2026-07-23T04:02:21Z https://nostr.ae Janeishly https://nostr.ae/npub13llhet93qdjx3gh4hl6hk67msq9nayey6sdfan02augn8egxq2ssvwzf8m https://files.mastodonapp.uk/accounts/avatars/109/305/267/015/871/384/original/857d64088fc21efc.jpg https://files.mastodonapp.uk/accounts/avatars/109/305/267/015/871/384/original/857d64088fc21efc.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsggkanangssn9vq68csdzs2udpnwxlrg2tmsfuhfsfmyy493nz7gszyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zjcuvdu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2yqp9mx3uck9t5fqalgvp7demvsp642l2nqrk2gmp49pmnddvytgkwg5h3'>nevent1q…g5h3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Pettson and Findus played a big part in me learning Swedish, so I was very happy to see this image! 2025-06-06T11:08:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx7zwu5q975963qz323f5sfnrfdkmae3nlzay0jrhe8vwxa68a4ggzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zktynu4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxegg49dfadstvg8xg7zuhav2pjcuzlewh90eljnm2lcpnm45tddsns2u0f'>nevent1q…2u0f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Listen to the Kevin R Free performance instead. It&#39;s perfect. 2025-05-17T05:09:35Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs97t5gv7gxf8zaa8atelu8lrnka596xjfmyskl7netf7tvk0l6p5gzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zfaf7nd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8vvx230fgxdm7980x2macgnwufwlvcjcnyjvwp44ujna2gj49kkstq0gu8'>nevent1q…0gu8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I bloody loved that book. Must be about due a reread! 2025-05-13T21:40:22Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvf0kesskylp40x9e7w6673sdna9zncjplqlzp3xf5zuqacehfe3czyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2z7q6d8y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9ftxs44way27awkzyd5ar9rd94jl273umqqzwqw9t8x95620dmjq76urcu'>nevent1q…urcu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s also a continuation of American imperialism when they assume the USA is the only country in the world. Thankfully we don&#39;t all live in that cesspit! 2025-05-10T07:10:04Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxrlmvnlargx4vkzkyvl0g90d5gznlgypq970svvemwwj2dv8wemgzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zkr4peq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw960d9c4t09pzenucr8z5ck6vkn58rpncs0nwxunpr5njdq258us69xk9e'>nevent1q…xk9e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Bloody hell, if even Tories are seeing it... 2025-05-06T21:32:16Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0ngll68m8ycv2jt9z2ldftlfqzu48jq9y9t0pgxwgm6zst5aedrqzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2ztwws3a Techy people - I, an idiot, apparently failed to transfer the folder of images from my elderly camera&#39;s SD card to my laptop before a) formatting the card and b) taking more photos with it. Do I have any chance of getting the original pics back? (I shan&#39;t be able to try any solution until at least Sunday anyway, but I&#39;m interested to hear whether anyone has ever managed this - initial verdicts have been &#34;you&#39;re screwed&#34;, but seeing as those pics were almost the entire point of me being on the Isle of Man and I can&#39;t go back and take em again due to lack of time and batteries... I&#39;m a bit bloody miffed) 2025-05-01T07:16:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvjhgggjdf3ge0c3dpnd3pszpjns4g6qudsldnranjn9f7xucpqyqzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zus5m57 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvl5fu34p4aamn5flct4twmq88yyhmn9z86usukhva5e4azuc7ykc0xwy99'>nevent1q…wy99</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Replace every instance of &#34;developer&#34; throughout with &#34;translator&#34; and you describe what&#39;s going on in my industry too. People who don&#39;t know or care what we do or how think they can replace us without the reader noticing. 2025-04-08T01:56:20Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxs7sa84cfza967w0vlnqvhshurfyazx5q2rgctm9l3uh8muvah6qzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zjenmcf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstx50ukt3p70unys47um0g2txp6argdfwjksaj9ph0fmqxcxevnmghmuz6w'>nevent1q…uz6w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>They&#39;re very good. A bit information-dense, but I like that, and the writing is always good. I love the way that so many of the main characters are *nice* (very Becky Chambers, in other words). 2025-03-29T14:24:32Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx388j0l0lhmshrpxtjgmlx390wtkq8hj6855k258gp5zvspghz3qzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zrv07p0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszwh6cw68q7hnhx2353tg4h7747zr6qtrxqsyxwhnfhd3ecq0a28ctv5vdq'>nevent1q…5vdq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Reading a preview copy of the third in the Shantivira series by Fay Abernethy. It&#39;s just as heart-warming and complex as the previous two, and STILL makes me wanna live on a spaceship!