Dan Sloane
dans@mastodon.me.uk
<p>Probably writing about event technology and AV, EV ownership, co-working spaces and parenting teenagers. Happy backstage or near water.</p><p>Posts auto-delete after two weeks</p>
Posts
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Post #4313198
Feeling empty this morning. 😞
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Post #4313197
We are undertaking work to REPAIR THE ELECTRICITY ⚡⚡⚡
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Post #4313196
Attended a lovely events production manager&#39;s barbecue on a rooftop near Kings Cross this evening. The diversity was as wide as you might expect: nearly all of us were white, middle aged men with varying degrees of signs of enjoying a job with lots of travelling, long hours and fixed deadlines. 🫣
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Post #4313195
I&#39;ve just heard the phrase &quot;This is so jokes bro&quot; stated by one of the lighting team and I now feel someone&#39;s grandad.
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Post #3909580
This was fascinating #emfcamp I stayed to watch as dementia, Alzheimer's and ageing scare me far more than dropping dead tomorrow. https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/94-the-astronaut-protocol
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Post #1922027
The lease on my Polestar is up soon and I&#39;m back in the extremely dull process of finding something to replace it knowing that it does the job fine and it&#39;s only really when I&#39;m in Suffolk that I need a car. My sure bet of the BYD Seal was lovely to drive, but like the Model 3 it&#39;s a saloon pretending to be a hatchback and therefore impractical. Looks like I&#39;m going to end up with an small SUV or old model Cupra Born.
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Post #1922023
Matcha drinks: slowing down coffee shops everywhere and made bearable through the use of blueberry syrup. #matcha
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Post #1157069
Can relate. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c145mmez57yo
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Post #1157064
Is there a direct correlation between the value of a man&#39;s shirt and the amount of elbow space he feels entitled to on the train? Maybe pay less for your clothes and spend it on a first class ticket? Underwriting doesn&#39;t look like a low income career.
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Post #904114
I&#39;m still baffled by these new roadsigns that have gone up in Newbury. Pass both sides of what? On pedestrianised streets. I think someone ordered the wrong signs. #Newbury #roadsigns #urbanplanning
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Post #904113
RE: https://mastox.eu/@ZackPolanski/116295661112883630 How do blocks of 50+ apartments work if not buy leasehold. Who owns the building they&#39;re all in? Managing a building of only 12 flats was hard enough when we had to collect ground rent from and agree maintenance budgets / payments with frequently changing neighbours and absent landlords.
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Post #904112
The highlight of my job is I get to work with mad geniuses like @solexious and Dave Cranmer. I can&#39;t show what they&#39;re building for the current project, but here&#39;s one of Dave&#39;s previous creations. https://nervoussquirrel.com/ghost_train.html
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Post #904110
If there&#39;s one word in any post or comment on any platform that identifies the submitter&#39;s origin, it&#39;s &#39;dang&#39;. #dang
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Post #904109
It&#39;s good of Discover Suffolk to provide a bird toilet / phone holder at Landguard
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Post #904108
I love the art of unemotional, facts based journalism. 🙄 https://electrek.co/2026/03/31/energy-dept-extends-order-to-keep-dead-colo-coal-plant-online-costing-millions/
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Post #454894
RE: https://flipboard.com/@gizmodo/science-j3s1j3f9z/-/a-daXawmvHT-a_nS6ua-XGNQ%3Aa%3A1876139665-%2F0 Get your kids vaccinated.
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Post #454893
There&#39;s a lot of chat about extremely small bananas on this job. I&#39;ve also discovered there&#39;s a specific SFW subreddit for this topic.
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Post #454890
RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116126600457999498 This is a much better thing to do than the UKs equivalent of trashing low emission zone enforcement cameras.
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Post #454889
My mum is on a cruise from the UK around the coast of South America and has visited the Falkland Islands today having already been to Montevideo. Both places I&#39;d love to visit. Am very envious. 70% of my job could quite happily be done whilst moving around the world on a boat, assuming a reasonable Internet connection.
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Post #454888
I love these a lot. Repurposed vending machines that sell products from local artists. https://supafantastic.com/vending/ #vending #vendingmachines #art #creators
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Post #454887
Sitting in Dublin watching flightcases and scenery get loaded onto trucks and I for one are extremely grateful for the Google search clarification about these trucks not being related to long running radio soap The Archers
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Post #454885
About to test drive a Model Y. I like the look of the outside, but need to get over the brand association. The new Standard edition without the light bar and pointless rear seat screens looks like a good deal. There are some excellent deals on the generally unloved but excellent Ioniq 6 and the Megane are both on my list for when the Polestar lease is up.