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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Just had to use a windows laptop to get access to some old data. The number of times it prompts me to use fucking OneDrive is INSANE, And my options are always "remind me later" and "no thanks" and so on. I don't want to be reminded it exists. And I wouldn't have said thanks irl. Remember when […]

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I miss the days where we had the "same as you, silly" shower memes uniting our cultures.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I've done that thing of scratching my eyeball in my sleep on some kind of polyester thread so my left eye is really blurry. Last time it took a couple of weeks to fix itself.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Waiting for my fish and chips at one of my favourite chippies by the sea. You have to treat yourself once in a while!

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

A/B testing something on my organisation's website and the code was all slopped so I said I'd check it for accessibility, etc. ended up rewriting it all only to find the testing tool strips out half the CSS and HTML - the stuff that's too new. Like last decade new. I'm having to deliberately […]

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

(subtoot) When people make those lists with "s-tier" things at the top, they sound like they're saying, "but these go up to eleven".

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Me: *presses button to sign in* Microsoft: "You might need to authenticate again if you close this browser tab." Me: ... what? I _might_? Can't you be a little more precise? Microsoft: *Benny Hill theme plays*

A plain web page containing only the message, "Authenticated. You can return to Storage Explorer. You might need to authenticate again if you close this browser fab."

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Just got the car back from its MOT, and I might get the certificate framed. It's the first one I think I've ever had that doesn't have a dozen advisories. It looks so wrong!

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

This is how the world ends &emdash; not with a bang, but with a whimper.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Actual scene from last week. Me, rehearsing what to say at the drive-through: They'll ask what your order is. Say <items>. You might have to repeat if they can't hear. Just say <items> Server: Are you using the app today? Me: I'll have a small medium chicken.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I love casseroles and the way the weather is cooling enough for them to be part of my evening. Even lunch is baked potato and it's only September. I love dumplings. &Tilly - Silly Little Pride #tonightscookingtunes because they've been getting better and better over the last few years and not […]

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

That thing where you look up your ex from decades ago and they're a right wing nutjob now

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm making a chicken and ham chow mein sort of thing. I have high hopes but am winging it as per usual. #tonightscookingtunes are from Au4 with "The Propagation of Light Through the Ether of Emotion" (massively underrated band) and EIMIC's "After Rock".

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I've hired a Man With A Van to get my stuff out of storage. Storage place is open until 1730. Person With A Vehicle is delayed now until 1830. Anxiety overflow. Everything is now calm.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Nobody can stop you from upgrading biscuits btw. You don't have to settle for the serving suggestion on the packet.

A bourbon cream biscuit with an extra layer added to make it more plush and delicious

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

If I tidy up a bit and do the boring chores I get to defragment my bookshelves as a little treat.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

#BandcampFriday again? Go on then. Told it to show me cassettes from bands in my area at random and bought three.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Making casserole but I've forgotten half the ingredients. I'll add a shit load of salt and chilli and see what happens. #tonightscookingtunes are actually my own drivel: No Sunlight by me m.soundcloud.com/moopet/no-sunlight

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No Sunlight

Stream No Sunlight by moopet on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I'm sure when Homebrew came out it called itself something like "the missing package manager for mac". I have a mac. I'm typing this message on it right now. Nowadays homebrew calls itself "the package manager for EVERYWHERE" and doesn't work on my mac because it's too old.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

"Open sourcing a project isn’t as simple as publishing a repository. We want to ensure the code is well documented, maintainable and safe to release, while protecting security-sensitive components that shouldn’t be public." This sounds like the sort of thing a corporate tool would say.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

From my bedroom window I can currently hear The Cure playing Burn.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Outside right now, there are roadworks. Later, the bulldozer will arrive to clear the last of the development site. When that leaves, the festival on the other side of the road will kick off. Looks like it's going to be another productive day in the home office!

