My hotel room last night either had a hairdryer or something from a book by @cstross@wandering.shop in it.
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Greem (Graeme. Not Graham!)
@greem@cyberplace.social
mastodon 4.7.3Born in the UK at 327ppm.
Son, husband, dad, friend, IT person (no I cannot fix your printer)
Used to rock climb (and fall), scuba dive, walk and climb mountains. Now I run around after racing cars*
Terminally ill with S4 prostate cancer. The end is not nigh.
Grumpy Brit, sweary, cynical, lefty/Green, bereaved child, pharmaceutically #ACE, #BuckFrexit
Very likely to make jokes about poo.
* Motorsport marshal | #BMMC Member | #MotorsportUK Grade 3 (Post Chief)
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Joined November 05, 2024
Cancer:
Sucks
Exiled Northerner:
Kinda by choice, met a girl, kissed a girl, etc
Backups:
If you never test them, they don't exist
Deary:
Me.
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@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social @bigvimto@mendeddrum.org @DJDarren@mendeddrum.org @patrick@mendeddrum.org
For completeness, we were forced off VMware by the Broadcom takeover, as they hiked our support contract up by almost 900%.
We've had to completely rebuild all of our infrastructure, automation and tooling to migrate - with barely a blip, overall. It's been an enormous piece of work and I got ill just as it was getting interesting.
When I go back, I don't know how I'll manage. It'll be like starting from scratch again!
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Odin there looks pretty much how I feel most days.
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@bloor@bloor.tw @mal3aby@mastodon.smears.org All's well that ends written off, as they say.
Please excuse me a Proud Dad moment.
Youngest got the best result for her course in her year for the first year exams at uni.
At OXFORD. Yes, that Oxford.
This is a young woman who struggled through school until the right diagnosis (which we had to fight for) unlocked all sorts of additional help and teaching/learning methods.
If you're a parent of an ND child or children, keep up the fight for them. It's worth it, and I hope it works out for you.
#ProudDad
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@jadedtwin@corteximplant.com when I was a kid, if I asked a question of my parents and the eventual answer was "I don't know" it was usually followed by "we'll go to the library and find out".
That imbued a lifetime of curiosity in my brother and I. Thanks, Dad 😊
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Odin's internal monologue as you're asking him:
You: Sta op!
Odin:
You: Sta op!
Odin:
You: Sta op!
Odin:
You: Sta op!
Odin: Nej.
repeat to fade :)
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social Preparation:
Stir gently. Do not use a screwdriver.
These days it seems like any time my phone rings, it's either the person I'm awaiting a call from or:
1. Somebody in Kolkata pretending to be from O2.
2. A dead, flat, boring voice pretending to be from Indeed, wanting me to add them on WhatsApp.
3. A recorded message from "VISA Fraud Department", leading to another voice from India telling me that my life is at risk if I don't give them my card details.
They really don't like being told to "Get To Fuck, Scamming Bastards".
Well that was a complete mess.
In a few minutes it'll be 4 years since I was picking bits of F1 racing car out of a barrier.
I hope nobody has to today. Here's to a good, safe race everyone.
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@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Squarely in "YIKES" territory, this one.
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@AndorianSoup@mastodon.social @ifixcoinops@retro.social Connoisseurs, they are. And very good at being horrific chip stealing bastards.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt And drivers for those will be on AliExpress in 5... 4... 3... 🙂
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- Try it, you might like it.
- Go on, one more won't kill you.
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@TwoClownsEating@beige.party @neonbubble@mstdn.social Heh, Brian Jacks and his oiled socks. What a great show that was.
No way would today's elite sports stars do that. They might ruin their hair, or manicures.
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@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social @swisslet@mas.to @rvedotrc@tech.lgbt I hate it. I hate the incessant monetisation of literally everything in top level sport.
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@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange In April I went to France and on into Belgium with some friends. We visited a lot of war cemeteries for family reasons, and other memorials simply because of their size.
That whole landscape looks benign, green and natural - but loads of it isn't, it's still full of tunnels & holes & trenches & craters from WW1.
