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@gdp Very much the same position here … but I’m convinced our dark clothing collects more hair than our vacuum cleaner 🤨
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@pcora The cat agrees 😉
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@otaviocc I've started (crudely) experimenting in doing exactly that. I've set up a new Micro.blog site at disquiet.blog and at the moment am mainly just dumping stuff from Obsidian into it using your plugin 🙏
For me it is a simple online repository of notes. Just because ...
I don't have that many links between notes in Obsidian but haven't yet worked out how to deal with transferring that to the digital garden site. Work in progress 🙂
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@UndamnedOne That was Rid Of Me but I have been listening to several of her albums recently, including Is This Desire
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@johnjohnston It wasn't entirely stress free but I think the results were worth it 🙂
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@Annie Yep, started with the Minimal theme and styled with CSS
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@Annie 🙋 Tinkering at ian.omg.lol
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@Munish Definitely not! More trouble getting her back into the house than to go out at that time, even in hi-vis 😀
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@BestofTimes Normal remnants of a Saturday night in Bristol - people are out, use the hire scooters and carelessly abandon them anywhere 😞
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@pratik My daughter just asked me that exact question 🙂
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@Denny Wonderfully detailed photos
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@klagefall Cheers - I can definitely recommend it!
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@canion Stunning result for Morocco - I really enjoyed that match too ⚽️
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@maique Thank you! The photos were taken at about 11am - it was dark grey and pouring with rain just after midday - autumn weather 🤷♂️ Got to pick your moment 😀
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@maique Great sequence!
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@gdp I had to look up the beer too … and would certainly have it again if I see it anywhere else 😀
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@JMaxB I really enjoyed it - sat watching it this afternoon and nearly two and a half hours flew by. Timeless and moving.
I’m not hugely familiar with Kurosawa’s films but am trying to work my way (slowly!) through them. I have seen Seven Samurai but not Red Beard yet. Another I did like was Drunken Angel, again with a great lead role from Takashi Shimura.
I was motivated to watch Ikiru by reading a review of Living, a remake adapted by Kazuo Ishiguro - it has just been released cinemas in the …
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@Munish Definitely - their batting against New Zealand yesterday was pretty clinical too! I'm looking forward to the final on Sunday.
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@Munish It was a fantastic performance to watch, but a bit low on tension and drama towards the end 🤷♂️
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@pratik I’ve noticed that too - it’s because the post from the Letterboxd feed has a title.
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@warner To me it doesn’t seem like a bug with the theme or plugin. The first capture looks to be an incomplete web page (possibly cached) where the browser can’t connect to the page resources - css style sheet and images - and is reverting to the unstyled default browser font and layout to display the page contents.
As @manton said, your site all looks good for me now so it was probably a temporary glitch in connectivity somewhere.
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@jayeless Interesting - will read the Darcy Moore article and looks like there’s a lot more about Orwell on his site that I’ll have to follow up 🙂
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@annahavron Thanks - I enjoyed the views but it was actually more grey and drizzly than I would have liked for walking in 🙂
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@Munish It was - I watched the Pakistan innings but had to listen to India batting on the radio in the car. Ended up sitting in the car in a multi-storey car park to catch the dramatic last couple of overs.
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@amit @pratik I’m looking forward to it too, and times in UK aren’t too bad with matches starting in the morning between 5am and 12pm.
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@ridwan Just crawling along our garden wall in front of me when I was sitting outside having a coffee - first thought it was a woodlouse but then noticed the markings and that it had a lot more legs!
Identified using Seek/iNaturalist 🪲
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@petebrown Easy way to close the exercise ring then 😉
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@V_ Fortunately I move the mouse with my right hand but wear the watch on my left wrist :)
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@toddgrotenhuis It was - Villa should have won 😞 but some fantastic saves by Kepa. Saying that, the Liverpool v Man City game was even more hectic!
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@jeremycherfas 😆 It could be worse, it could be The X Factor or Britain’s Got Talent … I’ve escaped those!
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@ridwan I'm sure I lag behind, my exercise levels are very casual and I much prefer walking to cycling ... just the weather in Wales sometimes makes an indoor option preferable 🙂
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@ridwan Normally I’d expect to do 10 miles of an indoor ride in about half an hour, pedalling at a virtual 19-20 mph. Today I took it a little easier and took 40 minutes 🙂
In comparison, in the real world I’d usually cover about 6 miles of a flat ride in half an hour, so I’m not that good a cyclist 😄
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@pratik Thanks!
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@Munish Thank you!
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@pcora Thank you!
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@V_ Think she knows that too 😉
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@V_ Thank you!
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@odd Thank you - didn't realise it was jade, that could have made a nice gift!
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@klandwehr It was, and I’ve now corrected the third image, which I somehow messed up 😊
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@JMaxB Yes, Vespula vulgaris … useful predators for pest control though and I’d much rather they were nesting in a garden wall than our roof space, where we’ve had them before!
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@odd Well, we’ve got a few ekorns in our garden in addition to all the acorns 😁
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@maique Fantastic!
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@help @pratik Just noticed this with my Letterboxd feed too - film I logged at about five to three this afternoon appeared in my Microblog post list as scheduled for 2022-10-01 02:53 - I just edited the date and time to be a few minutes in the future (2022-09-30 16:30) and the post was published then.
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@rknightuk The review text does come across, as does the film poster image (hosted externally) - see this example from my import. My (short!) review text is below the image. If there's no review text you just get, for example, Watched on Sunday September 25, 2022 below the image.
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@pratik It duplicated for me because previously I didn't add the Letterboxd feed to my Micro.blog timeline but instead used IFTTT to automatically generate a 'proper' blog post from my Letterboxd feed.
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@pratik I have just done this for Letterboxd - I was using IFTTT to cross-post my Letterboxd feed into Micro.blog. One word of warning - it has imported the 50 most recent items from my Letterboxd feed into my blog, so now I do have a lot of duplicate 'watched' posts 🙂
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@manton That's great - been craving that functionality for ages. Hopefully can now kill off some of my IFTTT applets that forward feeds to Micro.blog. 👏
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@rishabh I’m in a Cronenberg mood 🙂
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@JMaxB I have had ‘instant’ polenta which involved far less work - just pouring boiling water on essentially - but if you’ve got a shortcut for the standard polenta I’d be interested :)
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@pcora Turned out very well 👌😉
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@vincent Have a reply ...
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@jean Got to say I can’t recall seeing any spammers so far in my Microblog experience so someone’s doing something right 👍
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@odd That does sound really good. I’m afraid that in my garden I’ve taken the easier option of encouraging wild flowers to grow. My small vegetable plot and greenhouse usually get a little neglected 🙁
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@samgrover Fantastic 👍
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@manton Fair enough, I'll take your word that it's undesirable 🙂 Just craving something like the local Mastodon instance feeds, which can be lively but where on occasion I have found random but interesting posts and users to engage with. As you say though it's probably very dependent on the size of the instance.
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@stefp Can definitely recommend it - as long as the weather stays fine! The festival has stayed relatively small and relaxed and each year they seem to learn from any shortcomings and improve the experience.
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@ChrisHannah @maique @manton Ditto! Would really like access to a global feed to potentially see content on Micro.blog that I currently miss.
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@JMaxB I’d be happy with the Tolstoy look - I’ve always considered him a hippy ahead of his time anyway 😊
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@maique Striking image 👏
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@wfm I would be relaxing in ours but it's a few years old, a bit worn and I'm worried it won't take my weight 😟
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@UndamnedOne Afraid it's not automatically linked, the weekly tweet is automatic and I manually copy and post to Microblog.
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@Munish Great match, really thought it was going to end up going to penalties!
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@kaa These days, in most places I visit, it would just be a QR code...
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@Luke@mastodon.sdf.org Cheers!
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@annahavron Thank you!
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@klagefall @Munish The long form of the game always has room for more twists, turns and strategies. More often than not I enjoy it more than the shorter matches 😁🏏
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@klagefall Definitely! And it really should have ended in a draw, Glamorgan declared at lunch on the final day so Leicestershire only had to survive for two sessions (65 overs had to be played I think) - given the batting performances by both sides in the first innings it should have been straightforward!
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@pratik I really don't know, for all intents and purposes it should have played out to a draw. It was a good pitch that wasn't breaking up or turning much but Glamorgan just kept taking wickets with consistent bowling ... pressure on the batters that really shouldn't have been there??? Multi-record breaking performance for Glamorgan though 😄
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@thedimpause Turned out to be a remarkable win for Glamorgan 😄
LV= County Championship Division Two, Uptonsteel County Ground, Leicester
Leicestershire 584: Mulder 156 & 183: Mulder 59; Hogan 4-43
Glamorgan 795-5 dec: Northeast 410, C Cooke 191, Ingram 139; Wright 3-99
Glamorgan (23 pts) beat Leicestershire (6 pts) by an innings and 28 runs
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@annahavron Rocker blotters intrigue and impress me. If I used fountain pens I’d have to get one. I think you should go for a collection 😉
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@bsag I got that today too - but I’m in Greece. Wasn’t expecting to avoid a heatwave in the UK by being here 🫤
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@uncertainquark Yes, definitely an option for those who want to limit their posts from appearing publicly in the future.
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@pratik Great images which bring back memories for me. I worked on the South Bank for nearly five years, these views were part of my daily commute.
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@jsonbecker Excellent compromise.
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Seconded, this thread has been really interesting and given much food for thought.
Just think how much less interesting it will be when half the participants delete their contributions 😉😈
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@jasraj @uncertainquark @pimoore @jasonekratz One other proviso I have to add here (before I go to bed!) is that everything I’m saying is regarding the sort of material most of us publish here on Microblog - mainly personal life/journaling posts and generally moderate opinions mixed with some tech stuff!
If, say, I was publishing political or sensitive material in/from a hostile state environment my position would be completely the opposite - I’d 100% want the option for auto-delete and maximum …
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@pimoore Perhaps the bigger and more siloed the platform is the more potential there is for concern. But I still struggle (with the sort of things I post) to find a reason why. Data harvesting and marketing potentially I suppose.
I personally wouldn’t worry about Mastodon instances at present, but then I don’t delete old tweets on Twitter either.
If I had serious issues with leaving posts on any service I’d probably just stop using that service, close my account and request all my data to be …
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@JMaxB I feel that way about a lot of Mediterranean dishes, be they Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Middle Eastern or North African 😋
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@JMaxB The only reason I care about the outcome is that I really enjoy the Microblog timeline and I worry the environment would change if ‘temporary’ posting became mainstream.
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@pimoore I agree, fleeting life commentary (see my timeline for what I ate for dinner tonight 😀) is quickly out of date and irrelevant and of no real interest to most people now or in the future. But I see no reason to delete it and there’s no extra burden on me to leave it where I posted.
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@uncertainquark Auto-deletion won’t prevent screenshots (as Snapchat came to realise). I think peoples retention of online posts they read is far, far shorter than IRL conversations - I must scroll through dozens (at least) of digital media posts a day, not convinced how many I’ll recall in a week let alone a year 😊
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@uncertainquark I’d still say why though?
In the physical world I wouldn’t expect opinions and views I’ve expressed to people would be obliterated even after a year.
Yes, not recalled word for word (that’s the nature of the medium), but not forgotten!
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@uncertainquark I’d still argue the opposite though: any sort of auto-deletion of posts encourages trolling and abuse because the poster knows their attacks will disappear. It generates a posting without consequence atmosphere.
