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Mark H
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From #Portsmouth, UK; a keen traveller, amateur photographer, professional senior software developer (.NET backend), and interested in:

#Travel #Photography […]

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Another day of creating premium, artisanal influencer content. For December, I roped MrsVark into my bullshit and we've embarked on a gruelling 25-day journey into the world of gin advent calendars. It's a tough job, but someone has to do it for the views. The first dispatch from the front line […]
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December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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We've cruised down the Beagle Channel.

#casualboast #UniversityChallenge
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Disappointed that the Manchester captain isn't studying Benny from Crossroads.

#UniversityChallenge
December 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Victoria feels about Formula 1 much the same way that we feel about Formula 1.

#onlyconnect
December 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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For those who don't know, my (current) job is social media manager and my main client is @time_for_kindness who posts stories of kindness every single day to show that it's happening all the time in the world.

I need your examples of kindness please!
No kindness too small. I just need enough […]
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December 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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It's so windy out there that our neighbours have been forced to relocate their bin from the street where they leave it all the time to outside their door where it should be; this after it fell over and someone helpfully unblocked the pavement by blocking the access to their house with the bin […]
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December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Something shot on this day back in 2018. We'd flown up the night before to spend a long weekend in Iceland's capital and spent this first day exploring on foot, hitting as many museums as possible, and one or two craft ale bars too. We grabbed an obligatory shot […]

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We're outside on a cold evening with the sun low on the horizon, obscured by clouds, creating a fiery glow that fades quickly to cool, pale blue sky largely covered in thin clouds that pick up darker blues and orange-pink tints from the weak sunshine. The mostly flat ground in front of us is dark, in shadow, some concrete leading to short grass. Directly ahead of us is an isolated church building, backlist so it's approaching a silhouette form against the colours of the sky but there's still enough ambient light to pick out details. It's a concrete church with a single tower from which stepped, supporting columns of concrete flare out looking more like something built from Lego than any proper architecture. To its rear the church's main body stretches back a little and gives the impression of a back support to this rocket shape in front.
December 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Might be a hip hop day to accompany work. Starting with Slick Rick. Jurassic 5 likely up next, maybe some Beastie Boys afterwards.

#vinyl #SlickRick #Music #hiphop
A vinyl album cover is sitting on the clear plastic lid of a record deck. Lights are on the deck showing that the record is playing. The album cover reads "The Adventures of Slick Rick" across the top with the artist's name written large in yellow. New York skyscrapers fill the cover, windows all lit up as it's early evening with a deep blue sky behind. On a ledge in the foreground is the artist: he's a black man with glasses and a big smile. He's crouched down with arms stretched our in front and behind as if for balance. He wears red shoes, red top, and red beret hat, black trousers and black open jacket. A thick gold chain hangs around his neck over the red top.
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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A 26-0 loss for the Vikings and that 0 flattered them.

#NFL
November 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Half of it is their own doing, but the other half is definitely a witch's curse on the Vikings.

#NFL
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Watching the Vikings is an incredibly unrewarding experience at the moment.

#NFL
November 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I love those "false start, everybody but the centre" penalty calls.

#NFL
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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#silentsunday
We're standing at the top of a set of stone steps that lead down an alley between old stone walls in a city. All the stonework is light-coloured and everything is in shade but not dark. The steps are broken up by long landings of interlocking, rough-shaped flagstones which serve to make the descent more shallow as the alley reaches its end a few dozen metres away and angles left out of view. On one of the landings there are a couple of potted bushes on the right while bits of greenery overhang the wall on the left. Some trays of potted plants hang on the stone wall on the right too and there are a couple of mismatched lamp casings that will illuminate the steps in the evening. On the third landing down a dark, tabby cat sits on the left side facing away from us.
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Old #eurotrash starting with the disclaimer that it's a "famously naughty show" and yeah, that's precisely why I'm still not in bed, cheers.
November 30, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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I need @taoofcoffee to remind me whether being drunk on social media is spelt durnk, durkn, dunkr, or whatever the hell it was back in the old #friendfeed days because I'm too duknr to remember.
November 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Me, eating a Terry's chocolate caramel slice: These are not as nice as the orange ones.

