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Did skinny jeans go away? I still can't find anything else unless I go to non fashionable shops.
I bet shop assistants look me up and down while thinking "still trying to rock the bootcut then?"

2025-01-27 10:57:20 UTC

I'm sorry, Aeropresses are HOW MUCH NOW?!?!?

2025-01-16 17:44:29 UTC

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Getting past porn blocks was practically a sport when i was a teenager and there's so many more ways of doing it these days.

2025-01-16 17:21:24 UTC

Just think... when kids can no longer access porn on normal sites because of the poorly thought out Online Safety Act they'll just have to go through trawling snapshots of porn sites on archive.org

2024-11-17 19:47:07 UTC

Oh, I tried Huel yesterday.
Tastes like regret.
I can see the point and it could be useful when I end up in one of my manic periods but generally I think I'd prefer actual food.

2024-11-16 10:07:49 UTC

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None, I only do espresso at home. I need to buy coffee though so I'll be taking a trip to my usual joint to get some beans and try their new pistachio latte.

2024-10-22 14:18:50 UTC

The broadband going down just as I left the house was a coincidence but still my fault apparently. No I can't come back and fix it, it's not our end.

2024-10-21 17:02:11 UTC

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I love that Keema and Naan is the Indian version of one of my favourite British dishes. Mince and tatties. Or just bread and butter if you can't be arsed with the tatties.

2024-10-21 17:00:47 UTC

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Just Naan I bought. Low effort food for a Monday.

2024-10-21 16:38:17 UTC

I keep forgetting that I refuse to cook on Mondays - it's meant to be takeaway night.
Oh well, I'm making keema.

2024-10-19 15:32:45 UTC

Setting up HomeAssistant properly now rather than the PoC I had hanging around on a Pi.
Failing at the first hurdle of getting Zigbee2MQTT to talk to my Sonoff Dongle. I don't think I had that problem the first time round.
Oh well. It can wait. I have to go and deal with Tesco.

2024-10-19 11:52:30 UTC

Been given this old DVD duplicator. It appears to work but I have no use for it and can't really repurpose it into anything else. Does anyone want it or shall I send it to Silicon Heaven?
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2024-10-03 17:01:33 UTC

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Usually they don't get exposed until after they die so they can't sue - at least that's how it works in the UK. Our libel laws are awful.
See also Jimmy Savile, Mohammed Al Fayed...
The BBC are currently hand-wringing and acting heroes about their current exposure of the latter. Bullshit. They knew while he was alive and they didn't try and expose him then.

2024-09-26 19:34:54 UTC

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Before it was available in Home Bargains (or was it B&M?) I imported 27 bottles on the train to Wales.

2024-09-26 19:22:06 UTC

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I get it both for me and a veggie mate who only recognises two food groups - Cheese and Chilli. He loves it and didn't realise it existed. It's brightened up his world.

2024-09-26 19:19:33 UTC

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It's good stuff but no idea if Sainsbury's stock it. I can get it from Home Bargains here but I prefer to go to Sheffield.

2024-09-26 17:37:45 UTC

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That's the real stuff.

2024-09-26 17:01:13 UTC

From the US.
THIS MEANS WAR!
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2024-09-11 17:08:28 UTC

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As an English person we have the same problem with Geordies.

2024-09-10 20:03:02 UTC

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70cm? Useless round here then.

2024-09-10 20:00:39 UTC

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Que?

2024-09-10 17:28:20 UTC

"Digital modes are killing ham radio"
Lol. The only reason I got my license was to do digital modes. 27 years ago.
Shame packet died a death after I got re-interested (don't @ me, I'm aware and I'm working on it)

2024-09-09 16:30:04 UTC

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It's been keeping Windows secure a lot longer than Microsoft.

2024-09-03 17:05:42 UTC

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I'm sure I saw [@nina_kali_nina](https://tech.lgbt/@nina_kali_nina ) and @npub1pa6…2xyd (or may have been [@mos_8502](https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502 ), sorry my memory is terrible) talking about this sort of stuff a few days ago.

