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  I've finally done a thing. I've put my music from 2001 - 2017 on Bandcamp. It's home recorded. I'm not a great singer or musician. And the original 'releases' went to about 30 people. But despite my self-deprecation - I think there are a few cracking bits of songwriting in there. Of course, I wouldn't dream of charging people for the 'privilege', so fill your boots. https://plexigon.bandcamp.com/follow_me #Bandcamp #Music #Songwriting #Songs #BandcampFrid...

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  Your occasional reminder that if, like me, you daily drive good FOSS - and you have the capacity - please donate to them. #Mastodon #FOSS #Linux #LibreOffice #GrapheneOS #Signal #LinuxMint

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  #Anthropeum Anthropeum.com · Jul 22 2026 🟨🟥🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨🟩🟨 56,494 · top 53% of players today!

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  Just did my first Wikipedia (English) edit. I've been meaning to do one of these for years but never get around to it. Today, I discovered that Betty Swanwick didn't have an exact date of death on there. But I found it whilst looking at her profile on the Royal Academy Collection. Interesting fact: one of those people, like Shakespeare, who suffered the extreme 'Birthday Effect' (i.e. died on their actual birthday). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Swanwick #...

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  #Rogule 2026-7-23 🧝 5xp ⛩ 140 👣 streak: 10 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔ 🦇🐗🐗🐀👻 🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🍄🍄🍄💎 https://rogule.com

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  Anthropeum.com · Jul 23 2026 🟨🟦🟩🟦🟨🟨🟦🟩🟥🟩 70,492 · top 16% of players today! #Anthropeum

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  Should read, 'Habitual music plagiarists overtake original source material'. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9wq778dvzo #Oasis #Beatles #Music #UK

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  #ThrowbackThursday A slightly out-of-focus photo of me on a rock in the early 1980s. My question - fellow toot-travellers - is where is this? I haven't a clue, but it's in either England or Wales. #Beach #England #Holiday #1980s #Family #Photography

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  Well the axes did for everything quickly. #Rogule 2026-7-24 🧝 5xp ⛩ 334 👣 streak: 11 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⚔ 🦇🦇👻🧞🧛 🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🍄🍄 https://rogule.com

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  If anyone is using the dark arts here, it's the US and their rhetoric. They realise their AI bubble might burst due to China insisting that their AI models are FOSS. They're probably better engineered too compared to the US 'chuck lots of money at it' approach. As you know I am no fan of Gen AI, but China might just be playing a blinder here by undercutting, and maybe collapsing, the buttress holding up the entire US economy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles...

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  Typical - the dragon drops the shield when it's no longer required! #Rogule 2026-7-25 🧝 5xp ⛩ 651 👣 streak: 12 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔ 👻🐗🐺🧛🐉 🌰 https://rogule.com

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  #SilentSunday

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  Going on a narrowboat holiday. We're music lovers and want an old-fashioned MP3 player to listen to our 7,500+ songs. We want none of your streaming/Spotify nonsense. Aha - old Pixel device, converted to GrapheneOS. Obtainium and Auxio (FOSS music player) added. No SIM and WiFI turned off, so just Bluetooth to attach to speakers or headphones. I'm increasingly finding I'm dumbing down more and more devices to get the most out of them. #Music #MP3 #Pixel #GrapheneOS #Obtainium #A...

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  For my sins, I still have a Microsoft Surface (Win 11, local account, mostly offline) to rip Blu-rays. And - jeez - it's so slow compared to five years ago when it was my main computer. I daily drive Linux Mint now but I'm so sorry for the rest of you on Windows 11. It just sucks. * (* -- except it does rip Blu-rays using MakeMKV without issues, unlike my two other Linux Mint machines.) #Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #LinuxMint #Linux #SurfacePro