<br/><br/><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/373862-the-shantivira">https://www.goodreads.com/series/373862-the-shantivira</a> 2025-03-29T13:12:00Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9jxd3ghkswywtagxznc0ln780lvt2cfvxhhezv34cryh5j43qpwqzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zuvr8dw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrsc8ay87g2fajhkx4tas7ahp6qcmvsvfklsggtw2jwku9vqzjzws5qnatq'>nevent1q…natq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I live in southern Sweden now, but I originally come from the Isle of Man, which looks much like the Welsh landscape, where that lead mine was. Hills are the main thing I miss about being in this part of the world. It&#39;s all very flat here.<br/><br/>Here are some pics of the Isle of Man that I took back in 2013. It was the first time I&#39;d been back for 15 years and I was blown away by how beautiful it is. As a kid, you kind of take it for granted. I guess it was the same for you!<br/><br/><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/janeish/albums/72157640934894445/with/12506478013">https://www.flickr.com/photos/janeish/albums/72157640934894445/with/12506478013</a> 2025-03-28T19:47:08Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstkumr955qddncpyggs4r476vnlwq5pm2n4474va55886yevl3r8szyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zhd6aks In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrw2m98yr76lxlumcuway90aus88h0p6levwsznruv8sf7u9sa2lqdpllpv'>nevent1q…llpv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Subarctic&#34; sounds very dramatic to me, even though I live in Sweden now. The landscape in those pics looks very lunar but all around it is very green, which I guess wasn&#39;t the case where you grew up? I do love a bit of industrial history! 2025-03-28T19:09:36Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf2yhaw7whxfwuuggh42l9ktxpytl7m2vy8grz0m4f8hflkpfn8eczyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zwpap8v In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszaj504s9l0l258wvzdvp5qwn3jrf0zqrqkz3r0zwxsw6l9cfp02g7ypj9a'>nevent1q…pj9a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The joys of being at a very small uni! <br/><br/>I do (somewhere) have the extremely moody and dramatic photos I took on our first date, which involved a trip to a former lead mine (!) - now sadly all tidied up and made safe, but at the time it looked like the last few pics on this site:<br/><br/><a href="https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/33832/images/">https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/33832/images/</a> 2025-03-28T18:20:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs898fdjd625n25hu00m97keux8p9wtnf2s6uq4rxsgvmnacwks4vqzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zn90gxu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswwvxzu25c4qvzs69g4zjq65akkwr4sqpwm2n6xz7atugme7pwjacpheq3r'>nevent1q…eq3r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Thank you! Yes, it was a peculiar thing. My ex always insists that he knew who I was (ie who was playing the character) but I certainly had no idea that it was him! I still remember being a little intimidated when I realised who it was. I&#39;m not sure I&#39;d ever have approached him IRL! 2025-03-28T18:06:49Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvmtkjrawvpmtc2rprnjkuha4thnzqfq8v8hx4pqwhay83jluhm4qzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zzm3nxn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq9l94kceu5a0kw4whtgj6u5fgxh7mzf92lwg0fyan7g5h32kevzsrln8a4'>nevent1q…n8a4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ooh, lovely name! Now we just need to attract some artists across the waves to depict our battered but still stubbornly afloat craft 2025-03-27T22:45:55Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfl0uas5hp4pqwuwju942u95y3lfyqfhmr87qm2hulfw3mm58x0kszyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zzp88xj Right, now I have everyone&#39;s attention, what should I be using for online meetings instead of Zoom?<br/><br/>Only for me and at most half a dozen other people, all freelancers (in other words, not all from the same company).<br/><br/>I don&#39;t mind paying, but I&#39;d rather it wasn&#39;t *very* expensive as I only need maybe 1-2 meetings a week. 2025-03-27T19:55:31Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0v29up0xm7uynrzdqt3xuez7wvlmlnu06skmrhvzv4z2zr2a6v6qzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zvkd74y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsywqg354lt4exqqssd2jh7p5awh57e9az6cqssuasthnvqyh9f4dq37vg8u'>nevent1q…vg8u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah, I&#39;ve already had a mate saying &#34;Pah! 2800 baud rate was all we had&#34;.<br/><br/>I&#39;m not actually sure how fast(slow) my first connection was, because after I finished my MA in 1991 I was offline for about 8 years and missed all the very slow bits! 2025-03-27T16:47:15Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdh2t6vha6rscayq20j26244efzqkwxgmccxcz3jfg9gn88vlt3fqzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zp37el9 I&#39;m really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like<br/><br/>&#34;I&#39;ve been online for longer than the internet. I&#39;ve seen things you people wouldn&#39;t believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.