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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

I think I saw someone asking recently what the next milkshake duck was going to be. Well, we've got that answer this weekend. #mullvad

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

We went out for a walk this morning after the rain, and were pleased to see a flock of house martins collecting mud from a newly formed puddle to fix up their nests.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

Thunder and rain for a bit, then 30 degrees again. All perfectly fine, nothing to worry about.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

The government could designate supermarket chilled aisles as cold places, thus dealing with the heat crisis in the same way as the cost of living.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

Birdle 🇬🇧 23/06/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Birdle United Kingdom birdle.co.uk I've been playing for a while but never got it in one before. It helped that we were at a holiday park recently where some of these were seemingly singing 24 hours a day.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

I've been to the post office to drop off an item, got enraged by the browntops parroting far right attack lines and enjoyed the delicate aroma of a hot bin truck (it would have to be general waste today). I'm back in the study with a fan rearranging air.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

[UKPol] Whoever it is who actually runs Labour have now had to bring in a leader from outside the parliamentary party twice, which may give an idea of how they view their MPs, let alone their members.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

As the billionaire executive chairman of Amazon has said that water should be rationed for human beings to feed the plagarism machine, I have finally closed my personal Amazon and AWS accounts. It's a small thing, but I can't get to his stockade to cement over his water supply. #amazon #fuckbezos

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

[UKPol] The inexorable march of Reform UK plc continues, with three Parliamentary by-elections on the same day increasing their representation by none. Long may it continue.

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Sam @sam.solent.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

📍 Solent.social is growing! 🌊 We are a self-hosted, anti-AI, pro-privacy social space dedicated to the Solent & South Coast (UK) area, full of gamers, video creators, and tech nerds. To keep our community safe and high-quality, we are Invite-Only. However, our members get fresh invite codes […]

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

The Ikea restaurant on a Tuesday evening is a manifestation of Limbo on Earth. And I don't dancing under sticks.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

Stamer's legacy is to hand over more data to the US tech duopoly, make mobile devices that don't run their operating systems effectively illegal and open the door for additional surveillance as when it is required by this and future governments. Just what the money wants. Well done everyone.

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Mx. Luna Corbden 🪿🐸 @corbden.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

I'm the spotlight this month at the Association of Ghostwriters! Check it out. I'm also on the market for work at the moment. I can write something for you to put your own name on. My last ghostwriting book is going through the publication process now. I specialize in narrative fiction and […]

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

A chap around here has two young cockerpoos. One has a harness that says 'FRIENDLY', and the other has one that says 'ANXIOUS'. I find myself wondering if he swapped them sometimes, or has others, such as 'SARCASTIC' or 'ETERNALLY OPTIMISTIC' for variety.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

I thought it might be possible to get past platforming perpetrators of genocide and enjoy the rest of the camp spectacle that is the Eurosong tonight but it's proper taken the edge off it.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026

It's all a bit of a shame, I was looking forward to finally getting the chaos with Ed Milliband we all deserve.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

Well, Laibach are making me laugh again with the new LP. I've occasionally wondered what would happen it they represented Slovenia at Eurovision and at least three tracks would do it.https://laibach.bandcamp.com/album/musick #music #laibach

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

Lidl have their own knockoff Vimto called Mixto. I humbly propose that as its name is similar to an aspect of the recording process, it's adopted as a Bonkwave beveridge. #bonkwave #vimto #notvimto

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

As I've got around to announcing it on the DeltaChat forum at last, I've set up a UK based DeltaChat server at chat.thisisyour.tech, and if you want to try it out, go ahead. #deltachat

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Well, I've just ordered a Seeed Wio L1 Pro. I sense a slippery slope ahead of me. #meshcommunication

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

@Vibracobra23 Hi Chris, quick question, how do you find eBid as a selling platform? I signed up but was a bit dubious about needing to pay to sell up front. Thanks Simon

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2026

I switched my broadband to Brsk just before they got taken over by YouFibre. The connection is fine, but if you want to see a perfect example of enshittification, have a look at their Trustpilot reviews for the last month.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

I've got @postmarketOS running with kde-plasma on my Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook. Only problem so far is that the touchpad is a bit jumpy, but I've rescued it from the ever increasing bloat of ChromeOS and it will be handy for when I don't want to carry a laptop around.

A tablet computer with keyboard on an untidy desk showing a web browser showing the PostmarketOS Wiki page for the tablet.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026

Big shout out to Proximic, presumably a commercial company selling services, that want me to disable my Adblocker before they will tell me what they do. No babes.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

Just told the young local Labour candidate that we won't be putting up a sign for the elections. He didn't seem surprised, and I do hope they're able to send a message back to Labour HQ and that someone will pay attention.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

Aldi have some Easter Walkers Sensations, chilli and chocolate flavour. i had to try them, naturally, but I don't think the world is quite ready for dessert crisps. #crisps

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

Reading a Nation.Cymru article and there's an ad for Tŵt on it. Big time! @jaz

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

Late evening thought: 'devops' increasingly means mitigating the damage that 30,000 typescript packages can do to a system. #devops #sysadminlife

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

We have been in the presence of greatness (Jim Moir at the Cartwright Hall, Bradford)

An art gallery wall with seven large paintings and three smaller ones to the left. The larger paintings are of colourful birds.

A large oil painting of a raven in shades of red. It's signed Moir ’25

A painting of a brightly coloured grotesque couple.

A page from a notebook with photographs of what seem to be a poo with a single eye on a stick, and a photograph or the artist (or possibly Mr Vic Reeves) holding said creation. A panel of notes describes the creation in a plausible and compelling way.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Idly looking for a second hand 16GB stick of RAM on eBay for the Lenovo TinyPC that runs this instance and well, that was interesting. I do have a disused laptop that could be raided, but I also hope that Sam Altman gets suffocated under a non-existent stack of silicon wafers, the grifting fuck.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Over the last few months I have been setting up my _online business presence_ and I now have a website that I'm reasonably happy with (Wordpress as I got fed up with fighting with raw CSS) so if you know of anyone who needs UK based remote Linux sysadmin support, or help with setting up web […]

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

It appears that ChatGPT uses Cloudflare workers and other dynamic DNS services to retrieve content to respond to queries - specifically images in the issue I'm looking at. Fortunately, they at least use the GPTbot user-agent for these queries, so if you were suffering from this kind of traffic […]

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

[UKPol, cynicism] The petition "Ban foreign media ownership, enact a social media levy & new regulatory" has just been launched by the Media Sovereignty Act Campaign (mediasovereignty.org). I think it deserves backing to see the debate in which Labour decide that everything is all […]

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Our next door neighbour's cherry tree is looking resplendent this morning.

A cherry tree in full blossom behind a garage with a grey, weathered corrugated roof. In the foreground, to the right are the tops of bushes.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Our six year old Samsung TVs have recently started showing one of their streaming channels in the 4000 range when switched on. It can be turned off in the settings but it just seems like yet more rent collecting. I don't want a dumb TV, just one I'm in control of.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026

I'm surprised that I've only just come across html-load.com, which appears to be yet another anti-adblocker tool. The Yorkshire Post has started using it, and it's blocked by @iode@mastodon.online. I won't be bothering with the Yorkshire Post anymore then.

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Simon Greenwood @simon.gotosocial.grnwds.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

I have a soft spot for SoulIISoul's song. This is about as live as they got too. #totp

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