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@jasraj You asked …
I really don’t see the need for post auto-deletion on the Microblog platform.
What is the appeal? To me it just seems to be the awful Snapchat ethos.
I’d rather people took responsibility for what they post, either standing by their comments or admitting their mistakes.
Also feel that it doesn’t value anyone who’s taken the trouble to read, consider and respond to the posts you discard. Presumably their replies are trashed too, or just made nonsensical.
Ultimately, if you …
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@jasonekratz Yes, that … and I also find turning off all Twitter notifications except an email for Direct Messages helps make it less distracting.
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@jasonekratz I use Twitter to follow a number of celebrities/artists/authors I respect, events I attend or am interested in and (mainly tech) brands I use. For a lot of them there’s nowhere else to get the info. I still get value and interest from Twitter without getting dragged into or engaged with anything I don’t like. The power to ignore.
At present I don’t automatically syndicate from Microblog to Twitter. I selectively choose some things to post there because I know some personal friends …
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@manton That looks really good. Making me wish I’d ordered the print version of Indie Microblogging, although I guess that has fewer photographs 😀
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@maique Cheers! Not too early though, moonrise here last night was actually about 8pm 😉 The photo was taken around 9:30pm, about half an hour after sunset.
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@crossingthethreshold Thank you!
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@annahavron I’d guess that’s still true of a number of monastic communities of multiple denominations and religions.
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@maique Scary! I’ve experienced 40° before but nothing like what the extra 10° must mean.
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@JMaxB Thank you - I realised the peninsula was a monastic site but not of its spiritual significance to the Orthodox Church.
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@maique Wow! Those temperatures are ridiculous 😟
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@ReaderJohn Is that a phrase (destination? future?) that has some significance? Not something I’m aware of …
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@odd Magnus is certainly a man - just seems the author thought he looked (and possibly behaved!) like the Harpie in the image.
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@odd We definitely didn’t stop for a drink 🙂
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@maique Photographers often get away with not being captured on film 🤣
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@JMaxB All square then, presuming my conversation equates with her book, which I have doubts about 🤔
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@maique Looks suitably shady and cooling - presume the smaller pool is for you 😀
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@toddgrotenhuis Indeed! I can forgive her 😊
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@maique Yep, it consoles me 😆
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@maique I can imagine so - I saw your earlier post about the heatwave, Portugal definitely significantly hotter than northern Greece at the moment. Hope you all cope!
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@maique A short, refreshing cloudburst … more forecast tomorrow though!
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@maique 👍
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@Munish Yes, good start for the McCullum/Stokes combination, hope it lasts!
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@Munish It has been a really entertaining match - looking forward to seeing how it plays out this morning.
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@pratik It was!
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@stefp That’s audacious!
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@notdroppingcameras Really enjoying all your Venice photos 👏
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@jemostrom Afraid I'm definitely sticking with Belgium today, not Sweden 😉
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@manton Looks like a great feature which could prove very useful. I've got a few bulk changes/corrections I'd like to make to some of my blog posts.
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@dwalbert @Pilchuck And these went very well with beer, which is a bonus 😊
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@pratik Jealous! I’ve never been to Lord’s 😞
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@tomc I have! Good but I thought I could fairly easily recreate it (and have done!) by using the separate ingredients 😀
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@poetalegre That’s weird! From what I can see roots should be from the other end…
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@johnjohnston @maique @ReaderJohn There were a lot of these around the town. Someone had been very busy 😀
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@ronguest My first home computer! I still have the board and all the original manuals, but no longer have the power supply or any connectors for it. Hasn’t been powered on in well over 35 years I would say - I’ve no idea what would happen if I tried 😞
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@jean 🤣 These were delicious - even better there was no effort required; they were delivered to me last night by my wife's Greek work colleague!
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@jean The apps I use most are Tot and Drafts. Tot (used by far the most frequently) for shortform temporary notes/editing. Drafts for longer text that I may want to file away or use elsewhere, either online or in other apps.
I also tinker with a combination of Obsidian and The Archive in an attempt to maintain some reading notes.
On occasion I dip into 1Writer for some longer note editing on iPhone/iPad. On macOS that task usually ends up in BBEdit.
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@pcora Thanks 🙏
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@Mandalorian Thank you!
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@cn 😀
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@pratik I feel your pain ☹️ We’ve got the same dilemma in the UK, with 2 main - and expensive - subscription services dividing the coverage of major football and cricket matches and competitions 😡
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@val Thanks! My trip will be at the end of July - not much time 😲 I trust your Russian is progressing well, I can see that you’re probably in a much better position to use and practice it than I ever will be for Greek 😊 (I’m assuming Russian is still commonly used and spoken in Kyrgyzstan?)
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@cliffordbeshers It’s admirable, I’m impressed 😀
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@cliffordbeshers NALGO was a UK labor union (I used to be a member), I was drinking a cup of tea out of the mug whilst reading Rice Noodle Fish. No more to it, the mug was the focus, but I’ll happily accept more 😊 (The stone just happens to be a candle holder on our garden table)
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@val Mainly because I've travelled to Greece over 20 times during the last 30 years and not got beyond hello, please, thank you, good morning/night and basic food and drink 😞
I’ll be going again this year and decided to make an effort to learn more. I also retired from work just before the pandemic so have had a little more time on my hands for some mini-hobbies 😊
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@val Yes, I think so - mine’s also copyrighted 1988. Don’t mind too much if it’s a little culturally out of date, I just wanted a quick written reference to accompany a few months of trying out Greek in Duolingo!
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@val They’ve been around for a while 😀 The edition I found was from 1995, not sure how often the appearance changes. Thought it looked like a nice concise guide though!
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@pratik Thanks! I’ve been admiring your rocky silhouettes too 😊
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@cliffordbeshers Yes, it did 😀, I was carrying the chair back to our car in the pub car park and needed a picture to show my daughter the chair and where we are staying!
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@dwalbert It is an original/antique but not a valuable one - bargain price of £15 😊
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@rknightuk Thanks!
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@JohnPhilpin If I follow your link when logged into Readwise I get the read.readwise.io interface with
Document not found
Either this document hasn't quite loaded yet, or you might have previously deleted it.
so no, not readable by me.
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@manton Yes, I'd also say on the Bookmarks page itself (at the top, alongside the highlights link possibly?) - that's the first place I look when I'm trying to find it :)
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@uncertainquark Agreed, it's not in an obvious place! One other minor irritation I have with the feed is that it actually contains 2 items per bookmark - an item for the bookmarked article itself plus an item for the archived version of the article. I’d find it more useful to have these split into 2 separate feeds … any chance @manton ? 😀
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@uncertainquark There is! If you go into your Micro.blog Account settings on the web interface and Edit Feeds & Cross-posting the link to your bookmarks feed is near the bottom of the page in
Saved bookmarks go in your unique read later feed
afaik it's JSON only though.
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@adoran2 Think I was a day out of step with you (looks like new puzzles are generated at 16:00 UTC), but this
I solved today's Redactle (#16) in 97 guesses with an accuracy of 65.98%. Played at www.redactle.com
was a great success. 😊
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@adoran2 Thanks for that - took me 187 guesses 😡😊 Going to have to try tomorrow though …
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@hjalm Great photos 👍
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@odd Thank you!
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@Munish I'm probably biased because I live in the area but I think south and south-west Wales does offer a fantastic coastline 😀
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@the 🙏 Glad you liked it and it brought back memories.
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@jeremycherfas Thanks for the vote of confidence! And sorry I missed your earlier question @klandwehr.
To add to Jeremy’s answer, in some forms of cricket teams may also switch sides after a certain number of balls have been bowled. There are 20 over matches (120 balls bowled by each side) and 50 over matches (300 balls) where each team bats and bowls once.
These matches have become increasingly popular because they are a lot shorter than a full 4 or 5 day cricket match where potentially each …
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@Munish Only issue I have is that it starts at 2am in the morning in the UK 😔 🛌
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@manton Very useful! Thank you 👏
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@toddgrotenhuis The green colours were stunning - don’t think the photo even quite captures them!
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@odd I’ve got the moss (lots of it) and mountainsides around me, but no fjords or dolphins I’m afraid 😀
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@maique 😆
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@jemostrom Thanks!
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@maique I think that you're probably in that gang ;)
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@yorrike This lack of pdf handling always annoyed me when I had to use Windows machines at work.
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@thedimpause I think I am being proved wrong - it's a very entertaining and competitive game.
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@warner Definitely a solution 😀
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@pratik 😊 Think that temporary post from MarsEdit stuck around a little too long!
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@wfm Getting quite worrying! I'm in South Wales - we've got all train services cancelled tomorrow plus all schools and some businesses closed in my area. Looking at Windy and the Met Office it seems like strong winds are persisting over the weekend too.
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@manton Glad you've spotted this - was wondering why my category pages weren't working properly, listing all posts rather than just specific category posts. Thought it was me that had broken something but couldn't work out what. 😊 Look forward to the fixes.
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@tibz That all looks fantastic!
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@odd Indeed!
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@odd It has and it is! Some long gaps between them. I’ve been working my way through the Daniel Craig Bond movies this week to remind myself of them before watching the latest. Spectre (2015) next, to be watched this weekend, then I’ll be ready 😀
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@maique Seem to be hitting good February weather every time we head for a harbour, so keeping the trend going 😊
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@adders Me too - pondered for a long time this morning! Identifying vowels first definitely helps me.
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@jean 33 days of Wordle, 97% success, 30 day streak, guessed in 2 tries 3 times, usually start with ALIEN and if that’s completely fruitless probably go with SOUTH 😊
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@patrickT It was, and the second day in a row I’ve managed to find good coffee by a scenic harbour in good weather 😊
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@Portufraise I often find things I want to bookmark to remember on The History Blog. The blog author always links back to the original articles.
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@maique Oh, I could easily have eaten more … just had to share 😊
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@toddgrotenhuis @wfm Apart from the mud ;)
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@devilgate Thank you - I wasn't aware because I never use dark mode and didn't check what the theme was doing 😊 Lesson learned!
Have put a quick CSS fix in place to make the background white and the site readable - will probably tinker with the styling in due course to make it more palatable for dark mode users.
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@jeremycherfas I’m afraid I don’t. I’m a relative stranger to the Bristol area - my daughter goes to university there and we are visiting 😊 You’ve just given me places to look out for though!
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@odd For me it does … a little strongly worded!
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@jeremycherfas Enjoyed looking around today even though not too much growing at this time of year - lots of signs/labels without their accompanying plants 😀
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@skoobz I didn’t realise until a couple of months ago either - heard him talking on a BBC radio show and looked up what he had been doing since The Police disbanded. Only just started listening to his solo stuff but really like the most recent albums - plenty to investigate.
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@JMaxB Definitely hyper-visual! Got to confess that this was my second attempt to watch the film, having given up on it after about half an hour on my first try. But given a lazy Saturday afternoon, a suspension of disbelief and a commitment to admire the spectacle I did quite enjoy it in the end 😊 Not a lot of depth there though, I would agree; I can't see myself ever re-watching it.
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@Jeena Interesting album of photos. Thanks for posting 👏
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@renevanbelzen @jeremycherfas Probably searchmysite.net ?
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@jeremycherfas Possibly … I can’t remember whether I did 😃
Appropriate time to say that I always enjoy Eat This Podcast. Recent episode on the Roman bakery was fascinating. Much appreciated.
