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Mike, First of His Name https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Admin of Chinwag, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot, especially #Commodore64 stuff. I also do a lot of #gardening and am trying to make good #bread and #beer. I was a professional Unix #sysadmin for nearly 25 years.
Sometimes I get up on stages and tell jokes. Please throw money.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia
Deadloch is so fucking good.
In fact I'm so happy to have this upcoming public holiday for King Whatsit's birthday that I'll suspend my republicanism from now until Tuesday morning!
God save the king. I mean it, man.
I am so fucking mad at computers today and this long weekend can't start soon enough.
If it's not military drade, I'm not interested. It's the finest of all drades.

A senior figure here at work applied for an exemption to the ChatGPT network block on the basis that he uses it for information gathering and fact checking just like "other search engines" so yeah I guess we're doomed.