Ok Fedifriends, what’s a good Mastodon app for iOS? The official one seems to have got a lot more unusable with the latest update but others I’ve tried seem to be missing features.

:mk: I absolutely love the gibberish Raiden yells 😆 #mortalkombat #arcade #retrogaming

Alright, I give up. Dear Fediverse #retrocomputing folks, I've been looking for a SPARCstation IPX or IPC for quite some time; anyone around who'd be willing to sell one? Preferably within Europe (I've found one offer on eBay, but it would be from the US and I don't have any confidence in […]

Really need to teach the kid how to do his own cycle maintenance

Something really terrible is going to happen. I've just created a huge karmic imbalance in the universe. Just now, I plugged in my printer which hasn't been used in about a year, it connected itself to the WiFi and successfully printed the document that I asked for.

Wow! I came back from holiday a couple of weeks ago to find that somebody had dumped a load of rubbish (dead fridge, sink, bags of who knows what) down the side of my house. Reported it to the council only this weekend and they've just turned up to remove it 😮

Your mother paints roundabouts and your father shouts at hotels.

Someone please just make a convincing simulation of the 80s and leave me there. Spend the evening watching Witchfinder General and playing #zxspectrum games. Monty on the Run, Manic Miner, Fantasy Dizzy, and Atic Atac. Actually forgot the ever-looming dread for a while.

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours. - Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours) - more intuitive for people who use electricity - never the confusing between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' […]

Hey, Linux people: a LOT of folks are screaming off Windows right now. Be. Kind. To. Them. They don't know much yet, so they are going to ask really basic questions. If you're KIND, you might get some to give it a try and stick to it bc they know they can ask for help. If you're unkind, you're […]

Well I went through the revolving door as fast as I could but I don’t feel any more Kryptonian 😔

I've suspected for a while that caffeine was fuelling my social anxiety and pretty much confirmed it at an event in London this week. So now I'm trying to quit caffeine. I'm not sure I don't prefer the anxiety 🤯 🤕 😴 Help

RIP meta grandad 🤘 🦇 #ozzy

It’s a hard life waiting for my son while he takes his drumming exam ☕️

I never saw a C64 when I was growing up. Never know anyone that had one. Today I decided to introduce myself to the C64 through my MiSTer. Found an archive of software, picked a game at random, loaded it up… and immediately understood what everyone has been on about all these years. Wow […]

Why has it only just occurred to me now, 40-odd years on, that Megatron should have had some mean-sounding siblings: Kilotron and Teratron. Gigatron not so much though.

Who the hell called it AI Animation instead of Slop Motion

Not sure why the BBC think the Jewish community need an apology for a "Death to the IDF" chant. Many Jews around the world hate the depraved, child murdering IDF as much as the rest of us, & would be very much insulted. Conflating the two is also antisemitic #BobVylan #BBC

Phew! It was a long time in preparation and I was dreading it all week but I passed my Taekwondo grading. Brown belt. Two to go to the big one!🥋Now I think I hear the pub calling.

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

Hack the planet!

Excellent work @popey! https://nerdydaytrips.org/ Fedi-friends, there are already tons of great places on here, add some more! I just added one in my home town and it was delightfully straightforward (no sign up!). Tip: look it up on openstreetmap first as you'll need the URL.

[Spoilers for Playdate season 2] Only just getting around to opening the new stuff. Blippo is unexpected and fun. Fulcrum Defender is just my sort of game. Made it to 18 minutes on my first run. Manic towards the end 😆 #playdate

TIL “tycoon” and “shogun” have the same origin. “Mogul” is related too. Thanks Kevin https://patreon.com/historyofenglish

When someone says a thing is underrated, who is doing the rating? I'm afraid I'm going to need to see the working out for future such claims.

Squeeee #playdate #seasontwo

The perfect British holiday picture doesn't exis....

Happy #revengeofthefifth Dark Forces on my Mister Pi with a lovely Checkmate monitor 🤌

My grandad tried to get me interested in cryptic crosswords when I was a kid. I always loved the explanations but they were way beyond me to solve on my own. Only took me 40 years to try again 😆 Minute Cryptic Mini Crossword - 2 May 2025 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪⬛ 🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 ⬛⬛🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪⬛ I […]

Spent the evening setting up my new #misterpi and, unexpectedly, installing #windows95 on it 😆

Oh DHL! Perhaps if you sent me your message telling me that I have a delivery today _before_ you try to deliver it instead of 2 minutes _after_, I might have a chance at being in for it.

I have one of those LG Dual Up monitors. It has an 8:9 ratio and I've been using it in its primary orientation - vertically - for about 6 months. It's great for reading documents which I do a lot. Yesterday, I decided to try changing things up and rotated it 90°. Why does a monitor that felt […]

Looking forward to the introduction of underwear content inspections at all public toilets from now on.

I am appalled by today’s UK Supreme Court judgement. Fuck ‘em. Even if there is nuance in the judgement, the headlines are damaging enough. What’s more, this is an assault on my and your human rights, even if you are not trans. It shows that the UK Supreme Court is willing to arbitrarily judge […]

My security camera picked up a deer in my garden around 6 o’clock this morning. I live in a suburb and the nearest woodland of any size is at least a mile away. It looked injured 😣

Signed by the author. $1.5M

Fun fact! The X, Y, and Z axis names are actually short for: - Xideways - Yupwards - Zepth

Minute Cryptic Mini Crossword - 11 April 2025 ⬛⬛🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪⬛🟪⬛⬛⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪⬛🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪🟪 I used 0 letters My time was 00:05:21 https://www.minutecryptic.com/minis/13?utm_source=share Easy one this week.

Nach diesem bedauerlichen Fehler wurde die Anzahl der maximalen Wünsche auf drei begrenzt. #TimelineCleanser

Aging really can do one. I have hurt my back and have no idea even how I did it. tbf, I didn't help myself by thinking "ah, I'm prolly just stiff from sitting down all day" and going to a Taekwondo class that turned out to be a whole sparring session.

I got on a plane to Seattle today. There was a couple that boarded… the guy was dressed in a suit like a character from the Handmaid’s Tale but with a MAGA hat. Truly terrifying.

Foundation and Emperor \m/ - Isaac Asimov #heavymetalabookorplay

Nice to remember what sunlight feels like again.

Ok, fine. I get it now. Balatro is excellent. Been playing it for way too long this evening 😆

I highly recommend using Signal for your DnD group chat, Tor to look up hummus recipes and an encrypted email for your wedding RSVPs. The more people are using this sort of thing for completely innocuous stuff the less suspicious it becomes, and as a bonus you feel like you're doing something […]

I should start commenting my code like this so my friends experience the same visceral reaction I did when seeing this. #shitpost

Woke up with the in-game music from The Settlers on the Amiga running through my head. Guess I know what I'm doing this evening. #RetroGaming #amiga

Why am I so bad at cooking rice?! It’s one of those staples that has been around forever; it should be simple 😣 Tbf, I only just got the hang of consistently getting boiled eggs how I like them after 40+ years of hit and miss breakfasts 😆