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@jeremycherfas I listened to your podcast with him a few months ago 👏
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@pratik It seemed more than a spoonful when I was washing and chopping it 😉
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@ReaderJohn We have baklava 😊
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@ReaderJohn Yes!
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@toddgrotenhuis I like the concept! May give it a try ...
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@josephaleo Nothing else by the two of them on Apple Music…
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@josephaleo I wasn’t even aware they existed until this week (and I’m a fairly big King Crimson/Fripp fan!) - have enjoyed listening to both albums.
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@ohBananaJoe Pleasantly yellow 😀 Also let me find you on Flickr, some great photos so far 👍
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@pratik Agreed! Annoyed me a number of times when I’ve been posting quickly and have forgotten to tap the icon 😀
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@pcora Thank you!
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@JMaxB 😀 So far the only complaint I've had is from my mother-in-law!
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@odd 👍 I had no real reason for doing it, just felt like a change...
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@mbkriegh A dry, sunny day in autumn in Wales is always a welcome surprise 😉
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@warner It's great! I last went to Camden Lock over 25 years ago - it's changed a lot since then but I still love it!
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@maique Yep, plenty to look at - I wish we had stayed for more than one night; there was a desk and comfortable chair right by that window 🙂
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@maique That sounds like a really good implementation. Would also like to see something like it on Micro.blog.
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@bsebesta I’m enjoying them, but not as much as the His Dark Materials novels. The first Book of Dust in particular (where Lyra is a baby) seemed a bit inconsequential, just filling in a bit of backstory. The second volume (set 20 years after the first) is a lot better so far - I’m about a third of the way through it and it is far more engaging. And of course I will read the final part of the trilogy when it’s published!
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@dejus That all looks very weird and wonderful!
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@rishabh And Allan Donald, Gary Kirsten and (slightly later) Jacques Kallis! 😀
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@ArnoldHoogerwerf Definitely is 👍
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@jeremycherfas Is there something breaking the link? Works fine for me and the site is the Wordworth Trust, which should be reputable!
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@TheDimPause Given up watching the rugby - sticking to cricket and pizza.
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@jemostrom What game is that? Looks interesting!
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@timapple I worked in a school which hosted the local education authority's music services storage - rooms full of instruments which were distributed to/from other schools in the area. One day they just seemed to decide to have a clear out, turned up with a rubbish container and started filling it. I hope that they were just getting rid of old instruments that were so worn and in a state that they really couldn't be repaired and used. I had no way of judging that, but it doesn't explain why all …
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@odd @josephaleo Good idea 😀
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@timapple Made me sad too - and I had to watch the container get filled up more throughout the day 😞
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@maique From the last time I was in Greece - nearly two and a half years ago now 🙁
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@pratik Pretty disappointing. I was hoping for a more exciting start to the tournament from them 😞
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@JoeCotellese Yes, and they give a great live performance, full of humour and enthusiasm. I thoroughly recommend seeing them when they do visit!
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@maique Thanks!
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@amit That is a great summary of and guide to Drummer. Thank you!
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@mpmilestogo Got a good excuse – it’s our silver wedding anniversary, there will be a few days of celebration 😊
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@mpmilestogo Sounds great! The banh mi was delicious and I’m a big fan of Vietnamese coffee with condensed milk - unfortunately not too many places near me that serve it 😔
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@pimoore Thank you!
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@warner Cheers!
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@warner It is Braille - on a box of antibiotics :)
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@JayGogh Not truly vintage I'm afraid - mid to late 1990s I believe.
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@nielsk Yes, a disappointing article, as is this one. Never really seems to be any good Big Tech news 😞
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@ptrck Thanks!
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@rwnash Good beer in a good pub! Cheers 🍻
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@ohBananaJoe I favour favourite
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@JMaxB Me too! She's definitely a fantastic crafter of sonnets - I love how a number of her published poetry collections end in a sequence of sonnets.
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@JMaxB You've just taught me something - I wasn't even aware that there was an American robin, assumed robins were the same everywhere. Wikipedia has illuminated me, your robin is a thrush!
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@ptrck @maique Easier to capture the atmosphere than sharp pictures of the band 😉
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@keithpound It was superb. Guy Garvey, as usual, giving a great and personable performance. I actually got the tickets to see them the day after my birthday in April 2020 - fantastic to be able to use them at last 😃
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@ohBananaJoe I’ve got an iPhone 11. I don’t take many Night mode picture but I usually like the results!
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@samgrover Will do!
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@maique Bit lucky that the fire shot out some sparks at the right moment 😊
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@DaveyCraney That looks delicious!
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@keithpound Yes, only solution I can think of is to email support@tweekly.fm to make a feature request for an alternative output, say an RSS feed or Micropub publishing option. I believe I did that ages ago but got no response - tweekly.fm doesn’t seem to be undergoing much active development 😞 But at least it does work well at what it does!
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@keithpound It could probably be done from Twitter via something like IFTTT or Zapier but I’m wary of trying that because I also cross-post from Micro.blog to Twitter - scared of infinite posting loops 😉
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@keithpound I’m afraid it doesn’t, I manually copy and slightly edit the tweets tweekly.fm generates then post to my blog. Still seeking a good way to automate it 😔
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@pimoore : @Burk is correct, C Control, T Test, also not a doctor but married to one who tells me these things 😉
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@ohBananaJoe Great photos! All looks really good.
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@ohBananaJoe Venice! Look forward to seeing more photos.
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@petebrown Very nice!
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@hawaiiboy The only Japanese beers I’ve tried are Sapporo and Asahi but I’m impressed by both of them.
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@maique Cheers! (But I’m drinking a Polish cherry vodka at the moment…)
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@manton My favourite so far!
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@maique Thank you!
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@maique I really like the 650ml Sapporo cans - they are substantial in every way!
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@josephaleo Trying it now, like the interface!
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@maique 👍
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@khurtwilliams Almost certainly not! It wouldn’t make me a better photographer but it should probably take better photographs in certain situations.
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@maique Ah yes, I have it turned off :)
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@ridwan Me too - and I decided to try and take more B&W photos myself after watching a couple of documentaries which were completely illustrated by B&W photos; very evocative and I just enjoyed seeing them.
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@ridwan Guessing there’s not so much interest in B&W only images and/or paying for the full app?
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@ridwan @ReaderJohn I should be on commission 😉
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@keithpound I'm getting on well with it - the camera is very responsive and I haven't (so far) felt the need to do any post-processing of the images. There are 6 preset live filters which all seem to work well.
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@Omrrc The food was delicious! I think the restaurant started off in Cheltenham then spread to Bristol, Cardiff and beyond.
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@maique I’m inclined to agree but am always envious of the Leica monochrome digital cameras (not that I will ever be able to afford one!) - just wanted to get a feeling as to what it would be like to be so restricted!
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@maique No, your imagination can run wild! 😆
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@ridwan @maique Shot with the Argentum Camera app. Afraid the B&W is irreversible! 😊
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@pratik It certainly has! I didn't have chance to watch much of this (4th) Test but it appears to have had a dramatic final day. Both teams will surely be desperate to win the final Test.
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@Omrrc Indeed, it is Strensham - Foursquare got that wrong 😑
Now corrected!
I don’t think you missed much by not visiting 😉
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@tkoola Great stuff!
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@devilgate This may be a 🔗reasonable explanation? Still trying to work it out!
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@JohnPhilpin I am intrigued …
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@pratik A remarkable turnaround. Going to be interesting to see if England can maintain the dominance or India can stage a fight back. Hopefully it will be a good example of 5 day Test cricket.
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@Munish Surely no way that’s going to happen … but also 🤞
After England went astray in the last Test you never know though!
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@jean I really like my Nikon Sportstar EX 8x25 binoculars (but mainly use them at cricket matches and haven't tried them for bird or wildlife watching). The build and image quality seem great to me and they are small, lightweight and waterproof.
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@pimoore Or 🔬 (microscope, taking a closer look!)
// @burk
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@pimoore A tagmoji for microblogging about Micro.blog 🤯
That really could be a good idea, might help people discover tips and useful info they weren’t aware of…
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@rom Yes, group admin is @JacksonOfTrades who doesn't seem to have been active on Micro.blog for a while (but may just be browsing!). I requested to join the Flickr group and got in quite quickly - but there hasn't been much (any?) activity there in Flickr recently either.
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@rom There is a Micro.blog Flickr Group
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@amit They should be; I’m looking forward to them and just hoping the late summer English weather allows complete Test matches!
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@jean I'm a photography enthusiast! On Flickr and also trying Glass and Gala. 📷
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@manton If you haven't noticed, appears that Micro.blog hosted sites are down (for me) and the Micro.blog Status page is showing a SSL connect error for news.micro.blog.
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@manton That’s great! 👏
Worked for me with the slight niggle that Micro.blog only picked up the first line of my Glass photo description (I had a two sentence description separated by a blank line).
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@pratik Nor me! After Pant was out after 15 mins of play this morning I was expecting England to be batting soon and chasing a reachable target. Now it’s a matter of them trying to save the game …
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@ci I will persevere with it for a while, trying (when covenient!) to post a photo a day for a while to see where it goes. I'm doing the same for the other newish platform Gala - which is a lot more buggy!
But at the end of the day I can also see myself sticking with Flickr - just wishing they would modernise/simplify their app to provide a better photo browsing experience.
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@ci No problem - I’ve enjoyed seeing your photos on Micro.blog, look forward to seeing more on Glass!
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@ci Sent!
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@ci I have! Where do you want me to send it?
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@warner Ah yes, I see what you mean. I misunderstood and thought you wanted it to appear 😳 All good then!
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@warner It's always automatically appeared in my Micro.blog navigation when I've installed the Search page plugin. Not sure why yours doesn't - have you by any chance also got a manually created page titled Search which is interfering with the plugin?
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@warner I don't use Spotify so wasn't aware of Canvas, but from a quick look at their product page it looks more advanced than anything I've seen in Apple Music so far.
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@warner Watched! And just updated my Typewriter dark mode plugin to hopefully cure the invisible text in the dark mode Search box 😉
(You may need to uninstall and re-install the plugin)
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@dejus Archeological marks in a field left by a long demolished building. If it's in Europe I'd say a Roman villa. If it's in the US I'm way off target 😉
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@JMaxB I agree - and I've just finished re-watching all three in the last ten days. But I'll still definitely be in the queue for #4!
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@cdevroe 🔗 Details at Digital Spy - the site of spoilers and speculation which I tend to avoid ...
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@cdevroe That's what they'd have us believe ;)
Production on the film began in February 2020, and is currently scheduled for release on December 22, 2021.
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@wldunbar It is an intersting article in The Guardian - I also just posted about it and pre-ordered the book 😀
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@hutaffe Good article by the EFF. Definitely a concern.
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@mandaris Thought that was a typo until I watched the episode this evening 😊 Brilliant!
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@JMaxB Definitely! Spaghetti alla puttanesca is one of my favourites.
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@dejus If I’ve got the scale right it looks like a plastic ring binding comb for a paper booklet?
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@AlanGMarz I appreciate it - as long as it’s not pouring with rain. Which it tends to do. Often 😉
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@adders @johnjohnston It was very pleasant!
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@pimoore @pratik Reloaded has just been my Saturday afternoon viewing 🎬. And I did enjoy it! Spectacular in places - as you say, most of the fights and the freeway sequence. It does advance the storyline in a relatively satisfactory way, just a little verbose at times!
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@pimoore @pratik Yes, one of my favourite films. Planning to watch Reloaded and Revolutions over the next week or so to see what I think of them now.
