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Mannin based musical human creator/dismantler of things. rambling and generally being sceptical about nonsense. soundcloud.com/ingie #music, #languages, #scienceystuff, #programming, #arduino, #gaelg (manx) often humorous, naturally #autistic

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'ingie @ingie.com · 19/05/2026
Cha row fys aym my-chione y lioar shoh hannah, T'eh jeaghyn yindyssagh! She orryms dy chionnaghey eh nish gyn ourys! #gv [ not was knowledge at-me about the book here before, [is]'it looks wonderful. tis upon-me to buy it now without doubt ]
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'ingie @ingie.com · 19/05/2026
Woh woh oo-ooh Camouflage Things are never quite the way they seem
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'ingie @ingie.com · 17/05/2026
🎵 I am the little dead router, too lazy to packet forward, hey I am the little dead router, too lazy to packet forward, hey Sending everything to local, subnet in every way... 🎵
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'ingie @ingie.com · 17/05/2026
it's ironic that only yesterday i created a bitlocker account just to learn the api conversation for work
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'ingie @ingie.com · 17/05/2026
"... Aaaaand iiiin the much redder corner, we have..."
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'ingie @ingie.com · 17/05/2026
"can you put 'Lemon Clock' on it?" "no, I can put Lemon Clock instructions on it, it's not a Lemon Clock" "just put 'Lemon Clock' on it" "no, I can put Lemon Clock instructions on it, it's not a Lemon Clock" "look" "no, you look" this went on for some time, i imagine
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'ingie @ingie.com · 17/05/2026
additionally, I want to shake the hand of the graphic designer of the guide for /probably/ being autistic and or for having issues with the remit, as well they should :)
photo of front page of an instruction leaflet for a Science Museum branded lemon clock project kit... at the top right, the branding "Science Museum", in the centre left: Lemon Clock* [asterisk suffixed on the leaflet]
in grey in the bottom left in a smaller typeface: *instructions
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'ingie @ingie.com · 17/05/2026
A friend randomly brought round a single lemon yesterday while out walking through town in the rain... so today I got a spare lemon electricity kit out of a kitchen cupboard to use... All i can say is, if life gives you lemons, ... make sure life gives you enough lemons.
photo of a page from a leaflet/guide book on how to use a kit for making a lemon clock or a LED illuminated by lemons, describing how to use 3 lemons in series and 6 electrodes to create enough voltage for an LED.

item 49 in the guide. "Join up the wires as shown"

[fig depicting 3 lemons in series, with zinc and copper electrodes in the first two lemons, and brass/aluminium in the third lemon - the wire links them in a series of "LED-wire-zinc-lemon-copper-wire-zinc-lemon-copper-wire-brass-lemon-aluminium-LED" ]

item 50 in the guide.

