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Craig G
@derbadian@mas.to
mastodon 4.7.2#Music lover, #rambler, #gig and #festival goer, #scifi #geek #gamer and #beer drinker from #Derby #UK.
Mainly posting random thoughts about #nerd stuff, #anime, #TV, #Movies or whatever happens to pop into my head.
248 Followers
228 Following
50 Posts
Joined November 18, 2022
Hey:
Jude
Don't make it:
bad
Take a sad:
song
And make it:
better
A combined #FungiFriday / #Mosstodon for you - Hoof fungus on a mossy tree trunk.
Taken at the aptly named Moss's Banks near Oakamoor, Staffordshire.
Reform getting power is like a dog chasing a car. They don't know what to do when they actually catch the car except stand there barking at it.
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By "popular" demand, I present... the Chocolate Bar Chart!
Also, welcome to all my new followers (I am slightly overwhelmed) and please don't expect this quality of content all year round! 😂
#Christmas #Chocolate #Shrinkflation
Just got home after a lovely 8 mile walk around Alton in Staffordshire (near Alton Towers, you could actually hear screaming from the rollercoasters!)
This is a wire sculpture of a fairy in a tree, somewhere between Oakamoor and Cotton.
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Well this blew up 🤯
If you already know Sir Terry Pratchett's work, I hope it was a lovely reminder of what a genius he was.
If you've never heard of Sir Terry Pratchett, I hope you feel inspired to check out the Discworld series of books, which honestly just get better and better as they go.
#TerryPratchett #Books #Discworld
Happy perfect date day to all who celebrate!
Bought a couple of super cheap records on sale at Rarewaves for a tenner and got sent this instead, which from the receipt in the packaging I believe was supposed to go to a guy in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Sorry buddy, if you got what I ordered, I probably got the better end of the deal!
The only time I remotely miss Twitter is on International Women's Day when Richard Herring used to raise money for charity by replying to all the idiotic men asking when International Men's Day is (it's 19th November).
Anyway, happy International Women's Day to all who celebrate, which should be everyone.
Just re-read a 1957 Isaac Asimov short story called Profession.
In this story people don't learn anything, they have a technology where they are just given the knowledge.
The technology doesn't work on the main character, who has to learn "the old fashioned way", by reading books.
Eventually he comes to realise that it is people like him, who have to learn "shred by shred", who have the capacity for original thought and come up with innovation.
Seems extremely prescient.
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They are literally moustache twirling villains at this point, sitting in a revolving chair, stroking a cat in a secret base in a volcano.
Absolutely no fear about saying the quiet parts out loud.
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@helenclayton@mas.to Misread that as "told him to follow me to a pint" and thought that does indeed sound like the work of an angel! 🍺
I watched War Machine on Netflix.
What's the military equivalent of copaganda?
I like a big dumb action movie, but I just couldn't enjoy it with what's happening in the real world right now.
Koupen-chan is about the cutest damn thing I've ever seen. Super short slices of happiness.
Look up "kawaii" in the Japanese dictionary and there should be a picture of Koupen-chan.
"Remember: Spring back, fall forward"
A friend of mine on Facebook used to say that every time the clocks changed and see how many fish he reeled in.
It's honestly one of the only things I miss about Facebook.
My favourite Mastodon app, no longer being updated, can't quote toot and doesn't display quote toots.
I'm fine with that.
Tales of my weird brain 226:
Weird songs I sing in my head.
A couple of examples. When I read something about a nepo baby, my brain sings "I'm a nepo baby, so why don't you kill me". To the tune of Beck's Loser.
Another one, an extremely niche UK one. The main character in Death in Paradise has an iconic green bucket hat that got stolen and then he got back. Now every time it appears on screen my brain sings "Return of the hat" to the tune of Mark Morrison's Return of the Mack.
See. Weird 😂
I forgot what an absolute cracker this album is, not a bad song on it 🤘🏻
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@elizach@mastodon.social Same. I watched the first two episodes of Season 5 and dropped it, it's become too ridiculous.
Hopefully the spin off Star City will be good, it's got some great actors in it!
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@eestileib Once the author has written something and published it, it's up to the reader what it means. There's no right or wrong.
To me there's a lot going on, being poor is expensive, making (and keeping) money when you're rich is easy, etc.