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@gr36 Taking a look 👀
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@hollyhoneychurch Pizzas were fantastic - will definitely try and revisit!
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@toddgrotenhuis Afraid not, I just manually copy and paste from the tweet to a Micro.blog post so that there’s a record in my blog. Haven’t found a way to automate it yet :(
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@toddgrotenhuis You’ve got me listening!
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@mbkriegh I’ll have to re-watch it soon!
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@odd It’s been our plan this year to leave as much of the garden as possible unmowed. It’s worked out really well and getting loads of wildflowers, including wild orchids. 🐝
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@JMaxB That’s a bit harsh on my garden! 😉
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@pimoore 👍 Perhaps I should have gone even more elaborate though 😀
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@mbkriegh I’d love to know the connection … can’t think of anything that reminds me of the film!
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@HauntedRadiator Reality exceeding expectation for a change ;)
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@devilgate Of course 😆
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@BestofTimes I'm really impressed by it - I've listened to all 3 series. He's always got loads to say of interest and I like that he covers modern poets - a number of whom I hadn't previously heard of - as well as the more well-known mainstream 'classics'. Certainly inspired me to read more poetry and buy a couple of the poetry collections he's mentioned.
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@BestofTimes Were you listening to Frank Skinner’s Poetry Podcast about Auden by any chance?
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@manton Great! I’ll give it a try tomorrow.
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@Munish I know, always a bit of a shame when a game gets to that stage - but nobody’s come up with a better alternative yet…
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@andrewsio Definitely!
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@ReaderJohn Think Jorginho’s run-up completely fooled him - he just slowed slightly until the keeper dived the wrong way. Takes some nerve!
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@toddgrotenhuis Me too! Looking forward to seeing Italy in the final. Great game tonight.
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@odd And I’m hoping for England-Italy :) ⚽️
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@manton Looking forward to seeing more about this - I also use IFTTT to auto-post my Micro.blog entries to Day One but a manual export/import could easily be an improvement.
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@keithpound Excellent photo - I was in the Tenby area when he was visiting South West Wales but never got a glimpse 🙁
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@ReaderJohn Always a concern, but hopefully less so these days with a lighter ball that doesn’t absorb moisture. Physical stress a worry in a lot of sports.
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@ArnoldHoogerwerf Best way to cook aubergines!
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@toddgrotenhuis Good choice 😉
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@AlanGMarz Thanks!
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@ReaderJohn If you ever find yourself in Cardiff I highly recommend a visit!
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@crossingthethreshold Or you can use the user link I just included in my first reply to you - didn't know that worked :)
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@crossingthethreshold If you go to Discover and search for a Mastodon user - @mpmilestogo@photog.social - you should find their Mastodon profile and be able to Follow. Have only tried this on the web though, not sure if it works in the apps.
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@pimoore Even better when it’s not misty :)
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@Omrrc Impressive view, great photo!
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@sku_b Wye Valley Brewery, very good beers but not sure how much they export.
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@sku_b Not hemp! Hereford Pale Ale :)
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@jean A keen coffee drinker here 🙋🏻♂️☕️
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@manton I'd like to try the Bookshelves beta! 📚
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@ArnoldHoogerwerf Got to confess I've only spent one day in Scotland (visiting Edinburgh) but would love to have a longer trip. I am a big fan of BrewDog beers though!
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@ArnoldHoogerwerf Scotland 🏴 !
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@pimoore Thanks!
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@jeremycherfas Thank you! It was very good (even though I say so myself 🙂) but I still think the best paella is seafood based.
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@jean Noooo! Don't do this to me, I can't try another text editor/writing app 😉
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@JMaxB Difficult because I'm improvising ;) Paella rice, vegetables I have available, stock, pimentón, saffron, garlic, bay, rosemary and parsley ...
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@jacob I've got a feeling you're probably not going to be a big fan of Thom Yorke's solo output then! It is becoming increasingly electronic and experimental. I'd start with his first album The Eraser because it's closest to Radiohead. If you don't like that, stop there :) The album AMOK which he did with Atoms for Peace might also be worth a listen, but again there is an increasing amount of electronica and percussion involved.
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@tibz Fantastic photos!
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@jsanchez That looks good! There seem to be a lot of speciality/small scale coffee roasteries around these days, we're spoilt for choice.
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@jsanchez I'm a big fan - mine's officially a 6 cup pot but if I'm alone I can happily sit and sip my way through most of it (as long as the coffee isn't too strongly roasted) 🙂
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@pimoore Fantastic! I am at bit biased though - it's made by a small craft brewery about a mile from my house and I'm a big fan of their beers. This Belgian Blonde is new from them, launched about a month ago.
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@joelhamill Fun, but not great! Enjoyed it though.
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@amit I always feel that a ‘Now’ page would become too much work for me - mine would always become a ‘Months Ago’ page. At least a digital garden could be relatively timeless!
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@jgmac1106 When I was working I used to hate IT Policy Templates :(
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@maique But my plugin just adds the script, not the ads themselves - still need to manually add the embed code to the site template/page/footer etc and then style it with CSS
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@maique A plug-in to add the Sublime Ads script to a Micro.blog site? I've got one here:
which I use on my site. I haven't tested it on any other themes but can't see why it wouldn't work.
If there's interest, @manton can add it to the plug-in directory!
// @vincent
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@Munish No, a Sri Lanka T20. Unfortunately New Zealand aren’t playing in Cardiff. Also tempted by a Pakistan ODI though ...
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@Munish It’s going to be a big run chase!
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@Munish I’m trying! I’ve got an England cricket match booked for June, festival tickets for August carried over from last year, a couple of postponed gigs pending and now I’ve just bought more. 😦
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@ohBananaJoe Created a Notion account (which is something I've been meaning to try for a while!) and added my details.
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@ohBananaJoe I (among many I think) haven't decided what to use HEY World for yet. A compiled list of Micro.blog users' HEY World sites would be interesting to give me some ideas!
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@ohBananaJoe I've been using it for 6 months and am happy 😀
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@tibz Fantastic game of rugby to watch (second half just starting) - we’re also enjoying it with red wine 🏉 🍷 😊
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@ReaderJohn Hopefully more so in about a fortnight!
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@manton I'd really like the option for RSS -> Hosted Micro.blog. I'm doing that with a few services via IFTTT but a built-in Micro.blog option would be fantastic. If you could include the ability to transfer any images linked in the feed into the Micro.blog hosted uploads (rather than just embedding external images in the post) it would be even better ☺️
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@rishabh Over the last year or so we've been playing Ticket to Ride a lot and still haven't got bored of it. Also a bit of the tile laying game Carcassonne which we've had and enjoyed for a long time. Also, for a quick two player strategy buzz, Santorini has been quite good - as well as the old favourites chess, backgammon and Scrabble :)
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@rishabh An old edition (1980s) of Risk - it has been updated several times since then but the original is great!
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@pratik They certainly shouldn’t be blaming the pitches. As is always said, it’s the same for both sides, and England even had the advantage of batting first in the last two Tests.
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@pratik It was very disappointing. I kept expecting a decent England batting partnership to emerge in every innings but it never did 😞. Some poor batting decisions, some poor team selections and they just couldn’t match India’s performance levels.
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@toddgrotenhuis Sorry, it did originally work via IFTTT but I deleted the test post when I saw it because there was some html/css styling baggage I need to sort out first on my blog - it didn't look nice 🙂
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@rishabh Something new to play with :) Don’t know how much I’ll use it yet though!
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@Portufraise I'm pleased it turned out so clearly! I was just playing with the Micro.blog Wavelength app for the first time whilst having a coffee in the garden this morning and quite liked the results.
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@klandwehr I’ve done a bit of digging and they’re apparently called Denby Romany coffee/tea cups - and there appear to be some available on eBay in the UK - again don’t know if that will help you in the US!
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@maique The same thing has happened to me 2 or 3 times in the past. A post appears on the blog feed timeline but does not appear on the blog site itself. As you say, a quick 'fake' edit of, say, adding a space has always made the post appear - as if the static site needed a prompt to force a rebuild to include the new material. For me the issue has always resolved itself after a day or two and started to behave normally again. Not happening for me at the moment though. // @help
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@canion I make a lot of mistakes!
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@canion I'm ianam - always up for a game! Have sent you a challenge.
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@canion Again excluding Micro.blog, The Guardian and BBC for news and views, Wikipedia for knowledge, Chess.com for play!
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@klandwehr They're Denby Pottery cups (if that's a brand you get in the USA?) - but probably bought in the 1990s!
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@odd Not a job I'd envy!
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@maique Quite! And it didn’t even seem to be leading anywhere 🤨
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@numericcitizen I hadn't heard about Glass - looks interesting and I have signed up on their list to keep myself updated! Thanks!
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@Gaby I confess I've never used Castro or Pocket Casts - but only because Overcast has worked flawlessly, with the annual subscription, for 4+ years for me. Synchronisation between multiple devices is the key for me - including the desktop/web interface (which I repeatedly hear Marco saying hardly anyone uses - I do!). Everything works for me in Overcast.
I keep hearing about podcast queue/inbox management in the other apps but don't really get it. I generally subscribe to 10-15 podcast streams …
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@simonwoods @maique Jumping in ... I love the idea of Bokeh and have supported the project on Kickstarter. But I know I'm never going to get my friends and family invested in a(nother) - paid - app/service. They're using Facebook and Instagram. I post to my own blog and crosspost photos from there so that they can see them. I've got my immediate family using Apple Shared Albums, but that's almost entirely a one-sided me posting photos there and them looking at them. I despair and can't see a way …
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@pratik @amit Yes, crazy that it’s over so soon. Rohit Sharma seemed to be the only batsman who could cope at all with the pitch, some bad batting decisions by a number of others and Ashwin and Axar nailed the bowling.
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@pratik Indeed, even batting first hasn't saved England, I was expecting more :(
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@HauntedRadiator To say the least! Glad I’ve only been listening to it rather than watching ...
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@pratik Always expected; just pleasantly surprised when it doesn’t happen 😉 Hoping it’s due to batting second on a deteriorating pitch, but suspecting it’s India bowling well and England batting below par - have to see how India have fared batting when I wake tomorrow!
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@Omrrc Exactly! I've been listening to it (for the first time in quite a while) over the last couple of days after seeing this article in The Guardian - 'It shook me to my core': 50 years of Carole King's Tapestry.
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@maique Excellent 👏
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@colinwalker A Dunnock ?
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@gregmoore Thank you! It's actually a ring of illuminated fluorescent light tubes - I was surprised by how well an iPhone captured it!
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@maique Thanks! Lucky I remembered I spotted one 😉
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@jemostrom ... and luckily they had showers on site!
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@HauntedRadiator Yes, we visited Pompeii and Herculaneum. Fantastic holiday!
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@HauntedRadiator Not this time 😢 Disappointing, but Scotland really played well.
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@jean They’re both already there in Micro.blog, just wanted them added to the Gluon Discover page, which Vincent has done :)
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@HauntedRadiator Not so well so far (half-time) 😟
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@gluon Wow! That was quick 👏 I see them, thank you!
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@gluon I’d love cricket 🏏 and rugby 🏉 to be added to your Discover emoji tag page 😉
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@strandlines 218! I managed 5am Friday, 7am today, now also got to last through Six Nations rugby this weekend. A marathon! 🏏 🏉 🙂
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@strandlines I will probably try that for 1 or 2 of the days too but don’t think I can manage it for 4 or 5 days in a row though. Even getting up at a more ‘civilised’ time of 7am will mean a few hours of play to watch though. 😀
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@jemostrom I'll try not to make it a theme of my Photoblogging Challenge 😉
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@vincent Excellent!
