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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Nothing quite as bold as a cover band doing Bo Rap at the Queen Fan Club Convention

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Watching a bunch of people trying to get up a greasy pole in Plymouth

A man running up a greased mast which is sticking out over the water at a marina. He’s most of the way to the flag at the end and reaching for it.

The same man falling from the end of the mast but with the flag, success!

A man in the process of falling off the mast, about a third of the way along

A man falling off the mast barely in frame, poor effort

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Birmingham New Street travel update: boned

Train departure boards which just say “no trains are departing until further notice due to signalling problems, please wait on the concourse”

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Seeing a bunch of iLands stuff on the introduction hashtag, which if nothing else is a good way to find them to block.

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Hotel has a control to change the dimensions of the bathroom!

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Special guest appearance for #caturday while visiting friends in Norway #kattdag?

A black and white cat laying on a grey rug looking up at the camera. He has black toe beans against white fur

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

I’m old enough to remember when “larger items” that had to go in the overhead bins were backpacks

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Andrea Zanin @andreazanin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

TIL: Québec has a strategy called Stratégie nationale d'achat d'aliments québécois (provincial strategy for the purchase of Québec foods). Abbreviation: SNAAQ. I can't tell if this is the funniest random coincidence ever, or the work of a bilingual public servant with an excellent sense of humour.

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

@marcoarment loving the app so far btw :) could I request a “this evening” bubble for the timing? I end up thinking of a lot of things I need to do after work and I WFH so the location-based option doesn’t help there because I don’t “go home”

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

@marcoarment is there a way to skip this parsing? I don’t want the reminder next thu, I need to do it today! I added quotes around it and that kind of worked - now I have a reminder entry with the quotes :D

Creating a reminder with text “Book hotel for next Thursday” but it’s been parsed as “Book hotel” which a due date of next Thursday

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Super impressed with customer service from Focusrite! Four years ago I bought one of their kits of USB DAC, microphone and headphones (Scarlett Solo) and noticed last week the ear cups on the headphones were starting to fall apart. Opened a support ticket with them asking if they sold […]

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

FFS someone on the edge of Frome is having a bonfire in a field (seen from train)

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Walking round Exeter city centre seeing nostalgic sights, such as: the hidden cash machine handy on the way to a night out; the house where a friend hit himself in the face trying out nunchucks; the shop we used to buy computer parts from; the pub to go in to get beaten up. Good times.

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Saw a car in Exeter with an “AJK” personalised plate, are you visiting? :)

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Migrated my mastodon server's data disk to ZFS (which is to say, created a new volume and copied everything over) since the original was running low on space anyway. If you can't see this, it broke. #FreeBSD #zfs

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

Yikes accidentally browsed a Fandom wiki with js enabled

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@lapcatsoftware went looking for a little tool to let me pick which browser to open a link in and found that Link Unshortner could do it, so users += 1 :) (I'd love to be able to distinguish between LibreWolf profiles in the list)

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Four copies of the alert so far (two per SIM?)

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

“Disposable barbecues” isn’t an activity, it’s a noun, idiots

Severe Alert
Issued by the UK Government
1m ago
There is a very high risk of wildfires nationally.
Residents, landowners and visitors should not
undertake any activity that could start a fire, including
disposable barbecues, firepits, garden incinerators or
fireworks. Even a small flame can rapidly develop into
a major wildfire placing lives, homes, businesses and
emergency responders at risk.
Follow official updates and report signs of fire
immediately by calling 999. Search gov.uk/alerts for
more information.

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

I had a look at the pkg caching thing and it is just an nginx configuration file.

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

Did the initial problems with AppleCare One get sorted out? It’s being suggested to me as a way to save money across my existing ApplesCare which seems reasonable if it’s actually safe now

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

RE: topspicy.social/@yesterzine/1170548… I have held this device, but it was best for everyone that I did not sign it

topspicy.social

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

[Cats :(] Made myself sad realising that the jumper I’m wearing today (air conditioned train/office) is covered in Tails fluff

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

I saw that Michael J Fox in the garden centre the other day. At least I think it was him - he had his back to the fuschia.

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Successfully pkgbasified my laptop and one host in the homelab :) (Plus one host in the homelab was installed that way to start with.) And got my Pi2 upgraded to NetBSD 11 \o/ #FreeBSD #NetBSD

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James Seward @jamesoff.mastodon.jamesoff.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

What is this?? Some water is falling from the sky

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