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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Former UK based #supplychain professional (inventory analysis and procurement) working in pharma, oil exploration, managed print, secure KVM's, wine and railway rolling stock who got fed up with countless hours commuting, business travel and fighting finance and marketing departments, while getting increasingly despondent with living in a small box with a handkerchief sized garden.
Now in Ireland, surrounded by chickens, dogs and a grumpy cat, fabricating and fixing things for people.
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Joined June 16, 2023
About 50% of American politics posts I've seen today seem to be about this fella
Current mood, chicken poop breath 🤢
Current mood, a small hairy growth on the nose
Creeping
Can we just fast forward to Tuesday please ?
"Anthropic said so on X last week: "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade."
"The thing I have to remind myself every time I see one of these claims. This number is not a statistic. It's not based on data. Nothing has been measured or calculated. It's a hunch with a percent sign. That's all.
It's bullshit."
Some good news about the UK's #renewables sector
"Owning an EV costs around €1,560 per year, compared with €2,715 for petrol cars and €3,546 for diesel cars."
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0915/1591529-esri-car-costs/
Can't wait to sink my teeth into this!
Quiet contemplation
More of this kind of thing please
"the BYD Racco will SCARE Japan"
Here we go
CATL Starts Mass Shipping Sodium-Ion Batteries in Weeks
Wonderful
"Moronic" - Marsh Family parody of Alanis Morissette's "Ironic" about Trump's Trade War with Canada
Heath dog violet
Well that's put the dog amongst the chickens
If you want to commit any crimes in Ireland, this week is the best week to do it, pretty much every garda in the country is currently sat in a gateway to a field in Clare.
That'll be another €100+k in overtime that won't get paid back
Dogs, bogs and throwing sticks
Excuse me, could you possibly spare a snack, as you can see there's nothing of me
I have no idea what he has rolled in, but he's the strongest smelling thing in this poly tunnel, and seems quite proud of it.
Still scoring high on the pungency levels
It's behind you!
Getting up close
Gone wild
My friends beagle has just run into the house sporting the most flamboyant fox turd neckwear, I'll spare you the pictures, but it is from ear to ear 😬
Current mood
If it wasn't for the fact I'd drunk too much to safely handle an angle grinder and Mrs Flan would have probably battered me with a selection of heavy tools, this could have very likely had been parked on my drive this morning.
Oh well, back to struggling to load up the car with building materials again.
Flora and fauna
Snooping around a friends garden
Bantam problems
Don't Stop to Charge! Charge When You Stop!
Such a neatly designed and well thought out system.
TIL small prop engined aircraft still use leaded fuel 😐
https://hackaday.com/2026/05/04/why-leaded-fuel-is-still-a-thing/
One first gen, base spec CD and Bluetooth only #nissanleaf brought kicking and screaming up to date with a €65 Android Auto display.
Works very well if you pair everything through Bluetooth, it'll retain steering controls as well.
If only LeafSpy had AA support, but you can get around that by screen sharing.
An excellent breakdown of why the latest Ember report is actually more significant than you think.
Paul Weller - Private Hell (BBC Radio 2 in concert)
Quite soft for punk, but always found The Jams punk style lyrical content/rock/mod crossover mix good
I'm as straight as they come, but Michael Hutchence, I would
#totp
It's only just dawned on me that a fair number of my followers might not know what the hashtag #totp means and probably think I regularly have some kind of turettes type episode from 9pm onwards
CHOON!
#totp
Thanks #totp another song for me to collapse a lung to
A glorious rabbit hole to fall down
SFX the music magazine that came on cassette tape
#retromedia #80smusic #totphttps://doctechnical.com/sfx/
If you're a fan of #faithnomore and #mrbungle you might enjoy squirting some Mollo Rilla Marco Ciofani into your ear tubes this #BandcampFriday
Phwoooooooaaaaaar
I may need a lay down
#totp
You'd have thought after all these years I'd have learnt not to try and sing along
#totp