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Half a Century This Week, FCL 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Hmm...

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Tango 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

yeah, my last AC was 2019. Round trip economy to Pittsburgh around a major holiday was consistently $100-200 more than first class to Chicago for MFF at the beginning of December.

Half a Century This Week, FCL 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@tango TBF 2019 was also my last AC. :p

I really wanted to go again this year, but for various reasons I just couldn't get all the pieces in place. Oh well.

@Tango

Half a Century This Week, FCL 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Three-day weekend seems like a good occasion to honor #NoTwitterYotevember. Blanking the Tweets now.

https://upriseri.com/fight-back-how-to-bulk-erase-old-tweets-for-free/

Fight Back: How to Bulk Erase Old Tweets for Free – Uprise RI

There is no need to pay a service to help you bulk delete your old tweets. We will walk you through the process, helping you take control of your data on one of the world's most popular social media platforms.

^{Greg Brailsford (Uprise RI)}

#notwitteryotevember

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

That worked really well! One down, two to go.

Xoa Gray 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I just love that moment when you're screwing a metal screw into a metal anchor point on an SSD, and the SSD is plastic, so the anchor point just comes right out.

That's just the best.

#sarcasm

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RevK :verified_r: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

So James sent me a cool video.

Sort of fun DIY project…

Sort of starts with saw this bit of wood.
Drill these holes.
Then sand this bit.
Then use your router to cut a slot.
Then put in your lathe to round this bit.
Then use your band saw.
Then your 3D printer.
Then your CNC milling machine.
Then your industrial kiln.

Well, feels like that. Quickly escalates to like “everyone has this huge fully equipment workshop at home, surely”…

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Daniel Durrans 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

sounds easy. Have you ever tried to cook a Jamie Oliver 30 minute meal. In 30 minutes without using everything in your kitchen?

Ryan Walmsley 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I can understand one piece of kit sometimes. But it does get too many pieces of equipment in some videos.

It also bugs me for DIY Car repair videos.

"This is simple to do, you just need an entire workshop!"

Ret 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://youtu.be/7jYPp9w-0Uk

The Half Assed Approach To Foundation Repair (The Simpsons)

From season 4 episode 7: Marge Gets a Job

^YouTube

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Hitchin Hackspace 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Sounds a bit like the New Yankee Workshop shows on TV where the host has an enormous workshop filled with an astonishing array of huge wood working machines to mechanise every aspect of wood working... just like regular folks don't have...

That said check out your local hackspace for tools like this 🙂 Although we don't have an industrial kiln 😉

Last of all thank you for our broadband 👏👍🤗

This entry was edited (5 months ago)

Erik Ableson 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@neil Hmmm. I feel seen here as someone who self-hosts everything important to me (and is only missing the band saw, lathe and kiln from the previous list)

That said, all of my tools are at best, prosumer so they are not up to a lot of the tasks that people on Youtube blithely pull up to without mentioning that this tool costs $x, requires triple phase power, dedicated floor space since it weighs 200kg, and an industrial dust evacuation system, ...

Plus my work and storage spaces are measured in single-digit meters squared

@Neil Brown

ZS 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yeah, I love those, especially as my woodworking tools consist of a 50 year old electric jigsaw, a 60 year old plane with a knackered blade, and a wobbly old Black and Decker Workmate.

I also have zero skills, despite Dad being a qualified cabinet maker.

Half a Century This Week, FCL 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Thank you, Wil.

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TundraWolf 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

We need to stop gaslighting each other! Gas lights produce greenhouse gasses. Please, start sustainable supply electric-lighting each other, and don't use tungsten lamps.

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Chloé Raccoon 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The issue with modern LED lighting is someone who goes What What What What still seems bright with only 4 watts....

Cheetah Obscura 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'll just be here in my box... 📦💜🐾 #FursuitFriday

Fursuit photo of Obscura sitting in a cardboard box with their footpaws and tail hanging out

#fursuitfriday

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Aeáro, a SeaWyrm :elfstar: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Catbox!

