@naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 4mo ago

The eldest has just had his insulin pump delivered.

No idea what it would end up costing under Reform but under the NHS he just had three and a half grand of medical tech dropped off at the door for nothing.

Oh and don't forget his insulin is free and he'll never, ever have to pay a prescription charge for any medication.

It looks like an expensive vape. A very expensive vape.

Fuck Reform.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 3mo ago

This was posted in a LinkedIn group I'm apparently a member of.

Apparently you're not meant to think losing millionaires is a good thing?

These people aren't leaving the country their accountant is moving them abroad for several months a year to avoid tax because loopholes exist.

Hotblack Desiato spent a year dead for tax purposes.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 2mo ago

RE: https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/techspot-a-new-coding-contest-challenges-developers-to-fit-an-entire-game-onto-a-1-44mb-floppy-disk/

That's 1.44Mb not 1.44kb which would be a challenge ;)

It's strange how challenges shift over time isn't it? An entire HD floppy would fit dozens of my early games and I used to work with a chap who got his first job in the industry after winning a competition (top prize a 16kb Spectrum!) with a game for the unexpanded 1kb ZX81 as a 16 year old.

It's pretty amazing what you can fit on a floppy these days. The demoscene has created some awesome compression stuff.

Should be worth a watch.

rbfirehose.com

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@alineblankertz we have to congratulate all the Hungarians who had to vote for the enemy of my enemy knowing that they only way to get rid of Orban was voting for Orban with the slightest indication of morals.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @anon_opin@mastodon.social

Educate your children folks :)

mastodon.social

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@RickiTarr I'm currently writing something on slow hiking that includes stuff about pain. It's not until you write about your own chronic pain you remember how disabling it is. :( I'm trying to learn to live more slowly and listen to my body more. I know I've made my issues worse by being wilfully ignorant of my own needs and I can't emphasise enough how listening to your body is the key.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@ISawTheWood@mastodon.scot oh god yeah, fuck all that New New Labour shite. Streeting is part of that group of about half the parliamentary Labour Party who are neck deep in dodgy funding and leading us down the same path as most of the Tory Party and all of Reform.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

I guess what I'm saying is live your own life and don't compare yourself to people who can afford to save a million quid by not turning their heating on and taking packed lunches because that's a luxury many, many people will never have.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 3mo ago

I drove past the factory in question a couple of hours ago. It's still there, they are building a solar farm next door, I wonder if the company involved in that will put a sign up saying they aren't part of the military industrial complex on the fences :)

Nice to see juries in this country are finally getting the message that the courts might not be telling them the entire truth and they still have the right to obey their conscience.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20yx13l9w5o

bbc.co.uk

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Taco_lad @glent "I'm never going to buy an electric car because the battery might need replacing (a quarter of a million miles after I trade it in for a shiny new one)!"

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 2mo ago

I had my diabetic eye test this morning (which requires drops) and walked to the hospital down the canal, I hopped over the little brick bridge you can see from the old iron bridge in the pictures to the hospital and afterwards I hopped back over to grab vitamins and stuff from Bentley Bridge before walking back from the Cosmo end, crossing the iron bridge in the pictures and walking home. Hardly able to see the wildlife with my blurred vision :)

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/found-hidden-gem-behind-west-34301999

birminghammail.co.uk

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Wintergr33n @RickiTarr I was taken off Naproxen when I needed to go onto another med that might have complications with it. They gave me Tramadol which worked, obviously, but then the government decided I couldn't be trusted with that opiate so they gave me another opiate in the form of Co-codamol. The odd thing is Tramadol did nothing to me other than kill pain but I get the same rush I did with morphine off codeine so they gave me an opiate I feel is more addictive to me. Politics.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 3mo ago

Are these voters in the room with you now Richard?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3928mlyle8t?post=asset%3Acb381ef9-8702-410d-9570-3f9933a43757#post

Starmer facing calls to set out timetable for departure after Burnham's Makerfield win

BBC News

Starmer facing calls to set out timetable for departure after Burnham's Makerfield win

Andy Burnham's victory in the by-election, where he won 55% of the vote, paves the way for him to challenge the prime minister's leadership.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@christineburns I spotted a pair of them just inside a factory/office property last week. They are on the private property on either side of the drive but entirely positioned to film the road. I wonder if they have to be situated in pairs for some reason.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@alxsim@ecoevo.social spot on. I'm not against entirely automatic accounts but it would be best if they congregated on instances set up to cater for them with clear rules on their use. They shouldn't be on mixed servers in general. As for AI posts that's entirely down to the user/instance and I think the clear labelling note is perfect for this instance. Thank you for your hard work :)

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Maker_of_Things @Susan60 on the other hand we have my mother in law who is housebound and refuses to acknowledge she needs more care than can be provided in her home and would do anything to live with us in a home that is unable to be adapted to her needs. My partner is the full-time carer of our autistic children (the youngest has more care needs than me and the big 'un) so is unable to take on more even if she wanted to.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Maker_of_Things @Susan60 although we would have taken in one of my folks if they had needed it. So they did absolutely the right thing in telling us not to take that step. They have been there for everyone in the family all my life and currently visit my auntie daily to help with her needs in their 70s. We'd have probably done the same for her Dad (who passed away almost 15 years ago now) who did everything he could for the extended family as well. Sounds harsh I know :(

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 4mo ago

New The King Blues video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwySDD2hiTc&list=RDCwySDD2hiTc

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Workshopshed@mastodon.scot a lot of this being reported over the last week or so.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@kibcol1049 Top Deck cans hid a multitude of sins :)

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk saw my first swallows and house martins yesterday and my first sand martin last Thursday but no cuckoo's yet. I'm in the west midlands. When I saw the sand martin feeding over a lake I was in a spot known for cuckoo's as well.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Kimberley Lichfield used to have some good ones but I haven't been there for about five years. Most of them were along Market Street from by old market square and Samuel Johnson's house (which is well signposted). A few are expensive (there is an Oxfam bookshop which is great but not for bargain hunters) but when I last went there were still a few bargains to be had. All the old market towns and small cities in the midlands used to be good though.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@blp a 486SX-25 for me running Slackware. A long time ago. :(

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@rogzilla71 that was the last model I had before I moved to Handspring :)

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@pusakat @mogwai_poet does it even count if it's not megasecs?

