Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
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Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures.
I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying.
If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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2d ago
@ddgulledge @cstross
It also should have a Vetinari Variable Tick cadence, just for some pure audio flair.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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6d ago
That’s fairly cheap when you think about it.
The ships are carrying an average of 2 million barrels of oil so the cargo on them is worth at least $30m more than it was before the war.
And that’s how much extra Iran are already earning for each of their own shipments. So they are absolutely raking in cash despite how heavily the US and Israel have been bombarding them.
Wait until Trump figures that one out.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Apr 05, 2026
@lorgonumputz @VeroniqueB99
I still have mine too, absolutely indestructible.
I bought it back in 2001 or 2002 so it definitely referred to GW. The label is on the laptop sleeve in mine.
Got at least 500k km travel out of it.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Apr 04, 2026
One of my neighbours is a fisherman and has effectively domesticated this guy by regularly feeding him fish scraps.
It makes him very easy to photograph. Especially with Storm Dave providing some wind to give a bit of an artistic ruffle to his feathers and head plume.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Apr 03, 2026
@josh0 @futurebird
Now I really want one of those.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Mar 13, 2026
@sonjdol
I know he thinks this implies a deep strategic win by the plutocratic class and its drive to reverse centuries of human progress but I have to say I don’t think he really knows much about how working class people of any educational tier actually think, and how they will vote. Sure you can pull a Trump or Brexit once or twice if you control the media. But inequality and repression eventually bite and then the working classes eat the rich, burn their palaces, and behead kings
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Joe Mansfield
@helvick@mastodon.ie
Aging tech nerd. I live and work on the edge of the Celtic Sea. It’s very nice, but means I talk about the weather a lot. Sometimes I take bad pictures. I hang out here for fun so I block and mute anyone and anything that I find even vaguely annoying. If it helps then yes, you totally are way smarter than me and I am a clueless n00b. I’m OK with that.
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Feb 27, 2026
I’ve still got a working online account that I’ve retained since 1996. (It’s a @hotmail.com email address). Admittedly it’s gone through a lot of transformations but it still sends and receives email.
I used to have an iol.ie email that was older but it got lost during one of that domain’s many acquisitions in the early 2000s.
I’m curious about the oldest still functional accounts out there. Some academic orgs I assume? Anyone willing to share if they have one?
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