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danieldurrans

@danieldurrans@mastodon.me.uk

Tech leader working in automotive financing and fleet management.

Street & documentary photographer, exploring the urban environment and human world.

Bristolian who is generally disappointed at the state of local politics.

Grumpy about national and world politics. Trying to be part of the tofu eating wokerati, but without actually having to eat tofu.

Occasional cat pictures & toots about home life.

#fedi22 #Bristol #StreetPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography #ProtestPhotography

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danieldurrans, to random
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Oooh! It's a public opening day at the Ashton Court Minature Railway!

https://www.ashtoncourtrailway.org

I have never been before. I think that's where I am going to cycle today.

danieldurrans, to random
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The problem with the Tory slogan "stop the boats” is that it sounds very similar to "stop the votes”.

I'm not saying their supporters are hard of hearing…

danieldurrans, to random
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I put on my robe and Jedi hat

danieldurrans,
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All your base are belong to us

danieldurrans, to random
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Doritos Extra Flamin Hot are actually quite hot.

danieldurrans,
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@yesterzine not seen the Max ones yet. Emma found bags of the Doritos and Wotsits in Spar. What I need is something in between the Flamin Hot and the Extra Flamin Hot.

yesterzine, to random
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I’ve lived here nine years, I’ve not had a TV licence since 2020.

danieldurrans,
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@yesterzine I think that's a request to join their theatre production.

"Please act now”

garius, (edited ) to random
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Well that was fun. One of my sticks of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 just nuked itself on stream.

Good job I speak BIOS beep. Now limping along on a single stick.

What DDR4 are the non-cool kids buying these days?

(EDIT: I'm running an AMD Ryzen 7 3800X on a Prime X570-P for reference)

(Because the cool kids mostly prefer shiny to good)

danieldurrans,
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@garius I've always been a fan of Crucial ram.

I tried Corsair Vengence in my work laptop and it just didn't work. Wouldn't boot. Switched to Crucial and it was fine.

danieldurrans, to random
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For many years whenever Americans said “Graham Crackers” I thought they were talking about a type of flour. "Gram Crackers”.

jamesoff, to random
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Hello old friend (paging @danieldurrans)

danieldurrans,
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@jamesoff Laver building? It’s been over a decade since I’ve been in Exeter I think!

danieldurrans,
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@jamesoff You're a day late for Neil Diamond!

danieldurrans, to random
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After all that, my plan to stop my bike lock from rattling by using heat shrink tubing didn't work.

I now have 6.95cm of 14mm heat shrink tubing to use up.

danieldurrans, to random
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It might be a bit silly to stand in the middle of a dual carriageway to take a photo, but in this instance I am on The Road To Nowhere just south of Yate.

https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/yates-road-to-nowhere-which-is-used-for-filming-tv-shows/

danieldurrans,
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@snaptophobic I still managed to hit a pothole while cycling along it!

danieldurrans, to random
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Is this why we never got to use The Apparatus at school?

danieldurrans, to random
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If I could do one thing to improve quality of life, it might be to improve the speed and responsiveness of captive WiFi portals.

jamesoff, to random
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@danieldurrans thought you might like this - every time I see a Figaro it reminds me of your wedding :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39C8iHcXW0c

danieldurrans,
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@jamesoff I am not past the first 10 seconds but had to come back and reply with…

Nee-son

hazel, to random
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my understanding is that american's do not empty 1-2 kilogrammes of dishwasher salt into a special salt compartment of their dishwashers? as a european i take pride in emptying a 1-2 kilogramme box of dishwasher salt into a special salt compartment of my dishwasher to contribute to the effective washing of my dishes

danieldurrans,
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@stevelord @hazel Surely an anti caking agent is what you need when washing dishes. You don't want a pro-caking agent else you might end up with a victoria sponge.

danieldurrans, to octopus
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Is anyone from Octopus Energy on Mastodon?

I have questions as to why the octopus I received recently has dilated pupils and can't sit straight…

On the left is the octopus that arrived a few years ago. On the right is the one from last week.

danieldurrans,
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@jtonline Friday's octopus was because I was within the first 8000 people to sign up for Octopus Go.

Their marketing department sent a box containing:

  • A small plush octopus
  • Some QR codes
  • 6200 octopoints I can trade in for a t-shirt
  • A scratch off explorer map
  • A rubber band
  • A sticker

I can only conclude that the Octopus has been hanging around the marketing department too much, and that the marketing department have been partaking in some very interesting substances.

danieldurrans, to random
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Does anyone else like to make toast, butter the toast, and then put the toast back in the toaster?

If you haven’t, try it - toasted butter is yum++.

danieldurrans,
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@cehwitham The removable drip tray catches it all. We got a fancy Dualit toaster which is near indestructible.

bjwebb, to random
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Wyndham hotel in Bogota has lots of weird old bits of tech just randomly on tables.

image/jpeg

danieldurrans,
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@bjwebb I would much prefer weird old tech on tables as a talking point than 'generic coffee table book' or ‘inoffensive art catalogue number 328’

jamesoff, to random
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Toilets outside

danieldurrans,
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@mastodon.jamesoff.net@mastodon.jamesoff.net Outside turn right, left at the traffic lights, straight ahead 200 yards, go into McDonalds, past the counter, through the door that says 'Toilet’.

slowe, to random
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The whole point of the "bad apple" analogy is that you don't just have one. One spoils the rest. That's the point. I don't quite understand why so many people now actively say "he was just one bad apple".

danieldurrans,
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@slowe We appear to be very good at cherry picking phrases out of quotations. The other memorable one obviously being “The customer is always right”.

I wonder if there are other examples.

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