Magpie and owl. Psalter, Canterbury ca. 1210-1220. Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1525, fol. 80r. #medieval #medievalart

Singing is basically just a socially acceptable way of screaming

Idea: oblique strategies for dentists

Has anyone made a gig listings viewer for @musicbrainz ? I wanna be able to see all my local shows in one place

I like to make my cat a little blanket fort when it's cold

They've got some good wares at #leeds valenzine fair today at #leftbank

@HolosSocial is one of the coolest activitypub projects, and shows that the network has an incredible amount of growth potential still by exploring new primitives https://holos.social/how-it-works

Two countries divided by a common language and all that. An amusing snippet from an interview about the Game Boy Terminator 2 title. #nintendo #videogames #language

#feditip most fedizens don't watch tiktok so if you dont know what to post on here you can just transcribe a funny sketch off there and nobody will know

I need to befriend more men so i can tell them to stop being so toxic.

Somehow Microsoft Word 2026 is worse than Microsoft Word 98

I should have done it a long time ago but I've just cancelled my Spotify subscription. Qobuz seems to do the job.

@birb https://www.bfi.org.uk

I got in bed for a quick nap and now I'm struggling to escape, pray for me

I've got the Labyrinth soundtrack on, some absolutely gorgeous early midi instruments going on. That slap bass!

I want to listen to something atmospheric involving a saxophone and a minor key

_when my country's tld gets retired_ ICANN see clearly now domain has gone

Can anyone recommend a #fitness website or blog that isn't AI slop or SEO spam? I just want the basics like how to do specific exercises or use certain gym machines for beginners

Magical universe in which horses have been enchanted to talk but the only thing they can say is "caution; vehicle turning left/right"

Uinneag/ teachdaire. Ionad anarchach, Lerds. Window/ messenger. Wharf Chambers, Leeds. #DihUinneag #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday #Leeds #punk #anarchism #politics #LiveMusic #freepalestine

I started taking pictures with an old analogue camera, went to get holiday snaps developed but the film didn't actually catch on the spool so all this time I was just taking pretend photos

Interesting campaign (discovered through the Bylines Network newsletter): Give the public an active and direct role in the 2027 BBC Charter review https://www.mediareform.org.uk/key-issues/bbc-charter-review-2027

Love too have a resilient decentralised data network #cloudflare

Can't do my job until the cloud is able to flare again... better have lunch

I used to use a particular CD-ripping software on windows when I worked at the student radio station. I can't remember the name of it, just that part way through the rip the message above the progress meter would change to something like "this meter is now used for nothing in particular" Ring […]

Hi fedi, does anyone have recommendations for a music discovery #podcast? Ideally independent and UK-based

thank u bill gates for helping me write more gooder at grammar

Gonna try and make soda farls on an electric hob, wish me luck

A good #webdev article on using honeypot fields as a more user-friendly alternative to Captcha fields: https://css-tricks.com/building-a-honeypot-field-that-works/ I experimented with something like this when prototyping a contact form for the bfi website, it was very easy to implement but I […]

FYI if you ever write "an historic", I'm reading the rest of your writing in a cockney accent in my head

Hi fedi, anyone got lunch recommendations in #leeds? I'm thinking of trying somewhere new

Parsley

"I finally saw the bleeding obvious: you cannot speak truth to power if power controls your words" – George Monbiot This also is the truth. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/20/journalist-40-years-forces-profession-power

I would love it if Pidgin came out with an Android app so I can uninstall the last picee of Meta software from my phone

"Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape" https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/ Truly, we live in an age of absurdly wasteful wonders. (Although the vapes aren't running Android. Yet.)

That's another web dev RSS feed for the bin after publishing articles on AI coding

Where's good for brunch in #leeds city centre?

On Tuesday I'm screening Dr. Seuss's 1953 musical adventure The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T in #leeds as part of the #scalarama DIY film festival Only a few tickets remain! https://scalaramaleeds.co.uk/listings/2025/the-5-000-fingers-of-dr-t/

#webdev news: I just noticed `commandfor` and `command` (aka command invoker buttons) are in Firefox nightly, and probably will be in the next release of Safari too - excellent, now just give me anchor positioning and I'll be a happy developer

The Playful Hacker trope: so prevalent in movies and TV shows of the 90s & 2000s. Ofttimes they were the plucky upstarts…the misfits, the rebels…mere clever keystrokes away from Power to the People! So what happened? You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the […]

Omg I've just realised why it's called a spin button after 30-something years on this earth

[Transphobia cold take] Yes actually I believe a cis woman should shut up if what that woman is saying is harming people

Why is Smashing Magazine shilling LLMs all of a sudden? Read the room guys.

I know there aren't many people exploring the fediverse from the UK heritage sector, but worth a try: is anyone out there associated with a museum or gallery (etc) in Leeds? I would like to connect with such people! #museums #galleries #GLAM #GLAMEd #heritage #MathsInMuseums #museum

Is there a database of retro games piracy orgs anywhere? I had a pirate version of Superfrog for the Amiga and it had a bangin' tune at the start with the ident of the group that made the copy. I would love to hear that again but I don't remember the name

I think it's a Vampire Weekend kind of morning

Betty #caturday

Just found out Microsoft is building two data centres in #leeds, disgusting news for a Friday morning