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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

12 track album

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 19h

Aha 🙂

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Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 1d

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 1d

Aha! 🙂

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 2d

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

Compiling

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 2d

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 · 2d

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

CNN @cnn.com · 2d

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.

www.cnn.com

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 2d

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

stollerhall.com/whats-on/war...

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 · 2d

Aha! 🙂

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

if only he'd renamed it the DEPARTMENT OF PEACE

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Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social · 3d

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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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Church Of England Names First Woman Leader https://theonion.com/church-of-england-names-first-woman-leader/

“Finally someone for the Pope to marry.”

Caroline Bertone, Bunker Decorator

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

It's so infuriating that something which should be so simple and straightforward can still be this complicated in 2025. Glad you got it sorted

Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

Good lord, that looks good! 😀

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 6d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 7d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

Aha 🙂

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

a close up of a stuffed animal wearing a santa hat looking at a christmas tree .

Alt: Animated gif of a red muppet. The camera zooms in on its face dramatically as it stares at something unseen, and then turns around and slowly walks away...

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Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

Just went to look at Kraftwerk tickets for next year at Manchester Apollo... Cheapest tickets £108, to sit near the back of the circle... ehhhm, no thanks 😬

Nigel Moss @nigenet.uk · 3d

Happy #BaconButtyFriday everyone! 🥓🙂

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Oct 27

teashoesandhair on tumblr:

"Stellar conversation on BBC Wales today"

Caller: I live in America now, since the '80s, but I'm visiting family in Wales this week, and I thought I'd ring in.
Host: Why did you move from Wales to America?
Caller: I actually moved because of a woman.
Host: Who's the lucky lady?
Caller: Margaret Thatcher.

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EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 4d

I honestly had an Aussie tourist ask me if they were on the right train for Loogah Baroogah once.

EchoesAndDan @echoesanddan.bsky.social · 4d

Loughborough.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 5d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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