2024-08-31 15:40:03 UTC

Someone has asked me if I can 3D print a crankcase cover for a Suzuki GS125.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to work.

2024-08-29 18:22:15 UTC

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"we try to implement the Dunning-Kruger process here and at the present time your suggestion doesn't quite have the synergy of the process we're trying to bring in going forward."

2024-08-15 18:10:14 UTC

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That's a very unfortunate mark on your hand.

2024-08-08 17:47:01 UTC

Been left to my own devices (pardon the pun) now until Monday. I get to eat all the stuff Wifeface hates that I only get to eat when she's away.
Belly pork tonight. I think Curried Goat may be happening at some point. Mettbröchen as well for a Saturday afternoon snack while DIYing.
I fancy Steak Tartare as well.
Sunday evening will be something she likes so she can eat the leftovers when she gets back after surviving on festival shite for days.

2024-08-04 18:48:05 UTC

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I'm trying to work out if I can make a combined tandoor and pizza oven. Yes, I've googled it but none of them look good for either, which probably tells me something.

2024-08-04 18:05:37 UTC

I've kept my part of the bargain. I cleared the decking and sorted the plumbing. I'm allowed a tandoor now.
Hopefully should have it ready for bank holiday. I may need to work on my naan making skills but yep.

2024-07-09 18:29:13 UTC

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Posh AF. Where are the other people standing in the gangway? I don't even spot a nutter with a can of cider vaping either.
Have you even CrossCountry'd bro?

2024-07-09 17:55:25 UTC

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You are right, of course, but it's far easier for the human eye to debug JSON than it is a myriad of binary protocols. Bandwidth is fast and relatively cheap.
I come from an embedded background though so it still makes me twitch.
Finger pointing should really go at Web frameworks though. An utter waste of bandwidth to usually display very little.

2024-07-06 19:06:41 UTC

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Perhaps not, but I bet they wish they could.

2024-07-06 18:58:55 UTC

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Most people I've known who convert vans actually add insulation.

2024-07-06 18:15:05 UTC

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Why?

2024-07-06 08:23:54 UTC

I still haven't managed to quite shake the lurgy and this cough so Liverpool seems like a bad idea. 😠

2024-07-05 20:19:21 UTC

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I'm guessing there's a story behind that.

2024-07-05 20:05:27 UTC

I have personally owned two sledgehammers and one maul over the years. Do I have any of them when I need them now? Of course not.

2024-07-04 18:36:21 UTC

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This is true but the offer on the plate was only marginally better than we have now.
I did research all the PR variations and I think, but I'm not quite sure that I think the D'Hondt method may have been my most preferred method bunt without doing it again I can't be sure.
And no, the public can't be trusted.

2024-07-03 21:08:48 UTC

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Wouldn't surprise me if the Security Services collate the info though. Those fuckers know everything as anyone who has ever had to undergo DV knows.
No, I'm not actually a conspiracy theorist. Just a disillusioned realist.

2024-07-03 21:06:32 UTC

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I'm just going to bring up something I said here.
Your vote isn't actually secret. It can be identified only under the authority of a court order in order to prevent the very rare cases of voter fraud. You may note a serial number being put against your name when you turn up and collect your ballot paper.
I don't particularly care about this. And since Google has gone shit I can't find the authoritative source, but you're quite capable of researching yourself.

2024-07-03 20:26:06 UTC

Wifeface and I will be getting up early to go out and vote.
I am a member of a political party. I may or may not actually be voting for them, but that's between me and the ballot box.
Hopefully the UK gets the government they deserve.
I live in Hope, die in Caergwrle.
Hopefully we'll have something to celebrate on Friday.

2024-06-23 13:19:33 UTC

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Aww, she's lovely.

2024-06-21 17:36:27 UTC

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Hmm. May as well replace the feedlines and route cables nicely this time now that I don't have a landlord to shout at me.
I'm in the pub. Someone must have a core drill. I have no soffits so it's the only way in that isn't the window.