It was fascinating, breathtaking, and moving - especially finding where my great uncle was killed on 01/11/1918.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social There's always Anatoly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXDp8KJo5c
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@aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space I was on a train from Cleveland into Brisbane (on holiday, a very long time ago) and some random bogan decided to start ranting at me about brown immigrants.
He got both barrels from me. He wilted a bit, but started again insinuating that due to me being British I must therefore be a racist like him.
He got off the train at the next stop with my words ringing in his ears. He didn't like being called an immigrant himself. He really didn't like being called an ignorant cunt.
I know, it's the morning, but it's still wine o'clock somewhere in the Empire!
(Not a nightmare at 34000 feet)
Ah, I'm still not getting it Ted.
Well, Dougal...
This morning looks a little different to usual...
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@tdp_org@mastodon.social meanwhile, out of sight, another governing body is being prepared/created. One which is less emperor and empire, but more representative and inclusive.
I have no doubt about that. I know nothing, obviously, but if the FA and UEFA aren't already making plans then they're missing a trick.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social Lovely castle, excellent pizza, would recommend, will visit again. 5 stars.
Well, dammit. Zanardi finally copped it, after cheating the reaper twice.
One of the nicest people to walk the earth, and with such amazing drive. This is a sad day.
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@mactunag I don't have many heroes, but the day he walked across the stage with his new legs after the Lausitzring crash I wept with joy.
And I yelled and cheered when he won the road race at the 2012 Olympics. My colleagues poked their head round the office door to see what was going on, but none of them knew who he was!
A truly inspirational human.
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@garius@mastodon.me.uk I've sent that to my son, Alex, who's so deep into WH40k that he's now playing for Team England and will be going to the individual world championships later this year.
I expect he'll find it fascinating.
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party That's *awesome*
Well done. Getting an OU degree is itself a big thing, but to do it despite all that other stuff is even biggerer and betterer.
Much congratulatory nonsense from me!
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@swisslet@mas.to @rvedotrc@tech.lgbt See Formula 1 for the source of that obscenity.
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@intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk ooh yes, so it does.
@cstross@wandering.shop
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@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org rclone works rather splendidly.
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@revk@toot.me.uk Ah yeah, take it easy, that wouldn't be a good thing.
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@tayfonay@beige.party if it was reflective of the Fediverse as a whole, it would be a very different concoction indeed.
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@TheBreadmonkey This is brilliant. Nothing more to say.
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@bigvimto Calgary, then a road trip through the Rockies to Vancouver Island. Flying back from Vancouver.
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@annecavicchi@mindly.social sounds like he's where I was when I got to the bottom. 5 of 6 was horrible.
Two years post original diagnosis, still on ADT and darolutamide, watching BP etc but still kicking.
Happy to speak to hubby if he needs to.
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca "world class, high growth company creates value" but not for the likes of us.
Ah, the joys of corpobullshit, where any fiduciary terminology is for the people who already control all the money.
Eat the rich.
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@moxxi@mastodon.social Oh, neck roll. That's at least a penalty, if not the sin bin.
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@jamesoff@mastodon.jamesoff.net Are you in Manchester Central?
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@benjojo@benjojo.co.uk oh yes...
"Confidential Contract DRAFT v1 FINAL FINAL (1) (1).docx" etc etc
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@revk@toot.me.uk Ah, crap. How are you feeling?
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@aceofcosmicspace@lgbtqia.space Yeah, but if you need to do the latter then you *must* do the former.
Trust me, it's easier to confirm with that one!
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@trib@aus.social very fancy looking.
Plates though. We want plates!
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I had a SPECT-CT scan back in 2024 when I started my cancer treatment. They injected me with 99m Technetium, I had to go home and brew for a couple of hours, and OF COURSE I had to go stand by my geiger counter.
It picked me up 10m away, at 5m it was at 20000 counts per minute, at 2m 60000, then sitting on my thigh 120000cpm.
"Don't spend any time next to babies, young animals or the elderly" was the advice. OK doc!
I was still fizzing the following morning...
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange Dammit, the guy dropping off a "new iPhone" just went away again.
Next time! 😉
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@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social And to my horror I see I already replied with that.
It's the weather; it's been waaaay too hot!
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@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social That dog is giving some serious side eye!
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange Thanks, that's the delivery confirmation code, right?