Vimes likes the shitty boots, they let him feel the cobbles of the city under his feet in a way that the rich will never feel. But his feet are still wet.
Had a look round pretty much all of the charity shops here on the search for #vinyl and came home empty handed.
If I liked Slim Whitman though it would have been my lucky day!
If people say Brits are obsessed with the weather, they're correct. It was 20C last week, today it's 7C and alternating between hail/sleet, gale force winds and bright sunshine.
Assault rifles: Not banned in America.
Tonka beans: Banned in America.
How are you supposed to make sense of a country like that? 🤷🏻♂️
Anyway, have a great weekend lovely people of Mastodon. Chin chin! 🍻
Happy Mother's Day!*
Sorry if that panicked you in the rest of the world, it's payback for the brief panic I feel in May!
Anyway, happy Mother's Day to the mums, dads who are also mums and everyone else. If you've lost your mum I feel for you today, much love ❤️
*In the UK
Hot food take, but the breakfast burrito is the greatest culinary invention humankind has ever made.
* I may have just eaten a breakfast burrito.
Uh, weather is rancid out there. Raining absolute cats and dogs with 40mph gusts of wind. Yuck.
I wish techbros would stop naming their slop after words they've stolen from science fiction and fantasy*
Here are a few names they can have for free:
Spunkbucket
Bilgepump
Dewflaps
Stoolsample
Gloryhole
*could have just ended this sentence after stop.
I fancied stir fry for tea and was halfway through making it when I realised I didn't have any noodles. So I used spaghetti instead, same thing right!?
Probably just insulted a billion people 😂
When I was younger I was short of cash, when I wanted to upgrade something I had to sell something.
For example, when I bought my first PC I had to sell my Amiga A500 to help pay for it.
Of course now I wish I still had all those things. I call it Retro Regret.
I wish I had it all back, but if I could pick only two things, I'd probably pick my Dreamcast and my super cool Gameboy Advance SP NES edition.
What system did you used to have that you wish you still had!?
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@tnt@chaos.social I do now! But only for this year, since people have suggested it. It looks almost identical to the chart by count.
The biggest takeaway is that the combined weight is 497g, you don't even get 500g!
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@Sinjo@tech.lgbt They certainly are! If a tub of Celebrations comes out, go straight for the Maltesers.
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@bardmoss@autistics.life Correct, I'm in the UK. Bounty is also a brand of paper towels here, but in this context it's a coconut filled chocolate bar. A lot of people hate them, but I like them!
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@okwithmydecay@en.osm.town Last update in the play store was 14 June 2025, but I'm very happy to hear updates are on the way! Still not fussed about quote toots though 😂
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@okwithmydecay@en.osm.town It's Moshidon. When I originally joined Mastodon I tried all the android apps and it was by far my favourite.
It will eventually become unusable I'm guessing as Mastodon gets updates and the app doesn't, I'll deal with that bridge when I come to it!
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@JeffS@mastodonapp.uk Probably both, but I have only weighed them this year since people suggested it (the distribution is almost identical by count or by weight.)
Here is the yearly comparison (Maltesers, Galaxy (Regular) and Bounty are all overlaid since their numbers are identical).
Thinking about all the sweet Monet content I'll miss because of filters.
Thanks techbros!
Just about to watch the new episode of For All Mankind. I loved the early seasons but I've got to admit that it's starting to lose me, the further it gets away from reality.
Now they have to plausibly convince me that a Mars colony could possibly win against Earth. Hmm, we'll see about that.
When a friend breaks up with someone, don't try and console them by saying "well I never really liked them anyway".
Because that makes it very awkward when they get back together.
Ask me how I know!
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@wiredfool Yep, as I said in a reply to someone else "Vimes likes the shitty boots, they let him feel the cobbles of the city under his feet in a way that the rich will never feel. But his feet are still wet."
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@Galamadryade@piaille.fr This is what they look like. I would say the defining quality of a "tub" is an open ended container (Celebrations has a removable lid).
"just" $2,259
PC gaming needs a reckoning, it's becoming unaffordable for the majority of people.
Guess I'll just stumble on with my getting on for 10 year old PC 🤷🏻♂️
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@mark@social.markiswrit.ing Did you used to get Galaxy Truffle? If you did they've been gone since before 2023 (when I started doing this!)