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@jeremycherfas @ReaderJohn I’d been looking forward to seeing the film since I heard about it about three weeks ago. Wasn’t disappointed - great performances and Sunday afternoon viewing that really engrossed me. (Also left me wanting to find out more about the Sutton Hoo finds and the people involved).
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@Munish I would be too :)
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@Munish Zooming in always works 😉 All public info though!
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@vincent Great 👍
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@maique I somehow missed that this was happening! Thanks for the reminder.
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@ohBananaJoe I'm on Goodreads here. Don't use it a lot but occasionally go through a flurry of activity adding new books and updating progress on others. Have recently been looking at the Book Track app as a way of keeping a record of books/reading but not fully invested in that yet either 🙁
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@endonend Nice article. Following and listening 🎵
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@klandwehr Having difficulty waiting to implement that plan :)
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@pratik Definitely the first time I've heard of goat - or beer - yoga! Thinking the beer version is slightly less weird 🙂
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@pratik You’ve got me searching for some very weird things. I’m in a whole new world.
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@vincent With the proviso that the only books I've got on there at the moment are my own small e-book editions 😉 Happy to generalise it though!
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@jayeless As a neutral it’s been a great series to follow, even in the early hours of the morning in the UK. I always enjoy watching both Australia and India play and now looking forward to England playing India in February - that’s going to be a struggle in India!
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@Portufraise They actually tasted very good - quite cheesy! On the downside some of the textures weren’t quite matching their ‘real’ counterparts, particularly that of the vegan cheddar. Camembert substitute delicious, blue cheese not quite sharp/stringent enough for me. The best vegan cheeses I’ve had though.
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@jeremycherfas That sounds (and looks) good - going to have to find somewhere in the UK to buy the flour and try it. There's certainly nowhere local to me 😞
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@TheDimPause Half an hour’s play and rain arrives...
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@JayGogh You've hit the vibe 😉
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@Cheri It is a great city, and even though I only live just over 20 miles away the last couple of days have been the first time I’ve been able to spend time there since March. Definitely missed it.
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@macgenie Hmm ... I don’t know, I’d probably accept the challenge!
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@macgenie Mask!! What are the chances of that coming up?
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@dejus Sorry for guessing so quickly - I’ve used too many in the past to ever forget what they look like!
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@dejus A Verbatim 5.25” floppy disk?
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@jack I'm enjoying it with relief now that the job's done :)
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@rom Thanks - that is a more understandable article. The TL;DR at the end is probably all that most people need to be aware of!
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@ReaderJohn I’m sure you could make Linux work for you - as could anyone with a technical bent - but I wouldn’t take the article you linked as a canonical reason for moving that way. I don’t think privacy scare stories are the deciding factor...
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@ReaderJohn Don’t believe everything you read! My first reaction is that this is full of technical information that I can’t possibly verify or falsify. Why are you taking it as immediately valid? I know nothing of the author but the whole article has the tone of a viral scare story - I may be wrong, do you know better?
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@maique Just need to start cooking with them now ...
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@toddgrotenhuis Not as good as I’d hoped. Airflow through burner was great and it burnt really well but couldn’t get temperature of oven above about 250°C. May be that wood I was using was a little damp.
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@purisubzi Nice atmospheric picture! And great to see a photo taken with a Zenit E - I still have the one I bought secondhand in the late 1970s as my first SLR. I’d like to use it again; the inconvenience and cost of film processing these days puts me off 😞
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@ReaderJohn Definitely! I’ve really missed travelling this year, within the UK and overseas.
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@jeremycherfas And no queue to look through the keyhole!
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@pratik Couldn’t believe what I was watching! Villa could easily have scored 2 or 3 more.
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@johnjohnston @LGGInc It was very good! Trying to work through a few of her recipes, they always seem to work well - even with ingredient substitutions 🙂
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@joelhamill Typewriter with some CSS and theme template tinkering - want a fairly plain text-based and old fashioned look ... until I change my mind ;)
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@maique Web interface in Safari on an iPad looks fantastic and in my short time exploring seems to function really well. // @manton
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@macgenie Sounds good to me!
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@maique Cheers - I’ll take a look.
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@maique I don’t think I’ve ever had a MUSA beer but a 9% ABV triple IPA is definitely something to look out for. Definitely something in the Brewdog line of thinking,
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@Burk Think I’m much the same. That’s why we have superpowerful smartphones isn’t it? You never know what you might need!
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@maique Local beer has got to be the best! But a ban on Brewdog! Unthinkable! To be honest I’m surprised you get it at all in Portugal, didn’t realise they exported much. Brewdog and a lot of breweries like them have been pushing home deliveries during lockdown in the UK - I haven’t resisted the temptation...
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@maique The Punk IPA AF is definitely one of the best alcohol free beers, by a long way 👌
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@Munish It was, and Australia probably deserved the win through some great play and a few mistakes by England. There’ve been some excellent, close England games over the (shortened) summer. Now going to have to move on to the IPL this weekend and Big Bash later in the year. 😊
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@crossingthethreshold 👍 I’m still partial to a Mr Kipling Bakewell - before I retired from work last year they were a common coffee break treat!
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@adders Great idea, great video!
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@maique 👍
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@pratik Even that wouldn’t have finished!
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@TheDimPause Rain stopped play after 16.1 overs ☹️ 🏏
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@ArnoldHoogerwerf That looks interesting - giving the iOS app a try now.
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@JMaxB I think that's a really good idea. Puzzled why I haven't thought of it before or ever seen it in any of the (many) secondhand books I buy!
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@ReaderJohn With the bonus that I always find it enjoyable to cook outside!
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@cdevroe Certainly created by water flowing after heavy rain, but it doesn’t seem to have a proper source or destination; more of a natural ditch!
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@danielpunkass Great! I've been looking forward for this to give me an easier way to update and manage the pages on my Micro.blog site.
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@lukas I've got my 30 day free trial of Plausible started and trying it out on 4 sites, so I'll see how it goes.
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@manton @lukas Nice - I hadn't heard of Plausible, going to have to have a look.
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@gr36 They are automated - I log and rate the film on my account on Letterboxd.com, then use an applet on IFTTT to monitor the Letterboxd account RSS feed and post new items to Micro.blog using Webhooks and the IFTTT method outlined in Micro.blog Help.
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@simonwoods Yes, I’m afraid the only way to modify my Pages page is to edit it’s plug-in theme templates in Design - Edit Custom Themes. Not so straightforward and I think you risk losing your changes with any upgrade to the plug-in.
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@manton ... and I’ve just updated it to version 1.0.4 to exclude custom 404 error pages from appearing in the page list.
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@Cheri Yes, I found it very funny. I watched it because I loved the TV series based on the film - broadcast in the UK on the BBC, not sure if it's available in the US or on other streaming services.
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@crossingthethreshold I was surprised at how well they turned out :) Going to to try some more ambitious fillings next time.
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@fabio Apparently if you eat enough of anything you learn to spell it 😉
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@LGGInc Easy to make and using something that is often discarded. Can't claim it as my idea though - came from Riverford Carrot Top Pesto.
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@dominikhoecht I can definitely recommend it!
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@mattbirchler You’d have thought it would be a red wine rather than rosé 😉
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@DaveyCraney I’m impressed! 👍
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@TheDimPause That link didn’t come through properly because it’s got an underscore in it - Centaurea montana
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@jeremycherfas Thank you! That’s pointed me in the right direction - looking at the types of cornflower they seem to be the Perennial Cornflower, [Centaurea montana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaureamontana)_. Don’t know how they got into my garden but I like them 😀
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@Flish Nice! Hadn’t seen that Relive app before, going to have to try it.
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@toddgrotenhuis Think I'm mellowing a bit as I get older because I really like Tabula Rasa and Silence is Sexy these days, whereas in the 1980s, hearing them on John Peel's radio show in the UK, Halber Mensch was definitely a favourite. And you've just got me watching NNNAAAMMM on YouTube ;)
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@jeremycherfas That would be high on my list too, but having seen the recent changes I wouldn't blame the residents of Venice for wanting to try and restrict the number of visitors to the city.
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@jeremycherfas I wish! Even having to hold off on making these myself until I can actually get some flour. None of my local shops have had any type of flour in stock for the last four weeks. I'm down to about 500g of wholemeal flour and 500g of rye flour - after that all my bread and pizza making will have to stop. Bookmarked for the future!
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@Gabz Got the CD of the album in the post this morning! Really impressed on my first couple of listens. I had pre-ordered it having heard them on the radio doing a live BBC Music Festival. Plus I'm a big Radiohead fan so was always going to buy it :) 🎵
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@kulturnation Sounds great! I tend to like African coffees - from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Tanzania - because of their acidity and fruity taste.
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@jeremycherfas I’ve gone six before! Why can no one share? ...
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@klandwehr They were ;)
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@joelhamill It’s a De'Longhi Vintage Icona kettle, colour in the photo is pretty accurate, and we also have a matching toaster 🙂
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@kulturnation Yes, I have a fortnightly delivery from Pact Coffee in the UK and they are hoping to keep supplies going. 🤞
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@strandlines Yes - it was great to see a packed MCG for the final.
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@macgenie It’s well worth visiting Cardiff Bay, particularly in good weather! I guarantee there’s a lot you’d recognise from Torchwood.
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@carlesbellver @manton Yes, I see this too on the help page. The line of JavaScript code snippet is missing {{ .Permalink }}" after url=.
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@strandlines Thank you!
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@jeremycherfas At least they had good weather in Rome for their apparel - pictures from the Stadio Olimpico looked gloriously sunny!
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@strandlines Very enjoyable opening game of the tournament - looking forward to England’s first game on Sunday now.
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@strandlines Yes it is - Indian leg spinner Yadav has really made an impact though, could have had a hat-trick. Very difficult for Australia now.
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@strandlines Wasn’t expecting to enjoy the TalkSport commentary so much - was anticipating a lot of jingles and adverts, but was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the coverage.
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@jsanchez Thank you!
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@jeremycherfas I'm afraid not, decorative only, I've gone electronic now :) I no longer even have a set of weights to use with it.
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@vasta Thank you - I went on a walk today just to find one. This Photoblogging Challenge is good for my health ;) No idea what to do for tomorrow's Plain ...
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@vasta Thanks!
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@jemostrom I hoard far too much of it :) This microscope was actualy being thrown out from the school I went to nearly 40 years ago. Helps that it lives in a nice wooden box ;)
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@klandwehr Thank you! I thought it looked quite good in front of the piano.
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@vincent Nice idea! Very useful.
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@pratik Good idea, that could work for me. I’ll have a play with that when I get home to a computer to tinker with my feeds - away from home with only a phone at the moment and I know I’ll mess it up if I try on a small screen and no proper keyboard :)
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@pratik Yep, I’d love the ability to hide certain post categories from my public timeline. I like to keep a record of things check ins and beers for my own personal ‘journal’ but they can’t be of much interest to others :(
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@macgenie Great! I’m looking forward to attempting this - anything to encourage me to take/publish more photos!
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@pratik I think they must be my Swarm location check-ins forwarded to Micro.blog by OwnYourSwarm when I’ve done a check-in without an image. On my site (rather than just the feed timeline) they should have a location map with them. I need to figure out a way to append a ‘checked in to’ message to these to make it clear!