2024-06-21 16:10:23 UTC

I suppose I'd better go back to being an adult tomorrow and finish ripping the decking up so I can put my antennas back up.
Should have fucked my back within 30 minutes of starting that so a nice easy day with KiCad it will end up.

2024-06-21 13:27:01 UTC

Ah, according to the notification I've just had my curry is ready for collection.
I ate it last night.

2024-06-17 19:51:17 UTC

It seems that "yeah, I'll take that DVD copier off you" (so I could harvest the lasers) has turned into having 4 boxes of useless e-waste dumped on me while I was out. Yeah, thanks.

2024-06-13 19:58:09 UTC

Fuck all I'm bothered about seeing until 9pm tomorrow night. I might pop into Derby for an impromptu pub crawl. It's been a while. Haven't been since Scoop's funeral which was about 10 years ago.

2024-06-13 12:12:39 UTC

Oh dear. Event management are really using PMR for everything. Amateurs.
Do I have something capable of transmitting on PMR? Absolutely.

2024-06-13 08:50:55 UTC

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I did not expect to read that in a book about maps.

2024-06-13 08:42:18 UTC

"... and every lesbian friend's first pin-up, George (Georgina) of the Famous Five, with her licky dog, Timmy"
OMG I'm never going to be able to look a dog in the eye ever again.

2024-06-12 17:02:30 UTC

I did a look at my bank balance. It's nowhere near as bad as I feared.
Now I've done that it will probably be as bad as I feared by Monday.

2024-06-12 16:31:48 UTC

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It was RS-422 or something wasn't it?

2024-06-12 16:21:10 UTC

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In which case I have no idea. Can't remember which model we had, and unlike the amiga, my parents didn't leave it in the attic for me to find.

2024-06-12 16:11:59 UTC

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Centronics baby. All the poshos had it.

2024-06-12 15:59:23 UTC

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Now you're showing your age.
36 pin.

2024-06-12 14:18:22 UTC

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Great. Now I'm trawling Ebay for a dot matrix printer.

2024-06-11 19:26:45 UTC

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I only have one because I had no where else to store stuff for the 6 years that HMRC dictate I store records for. It has come in handy. And I've now filled it with all sorts of crap'Wuseful stuff.

2024-06-11 18:47:51 UTC

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And I've just dragged one back from Herefordshire because... (i'm fed up of trying to get retro stuff work with modern things)
https://mastodon.radio/system/media_attachments/files/112/599/477/049/018/825/original/ed5afcba3fbbddda.jpg

2024-06-11 18:37:36 UTC

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You don't like knees?

2024-06-11 18:37:13 UTC

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We put them in a bird feeder on the tree. A lot ended up on the floor and a lot of critters came out at night to eat the floor remains.

2024-06-11 18:25:23 UTC

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Watch them. You'd be surprised how many visitors you get to demolish your fat balls. At one point we were going through a 10l tub a month.

2024-06-11 18:18:27 UTC

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But fuck it. My utility kilt is coming with me. It has pockets and allows the twins to get some air.

2024-06-11 18:16:50 UTC

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Can't take my warm jacket as it has reflective strips on it because I may be mistaken for security. Can't take hexamine any more. I need to find an alternative for making coffee very quickly, and paying £5 for a paper cup of shit coffee isn't an answer.
I think I may have found a contender for a cheap bed that doesn't fuck me up and if that works I'll buy a proper one.

2024-06-11 18:09:50 UTC

If the festival app that you heavily promote that people use is just a thinly layered veneer over a web page then it's going to be fucking useless when you're around 90,000 people in a field and can't get a data signal. Thumping wallopers.

2024-06-10 08:57:26 UTC

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Espresso doesn't need milk.

2024-06-10 07:30:20 UTC

I'm glad I remembered that my coffee shop is closed today otherwise today would have been a disaster.

2024-06-08 12:59:59 UTC

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Mistaken identity by a frazzled new parent apparently.

2024-06-08 12:43:02 UTC

Just walked into town and someone has just handed me a full nappy.

2024-06-08 10:03:12 UTC

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Aye, and you don't have to fuck around with the Prolific drivers for fake chips like you do in Windows.

