trust our privatised #water companies to find new ways of effing up the #environment https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/what-are-bio-beads-used-for-and-how-did-they-get-spilled-on-to-camber-sands-beach #plastic #pollution #ukpolitics

Remember timeline goes sideways? I think Mastodon should do that again! Anyway, I'm so glad to announce I'm buying up this new leadership role. Thank you. No, thank *you*! 1/13

It is the Year of Our Linux Desktop 2025, and Chromium PWAs/app mode *still* plops a new "chrome thing" icon on the (Icons-Only) Task Manager when you click the app's shortcut

Good job I don't need #cloudflare to read any documentation that's part of my job or anything haha (Actually I just got pushed into finding ansible-doc, which is actually useful and works entirely locally. It's a better idea to consult offline docs anyway for anything version-specific, it's […]

the sysadmins dont want you to know this but there are ports below port 20. nobody knows what they do, physicists suspect it might be related to dark matter. the government agencies scrub all mentions of these ports off the open internet. i am revealing all of this to you at great risk to my life,

I have a lovely #oud which I am planning to play more often from now on. Made in #syria around 2000, I was told. Could any #arabic speaker tell me what the writing on the label says?

Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values

Everything you have been taught about Icarus is a lie. "The Myth of the Fall of Icarus" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/revenge-of-the-mutant-algorithms-the-myth-of-the-fall-of-icarus/

Dark mode? More like dork mode haha (I bet nobody's made this joke)

Image source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232701369_Geologic_and_Biologic_Controls_on_the_Evolution_of_Reefs

Ah, fresh hell to spice up the boring old hell. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/firstwap-altamides-phone-tracking-surveillance-secrets-assad-erik-prince-jared-leto-anne-wojcicki/

🚌 #oxford needs a high-quality, connected bus hub connected to the station rebuild, but instead Network Rail want to quietly drop a suggested transport interchange in favour of jamming in more cars. Bloody daft, right? […]

Think I might start adding -"conclusion" to my technical duckgo queries to weed out some of the garbage articles

As a reminder of the contempt that the ruling class has for us, "pull oneself up by one's bootstraps" specifically references something that's literally impossible, and "tightening one's belt" comes from a euphemism for starvation.

Well *I* think relational databases are exciting.

"North Oxford golf course to be closed…" Heck yeah! rewilding and monoculture giant lawn removal! 🌳🦫🌳🦌🦌🌲🐺🌳 Let's goooo! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 "… and replaced with another giant fuckoff housing estate" aww. https://oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-weekly-17-october-2025/#around-the-county #oxford #oxfordshire

Well… yes. https://newsthump.com/2025/10/15/i-am-still-the-greatest-computer-of-all-time-insists-zx-spectrum-48k/

If anybody asks where I see myself in five years time: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kaiopai/54853394700/ #pirateluthier

Are you interested in #maps and in how underrepresented demographics are represented? Have you ever considered that maps are not #inclusive enough and might not be working for everyone (and maybe for you)? We have prepared a series of 3 workshops to design and build alternative maps based on […]

doctorow pluralistic posts an entire book chapter or something on full public, and everyone else politely pauses their posting for 5 minutes to avoid getting swamped off of everyone's timelines (kidding, sort of. good luck with the book, people can just mute etc.)

[LB-but-one] "The Enshittification and Disenshittification of Great American…" (careful, now) "… Cities" https://tutoteket.no/@tanketom/115350079177034778 #shitties #goddamnitbrain

OK, that's new. Sustrans (ඞ) have rebranded to "Walk Wheel Cycle Trust" (What Would cJohn Mastodon tDo?) for… reasons, I guess https://cyclingindustry.news/sustrans-becomes-walk-wheel-cycle-trust-launches-5-year-strategy/ #BikeTooter #uk

@frameworkcomputer i have also posted a discussion on your community forum, as it seems multiple federated posts here have not been able to bring your attention to this problem yet https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/75986

Thanks to my hardware store. New insult unlocked.

I need to use this local #oxford refill shop more than I do. I just wish they were a bit closer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8pXEyB5NBQ (h/t @oxfordclarion.bsky.social)

The decaf coffee container at work, which is next to the regular one, has been labelled "placebo" by someone

Here's a list of the pieces-of-shit comedians performing in Saudi Arabia. Many of them are the same people who bemoan the "lack of freedom of expression" in comedy, yet seem very content to accept money from a dictator who paid to have a journalist murdered […]

I am inside the "you wait" stage of "you wait, time passes"

Mastodon now works on Servo 👀 That def. wasn't the case as of like a week ago!

‘A hacker’s dream’ Absolutely terrible idea. Holding all your information in one place is a hacker’s dream. We already have countless ways we can provide our identity – passports, driving licences and so on. There is absolutely no need for this, and it’s just so the government can try to gain […]

I'm feeling an urge to give Emacs another try. Help?

#accessibility Q: There seems to be a growing trend towards payment terminals that are full touchscreens. Definitely with companies like sumup (who used to have the sumup 3g which had buttons on it) and now only sells touchscreen models. I notice that elderly […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Coo. Scan (dot co dot uk) are still going.

Very tempted by one of those Bee-link 6 slot SSD NAS cubes as a replacement for a decade-plus-old spinning rust Proliant. It's about en eighth of the shelf volume, for starters.

Be alert! But don't panic!! #uk #emergencyalert in ten minutes

🌞⛈️🌞🌧️🌩️🌞 What a weather, huh? (Captain, it's

We really should #BanSUVs https://www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/why-suvs-are-bad-news-for-children-and-the-school-run #roadsafety #climatecatastrophe #publichealth #bancars

11D Chess Clutter Reasoning. 1. If I get rid of this craft supply I will discover *next week* that I need it. This is a law of nature. 2. I've been keeping it for years hoping I might get back into that hobby. But it's never happened. 3. Therefore? I will give it away to CAUSE me to get back […]

. I can't stand more than about 15 seconds of the mid-screen subtitles in this video. They just *grab on* to my optic nerve, and I'm trapped in some kind of eye fixating feedback loop hellspace to the exclusion of a) the rest of it, and b) thoughts. I hate it like I'd hate being herded through a […]

[virus / vaccination news] Was watching two of the e-learnings we (pharmacies in Belgium) got about the upcoming vaccination period. One of the things I had forgotten / didn't know was that one of the 4 influenza viruses ... pretty much disappeared when the […] [Original post on en.osm.town]

Trombone Concerto Allegro Vivace by Rimsky-Korsakov but make it JRPG With An Airship On The Title Screen #music #classicalmusic #chiptune #jrpg

The nice thing about osmand is there's absolutely loads of settings so you can make it behave however the hell you want The bad news is that of all those settings, every default setting is wrong So when there's some new feature that of course you can configure however you want, the default […]

The problem with Codeberg is the name reminds me of fatbergs. #gross

Worked out that if I take a photo of every courgette I grow, then save it to the cloud, that the UK will run out out of water in 2028.

The UK's national drought group is falling ridiculously short when recommending to delete old emails. How about - stop building any new data centers, progressively tax on their size and resource consumption, no free riding - legislatively focus on software to become more resource efficient […]

Looks like I'm going to have to learn a new computer thingy (cloud-init). sigh.