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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

Had a fantastic and totally chaotic game of #gaslands today. I won thanks to being the fluke last survivor of a chain wrecksplosion. Lesson learned - a larger track is probably faster to finish due to less collisions!

Starting grid of diecast post-apocalyptic battle cars, featuring: Routemaster bus, spiky green car, blue-green 50's ish saloon, Jeep on top of tank tracks, blonde haired rocker riding atop a car with excessive numbers of speakers, yellow old-timey flatbed truck and narwhal horned 30's delivery van.

More diecast car chaos halfway through round one when things have already gone wrong for several of the vehicles.

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Julian D 🏳️‍🌈 #FBPE #RejoinEU @julius-vd.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

💫 Wake up, #EUROPE! For the sake of freedom and stability, the UK must stand with Europe. Let's commit to a European future and secure our place in the world. #ReJoinEU #FreedomAndStability

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Google Maps is really bad with any location that is a 1D line rather than a 0D point. If I search for a road, a path or a river I want to see the whole thing, not a point somewhere near its centre. Any alternatives that handle this better? #maps # googlemaps

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

@pikesley I would rate such statements on about the same level as those preceded by "A bloke down the pub reckons that..."

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

Random game screenshot from my phone from 2018. I think it was meant to be #vgadvice but no idea what the game is

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

The "year of expiry" years when entering credit card details are now so absurdly futuristic sounding that its really beginning to confuse me

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Mark Burton @markhburton.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

I came across an insult in Spanish, calling someone "the bloke who holds the basin for the brothel clients to wash their genitals". That's this man. Starmer won't be drawn on whether US strikes on Venezuela broke international law - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4qgvw…

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

#ttrpg Looking for a good ttrpg for a 9yo who wants to try their hand at DMing for the first time. A high-magic fantasy theme would probably go down well.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/12/2025

Had a mad dream where I stayed the night in a big Airbnb with my extended family. There was a weird review that just said "Good burping atmosphere" with a positive rating, which we found both cryptic and amusing. The entire trip was then absorbed by us discussing what was meant by a good burping […]

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

I watched the 1999 Patrick Stewart _A Christmas Carol_ last night and spotted the topical 90s joke that the writers slipped in. In the original, Scrooge attributes seeing Marley's ghost to "an undigested piece of beef." In this one it is "a piece of British beef."

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

Replacing right wing stickers in my area with these

Closeup photo of the corner of a "CYCLISTS DISMOUNT" sign. On the sign is a sticker of a very cute anthropomorphic cup of boba tea.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

@FlockOfCats people who prefer Monday as day 0 will have to wait till 2027

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Where does Harry Hill buy his shirts? This isn't the set up for a joke, I actually want to know.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Interestingly, the OSA debate has been listed as normal, which begs the question why is the Digital ID debate being hidden?

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025

The UK Government hid the live stream of the e-petition debate on Digital ID on its YouTube channel (it is an 'Unlisted' video) making it much harder for people to find. This evening is the debate on the Online Safety Act. Will they do the same to this one? […]

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

If it *is* a #farright / #fascist symbol I will report it to the Council and hopefully they can take the lot down. Many of the accompanying flags are 'Support are troops'-type non-standard flags which look particularly tacky.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

Can anyone help identify this #flag that #flaggers have put up near #Oxford? It's a red dragon with large wings on a dark green background with a horizontal white stripe. The dragon looks more like a 'fantasy' dragon than the Welsh dragon. It isn't any […] [Original post on cupoftea.social]

A photo of a flag flying from a lamp post below the St. George cross. The flag has a red dragon with large wings on a dark green background with a horizontal white stripe.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 5th 2025 (Hard), in less than 7 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/12/2025

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Dec 3rd 2025 (Tricky), in less than 8 minutes 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

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Clues by Sam

A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

"Apt." is a song by New Zealand and South Korean singer Rosé and American musician Bruno Mars about installing and managing software packages in Ubuntu.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Having browser-hopped a few times over the years and never worried too much about tidying up my bookmarks menu, it now looks something like this. #webbrowser #firefox #vivaldi #chrome

Screenshot of a web browser bookmark menu showing many nested folders.
Get started | Vivaldi Browser
Imported from Firefox
> Imported from Opera
>> Bookmarks
>> Imported from Chrome
>>> Imported from Firefox
>>>> Bookmarks
>>>> Imported from IE
>>> Imported from IE
>>> Bookmarks
> Imported from Chrome
> Imported from Edge
> Bookmarks
toolbar

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

Why? It's a perfect example of software doing something that me the user didn't ask for for the benefit of the software creator/distributor.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

Amidst all the AI and other general badness, this might actually be the thing to push me over the edge. #firefox

Screenshot. "Sent from Firefox (fox emoji)" at the end of a WhatsApp message.