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  Hello to all the wonderful FOSS and anti-big-tech people on Mastodon. The next task in my list to divorce from big tech is replacing the Blink cameras around our house. Any advice? Is there a decent UK/EU privacy-based alternative? Or can I use FOSS with compatible hardware? I already have a home server on all the time running Jellyfin, so that could be utilised for this. Recommendations and/or working examples much appreciated! #FOSS #OutdoorSecurityCamera #Blink

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  I can't see how Farage can spin the result of this by-election in any positive way now. All the other parties have played a blinder on this. But a Count Binface win? Wow - that will make him and Reform the laughing stock that they so deserve to be. Please - let the fairy tale happen... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdg4y3g0z7o #UKPol #Farage #Clacton #CountBinFace #BinFace #Reform #Corruption

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  Rat petting and, otherwise, utter devastation with two swords. #Rogule 2026-7-3 🧝 5xp ⛩ 164 👣 streak: 7 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔ 🐺🐺🧟🧛 🍄 https://rogule.com

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  Quite a difficult one today... Anthropeum.com · Jul 3 2026 🟩🟦🟩🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨🟩🟦 66,930 · top 40% of players today!

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  #NowPlaying: 'Thick as a Brick' by Jethro Tull (1972 - 2012 Steve Wilson Remix). Classic and seminal 'joke' concept album that became the very thing it was lampooning. #Vinyl #NowSpinning #NowListening #ThickAsABrick #JethroTull #Rock #Folk #ProgRock

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  Starting point used as recovery room on two occasions when almost reduced to zero health. #Rogule 2026-7-4 🧝 5xp ⛩ 1219 👣 streak: 8 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔ 🐗🐺👹👻🐺 🌰🌰🍄🍄💎 https://rogule.com

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  Tick tick tick Putin. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j2vmzxezro #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #UkraineWar

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  I find it incredible that the Proton Mail android app - from @protonprivacy@mastodon.social who want you to detach yourself from big tech - still uses Google Services. Admittedly just for notification pushes, but still. How difficult can it be to drop that dependency and check the server for new email at a frequency of the user's choosing? #Proton #ProtonMail #DeGoogle #Email #Google

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  I will concede - and I can't believe I'm saying this - England have been unlucky not to score. Man of the match award heading to the DR Congo goalie at the moment. #ENGvDRC #England #DRCongo #Football #WorldCup

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  Just caught a couple of guys stuffing a Reform leaflet through our letter box. Ripped it up in front of them and called them fascists. Good deed of the day done... #UkPol #Reform #LocalElections

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  'There's no other way' - well, what about seeing Suede live, having a punch-up in the US and then reinventing yourselves by taking in your 60s UK influences... #TOTP

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  The movie collection on our Jellyfin server is growing nicely. About 40+ Blu-rays and DVDs ripped so far. Tonight, it's a bit of 'Hot Fuzz'. #Jellyfin #HomeServer #HotFuzz #CornettoTrilogy

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  Didn't have any weapons to speak of and couldn't be bothered to chip away at the djinn by running around in cirlces... #Rogule 2026-4-19 🧝 5xp ⛩ 617 👣 streak: 5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔ 👻🐗🐗🐗 🌰🌰🌰🌰🌰🍄🍄🍄💎 https://rogule.com

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  Minutes of the rat preservation society: patted two and protected them from rats and hogs. #Rogule 2026-4-20 🧝 4xp ⛩ 138 👣 streak: 6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔ 🦇🦇🐗 🌰⬜🍄🍄🍄🍄 https://rogule.com

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  Just bought the latest album from Angine De Poitrine. Oh yes - it's hectic, fun and - sometimes - funky. Would love to have bought it on vinyl, but their albums are not available in the UK until late June. #AngineDePoitrine #Vol2 #MathRock #ExperimentalRock #Microtonal #Looping

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  Another session at Dad's disassembling more furniture this morning. (There's plenty of these sessions to come...) Today's soundtrack: 'Seventh Son of a Seventh Son' by Iron Maiden and 'Big Bang!' by Fuzzbox. Because that's how I rolled in the late 80s. #IronMaiden #Fuzzbox #HeavyMetal #PowerPop