Shrig 🐌

I was looking at those already 👀 I feel like I'd benefit from buddying up with someone locally that might also be interested in learning along with me? As a communications platform it makes sense to have someone already in place to communicate with I expect

2026-03-20 09:24:38 UTC

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phew!

2026-03-20 09:20:36 UTC

Anyone here into LoRa #Meshtastic / #Meshcore stuff? What's the community like? I might have a play with later in the year if it's good vibes.
If it's full of preppers and tech bros it's a no from me though

2026-03-18 20:08:49 UTC

Oh yeah btw. I made this No AI icon yesterday because I didn't fancy any of the other ones out there when I needed one. It's yours now too 😎
https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/media_attachments/files/116/252/014/471/260/807/original/ee53fef644b37422.png

2026-02-27 20:12:11 UTC

DDR5 RAM prices are steadying out and some distributors emailing me on some price cuts right now too so if you were planning on buying some RAM hold out for a bit you can, some should be filtering through to retail soon if you keep your peepers out, I expect they'll be flogged in bundles or as "sales" at this early stage though.
Shit prices compared to mid 2025 still ofc, but here's an early PSA if you were needing some soonish

2026-02-21 11:30:32 UTC

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I love these types of artist, such a fleeting bit of history of an other person's soul you crossed paths with at some time in the past. It's a real treat to have experienced it and to remember back to it.
I've got CDs and mp3s of long-gone local artists who's lives moved on away from their music too, it's good to keep their artistic spirit alive from time to time. Even some songs stuck in my head I'd loved live that never got recorded. It's profoundly beautiful stuff

2026-02-21 00:43:03 UTC

Even as a dyslexic I can assure you I still manage to communicate just fine without using LLMs. It's literally ok. Nobody in good faith gives a fuck if something is spelled a bit wrong or with shit grammar, the message is still out there in it and if anything that makes it more human and personal anyway right?
If anything encouraging people to use LLMs to "speak correctly" opens up a whole fucking ton of worms around structural racism, classism, ableism and "learnedness"

2026-01-21 19:58:38 UTC

Track 2 on almost every album is a banger, why is it like that. The more I think about it the more I feel like I'm losing my marbles but I swear this is an actual thing

2026-01-19 21:06:10 UTC

Idea: The Exercist (A horror fitness VHS)

2025-12-17 12:46:59 UTC

"Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot"? How about I shut down the computer and do something worthwhile with my time instead 😤

2025-12-11 23:38:46 UTC

Ground Control to Tiny Tim

2025-12-08 23:16:47 UTC

If all you do is post doomy politics posts every waking hour and calling it a day at that, all you're saying is "I feel utterly retched and miserable so you should all feel as miserable as me too". That's not activism, that's sabotage

2025-11-30 18:26:43 UTC

From the walk home x
https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/media_attachments/files/115/640/051/364/342/791/original/29e7f1d95372e5de.jpg

2025-11-26 09:22:30 UTC

Autumn budget day is it?
💷 Bob Vylan - GDP 💷
https://bobvylan.bandcamp.com/track/gdp-2
Genre: Punk

2025-11-25 16:42:47 UTC

Anyone here ever watch videos about new Blender versions change logs? It's like listening to an entirely different language. Blender nerds are something else... I keep track vaguely because one day I will learn how to use Blender... I promise... Maybe...

2025-11-19 22:11:24 UTC

This song hasn't just been stuck in my head since it was released, it's been stuck in my soul
😭 Hen Ogledd - Scales will fall 😭
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGMOFLgB1CU
Genre: Love

2025-11-12 09:30:29 UTC

The computers are at it again

2025-10-15 09:02:39 UTC

2025-10-10 14:59:01 UTC

This disgustingly insensitive and callous person jumping into a Palestinians mentions to talk over them whilst also comparing Palestinians to animals? What a total cunt.
https://mastodon.social/@somethinghumble/115350088315150622
#FediBlock

2025-10-09 17:18:37 UTC

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You want to write software that indues the principles of liberation but yourself can't stand for the liberation of all marginalised peoples? What are you doing with your life??? How do you even reconcile that with yourself?
That's not software freedom in the sense of building a movement for the benefit of the world we share, that's having a hobby and humble bragging that you have the spare time and education to do so

2025-10-09 12:34:12 UTC

If it's not free from bigotry it's not "free" software. That's a very big cost, as it happens :yikes:

2025-10-01 14:17:51 UTC

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If you're a business owner, you want the racists to be boycotting you because you don't want racist customers coming through your door anyway. The system works, honestly

2025-10-01 13:06:57 UTC

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Like, you don't want your computer fixed because you can't stand multiculturalism? Sounds like a you problem, cry somewhere else about it!