Cheetah Obscura 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@aearo Boxboxboxboxbox!

@Aeáro, a SeaWyrm :elfstar:

Furo 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Heyyy, how are you doing today? 😌
(📷: Haraak) #FursuitFriday

#fursuitfriday

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Keys 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

it #fursuitfriday :3

fox fursuiter holding a tiny umbrella above their head

#fursuitfriday

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Ret 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Happy Fursuit Friday, y'all

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Paco Panda 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This cute critter is Cody, accompanied by his ever present friend the red panda.

Traditional. Copic Markers

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Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

*knock knock*
Hello this is room service, I am here to provide you with warm, soft, fluffy dragon cuddles if you wish for them. 💙

🧵 @selkiesuits
📷 Nitro G Beans
⌚ #FursuitFriday

Blue dragon fursuiter Doran, cute and soft and wearing round glasses. The image is taken through a fisheye camera lens so it looks like he's looking at you through a hotel room spy hole, his snout and face distorted to look extra big and cute.

#fursuitfriday @Selkie Suits

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Rua 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Yes I do wish for them.

CheRosach 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Look on the bright side. Maybe the planet will become uninhabitable before he can destroy democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/08/antonio-guterres-cop29-climate-breakdown-tipping-points-fossil-fuels-finance-aoe?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

‘Essential to act now’ to prevent chaotic climate breakdown, warns UN chief

On the eve of Cop29 in Baku, António Guterres says dangers are underestimated as irreversible tipping points near

^{Patrick Greenfield (The Guardian)}

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

After the fursuit parade at FurPoc. Yay, a full body shot!

Those boots!!!

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

...oh dear, I just realized I shared this to my local furry group's chat and that I'm wearing a harness in the pic.

I hope I don't, like, awaken anything in anyone, or whatever...

(casually flips over table and walks off)

Pippin 5 months ago friendica

Hmmmmmmmmm. I tried to port our landline phone number from the old house to Flextel, so I can point it at their voicemail service and get messages as WAV files by email, but they say they can't accept porting orders at the moment because of "a revised industry process which is having teething problems and we do not feel confident that we could, in good faith, take on the port without the risk of loss of service". I'm guessing that's OTS/TOTSCo, the one @RevK :verified_r:'s running commentary a while back was not giving anyone any faith in. I haven't yet asked them whether, by "loss of service" they mean a risk of actually losing the number, or just having an outage on the number. So, I wonder what to do now. Port elsewhere? I'd like to get the number virtualised at some point soon. Can any provider port a number in the UK these days without risk? Hmmm!

@RevK :verified_r:

Ghost 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I don’t know what the current ongoing issue is, but I’ve had success porting numbers to voipfone before who have always been excellent with pretty much everything

Pippin 5 months ago friendica

@Ghost @RevK :verified_r: Aha, I've had a read around on their web site and they do look like they do all the things, and their "flex" tariff should be very cheap for a single number permanently going to voicemail. I'm giving the port another go, this time with voipfone, and we'll see what happens. Thanks for the hint! 🙂

@RevK :verified_r: @Ghost

RevK :verified_r: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

OTS is just a front end on this, the underlying number porting process is the same. So odd if they stopped doing ports.

Pippin 4 months ago friendica

Well, it's ported to Voipfone! The number was "not recognised" for maybe a day while in limbo between BT and Voipfone, but I eventually got an email to say the port had succeeded, and I now get a WAV file emailed to me whenever anyone phones it and leaves a message. Success. 🙂

Pippin 5 months ago friendica

Huh, interesting: Buy Nothing Day, scheduled to coincide with Black Friday.

Buy Nothing Day

24 hour detox from consumerism.

^{BUY NOTHING DAY}

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dyadron :pensive_party_blob: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Those logo parodies/fictional product renders are perfect.

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Pippin 4 months ago friendica

Happy Buy Nothing Day, everyone!

TundraWolf 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The problem that I always find with aerobic exercise is that I can spend a good 15 or 20 minutes cycling and when I check the clock it has only advanced by two minutes.

