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Mike Trinder

@chthonicionic

He/Him. B3ta QOTW person and programmer at http://www.millerhare.com. This is my personal a/c - at the moment I don’t have a separate work a/c. I’m also at @chthonicionic@mastodon.online

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It’s sourer than you’d think and the banana/coconut not as strong. Jury’s out. Not sure it’d pick it over some of their other stuff, but it’s interesting all the same.

08.03.2026 17:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A can of Vault City’s White Velvet beer. A dessert sour made from bananas and coconut milk. It’s a thick creamy white.

A can of Vault City’s White Velvet beer. A dessert sour made from bananas and coconut milk. It’s a thick creamy white.

Hmm, they weren’t kidding when they said it was white

08.03.2026 17:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

FFS. Blood bikes are amazing. My uncle was a blood biker. He died on a blood bike run. Bikers know damned well how vulnerable they are and by extension how vulnerable cyclists are. This is not a good look

08.03.2026 13:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Amanda Foreman addresses the camera in her BBC documentary ‘The Ascent of Woman’. A subtitle shows that she is describing a ritual of some kind, saying  “And then in the afternoon, the women shouted obscenities”

Amanda Foreman addresses the camera in her BBC documentary ‘The Ascent of Woman’. A subtitle shows that she is describing a ritual of some kind, saying “And then in the afternoon, the women shouted obscenities”

…and probably with good reason, on International Women’s Day or indeed any other

08.03.2026 08:47 👍 108 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 1
A grid of nine images featuring a photo of Gail and the designs she creates.

A grid of nine images featuring a photo of Gail and the designs she creates.

Running a business on your own can be challenging at times.

Today feels like a good day to say that I'm proud of what I've built. And I'm proud to be part of a community of women who are out there doing the same.

Happy International Women's Day.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

08.03.2026 09:29 👍 229 🔁 75 💬 2 📌 2

🔥🔥🔥wanna buy some pottery🔥🔥🔥 (I spent longer on making this than i care to admit)

05.03.2026 13:41 👍 302 🔁 62 💬 9 📌 3

They say 'no man is an island', and yet...

08.03.2026 10:17 👍 31 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Electronic music is a genre that was started and shaped by women, so on International Women's Day, here are some Bandcamp recommendations for women making some of the best electronic music you can get today. 🧵

08.03.2026 10:58 👍 194 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 1

5) she disappeared not long after that and was never found. My guess is she upgraded to trying to take on a fox or a badger.

08.03.2026 10:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

4) it was never small birds, always things bigger than her she brought in. I had a bunk bed at the time and she woke me one morning having climbed up to the top bunk to show me the severed rabbits head she’d left on my pillow.

The rest of the rabbit I stepped in as I came down the ladder

08.03.2026 10:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

3) the hallway had curtains over one wall to keep the draft from the front door down. She’d hang on the lining at shoulder height so she could leap out at you as you passed by and latch onto your head.

08.03.2026 10:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2) our back garden was a lawn backed by 1/2 an acre of woods. If you went out the back door, before you were half way across the lawn you’d hear the cat flap go. Then the bushes alongside of you would rustle as she stalked you, Jurassic Park style. You’d never know when the attack would happen

08.03.2026 10:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

… with a dead rabbit half in and half out of the flap, the cat having run out of energy dragging it back to get in all the way in.

08.03.2026 10:57 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The cat that trapped me up a ladder was the most insane, violent cat we ever had. It was called cat because we never got around to naming it. It arrived as a kitten because my dad wanted an to replace our adorable elderly Burmese.

1) A month in we found it asleep exhausted by the cat flap…

08.03.2026 10:57 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“Watcha doing?”

Yeah, that exactly. You can’t lean down or step down over them. You are just stuck there.

08.03.2026 10:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s really hard to persuade a cat to climb down a ladder.

Can’t actually remember how the situation resolved itself. Maybe I’m still up there.

08.03.2026 10:15 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just watched a video of rescuing a cat from 70’ up a tree. Reminded me of getting sent up my dad’s longest ladder, about 20m, to cut off a dead branch. I’m holding onto the tree for dear life when I hear a tapping noise. I look down and the cat has climbed up and is sitting one rung down.

08.03.2026 10:15 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

made a video to explain what's happened to omid djalili

07.03.2026 17:42 👍 208 🔁 52 💬 17 📌 3
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An unexpected benefit of London's cycle lanes...our would-be Dalek overlords are able to take an afternoon stroll with their human minders, unimpeded

07.03.2026 22:57 👍 190 🔁 60 💬 10 📌 7
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I made a crossword

04.03.2026 21:08 👍 243 🔁 76 💬 10 📌 8
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The State of the Art by Iain M Banks - BBC Sounds A spaceship arrives on Earth and finds a planet obsessed with alien concepts like 'money'.

My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

07.03.2026 16:57 👍 239 🔁 90 💬 10 📌 9

“Would you like to change some money?”
“Would that be a qualitative or a quantitive change?”

07.03.2026 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Radio 4 Extra - Listen Live - BBC Sounds Listen live to Radio 4 Extra on BBC Sounds

The State of the Art www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

07.03.2026 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I thought they meant

07.03.2026 16:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I half write and delete a lot of things. The new “save draft” button means I hit that out of muscle memory and my drafts folder is now full of embarrassing, idiotic comments and jokes that don’t work, that rightly should never see the light of day.

07.03.2026 16:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wheeels! preview YouTube video by RJ Cooper

Oddly nostalgic to see a new Marathon game out there. I spent far too long making stuff for the original games, and I took Marathon 2 apart with a hex editor as part of a project to make a powered wheelchair trainer for kids: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPgM...

07.03.2026 15:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A pfhor warrior sculpted in clay

A pfhor warrior sculpted in clay

Ah, I can hear that image. My friend Hamish made me this:

07.03.2026 15:10 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Why have they used the Finnish poster for it?

07.03.2026 12:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is a superb piece of radio drama. Also a fantastic adaptation of the novella. Recommended listen.

07.03.2026 10:47 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0