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

[X] You have to nip it in the bud immediately. These social links come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you embed them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after a while they bring a friend. And that link is cool too. And then THEY bring friends […]

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I'm making a roux. I have a cheap Bluetooth speaker that shouts in heavily accented English that it's turned on or off. Like maximum volume regardless of my consent. Why do they make them like this? Switch track and it's BEEP at levels that could shatter a greenhouse. Also my air fryer beep […]

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Seeing people talk about an emergency notification on their phones reminds me how I have never heard one, not this time nor the various previous test ones. I don't think I know anyone personally who has received such an alert. Weird. I guess if there's a zombie outbreak one day, I'll find out on […]

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

This week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #ShadowAndLight. Light and Magic - Ladytron: ladytron.bandcamp.com/track/light-m… Of Monsters and Shadows - &Tilly x Timberley: andtilly.bandcamp.com/track/of-mons… White Light - Sidewalks and Skeletons […]

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

You can't even set a custom login wallpaper on a Mac. hahaha.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

I'm fairly certain the USA is actually just ragebait.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

@Tutanota what is up with your spam detection? It's gotten much worse over the last year or so and I have to move dozens of mails between spam and inbox every day to sort it out - but it never learns from me doing so.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

I am airside if that's the right word (th capitalist hellscape side) waiting for a delayed flight but have achieved a full breakfast with beer so I've got that going for me

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Usaians: please stop saying, "in this country" in your posts on the international fucking internet. Just stop it.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Does anyone else read "duck duck go" in the "click click boom" song voice? Just me? #lockthetaskbar

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Queuing for the fifth plane flight of my life. That's one per decade on average. Feel like a professional now I'm so good at it.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@JesseSkinner it's really good; I wish more people would write this kind of thing. It comes across as genuine rather than linkedin bullshit, too, if you were worried about that at all. No notes.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Got this non-working from Vinted. I've always wanted one. I think some of the tech from the 70s and 80s is beautiful, and the Sinclair Cambridge Universal model with its white buttons and single blue switch is both simple and absolutely gorgeous. Back when I was […] [Original post on toot.cafe]

An old Sinclair calculator, turned upside down so the display of 0.7734 appears to read, "hello"

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

@JesseSkinner it never occurred to me that process.env would be writable at all

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Maybe vampires don't have reflections because their rendering algorithm is more primitive than ours, because it predates ours.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

[Mortality] A nurse called to say my mum has a day or so left and so I'm having brunch in a station waiting for the train to connect from my plane. It feels lonely in the crowd.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

I'm on an aeroplane. This is quite a scary thing for me.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

The major difference between the 20th and 21st centuries is that, when made by a someone you don't know well, milk and sugar in your coffee used to be opt-out and now they're opt-in.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Remembering that time a drunk guy came into the shop I worked at and tried to put a bet on. When I explained that the betting shop was a couple of doors down he looked very confused for a while and then tried to order fish and chips instead.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

@reconbot old-school style communities on shared servers which run things like forums, IRC chat, blogs, space for static hosting in a geocities-style, that sort of thing, usually through ssh or a browser. There are a bunch of them - personally I use tilde.town

tilde.town

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

If I made an energy drink I'd call it Nightmare Fuel.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

@reconbot tildes are good for this sort of thing too.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Every room has a particular spot on the wall I look at when I want to know what time it is. Like, that's where the clock should be. And if I put a clock on that wall in a _different_ place, it doesn't matter, I'll still look at the "right" place first. It's the same with light switches. I've […]

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

My most recent "I recorded you!" spam is addressed to "badly-optimised primate" which I'm pretty sure is a name I've only used on Mastodon. Is nothing sacred?

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

This is the second example in the "getting started" section of Microsoft's official Power BI training. Incoherent as usual. Why would I expect anything else. And no, it's not affected by the size of the window or anything like that, it's just a mess. #uifail

A mess of a filter bar reading "Sales by" followed by up- and down-arrows and some tool icons. Whatever the rest of the title is, its text is mixed in with the tool icons and unreadable.

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moopet @moopet.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Whenever I see a picture of one of those hairless cats I wonder if my visceral reaction is what gorillas feel when they see a human.

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