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@mogwai_poet we know they enjoyed the travelling but how long did it take to get to Mars?

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Susan60 @Maker_of_Things yup, multigenerational living was common until fairly recently which makes it so weird our media is obsessed with young folks staying home longer or starting their families in the family home. It's just been a blip, of less than 100 years in working communities, that we didn't stay in one of the family homes after marriage and draw retired parents back into our home when they can't support a home of their own

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Susan60 @Maker_of_Things The thing that put my parents off was my Dad saw how much Mom had to do to care for his Dad when her own parents had died years before and they didn't want me, in particular, to put my partner through the same thing They know I'm soft when it comes to that sort of thing but also really unorganised and it would be Jen who did everything. That's why they got my sister to be the one to stop me doing it by making her executor of all the legal stuff. They thought about it

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Susan60 @Maker_of_Things I actually offered to move in with my granddad after he had his stroke. I'd just got a flat around the corner from his house and expected to pop around almost every day as I had for the previous five years when I moved in. The family, quite rightly, pointed out that it would be wrong for me at 21 to give up my life to live with an old geezer as his carer just because I love him. I couldn't see past the love.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

The following youtube play lists show Tim at his best.

The Secret Life of Machines TV series in full.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJlrbMHLBd4&list=PLtaR0lZhSyAPLuoSbMA29s3Ry8ZUvKff3

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@autonomysolidarity@todon.eu When ADF came out with this banger I was teaching at a local college and I pulled into the car park with with banging out and one of my students said "I didn't know you where that cool Steve". Cheeky bugger, I'm cool as fuck :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMXKt99W61A

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@RolloTreadway I got so used to my prepaid certificate that when I 'graduated' to free prescriptions I forgot to stop buying one :)

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@schratze If there are loads of them it's not a raven but if you think "That crow looks a lot closer than it is?" and they are on their own or in a pair it maybe a raven. I'm with @tooteuse on this one. Raven's are massive and should be sitting on a gods shoulder whispering in his ear and not flying around :)

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@trib Spot on. It doesn't matter how many people arrive in each influx the ones who stick around want pre-2010 Twitter as a minimum standard and will moderate their behaviour to the norms of people they engage with completely friction free. This is what social media is when it's created and maintained by the society and not the media barons or tech bro's :)

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

Stunning @Rachelburch absolutely stunning

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 4mo ago

It seems I only post new music youtube has thrown my way on here recently :)

Steve and the Seagulls cover of Freestyler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qjevrDOg_4&list=RD2qjevrDOg_4

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@susankayequinn@wandering.shop I'm not sure they can fuck at all which is why they are so obsessed with other peoples genitals and sex lives.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 3mo ago

Mashup time.

Lene Lovich v Sleaford Mods - Lucky Discourse.

Not saying Sleaford Mods is low hanging fruit for mashups but by golly they would have been popular at the height of the craze :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmGMwe8Ivko&list=RDEmGMwe8Ivko

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@OccasionalDucks @sarahdalgulls Black-headed Gulls out of breeding season. Probably my favourite Gull. Is it normal to have a favourite Gull? Fuck it. It's my favourite Gull. They are cheeky little buggers that act like crows and will watch you inquisitively when you're doing stuff. Probably looking to see if you're getting a sandwich or some chips out. :)

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 3mo ago

I'm sorry to admit I would have contributed heavily to global warming this week if Rob was in town. That lorry would have been like the Pied Piper in the heatwave.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 3mo ago

Replying to

Actually, it might not be doing the actual web searches but that doesn't mean the results of those web searches aren't part of it's training. Claude uses terabytes of public code in it's training data. I didn't make that clear. It was trained on the contents of these files.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@VickyOuten@mastodon.world Well done. What Chris doesn't know about Fox photos isn't worth knowing :) That photo he took as a teenager through the bottom of a bin was my inspiration to get into photography, cough, years ago.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@drsimevans@mastodon.energy the change in India's generation has gone under reported the last five years with all the talk about China and the US with their massive consumption and the changes they have made. India absolutely killing in renewables now.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@cy @Susan60 @Maker_of_Things yeah, the way nursing homes are paid for in the UK the poorer you are the more likely you are to be able to afford one. The hardest hit are working people who bought a home in the 70's or 80's and have a lot of equity in it but that is the majority or entirety of the estate they want to pass onto their children. We can't afford to inherit the MIL's home as it would mean losing our council home for a place too small for the family :)

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@historyofpunkrock I loved Poly a really talented lady who spoke very eloquently on her struggles on occasion but it was when Ruth Negga read them out of Polly's diary entries as Polly in the film made by her daughter Celeste that we really got to hear the full story. Everybody should watch "Poly Styrene: I am a cliché" if they get the chance.

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Nature Punk @naturepunk@ecoevo.social

· 4mo ago

This just shows how stupid 'the markets' are.

How many times have Trump and Rubio promised a deal?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c809m7g29r7o

Oil prices slide on hopes of US-Iran peace deal

BBC News

Oil prices slide on hopes of US-Iran peace deal

Trump said on Saturday that an agreement would include the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, without giving further details.

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