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@ally-wallace.bsky.social
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If you're struggling with your mental health and in the UK you can call the Samaritans on 116 123, and you don't need to be suicidal to do so. Left-leaning Non-Binary Cumbrian. Be nice or be blocked. I also block to protect my mental health.

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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 1h
Must admit I have been thinking about bike again today...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 2h
I suspect its more likely to be psychedelics and/or certain mental health conditions, but its certainly possible. A former manager of mine at a prior employer once drank some out of date coffee with his wife and ended up tripping too - think that may have been caused by fungi?
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 2h
My local serves the Guinness Zero which works for a few folk I know who "drink" in there but have given up alcohol at various points, but I do understand. I am happy that I finally appear able to moderate, quite consistently now as Ihaven't been blackout drunk since mid July.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 3h
Considering I had six dry days this week so far and today is saturday and the Jailbird Junkies are playing The Three Tuns, Whitehaven, tonight, I am increasingly tempted to go for a pint, or three... Tbh I could also do with the exercise...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 4h
That pub seating looks very familiar...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 5h
Kromme Haring's Whale Shark was one of my first beers from those parts ( tho served at @cafeamsterdamwb.bsky.social ) and was absolutely delish! - so I will deffo check that out, thankyou!
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 21h
I note Amsterdam isn't far so I would like to add a visit there to my travels.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 21h
Giving more thought to winter holidays and giving further consideration to Utrecht - any recommendations for things to do or see, where to stay, etc, appreciated! @cafeamsterdamwb.bsky.social @dynode.eurosky.social
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No word of a lie but there used to be a sandwich shop in the market place in Whitehaven some twenty-odd years ago that would make exactly what you wanted, and I rather liked (in this exact order): Egg, Sausage, Cheese, Bacon, sliced Tomato and Prawns in Marie-Rose sauce in a White Bread Roll. NOM!
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FYI: The Post Office in Cockermouth, Cumbria, UK, sells stamps - I queried this today. Special ones are special order. Is you local P.O. lying to you?...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A boxed, "unused" PlayStation 3 Sharp Shooter kit for £35 at Oak Tree Animals Charity Shop in: Cockermouth / Knobagob, Cumbria / Cumberland, UK, seems like a bargain! If I had a PS3, I would buy it!
A boxed, "unused" PlayStation 3 Sharp Shooter kit for £35 at Oak Tree Animals Charity Shop in Cockermouth / Knobagob, Cumbria / Cumberland, UK
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If there's 1 thing I like about bacon & egg sarnies its eating them. If there's 1 thing I don't like its how variable the bacon from Morrisons is. Some shrink, shrivel, cook unevenly some don't. I suspect 1 or more of their suppliers add more water than another. Next week I am going to Hamblings.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I suppose Dana does do: Australian Illustration...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dana does not do AI, Dana does PhotoShop, and photographs.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't recall ever hearing of so many, severe, and in such a short space of time, events previously in my life time.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Pondering reports of deadly floods and flooding occuring around the world in what seems like a short, recent timeframe, & giving pause to consider the following: Will run-off into bodies of water affect their albido? Will it increase nutrients? Are these unprecedented for the time-frame?
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Sophie Rose @sophierosemusic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Last share before I ebay it.. I detest ebay..
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I hate to be the first to say this... but getting involved with a 486 DX2 is definitely going to be: DOOMed...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They seem very good value, even yellow labelled!
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Agreed.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I am very not keen on baked beans in tomato sauce so given the choice I'd go for the biscuits and gravy... - but with a British "twist". Mind you, I often have gravy on my egg n chips...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What is the film that came out before you were born that you've watched the most times?
An image of a Poster for Barbarella, Queen of the galaxy.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WTAF? They don't sell stamps?!
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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Re-upping this because, well, landlords.
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Judge Drokk @judgedrokk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dzikie Smaki! No.12 by Artstate for #AMIGA LINK - mega.nz/file/HiQBkDy...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
there are genetic clues of Cretans who have inhabited the Lasithi Plateau, & some historians posit that area may have offered the last Minoans a kind of landlocked "lifeboat" to survive after Thira sent Tsunami and Pyroclastic flows in the direction of Crete from Santorini. I love that island
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Traditionally their diet contains a small amount of Solanum Nigrum, regarded by the FDA as toxic / poisonous but with one or more compounds proven to cause Apoptosis of Liver Cancer cells without damaging healthy ones, but prepared harvesed and carefully prepared in a way that causes no harm, and...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Somewhat understandably I dreamt I was in Greece last night, and quite pleasingly I remembered some modern Greek in that dream. Why understandably? I've been to Crete many times and last night I was reading this when I fell asleep. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Is Boiling Bitter Greens a Legacy of Ancient Crete? Contemporary Foraging in the Minoan Refugium of the Lasithi Plateau
Wild greens (WGs) play a significant role in Mediterranean diets (MDs), reflecting botanical and cultural diversities, mainly influenced by a complex conglomerate of local human ecologies. This study ...
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Jade Farrington (she/her) @jadefarrington.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They’ve changed thousands of Autistic people’s lives... Now they need our support. The community is rallying round to help The Autistic Advocate Kieran Rose & their family through cancer treatment. Please donate and share. justgiving.com/Crowdfunding...
They’ve changed thousands of autistic people’s lives...
now they need our support
help The Autistic Advocate
Kieran rose & his family
through cancer treatment
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>> Donate
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>> ShareWhen Kieran Rose announced his prostate cancer diagnosis there was a huge outpouring of sadness, love and gratitude from the Autistic community.

So many stories were shared on social media about how wholly life-changing – or life-saving – Kieran's work as The Autistic Advocate is for so many people around the world.

