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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

[Cars! They offer novel and expensive ways to be a numpty…] I loaded up my car’s boot with an old cat tree and had to drive, boot open, to the local recycling facility. I drove there slowly and safely, then relaxed when I got there, forgot I had my boot open […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

My old car, with its rear window (and wiper) completely smashed

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Would 48 cubes of storage (4x6 facing 4x4, with 4x2 on the back wall on top of a sideboard) be too many for one moderately sized room?

"It is the nineties and there is time for..." followed by a picture of an Ikea KALLAX unit. (It's a slight variation of a line from a faintly obscure video game, obviously.)

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Apparently it’s a travel agency and not, as I had assumed, an umpire at a Savannah Bananas game

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Looking for personal recommendations for paid computer repair in London (ideally east but I’ll travel). Laptop freezes at a black screen instantly when booting into Ubuntu, within 2 sec when booting into Ubuntu in recovery mode, freezes within a few sec when […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Ubuntu recovery mode freezes within 2 sec

Windows also freezes very quickly on boot up

Laptop keyboard is in terrible shape, there’s probably internal hardware damage

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

In other exciting news - far too exciting for one day - I have bought and received my work diary for the next year (or next academic year as I started work for this employer mid-year) and it turns out that this year’s colour is orange. Don’t tell the Dawgs fans.

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

And if the idea of a small, jokey and slightly sweary #EMFCamp cryptic crossword appeals to you, but it didn't cross your path, enjoy:

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

If you’d like to do something like this, though (with respect to the lovely people involved) played with a somewhat straighter metaphorical bat, and can get down to London next weekend, next week sees the 13th Transport Race: London by On Our Lines […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Except that the Natural History Museum is right next door to the Scuence Museum, and also has a moon rock on display. (In fact, I think it has two.) Ten million points, please. (…)

Us visiting (a very small part of) The Actual Moon

If the Natural History Museum say it’s the actual Moon then that’s good enough for me

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

One prompt was to devise quests for other teams to do and set the reward. Setting a quest that seemed to be impossible and which would not lead to other teams scoring points looked like the obvious play. Seemed to be. (…)

“Visit the actual moon, take a photo. 10 million XP.”

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

A favourite prompt was to find a NPC (I.e. anyone not in the game) to give us a prophecy to fulfil, and then to fulfil it. A street artist in Covent Garden devised and typed out poetry at frightening speed on a manual typewriter with great accuracy in return […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A prophecy (that we’d find a bar on the Thames and have a drink)

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

The pictured wizard is www.mairispaceship.com Nolan. Being concise to a fault, Mairi is a BNF in the UK escape room and puzzle game fandom, and *many* other things besides. Mairi designed a thoroughly delightful game for their birthday party today and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Mairi Spaceship Nolan in full boarding garb

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

One of my dearest friends said the nastiest thing about me tonight that they had ever said: the look I gave in a particular photo made me look, just a little bit, like Michael Gove. Even worse: once suggested, never unthought. He is far too close to being correct for my liking.

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

I believe I may be in arrears on paying my cat tax, and this is a photo from tonight that I particularly like:

Hamish (left) and Arlo (right) cats on the upstairs landing

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

[food] The Chick-fil-A food was authentic and as tasty as I remembered it. No ice dream, some uncertainty over the sauces, but otherwise exactly what I had hoped for. I wore my UGA shirt and nobody inside got the reference, but I did get an exceedingly rare […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Me and two friends outside the Kingston-upon-Thames Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A burgers, waffle fries, sauce pots and drinks.

Chick-fil-A in Kingston happens to be next to a pedestrian crossing that had long ago been painted with Pride stripes - now somewhat faded, but still nevertheless clear.

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

@christianp Attached is a screen grab of a bit of my latest elec bill. You’ll see a box with the letter M. Whoever you’re with there’ll be a counterpart box, which is the rota disconnections alpha identifier. I wonder if yours is the letter E and that has carried through?

Part of my elec bill, not very interesting

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

I managed to get a good niche crap pun about excellent British skeleton pilot Matt Weston, who is sliding very well, onto BBC Sport:

((Matt)) Weston has a hefty lead. He can still win if his final run is a bit of a mare. Weston just needs not to have a super mare. ((This pun has attracted ~95% thumbs up and ~5% thumbs down.)

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

COME ON BORO, COME ON BORO, WE! ARE!TOPOTHELEAGUE! I SAY WE ARE TOPOTHELEAGUE (etc.) #diasboro #youcantakethemanoutofMiddlesbroughbutyoucan’ttaketheMiddlesbroughoutoftheman

Middlesbrough has a higher proportion of neighbourhoods in the most deprived category than other towns in England

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

With the 18th and final round ending up a high score draw, the lead of 650 remains intact, and it's not a play-off year, so...

Freddie Hand wins the World Puzzle Championship, subject to ratification

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2025

#closeallthetabs - as ever, I actively invite you, please mute the hashtag unless you'd like to be an accountability buddy. A friend is staying with me this weekend for the excellent DASH 12. Their company and conversation this evening are more than worth a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Proof of £20 donation to the charity of the hated mags

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

Felt strange, might delete (at strangegamesfestival.co.uk please don't steal my cats)

Me, lying on my side, in front of a banner saying "strange games"

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

Note to self: it’s good to be prepared but I probably have enough microwave rice for now

About 2 doz mixed packs of microwave rice on a shelf, with packs of microwave pasta on a lower shelf

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025

I went to this last year and had a lot of fun - a local government-themed pseudo-LARP, board games, talks and more. This year’s event is near Bethnal Green on Saturday 12th July. There is a very clear left-wing vibe but it works perfectly well just as a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2025

#closeallthetabs - as ever, I actively invite you, please mute the hashtag unless you'd like to be an accountability buddy. Nominal start-of-2025 total: 665. End of Sunday 1/6/25: 545. Right now on Sunday 15/6/25: 587. And a couple of hours ago it was more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I am a Sunderland AFC fan, but have just made a public donation to their rivals' charity.

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2025

This is a _very_ important career thing. Need help in next 10 mins. Please leave me a voice note reference on 07934 735935 (will redact later) substituting your name and my name as appropriate into one of these templates:

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2025

@klepsydra Discourse today with one Mr. Nicholas (“Turbo”) Parish of our mutual acquaintance:

Call back to a ‘zine Sandra used to write

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2025

Always disappointing when someone parlays a respectable career like sex work into an exploitative and tawdry rent-seeking business like landlording. (No links to Associated Newspapers properties, thank you)

"I'm a middle-aged sex worker, my wrinkles have paid for eight houses", from the Metro "newspaper"

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025

@christianp No reason to stop at one cute wallpaper photo when I’m getting banger after banger today…!

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025

@christianp I hope this does it for you! It’s the latest wallpaper served up on my work laptop. Many happy returns of the day.

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2024

The image below contains symbols for three versions of the archaic Greek letter digamma, according to Wikipedia. I am tempted to stop saying "FFS" when things go wrong and start saying "digamma digamma digamma" instead, like it's the most archaic (but not anarchic) fraternity ever.

three alternate forms of the archaic Greek letter digamma, which look very much like the English letters Ffs

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2024

[The "once seen, cannot be unseen" department wishes to report a high-profile typeface crime] I quite like Formula 1, but some of the kerning on the graphics - specifically, on graphics that can be expected to be seen frequently - is needlessly rank:

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Chris D. @chrisd.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2024

So I have fulfilled a minor ambition, sincerely held for a good thirty-five years, and displayed a political sign in a window where I live. It's not a good sign - or, at least, it's very obviously very inexpertly hand-made - but a sign with a call to action […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A handmade sign in a window saying, underlined, VOTE NOW.

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