My wife, eating a Terry's chocolate caramel slice: I agree. These are not as nice as the orange ones.

Me, eating a Terry's chocolate caramel slice: Would you like another one?

My wife, eating a Terry's […]
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November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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We're home. We're hammered. We've had a lovely day on public transport visiting places that wanted to sell us drinks. Let's see how long we last.
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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So, on the way back home from the brewery we know and love here in Portsmouth we decided to drop in on two local pubs that we'd not been in for many years.

Yeah.

It feels like it'll be a good few years before we think "Shall we see what..." occurs again. Good to do it, though, but the beer […]
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November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Someone in the brewery just said "Patience, Timothy" really loudly, very much in the "Language, Timothy" style, and everyone laughed. You have to be British and of an age to get this bit it seems everyone is.

#portsmouth #sorry
November 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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First Saturday since we got back from our last holiday that the weather's been good enough to head up to our local brewery and show our faces.

Starting with a Daisy Chains for me and a Happy Pils for my wife. Hoping that the "happy" part kicks in soon because […]

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We're inside an industrial unit used as a micro brewery. On a wooden table there are two pint glasses with pale ale in them, one cloudy, one clear. Part of a wooden pallet and a steel fermentation tank are behind to the left.
November 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Wife: Where did you hear that from? Your weirdos on Mastodon?
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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For #schiffssamstag here's the Albatros Expeditions ship Ocean Albatros, a polar expedition ship which means her itineraries in the Arctic and Antarctic regions are well outside the price range we can afford. This was taken last year when we visited a very foggy […]

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It's a cold, grey day and we're on some raised land in a coastal city looking out over the grey roof of a long building with red, corrugated metal panel walls. A flat, cold stretch of water reaches out towards low-lying land in the distance with its hilly tops vanishing in the low cloud that smothers the sky. Heading outwards and aligned so it almost looks to be resting on the roof of the foreground building there is an expedition cruise ship. It's fairly stocky, only a hundred metres long with several decks of cabin windows and shallow balconies. Other than the top deck with the bridge which is painted white the ship is a bright blue with a thick diagonal line of dark blue curving towards the front. Albatros Expeditions is written near the aft and along the front of the hull.
November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#foto Vorschlag In der Innenstadt.

Photo theme: in the city centre.

This is from Xiamen, China, and we particularly liked getting away from the modern exterior and wandering into the older part of the city where the vibrancy and life of the smaller buildings […]

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We're standing on the corner of a narrow street only wide enough for one vehicle to come down. It's lined on both sides by old, four-storey buildings with a taller lower floor that supports shop fronts, some of them set back under concrete pillar-supported roofing for the floors above. Shallow balconies are the norm for the windows on the upper floors of these buildings, each with metal railings and mesh to prevent anyone falling out or apparently clambering in. This is most definitely China with the signs we can see outside some of the buildings on the eight side of the street, all bathed in bright sunlight. The road and the buildings to the left are in deep shadow. A zebra crossing is marked on the road just in front of us and the left side of the street serves as a parking space for dozens of bikes with one bright yellow one near us and leaning against a rusting lamp post. More lamp posts and wires trailing from poles complete the look of the street and there are about a dozen Chinese people walking down it in both directions. The street curves to the left towards the end and towering into the clear, pale blue sky there is a modern skyscraper, quite wide with a waved façade and with blue-tinted glass windows and panels covering every surface.
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#thelastleg is a lot better when it has more of the serious subjects like it's doing right now with a review on the budget that's yet again let the rich off and targeted the majority of people.
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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That felt like a perfectly appropriate low note on which to finish the game.

#NFL
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM