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<p>Here to comment on my ongoing digital detox (#LeaveBigTech). Also listen to music (mainly <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Vinyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Vinyl</span></a>) and share the odd <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ThrowbackThursday</span></a>.</p><p>Cishet partnered white male for my sins.</p><p>See the summaries below for further interests and hashtags.</p><p>All posts (except bookmarked) are deleted in 14 days. All images have <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AltText</span></a>, and only boost images with decent <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AltText</span></a>.</p><p>(Profile pic is

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  • Post #4274929

    #Anthropeum Anthropeum.com Β· Jul 22 2026 🟨πŸŸ₯🟩🟩🟩🟨🟨🟨🟩🟨 56,494 Β· top 53% of players today!

  • Post #4274928

    Just did my first Wikipedia (English) edit. I&amp;#39;ve been meaning to do one of these for years but never get around to it. Today, I discovered that Betty Swanwick didn&amp;#39;t have an exact date of death on there. But I found it whilst looking at her profile on the Royal Academy Collection. Interesting fact: one of those people, like Shakespeare, who suffered the extreme &amp;#39;Birthday Effect&amp;#39; (i.e. died on their actual birthday). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Swanwick #...

  • Post #4274927

    #Rogule 2026-7-23 🧝 5xp β›© 140 πŸ‘£ streak: 10 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 βš” πŸ¦‡πŸ—πŸ—πŸ€πŸ‘» πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸ„πŸ„πŸ„πŸ’Ž https://rogule.com

  • Post #4274926

    Anthropeum.com Β· Jul 23 2026 🟨🟦🟩🟦🟨🟨🟦🟩πŸŸ₯🟩 70,492 Β· top 16% of players today! #Anthropeum

  • Post #4274925

    Should read, &amp;#39;Habitual music plagiarists overtake original source material&amp;#39;. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9wq778dvzo #Oasis #Beatles #Music #UK

  • Post #4274924

    #ThrowbackThursday A slightly out-of-focus photo of me on a rock in the early 1980s. My question - fellow toot-travellers - is where is this? I haven&amp;#39;t a clue, but it&amp;#39;s in either England or Wales. #Beach #England #Holiday #1980s #Family #Photography

  • Post #4274923

    Well the axes did for everything quickly. #Rogule 2026-7-24 🧝 5xp β›© 334 πŸ‘£ streak: 11 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ βš” πŸ¦‡πŸ¦‡πŸ‘»πŸ§žπŸ§› πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸ„πŸ„ https://rogule.com

  • Post #4274922

    If anyone is using the dark arts here, it&amp;#39;s the US and their rhetoric. They realise their AI bubble might burst due to China insisting that their AI models are FOSS. They&amp;#39;re probably better engineered too compared to the US &amp;#39;chuck lots of money at it&amp;#39; approach. As you know I am no fan of Gen AI, but China might just be playing a blinder here by undercutting, and maybe collapsing, the buttress holding up the entire US economy. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles...

  • Post #4274921

    Typical - the dragon drops the shield when it&amp;#39;s no longer required! #Rogule 2026-7-25 🧝 5xp β›© 651 πŸ‘£ streak: 12 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 βš” πŸ‘»πŸ—πŸΊπŸ§›πŸ‰ 🌰 https://rogule.com

  • Post #4274920

    #SilentSunday

  • Post #4008848

    Going on a narrowboat holiday. We&#39;re music lovers and want an old-fashioned MP3 player to listen to our 7,500+ songs. We want none of your streaming/Spotify nonsense. Aha - old Pixel device, converted to GrapheneOS. Obtainium and Auxio (FOSS music player) added. No SIM and WiFI turned off, so just Bluetooth to attach to speakers or headphones. I&#39;m increasingly finding I&#39;m dumbing down more and more devices to get the most out of them. #Music #MP3 #Pixel #GrapheneOS #Obtainium #A...

  • Post #3852430

    For my sins, I still have a Microsoft Surface (Win 11, local account, mostly offline) to rip Blu-rays. And - jeez - it&#39;s so slow compared to five years ago when it was my main computer. I daily drive Linux Mint now but I&#39;m so sorry for the rest of you on Windows 11. It just sucks. * (* -- except it does rip Blu-rays using MakeMKV without issues, unlike my two other Linux Mint machines.) #Microslop #Microsoft #Windows11 #LinuxMint #Linux #SurfacePro

  • Post #3717079

    Hello to all the wonderful FOSS and anti-big-tech people on Mastodon. The next task in my list to divorce from big tech is replacing the Blink cameras around our house. Any advice? Is there a decent UK/EU privacy-based alternative? Or can I use FOSS with compatible hardware? I already have a home server on all the time running Jellyfin, so that could be utilised for this. Recommendations and/or working examples much appreciated! #FOSS #OutdoorSecurityCamera #Blink

  • Post #3667166

    I can&#39;t see how Farage can spin the result of this by-election in any positive way now. All the other parties have played a blinder on this. But a Count Binface win? Wow - that will make him and Reform the laughing stock that they so deserve to be. Please - let the fairy tale happen... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjdg4y3g0z7o #UKPol #Farage #Clacton #CountBinFace #BinFace #Reform #Corruption

  • Post #3609924

    Rat petting and, otherwise, utter devastation with two swords. #Rogule 2026-7-3 🧝 5xp β›© 164 πŸ‘£ streak: 7 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 βš” πŸΊπŸΊπŸ§ŸπŸ§› πŸ„ https://rogule.com

  • Post #3609923

    Quite a difficult one today... Anthropeum.com · Jul 3 2026 🟩🟦🟩🟨🟨🟩🟨🟨🟩🟦 66,930 · top 40% of players today!

