Free good fings oggi 1. leafing through old family photos to find some to print and lol at the cuteness, 2. found some photos of all my cats and a silly video, will share in due course, 3. hit a flipping huge pothole, stayed upright (mad skillz), pannier departed bike (straightening a […]

well a first proper -2C qualifying ride this morning and then twelve degrees C on the ride home. So not an entirely frosty pendulum. #frostpendeln

I've dusted and hoovered inside your skull, and now I'm living lint free in your head.

Listening to a book on mindfulness at 1.5x speed while I post this.

Randall Monroe's #xkcd comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons. * Posted in Nov 2012: Two Years * Posted in Dec 2017: Seven Years * Posted in Nov 2020: Ten Years * Posted yesterday (Nov 2025): Fifteen Years […]

I've just boosted this, but I will quoot is as well because their forensic investigation of what triggers their model, clearly calibrated by a teenager, is worth your attention. https://digipres.club/@foone/115604163425722669 😆 enjoy

Yesterday I bothered to look it up, and apparently the conference pear is named for the National British Pear Conference of 1885 where it won first prize. OK, but. I haven't heard of this conference ever happening again (no Wikipedia article for the event itself), and there aren't any better […]

[telly dancing] I suspect the random dance thing next week will be "all the men dress up as La Voix" #Strictly

New release review: Wicked: For Good #Musical #cinemastodon

New release review: Jay Kelly #netflix #cinemastodon

Frome Cobble Wobble is BACK after 13 long years. And it was ace. I was first in the e-assist reindeer category #cycling #biketooter

note to my 2007 self: name your photo archive folders yyyymmdd and do away with the _ . It'll save time in 2025.

annual reminder that the person being mentored is not a "mentee" but a "telemachus" this has been a public service toot

Found some photos of "days 9-12 after Roach Minimus was born" and I went through a brief phase of taking a portrait of every visitor to the house be they relatives, health visitors or postmen.

Just watched a ballet adaptation of A Christmas Carol. It was very good, and I'd definitely recommend it. However, while I appreciate it had to be heavily adapted for the format, I was a little disappointed they left Fozzie Bear out entirely.

[is dancing telly programme] Who the hell is Le Voix? #Strictly

Watched "The Lighthouse". No scenery left un-chewed. 🙄

because of fat thumbs I often type yhe for the, and I mighy jusy sticj wiyh iy.

You can tell it's not quite Christmas, because all the perfume ads have surfaced: https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115590280921740724 thanks @NanoRaptor

Flying should definitely be in the air; this is a strong shared belief in my culture. https://mastodon.online/@Aviation_Librarian/115590170648732862 thanks to @Aviation_Librarian for the poster!

[use of zubstack without appropriate handwringing, also no cat pictures. and an exploding whale.] https://davebarry.substack.com/p/the-exploding-whale

Don't judge a book by its... https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/top-writers-ruled-out-of-nz-book-awards-due-to-ai-covers

right. 2 mins f8 ISO400 and some torch waving, let's go! #photography

Looking forward to seeing Truffle the RPC tortoise in the next issue. https://mastodon.ie/@shezza_t/115588144614640848

A Southampton Dock, earlier. Shot from the Ikea café so apologies for the sun flare. #Southampton #soddinggreatcruiseship

[Warning: content] the best thing about Movember is shaving it down to a toothbrush for the 30th because the Daily Mail says this year it's okay to look like Hitler. #Movember

Guys, if you don't want people to stop spending, can I suggest you don't make an enormous fuss about the pre Christmas sales? Strikes me this one's partly of your own making.

wandering around ikea, and I was so conditioned into pronouncing product names the way the manufacturer intended, that when I encountered a sign saying "gateleg table" the first sound I thought of was "gatta-leg" #ikea 🇸🇪

WinchesterFenster (Boots the chemist first floor) #Fensterfreitag

What a difference a week makes to those "my first toot of the day is always about the weather" accounts 😃 #ukweather

Petition to mandate two tiers of "order confirmation/booking confirmation" automated email, distinguishable by their subject line. Tier two: ack with no additional info Tier one: ack plus important new info that is vital for you to read in order for us to have a successful transaction

Good day to southern hemisphere Fedi perusing a bunch of northern hemisphere morning frosty weather photo-toots and laughing.

[perfectly awful people suing the bbc as part of a coordinated campaign of suppressing independent journalism] I've just seen one of those adverts-for-itself the BBC runs to fill between programmes from time to time. This one was a jump cut montage of various programmes with a voiceover along […]

Half of the fun of watching "A Place In The Sun" with Mrs Roach is watching her reaction when the people looking for somewhere to buy don't play ball because they either 1) put in an _insultingly_ low offer, 2) say they really like somewhere, and quibble about £1000 when it will cost them at […]

looking forward to "scam safe week" on the bbc as I do need to learn how to scam safely.

Free good fings oggi 1. after 45 years of not really caring, I went back and said "can we do something about my duff hearing?" and they offered me a free hearing aid. And the person I consulted was awesomely competent and (surprise) a good listener. #nhs 2. central heating 3. hypothetically […]

Hearing test, the one where they play decreasingly loud tones at different frequencies to show the frequency response of your ear. Sitting with eyes closed, concentrating on pulling the tones out of the background tinnitus, and feeling a lot of empathy for radio-telescopes and passive sonar.

"I AM HERE TO TAKE A NAP ON YOUR PUNY PLANET. DO NOT TRY TO STOP ME!" 😆 https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115582483620092910

[warning: content] Busy morning beckons; cutting letters from newspapers and sticking them onto forty-four sheets of paper, then posting them through the doors of one street over "wE knOw WherE YoU LIve". It's true. We don't know who you are, but we do know where you live. Merely stating a fact.

Free good fings oggi 1. Power cut the next street over - no streetlights. It was a relief to ride into our street and see the lights on. 2.Good meeting with the boss' boss, thank f**k 😃 3. Dad's Christmas present arrived, a secondhand book, but in terrific condition. #3goodthings #3GoodThings

Public #libraries are great! Yes, I have to wait my turn for some books but that just heightens the excitement. 😄📖🎧 #BorrowBox #library #reading

"Why him?" she said at the more normal level of voice. "Autumn", by Ali Smith. #page42

Someone's just said to me "I believe you are right." and on that basis I'm not talking to anyone else and leaving work right away. ⬆️ my next linked in post

Free good fings heute: 1. Took the hurty leg to work ans back today and it wasn't too bad. 2. No more planned blood tests for the elaborate chocolador for the foreseeable, after a 40kg dog tried to hide underneath Mrs Roach's waiting room chair today. 🫂 (Thinking of taking the dog back using […]

I saw a new exhibit of some of hiroshige’s 100 famous views of edo today and this one stopped me in my tracks

linux people, have you been able to get fusion 360 running, or did you give up and learn the freecad user interface instead? TIA. #linux #cad #fusion360 #autodesk #freecad #whoneedsanautomaticdeskanyway

need that Guardian Explainer page "what is a cloud flare and why does it matter". have been wondering forever how it does that "verifying you are human" schtick.

Free good fings oggi: 1. the no-nonsense medical person who helped me yesterday (no details it's gross), 2. hurty leg seems to be faaaaiiirly happy with pedalling, just not running, 3. free heirloom saucepans! Long story but Mum _isn't_ getting an induction […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

aargh why, oh lord, why?

them: why are you limping? me: there is a bad spirit in my leg. (I mean, I could hazard a guess at the problem based on my amateur knowledge of anatomy, and you could then suck your teeth and say either (a) oh dear that's bad my friend had something like that or (b) have you tried <treatment> […]