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🍃 Nick 🍁

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Stuff I do:

💻 write community organising software 👉@karrot@fosstodon.org
🌳 grow food 👉 @DryArchGrowers@bath.social
♥️ local solidarity 👉 https://bathsolidarity.city
📚 lend my books 👉 https://inventaire.io/inventory/nicksellen

🕰️ Previously 👉 @nicksellen@social.coop (joined 2018)

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Joined March 05, 2022

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🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 28, 2026

I'm amazed getting actual realworld download speeds like this, on a mobile connection...

604.6 MiB 46.5 MiB/s 00:13

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 26, 2026

One perpetual source of hope and optimism for me is when I hear about young people like this:

"Carter,14, said young people should not miss out because of the failings of big technology companies.

"The government needs to look more at the companies themselves and hold them accountable for the content they are allowing on there.""

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 25, 2026

"... that's Christmas dinner sorted"

That's one of my favourite passerby conversation snippets for a while 😆

Who is planning Christmas dinner on a warm evening in May???

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 24, 2026

I only got a crappy photo here as I was moving at the time... but I love the way these trees have found a way to water!

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 22, 2026

When people share links to petitions, or inspiring videos, or talks or even events I kinda don't even see them any more, just scroll on by. I feel a kind of drowning sense. Too many. Too many different topics. Too much to get my head around.

Whereas personal messages feel special. They are to me in particular. I suspect that's the difference. All the links to things are addressed to the generic masses. I am nobody. But I want to organise and engage with specific people, so I prioritise that.

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 21, 2026

I opened a recipe for "Coconut curry dumplings" and one of the ingredients was "dumplings" ... not what I was expecting. What are *those* dumplings made of? yet more dumpings? Dumplings all the way down??

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 18, 2026

I enjoyed spending some time looking at and photographing flowers yesterday.

#Photography

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🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 18, 2026

Two times in the last few days people have appreciated that we've been able to chat about more real/emotional/difficult/dark topics, rather than staying in the "everything is lovely" vibe... 🫂

Both times the people referred to that as being able to talk to someone "normal" ❤️

I wish that was normal!! (statistically speaking)

(I guess the sentiment is that it's normal, given we are real people, that everything is not always lovely 😥)

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 18, 2026

"You can't look back at it, just got to move on"

This is a very common sentiment, and I think very unfortunate.

I think it results in a lot of stuck feelings that then emerge in some other form, much harder to then trace back to the source.

It is however what many people have to do, given the loving environment to process those difficult experiences is often not available.

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 12, 2026

The formalisation of food surplus redistribution is interesting:
1. start with dumpster diving, just take it, shop can actually be co-operative
2. then community co-ordinated food surplus collections, just makes sense
3. then multi million pound founded for-profit businesses come for it...

The sad thing to me is that in 1 (and some of 2) you can use your own judgement on when food is still edible, in 3 you are obligated to throw it out past the use by date (another layer of food waste).

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 11, 2026

I love catching the bus, but it does expose me to the wild, and sometimes I'm unprepared for what I'll encounter....

😬😬😬😬😬

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 07, 2026

... and my hummus ... I did one without tahini in it, as I don't usually need a whole jar... and it keeps it simpler and cheaper.

was yummy! 10x nicer than shop hummus...

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @ericsfraga@fediscience.org

@ericsfraga@fediscience.org as far as I recall, it's a local stopping train, which tend to be quite good for bikes... don't have to try and hang them vertically, and there is some good mixed used space.

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · May 03, 2026

Replying to @douginamug@mastodon.xyz

@douginamug yes! Resonates a lot. We are still in our process.... Slow and steady! Although I do find it exhausting too to work all this shit out. Part of me wants to just go with the gut and say no, fuck off ai.

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · Apr 10, 2026

Replying to @dweb@social.coop

@dweb@social.coop @tommi@pan.rent hey 👋 I like a lot of the things that dweb seems to be about, and if I wasn't otherwise available I would have considered attending... However, 730EUR for a regular ticket is way higher than I could possibly consider. For reference, I'm involved with organising a small alt tech event, and our ticket price is 45GBP including accommodation and food for 3 nights. And emf camp is ~190GBP. I genuinely don't get who are the people that can afford 730EUR? and why the costs are so high?

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · Jan 13, 2026

I made an experimental mastodon invite qr code sticker generator - the idea is to put them up locally, on lampposts, etc...

It's experimental as I didn't actually try getting the stickers printed yet... sizing might be off... from a quick look 7cm x 7cm seemed a reasonable size.

You can generate and download stickers (or rather an image) for your own instance at https://nicksellen.co.uk/qr/ - and customize the message. It runs entirely in the browser.

🍃 Nick 🍁 @nick@bath.social · Jan 11, 2026

Argh, I'd really like to build up a local tech collective here that can support more liberatory tech...

Small projects, e.g. community gardens, often struggle with wordpress websites, and I get asked to help...

... but I don't want to be the sucker hidden away maintaining ancient wordpress sites for free/little money for years... (that probably people hardly visit anyway).

Anyone have advice/tips/experiences here?

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