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

You made your choice and you will forever have to live with it.

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RevK :verified_r: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

No, BBC, it is "Yes" and "No". Do not make one fucking option a complete form to fill in.

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Gerard Braad 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

and that form feels in most cases as a deliberate bother to let you reconsider due to the sheer amount of toggles!

piofthings 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

not just that, they don’t have anything on the settings page to say save settings. Then you have to navigate back to the page you were and refresh the page to register a “No”! Then you start all over again when you come back!

Mike Cox 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

One of my pet hates; yes or 400 questions

a stinky ox 🐂 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

it's not just the BBC, every cunt does that these days.

I truly hate this kind of thing, where they grease the path of least resistance and impose maximum friction on the option that actually gives you a proper choice.

The constant need to "make money" inevitably just makes everything subjectively worse. It's depressing.

Halfy! 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

In my personal opinion, trains leaving from and going to the same location shouldn't cost different prices depending on the operator.

But here we are. Going between Reading and Basingstoke you can either pay more to use the slow frequent train, or less to use the fast infrequent train.

Use the ticket on the wrong service, and you can expect to buy a second ticket.

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Alexandre Franke 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

trains should be free. 🙂

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sirlan <( rawrr ) 5 months ago • sharkey (AP)

imagine explaining to someone who never seen a dog that a samoyed, a chihuahua, and a borzoi are all the same species

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Pippin 5 months ago friendica

Oh, no…

I mean, why. WHYYYYY.

How To Train Your Dragon | Official Teaser Trailer

How To Train Your Dragon - In Theaters June 13From three-time Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Dean DeBlois, the creative visionary behind DreamWorks A...

^YouTube

Samael :therian: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ugh 🤮

Pippin 5 months ago friendica

Yikes, this went for $13,750! I'd love to have an Alpha suit (probably Alpha 5) but not *that* much. 😉

Power Rangers in Space (Saban Entertainment, 1998), Alpha 6 Hero Costume....

^{entertainment.ha.com}

Pippin 5 months ago friendica

@Renbymon 💜💛🏳️‍⚧️ $6k. Hmm. Quite a lot, but should've been more (except if I was bidding). 😛

@Hericka (Rivaclaw)🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ

Ysengrin Blackpaw 🔜 WPAFW 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@renbymon Yeah, I was surprised at how low she went for. It may be that she was in poor condition. I'll ask someone who was able to inspect the suits just before the auction next time I see them.

@Hericka (Rivaclaw)🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ

Pippin 5 months ago friendica

Content warning: CW: twitter/bsky links

Phil M0OFX 5 months ago • hometown (AP)

Content warning: CW: twitter/bsky links

Pippin 5 months ago friendica

I just signed this, and I hope others will too.

Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible

I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom.

^{Petitions - UK Government and Parliament}

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twll :yikes: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Norway gets it.

A sign from inside the Norwegian National Museum. It reads: «Du er velkommen til å velge det toalettet du ønsker»
“Feel free to use the restroom of your choice”

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TundraWolf 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: UK Poltics

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Phil M0OFX 5 months ago • hometown (AP)

If, like me, you have a shortage of RS232 (DE9/DB25) serial cables but a glut of Cisco console cables, you might find this useful
How to make a "universal" serial cable from a Cisco console cable.
https://www.philpem.me.uk/computer/serial_cable

I've found this *really* handy for wiring up the serial ports on the cable headend. USB to serial adapters and null cables are fine, but a USB console cable with a DE9 adapter on the end is much tidier.

A universal serial cable

A universal serial cable I've been playing around with RS232-interface peripherals a lot recently, and keep finding that I never have the right cables on hand.

^{philpem.me.uk - Phil Pemberton's website}

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Phil M0OFX 5 months ago • hometown (AP)

Edinburgh clearly has a sense of humour!

Street map of Edinburgh, showing a street called Bellenden Gardens, shaped a little like a, well, a bell end. A knob, a John Thomas, a dick, willy or a Boris Johnson.