2025-10-01 13:03:26 UTC

If you run a business, make sure that you're publicly, vocally, and consistently anti-racist. It's good for business, take it from me!
People that are racist will remove themselves, and racists are typically awful to deal with in other ways because they are nasty, selfish, and cruel people in general.
People worth dealing with will feel more taken care of and you'll probably find yourself getting new customers if you're known for being decent like that anyway. It's a win-win, honestly.

2025-10-01 06:00:46 UTC

I've lost track of how many years I've done this now but basically for Black History Month I'm posting back to back bangers from UK Black artists daily!
This is in the hope that you go out there to discover something new, rediscover something old, and most importantly to support the arts! Slip some in your playlists, tell your friends, buy some records, merch, and gig tickets ❤️
Let's go!!
🔊 TaliaBle - Soundboi 🔊
https://taliable.bandcamp.com/track/soundboi
Genre: Underground rap

2025-09-30 12:46:08 UTC

Slow and sexy wins the race

2025-09-29 20:08:31 UTC

Anyway, one good thing is I get to make a donation of £410 to Refugee Action tomorrow 🎉
You can stick a bit in too if you want to:
https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/

2025-09-26 15:46:44 UTC

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Windows 10 ending support has meant I have been given more laptops to refurbish and put Linux on to send out to charity at least. Everyone can do their part x

2025-09-26 15:44:46 UTC

Just handed off a bunch of laptop refurb donations to a local homeless charity and put the world to rights with my guy there. It's a real mess out there, isn't it

2025-09-18 14:25:01 UTC

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Oh wait, I've done a bit more digging and it's somehow even worse??? Fuck's sake
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/your-party-email-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana-membership-b2829149.html

2025-09-18 14:20:33 UTC

It appears the Your Party mailing list has been leaked and been used to send out a very convincing phishing email.
They also don't appear to have any social media at all to double-check or get updates on the situation?
So I guess everyone that gave them their email address is now On A List with some unknown bad actor. Bravo 👍

2025-08-29 11:06:18 UTC

Fuck me I'm so sexy, it's so unfair

2025-08-22 11:58:03 UTC

Anyone here have any recommendations for books about learning how to solder? Being real I'm going to have to learn how to solder USB-C ports and HDMI ports efficiently and to a high standard at some point.
I can't just get away with only doing chunky DC jacks here for much longer

2025-08-10 11:05:13 UTC

Stop with the Substack links. I don't care what somebody that shares a stage with literal Nazis has to say about a single thing on this earth

2025-08-08 06:54:00 UTC

Shameless AI articles are killing the access to casual tech info online. What a horrible mess in a space that was already incredibly difficult to navigate for newcomers :blobnotlike:

2025-07-29 20:39:13 UTC

Kier Starmer really is a sack of actual shit isn't he

2025-07-22 18:15:30 UTC

RIP Ozzy Osbourne. Gutted his last show was supported by a gaggle of twats but what can you do

2025-07-22 14:32:35 UTC

Bit of a strange request but can any of you take a commission to draw a stylised portrait of Noel Edmonds? I was thinking just a super basic sketchy black line drawing but it has to be unquestionably Noel Edmonds. Think fan art but stylish too, because it's going onto a t-shirt.
If this sounds weird, it's because it is.
Anyway, if you fancy this, let me know your prices x

2025-07-04 22:04:59 UTC

:lazer_A: ctually
:lazer_I: can't be arsed

2025-06-30 10:29:28 UTC

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Anyway, get seeding and sharing please 🙏
And of course, support the arts: https://bobvylan.bandcamp.com/

2025-06-30 10:29:01 UTC

For anyone that didn't know Bob Vylan: Their music is about the racism that's alive and well in England and how the ruling class keep it that way, working class struggle, fighting to be who you are, against toxic masculinity, (and eating your veggies!)
On Saturday they wished for an end to a military that's engaging in ethnic cleansing. The government and press always itch to find the "crossed line" to silence all of the above.
Silence is violence.
Here's a torrent: https://theslumofallknowledge.com/Glastonbury%202025-06-28,%20West%20Holts%20Stage,%20Bob%20Vylan.mp4.torrent

2025-06-18 14:07:06 UTC

Baking bread, or as I like to call it: "Going yeast mode"

2025-06-18 13:31:45 UTC

Anyone want anything?

