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Nigel Moss

@nigenet.uk

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PHP web developer. Musician. RPM Challenge participant. He/him nigenet.org.uk blog.nigenet.org.uk nigenet.bandcamp.com https://mastodon.social/@nigenet Also on The Other Place with username nigenet

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · Mar 1

My 2025 #RPMChallenge album "Full Circle" is now available. Written & recorded entirely during February 2025. Pay what you want, from £0.00 upwards! I hope you enjoy it 😃
#RPM2025
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Full Circle, by Nigel Moss

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 1h

Phew 🙂

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 17h

... although, come to think of it, I wonder if the junior officer was also thinking "couldn't you just have pressed a button that sends the files to the engineering dept?" 🤔😂

Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 21h

Paramedic (arriving at scene after responding to emergency call): "Seriously???"

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 22h

... and don't get me started on the lack of 2FA on the Enterprise computer, when Data not once, but TWICE took over the entire ship by impersonating Picard's voice

Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 22h

Oh yes, the multiple tablets!

Rewatching TNG a while ago, there's a scene where Riker hands a tablet to a junior officer and says "take this to engineering", while I'm thinking "couldn't you just have pressed a button that sends the files to the engineering dept?"

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 22h

[13 minutes into delay...]
Train: *starts moving again*
Passengers: "Nooooooo!"

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Chris Neville-Smith @cns-theatre.bsky.social · 23h

Timeline cleanse: live-action Wallace and Gromit.

Looking forward to his re-enactmanet of the iconic model railway chase.

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I made a Wallace & Gromit contraption in real life! - Joseph's Machines

YouTube video by Joseph's Machines

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 1d

Should be a good show

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Aha! 🙂

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 1d

When I watch older sci-fi, I occasionally wonder what might have happened in humanity's future that we developed faster-than-light space travel, and yet for some reason reverted back to using older style CRT computer monitors

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 1d

And if there were any numbers we couldn't remember, there was a big book delivered free to every house, with the name, address & phone number of everyone in the local area...

Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 1d

Hardy... Having to try and wade through the first chapter of Mayor of Casterbridge made me ditch O-Level English Lit

Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 1d

Aha 🙂

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 2d

I think that, had I ever been constipated to the point of hospitalisation by my own gluttony, I would not alert the media

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Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

Aha! 🙂

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

Not even if your code's compiling?
xkcd.com/303/

Compiling

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

Well, that was a great evening! And definitely the first time I've seen a roll of parcel tape played live on stage! 🙂
#AmbientParcelTapeCore

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 3d

Famously, not paying the military has never caused negative consequences for regimes

CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

On the train to Manchester to see @warringtonruncorn.com and @kaylapainter.bsky.social at Stoller Hall 🙂

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Stoller Hall | Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan

Tickets sold out! Gordon Chapman-Fox’s Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan project sees a bold visual aesthetic and striking retro-futuristic...

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

Aha! 🙂

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 4d

Looking like Chelsea FC? So, previously owned by a Russian oligarch, but now in hock to American hedge funds?

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 4d

if only he'd renamed it the DEPARTMENT OF PEACE

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 5d

I have two tickets for @warringtonruncorn.com in Manchester tomorrow but have been cruelly stricken with a sickness so can no longer go.

Free to anyone who wants to go - for a small donation to a charity that supports local refugees and asylum seekers.

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