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So it's just me then that notices Joe Biden isn't doing away with any of Donald Trump's policies but rather streamlining them?

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Why is Twitter and Social Media not outraged? Is it they like Biden more than Trump as a person rather than what they do? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I wonder if the famous wall is still going up?

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Immigration is a thorny issue, as we can see in the UK.
Whatever you do is criticised by one group or another, and it is used all by sorts of right wing groups to stir up insecurity and hatred.
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It's not just immigration. Lots of the policies we saw people frothing at the mouth over when Trump was in power are not only still in force but in some cases enhanced. I get the feeling it's that old game of 'deniability' "We never did it! It was Trump." or the other favourite "Ah, this is something we inherited from the Trump administration and is very difficult to reverse now." Yeah, right.


Every time I update the firmware on my Qnap, I get a bazillion emails telling me the virtual network has failed. #ShakesFist

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So I know some of you dislike 123 Reg, but I have to say their implementation of a fraudulent email reporting service deserves a pat on the back. At least they're taking responsibility for scams perpetuated in their name. Most organizations tell you it's not their problem and to report it to a government body.
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Getting down with the cool kids and drinking Monster ENERGY NITRO


๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—น๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—œ๐—ง ๐——๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—œ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€!
GDPR compliant and quality guaranteed.

And what's the company name? Zingo. Oh, and my name is not Morgan by the way. In fact, there's nobody named Morgan here! ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ



So I've been hanging around TikTok for the last week or so and I have to say, it's pretty crap which amazes me that it's so popular? It's full of wannabes talking directly to the camera with way too loud shit background music and trying way too hard to get noticed.

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finally, someone that shares my point of view on the subject. I have been saying the same thing for a long time now
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There's probably more like-minded people out there too sacred to be outcast for speaking what they truly feel. #LeSigh


Totally gobsmacked at the number of accounts on TikTok with the username SredniVashtar What's a guy gotta do to get an obscure username around here?
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In my occupation we have some screws that we order that we need to do some jobs. They are phillips head and bugle shaped. In most catalogues they are called "Phil Bugle" screws. I always thought that Phil Bugle sounded like some sort of frilly shirted pirate for some reason.

Anyway, to make a long pointless point even longer for some reason, I think Phil Bugle would make a cool online pseudonym.



For once, I agreed with a @BBCBreakfast news report this morning;
People holidaying in the UK are set to spend 30 Billion that's 30 Billion towards the UK economy rather than Ibiza or some other package holiday destination.


Oi @steevc give me ยฃ1,431.24, so I can run a #hive node.

๐—œ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ก๐—จ๐—– ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿญ ๐—ฃ๐—ฟ๐—ผ ๐—ง๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—› ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐——๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—Ÿ๐—”๐—ก ๐— ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ถ ๐—ฃ๐—–
1 x NUC11TNHi70L Intel NUC Pro i7-1165G7 11th Gen 4.70 GHz 4 Core 8 Thread 12MB Cache
Memory Slot 1: 1 x 32GB 3200 MHz DDR4 SODIMM
Memory Slot 2: 1 x 32GB 3200 MHz DDR4 SODIMM
Hard Drive Slot 1: 1 x 2TB Gen 4 NVMe M.2 SSD - Samsung 980 Pro
#Hive


I'm having a week off next week. I think I need it to recover from my first week back in the office. #NoLongerWFH



Given all the excitement to sell camper vans like hotcakes, upgrading your campsite to include glamping I wonder whether Butlins Filey will reopen?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butlin%2โ€ฆ it'll all end in tears in 2 years time when all the punters go back to flying off to Ibiza.
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I can't remember what punter means to you UK folk. punter - Wiktionary

See also: Punter punt +โ€Ž -er punter (plural punters) One who punts a football; one who propels a punt One who gambles; a speculator One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon) customer Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=punter&oldid=63135674"...


Eventually, Domonic Cummings will run out of things to spill his guts about and then he'll be seen for what he truly is. A sore loser.


It didn't take long to get back into the routine of working from the office. Two days running, I've visited the newsagents down the road for snacks. #NoLongerWFH

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Given I truly thought it was going to rain this morning and considered that shorts and a tee-shirt might not be a good idea as it was slightly cool.

๐—œ'๐—  ๐—™๐—˜๐—–๐—ž๐—œ๐—ก๐—š ๐—ฅ๐—ข๐—”๐—ฆ๐—ง๐—œ๐—ก๐—š ๐—ก๐—ข๐—ช!

