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I'm staying in Swansea tonight on business. Figured I'd go explore and find a couple of gay bars. By complete accident, found a...

I'm staying in Swansea tonight on business. Figured I'd go explore and find a couple of gay bars. By complete accident, found a brand new place called Eagle (not like the Manchester or London ones lol). Apparently it's only been open a week so far.
#swansea #SwanseaCity #gaybar

Spotted in a gay bar in Manchester, UK. #elonmusk #tesla #fascism

Spotted in a gay bar in Manchester, UK.
#elonmusk #tesla #fascism

I was given this unusual old computer by a client recently, found it was an old controller for a car park! The custom motherboard boasts a...

I was given this unusual old computer by a client recently, found it was an old controller for a car park! The custom motherboard boasts a Core 2 duo T2500 CPU from a laptop. The original drive has Windows XP embedded on there and some proprietory software for controlling the car park hardware. The unit seems to have been manufactured in 2009.
I'm going to clean it up, pop a newer HDD in there and use it as a classic XP machine for now.
#WindowsXP #Skidata #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #Floppy

Good luck voting today Germany. We're all rooting for you and hope that the Nazi disease doesn't begin to establish itself in...

Good luck voting today Germany. We're all rooting for you and hope that the Nazi disease doesn't begin to establish itself in Europe.

Oof, looks like Apple folded (at least partially) to the UK government 😢🤮 It's not a backdoor as such, but it seems UK citizens...

Oof, looks like Apple folded (at least partially) to the UK government 😢🤮 It's not a backdoor as such, but it seems UK citizens won't be able to use advanced data protection 💩
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo
#privacy #apple #uk

A big part of me wants to say "good riddance, they were only interested in their own profits anyway", but it is also a concerning...

A big part of me wants to say "good riddance, they were only interested in their own profits anyway", but it is also a concerning trend thanks to the US.

I wish more people would vote with their choices of social media and services. Getting rid of Google will be the hard one though, switching to Apple products feels like jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.

What a bleak and depressing state technology is in these days 😮‍💨

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/20/meta-and-google-opt-out-of-sydney-mardi-gras-2025-sponsorship-dei-us

It's absolutely hilarious that the UK government wants to make the country a "leader in AI". The country has some of the...

It's absolutely hilarious that the UK government wants to make the country a "leader in AI". The country has some of the highest energy costs in the world. Ask yourself, what do datacentres chew through Gigawatts of every year? Yeah, not going to happen 😂😂
#AI #uk #UKtech #energy

Things like #enshittification and #shrinkflation are driving up the cost of goods while the companies make record #profits again and again....

Things like #enshittification and #shrinkflation are driving up the cost of goods while the companies make record #profits again and again. Meanwhile most #boomers are getting outraged on Facebook by a guy wanting to be a girl. Sort your priorities please you brain-dead muppets 🙄
youtu.be/qdj5U43AETw

Hearing that Twatter is now apparently blocking links to #Signal is just the kind of recommendation it needs. If Musk doesn't like it,...

Hearing that Twatter is now apparently blocking links to #Signal is just the kind of recommendation it needs. If Musk doesn't like it, we should use it 😂

I've thrown together an "All The Mods 9 - To The Sky" modded Minecraft server for my LGBTQ gaming community. I'm surprised...

I've thrown together an "All The Mods 9 - To The Sky" modded Minecraft server for my LGBTQ gaming community. I'm surprised how stable it is considering how many mods are on it. When I'd previously run a heavily modded server, it was so unstable that it needed restarting every 12 hours and chewed through ridiculous amounts of RAM. Also nice to see quite a few people joining in.
#minecraft #moddedminecraft #selfhosted

I'm just learning that the #Baltic electric grid (#Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia) have cut their connections from #Russia and are now...

I'm just learning that the #Baltic electric grid (#Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia) have cut their connections from #Russia and are now autonomously creating their own power. In the next couple of days, they'll be running some disaster simulations before synchronising with the European grid.

This sounds like an absolutely amazing project to be involved in, and for any geeks into #electrical generation / distribution, you can watch the grid frequency and progress here: https://baltic-grid.sympower.net/

It is done. As of now, I've fully deleted my #WhatsApp account 🎉 For the very first time since 2009, I'm completely free of any...

It is done. As of now, I've fully deleted my #WhatsApp account 🎉 For the very first time since 2009, I'm completely free of any #Meta app / website (deleted Instagram 3 years ago, deleted Facebook 2 years ago).
From here on, it's #Signal and #Matrix for 95% of my communications.

Life won't be much different at all. My friends have almost all been really understanding in the switch, my family moved to Signal long ago when the last big controversy happened, and there's SMS if I really need it.

Finally some companies are actually thinking about doing something good for their workers. I'd definitely be on board with this if it...

Finally some companies are actually thinking about doing something good for their workers. I'd definitely be on board with this if it were offered to me: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jan/27/two-hundred-uk-companies-sign-up-for-permanent-four-day-working-week

#worklifebalance #UK

If you are not fighting the system, you are upholding the system.

If you are not fighting the system, you are upholding the system.

Come to the realisation that it's going to take a lot of time and effort to coax all my friends off WhatsApp. In the meantime, I've...

Come to the realisation that it's going to take a lot of time and effort to coax all my friends off WhatsApp.
In the meantime, I've opted to set WhatsApp up on an old phone and then use a Mautrix bridge to sync chats into Matrix. It's really cool having chats all coming through on Element X to be fair.
This way, Meta at least won't be getting loads of metadata about my movements, contacts, other apps etc 🤮
Glad I left FB and Insta over 2 years ago.
#leavemeta #whatsapp #matrix #meta #facebook

Has anyone successfully managed to migrate away from WhatsApp? I'm hoping to do so in the next couple of weeks, and after doing so...

Has anyone successfully managed to migrate away from WhatsApp? I'm hoping to do so in the next couple of weeks, and after doing so I'll no longer have any Meta crap I have to use.
If there's any tips or tricks to getting friends to use a better platform, I'd love to hear your experiences!
#meta #whatsapp #deletefacebook #signal #matrix

Nerd joke alert 😮‍💨#joke #meme

Nerd joke alert 😮‍💨
#joke #meme

"Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except...

"Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people."

I personally think the only mental illness in question here is all these billionaires and CEO's who can't think of anything else except making as much money as possible. Zucc only wants to keep in orange blob's good books, and will do anything to make money even if he fucks over a huge demographic that he was previously happy to support. Fuck #meta

After a moment of consideration, I've decided that the vervainglobal.com Mastodon instance will be defederating with threads.net on the...

After a moment of consideration, I've decided that the vervainglobal.com Mastodon instance will be defederating with threads.net on the 20th January.

The Zucc getting down on his knees and worshipping orange blobs micropenis is pretty much the last death knell for mainstream social media....

The Zucc getting down on his knees and worshipping orange blobs micropenis is pretty much the last death knell for mainstream social media. Soon people will be met with right wing propaganda on Xitter, Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The mainstream social sphere is fucked. If you can manage to save at least a friend or two and bring them over here or somewhere else relatively sane, we might just salvage a corner of the population from utter hell.
#meta #facebook #zuckerberg