I'm getting better at #livecoding every time I do it. I'm using P5LIVE offline on a Steam Deck, and projecting with OBS.
https://teddavis.org/p5live/
The only thing I'm missing from Resolume is the reactivity improvising to the musicians, using my MIDI controller. Both OBS and P5/Hydra can do MIDI, but not stable enough for me.
I'd prefer to use the Deck's gamepad. Tried a few solutions, but again nothing stable enough yet. The quest continues!

2026-05-27 19:05:08 UTC

Anyone successfully running #OBS with an #NVIDIA card (whether software or hardware encoding)?
What’s your #Linux distro? Comments welcome!

2026-05-21 16:26:18 UTC

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argh! Oh cool, that’s really helpful, thanks. I’ll try that.
I streamed on Ubuntu Studio and a little bit on Manjaro before this, can’t remember if I had the encoder set to software….
The urge to distro hop has been temporarily reigned in by your suggestion 😆

2026-05-21 16:08:25 UTC

Eeeek! I’m having endless problems with OBS on #Debian 13. CPU and memory just creeps up until it goes kaput. Has anyone got it smooth? I’ve tried:
- flatpak & apt versions
- turning off all plugins except “Advanced Scene Switcher” and “Droidcam”
- Video output is HD, tried not downscaling
- video encoding set to fastest/lowest quality
I’m on NVIDIA proprietary drivers, cause nothing else worked for Resolve…

2026-04-11 15:20:23 UTC

Sand! Just sand! Under a microscope! https://magnifiedsand.com/
(via Web Curios)

2026-03-20 19:02:33 UTC

Listening party for my album “Status” is starting soon on https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/ !
Thanks [@nham](https://nham.co.uk ) for organising this. I think it’s almost an anniversary too, or something…. I am bad at promo
But if you like #electronicMusic and #RAndB and #pop and #experimentalMusic (who doesn’t), you might like this album
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/116/263/044/517/777/672/original/d63c562efea5a864.jpeg

2026-03-08 15:03:40 UTC

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ooooh come to think of it, it would be super cool if this was how Peertube “new video published” posts worked… inline player on Masto
Were you thinking of doing a feature request / pull request?

2026-03-08 09:11:10 UTC

Crumb awareness: an official diagnostic criterion for a new neurospicy flavour
100% crumb awareness = crumb autism
0% crumb awareness = crumb ADHD
I definitely have crumb autism. It is driving me up the wallllll

2026-01-25 12:44:46 UTC

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haha same! Just bookmarked 💜 @npub1tlf…fllt @npub1jlu…ye93 @npub1vlx…n3g0

2026-01-15 22:14:26 UTC

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so glad the exercises are helpful! Same, my nervous system has been just off-the-scale the last few years. But these few things have helped.
Completely agree about follower/followed. It still feels weird even though we’ve been living with this system for years. I prefer blogs and RSS: you don’t have to know any stats at all if you don’t want. And I don’t want!
Gotosocial lets you hide all those stats, but all the apps try to show a number. I wish more apps didn’t show em.

2026-01-15 21:45:32 UTC

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exactly! Maybe if I had zero anxiety I could safely use a phone lol

2025-12-28 11:01:39 UTC

MTV died. All the cool, unique artists like off “120 minutes” are now fighting the blandest algorithms imaginable.
We wanted a place to watch weird stuff you can’t see on mainstream channels. So….
Fedi MTV goes live in ONE HOUR.
https://tv.theindiebeat.fm/
#FediMTV #TIBtv #music #nowPlaying #FediTips

2025-12-25 12:29:32 UTC

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Seven minutes of cooking time. My Xmas pastry hopes are dashed.
#food
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/115/780/198/447/942/197/original/c3548243405197fc.jpeg
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/115/780/198/502/029/033/original/32249a3bfaf3b230.jpeg

2025-12-25 12:20:05 UTC

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Result. Pains au chocolats are easier to roll up than croissants.
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/115/780/167/388/052/131/original/aa0265368ea2c8f4.jpeg

2025-12-25 12:13:35 UTC

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This has occurred. This always occurs.
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/115/780/143/366/987/514/original/3a3a3dfe8d8a2916.jpeg

2025-12-25 12:11:19 UTC

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Wot
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/115/780/133/709/286/538/original/2b1f57db5457261f.jpeg

2025-12-25 12:02:23 UTC

The annual slapstick comedy of me attempting to make breakfast pastries in the oven commences. This year, it’s not croissants-in-a-can, it’s pain-au-chocolat-in-a-box.
I am hopeful.
I am filled with a desire to eat the raw dough.
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/115/780/088/296/518/504/original/2f024bb62b9c732f.jpeg

2025-12-18 14:25:54 UTC

It was 1994, and there were just “623 websites in the entire world”.
I’m loving this series
https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1994/

2025-10-10 12:18:03 UTC

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just checked your website for a stream URL I can put in me app, but didn’t find one — do you have one you wouldn’t mind sharing?

