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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 14/09/2026

Very annoying when a cassette decides it doesn't want to play any more. Oh well, at least it's a mass-produced one this time and not an Esperanto one where there might not even be any other copies anywhere in the world to replace it with!

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lipamanka from toki pona @lipamanka.gay · 07/09/2026

New video! youtu.be/nFSaRjW7woY Please participate in the study please I want them to have as much data as possible so we can learn about Toki Pona vowels

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Exciting new research on Toki Pona vowels!!

YouTube video by lipamanka

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 05/09/2026

A short piece on some group research done the other day on Bluesky, about BBC2, snooker, and Red Dwarf. www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/09/a-gi...

Coverage of the snooker, with the caption:
Red Dwarf will follow this Final

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Áine ní Donnghaile 🍃🌳 ⚾ 🫖 💙☘ 🍷💉🌊 @ainedonnghaile.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#Genearosity #FamilyHistory #Genealogy I'm back at my #FamilySearch Affiliate Library for a few hours this afternoon (Saturday, 5 Sep) if any genie needs a limited-access record copy. #PayItForward #SpreadTheWord

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David Parlett @dparlett.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I invented a fairy chess piece that can move to any square to which it could not legally move if it were any other chess piece. I called it a Joker, but I now think Cat would be better.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 23/08/2026

Does anybody know what happened to Gravestone Photographic Resource (gravestonephotos.com)? It was an incredibly useful site but seems to have been down for at least a couple of months now. :( #genealogy

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 18/08/2026

Evening all, #AncestryHour! Today I've been going through my genealogy database to try to weed out entries where I'd marked an occupation or place as illegible. About half of them I managed to figure out what they actually said, and most of the rest are genuinely not readable at all.

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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Benefits of learning to play the recorder: If you know "Stairway to Heaven" you will attract guitar players who will come up and ask you to jam. 🎶

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John J. Hoare @dirtyfeed.org · 14/08/2026

Here is a comparison of how Red Dwarf, “Holoship” was first introduced back in 1992 on BBC Two network, and how network, Wales and NI introduced it last night. Forgive my poor editing done at 2am.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 13/08/2026

Good evening #GenHour! I've not got much genealogy news to report this week, but a friend found my name on a gravestone about 35 miles away from where I live. Unfortunately the rest of the stone is hard to read, so we're not sure when he died - and I can't find him in the parish burial register!

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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

#genealogy Important 🧵on tracing facts back to their original sources. Please read. It's so easy to fall into the "so many trees say this, it must be true!" trap.

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The TV Room @thetvroom.com · 12/08/2026

🟥 REWIND | Full marks to BBC Northern Ireland Presentation tonight. Announcer: David Gordon.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 08/08/2026

Today's #genealogy finding: William Nicks married Mary Baker. Their son William Nicks married Mary's niece (his first cousin), also called Mary Baker.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 02/08/2026

Antaŭ 100 jaroj hodiaŭ aperis la unuaj diskoj de Esperanto-muziko! Legu pli ĉe mia blogo: eomuziko.com/eo/posts/100... 100 years ago today, the first ever Esperanto music records were released! Read more on my blog: eomuziko.com/en/posts/100... #Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko #MusicHistory

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100 Jaroj de Esperanto-Muziko

Hodiaŭ, la 2-a de aŭgusto 2026, estas ekzakte cent jaroj post la eldono de la plej fruaj muzikaj diskoj en Esperanto: kompleto de du ŝelakaj 78t/m gramofondiskoj, el kiu unu enhavas du versiojn de La ...

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 31/07/2026

Help please - do I know anyone who's good at coming up with names for things? I have a business idea and I'm struggling to find a good name for it!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 30/07/2026

What's the best practice for recording French republican calendar dates? GRAMPS will accept them and sorts them properly, so should I just enter them as in the record, or convert them to Gregorian? Or maybe put the Gregorian date in the event description for easy reference? #GenHour

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 30/07/2026

This week I found out that FamilySearch has searchable indexes of French BMD records, which makes that part of my extended tree a lot easier than the last time I tried! The transcribed dates are often slightly wrong though, so worth battling through the old French handwriting nonetheless. #GenHour

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 30/07/2026

I still wouldn't be born yet. But in 1926 my great grandfathers were an ironmonger, an inspector in the fire brigade, the manager of a gentlemen's outfitter and a farm labourer.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 26/07/2026

This record was recorded exactly 100 years ago today. With another disc of "La Espero", it was the first ever released record of Esperanto music. More info: eomuziko.com/en/posts/esp... - another post will follow to mark 100 years after the release date (next Sunday) #Esperanto

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 26/07/2026

Tiu ĉi disko estis registrita antaŭ ekzakte 100 jaroj hodiaŭ. Kun alia disko de "La Espero", ĝi estis la plej frue eldonita disko de Esperanto-muziko. Pliaj informoj: eomuziko.com/eo/posts/esp... - sekvos plia artikolo por festi la 100-jariĝon de la eldondato (venontan dimanĉon) #Esperanto

Disko sur gramofono - Esperinst: La Tagiĝo kantita de Maurits Boeren.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 23/07/2026

Looking forward to this! Just got to record my two talks first!

