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Token Sane Person @tokensane.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10h

@TimWardCam @FSonder The marketing is key. Not just because it gets your book in front of potential readers, but because it acts as an unforgeable signal that someone other than the author thinks that this book is saleable, and therefore probably worth reading.

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 16h

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

WTF? Chrome updated itself an hour or so ago, and just now everything that used to be white (except for the background of the hamburger menu, which remains white) has gone pale yellow???

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Mastodon Engineering @mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

We are aware of an ongoing wave of subscription spam throughout the fediverse. We are investigating avenues to mitigate this, but they will likely involve deep changes in the sign-up flow that may break sign-up from existing applications. In the meantime, you can find helpful resources at […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

You buy various things from a retailer, then you get an email inviting you to give a review. Without saying which of your several, completely different, purchases they want reviewed. Pointless. How on earth anyone managed to "design" such a process ...

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fantastic news Latest records show that #RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history. Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The verdict is in. A new mega poll by YouGov reveals that an overwhelming majority of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. Only 4 constituencies were not sure. It’s time to put EU membership on the table. #RejoinEU bestforbritain.org/uk-membershi...

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

So I've found out why one of my automations dealing with an Octopus Saving Session hasn't been doing what I expected, when it worked fine last winter. This'll be due to Saving Sessions now occurring in the summer, not just the winter, and my code having a time zone bug ... #HomeAssistant […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Looks like it was a bog standard multithreading bug and not a Russian attack this time. www.nats.aero/wp-content/uploads/20…

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

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Kevin Leecaster @greenfire.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

If the American electorate is stupid enough (quite possible I'll point) to allow Republicans to retain control of Congress and they do send out those $5,000 checks, if you cash it you'll be sent to jail after/if Democrats retake power over our Department of Justice btw.

18 U.S. Code § 597 - Expenditures to influence voting

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Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate; and
Whoever solicits, accepts, or receives any such expenditure in consideration of his vote or the withholding of his vote—Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was
willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

I have only just learned that Arthur C Clarke invented (as well as communications satellites and his many other inventions) modern LLM text generators. The story is The Steam-powered Word Processor, 1986, and includes: A vicar bored with writing sermons, which he realised consisted of subsets […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Let me see if I've remembered this right. It *is* Travelodge, isn't it, who * charge extra for wi-fi * which doesn't work * and won't refund at the hotel * instead insisting on you doing months of hoop-jumping to get the money back from head office?

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Should my web site block access by user agent "feroxbuster", on the grounds that it's not a real person wanting to do something real, and then blacklist the IP address to block the follow-up probes for weird files with a different user agent, or isn't it worth the effort because they'll soon fix […]

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

@TimWardCam The USA being isolated is a most wonderful prospect, for which the vile Trump will nonetheless deserve much praise. Sadly, I fear that the isolation will be like his ballroom: incomplete. How can we persuade him to close all the US bases and unplug Murica from the onterwebs? @jbond

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Oh look, a new prime minister who promised devolution is actually delivering centralisation. As expected. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8m0gx…

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

OK, so it's taken me a while to work out the motivation for the American anti-vaxxer movement - the American health "care" industry makes far more money from treating a person with a disease than from just selling them a dose of vaccine. Which has let me to wonder: are there other areas of […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

There must be something I'm missing here. If you've got a stocks and shares ISA and you keep a few pounds, or even tens of pounds, in cash, perhaps from recent dividends, perhaps so that fees can be paid without selling anything, then you'll get a few pence interest each month. And the ISA […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

"Misconduct in public office" isn't charged very often, and is, I think, quite a big deal? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8mpp…

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Hey, anyone know why squirrels dig up potatoes? (We assume it's the squirrels. We haven't actually seen them do it. We've also got frogs and foxes which are really the only other possible suspects.) #squirrel

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Has somebody got at the BBC? Yesterday that headline read "savings" - today it reads "cut".

BBC headline: "Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments for millions"

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

I think I didn't expect this to work ... does it count as a #FSM selfie?

Multiple images of the partial eclipse as seen via a colander.

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

"Taking the rubbish out" by The Rebel Bear in Clacton-on-Sea, England.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Trump's edits are reading more and more like Abominations Unto Nuggan, aren't they.

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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I love the percussion effects on ‘Money’ ! youtu.be/OMuG3XoOw0I?is=8JzGNuKfuDS…

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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

I love how more and more young (and not so young) musicians are reimagining, interpreting and performing the modern classics of rock. This is a great performance of The Great Gig in the Sky from Dark Side of the Moon. youtube.com/watch?v=IHrrHvKe95s&is=…

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

"How many watering cans full of water per day do I have to carry down the garden to keep the frog pond topped up whilst there's a hosepipe ban" is not a piece of arithmetic I've ever had to do before.

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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

WHO ELSE AGREES WITH MATTHEW?! 🤚

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

So I've got a legal document as a PDF, and I like having printed copies of legal documents in a filing cabinet. Sure, I could just print it. But. It consists mostly of white text on a dark blue background, and would presumably take several cartridges of at least the blue ink to print. What […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

And our new prime minister is all Trump arse-licking "drill, baby, drill". www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdx82rl…

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Discovered a bottle of Moulin Touchais 1964 when auditing the cupboard content which had to be emptied out to make room for the electrician and the gas man. The cork had crumbled to little pieces, but it had serious metal foil over it which looks like it remained airtight. Tastes OK, anyway.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Hmm. I just got an unhandled exception crash out of Gimp. And it's trivially easily repeatable. But shall I report it? I think not. It's to do with closing the application with a particular dialogue open. I know from experience that such things (a) are a right bugger to fix, and (b) don't […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

So I'm getting a tiny pension from a provider I won't name who has been pissing me around for months over providing proper information. So I made a complaint, expecting to get the usual holding letter after a couple of months and nothing thereafter. But just a week later I've got the […]

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

"Britain must now unite behind Count Binface" 👍👏🏼👏🏼 www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po… It's about 30 years since the #NewStatesman was bought out by a #Blairite mafia. Out went the social […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fesshole/116884557… Sounds right to me. I'm continually being frustrated by finding that what I hoped would be toast is only slightly warmed bread, because someone else has turned the dial down.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Thx @c64whiz

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

To win a by-election (by anything other than safe seat core vote inertia) you need to be shoving two leaflets a day through each letter box by the last week of the campaign. I can absolutely see Count Binface achieving this. With nothing better to do, as their own candidates won't be standing […]

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Dave Robinson @dave.europhiles.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Farage vs Count Binface… Could be a close run thing. I'm pretty sure that Binface would do a better job of representing Clacton than Farage has done. #UKPolitics #UKPol #ClactonByElection

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

"Farage says he is resigning as MP for Clacton, triggering a by-election in the constituency. " Ah, some actual news. He could have said that half an hour ago.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

"I am the most physically and verbally attacked public figure or politician of modern times" FFS - he's forgotten all about his mate Trump!! All Farridge got was a milkshake, no fake assassination attempts at all!

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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A new bus... #RejoinEU

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Hint for those making AI voiceovers on YouTube videos - if an unbroken sentence is far longer than any human can keep going without taking a breath then that's a bit of a giveaway.

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Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖ @christineburns.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Britain is currently running on an electricity generation mix that is over 90% renewables. The amount generated is in fact 112% of demand and the rest is being exported. That means that, were it not for the need to currently keep gas running to provide frequency and voltage stability, the […]

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