2025-10-10 12:12:24 UTC

Can anyone recommend local or internet radio stations that reliably play electronic beats?
Any genre as long as it sounds gooood. I’m into anything from minimal techno to industrial to IDM to breakcore and glitch. Like just quality choons of any description.
I need more beats in my radio app!

2025-10-08 22:19:06 UTC

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That’s exactly it. I still don’t have a good solution to access the DSP mixer on my soundcard :( That’s the main thing left why I would have to keep a dual boot…
That and Resolume!
@npub1cwv…hwes @npub1eux…zgll

2025-10-07 23:08:12 UTC

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More of these angry dopes popping up:
parcero.casa
f.haeder.net
tsundere.love
Absolutely incredulous that anyone would wanna not hang out with em

2025-09-27 10:00:55 UTC

Another milestone in my #LinuxAudio journey neaaarly reached:
https://www.winboat.app/ for my soundcard’s DSP mixer! Really important for streaming and live, to have access to this. Winboat lets you run Windows apps seamlessly in Linux.
It works! But after pass through, it doesn’t release the USB device back to Linux yet — a weird quirk of the specific device maybe. Been chatting to the devs on their Discord tho 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

2025-09-24 15:56:26 UTC

Fedi MTV is being birthed! 🎉 Great article from @npub166d…xj3f
“…I remember how influential music videos were for me as a teen… without MTV, new wave wouldn’t have happened and most of the weird stuff I saw on 120 Minutes would never have played anywhere…”
https://nham.co.uk/2025/09/how-indie-video-killed-the-spotify-star/
Fedi artists: send us your music videos!

2025-09-23 18:48:31 UTC

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yeah I tried two of those! They’ve been fine up to the last year or so 😭 I used to stream loads with a camera HDMI feed…

2025-09-22 18:54:57 UTC

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yeah I have one called Cuterdio on iOS! Internet radio is full of good stuff…

2025-09-22 10:58:45 UTC

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oh nice one! I’ll see if I can find Mixcloud links…

2025-07-10 19:56:14 UTC

#pipewire question for yis nerds!
I’m using qpwgraph with OBS, but it spawns each OBS audio source separately when it plays. Can’t route fast enough, or click back to the qpwgraph to select activate, exclusive and so on, while I’m performing…
Anyone using Virtual Sinks for this? Ideally I’d like to tell it: “all audio from OBS goes here”, “all audio from Firefox goes here”, etc.

2025-06-23 09:47:04 UTC

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thanks to @npub1yzf…krge & @npub1v2t…tpv7 for the slot!

2025-06-23 09:06:05 UTC

Question for anyone into PostmarketOS! I got an old iPhone I’d love to give a second life. Is it an impossible dream?
Been keeping an eye on supported models, in case some genius makes a breakthrough 👀
[@postmarketOS](https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS )
#postmarketos #linux #iphone

2025-06-11 18:29:01 UTC

I feel I should start saying more really stoopid stuff on here. Feels kinda quiet lately…
So… blerp, I guess

2025-05-26 19:21:27 UTC

Where are you supposed to do your boasting, if you’ve left Instagram? My solution: move your best humblebrags to yer own website.
https://meljoann.com/posts/press-king/
This includes the interview from my recent Cover Gurl routine on The Goo magazine. 🌝
#BeYourOwnPlatform #music

2025-04-24 08:36:45 UTC

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heheh! I’d have to figure out how to talk proper first 😂

2025-04-23 21:43:23 UTC

Got a chance to plug our lovely Fedi #music scene on BBC6Music!
You can listen here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029y4j — the segment is around 1:06:20 in
Seeing more and more stuff around about leaving crappy Big Social. I think there’s a lot of curiosity about alternatives…