Kieran has given vast numbers of people the understanding they need to accept themselves and others; to be better people, parents and professionals; or even to still be alive today.Kieran has been, and remains, instrumental in shifting the narrative around autism and Autistic people from pathologisation, disorder and stigma, to difference, disability and hope.

The Autistic Advocate is not just Kieran. His wife, Michelle, works behind the scenes doing admin and everything that makes their life-changing work possible. Their vital work supports the family, including their three children.

Kieran’s capacity is severely curtailed during treatment and convalescence. Meanwhile, bills still have to be paid.Kieran and Michelle give so much to Autistic people, families, and the professionals who support them. Now they need our support too.

Whatever you can give will help relieve some of the financial pressure and help them focus on getting through this as a family. If you aren't in a position to help financially, please share.

"             None of this is about me. It's about a collective us. A group of us, diagnosed and undiagnosed who share collective difficulties and experiences; who deserve better than we got, than we are getting. It's about recognising that we are invested in a civil rights movement for Autistic people, that Autistic culture is a valid reality." - Kieran Rose
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This Saturday: The Three Tuns Rock & Sports Bar in Whitehaven, Cumbria / Cumberland, UK, celebrates it's one year anniversary since reopening, and the Jailbird Junkies are back for their 2nd gig here since they played the reopening! Looking forward to it!
A poster advertising the Jailbird Junkies' next gig at The Three Tuns Rock and Sports Bar, Whitehaven, Cumbria / Cumberland, UK on 10/10/2026.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Threads, when it was first broadcast...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NOM!
Sausage, eggs n chips on a plate forming a face.
Salt & Vinegar to taste,
and Onion Gravy with Paprika (not pictured).
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
On this day I learnt about: Biderman's chart of coercion. Some of it seems familiar... PDF download link below. www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwe...
strath.ac.uk
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh, and yeah, the UMC204HD and UMC404HD also have MiDI-IN and MiDi-OUT (and allegedly lower noise than Focusrite or Presonous, if memory serves...).
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Fuzzweed @fuzzweed.co.uk · 04/10/2026
Hey shmup buddies, the official fuzz review is in: "This is very good" Definitely worth the dollar. PCE styleee. But on a master system. @beardedsonofnel.bsky.social @scowsh.bsky.social @syrotuck.bsky.social
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not Julies per se, but reviewing my followers I found similar. I tend to block those with OnlyFans as although I have no ethical or moral issues with anyone doing that, it isn't what I want to use BlueSky for.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I personally like the Behringer UMC404HD (a steal 2nd hand). It has useful inputs and outputs, but needs to output via an amp or headphones or powered monitor speakers. I also have a UMC204HD but it comes without a PSU & on my old tech has a slightly higher level of background noise than UMC404HD.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Interesting going thru old laptop... Back in 2018 one of the things I liked to do for fun was build & harden my own Linux / PostFix / OpenDKIM / OpenDMARC mailservers... (And DNS servers, and LAMP servers, etc)...
An Email Security Grader test result page showing one my MX was ranked 491st out of 99606 domains tested, 99th percentile,  "VERY STRONG SECURITY" and a score of 98%.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm pretty sure its gonna be something daft like a single IC - but for now since I found my 3rd X230 I'd forgotten I had, I ain't gonna worry about it, and just chuck it in the pile of currently non-functional IT kit.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Forgot a 3rd Lenovo ThinkPad X230 laptop I set aside because I couldn't be arsed to remove Supervisor password. 1. Locate U42 2. Power on 3. When ThinkPad logo appears, short top 2 left hand pins on U42 4. Enter BIOS 5. Set new / blank Supervisor password 6. Save 7. Reboot. Sorted.
Lenovo ThinkPad X230 laptop requesting supervisor password.U42 is the leftmost of the biggest ICs shown here on the Lenovo ThinkPad X230 laptop.Lenovo ThinkPad X230 laptop with U42 exposed showing BIOS screen.Lenovo ThinkPad X230 laptop booting after successful removal of BIOS password.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My other x230 suffered liquid damage a few years ago when I fell asleep while holding a can of Guinness, the contents of which ended up inside it, and that one won't even power on at all, so likely not much use as spares...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Anyone any ideas for what might be wrong with a problem with one of my Lenovo ThinkPad X230 laptop that powers up briefly - only sometimes getting as far as POST - before turning off? Ive tried a different PSU, disconnecting battery, BIoS battery, reseated cables, RAM, SSD, etc, but no joy.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
i must still be tipsy... I meant to write: Gallery 9 King Street, in Whitehaven, Cumbria / Cumberland ...
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
at the end of the quoted search query add a space followed by -ai and you will likely get the desired result. I do it with most of my searches now.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This coming week I am going to check out the art gallery called: Gallery 9 King Street, in Whitehaven, Cumbria / Cumbria, as there are some forthcoming events that sounded appealing when I was told about them last night - if only my recall worked... - so I need to go and find out what and when.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes. Unusual.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sometimes, I am really glad some food places in my hometown take euros from regulars on exceptional occasions.. and no, this is not normal, and I am grateful for the accomodation. Thankyou.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I got a bit peopled-out but and decided to go for pizza but went to The Candlestick, Whitehaven, first, for a delicious pint of Oakham Inferno before my Pizza on the way home, and caught up with friends I haven't seen in a while. A fantastic night & a reminder I love my hometown!
A pint of Oakham Inferno in The Candlestick, Whitehaven, Cumbria / Cumberland, UK.
3/10/2026.
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dejected really good tonight! - looking forward to the next band!
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Ally @ally-wallace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
also, first band on just complained about the AI poster and called it (quoting here) "Fucking shit". :)
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