@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Mar 03, 2026

Having a day today. mean to eat a handful or trail mix but grabbed the wrong bag and ate a handful of cat treats instead

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Mar 03, 2026

I've thinking about a School friend a lot recently wondering whatever happened to him. It's a hell of a long shot but has anyone come across a guy called Ken Weston from Leicester (Oadby) who last I heard (Around 1985/1986) became a Pagan (Wiccan) and travelled the festival circuit in the UK on a canal boat

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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Russell Davis

@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Mar 03, 2026

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to market, to market to buy a fat cow
to milk it, to milk it she did not know how
she pulled on it's tail instead of it's tit
now poor little Annie is covered in s***

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to market to market with my brother Jim
somebody threw a tomato at him.
now tomatoes are squidgy and don't break the skin
but this bugger did it was still in the tin

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Mar 03, 2026

Just went to sit on a chair and missed.

This is just me trying to reclaim some dignity while lying in a bowl of cat food

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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Russell Davis

@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Mar 03, 2026

#pastpuzzle en-446
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https://www.pastpuzzle.de

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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Russell Davis

@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Mar 02, 2026

#pastpuzzle en-248
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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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Russell Davis

@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Mar 02, 2026

@CleoQc@cosocial.ca @hey.murt@www.threads.com

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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Russell Davis

@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Feb 28, 2026

#pastpuzzle en-445
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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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Russell Davis

@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Feb 28, 2026

#pastpuzzle en-245
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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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Russell Davis

@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Feb 28, 2026

Hudson & Rex time then I think a Peter Firth & Caroline Langrishe night.

The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Another Flip for Dominick

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Feb 27, 2026

https://apnews.com/article/neil-sedaka-dead-c1002e2c903a458380d2078a47ab75b5?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Feb 27, 2026

Yup 100% @CleoQc@cosocial.ca @krypt3ia@infosec.exchange

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Dec 27, 2025

@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt The Apricot range were nice machines although as you say not that IBM PC compatable (quite a few British machines of the time were IBM PC-ish but not compatable) The screen was great to look at for hours and hours without eyestrain. I did quite a few of my early contracts programming them. Mostly using the Alpha database although iirc Dataease and Sensible Solution DB/4GL and I think TAS and Multisoft/MOSS ran on it too

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uucp is the future of internetworking, just like it was in 1979! https://mstdn.social/@vaurora/115725287367016413

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Dec 15, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop I miss bangpaths and uucp. It all went to hell when we stopped using bangpaths

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I’m always amused when movies set in the present day have scene with a crowd of press photographers and use the whirring of 35mm film motor drives as a sound effect.

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It’s similar to the (until recently almost universally used) sound effect of a dial tone to indicate being hung up on. Except that real phones never actually worked like that. You’d just hear a click

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(Kids today don’t even know what a dial tone is, let alone how E&M supervision signaling works.)

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Dec 07, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social and slamming down the "handset" in anger gets really expansive these days

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Heads up for those who, like me, worry about giving or receiving COVID-19 and flu: The new version of the Aptitude molecular test (for both COVID and flu) is now available at retail. It requires a re-

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No, I'm not connected with them in any way. Yes, it's expensive, prohibitively for many. But still useful assurance if you can swing it.

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I still wear a mask to class, on trains and planes, and when in crowded indoor spaces, because I am human who relies on a human body, and am addicted to regular respiration.

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I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social

I must have been truly evil in a previous life as karma has relocated me to NYC in this one. # RaspberryPi # IchigoJam , # Z80 # CP /M # Retro # SnarkyComments & anything else that takes my fancy Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming

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@ukscone@cupoftea.social · Nov 23, 2025

@mattblaze@federate.social Oh I thought you wore a mask because of the court order saying that you were scaring the kids and dogs with your ugly mug :D

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