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@jemostrom Nice and industrial! Yes, I really want to try and keep my albums well organised. Ideally I'd like to go through and add descriptions or titles to each image too, it's just very time consuming :(
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@Gabz The pub must have had 50+ of these metal signs plastered over their walls, not sure how they came by them of all! I pictured the 2 that appealed to me most ;)
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@hollyhoneychurch 😊 - she must take after her mother rather than me!
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@kitt First time I’ve seen it and I was also quite impressed. Got to admit I also liked Oblivion, even though most of the reviews I’ve seen of it aren’t too good...
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@Bruce I haven't yet - I've got all episodes recorded but wanted to re-watch the film before I started watching the series. Mission accomplished!
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@macgenie There's trakt.tv which I believe is similar to Letterboxd for TV (and movies too). I've only just started using Letterboxd though so haven't really looked into trakt too much - it does cover Vera :)
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@ReaderJohn I thought so too. I only knew of Michael Rosen as a children’s author and BBC radio presenter, didn’t realise he also wrote ‘for adults’ with such a political slant.
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@macgenie @smokey Sadly this also means that I was born closer to the 1920s than I was to today ;(
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@markleichliter @vasta Thank you - helped that it was a lovely sunny December day in Cardiff, warm enough to sit outside a bar with a glass of wine and appreciate the view :)
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@crossingthethreshold Nice capture!
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@devilgate Just posted a link to an article about this - Politics and Insights blog - and have now seen and read your post.
The whole situation dismays me. Like you, I don't really understand how this scourge of anti-semitism seems to be thought of as the position of a party and a leader that have always been (to me) so profoundly and explicitly anti-racist.
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@joeltimmins Excellent! As @pratik says, the more you watch the easier it gets - and having a good commentary along with what you're watching can also help. The technology now used in the international matches has advanced hugely - IR hotspots, video reviews with multiple cameras, ball tracking, the 'Snickometer'. I think that all this scrutiny can point out what the umpires are looking for and assist in explaining the rules too.
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@pratik Yes, England really didn’t have an answer to that. Their bowlers couldn’t make a breakthrough and batters couldn’t match that performance (with the possible excuse that the pitch was deteriorating slightly towards the end).
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@yorrike Congratulations! Had a feeling of inevitability after Watling’s and Santner’s performances yesterday. I even had the misfortune of being awake at 3:20 in the morning here to listen to the final half hour of the match on the radio.
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@adamprocter MarsEdit is also fantastic and powerful tool for working with a Micro.blog hosted site. I haven’t been able to find any comparable iOS app :(
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@Gabz Ideally edit post, update and let it be. But on some platforms that is obviously not possible - Twitter, Mastodon - so I will delete and repost. In either case I will only note the edit if I think it’s relevant - don’t point out mistypes, corrected spelling mistakes, link addresses and the like.
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@smokey Luckily not!
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@pratik True, and England’s highest ever T20 score. Wish I’d got up earlier to watch their batting but their bowling was also impressive, although perhaps helped a little by New Zealand needing to score rapidly.
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@strandlines Disappointing! From the reports it seems like a game England should have won - needed 42 runs from the last five overs with wickets in hand :( Going to watch the replay on TV later. 🏏
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@strandlines Yep, got to say England were not allowed to play their game at all - South Africa did to them what England did to the All Blacks.
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@toddgrotenhuis Very good! The blue cheese, Honestly Tasty's Veganzola, was superb - I wouldn't have known it wasn't dairy based. The herb one, I AM NUT OK's G.O.A.T., was nearly as good. Only slight disappointment was the tird, supposedly like a mature cheddar - it was not but was still pleasant, more like a slightly crumbly mild cheese. I'd happily have all of them again!
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@manton Very nice - thank you!
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@jeremycherfas Is it just your home WiFi that’s causing the issue or any WiFi connection? If it’s just yours, is it possible there’s some router or broadband provider issues - port blocking or filtering - that’s upsetting Overcast?
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@pcora Only read about a third of it so far but I’d say it’s not quite as good as The Martian - ‘sciencey’ details of living on the moon are great, but story not quite as gripping so far!
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@adamprocter That's a great - and quite disturbing - article. The pitcher plant analogy is particularly unsettling! Thanks for linking.
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@pratik Thanks! Yes, a lot of what-ifs and England did need a slice of luck to win, which was a little cruel on New Zealand. I thought it was a good advert for the game of cricket - and great that it was shown on free-to-air TV in the UK for a change!
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@klandwehr 223 is really on the low side of just okay :) It’s always difficult to say with certainty, a lot does depend on conditions, particularly on the quality of the pitch, but typically in a one day 50 over match like the World Cup, a score of 300+ would definitely be considered good, 250-300 reasonable.
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@manton Great - many thanks for the cricket 🏏 tagmoji - in time for the final stages Cricket World Cup.
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@smokey I’ve wanted to start it for a while too, but it’s definitely not the easiest of reads. I’ve even left it to the last of the books I’ve taken to read on my current vacation - but am now currently half way through the first novel and am enjoying it!
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@joshuabeatty @yorrike I’m not sure about favourites, but it’s going to be a tense second half. Thought England were going to run away with it but NZ have bowled well in the last 20 overs and the pitch seems to be getting more difficult.
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@joshuabeatty Yes, the return of Roy certainly seemed to invigorate Bairstow and the rest of the England team performance was a lot more intense. Perhaps the demands of a must win game. And this time India seemed to lose their way towards the end of the match. The vagaries of cricket! 🏏
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@pratik No idea, not looking good! Guess it must be the pressure of the event and the occasion. Not looking forward to seeing England’s batting against the Indian bowling attack - Stokes seems to be the only player who can cope with these big matches at the moment. I think it’s all going to come down to beating NZ on Wednesday and hoping other results go England’s way. Definitely not what I was anticipating at the start of the tournament.
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@pratik Indeed - after India finished their innings I saw a glimmer of hope for England on Sunday, but then they bowled ...
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@johnjohnston I’m pretty sure I will - I love the telling and re-telling of Greek myths and I’m reading it in Greece for extra flavour! I’ll let you know in a couple of days ...
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@pratik Yes, it was a pleasant day out watching cricket but there was never the feeling that Afghanistan could take control of the game and have a chance of winning.
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@pratik India got off to a pretty slow start here - Bangladesh bowling well - but as soon as Rahul got established and Dhoni joined him the scoring accelerated considerably; the two of them were impressive! 🏏
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@vincent Looking back, I should have read your Build notes more carefully :)
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@vincent This reply is proof that it works - hadn’t noticed the swipes, too used to just tapping to view the Conversation.
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@vincent My site’s Micro.blog hosted, so I’m good to go - next on my wish list would be replies ;)
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@vincent Great! Love the look and functionality of Gluon - I've been using it to browse my Micro.blog timeline for a while now, the recent Discover additions are good, now looking forward to being able to post from it!
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@manton I quite often want to do a quick edit of a MB post from iOS, most often for typos but also not infrequently for more major edits such as changing image/text layout of a blog post when I’m out and about. So I’d +1 an option for implementing this.
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@endonend Fantastic - I'm using the Typewriter theme (styled with some css) and actually only had to add the code you specified in Step 8 (after creating a custom theme) to get pagination working on my blog. Wouldn't have found this without your post!
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@gesher Those photos would make some challenging jigsaw puzzles! :)
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@pratik Yes, would have expected more fireworks with Kohli and de Villiers! Perhaps he’ll have to wait for a Kings XI game with Chris Gayle (and not a slow, turning pitch) ...
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@pratik In my ideal world I’d see England play India there :) Maybe one day! That aside, the current IPL game looks like it’s going to be over quite quickly. RCB having a torrid time so far.
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@pratik I tend to favour KKR - not really for any rational reasons, would just like to visit Kolkata and Eden Gardens, which looks very impressive.
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@pratik I’m watching in the UK - really enjoy the IPL so pleased that Star India are broadcasting live on the UK StarGOLD satellite channel. 🏏
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@jeremycherfas Sensitive topic at the moment ;)
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@Flish Already getting my Welsh in-laws messaging me about it! Felt relatively confident at half time but, as you say, downhill from there. A tense game to watch, wish I’d got tickets to see it in Cardiff despite the loss. 🏉
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@Flish And a lot of credit to Wales in the second half. Passionate and precise home performance which led to a deserved win. (I’m English but have lived in Wales for nearly 25 years - still wanted that England victory, of course!) 🏉
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@yorrike You need to write an article for The Guardian ;)
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@yorrike @simonwoods And, equally ridiculous: “If jeans are only worn in the house and not outside, I will wear them again without washing. But if I’ve worn them out and about, they need to be washed. They hold on to a lot of germs".
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@amongthestones @kaa Or oat milk - the look and taste of Oatly Barista edition is the best non-dairy substitute I’ve found for coffee.
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@macgenie That sounds great! We’ve just come out of our matinee performance of Verdi - which was fantastic - and are now in search of a pizza 🍕... and more wine ;)
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@ReaderJohn Quite! Thanks for that link, an interesting article. Not surprised now that I haven't heard of NewsGuard before, it appears to be very US-centric at the moment. I am surprised that Microsoft has apparently wholeheartedly committed to - and thus approved - such a relatively new and untested venture.
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@ReaderJohn Got to admit that this is the first time I've even heard of them so I'd have to do a lot more research before I did!
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@JohnPhilpin It's nice to have one's instincts confirmed though :)
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@jeremycherfas We did do - stopped off for an hour and a half on the way over to Murano in lovely sunny (but cold) weather. That was actually on Friday, now back in the UK. I had to repost a few of the posts I made whilst in Venice because they somehow got deleted from my blog; a backup came to the rescue!
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@amit Interesting article - and site. Thanks for pointing it out; I've added the feed from werd.io to my news reader.
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@dgold Come on! Society needs some rules to function! One of which surely must be not to serve Yorkshire pudding unless it's to accompany beef 😉 We'll be having a nut roast Xmas dinner, so definitely no Yorkies 😋
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@vasta I think home made crackers earn the right to break that rule. Same with Christmas Tree decorations - anything goes on our tree if it was made for us rather than bought!
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@Cassinato I'm not so sure about that - I think the threats of a delayed Brexit will push a number of Tory MPs towards propping up May. And then she's potenially in post for at least another year.
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@jack I'm half way through and it's really striking a chord with me. Hope you enjoy!
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@Ron @Ron I think that if the images are posted via the Sunlit app they are linked to the full size version allowing opening and zooming. Images posted directly from the iOS Microblog app are not linked this way.
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@cleverdevil Can I add my thanks to the list you're receiving - and a belated one for the 'On This Day' script. Both work really well on my Micro.blog hosted site.
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@macgenie @jgmac1106 Revisiting for a status update 😃 I've lasted more than three minutes - have now watched the first four episodes. I'm enjoying it, finding it interesting and fast paced, with a lot happening each episode. A little daunted by the fact that there are 46 more episodes ahead of me; I don't tend to binge watch series so this may last me some time!
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@macgenie Thank you - but sorry to say that I've never watched Orphan Black. I may be tempted ...
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@macgenie Worth searching for! The frescoes they are uncovering at Pompeii at the moment are really impressive, so detailed, well-preserved and colourful.
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@macgenie Did that link go through properly - when I looked at it the Markdown I forwarded from Pinboard was a little messed up - have now corrected it!