2025-05-15 08:10:45 UTC

I miss wired headphones where you plug a thing in and it immediately works 100% of the time without having to click on anything or charge anything or wait for anything or sync anything or make sure you don't connect to too many things or walk too far away by accident or

2025-04-28 13:26:54 UTC

Super short notice but if anyone wants to see Benefits at Firebug in Leicester tonight, I've got a spare ticket going (it sold out a while ago I think)

2025-04-28 06:46:15 UTC

Bleak as fuck reading the commentators (many vapidly describing themselfs as allies of some description in their bios too, like clockwork):
https://fe.disroot.org/objects/d7fae2e9-03b6-459b-9e8b-b2154b5e2aa6
If you want to watch some pewdiepie on your precious YouTube, spend your time watching this instead of concern trolling or whatever you fucking nerds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw

2025-04-27 20:05:42 UTC

Just stuck £50 into Good Law Project's pockets. I hope they completely eviscerate the supreme court and UK government and embarrass them so deeply and memorably that this shit never happens ever again x
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/supreme-court-human-rights-for-trans-people/

2025-04-21 20:56:39 UTC

White supremacy gave us the classics like the gender binary and heteronormativity. Understanding and dismantling the whiteness in our communities is *crucial* towards liberation for all

2025-04-17 07:04:01 UTC

#fediblock
Like clockwork, 4chan has arrived. This instance has pepe emojis and are close with poast so safe to say you're not losing anything of any value here.
https://clew.lol/objects/147dc601-4c3d-4ca6-8054-ed724295c032

2025-04-15 13:58:19 UTC

If I was a fediverse admin right now with open registrations (why are you doing that?!!), given the #4chan hack, now would probably be a great time to finally close them down. There's about to be a lot of very angry and lonely trolls looking for somewhere to lash out

2025-03-29 15:52:59 UTC

Sometimes I dip into my Soulseek uploads to see what people are pinching to decide what to listen to next, it's interesting to see what people are after

2025-03-29 08:35:06 UTC

This is extra deeply troubling when you consider the historical importance and effectiveness of action made by Quakers against civil injustices perpetrated by the government. If you know your history you know that Quakers had been crucial to the abolition of slavery here, for one example.
Fuck the police. Fuck the government.
.https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-condemn-police-raid-on-westminster-meeting-house

2025-03-11 22:36:00 UTC

I miss having Iris around here to nerd out about jazz with. Fuck every single racist on this network, deep down and heartfelt, for being here instead of the actually wonderful people you've pushed out

2025-02-25 22:47:11 UTC

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It would excite me more to see a ~£300-£500 or so model sharing the same frame but partnering with AMD to use up old stocks of previous gen processors, for example. Reusability and upgradability and repairability reaches more hands and also begins to force the hand of bigger manufacturers towards a more sustainable future.
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2025-02-25 22:46:56 UTC

Framework is interesting but I just watched their announcement video and still think it's continuing to be a rich person toy/prestige thing above all else. 1/4 of the presentation being about dicking around with AI was what cemented that for me. It's got "electric cars will save us" energy which is sad.
1/

2025-02-12 21:31:35 UTC

Sorry boss I can't come in today I'm down with the sickness ouuh, wah ah ah ah *hangs up*

2025-02-02 19:07:25 UTC

I hope they don't put any tariffs on my sex arses

2025-01-21 23:22:23 UTC

Facebook has removed the Stand Up to Racism page for being "against community standards".
A few points:
1) Now is absolutely the time to move your organising away from commercial social media platforms, we've been telling you for literally years. It's better late than never, just do it!
[continued]

2025-01-19 19:49:13 UTC

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Where do we even start :blobnotlike:

2025-01-19 19:47:48 UTC

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What the fuck is going on over there :blimey:

