If anyone's super keen on IRC, there's a #chinwag on Libera if you're looking for somewhere to chill. Don't be a dick. 

Sunday evening and the horses are having a chin wag. Nahema doesn't care but all the boys are into it.
Ash is trying to steal all the scratches, as usual.

#HorsesOfMastodon #ChinWag #Scratches

Listening to the latest episode of the Chinwag podcast, where Giamatti and Asma interview the editor of the legendary Fortean Times, and now i'm vowing to use his phrase "howlingly batshit" at some point in the near future. #Cryptids #ForteanTimes #Chinwag #Podcasts
Great to see Paul Giamatti live in Seattle tonight at Town Hall.
The discussion begs the question, though: does learning more about cryptozoology and things that probably don't exist make one more informed? If not, what did this extra information give you?
#cryptozoology #chinwag

"Canmore" = "Big Head"‽ It's a tailor-made Mel Brooks' line! 😆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

"Malcolm III was indeed known as "Canmore" from the Gaelic for "big head" or "big chief"

Paul Giamatti: My ancestor may have killed Macbeth

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-68533527

#MelBrooks @BBC_News_Labs #Gaelic #Scotland #PaulGiamatti #ChinWag #TheHoldovers #Oscars #Movies #MacBeth #Shakespeare #Humor #IContainMultitudes

Paul Giamatti: My royal ancestor may have killed Macbeth

The Oscar-nominated US actor has revealed a royal link and a love of Scotland, kilts and haggis.

BBC News

Refreshing my #introduction for new folks!

I run #Chinwag and provide free and open communication tools for everyone.

I have #ADHD and a bunch of issues around #anxiety and a dash of #PTSD just for fun!

On the less serious side, I have been know to perform stand-up #comedy and do a fun quiz show with @ThePingMachine and my kid.

I'm an older guy and was a #BBS sysop back in the 90s. I was once described by a millennial as "like, 40 but not creepy at all."

If you want more, see my profile!

@chinwagnews any known issues with #chinwag XMPP currently? Both Siiw and I are suddenly getting authentication failures when trying to sign in.
Let's have a Chinwag!

We should have a nice beverage out in the sunshine somewhere, but probably not actually in Sunshine.…

@witchescauldron
Understood. Something isn't sitting right, though.

Maybe we need to talk to other servers to try and identify what is going on here.

Our impression is that either other instances are blocking us for no good reason, or our server itself has been hacked/compomised in some way.

Sad... but that is our take. One example, come to think of it, we've not seen any Chinwag.org activity in months.

We can't spend time on a platform if we're being muzzled.

#chinwag

I finally tweaked the old "temporary" logo that #Chinwag has been using for nearly five years now!

Figured out enough about some drawing tools to trace over the thing and actually create a proper SVG copy of it, instead of going back to the same old crappy bit of mangled clipart I found back when Chinwag was just an example for a tutorial blog post.

I still know nothing about design but at least it scales nicely now!