2025-03-31 16:58:19 UTC

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I’m finding it very exciting! I think I’m gonna be able to port a lot of my work here yayyy 💜 @npub1n6v…7w0s

2025-03-31 12:57:40 UTC

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I do like Debian. But I want a go of Ubuntu Studio. Never tried Linux for an audio & video work machine before, so I wanna see what it offers/recommends

2025-03-31 12:54:48 UTC

Oh no, Ubuntu. Don’t give me an ad for Spotify when I’m installing you 😭

2025-03-27 17:59:29 UTC

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thank you so much Andrea! I’ll investigate…

2025-03-27 17:00:30 UTC

Long shot maybe, but does anyone in Fedi have experience with temp agencies in #Brighton or UK? #job urgently needed…
Are they worth it? Just looking for office admin or marketing

2025-03-26 22:47:44 UTC

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exactly my reaction too. Reminds me of Spotify’s shite. But this was an interesting interface to play with…
Also, I ended up finding some nice tracks, but there’s no way to save em really. I don’t use any of the streaming services they link to 🙈

2025-03-26 22:24:29 UTC

How might one become a cybercriminal? Just wondering

2025-03-25 18:26:48 UTC

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do they! That’s so strange, and it keeps happening! We’ll have to start specifically requesting it then…
The entire music industry is still on Insta 😭 I’m leaving on April 15th, and am gonna leave lots of resources for those who want to move at any stage.

2025-03-25 17:21:04 UTC

Track by track breakdown of my album is on a super cool Northern Irish blog: The Thin Air.
https://thethinair.net/2025/03/track-by-track-meljoann-status/
Featuring my Masto profile photo! Gorgeous

2025-03-25 09:10:13 UTC

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I’m so sorry! They are utter ghouls. I vote tactically — a small comfort I’m in Brighton, and was able to at least vote Green…
I’m from Ireland, you can actually vote for who you think doesn’t hate you under that system! Proportional Representation and Single Transferable Vote. Very telling “Labour” doesn’t want that.

2025-03-25 08:56:47 UTC

The only difference with New New Labour and a Tory, is now they snicker “WORKING FAMILIES!” before kicking the poor in the teeth.
I knew it would be bad. I honestly, naively didn’t think it could be this extreme. They fucking hate us.

2025-03-24 14:05:06 UTC

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this is so relatable 😂

2025-03-19 08:08:16 UTC

Any advice for switching VPS while running a few Fedi services (Owncast, Peertube, GTS, gancio)?
Online searches are showing up general stuff about rsync, but are there any federation-specific things I would need to do or watch out for? #fediAdmin
My VPS is raising prices… :(

2025-03-18 21:18:07 UTC

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gorgeous 💜

2025-03-17 17:53:08 UTC

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nice! oh weird, I didn’t know they weren’t EU! Well it says GDPR compliant anyway, so that’s something 👍

2025-03-17 17:03:29 UTC

Got a great de-googling tip on this Lemmy thread: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23174717
ksuite has a free email, drive and docs/sheets, and loads of other big tech alternatives (like wetransfer). Based in EU. See if it’s available in your country: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2485/understanding-the-limitations-of-the-offer-my-ksuite

2025-03-14 16:04:10 UTC

#Fediwave Friday! Tonight! 7pm UTC!
It’s my album release party 🎉 … and Dr. Synergy Myers MD is here to SOLVE all your “pathetic problems”.
Then we’re heading over to @npub13j5…my59 for some DnB+ with @npub1k97…xzg5
& @npub1yz8…qxw9 !
https://cal.gravitons.org/event/musticsr-wellness-hour
https://cal.gravitons.org/event/noise-block-enoent-b2b-eziman

2025-03-14 11:11:48 UTC

My album is released into the wild!
All links here, now including faircamp:
- https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/meljoann/status
ANDI updated my faircamp tutorial post, as a few things have changed since I last done it:
https://meljoann.com/posts/faircamp/
Whattaguy. I know 🤝 shaking my own hand

2025-03-07 09:55:22 UTC

Is this the first music video blog premiere on #Peertube ?
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/tracks/meljoann-data-ghost
Whooooop!
““‘Data Ghost’ is about falling through the cracks of the algorithm,” Meljoann says about the track. The single is also accompanied by a nostalgia-fueled self-directed video that, true to Meljoann's style, is uploaded on a third-party site to not feed the Google Machine.”

