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Unexpected item in the lunch area @nigenet

Unexpected item in the lunch area @nigenet

@Popehat have you seen this?...

@Popehat have you seen this?

https://kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid-on-marion-county-newspaper-seizing-computers-records-and-cellphones/

I had to check what it said, of course. Translation in the alt text

I had to check what it said, of course. Translation in the alt text

Some may say that Mastodon needs a translate function, but does it? Does it really?

Some may say that Mastodon needs a translate function, but does it? Does it really?

Delighted to hear "Basingstoke" being used in the @bbctms #Ashes2023 commentary to indicate an intermediate fielding position:...

Delighted to hear "Basingstoke" being used in the @bbctms #Ashes2023 commentary to indicate an intermediate fielding position: "Nobody knows where it is, but it's somewhere over there." #TeemsWithHiddenMeaning

Listening to a podcast this morning, on the detective stories of G. D. H. Cole and his wife. Cole was post mortem the subject of one of my...

Listening to a podcast this morning, on the detective stories of G. D. H. Cole and his wife. Cole was post mortem the subject of one of my favourite stories about the wonderful Alan Tyson, via Alan Bennett:

Elon: OK, you're fired. Who's next up?Engineer: I can... explain this. It's the... Fanout. Yeah.Elon: Fanout.Eng: So... you see,...

Elon: OK, you're fired. Who's next up?
Engineer: I can... explain this. It's the... Fanout. Yeah.
Elon: Fanout.
Eng: So... you see, you're so popular, when you tweet you... break Fanout.
Elon:...yeah, I've heard of that.
2nd eng: He's right, it's just the Fanart.
Eng: Fanout.

Catsitting for a friend, and Dusk is annoyed to find that she doesn't have sudo privileges

Catsitting for a friend, and Dusk is annoyed to find that she doesn't have sudo privileges

I've been listening to the conducting podcast A Mic On The Podium -https://amiconthepodium.podbean.com/and at the end when the guests...

I've been listening to the conducting podcast A Mic On The Podium -
https://amiconthepodium.podbean.com/

and at the end when the guests are asked their favourite conductor from the past, so far they've been unanimous in the first name they mention:
https://youtu.be/ZbdSmDmkcIc

Day off from panto today, so I'm spending it quietly running through all the most loathsome songs as earworms

Day off from panto today, so I'm spending it quietly running through all the most loathsome songs as earworms

No need for one, when Elon could use a graphics program from an old computer magazine cover disc he found in a drawer

No need for one, when Elon could use a graphics program from an old computer magazine cover disc he found in a drawer

How the world found out that he sacked the graphic design department

How the world found out that he sacked the graphic design department

An exciting update from the energy supplier about next year's savings under the Energy Price Guarantee

An exciting update from the energy supplier about next year's savings under the Energy Price Guarantee

Content warning:Pantomime moment in questionable tasteHappy thirteenth anniversary of the finest moment in #panto rehearsal

Content warning:Pantomime moment in questionable taste

Happy thirteenth anniversary of the finest moment in #panto rehearsal

Content warning:Kindle recommendationIf I were Education Minister, I'd have these on the syllabus: Simon Gray's complete Smoking...

Content warning:Kindle recommendation

If I were Education Minister, I'd have these on the syllabus: Simon Gray's complete Smoking Diaries are outrageously cheap on #Kindle at £8.99 for a thousand pages of gossip, anecdote, wit, rage, vulnerability, and appetite for life.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EKKB3CA?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_ts_D48YFX1YBPJECEBBZDCY

I just remembered this from a dull moment at work years ago #opera

I just remembered this from a dull moment at work years ago #opera

@davidallengreen I've been meaning to ask, will we be seeing Taylor Green on this platform?

@davidallengreen I've been meaning to ask, will we be seeing Taylor Green on this platform?

Content warning:An obscure earwormAll morning, from a show I worked on thirty-five years ago; there was a common practice of unofficially...

Content warning:An obscure earworm

All morning, from a show I worked on thirty-five years ago; there was a common practice of unofficially adding lyrics:
🎼🎶 NBT commissioned a ballet, and called it A Simple Man
All about a painter called Lowry whose mum didn't understand...