"The LED will light up using the power of lemon juice."
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'ingie @ingie.com · 14/05/2026
I think of the Daoist tale of Yúgōng Yíshān, and usually in the form of this adaptation and tune by Banco de Gaia www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFCB...
Spoken word opening from Banco De Gaia China (Clouds not Mountains) taken from the story of Yúgōng Yíshān:
A long, long time ago
There was an old man with his children
Living in a mountain village
They lived a very happy life
With only one big problem
They had to climb over a big mountain to go to the field every day
So one day, the old man decided to move the mountain
With his children they began chipping away pieces of rocks
Every day at the foot of the mountain
Wise men passed by and asked him
"How can you possibly think you can move the mountain?"
The old man said, "Probably I won't"
"But you see, I have children, My children will have children.
And they will continue. And the mountain will be moved"
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/05/2026
Next up, from croydon i think despite the name, it's The Dogs of Chernobyl
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/05/2026
dunno if the man is guily or not, but Andrew is indeed threatening. Strange the man had to make the plea to him though.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/05/2026
I have at least one question.
bbc website "wales region" photo and headline; In the photo, an orangutan on a forest decking area leans in toward a red haired woman in a white dress kneeling down holding its hand, the orangutan seems to have dreadlocked hair. The headline under the photo reads "Nationwide cashier jailed after stealing from vulnerable customers to fund luxury holidays"
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/05/2026
thanks ants, thants!
face of Peter Serafinowicz, from Look Around You, spoof science innovation programme.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 06/05/2026
🎵 I'm engine, all the people.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 06/05/2026
🎵🎵 I was trapped in love with you And I didn't know what to do.... But when I turned on my ra-di-o.... I found out all I needed to know Check it out !
BBC Headline "Removing 30% of my penis saved my life"
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'ingie @ingie.com · 06/05/2026
You mean the tax dodging gammony misogynist who when questioned by Caroline Lucas on BBC Question Time about the validity of FPTP, shouted "shut up woman" to her face... He's a prime asshole if you ask me, hope he has a shit day.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 05/05/2026
a scion, rampant.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 05/05/2026
I have pointed like this, many times. I'd have fought for the window seat - and he's going to slide off round that s-bend coming up if they don't stop pointing and hold onto the rail. these days tis sad that buses on the routes I use are oft now single-deckers, and have no similar seat.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 05/05/2026
ah yes! and hope they don't look at the same time... or if feeling really brave, poke tickets through the gap under the perspex :D
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'ingie @ingie.com · 05/05/2026
aside: I wish for the day the BBC stops posting "Bod who owns a video camera, did a thing" as Tech news Folk being able to broadcast video, or to computer-game hasn't been tech news for yonks, BBC; it's "celebrity news" or "news" It's as if they're baffled by that use of the middle "B" in BBC
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'ingie @ingie.com · 04/05/2026
Bad news for the petrosausage industry.
BBC News Website headline screenshot "Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels"
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'ingie @ingie.com · 03/05/2026
Phillips is the worst of people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie...
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Melanie Phillips - Wikipedia
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Reverend Chapman @wadatahmydamie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
If your business has a website, you may want to have an app developed. Here’s a quick guide on how to make that decision: Does your website function? If the answer is yes, don’t release an app. If the answer is no, fix your website and don’t release an app.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 03/05/2026
[with this being a radio play, they somewhat undermined the joke by pronouncing perfectly it in the narration, but it always makes me laugh as a line :)] aside, the Centre For Alternative Technology is there isn't it? that's a fab place..must be 20 years since I was there when visiting UK once
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'ingie @ingie.com · 03/05/2026
I remember hearing a radio 4 play one afternoon, where the Victorian high society rail travelling era protagonist was writing a missive home, where the narration read; "I have just been to Machynlleth, a beautiful place. However, no one should make any attempt at its pronunciation until my return"
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'ingie @ingie.com · 01/05/2026
Eat your elf fitter.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 30/04/2026
condominium. /ˌkɒn.dəˈmɪn.i.əm/, (n); material used in the manufacture of robot prophylactics
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'ingie @ingie.com · 29/04/2026
this would arguably make sense if it were on an mooted Lancashire railway platform :)
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'ingie @ingie.com · 29/04/2026
can't tell what socks he's wearing.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 26/04/2026
If you really followed this path, you'd use alt text.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 15/04/2026
"Fish out of water" films would seem a lot less light hearted if framed instead as "Monkey being drowned" films.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 14/04/2026
"Airplane bing-bongs, in my opinion, demonstrate the amazing things we could be doing with careful and intentional sound design if we only wanted to"~ @techconnectify.bsky.social as a person who'd spend hrs crafting a boop for a local error, I applaud this message. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXdV...
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The disappearing and unappreciated art of audible alerts
YouTube video by Technology Connections
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'ingie @ingie.com · 13/04/2026
Science Officer's Log, Stardate 51242.3 Still no logical explanation back from IT as to why I have to tell the computer what date it is. Procedures say it's for verification, but I have no clue what day it is DUE TO BEING IN SPACE so have to look the date up every time using another computer.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 12/04/2026
Most of my unflagged spam is dmarc reports about flagged spam.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 12/04/2026
You know what they say; You can't make a Champie without a ham pie...
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'ingie @ingie.com · 12/04/2026
Have you seen the film Phase IV? isn't quite Look Around You, but it gets pretty strange [this trailer doesn't really do the soundtrack itself justice, but the film is worth noting in your copy book] The miniature photography of ants v synths is perfect! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT__...
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Phase IV (1974) [Vinegar Syndrome 4K UHD + Blu-ray Promo Trailer]
YouTube video by Vinegar Syndrome
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'ingie @ingie.com · 11/04/2026
and Gentlemen take Polaroids.... wait, sorry, I'm at the wrong gig...
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'ingie @ingie.com · 11/04/2026
indeed. I wouldn't hate on a reboot of Grange Hill because it reminded me of the Thatcher era... ... actually... forget I said that ... no, yeah, totally :) or even more; looking over at someone's else's table in the restaurant and saying to them "you shouldn't eat that, i don't like olives"
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'ingie @ingie.com · 11/04/2026
I think ultimately many of such critiques are also generally "Why isn't this postman pat reboot as much fun as when i was 5? This isn't the gritty reboot we campaigned for, this is dumbed down and focuses too much on the DEI cat and whoever that new woman character is ~ signed A. Grown Man."
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DIMORPHODONS @dimorphodons.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
There’s a lot to be said for just enjoying something, or not, then trying something else.
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K.J. Elphinstone @neurofabulous.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So what's at stake here? When autistic people are reframed as confused, over-identifying, or ‘just struggling’, credibility and advocacy are undermined. And it gets overlooked (conveniently) that autism describes a distinct neurotype - even if environment shapes how disabling it is. 10/11
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K.J. Elphinstone @neurofabulous.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It’s like sweeping a metal detector across a beach and concluding that the beach is made of metal. Of course that's what you'll find – as metal is the only thing the instrument detects. That doesn't mean there’s no beach. #Autism #Diagnosis 6/11
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'ingie @ingie.com · 10/04/2026
did you just say they sold musical padded envelopes? if so, i want a musical padded envelope :D
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'ingie @ingie.com · 10/04/2026
...while my Tsar gently weeps.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 09/04/2026
i get bogged down when considering the recursion properties of history documentarians saying "and the rest, as they say, is history" when it's them saying it, and they're literally writing history whilst saying it; so the rest, as they say, they say, is they the historians say, history of the...
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/04/2026
I'm sorry that you feel that your experience is 10% not as good, I believe you're on our "free tier". If you switch to our premium tier with yearly renewal we guarantee you at least 5% not quite as good. I know that sounds like it's too good to be true, but with New Product - Everyone's a winner!
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/04/2026
New! From The Company that brought you Original Product, We bring you - New Product*. *Guaranteed Slightly Different.
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/04/2026
[ admittedly, i'm going from absurdism to stark reality there ... and with hand wavey quotes around the equivalence :) - but, it's interesting psychologically, in a genuine sense to me... is camera blur from a slow panned lens == a roland space echo ]
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/04/2026
this post was music to my ears! then I realised I was reading - so it'd be music to my eyes, but my eyes are deaf... so I'm afraid this message has fallen on deaf eyes. but then I thought; is a really good photo of an SUV, "artistically equivalent" to a really good [tape] recording of an SUV?
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'ingie @ingie.com · 08/04/2026
In the olden days this is the point we'd hear about a Great Wedding to take place between Barron von Troomp and a forgotten exiled daughter of Khamenei. A bless`ed union of 2 grea.. erm... of 2 houses, where the new queen might guide the Barron about - well, anything, I guess; the sky, how to eat...
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