&#34; 2025-03-27T15:50:33Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvdgru3cscf3mm6a7sl75ze6c6s5t463wyxkex0pc9hxuyfwglr8gzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zqqk7h9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrwsafjzkucnjl6x4gds92pevq7uqaakxwj0ptm9d5j3krtcqng6qgktn63'>nevent1q…tn63</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Dashlane. The extension works fine with Firefox, but makes things fall over fairly quickly with LibreWolf. Like I say, I don&#39;t actually care. At least this time I know why it&#39;s happening. And we need to get used to non-frictionless interactions if we want to do away with the Googleverse and its ilk. 2025-03-07T20:33:01Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdllnclhqel86mp895wjd0urzlca0har6ads5nntvee6eszn7f6mszyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zwejef7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszeeg0pehx4e7tcsjc4pgmycpcv4d45xfvuyjkx6gy8upuvsnelrsjev34q'>nevent1q…v34q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m on LibreWolf again too. And this time I&#39;ve worked out how to stop tabs crashing - disable my password manager extension. I just switch it back on when I need it. A bit of a faff, but still waaaaay better than the alternative 2025-03-07T16:29:53Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsft7yyam4lu64jv7frsden2yh5mpvjrl4awhkmw56e67w0c37ntngzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2z67e88l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs806ck4vzgethw8w2j8c77c07aa0qs0kwseycne2cp2yh7htmkn5c8qffjl'>nevent1q…ffjl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Wow, I&#39;ve never even heard of an escrow statement - what a weird system! In Europe you just buy your house and the local council would be extremely unpopular if they tried to increase property taxes by that much in that length of time. They&#39;ve gone up a lot in the UK in the past couple of decades, but even there not to that extent (and here in Sweden by much less again). Hiding tax increases and then just springing them on you at the end of the year is horrible. 2025-02-17T07:54:40Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfvs4xvnpxytjn8hjc39jajpfpjn68f4f099sm6grgmrgptpmurdszyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2z4vetut In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy8yse0x3xkfr7y2mjcwgyx8clpzrgdhcqdsvk0qne84y34y2g53cs2u338'>nevent1q…u338</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s starting to look like the only advice to give is &#34;don&#39;t buy books from Amazon or Ebay&#34;, because they clearly can&#39;t be bothered to remove this slop themselves. 2024-12-26T15:23:47Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrdaq58xhvtdkmgqr3qn3ttgffzgd5xhayf7p7kavernawx8nrnmqzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2zp48wnf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqdxacaums7pwlcst5gvnqg8ap06tnhljvtarqdvk7jlu44lgd6hg2m7lp4'>nevent1q…7lp4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Black and white, because the red and blue safety notice is a distraction otherwise 2024-10-10T07:01:23Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvvkxg2g5x7nxs4dknzsg034d3k5rqxvaptqhtjuleelkyd2ah6mczyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2z8lsqjr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2fuecm3ev2mzedurl4lw2lzluyjmydap0qzhhch4ugxntqsf3mds63fuqq'>nevent1q…fuqq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>middle to lower, I&#39;d say 2024-10-08T21:50:14Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrrxyvq92qjndzltajz9ulxe9jl872vpwxazwzyu20yghr8s8ynvgzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2z43ew5p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspe0azcvcrcf8ysvg0jv5nk4f95uejtjfac709fwx0f6w5uc07tqcwyrn9j'>nevent1q…rn9j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Early May, probably. Everything looks lovely but the prices haven&#39;t got too expensive. You might even get a few pleasantly mild days. It&#39;s also one of those places that does several seasons in one day, so you should get *some* sunshine. 2024-08-15T14:40:30Z https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsy66xaqdgjxx84za07jg38yw3fhg7lrzxxmymqwgzulrd05hraw2qzyz8l7l9vkypkg69z7kll27mtmwqqk05nyn2p48kdath3zvl9qcp2znegfs8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8d2gj5ul4hsw0ae8cnrjsla0adf4j7adfcvxhu64esa0lk8yvr0gygxpmm'>nevent1q…xpmm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Sometimes being Manx is weird. &#34;The Laxey Wheel? Yeah, I suppose it&#39;s quite impressive. The TTs? Yeah, I guess they&#39;re quite exciting. The trams and the steam train? Oh, they&#39;re fun, yes. All those gorgeous glens and beaches, and the hills? I mean, they&#39;re alright.&#34;<br/><br/>(A few years back I visited the island for the first time in about 15 years and I was absolutely blown away by how beautiful it is. When you live there all the time you get used to it.) 2024-08-14T16:08:03Z