2025-02-28 08:31:06 UTC

Does this #fedihired thing work?
I'm looking for part-time stuff right now. Based in Brighton UK, remote is good too.
I can do:
- websites, fedi sysadmin
- graphic design, video editing, VJ
- audio editing, mixing, mastering, remixes
- bartending & retail
- email & socials marketing, "content"
- any office stuff, spreadsheets, all that exciting stuff

2025-02-27 17:54:05 UTC

Playing #brighton in a few hours! Intox @ Dalton’s on the seafront 🫡💜 Doors 7pm

2025-02-21 13:09:48 UTC

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Maybe there’s a way to read the following list with a browser extension while signed in? That’s how one of the “X” migration tools did it.
Or maybe with the archive download, although I’m not sure many will bother to do that…

2025-02-21 12:32:34 UTC

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they just naturally come out of us....

2025-02-21 12:25:04 UTC

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OK, I've updated to the newest version of Gancio! The dev said they did a lot of federation work in the last few releases. Do you want to try following from Friendica again?

2025-02-21 10:13:18 UTC

I’m looking for a tool to to #migrate #Instagram follows to #Mastodon or #Pixelfed.
I’ve used similar tools to find and follow old Twitter connections on Masto & Bluesky. But can’t find anything for Insta.
Most of the music community, frustratingly, isn’t budging from Insta. I think being able to recommend something like this could help!

2025-02-19 09:01:24 UTC

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Thanks for that Setto, I added that info to the issue 👍
@npub1hcs…8zx9 [@relay](https://cal.gravitons.org ) @npub1htd…fq0v

2025-02-19 08:37:35 UTC

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Hm, my event isn’t showing up on NHAM yet… did I miss a setting somewhere? Thought I ticked the box to share it with all partners. Or it in a moderation queue?

2025-02-19 07:59:45 UTC

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oh weird, thanks for telling us! I’ll open an issue on the gancio repo!

2025-02-18 20:50:01 UTC

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ooh that’s super cool! Just added my next gig to Bandwagon 🫡💜

2025-02-15 14:01:27 UTC

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aww thanks so much! 💜

2025-02-15 14:01:05 UTC

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awww that’s infuriating… I did try restarting the service but it didn’t help. Don’t have the time this weekend but I got it in my diary for next week to do a deep dive into the logs…

2025-02-15 13:36:36 UTC

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agghhh!

2025-02-15 13:32:45 UTC

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aw I’m so sorry you had to go to the bad place!
It was the OBS multi-stream plugin this time I think. How long was I live for?

2025-02-15 13:02:42 UTC

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ahhhhh! Thanks for giving the link. I don’t know what happened there 😭😭😭

2025-02-14 20:36:16 UTC

Oh OK, the ‘Flashes’ app for Bluesky is what I was hoping someone would build for the Fediverse. Nerd-snipe: ACTIVATE!
It’s just an Instagram-like view for Bluesky users, and you can choose what media you want to display in your ‘portfolio’. That solves the only issue I would have (that I wouldn’t want every random screenshot or whatevs I post here showing up on a portfolio like photo view)

2025-02-14 18:22:01 UTC

Don’t want to jinx it, but I’m getting extremely good at this game by @npub1uhn…rerk …
306/320. Beat that, world. You can’t!
https://pgcd.itch.io/wordrush

2025-02-13 14:48:27 UTC

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whoop whoooop! ✨

2025-02-09 18:56:59 UTC

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aww thanks!

2025-02-09 12:57:51 UTC

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thanks, absolutely winning over here lulz 👑

2025-02-09 12:22:45 UTC

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btw my new releases are going great I got 43 Spotify plays 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑

2025-02-09 12:22:03 UTC

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Until there’s UBI, or some sort of repayment for the commons that was stolen from us? We all need mutual aid, all the way.

2025-02-09 12:21:48 UTC

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Selling CDs to each other isn’t an option anymore: we need to rebuild our digital DIY communities. We gave em away to Zuckerberg in the 2010s, after being lured to MySpace in the ‘00s.

2025-02-09 12:21:16 UTC

If you’re not making some auld rich white lad even richer, the music* industry has no use for you 💰
* repeat for any other industry 👻

2025-02-07 20:36:09 UTC

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So I’ve a few practical questions:
- Are there alternatives for importing your Insta photos to other types of Fedi accounts?
- All we need, really, is a photo-first Fedi client, right? Is anyone working on mobile apps? (Although, not looking forward to explaining to non-Fedi-nerds that you don’t need a PF account/app for an Insta-like experience)
- How are #Impressia & #Vernissage for Android users? I love the iOS app.