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Simon Alvey @salvey1.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Amazing fact Santon Downham in Suffolk is the location of both the highest and lowest ever June temperatures en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santon_...

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Santon Downham - Wikipedia

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Dai Davies of GenealCymru @genealcymru.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A fun feature of doing #Welsh #Genealogy is that, no matter what you do, your work is always considered "too Welsh." I gave a talk once & was told I "used a lot of Welsh words" [pejorative]. How many did I use? 1 single place name. I spend an hour talking abt English culture of family 1/

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 28/05/2026

Getting ImageMagick to do what I want can be exasperating at times, but it's very satisfying once it works!

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 13/05/2026

Bonega novaĵo! Mi atendas senpacience!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/05/2026

Political nerds, I made a thing! How well do you know the UK electoral map? Could you find ten constituencies, picked at random? Test yourself! play.jmoxley.co.uk

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ConstituencyClick

Can you find ten UK parliamentary constituencies on a map? Click inside for full marks.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 05/05/2026

I spoke at this two years ago and would highly recommend it to anyone who's considering taking part. The only reason I won't be submitting anything this year is that I'm now over the age limit!

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Martin Wiese @martinwiese.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A song I wrote (first in a long while not in esperanto) and recorded together with my incredible daughter Inez youtu.be/aNYBNjmDesM?...

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The Lighthouse

YouTube video by Martin Wiese

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cupofmin @cupofmin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#repostyourart day 6: bird 🌿

Bookmark shaped like a teabag, with a magpie embroidered on it.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 11/04/2026

Does anybody recognise this melody please? The lyrics were written ca 1928 to an existing tune - the sheet music says it is a "German folk melody", but a record that it appeared on described it as "music by Schubert". Source and MIDI file: kantaro.ikso.net/samideana_tr...

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 10/04/2026

I'm not sure if any of my ancestors wrote poetry, but at least two had poems written about them! Henry Preece, my 4th great uncle - familytree.thomaspreece.net/public/ppl/e... (citation 5a) Trevor Meyrick Preece, my 2nd great uncle - familytree.thomaspreece.net/public/ppl/b... (citation 14a)

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 09/03/2026

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 05/03/2026

A selection of my classical arrangements for ukulele solos and ensembles. All available as printed books or pay-what-you-like ebooks from preecemusic.com #ukulele #music #classicalmusic #arrangement #ukuleleensemble #ukulelegroup #soloukulele #ebook #ebooks #musicbook #sheetmusic

Eight sheet music books on a wooden table. The book covers are pastel colours - yellow, green and pink, and have line art illustrations of ukuleles.

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 25/02/2026

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 01/01/2026

2026 estas aparte grava jaro por Esperanto-muziko, ĉar okazos la centjara jubileo de la unuaj diskoj en la lingvo. Mia antaŭa artikolo diras ke ili probable estas la plej fruaj; post plia esplorado mi nun povas klarigi, ke ili tio ja estas. eomuziko.com/eo/posts/esp... #Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko

Disko sur gramofono - Esperinst; La Tagiĝo. Muziko: Baranski. Vortoj: Grabowski. Solvoĉa aranĝo kantita en London de Maurits Boeren el Antverpeno.

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eriketo.bsky.social @eriketo.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Rubekoloj estas foje maltimemaj kaj scivolemaj birdoj.

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ZXGuesser @zxguesser.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

This isn't news to regular users of my online teletext viewer as it's been online for ages, but one of the channels has a service from this evening 40 years ago. This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...

Ceefax index page from the 28th of December 1985

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 25/12/2025

Happy 175th wedding anniversary to my 3rd great grandparents John and Maria Lake! And also happy anniversary to my other 3rd great grandparents John and Mary Griffiths (152 years), and at least 18 other couples in my family tree. #genealogy #FamilyHistory

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

We looked it up and learned that humbug was a word the kids made up in the 1750s so essentially what Scrooge was saying was “Bah, 6-7”

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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Have a wild article about the history of bird names in English, and just wait until you get to the kestrel... weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/how-birds-...

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How birds got human names

Magpie is short for "Margaret Pie" and I swear I'm not even joking

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 21/12/2025

Nove ĉe mia blogo Esperanto-Muziko: Historio - Kristnaskaj Kantoj: pri la malfacilaĵoj rilate al traduko de kristnaskaj muziko en Esperanton, kaj superrigardo de kristnaskaj albumoj en la lingvo eomuziko.com/eo/posts/kri... #Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko #Kristnasko #KristnaskaMuziko

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Kristnaskaj Kantoj

Esperanto-muziko havas longan tradicion de tradukitaj popolaj kaj tradiciaj kantoj, ekde la plej fruaj tagoj de la Movado. Preskaŭ ĉiu eŭropa lando havas siajn proprajn kristnaskajn kantojn, kaj do se...

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Thomas Preece @thomaspreece.net · 21/12/2025

New on my Esperanto Music History blog - Christmas Songs: the challenges of translating Christmas music into Esperanto, and a look at what Christmas music has been released in the language eomuziko.com/en/posts/chr... #Esperanto #Christmas #ChristmasMusic

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Christmas Songs

Esperanto music has a long tradition of translated folk and traditional songs, going back to the earliest days of the Movado. As just about every European country has its own distinctive Christmas son...

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