2025-01-19 15:45:30 UTC

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Instead of supporting reckless developers (in a long line of other reckless fediverse developers) and rewarding their inappropiate priorities, practise mutual aid within our lil communities to encourage level participation and belonging for all that need these spaces. Become actively anti-racist if you are a silent bystander. If you witness bigotry ocouring, work with your admins and adjacent instances to act swiftly to remove and contain it.
3/4

2025-01-19 15:45:24 UTC

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Dansup is full of hot air when it comes to his illusions of ethics. He is untrustworthy, and appears to have the primary goal of rapidly capturing the emerging market of social media platform movers wrapped in whatever language he needs to push forward in that mission. This can be demonstrated over and over again because thankfully some of us keep reciepts.
He's betting on newcomers to the fediverse not to discover this, so here's your discovery x
2/4

2025-01-19 15:45:16 UTC

#Pixelfed Foundation are about to launch a Kickstarter which opens with "The Pixelfed Foundation builds open source and ethical social networks for the masses."
This is a reminder that their boy king recently posted something openly transmisic and deleted it without explanation, apology, or any accountability what-so-ever hoping it would go away rather than be addressed. He's got a history spanning years of similar unethical behaviour which has been gaslit into obscurity.
1/4

2025-01-17 11:19:29 UTC

Cory Doctorow does my head in at the best of times but this is really something else.
Truly, one of the biggest galaxy brains of our time 🙄
https://malici.ous.computer/@shellsharks/statuses/01JHN5A9844W3SMPE2A39K0V4J

2025-01-16 20:08:54 UTC

Well actually, the best social network is toilet graffiti

2025-01-09 17:39:19 UTC

The Dragon With the Girl Tattoo

2024-12-21 12:11:49 UTC

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I would add that if the purpose of that exercise is to improve the quality of reviews written by humans, then go straight in with advise written by a human directed to other humans and crack on with that. Making a comparison to AI written reviews doesn't add any value to this task, when badly written human reviews are already right there to draw comparisons with

2024-12-21 09:12:28 UTC

If I see "I asked ChatGTP..." in an article I'm immediately closing it, fyi. Doesn't matter how interested I am in the topic of the article, that's a massive "I'm wasting my time here" from me

2024-12-12 21:17:34 UTC

My Proton VPN just expired. Before I renew, do any of you nerds have any thoughts on alternatives? I don't keep up to date with VPN stuff really and Proton has been perfectly fine, but always worth an ask x

2024-11-30 14:07:06 UTC

One thing that makes my shit itch is Apple saying their new M4 Mac mini's are "The first carbon-neutral Mac."
But also, they're designed to be as un-repairable and throw-away as possible (no replaceable RAM, no replacement parts into the general market, delicate disassembly etc)
So is it really green? Carbon neutral doesn't count for shit if it's also so easily becoming e-waste and needing to be replaced with an entire new device which is literally 2x the e-waste within a shorter period of time

2024-11-18 09:22:37 UTC

Christmas doesn't officially begin until you have a rap battle with a colourfully beribboned horse skull

2024-11-16 11:01:51 UTC

Tell Mozilla you're sick of their AI and ads junkware and want their advocacy division reinstated:
https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

2024-11-10 21:18:37 UTC

What about robots but made of bones

2024-11-10 11:19:33 UTC

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Tired of all the emotional whiplash going on outside and desperately need a little break to chill with your pocket friends? Open up your phone for more emotional whiplash as a treat. Nowhere is safe x

2024-11-10 11:12:47 UTC

The content warning culture here has been gradually getting somehow worse hasn't it? Content warnings are good actually.

2024-10-22 11:00:30 UTC

I'm working with a local charity to refurb donated laptops for them to release back into the community and they get a lot of ex-business laptops with BIOS passwords set. It's really annoying!
If you're a business IT person donating old hardware, pretty please with a cherry on top remove the BIOS passwords first xxx

2024-10-20 21:56:10 UTC

I keep building 2000s cyberpunk style computers recently oops
https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/media_attachments/files/113/341/957/039/670/043/original/b006720da0b610be.jpg

2024-10-10 14:17:44 UTC

Where's the day gone? Time has gone so so fast today :blobnotlike:

2024-10-09 13:53:44 UTC

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Imagine having more boundaries and consent features in Mastodon instead of whatever fucking mess this is! Imagine the social spaces we could build!

