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Dan Sloane
@dans@mastodon.me.uk
mastodon 4.6.9Probably writing about event technology and AV, EV ownership, co-working spaces and parenting teenagers. Happy backstage or near water.
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Joined November 04, 2022
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Felixstowe and Newbury, UK
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us The same people believe the same bullshit he spouts because they are still bitter about not getting the Brexit they thought they were voting for.
I've just heard the phrase "This is so jokes bro" stated by one of the lighting team and I now feel someone's grandad.
Attended a lovely events production manager's barbecue on a rooftop near Kings Cross this evening. The diversity was as wide as you might expect: nearly all of us were white, middle aged men with varying degrees of signs of enjoying a job with lots of travelling, long hours and fixed deadlines. 🫣
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@davidallan@mastodonapp.uk My understanding is that they're moving into the Culture House as this building has some expensive structural issues and probably costs a fortune to cool.
This was fascinating #emfcamp
I stayed to watch as dementia, Alzheimer's and ageing scare me far more than dropping dead tomorrow.
https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/94-the-astronaut-protocol
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@dazinism@social.coop An NFU report also suggested golf courses take up more land than proposed solar requirements.
@ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com @someguy@beige.party @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green
My mum is on a cruise from the UK around the coast of South America and has visited the Falkland Islands today having already been to Montevideo. Both places I'd love to visit. Am very envious.
70% of my job could quite happily be done whilst moving around the world on a boat, assuming a reasonable Internet connection.
The highlight of my job is I get to work with mad geniuses like @solexious@chaos.social and Dave Cranmer.
I can't show what they're building for the current project, but here's one of Dave's previous creations.
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@phlash@mastodon.me.uk Oh. I guess if read from a US perspective, that does make sense.
@me@jaehanley.social
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@me@jaehanley.social I'm confused by the Chinese EV comment. My Polestar is pretty good at getting me and my stuff about without too much fuss.
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@thebaywindowgirl@toot.wales That's beautiful. This is my dream garden, especially maintained by someone else. I've tried and realised it doesn't work in a small space and needs a lot of upkeep.
Public parks and meadows are just the best thing.
I'm still baffled by these new roadsigns that have gone up in Newbury. Pass both sides of what? On pedestrianised streets. I think someone ordered the wrong signs.
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@gabrielesvelto@mas.to This is excellent. Presumably the government is also looking forward to much larger income tax revenue this year compared to if Samsung had kept the money.
Is there a direct correlation between the value of a man's shirt and the amount of elbow space he feels entitled to on the train? Maybe pay less for your clothes and spend it on a first class ticket? Underwriting doesn't look like a low income career.
It's good of Discover Suffolk to provide a bird toilet / phone holder at Landguard
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@fak@toot.community Sorry, I was thinking of the Sealion 7. The Dolphin is definitely not big. The ID.3 is the right size: it just needs to be a lot less dull. The new Cupra Born isn't quite on sale yet.
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@fak@toot.community I've been offered a reasonable deal on an ID.3 GTX Fire and Ice which even the VW dealer couldn't see the point in and wasn't surprised there it was a deal
The lease on my Polestar is up soon and I'm back in the extremely dull process of finding something to replace it knowing that it does the job fine and it's only really when I'm in Suffolk that I need a car.
My sure bet of the BYD Seal was lovely to drive, but like the Model 3 it's a saloon pretending to be a hatchback and therefore impractical. Looks like I'm going to end up with an small SUV or old model Cupra Born.
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@solexious@chaos.social That button always also triggers the coughing from audience members nowhere near the smoke.
If there's one word in any post or comment on any platform that identifies the submitter's origin, it's 'dang'.
I love these a lot. Repurposed vending machines that sell products from local artists.
RE: @susankayequinn@wandering.shop
This is a much better thing to do than the UKs equivalent of trashing low emission zone enforcement cameras.
There's a lot of chat about extremely small bananas on this job. I've also discovered there's a specific SFW subreddit for this topic.
Sitting in Dublin watching flightcases and scenery get loaded onto trucks and I for one are extremely grateful for the Google search clarification about these trucks not being related to long running radio soap The Archers
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Interesting difference between the share link headline and the actual article, the headline of which reads "Cuckoo takes one look at UK and flees to France"
About to test drive a Model Y. I like the look of the outside, but need to get over the brand association. The new Standard edition without the light bar and pointless rear seat screens looks like a good deal. There are some excellent deals on the generally unloved but excellent Ioniq 6 and the Megane are both on my list for when the Polestar lease is up.
I love the art of unemotional, facts based journalism. 🙄
Get your kids vaccinated.
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@solexious@chaos.social If you just need cut to size, I've used Click Metal.
https://www.clickmetal.co.uk/
For more complex stuff, I've had good results with Fractory in the past, but Wrightform in Suffolk are good.
https://www.wrightform.co.uk/
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How do blocks of 50+ apartments work if not buy leasehold. Who owns the building they're all in?
Managing a building of only 12 flats was hard enough when we had to collect ground rent from and agree maintenance budgets / payments with frequently changing neighbours and absent landlords.
Feeling empty this morning. 😞
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@fak@toot.community It's quite nice looking and maybe I need to test drive it. It's just big.
Matcha drinks: slowing down coffee shops everywhere and made bearable through the use of blueberry syrup.