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@vasta Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll get our snow time too :) And if not, definitely lots of heavy rain over the winter months! This has got to be the last gasp of the good weather ...
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@jonesbp Excellent :) I’d run a race for that - not sure about a full marathon though!
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@manton As an update, I've tried following from another Mastodon instance and all appears normal from there, so I guess the problem lies outside Micro.blog.
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@manton It wasn't really typed in Mastodon at all - I was trying to follow @TheDimPause@thedimpau.se from my existing Mastodon account and the account the user search result finds for that username is @TheDImPause@thedimpau.se
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@manton Interesting - already starting to try these features out.
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@JohnPhilpin Standing AND taking photos! It was the photo opportunity at the end of the show though, he didn't stand during it :) As for his hair, to be honest he hasn't got much now anyway and it is cropped short - see their photos at Tony Levin's site
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@stefp It was a fantastic gig, definitely worth looking forward to! They’re doing some great online tour diaries too, including pictures, if you want more to anticipate – linked from DGM Live.
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@JohnPhilpin Fripp & Levin coordinations ;)
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@vasta Absolutely! But I will have to stick to weekends only if I choose it as a breakfast option ;)
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@mjdescy I certainly never got to the bottom of it - and I tried 3 or 4 different manufacturers' SD cards!
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@mjdescy Hmmm - I must have been unlucky then. I tried out several early Pi devices (about 5 years ago, I think) and had major problems with constantly corrupting SD cards plus a couple of devices that just 'died'.
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@canion I'm actually running it on an Ubuntu desktop computer rather than a Raspberry Pi - not sure I'd trust a Pi to be reliable enough to act as network DNS for a large number of devices. At home with half a dozen devices I'd give it a go though!
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@vanessa @Cassinato Don’t go there – I went to uni 37 years ago! 😢
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@cn I beleieve they are still known to – Maidenhead 2017 🤪
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@vanessa I can't let a policy or two put me off - I could never vote for anyone if that was the case! As for wasted votes, that probably applies to a Green vote in the Labour stronghold that I live in :( I just take the view that I should vote for the candidate or party I most agree with.
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@vanessa I agree entirely – their universal basic income policy is one of the reasons I supported the Green Party in the last couple of elections, having previously been a Labour voter for many years.
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@jeremycherfas Another amusing truncation ;)
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@Cassinato Thinking about it, in an earthquake my first considerations wouldn't be about saving even a bottle of whisky of this rarity!
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@nielsk Family and close friends only, and even that I try to keep to a minimum :) At work I do occasional small jobs for some people, always for a bottle of wine or two, never for cash - like you I know it can turn into a neverending saga of support and be worth far more than in terms of my time than it's worth...
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@jeremycherfas No, it doesn't require Mojave - and you can download a 14 day trial version to test anyway.
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@nnnnnathan That’s a nice clean looking camera app – got to have a tinker with it! Thanks for the heads up.
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@jmac3665 A bit of ‘Dramatic’ mode in the Snapseed photo editor - but the original image was quite grey and bleak anyway, being 7am in the rainy Welsh Valleys ;)
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@yorrike True ... but then I’ve got the England winter tours to look forward to, and I can’t resist a bit of Big Bash 🏏 over Xmas 😀 Not the same as actually going to live matches of course!
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@yorrike Someone else using the 🏏 emoji! Meanwhile, I’m following the last couple of games of our season before the winter break :(
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@manton Useful new feature - thanks!
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@pratik Yes, quite possibly. I saw the comments at the end of the article –
The proposal has upset fishermen, who say the 6.8ha of land that needs to be reclaimed to build the statue will damage the environment. Residents have also questioned why, in a city of striking poverty and underfunded hospitals and schools, so much money is being spent on the structure.
“This is taxpayers’ money and I am sure we would all like this money to be spent on something better like education, infrastructure, …
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@jeremycherfas Looks like a great idea! Shelling a batch of hard-boiled quails' eggs is something I've only ever done once and will never repeat. That recipe avoids the process :)
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@jeremycherfas I’d just go with the ‘good’ - one thing (amongst many) I love about leaving the UK for anywhere on the Mediterranean is the quality of the tomatoes! 🍅
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@canion I’m choosing to use it because it’s so easy to add Dropbox folders to its Folders list then create or edit text/markdown/html files within your bookmarked folders. Nothing more complicated than that!
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@canion FWIW I’ve recently started using 1Writer because I really like its Dropbox integration for ‘live’ editing of Dropbox text documents – not sure how it compares to iAWriter or Byword though as I haven’t tried them.
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@mjdescy I think a couple of hours of bad weather created a great view - nice compensation!
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@amit Thank you!
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@pratik That hazy mountain is the island of Kefalonia, probably about 20 miles from where I’m standing.
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@vasta I’d add any Greek island to that list - similar scenery in most I’ve visited!
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@alehandrof I would – and did!
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@alehandrof One of the originals in this vein has got to be The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells 📚 – plus numerous film versions including the 1932 Island of Lost Souls with Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi 🎥
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@jeremycherfas No, that’s just cheap local white wine :)
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@jeremycherfas Oh, yes! Couldn’t agree more.
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@jeremycherfas A much maligned wine! I’m a fan of the resin flavour.
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@nielsk At present, the solution I'm using is cross posting Micro.blog to Twitter then using Mastodon Twitter Crossposter – of course this relies on you still having a Twitter account...
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@Flish Couldn’t agree more! Hoping to apply the same principle to Greece next week :) 🍷
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@dgold @vanessa Going to have to pitch in here and say that I live about 5 miles from the Penderyn Distillery, which produces Wales' only single malt whisky which is very good (and unpeated with the exception of a couple of lightly peated versions which have been finished in old Talisker casks). If you like smooth, easy drinking malts it's definitely worth a try!
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@vanessa It's not peaty in the slightest, not at all an Islay type (which happen to be my favourites...)! To me the Nikka actually tastes a bit similar to some Speyside whiskies, more like a Macallan than a Glenlivet though, quite rich, sweet and caramelly.
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@dgold Indeed! I was surprised how good the Nikka was as a blend; there are not many (any?) Scottish blends I really enjoy neat.
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@jrladd Well, considering I usually drink Scottish single malts, I thought it held its own very well – going to have to seek out a couple of Japanese single malts to see if they’re even better!
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@jrladd Loaf-of-bread is exactly how my daughter described her :)
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@vanessa Yep, nice part of the world - I’ve lived here for nearly 25 years now. Only downside is a slight propensity to rain 😉
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@vanessa Certainly does! One day I’d like to follow - either on bike or walking - the whole of the Taff Trail from Brecon to Cardiff Bay.
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@grayareas I’m all for covering as many sports as emoji can handle!
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@amit Non-US-centric sports fans have already got soccer ⚽️ and rugby 🏉, so I’m hopeful for cricket 🏏 too - maybe @manton could add baseball ⚾️ at the same time to keep it balanced!
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@burk I’d like to suggest a sports/cricket 🏏 tagmoji to be added to your Discover Community Suggestions table :)
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@jeremycherfas Thanks, very interesting. I'm subscribed to Eat This Podcast on Overcast so look forward to my daily dose!
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@kulturnation Wow! I didn’t realise that was such a long book - over 900 pages I see now. Lucky you didn’t get the hardback edition ;)
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@kulturnation Thanks! I know of Thomas Mann, mainly through Death in Venice, but everyone else is new to me - obviously I need to investigate further...
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@kulturnation Now I'm having to look up some names - both Golo Mann and Egon Friedel - in Wikipedia! ;) Hope you enjoy the book!
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@kulturnation Clive James was a regular TV presenter in the UK from the late 70s until at least the late 90s (plus a few programmes beyond that) and a prominent UK newspaper critic and journalist, so I have been aware of him for a long time – but I hadn't realised what an excellent writer - and poet - he was until the last few years. I have also read his volumes of autobiography (light and amusing!) and can recommend his recent collection of essays Latest Readings 📚
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@ChrisHannah Got the new beta and it's looking good for me - not seeing any large, full-size images in my main timeline now. Looking forward to future developments!
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@herself For the venue or the bands? :)
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@kitt I’m afraid I haven’t read it for many, many years so I still just have the fond memories. Tempted now to get a copy to see how it holds up.
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@amit I suppose I am really just a light user, checking once or twice a day to see if I've missed anything I want to read. On the other hand, I really dislike Feedly's mobile app and use Reeder to access my account on iOS!
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@amit I use the free tier of Feedly - but I only follow about 20 feeds. I've tried others but find the Feedly web interface suits me best.
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@manton @macgenie The new Following count format on user profiles on the web interface – Following xx users you aren't following – is a great idea. Hope you keep it!
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@Bruce Doesn’t Pinboard itself do that if you’re prepared to pay extra for the archiving service? Not sure how user friendly or effective it is because I don’t subscribe at that tier myself.
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@Bruce Not too many pints for me tonight - as much as I’d like to forget it I’ve got work tomorrow :)
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@dgold @Bruce All over - hugely disappointed, but Croatia outplayed them for an hour and a quarter :( On the plus side though, England still exceeded all expectations. Will still enjoy the final! ⚽️
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@dgold Yep - fantastic challenge, but may all have just slipped away as I type this 😡 ⚽️
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@dgold Croatia really upped their game in the second half - England seemed to have the game under control for the first :(
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@sumudu I see the same for my Micro.blog hosted site.
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@johnjohnston Bet they're enjoying this weather!
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@cheesemaker I appreciate that and I'll go back to following @aaronpk and be patient ;)
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@klandwehr Unfortunately true - not an exciting spectacle ⚽️ (Hence I’m distracting myself with Micro.blog!)
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@cheesemaker Hold that thought! It did initially fix the crash, but now it’s started happening again 🤔
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@cheesemaker ... and I can confirm that unfollowing him solves the Sunlit crash for me 😉 He will be back!
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@cheesemaker Hmmm ... guess that explains why the same thing is happening to me too 😀
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@vasta I'm still not entirely sure! Text will alway be text (you would hope) but I'm not convinced use of emoji will persist. Or they'll proliferate so much they'll become unmanageable! Plus I don't like the way they have different appearances in different environments...
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@cn Well, at least you got a potential winner of the tournament ;)
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@jeremycherfas I have to trust some institutions to some extent :)
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@jeremycherfas The BBC??
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@ChrisHannah Posting from the new Slate beta. Really like the appearance of the timeline/posts, especially your use of thumbnail images.
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@ChrisHannah Nice! Looking forward to the beta update!
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@Bruce Some decent pubs up in North Wales too :) Have you ever visited?
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@Bruce One of the finest pubs in South Wales - for food and beer!
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@vishae Excellent - hadn't heard! Only downside will be that I'll probably have to keep my Netflix and Amazon Prime subscripions going now :)
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@JeremyWxBaker I’ve also signed – The Expanse is one of several sci-fi series that I’ve really enjoyed on Netflix.
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@seishonagon I thought it looked like a good, modern summary and assessment of Society of the Spectacle – but you definitely do need time set aside to read through it properly!
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@hartlco Nice work - looking good!
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@stefp Cheers, little bit of help from a filter in Sunlit, but not too far from reality on a lovely sunny morning!
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@JohnPhilpin Yeah, I have mentioned it on Slack in the Photos/Sunlit channel and have seen others do so too, I’m sure @manton is aware of it!
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@JohnPhilpin I know - it seems like on some posts the image upload just seems to timeout and fail. Possibly due to poor phone data connection? Not sure of the reason, don’t get any feedback on the failure from the apps.