2024-10-09 13:48:58 UTC

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These growth-orientated designs can honestly fuck off. Get to know the people around you first, instead of "the more the numbers go up, the more social media it is"

2024-10-09 13:47:37 UTC

The "Follow" button in those new contact cards doesn't indicate if someone's account is locked so you don't know if you should check their profile for if they accept followers or what conditions they have. I'll ask again: Does anybody designing #Mastodon actually use Mastodon??? That's such a rude design :angry_laugh:

2024-10-09 08:18:56 UTC

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What this social network needed was an interface that looks even more like a video game launcher application or toxic gamer culture chat app threw up on your shoes and it's a 🚧 biohazard 🚧 there now

2024-10-09 08:15:46 UTC

"Mastodon is too complicated and intimidating looking for new users"
#Mastodon: Hold my beer 🦇🚧🥴🚧🦇

2024-10-07 16:41:26 UTC

Cursed idea: A claw machine where you have to pick up the icon for the computer program you want to run

2024-09-27 16:00:08 UTC

Hi, I hope this email loses you in the forest well

2024-09-15 12:02:53 UTC

I built this budget RTX 4060Ti PC recently with the mission to juice as much out of the budget as possible but also crucially for it to look nice too.
It cuts through Runescape like butter
https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/media_attachments/files/113/141/452/413/072/315/original/114e7ea55c276544.jpg

2024-09-09 18:25:22 UTC

You don't need an Apple [new_product] in your life I assure you

2024-08-07 21:24:02 UTC

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So it begins...
BBC News tonight: "is tonights fight back against the far right a result of the police or the courts, or did it just happen?"
Secret third option: People took to the streets and did the work

2024-08-07 21:05:48 UTC

Next comes the politicians and police thanking themselves for preventing riots tonight, forgetting the thousands of anti-racists that showed up to do the real work of showing unity in overwhelming numbers
https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/media_attachments/files/112/922/763/876/464/540/original/dd0d1bd31ef96390.jpg

2024-08-04 18:29:20 UTC

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my city has an excellent history of pulling together at times like this before the fash even get their foot in the door. They find it intimidating here because it's one of the most culturally diverse cities and we all crack on with it getting along just fine. The only reason the EDL, PA, etc ever show up here is because they've got a ridicule kink.
Places like this are important to show that it can be done, it's been awful here before and we've turned it around to say "never again"

2024-08-04 18:13:21 UTC

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one of the police in the lines where I was yesterday exchanged friendly smiles and waves with a fascist he recognised in the crowd. They allowed someone to stand doing a Nazi salute for as long as they could get away with to cause maximum distress before stepping in. They're not subtle

2023-09-14 22:44:56 UTC

Not my meme, but still
https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/media_attachments/files/111/065/915/744/355/118/original/17bca106da0ebdcb.jpg

2023-09-04 08:27:15 UTC

There needs to be more and smaller instances x

2023-07-02 14:27:25 UTC

#Mastodon #feditip: Click on the Illuminati icon at the top and all of the mysteries hidden inside the thread become unravelled!*
* It opens up all of the content warnings in the thread you're looking at
https://cdn.masto.host/godforsakenwebsite/media_attachments/files/110/644/948/404/026/338/original/1784093076c0eb6b.png

2022-11-04 12:52:30 UTC

Mozilla please stop trying to make Firefox into an "experience" I just want to look at stuff online

2022-10-31 22:39:46 UTC

If you've called yourself a "refugee" because you clicked a few buttons to move from one social network online to an other, not only is that extremely poor taste, you should donate to Refugee Action and sign up to their newsletter:
https://www.refugee-action.org.uk/

2021-10-15 16:42:49 UTC

Re-working Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime to modernise it a bit to reflect our times, it's now called "Simply Having a Time" and I'm feeling it

2021-03-01 09:37:28 UTC

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"In theory, nobody has a problem with anti-racism. In practice, as soon as people start /doing/ anti-racist things, there is no end to the slew of commentators who are convinced anti-racists are doing it wrong. It even happens among people who consider themselves to be progressive"
- Reni Eddo-Lodge (Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race)

2021-03-01 09:36:43 UTC

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.. It is crucial that Peoples of color organize their own internal caucuses for equal representation and to pressure this white leadership to afford them the same rights as any member, and end these internal racist abuses."
- Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (The Progressive Plantation) 2/2