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  That uncomfortable moment when someone from The Past happens across your Fediverse profile and decides to get back in touch, all friendly like. Nu-uh. Nope. Nei. Na. Nein. Given their previous form, I needn't worry about it for long, but it's still a bit of a smack in the gob. [The Past being a non-specific, absolutelyt-not-tied-to-any-educational-institution-employer-or-home-town kinda thing] #Nope #NotNow #PleaseLeaveMeAlone

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  Two Loughborough University graduates live on TV in the Formula 1 Team Principals' Press Conference - Ayao Komatsu (Haas) and Laurent Mekies (Red Bull Racing). Pretty good for a small market/former manufacturing town in the East Midlands of the UK, really. #LboroUni #LoughboroughUniversity #Loughborough #F1 #Formula1

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  Oh, arse. That moment where the power supply MOSFET you accidentally bridged with the tip of your index finger last week (which hurt) decides that y'know, actually, it also got hurt. POP BZZT BANG FLASH *fuse blows*. Oh well, back to Aliexpress for another one! #HomeElectronics #Zapped

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  Oops. Forgot there's an #F1 race on. Oh well.

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  These days it seems like any time my phone rings, it's either the person I'm awaiting a call from or: 1. Somebody in Kolkata pretending to be from O2. 2. A dead, flat, boring voice pretending to be from Indeed, wanting me to add them on WhatsApp. 3. A recorded message from "VISA Fraud Department", leading to another voice from India telling me that my life is at risk if I don't give them my card details. They really don't like being told to &am...

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  @jadedtwin@corteximplant.com when I was a kid, if I asked a question of my parents and the eventual answer was "I don't know" it was usually followed by "we'll go to the library and find out". That imbued a lifetime of curiosity in my brother and I. Thanks, Dad 😊

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  @TwoClownsEating@beige.party @neonbubble@mstdn.social Heh, Brian Jacks and his oiled socks. What a great show that was. No way would today's elite sports stars do that. They might ruin their hair, or manicures.

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  Please excuse me a Proud Dad moment. Youngest got the best result for her course in her year for the first year exams at uni. At OXFORD. Yes, that Oxford. This is a young woman who struggled through school until the right diagnosis (which we had to fight for) unlocked all sorts of additional help and teaching/learning methods. If you're a parent of an ND child or children, keep up the fight for them. It's worth it, and I hope it works out for you. #ProudDad

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  RE: https://cyberplace.social/@greem/116850052804160535 In a few minutes it'll be 4 years since I was picking bits of F1 racing car out of a barrier. I hope nobody has to today. Here's to a good, safe race everyone. #F1 #BritishGrandPrix #Silverstone

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  Well that was a complete mess. #F1 #BritishGrandPrix #Silverstone

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  @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Ah, this is a lovely way to start the long weekend. Somewhat related - someone got me a Clangers card once, that played a wee whistly ditty when opened. I turned that into a doorbell. When it eventually gave up a few years later our house was not the same!

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  @katemorley@hachyderm.io beautiful, isn't it? I went out to see if I could catch the display but we had 100% cloud cover at a really low level 😔

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  My hotel room last night either had a hairdryer or something from a book by @cstross in it.

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  @bigvimto Calgary, then a road trip through the Rockies to Vancouver Island. Flying back from Vancouver.

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  The house is unnaturally empty and quiet, as Doglet has gone to the kennels. It's almost time... #BigCanadaTrip

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  Well, dammit. Zanardi finally copped it, after cheating the reaper twice. One of the nicest people to walk the earth, and with such amazing drive. This is a sad day. #Zanardi #RIP https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/articles/cvgz0kpxjpgo

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  This morning looks a little different to usual... #BigCanadaTrip

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  Ah, I'm still not getting it Ted. Well, Dougal...

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  I know, it's the morning, but it's still wine o'clock somewhere in the Empire! (Not a nightmare at 34000 feet) #BigCanadaTrip

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  @wrmsr I used to be able to hear that photo.

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  Happy mailman day, everyone! #mailman #gnu #reminders

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  @skinnylatte That ship quietly sailed away a long, long time ago. In late 2024 or early 2025 when I was mid-chemo, someone at Tesco told me "It's gone, you know, you don't have to wear that now". I told the bloke it was nothing to do with him. He started spouting some nonsense or other but I cut him off with "I'm having chemo for terminal cancer, I'm immunosuppressed, I don't want to catch whatever you have, how's your day going?" To say he looked em...

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  @BenCotterill @julianlawson Spot on. Joe Simpson refuses to die listening to Boney M in his head. Great film, better book. A proper dilemma for both him and his climbing partner Simon Yates. I was properly into climbing at the time the accident happened and it caused a lot of anguished conversations about "what would you have done?"

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  Another one bites the dust. Not that he'd have played that track on many of his radio shows, mind you. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn9qprx2ljlo #AndyKershaw

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  I may have reached another level up in my middle class cookery skills. I had some spuds to cook, and they needed trimming to a shape. I made the offcuts into salt and vinegar crisps. There's none left *burp*

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  Good morning from Ypres, pocket friends. It's a bright, clear, cold day and I'm going slow. Meanwhile three of my friends are out pounding round a cycling route which is a little easier than yesterday's, which involved a number of classic cobbled climbs used in the Tour of Flanders. They're mad! (Both the climbs and the cyclists). Today may well include the Tyne Cot cemetery. I'm not sure I'm ready for it, but there we are. What's happ...

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  I'm hoping that the Nuclear Football, the case with the launch codes that's supposed to accompany the US President, has been replaced with a case containing an actual football. I do not want to be woken in the night. I'd like to be able to go on the trips I've arranged.

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  A 94 point match with the two teams separated by 2 at the final whistle. That's one of the best rugby matches I've ever watched. Well done, France. You squeaked it. #FRAvENG #M6N

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  @cstross@wandering.shop @ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net And you need a quadrant diagram, with all four sections marked "No".

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  @mattblaze@federate.social Oh, I didn't know that bit. Badass indeed.