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GedgeHead 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Not just Edinburgh, Sheffield has a funny bone too.

Stoneface Vimes 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

they just need a couple of roundabouts at the entrances to make it perfect

Paco Panda 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

ESPAÑOL

¡Rudos y Técnicos! Dos equipos rivales de toda la vida, enfrentados en batallas épicas… pero ahora, ante la invasión de monstruos, han dejado de lado sus diferencias para combatir un mal común. Solo juntos podrán salvar el evento de las garras del Dr. Demente

Estos fueron los badges de equipos para los Fursuit Games organizados por mi amigo Steel y por mí. Los equipos en los badges están representados por Raucous el mapache (del lado de los Rudos) y por Yuri el tlacuache (del lado de los Técnicos)

Estos Fursuit Games sucedieron en Confuror, en Guadalajara, México.

-------

ENGLISH

Rudos and Técnicos! Two rival teams… but now, faced with the invasion of monsters, they have put aside their differences to fight a common evil. Only together can they save the event from the clutches of Dr. Demente

These were the team badges for the Fursuit Games organized by my friend Steel and me. The teams on the badges are represented by Raucous the raccoon (on the Rudos side) and Yuri the possum (on the Técnicos side)

These Fursuit Games took place at Confuror, in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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TK Wolf 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

these are so cute! I wish I could've been there!

taco, bird/cat :verified420: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

i'm vegetarian but i'll happily make an exception for eating the rich

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Furo 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Went partying with Fluffy Tail at FBL12 :]

📷 : zach_the_proot

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sirlan <( rawrr ) 5 months ago • sharkey (AP)

every game developer should have a - at least a spare - four year old laptop with only integrated graphics to test their games on

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Yag Fox 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

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Graham Sutherland / Polynomial 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

huh, I never knew castle and slotted were two different types of cotter pin nuts. I always assumed they were the same type but just cut slightly differently due to manufacturing processes.

Yag Fox 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@gsuberland So many nuts, not enough bolts! 🤣

@Graham Sutherland / Polynomial

Avon DeRussate 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/02/uk-austerity-policies-premature-low-birth-weight-babies-scotland

UK austerity policies ‘increased rate of premature and low birth weight babies’

Exclusive: Researchers who studied babies in Scotland believe cuts to benefits and services are linked to rise

^{Linda Geddes (The Guardian)}

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Pippin 5 months ago friendica

Lives measurably altered for the worse, just in order to adjust some numbers in banks' computers. Why not just alter those numbers directly, without hurting people to do it.

Ret 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Acutely aware that I have become the angry old man in this, but the arithmetic of making every animal’s night a living horror so that your little Timmy can look up at some flashy loud lights and clap for a few minutes just… doesn’t add up anymore for me.

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Emil HAS MOVED TO tiggi.es 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

ain’t just you buddy…

JΛMIEvx 🦊🖤🏳️‍⚧️:win3_setup: 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Something feels very red today...

#fursuit #selfie

A selfie of me wearing my fursuit head and a hoodie, standing in pink/red light in a hallway.

#fursuit #selfie

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TK Wolf 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Look at these cutiebeans!

We still have ONE hour of us matching your donations, for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals!

$1500 of donation matching remains! Let's get that filled and hit our goal!

Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/FFLSeattle
Donations and more info: https://www.extra-life.org/participant/FFLSeattle

Twitch

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.

^Twitch

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Matt Gray 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I gave the Grim Reaper a glow up! ✨🌈

Full video here: https://youtu.be/u9HY8gzOV0Y

I Gave The Grim Reaper a Glow-Up: Rainbows, Glitter and Sparkle ✨🌈

Grim reaper? Nah, more like the Grim RAVER!Matt Gray | http://mattg.co.uk | @MattGrayYesProducer: Alex J'Rassic @alexjrassic Camera: Tom Scott @TomScottGo La...

^YouTube

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Jan 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Great build! Put some cloth or a plastic bag over your magnet to spare you picking off needle by needle from your magnet.

TundraWolf 5 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: US Politics Election

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