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Troggie

@Troggie@mendeddrum.org

Xennial piano teacher and educational odd jobber. Married to @DJDarren
Autistic, gender clueless, fat positive, anti-Tory, pro-choice and anti-fascist.
Black Lives Matter.
Trans rights are human rights.
Into music, gaming and Discworld.
Shouts into the void a lot.
Mostly Harmless.

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Troggie, to random
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I just made a phone call.
It was regarding something relatively straightforward and simple to sort out and I was on the phone for 37 minutes. Most of that was on hold.

As soon as it ended I burst into tears.
I am exhausted. My neck and back are agony from the tension. I’ve got a headache and I feel sick.
It took about 30 minutes to stop shaking.

I wrote my speech but they interrupted, trying to get me to do security questions first.

But I did it… yay?

Troggie, to photography
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Good Timezone Mastodon!
Nobody joined in yesterday but today is still the weekend so…

The this week is “Road” for anyone who fancies playing along at home.

Interpret it however you like.

Take new photos or go hunting in your camera roll it’s up to you.

Remember your Alt Text or use for screen reader using friends.

Here’s a bonus one I took yesterday.

Troggie, to random
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The this week is “Road” for anyone who fancies playing along at home.

Interpret it however you like.

Take new photos or go hunting in your camera roll it’s up to you, though we always use it as an excuse to get outside.

Remember your Alt Text or use for screen reader friends.

I’d love to see your !
Here’s one from a few years ago to start us off.

I’ll post today’s and boost anyone joining in later.

Troggie, to random
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A gang of sparrows have taken up residence in a neighbour’s tree.

For such small birds they are obnoxiously loud.

It’s like they’re holding a little birb parliament in there and they’re debating something VERY divisive.

#Birbs

Troggie, to random
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Why do all new kitchens look like spaceships these days? Everything is white, flat and featureless.
No hate if this is your kitchen and you love it.
I'm just pondering what happened to colour. And cupboard handles.

Troggie, to Eurovision
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wtf UK voters?!

Troggie, to Eurovision
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That’s a Nyckelharpa!

Troggie, to Eurovision
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Greece has some excellent music. Sadly, they didn’t send it to

Troggie, to animals
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Please enjoy footage of Milo launching himself up the stairs this morning because we hadn’t got up to feed him yet.

Molly, a tabby and white cat, walks towards the top of the stairs before Milo, a black cat, launches himself up the stairs into the air

Troggie, to animals
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Happy from Molly who makes the most adorable funny little scrunchy face when she’s happy and she’s happy with her new IKEA box.

Troggie, to Bloomscrolling
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Photo challenge week 8 - “Yellow”

Wider shot of a gorse bush, blue sky and some clouds
Wider shot of gorse shot from below, towering into blue sky

Troggie, to random
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Can anyone think of a reason why a PC would completely lose the ability to shut down on its own?
It started happening a while ago so I did a clean install and now it’s happening again.

It’ll get to black screen, monitors go to sleep but it doesn’t switch off.
I tried disabling fast startup but now it just hangs on the blue shutting down screen. It can’t restart either.

Windows 10, nothing wrong with hardware afaik.

Troggie, to random
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I think there might be a spirit living in this wall.

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Some more of Bishops Waltham Palace.

Surviving wall with large window holes, remains of the Great Hall
Bluebells around a tree by some remains of outer structures

Troggie, to random
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Me: “Go stand in the big crack”
@DJDarren: “Can I keep eating my crisps?”

Troggie, to random
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Thanks Apple.
Really not what I wanted to wake up to this morning. At least I was at home I guess.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/26/signed-out-of-apple-id-account-problem-password/

Troggie, to random
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Finally Toob have arrived in our area and opened sign ups.

Just in the nick of time as our current discount to £32/month with Virgin ends in 4 days and that plus the April price increase would put our bill up to SEVENTY FOUR POUNDS just for broadband. 250mbps but still…

Oh, and a phone line we have literally never even hooked up a phone to but were forced to take.

Cannot wait to be rid of them.

Troggie, to random
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This week’s photo challenge was “Orange”.

I shuffled round Royal Victoria Park in my Deadpool pyjamas to capture this quite orangey building.

The sea facing side of the bell tower with 6 large arched windows

Troggie, to random
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When I was going through photos of Dad and me, there was one I put in the slideshow but couldn’t figure out where it was taken.

I was just scrolling through the clock app to this video of Polperro, Cornwall and I knew immediately.

More or less in the exact same spot.

Screenshot of a TikTok video showing Polperro, Cornwall taken from almost the exact same spot as the other photo

Troggie, to random
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As a consequence of renaming our video doorbell “bum hole” and getting the new tv, I can now shout “show me my bum hole “ at the TV as a legitimate command.

I am 44.

Troggie, to random
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FFS Dashlane are moving to annual subscription.

I’ve got everything set up so I have access to mum’s passwords and encrypted notes on anything that isn’t online login. It’s really handy.

If I want to keep it, as of next month I’ll need to find £70+.

It’s the worst timing financially too.

I hope whoever made this decision wakes up with an unbearably itchy asshole.

Troggie, to random
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I get really irritated when I subscribed for a certain type of content on YouTube and that channel decides to do something else.

For example, one of my subscriptions who did very chill videos about driving round London is now only posting football matches.

Another did nice videos about travelling round UK canals on a boat for years then suddenly sold it and now does videos about their house in Scotland.

Troggie, to random
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Incel energy.

Also wtf is going on with that cursor?

Troggie, to animals
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I’ve missed having my coffee on the deck and I’ve definitely missed the sunshine. It’s so warm I could almost take my fleece off. Almost.
Molly appreciates the company too.

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Exam cancelled, got my painkillers and I’ve just spotted a brand new Annapurna release on Game Pass.
My day is looking significantly improved!

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