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If you're struggling with your mental health and in the UK you can call the Samaritans on 116 123, and you don't need to be suicidal to do so.
Left-leaning Non-Binary Cumbrian.
Be nice or be blocked.
I also block to protect my mental health.
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I have decided to avoid age registering on here for the interim, as I am curious to see how restrictive things become.

Unfortunately this means I won't be able to view or respond to messages for the time being.

Until I get around to requesting my data I can't view extant messages either.

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Retro setup progressing towards beta version, HiFi still to wire in and only injury sustained so far is a pinched little finger on left hand resulting in the most inconsequential blood loss.
December 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Delving Into the Complexity of Unmasking Safely is now available to read and download at jadefarrington.substack.com/p/delving-in... and payhip.com/b/dWiXD

Find out what Autistic Masking really is; why we do it; how to start unmasking; & why it's not that simple!

@autisticbooks.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Loooool

Etsy seller's name in alt.
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
On this day in 2018:

I got my current Amiga 1200.

TW / CW: Cancer, Death.

Unfortunately that day my stepson at age 26 got given 6 months to live due his bowel cancer returning & metastatizing.

He was dead within five months.

If you love someone, tell them.

Life is too short.
December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Stuart Maconie said ‘to southerners, the north means desolation, arctic temperatures, mushy peas, a cultural wasteland with limited shopping opportunities. To northerners it means home, truth, beauty, valour, romance, warm and characterful people, real beer and decent chip shops’.
Morning all

Photographer Don McCullin, Early Morning,
West Hartlepool, County Durham, 1963.
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Amiga and Atari ST are friends now.. get over it..
Live now, doing demos, code and stuff on both systems. because anything with a 68000 CPU is a friend of mine.
twitch.tv/djh0ffman
djh0ffman - Twitch
Amiga and Atari ST are friends now.. get over it.
twitch.tv
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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The earn less buy more economic model of perpetual growth has one catastrophic flaw that the people relying on it seem to have overlooked.
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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A gently reminder:

RUN YOUR BACKUPS!!!
December 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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(UK) Parliamentary Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736690
December 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
What the actual fuck is going on when on four consecutive occasions the NHS fail to use preferred name AND on the most recent occasion it wasn't even showing on my record?

No wonder my last two blood pressure tests have been high, I mean for fuck's fucking sake...
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
As is often the case I keep changing my mind with my retro desk setup layout - but one thing for certain, I need more desk, hence the additional bit.

Further iterations should eventually provide a happy compromise.
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Levitating Amiga Boing Ball… For the 40th Anniversary!
YouTube video by RobSmithDev
m.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A great video about using Linux to make video content, food for thought for sure!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=PEFq...
I make all my videos using Linux. Here's how.
YouTube video by Veronica Explains
m.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This would explain a lot!
I read recently that our brains are hard-wired to reset when we change environment. So thousands of years ago, when we come out of the cave, or go in the forest, we reset so as to be alert for different predators. Now, we go upstairs to another room, enter, and forget why we went there. Reset!
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
One set of Ernie Ball Super Slinky later and this Westfield strat-copy guitar thing plays surprisingly well.
It's definitely growing on me.
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Super Metroid for SNES, a review:
Lackluster.

On the other hand, today was the first time I ever played a SNES game and it was the first I chose...
November 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
As retro gaming setups go this is incomplete and not perfect, but definitely usable.
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 PM
On this day two years ago:
I started ripping out the manky old moldy ceilings from the kitchen/diner
- a messy job.
Have to recommend that you don't do this while wearing a V-neck dress, the grime gets everywhere...
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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As part of our Black Friday deal, you can listen to Radio Lento for free. That's all 286 episodes or 8 full days of sound. All from real quiet locations across the country. Free to your earlobes. Always. (Though a coffee would be nice if you can spare it > ko-fi.com/radiolento)
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Thank god the message from #labour in the #UK is that ordinary people are going to have to pay a bit more and the mega rich have been spared as they've had a hell of a hard time after doubling their wealth in the last decade.

/S
November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🥳After 38 years, a brand-new adventure is about to begin on the Commodore 64!👉Bubble Bobble: Lost Cave is finally coming, bringing the full experience to our beloved 8-bit machine #bubblebobble #c64 #commodore64 @freeze64.bsky.social @commodoreblog.uk @freeze64.bsky.social @c64news.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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1/ The latest Femicide Census, a meticulous national record of women killed by men, revealed Knowsley has the highest femicide rate in the United Kingdom.
Perhaps if the government and press started to focus on actual male based violence and not vilifying trans women who aren’t harming women
thefirststep.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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literally fuck you Spotify.... 25k streams and it doesn't even break £10.00

how about you pay your artists fairly and stop funding AI warfare.

#Spotify #Streaming
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
No Aurora yet, a few stars and a little haze / mist? in the air, 2°C and 90% humidity according to a nearby weather station.
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A clear sky above Whitehaven currently
and a current Amber Alert for chance of Aurora at:
aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk
AuroraWatch UK · AuroraWatch UK
See the aurora borealis from the UK
aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM