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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

Location check in ๐Ÿ—บ โ€” Mud Dock Cafe, Bristol. Bristol Beer Factory Independence Pale Ale plus a Mexican bean burger ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿบ

๐Ÿ”Ž Zoom in

๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Location ๐Ÿท Beer

Travelling to Bristol to help my son move flat. Cricket on the radio ๐Ÿš˜๐Ÿ

๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Cricket

๐ŸŽต My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm:

Radiohead (25 plays)
Philip Selway (19)
Claude Debussy (18)
Mitropoulos, NYPO (13)
Thom Yorke (12)

๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Music
In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50, 2022 - โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…โ˜…

A live concert scene is overlaid with bold text announcing In the Court of the Crimson King and celebrating King Crimson at 50.

Watched on Friday February 2, 2024. ๐ŸŽต

๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Music ๐Ÿท FilmTV
Experimenting with the Beluga.social app ๐Ÿณ

I’m still playing around with Beluga and I quite like the way it works.

I’m sharing my Beluga posts on AWS S3 storage at thedimpause.cloud. This is a url forwarding address because to achieve anything in AWS requires me to do a vast amount of fumbling around until I find something that works. I’m not confident or familiar with using it and still haven’t found the energy to find a way to set up a custom domain yet ๐Ÿ˜ž

I’ve got the JSON feed from my Beluga site importing into my Micro.blog hosted domain and the posts look OK. The main downside is that images do not get imported into the Micro.blog site but are still hosted externally on AWS. I don’t think there’s a way to change that at the moment.

I did notice today was that a link posted to Beluga ends up with a link preview card on the Beluga static site - example here. This card has an image from the linked page which then also gets imported into my Micro.blog site - as here. I do like this but the image that appears is not necessarily predictable - I could end up with some unexpected images on my blog and on the Micro.blog timeline ๐Ÿซข

One downside of the set up seems to be that photos uploaded via Beluga are quite compressed and do not seem to have the quality I get when uploading to Micro.blog via Mimi, MarsEdit or the web client. Fine for screenshots or casual snaps but not if I really care about the final appearance of the photo.

๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท CompTechSci

From ESPN CricInfo ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ

Neither Rehan nor Bashir was born when Anderson made his Test debut at Lord's in May 2003, while his own Test cap number - 613 - is a full 100 caps shy of the 713 cap that Bashir will receive before the start of play on Friday. At the age of 41, Anderson is about to enter his 22nd year as an international cricketer, but Stokes had no qualms about bringing him back into the fray.

HT @CricketCaptain

Two cricket players from England are having a conversation on the field, with one holding a baseball glove and the other wearing a T-shirt with the England cricket logo.

๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Links ๐Ÿท Cricket

Denis Johnson ๐Ÿ’ฌ

A quote from Denis Johnson's book Jesus' Son reflects on a man in his fifties who felt he had wasted his entire life, highlighting the contrast with those who had wasted only a few years.
๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Books ๐Ÿท Quote

John Donne ๐Ÿ’ฌ

A quote from John Donne's poem encourages finding steadfastness within oneself, using the metaphor of a snail carrying its home to illustrate the idea of self-sufficiency and inner peace.
๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Poetry ๐Ÿท Quote

Mossy path on a route from home locally described as โ€œup the mountainโ€ ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Photography ๐Ÿท Glass Photo

Jimmy Anderson with blonde highlights - ๐Ÿ˜ฎ - takes a wicket! ๐Ÿ

๐Ÿ“† | ๐Ÿท Cricket
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