2024-06-08 09:56:26 UTC

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*screenshots this for posterity*

2024-06-06 15:25:46 UTC

My boss has had a promotion.
"So who wants to step up and take over the day to day management of the department?"
lol no

2024-06-05 19:36:16 UTC

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Did you ever get the fax I sent btw?

2024-06-05 18:57:50 UTC

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I get the feeling that I should just do what the fuck I want (within reason of course).
I used to.

2024-06-05 18:33:52 UTC

I do have a question about #emfcamp2024.
I'm quite familiar with kink, etc but there were a significantly larger proportion of geeks wearing collars than I would have expected.
Is there something that's gone over my head that's outside of a D/S thing that I haven't come across? DMs are open if you don't want to say in public.
Serious question.

2024-06-03 12:00:45 UTC

Home. My back has gone and I can't stand up or walk properly.
I need to look into alternative bedding options for camping I think.

2024-06-01 15:18:16 UTC

We have fax facilities. #emf2024
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2024-05-31 20:25:26 UTC

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You should all be here.

2024-05-31 10:13:52 UTC

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Doesn't look like the HD1 is supported. Doesn't matter, I just didn't want to have to boot Windows.

2024-05-31 08:08:56 UTC

PSA: The Ailunce HD1 programming software works well under wine

2024-05-31 07:22:09 UTC

Bloody softmodems

2024-05-30 09:40:34 UTC

Great. I get the racist train nutter.

2024-05-29 11:41:57 UTC

Odd, I don't remember ordering a panic attack for lunch.

2024-05-27 15:39:39 UTC

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I think I'll revert back to "chuck a load of shit in a rucksack 10 minutes before I need to leave". It's never failed me yet.

2024-05-27 15:34:09 UTC

Today I was meant to be sorting stuff for EMF out. I have successfully started the thinking about sorting stuff out stage. I have no get up and go today.

2024-05-25 17:25:00 UTC

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7 and 10 were fine. To an extent even 98 SE and XP were ok.
They've fucked it now. There's no going back to it for me now for personal use. Still have to use it at work but at least at work I don't have to admin the damn thing.

2024-05-25 10:44:03 UTC

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2024-05-24 15:33:53 UTC

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Nah, I'd rather him borrow mine so I can disable the Tx first as he won't know what he's doing with it.

2024-05-24 14:02:24 UTC

My mate has been on about borrowing my Quansheng for months.
Of course now he's picked the week that I'm going to be away with it.

2024-05-23 20:16:41 UTC

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My Icom has always been plugged into an antenna. Problem is that due to sorting out house shit that antenna has been on the ground for two weeks and I have no idea when I can get it back up.

2024-05-23 19:40:27 UTC

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We need a support group

2024-05-21 22:03:21 UTC

All I can think about today's announcements is that I'm glad I de-Microsofted AGAIN last year on a personal basis. Windows wasn't too bad to use for a while. Fuckety bye now. You insane fuckers.
I only have to use it now for work. Presumably as we're a massive company that does stuff we really don't want leaked our IT will turn that fucking shit off.

2024-05-21 21:57:13 UTC

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When I first met @npub1zvu…66zu He had cool coloured hair (Cheshire tweetup in Helsby), and you have a pretty blank canvas now and don't need bleach.
Don't let the young have all the fun. I like doing mine now and again.

2024-05-21 19:35:22 UTC

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Alpine Green, the same as I've been doing for the last 24 years. I am a creature of habit.

2024-05-21 19:28:32 UTC

Walked into the geekcave to what I thought was the UPS complaining wondering WTF was going on.
No. Cat jumping up and down on keyboard and they'd managed to exhaust the allowable number of characters in the LMDE login screen.

2024-05-21 18:42:38 UTC

Hair Stage 1: Done.
Just got to look like more of a fuckwit than I normally do until Stage 2 tomorrow.
Just glad I have a mate who's an ex-hairdresser. Couldn't be arsed trying to do that all by myself.
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2024-05-18 11:38:17 UTC

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I got into DMR... by which I meant I got an ID. Never really appealed to me that much.