Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@mike
Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.
Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.
I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I was a Unix #sysadmin for 25 years and I'm slowly recovering.
I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine
Reached the critical "my hair is shitting me" threshold and got it all buzzed off. I was kind of holding out for it to get a bit warmer before I did this, but I'm a big brave boy who owns beanies so I'll tough it out.
Is Clara the new Nicole? Been rejecting a few new account registration requests the last couple of days for "Clara" sometimes with a number following, from a new Gmail address each time.
Anyway if you don't have registration approvals on for your Mastodon or whatever instance, then maybe fix that right fucking now and delete some of your Claras, hey?
I'd strongly recommend that anyone with a genuine interest in mycology mute the word "mushroom" for a week and maybe just go out on a field trip or something.
Whole lot of "leopards ate my face" articles in the news lately and it's not nearly as satisfying as it used to be.
An issue just landed in the queue which pretty much just says "please make Zip compression better so I can email all my photos to someone" and now I kind of want to watch Silicon Valley again.