Mastodawn

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!

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Lightweight nonsense toots, often tinged with 80s-flavoured music & #GenX nostalgia, retro computing, and more modern electronics.

Straight, cis, LGBTQ+ ally. Not an actual sausage. חַי
#childfree

My toots auto-delete after 3 months. tfr.

Interests:
#80smusic #1980s #80s #TOTP #BritishTV #cooking #RaspberryPi #catsofmastodon #piano #RetroComputing #8bit #Arduino #Agon #AgonLight2

Elsewhere on the Fediverse:
* Bookwyrm: @losttourist
* WriteFreely: @losttourist

Location	Warrington, UK
Pronouns	he/him
Languages	EN
Music	80s, always 80s
Bits	8

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!5h ago

Dgar Apr 25, 2023

Thought my wife was joking when she said she wanted to see a Monkees tribute band in Switzerland.

Then I saw her face, now I’m in Geneva.

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!11h ago

Oh FFS we don't even have any elections here in May but we've just had a political party’s leaflet shoved through the letterbox.

Go away!

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!1d ago

BisimilarJames 1d ago

Hello world(2: world harder).
Researcher in the use formal methods to secure critical national infrastructure (particularly electricity, and telecoms)
Observer of disinformation and its theorisation.
Critical technologist.
Developer of cyber security exercises.
Enjoyer of coffee.
Hoping for a greener future.
#intro #introduction

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!1d ago

Surely I can't be the only person who's seen the creature from the pumpkin pie and thought "Audrey 2".

Or more strictly "Audrey 2 / Alien xenomorph"

#StrangerThings #StrangerThings1985 #LittleShopOfHorrors

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!1d ago

Rejected Petitions 1d ago

"Bring back triple cheeseburger in McDonalds" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/768167

Petition: Bring back triple cheeseburger in McDonalds

We want you to force McDonald’s to bring back the legendary triple cheeseburger so we can enjoy some quality food after a good night supporting hospitality

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!1d ago

Wow, what a story, what a life.

Ruth Slenczynska, virtuoso pianist and the last surviving pupil of Rachmaninoff, has died at the age of 101.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62ly04pre3o

#Slenczynska #Rachmaninoff #piano

Ruth Slenczynska, last surviving pupil of Rachmaninov, dies aged 101

Ruth Slenczynska was a child prodigy who played with five US Presidents and recorded into her 90s.

BBC News

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Kent Parkstreet 2d ago

Today I witnessed an ambulance officer picking up a bloke named Michael Jackson unable to resist doing an obvious joke, and Michael Jackson refusing to play along, pretending he didn’t understand what the joke was.

We need a new word for something beyond awkward.

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!3d ago

Did an AI write this?

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Devine Lu Linvega 4d ago

We've had this long furling tape from Japan for the longest time, for years!! thinking it was in inches. Causing us lots of mistakes and fuck ups, the whole time we thought it was our own miscalculations, that we must have messed up in converting it to metric or something.

1) The unit on the tape is in tenth of a foot.
2) That's almost exactly 3cm, BUT NOT QUITE.
3) The ruler says FEET, but then breaks it down in 3cm segments each divided in tenth of a tenth of foot.

WHAT THE FUCK RULER

Flippin' 'eck, Tucker!3d ago

David Penfold

Feb 15, 2024

"I'm not saying another word without my lawyer present"

"Sir, you are a lawyer"

"So where's my present?"