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  It’s been on the horizon for a while now, but I shall soon be deleting my Discord account. https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

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  Made a mistake and ordered *far* too much (succulent) Chinese food in a great restaurant tonight. We also didn’t understand how much it would cost 😳 On the plus side: it was fantastic, and they boxed up what we didn’t eat.

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  Been getting a loooot of spam calls from mobile numbers recently, telling me to add them on WhatsApp for a job offer. Dunno why the sudden uptick. What breach was my mobile number included in recently? 🤔

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  @anon_opin@mastodon.social congratulations on misunderstanding the premise of the phrase, and publicly humiliating yourself. You are, somehow, less than the sum of your parts 😏

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117055789677931244 Kinda surprised this didn’t feature in a @cstross #laundryFiles story 😀

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  RE: https://mastodon.world/@avavsystems/117054505161085941 Wow, I had no idea the BBC ever recorded stuff in quad, let alone broadcast it on the radio!

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  I finished The Regicide Report last night and, with it, The Laundry Files. I’m sure we’ll hear from Bob and Mo again at some point, but until then they can have a well deserved rest. It was a wild ride, thanks @cstross, you did good.

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  RE: https://twit.social/@richardgunther/117044600630471072 This why I don’t have a YouTube feed

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  #nowPlaying #thePlaylist with @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org, and it's all very magical and disc-like this week. No, we're not talking dark chocolate Hobnobs (even though they are magical discs), this week's show is all things Discworld! https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/

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  The new Durutti Column album is lovely, but this track is absolutely gorgeous. One of the dreamiest, most affecting pieces of music I’ve heard for years… https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1894442782?i=1894442849

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  I’ve watched a movie (Mallrats), and two episodes of New Zealand Spy, and football is *still* happening. Seems a bit excessive now…

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  At the risk of being tragically hip: if you're gonna watch a great Sam Neil movie in memoriam, make it Until The End Of The World. But do it justice, get the Director's Cut, lots of drinks and snacks, and set an afternoon aside for it. Then, by all means, have Jurassic Park or Dead Calm as a snappy palate cleanser when you're done. 📽️🍿🥤 ☢️🦖⛵️

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  The Clacton by-election is turning into a real Crazy Magnet. I love how clairvoyant Amelia Randall says she "wants to represent people who don't vote". Err, that's not how the UK electoral system works 😂 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crlw69p6lyeo

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  USians, what’s the big deal with this Mitch McConnell fella? No disrespect to him, but why is it so important to keep secret if he’s dead/dying?

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  UK folk, as we find ourselves in 30+C temperatures again, this is a reminder to check your medicines for appropriate storage temperatures. You’ll find that many of them shouldn’t be stored above 25C, so get them in the fridge 👍❄️💊

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  It’s all looking a bit stringy, with temporary cabling all over the shop as we migrate from these grody old cabinets to shiny new ones (and eventually replace the floor under the old cabs)

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  Testing my pi-hole, I just turned off adblocking and loaded some gaming sites (RPS, eurogamer)..... How do people without adblocking use the Internet? It's just...horrific...it's like when Nada puts the special shades on in They Live. I'm not joking...it really is that bad 😱

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  I was wondering what all the goose value memes were about, then I saw the original post with the SoftBank slides, and now I’m even more confused. I think I need to go back to bed

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  Another one for #monochrome Monday #photography #blackAndWhite #mountainBike

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  Why are #6music playing The Knife so much at the moment? New album out soon or something? 🤔

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  Oh FFS Starmer, nationalise British Steel, seriously? It’s an industry that’s absolutely dead on its arse. Its employees need to be retrained and moved to other industries, just like the long and painful transition the miners had to go through. You might as well throw cash into the fire for all the effect it will have on reviving the industry. And I’d put money on this “nationalised” company being almost entirely run by commercial subcontractors, all taking their slice. Bloody ridiculous😒

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/116519776478316052 Oh man, I got all tingly watching this. Absolutely incredible.

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  I’ve noticed a few sites (one my own) with #letsencrypt certs being flagged as unsafe today, while having perfectly good certs at first glance. I wonder if this emerging incident is connected 🤔

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  @sharongascoigne@mastodonapp.uk this came up on a playlist of bands playing Bearded Theory this year and I did a proper double take thinking it was The Mission! They're a bunch of young lads from Nottingham, apparently, and sound really good. Give them a listen: https://album.link/i/1862508545

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  RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116496110710975841 Hoo, boy… 😬

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  Today’s lesson in DIY automotive maintenance: don’t trust your life to cheap Halford’s wheel chocks 😬

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  “Inside Chernobyl With Ben Fogle” on Channel 5 Come on then #fediverse, let’s have your #disasterCelebs I’ll start you off with “Judy Garland visits Five Mile Island”

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  I DID THE THING I WAS MEANT TO BE DOING! Procrastinated like a boss all week, but got it done in the end 😎

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  Unexpected #Cardiacs in the bagging area! https://youtu.be/povE3Y68mqg?si=SycTlzin7Y3duAQY

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  I want a device, but I don't know if it exists or not. It needs all the functionality of a rack PDU: per outlet switching/metering, delayed per port startups at boot, remote management via SNMP/SSH/Web. But rather than mains outlets it's USB, and it needs to have a selection of USB-A, and USB-C outlets that do proper PD 3.0 negotiation. This is for my home network/AV rack that has *loads* of USB kit in it that I find hard to control unless I plug each into a wall wart, and han...