Paul

Not sure if we're sick of this meme yet, but this came to me in a vision this morning

Giving my cats a lecture on Dwarf Fortress so they know not to walk in spilled liquids

I don't think my #gym routine is quite optimal but I also don't really want to use my brain when im at the gym so I might be stuck with it for a while

Me: if I put my important documents on a nextcloud server they'll be available whenever I need them! PHP: better turn off ur websites :)

My current music pipeline: * Rip CDs to my F*_**w_ *k laptop with SoundJuicer and tag them with MusicBrainz Picard * Auto-sync my music library to my Fairphone * Play music from my phone with Auxio * Scrobble to ListenBrainz with PanoScrobbler * If I need headphones it'll be my […]

Is there a service that can look at your listenbrainz listening history and recommend nearby gigs for you?

_listening to the talking heads_ wow this melody is so naïve, embarrassing for whoever wrote it

#musicbrainz folk, which is the right thing to do here? On Bodega's Endless Scroll the first track is listed as '?!', but it's normally known as 'How Did This Happen?!'. I've used '?!' for the vinyl release but linked it to the recording which has the more official name. For the CD version I see […]

#Qobuz has been a good choice of music streaming platform, but it doesn't have any kind of automatic playlists. Fortunately @ListenBrainz does, so my workflow is: Save the latest Weekly Exploration/Jams to my playlists, then import it to Qobuz using #Soundiiz (that first step is needed because […]

What if you wanted to go somewhere but First West Yorkshire said NOT IN SERVICE

@e_mydata I'm having a frustrating bug in the version of DavX5 that's bundled with /e/OS; my WebCal subscriptions no longer sync when they have certain characters in. This is fixed in newer version of DavX5 - see the Github issue here: https://github.com/bitfireAT/davx5-ose/issues/1315 Is it […]

I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. https://seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-open-source-we-can-force-them-to/

What is your gym or exercise routine?

This is a really nice website for Lei-Lei Cinema Club: https://leileicinema.com/

There's a protest in #Leeds this Saturday as part of the #NoLeedsDatacCentre campaign. Sadly I can't make it but I hope the turnout is good More details here (though remember to never RSVP to a protest) https://noleedsdatacentre.wordpress.com/2026/08/28/join-our-protest/

My friend went to a #larp a couple of weeks ago and it looked a lot of fun, I'm tempted to go to the next one with them

Wow I hate nextcloud so much. What a flimsy piece of software

Uk people: use this form to ask your MP to attend a Parliamentary event on Digital Sovereignty by @openrightsgroup

September in #leeds is the month of #Scalarama, the DIY film festival where anyone can screen a film. This year is huge, there's at least one film on almost every day. Tonight we're going to see 90s cyber thriller The Net, and on the 8th we will be holding a screening ourselves: Powell and […]

Can we have an #activitypub clone of #stumbleupon? As a treat?

@CityOfMagpies Do you know who runs bridgetothestars.net? I tried to sign up to the forum on a whim but I seem to have caused the database to malfunction

Creatures, who's an ethical DNS provider these days? UK or European ideally

Do good things and talk about them. And if good things are done to you, for you, around you, also talk about then. Because knowing may inspire others. Because folks feel lonely and caught in endless doom. Because we sometimes need a push to do something: it's easier if we know there is someone […]

Does anyone have a link to that article about someone accessing the UK benefits website from their PSP?

Hi 👋. I am Janine (Obsidian Urbex) from Manchester, England 🇬🇧. If you are interested in: 📷 Photography 🔦 Urban Exploration 🏚️ Abandoned Places 👩‍💻 Active Bloggers 🤓 Nerdy Girls Then maybe you should give this girl a Follow ✅ I share my adventures here on […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Digital-last service design, the website only as a utility for people who don't know how to send a letter

Anyone got any examples of a #website that looks like a scrapbook? #indieweb

#Indieweb people, do you have an indie website set as your home page?

Just got my #unite general secretary election form through the post and I really don't feel like I have enough context to know who to vote for

Looks like Microsoft is building a data centre in the #Leeds area, at Skelton Grange. There's a campaign group against it: https://noleedsdatacentre.wordpress.com/ Their site has some recommended actions & petitions and links to their Insta/YT accounts.

I had my first blackberry of the season, nice and tart

? DuckDuckGo will they let me lick the bayeux tapestry from end to end

Can anyone recommend an online form/survey builder that's less evil than google?

Accidentally put the green bin out when it's not even bin day... Forget being a binfluencer, I'm a binbarrasment

I'm afraid I didn't take any good photos but I'm quite pleased with this tunic I made for my birthday party a few weeks ago #sewing #costuming #medieval

Excited to hear a GSoC contributro is workign on bringing visibility to MusicBrainz events by adding them to the LiztenBrainz UI https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/06/26/welcome-summer-of-code-2026-contributors/

It's my birthday :)

I've switched my default search engine from DuckDuckGo to @Mojeek - after a few test searches it seems to come back with a lot less junk results than DDG, so fingers crossed it'll last.

Kirkstall Abbey, near #Leeds, is one of the many magnificent ecclesiastical ruins in #Yorkshire. This one is haunted by a quietly pacing former abbot but also by a Barguest, one of the scary black dogs with huge red eyes often found in UK #folklore. Painting by Thomas Girtin, 1792. #PhantomsFriday

As part of 'Making Tax Digital' the UK will soon force people to use proprietary software to file certain types of tax return. If you disagree, think people should have control over their data, that HMRC alone should be in charge of HMRC's job, that you shouldn't have to pay random companies […]

Pleased to be a founding subscriber to 'The Exchange', a new local paper covering #Leeds and West #Yorkshire. Thanks to the wonders of #BridgyFed you can follow them here in the fediverse @theexchangeleeds.bsky.social

I just wrote to my local MP to ask them to support a Digital Sovereignty amendment (on the back of my trip to Brussels over the past two days). The @openrightsgroup has more details on how you can do the same thing. Tell your MP to End the Big Tech Rip-Off […]

Supporting local journalism is cool https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/help-make-sheffield-better/ #sheffield

I think it's really rude that there's no coffee on southwestern railway trains

I find myself in Christchurch Dorset for a couple of days... Hopefully with enough time to hit the beach

DJ Parsley on the decks

What's a good creative commons stock image site to recommend to people so they stop making horribly distracting GenAI images?

Hey babe, are you a manufacturing error in a font foundry? Because I can't take my i's off of u