2025-02-07 20:31:28 UTC

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There are people I really care about that I’d love to hang out with on here. I don’t want this mess to be their first experience of Fedi.
Example: even my partner ended up being bamboozled into choosing PF.social cause of its app’s UI. He’d wanted to “import from Insta” and I explained he’d have to use a different server for that.

2025-02-07 20:28:29 UTC

To encourage more of my music community to move to Fedi, I set April 15th for deleting Meta, spamming “I’m leaving!” on every post til then.
Pixelfed could be a straight swap for many of them.
Was really hoping the dev could learn and change, but it’s not gonna happen, is it.
AND stuff like:
- Pixelfed.social is so often down, their users’ photos are invisible in the app for me
- “import from Insta” is usually turned off, and that is the main reason people wanna try it

2025-02-07 11:47:06 UTC

Release Day! 'Translate Me' is out. In this song, I BEG the music industry to translate my being into their “very normal” capitalist dialect.
All links here:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/meljoann/translate-me
For the first time, I got music out on this exciting new Fedi music platform: Bandwagon. So you might hear it come up on The Indie Beat FM, which plays radio from Bandwagon artists! Fancy ✨ By @npub17gq…8hhz & @npub1r6y…4v62
#music #bandcamp #randb #pop

2025-02-04 21:01:03 UTC

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Aw. It’s over now

2025-02-04 20:40:12 UTC

If anyone doesn’t know about The Mystery Train on RTÉ’s Lyric FM, how’s your chance to have your blood pressure lowered for life https://rteradioapp.page.link/1h9AAag8M5kktVL18

2025-02-03 18:08:33 UTC

I just missed a funding application deadline by one freakin’ minute.
Was caught in a Kafkaesque credit report nightmare for ages today.
Can badly-programmes computers just stop

2025-01-28 09:49:32 UTC

Why am I getting stuff I haven’t followed on my #pixelfed home feed? Loads of random accounts. Literally just got some pictures of Hitler (critical, but still)

2025-01-27 19:19:18 UTC

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yay that was great! 💜💜💜

2025-01-26 12:21:24 UTC

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the absence of bacteria or virusii or microorganisms? Then nothing is clean!! I am a cesspool!!!!!!

2025-01-26 12:12:43 UTC

Is soapscum clean?
I would imagine the soap portion is clean, the scum portion is not

2025-01-22 15:45:00 UTC

Leaving #Meta April 15th, and hopefully will convince some music community, friends & family to join me.
New blog post includes downloads for some cheeky little PNG overlays to put on all posts until then, if you wanna nab them for your own FFFUUU META campaign: https://meljoann.com/posts/delete-meta/

2025-01-21 20:45:23 UTC

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awww yeah
That sweet 6music play 💜💜🫡
Thanks for tagging me @npub1uz5…argr

2025-01-19 21:44:49 UTC

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ooofff!

2025-01-19 21:38:04 UTC

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It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who “would”

2025-01-19 21:33:52 UTC

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It’d be cool if Neanderthals still existed, like not for any particular reason or anything

2025-01-19 21:33:03 UTC

Is it just me, or is this reconstructed Neanderthal kind of hot
https://cdn.masto.host/topspicysocial/media_attachments/files/113/857/159/654/166/957/original/c01b0329672a904a.png

2025-01-18 13:54:58 UTC

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yeah, also I do think there’s a different aesthetic on microblogging vs visual formats. I wouldn’t want every image I post on Masto to be on my Pixelfed page. And I think there’s definitely a type of PF user that treats it more like a portfolio

2025-01-18 10:02:57 UTC

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yeah completely! I wish this existed…

2025-01-18 09:36:00 UTC

Hey, I’ve been wondering this. How come you can sign in with a #Pixelfed account using a Mastodon app, and not vice versa? Design choice on the Pixelfed app? Or is there a some technical reason?

2025-01-17 19:02:57 UTC

Sysadmin life: two updates went perfectly, one was sooooo easy (thank you @npub1lm6…wvr4 !)
One went balloobas to the turbo max (ghost) but it’s sorted now. Sorry to anyone trying to access Mustics today… You’re back in!