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

I was reading someone talk about the difference between an academic ML conference and a hypey industry AI conference and they said ‘it’s like the difference between chemistry and alchemy. Or between astronomy and astrology.’ I really like that

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

Steam Frame - I think this is the one. I've had my eye on VR since around the time of the original Oculus Rift but was never fully convinced that the technology was quite there. The bulk, the heavy cables and the base stations of older devices are now all gone. The specs of the Frame look good […]

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

It wasn't too painful in the end. We shared agreement about how awful modern tech is. My Dad remarked "You are a lot younger than I was when I got that way".

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

Helping my parents set up a new smart TV. Pray for me.

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 07/11/2025

Now in detailed Black and White: The #Trump administration is blackmailing other countries to actively destroy the environment at the behest of the US oil industry. There is no sugarcoating it. Evil seems a fitting adjective. #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen

An ambassador from Asia was told that, if he voted in favor of the plan, his country’s sailors would no longer be allowed to disembark at American ports. Caribbean diplomats were told that they could be blacklisted from entering the United States. And Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties and other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship pollution.

These and other threats, including tariffs, sanctions and the revocation of diplomats’ U.S. visas, effectively killed the deal, according to the nine American, European and developing-nation diplomats directly involved in the negotiations. They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Had a dream last night where I dug out my (entirely imagined) early 00's wrist-mounted computer/PDA thing. Weird nostalgia for a past that never was. #retrocomputing

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

LB: remembered that I'm giving away advertising space for free PURELY BECAUSE THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WANT TO CHARGE LOADS OF MONEY FOR IT, please give me your 468x60 pixel non-animated banner for your hobby website or small (small!) business. Make it colourful and cool looking like […]

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/10/2025

Finally, someone is saying it. 🔴 NEW: "The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame as the man who delivered Brexit with 'easy sloganeering' then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards."

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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2025

Independent washing machine repairer reveals shocking scam where machines count how many washes they’ve done before going irreparably useless. Last December I had to buy a new washing machine for my tenants and the salesman in Curry’s said outright they only last seven years these days. My own […]

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Alternate timeline where instead of making the Star Wars original trilogy Special Editions, George Lucas made the prequel trilogy using only 1980s practical effects, puppets, etc.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

I have also seen an equal number of "Farage is a conman" stickers so its not all bad.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

I've seen a few Reform-ish stickers up around the local area recently. I just ordered a sheet of cute milkshake stickers to put over them. I hope people will appreciate the joke. #reformuk #AntiFascist #Farage

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

I now assume that the avalanche of "journalism" "covering" Amazon "deals" on "Prime Days" is almost entirely a revenue generator for the "news" organizations, via commission links. I canceled Amazon Prime. Consider doing the same.

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2025

The bracket holding up the rail in my wife's wardrobe broke today so I am firing up FreeCAD and my 3d printer to model and print a replacement bracket. I'm appreciating having the opportunity to demonstrate that 3d printing has useful applications and isn't just for making little toy guns and […]

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

@chemoelectric ...and left/right represent inversion of the angle or are they independent?

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

@chemoelectric Harsh words but fair I suppose. I'm sure you will agree that getting people to reject orthodoxy is not an easy task. I am still interested in the idea of equivalence between quantum and classical experiments and I plan to look at your "Craitons" at some point. For now I'm still […]

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magnetichuman @magnetichuman.cupoftea.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

Long bet: Within the next 5 years, a country currently within the EU or Five Eyes will pass legislation to restrict the use of VPNs for personal use; either requiring linking VPN accounts with official ID, requiring VPN providers to monitor and store user usage data, or blocking their use […]

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