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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 11h

So I think I finished the administration of Laura's estate this week. Somehow it's hitting me as hard as anything so far. Chapter closed, I suppose.

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Dead rubber against a terrifically strong player. He broke dry, and I cleared all my colours, getting position on my last, but the table only gave me a long cut, with the black on the opposite cushion. Intended to hold for the double, but had to dig down to make sure I stunned out to avoid […]

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

We're raising money for the @RSPB in memory of Mum. Please consider making a donation, if you're able and willing: www.justgiving.com/page/joanchadwin And boosts would be incredibly welcome.

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

As I mentioned before, I think I'd seen Bombshell before, but had no memory of it. It's incredibly slick, and undeniably gripping, and Theron and Robbie are tremendous (Kidman is a little too mannered for my taste). But I've been slightly turned round by reading Simran Hans, who points out that […]

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Somewhere in Time, if it succeeds at all, does so entirely on the strength of Reeve at his most charming. I'm not sure I've ever seen him other than as Superman, but this makes me want to seek him out elsewhere.

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Finally saw 9 to 5, in memory of Parton. Love Coleman in WarGames and Tomlin in West Wing et al, and was initially enjoying it. Once they all got stoned together, though, I turned against it. With the notable exception of Tomlin as Snow White, the rest seemed ham-fisted at best, at worst […]

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I have a special hatred in my heart for the combination of poor labelling presented in systems which truncate text despite its fundamental importance. LinkedIn, Atlassian, YouTube and countless others prioritize layout over meaning time and again, and I've had enough.

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Craft Beer Newcastle @craftbeerncl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to one of our favourites — Red from First & Last Brewery — as she’s been shortlisted for Brewer of the Year!

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Never got started after one of the best players in the league potted three off the break, and left one of mine dead. Didn't quite make the touchiest of safeties, and never recovered, although he had to double the black. WWWWL

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Hyperdrive is childish at times, but is so relentlessly gentle, I do enjoy it. Frost and Hart are very funny, though I've never bee huge fan of the latter. Definitely worth a watch - it's rather like a very British precursor to Space Force. #talkyDoor!

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Drew a really strong player, but he broke dry. I couldn't get the colours I wanted, and ended up in some difficulty. He did clear my covered bag, but was then unlucky to follow through on a plant, leaving him no shot. Ended up potting well, but with no shot on my last colour. Utterly fluked it […]

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Rode some luck after a miss against a good player, who was also a little unlucky. Final clearance was nice, for a harder-earned win than it should've been. In the circs, I'll take it. WWW

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Has anyone had any problems with @geoserver v2 WMS stores published as WMS after migrating to #GeoServer v3?

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Dr John A Stevenson @volcan01010.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

CRAG is a #QGIS plugin from the #BritishGeologicalSurvey for #geology #mapping. github.com/BritishGeologicalSurvey/… We've been working on what is now CRAG for 3.5 years, although I've been itching to build it for more like 9. Woohoo! To install […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Screenshot of QGIS application with map of multiple annotated points. There are also lines of different colours and styles. The layer key shows layer names such as "locality_point", "bedrock_line", "view_photo", "view_lithology".

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

PhD opportunity in interstellar object observations, in Aotearoa New Zealand working with the fabulous @astrokiwi.bsky.social: www.gravity.ac.nz/join/phd-opportun…

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Slightly wobbly start in our local derby against a middling player. Yipped a touchy shot to the middle, and went in-off on a long back-cut plant. Was given the chance to clear, though - took a long colour, and doubled my last colour for perfect position on the black. Terrific. WW

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Massive thanks to everyone who worked on or helped crowdfund the @geoserver v3 major release. Been doing a bunch of production upgrades, and it's been really smooth. Congrats and thanks again to all concerned. #GeoServer

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I'd never seen Hunt for the Wilderpeople before, and on scant experience, I'm not huge Waititi fan. But it was absolutely splendid. With the exception of the daft conspiracy theorist, every performance was note-perfect, and it's lovely to see Neill give a beautiful turn, like his bland Jurassic […]

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Your feel-good story of the day: This 12-year-old kid who went viral at the 2021 Tour of Britain has signed for a Dutch grassroots club and development team that's a feeder partner of Team Visma-Lease a Bike (the team of the rider who gave him the bidon). www.cyclingnews.com/pro-cycling/...

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

"Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft […]

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

First match of the season, and didn't feel great in the warm-up. Quickly took control off the break, though, and played well against a weaker player. Survived a snooker or two to land the black in the middle for the win. Really good start. W

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Something new on the regular dog-walk

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Wow. Berberian Sound Studio is really quite something. Jones is great, but it's the mechanics of recording and disconcerting period feel which elevate it to something really rather special.

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Admitted defeat. The jumper is on, for the first time since spring.

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

This took some getting, I can tell you.

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Saw the Russo/Brosnan Thomas Crown again, after many years. Russo carries it brilliantly, and the set-pieces are splendid, especially the end one. Plot eventually disappoints, though - shows its age.

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I saw a sketch on telly years ago about a puritan struggling to renew his car tax at the post office, or some such. On being told he needed another form of ID, he denounced the post office worker as a witch, and more puritans came in and carried her off. I think it repeated throughout the […]

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

[Spoiler, mature content] Did I really just see an oral Sex joke on Doctor Who?

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Fabulous night with The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain at the Tyne Theatre. Early members Goodman and Brooke-Turner still playing, and Hinchcliffe watched from a box. Favourites A Song About Plagiarism, Fly Me Off the Handel, and Pinball Wizard, along with a beautiful cover of the […]

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

RE: en.osm.town/@tomchadwin/11719498670… Having looked into it further, I am of course more confused. Forum posts suggests that for best hand-control, a single-edged reamer is required. However, I'm not finding such a thing for sale. I've found instrument peg reamers, which look […]

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Tom Chadwin @tomchadwin.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

As a completely useless starting-from-scratch woodworker, can anyone help me with finding a hand-reamer or set of hand-reamers, suitable for enlarging a 10mm hole by up to 5mm? The complication is that the depth of the hole is 300mm, so I need a technique to ream down to a depth of at least 150mm.

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Keith Jenkins @kgjenkins.mapstodon.space.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Forget about "_FINAL2" The new layer-naming convention just dropped:

screenshot of a GIS layer name that includes the phrase "pleaseGOD"

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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