  • Post #3609922

    #NowPlaying: &amp;#39;Thick as a Brick&amp;#39; by Jethro Tull (1972 - 2012 Steve Wilson Remix). Classic and seminal &amp;#39;joke&amp;#39; concept album that became the very thing it was lampooning. #Vinyl #NowSpinning #NowListening #ThickAsABrick #JethroTull #Rock #Folk #ProgRock

  • Post #3609921

    Starting point used as recovery room on two occasions when almost reduced to zero health. #Rogule 2026-7-4 🧝 5xp β›© 1219 πŸ‘£ streak: 8 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 βš” πŸ—πŸΊπŸ‘ΉπŸ‘»πŸΊ πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸ„πŸ„πŸ’Ž https://rogule.com

  • Post #3609920

    Tick tick tick Putin. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j2vmzxezro #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #UkraineWar

  • Post #3536076

    I find it incredible that the Proton Mail android app - from @protonprivacy@mastodon.social who want you to detach yourself from big tech - still uses Google Services. Admittedly just for notification pushes, but still. How difficult can it be to drop that dependency and check the server for new email at a frequency of the user&#39;s choosing? #Proton #ProtonMail #DeGoogle #Email #Google

  • Post #3516214

    I will concede - and I can&#39;t believe I&#39;m saying this - England have been unlucky not to score. Man of the match award heading to the DR Congo goalie at the moment. #ENGvDRC #England #DRCongo #Football #WorldCup

  • Post #1858899

    Just caught a couple of guys stuffing a Reform leaflet through our letter box. Ripped it up in front of them and called them fascists. Good deed of the day done... #UkPol #Reform #LocalElections

  • Post #1856936

    &amp;#39;There&amp;#39;s no other way&amp;#39; - well, what about seeing Suede live, having a punch-up in the US and then reinventing yourselves by taking in your 60s UK influences... #TOTP

  • Post #1555093

    The movie collection on our Jellyfin server is growing nicely. About 40+ Blu-rays and DVDs ripped so far. Tonight, it&amp;#39;s a bit of &amp;#39;Hot Fuzz&amp;#39;. #Jellyfin #HomeServer #HotFuzz #CornettoTrilogy

  • Post #1555092

    Didn&amp;#39;t have any weapons to speak of and couldn&amp;#39;t be bothered to chip away at the djinn by running around in cirlces... #Rogule 2026-4-19 🧝 5xp β›© 617 πŸ‘£ streak: 5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 βš” πŸ‘»πŸ—πŸ—πŸ— πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸ„πŸ„πŸ„πŸ’Ž https://rogule.com

  • Post #1555090

    Minutes of the rat preservation society: patted two and protected them from rats and hogs. #Rogule 2026-4-20 🧝 4xp β›© 138 πŸ‘£ streak: 6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 βš” πŸ¦‡πŸ¦‡πŸ— πŸŒ°β¬œπŸ„πŸ„πŸ„πŸ„ https://rogule.com

  • Post #1555089

    Just bought the latest album from Angine De Poitrine. Oh yes - it&amp;#39;s hectic, fun and - sometimes - funky. Would love to have bought it on vinyl, but their albums are not available in the UK until late June. #AngineDePoitrine #Vol2 #MathRock #ExperimentalRock #Microtonal #Looping

  • Post #1555088

    Another session at Dad&amp;#39;s disassembling more furniture this morning. (There&amp;#39;s plenty of these sessions to come...) Today&amp;#39;s soundtrack: &amp;#39;Seventh Son of a Seventh Son&amp;#39; by Iron Maiden and &amp;#39;Big Bang!&amp;#39; by Fuzzbox. Because that&amp;#39;s how I rolled in the late 80s. #IronMaiden #Fuzzbox #HeavyMetal #PowerPop

  • Post #1555087

    One axe and a hell of a lot of running. #Rogule 2026-4-21 🧝 5xp β›© 1089 πŸ‘£ streak: 7 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 βš” πŸΊπŸΊπŸ§›πŸ‘ΉπŸ§Ÿ πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸŒ°πŸ„πŸ’ŽπŸ’Ž https://rogule.com

  • Post #1555086

    #TuneTuesday and #WhatShallWeDrink The sun is nowhere near the yardarm yet in England. When it is late enough, it has to be &amp;#39;Beer, Beer Beer&amp;#39; (by Rob Manuel and Daniele Davoli). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTxINWXNrPA #Beer #DrinkingSong