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The absolute best feature of Twitter is "Mute Conversation."

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I wonder if Mark Shuttleworth is sitting in his mansion looking at the reports on Jeff Bezos and his space trip and screaming at the TV, "I ALREADY DONE THAT!"

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Does anyone still use the title: Webmaster? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ


Updated Friendica looks like everything went OK. I just need to see if the addons still work? #friendica
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Shredni Vashtar
Rotflmao He's in my 'Community Profiles' I'd start following him again but someone with that short a fuse would probably tell me to "FUCK OFF!" simply for following them. Silly sod doesn't realise what a rich experience it is following me. ๐Ÿ˜‰


So I went to the ASDA in Cannock at lunchtime, and I'd say 85 - 90% of the people were wearing masks; the remainder were clearly in the "I don't fooking have to wear one anymore, and you can't make me!" group. #LeSigh #Covid19UK #COVID



Groan, there's a Friendica update. It'll have to wait till I get home.


I arrived at my office @ 08:30, and after tidying up and retrieving pinched items, I finally sat down to do some work at 11:07 #NoLongerWFH ๐Ÿ˜ž
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I am glad that my company will not go back to work regime from before Corona.

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IMO we scored far too early because England then played how they always play: "Let's just stop the other team scoring." the only time things picked up was when Jack Grealish came on.

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England better win on Sunday night because it's starting to get silly in the UK.
Some schools have said pupils can come in late on Monday after watching the match.
Supermarkets are closing early so staff can watch the match.
The wife's work phoned and said she can come in late to watch the match.
There's a cry to have a snap Bank Holiday if we win the match.

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And if we lose, a national day of morning?
TBH, I don't care either way.
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Actually, I do. another bank holiday would mean more infected morons invading our county.
Driving through Looe, social distancing and face coverings are almost non existent.



That moment when you blow the dust off your Pi cluster. Rebuild the Docker Swarm from scratch, then actually bother to look at the hardware requirements, and it says: "Minimum of 20GB of RAM, and at least 400GB of fast local storage." Oops! I don't think 2.77GB of memory and a 32GB USB is gonna cut it? #HiveNode #clusterhat #raspberrypi

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The EU tightens its grip on members and their citizens by approving ePrivacy Derogation, giving the authorities the right to read everyone's digital (Email, chat, etc.) communications.
european-pirateparty.eu/parliaโ€ฆ

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And what have we learnt from this kiddies?
theregister.com/2021/07/07/tenโ€ฆ
1. If you're gonna have a poll you'd best abide by the result.
2. If you are going to hang around in a bear pit (4chan) and you approve of their tactics don't start bitching when the same tactics are used on you.

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So with the announcement that social distancing rules will probably be lifted in the UK on the 19th of July, I await the Internet experts (mainly Twitter) to start telling us all how wrong it is and that the Government is cynically killing people while having spent the last 12 months telling us the Government is abusing our human rights by closing everything down.


You know, a section of society has constantly told you every five minutes for 13,000 years that the rich are driving Britain into the ground, and yet we're still here. It seems to me someones got it wrong somewhere?

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So the statement still stands. They are sat in their towers counting their money, and yet the so-called 'downtrodden' are still here. There was probably two Roman Legionnaires moaning on Hadrian's wall "That fooking Nero and his cronies........."


"The open-source community was understandably irked by these changes."

They can be irked as much as they like; it's not their train set. #LeSigh
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I wonder if "Please hold for the next available advisor" is code for "Fook Off!"?


Kim Leadbeater (Labour) won with 13,296 votes, a majority of just 323. I wonder if the result would have been the same if she was not Jo Cox's sister?

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๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ '๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ต' ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€, ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—น๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—จ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐˜‚.

Nothing like a lick of paint to make things look fresh.

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Amazon denies photos of Matt Hancock came from one of its doorbells.


You have to wonder what the point is of ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ง๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜ ๐—ฆ๐˜†๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—บ๐˜€ when other members of staff start emailing you: "Have you seen the ticket Dave created?"

We'll Duh!



Everyone is complaining about Matt Hancock breaking social distancing rules, yet everyone is trying to get to Wimbledon or a football match. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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And they broke the rules for uefa officially. Commerce, profit. Deal with it.
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