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@JohnPhilpin It’s happening on both - republish on Sunlit often puts it right, but for Micro.blog iOS app posts I usually re-upload the image using MarsEdit to fix it ...
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@JohnPhilpin Seem to be getting it a lot on Micro.blog in the past few weeks :(
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@JohnPhilpin Looks like it :( Have to wait until I’m back on a desktop to rectify!
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@johnjohnston That’s the ex-lifeboat station that was converted to a house a few years ago, featured on the Grand Designs TV series.
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@herself @smokey Thanks! Given that it was a typical grey, overcast British seaside day even I’m surprised the colours came out so well :)
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@AngeloStavrow Thank you! Tenby is very photogenic, helped by the tradition of painting the houses in a variety of colours :) A view of the harbour is very popular with both photographers and artists.
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@JohnPhilpin 🤞:)
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@JohnPhilpin Wow! That’s further back than I expected! My wife doesn’t recall them from her school days ;)
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@JohnPhilpin Excellent - my wife’s originally from Tenby so we’re having a bit of a trip down memory lane here for a couple of days!
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@matigo @matigo Definitely, and since the vast majority of the data transferred over it is internet based, and my broadband speed is only 9Mbps, it’s fine.
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@jeremycherfas Cheers - again, interesting. Now all I need to do is find some beers made with these resurrected hops! Unfortunately I suppose such beers must be made in very small localised batches.
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@matigo You got me thinking there! The devices I've got are rated by the manufacturer at 600Mbps, but I've never tested them before. Tested today and I actually seem to be getting around 100Mbps between the points. I would guess that's mainly due to an old house with old wiring!
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@jeremycherfas Great podcast - as a (craft) beer fan I found it really interesting. I had listened to your previous episode A visit to Hummustown and already subscribed via Overcast.fm, so caught Hoptopia earlier this morning. Now to investigate more past episodes...
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@matigo Neat! I’d love to have that in my house instead of having to rely on multiple power-line adapters.
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@JohnPhilpin I hadn't come across Jonathan Pie/Tom Walker before - had to check who he was - but enjoyed the video! And you could be right - the perils of satire taken as truth...
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@dgold Yes, great try, Jacob Stockdale has been a revelation for me this tournament!
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@jeremycherfas Scottish fans always add a distinctive persona to their games :)
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@Burk 👍 Quick work!
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@Burk Must be the longest 'word' ever posted to MB! Wraps nicely in the apps though :)
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@Burk That doesn't play nicely with the Micro.blog web interface ;)
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@dgold Yep, definitely looked a bit stuck in a rut that wasn’t working. A bit torn next week - I obviously want to see England win, but I’d quite like to see Ireland get a Grand Slam!
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@dgold I’m from Birmingham and my Dad’s side of the family are really long term Villa fans - I first went to see Villa play when I was under 10. I don’t follow much football now but I have to pay attention to Aston Villa :)
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@dgold Agreed - apart from last phrase :) Can’t see four tries coming from England, or even in total, during the second half ... 🏉
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@dgold Just hope England can do the same later and make the final weekend really count! 🏉
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@dgold Pretty lucky with that scoreline though - another great game to watch! 🏉
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@macgenie What will be, will be ;)
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@macgenie Thank you - only thing that annoyed me was rpthat our cat refused to look at me - despite repeated prompting - whilst I was taking it :)
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@jeremycherfas I wish I had such skillz! Just testing cross-posting text and images from Micro.blog to Pnut.
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@vasta We've probably had less than 15cm, just very windy too so the snow's drifting and building up in places! No problem staying warm and dry, the school where I work (and all others in the area) is closed due to bad weather :)
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@dgold Scotland just didn’t show them a hint of an opening - there seemed to be nowhere for England to go, closed down all the time. Passionate home game, very impressive. 🏉
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@dgold Scotland must be really regretting their performance against Wales - they could have been serious title contenders this year. Two great games today! 🏉
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@Skematica Are you crossposting using @kwood’s (Pnut username) RTPaaS? If so, that can only use a feed item title as link text and short MB posts have no title so RTPaaS just uses the item url as the link text. Probably need to contact @kwood to improve that!
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@Burk Good work - very useful!
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Half time - enjoyable game, not as one-sided as I thought it would be, Italy often threatening. 🏉
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@dgold England wouldn’t use such a tactic ;)
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@dgold If that’s the case, Owens was wrong but it looked like he thought he was talking to a doctor! Can’t believe I’m defending a Welsh referee to this extent after all the abuse I hear Wayne Barnes get where I live and work - I’m English but have lived in Wales for 24 years :)
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@dgold I believe that if a match doctor indicates a HIA is required then no match official can override it ...
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@dgold I’d have to watch the Kearney incident again, not sure, but I think the BBC pundits were divided about it!
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@dgold A little unfair I think! Regarding Machenaud, Owens was triple checking with the match doctor - French I’d agree, but meant to be impartial - to ascertain if a HIA was required and was assured it was ‘clearly’ the case.
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@dgold Can’t agree with you about Nigel Owens, I’ve always been impressed with the control he’s had over the games he’s refereed. Couple of things went amiss today but I don’t think they were his fault. 🏉
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@Flish Unbelievable he even tried it from there! Great end to the game! 🏉
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@dgold Yeah, can be weird coverage, but saying that I thought the quality of the BBC coverage in Cardiff wasn’t brilliant - often looked like a low quality video tape recording, especially when the camera was moving! 🏉
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@dgold Again a surprising game - I thought Ireland would dominate more but, as you say, France’s defence has responded and held up well. 🏉
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@dgold True, but the Wales try before that was probably grounded even though not visible to the TMO, so I think justice was done!
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@dgold You’re out of luck there then :) 🏉
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@dgold Really wasn’t expecting this score line - and I support Wales as long as they’re not playing England :) Scotland played so well in the Autumn internationals ... 🏉
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@PhoneBoy You certainly started at the top with Barcelona at the Nou Camp! Most other matches and venues will be downhill from there!
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@vasta Photo was taken in Kalamata, Greece in August 2015. My current weather conditions in wintry Wales are nowhere near the same 🌧️ 😞
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@jonesbp Interesting article which rings very true to me - thanks for the link!
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@jeremycherfas I'd wait for warmer weather ;)
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@michal Jealous! Seen them live a couple of times and Relaxer was one of my albums of the year from 2017!
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@jeremycherfas Sorry, picked the share from Overcast. Perhaps I should have shared it from the BBC link but I'm never sure how their iPlayer works outside the UK.
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@belle Thanks for the tip - I’ll take a look!
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Great idea for the use of emojis @manton - though I had to look up the Control–Command–Space shortcut for the macOS Character Viewer so that I'll be able to make use of it away from iOS!
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@jeremycherfas I’m sure there will be a next time - and no I’m afraid not, I flew out on the 2nd...
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@jeremycherfas Had a fantastic four days in Rome, but would have loved more!
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@jeremycherfas ... and I’m taking off for the UK in 20mins :)
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@jeremycherfas I’m afraid I recently gave away my Sarah Brown cookbooks - now slightly regretting it as they were my mainstay when I first started cooking vegetarian food in the 1980s. But things have moved on...
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@TheDimPause Correction. Quiz night cancelled :(
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@stefp @zak Success! Got my King Crimson tickets for Cardiff via the pre-sale. Only a year (nearly) to wait now ... :)
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@stefp Excellent - thank you - hadn’t seen that, and I already have a Live Nation account so am now eligible for their pre-sale (starts 9am Thursday 30th November though, not tomorrow).
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@jacob Well worth getting to see them if you can - but I think they've just finished their 2017 US dates and are in Europe for 2018 :(
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@Zak It's only try because they tend to sell out quickly! Only six dates in the UK this tour by the look of it, luckily one of them near me in Wales.
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@stefp Yes, I went to see them on that tour in 2015 in Cardiff as well - brilliant - that’s why I’m so keen to get tickets for next year too :)
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@stefp I'd hope they'd bring everything back - I'd love to try original WoW again, but, as I've found with a number of old, 'classic' videogames it may just be fond memories of the time which don't hold up so much now :)
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@douglane Photo for Day 4: Up Close
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@douglane ... and Day Three 'On the Move'
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@manton Brilliant! Thank you!
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@douglane Agreed - I'd find that very useful. At the moment I find myself habitually starting to edit my Micro.blog posts in MarsEdit then realising it won't work and having to switch back to the web interface :( // @danielpunkass @manton
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@johnjohnston Thanks - I went walking through our local woods this afternoon looking for ‘Squares’ and there was a lot of square wire mesh fencing :)
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@douglane ... and this is my ‘Squares’ entry - the @-mention in my original post didn’t seem to link through to you!
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@douglane Great idea - I’ll definitely try and participate!
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@michal Definitely something special, but, as you say, problem now is finding somewhere to get it developed and printed. I used to have B&W darkroom equipment, but now long gone. Post a couple of the photos you've taken here and it might encourage me to resurrect my camera :)
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@michal That brings back memories! I've still got my old Zenit E that I bought in the late 1970s, but haven't used it in over 30 years.
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@manton I’d probably go down that route if I had an AppleTV at home to watch it on my TV, but I’m not going to sit and watch Blade Runner on my iPad or MacBook...
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@manton I’ve ordered ‘The Final Cut’ for exactly the same reason - just waiting for it to arrive before I can go to the cinema to see 2049 - proof I still live in the physical DVD age :)
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@noah Isn’t Star Trek Discovery on Netflix in the US? Haven’t watched it yet, but it seems to be there in the UK.
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@vasta Yes, it is a concern. The evidence cited in the article (and presumably more so in the book) seems quite extensive. I rarely get 8 hours sleep a night, often less than 7 hours. Going to have to try harder.
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@vasta Well, that's put playboy.com into my browsing history 😳 Also not really convinced by the argument!
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@manton Looking to use Micro.blog as my main blogging site, so eagerly anticipating any new features!
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@manton Nice! Lack of icon was spoiling my bookmarks bar ;)
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@jeremycherfas Some of those use ridiculous amounts of battery life even when force-quitted. I once had the Trip Advisor app journey tracker enabled and that used about 25% of my battery life per day!
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@jeremycherfas Very interesting - I must cure myself of this bad habit!
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@collin Thanks, interesting listen and great that the Their Story is Our Story project got a good mention towards the end of the podcast.
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@mina Worked very well - 5 presenters, 17 attendees, audio and video streams performed well, good interactive Q&A sessions. Better than some Adobe Connect and GoToMeeting sessions I've seen.
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@manton I agree with @stevepaulson - surely it's got to be an option - so much more social!
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@mina Obviously some refining to be done with cross-posting to Twitter, but I can wait :)
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@manton Excellent - makes me happy :) And I probably should have looked at the What's next page first; I see it mentioned there now.
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@desparoz I guess Twitter ignores the link html code in the cross-post feed. I think only answer at present is not to use markdown formatting if you need a link to persist. Perhaps parsing for Twitter cross-posts can be changed in future @manton ?
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@desparoz Ah - but I just noticed your link text still has a dot in it - presumably Twitter will format that as a domain/link anyway. Your link in Twitter points to micro.blog not the http://desparoz.com/ used in your Microblog post.
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@desparoz Strange - are you posting from the web or the iOS app?
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@desparoz Not that post - that didn't have a markdown formatted link in it. I deleted the original tweet that failed :)
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@moridin Impressive! Where is that?