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Thomas Preece
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30-something from #Bristol, UK. Interested in boardgames, genealogy, Esperanto, music (ukulele, ocarina), retro tech (vinyl, cassettes, gramophones). Go and Colemak user. Gameshow and Blue Jays baseball fan. #ActuallyAutistic
My good cassette deck stopped working properly and I don't think I can fix it. This actually is a 2025 problem, because when cassettes were popular the deck wouldn't be suffering from age-related problems.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One of my CD players always starts playing in time-elapsed mode and I have to find the tiny button on the remote to put it into the much more useful time-remaining mode every single time I want to play anything.

This post is surprisingly not brought to you via a DeLorean time machine.
November 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
#Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Ne pafu en mi, Ludoviko!
#Esperanto #LaEspero #DekBovinoj
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
🎶 En la mondon venis verda sen...

ne, ne tio ne estas la teksto!
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Nove ĉe mia blogo Esperanto-Muziko: Historio - Frank Merrick, klasika pianisto kaj komponisto de Esperanto-kantoj - eomuziko.com/eo/posts/fra...

New on my blog Esperanto Music History - Frank Merrick, classical pianist and composer of Esperanto songs - eomuziko.com/en/posts/fra...

#Esperanto
Frank Merrick
Frank Merrick (1886 - 1981) estis angla pianisto kaj komponisto de la 20-a jarcento. Krom sia muzika agado, Merrick ankaŭ estis pacifisto, vegetarano, prominenta subtenanto de virina balotrajto kaj ak...
eomuziko.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Yesterday I had an email to say that one of the nearly two dozen wills I ordered before the prices went up was ready to download - but the Probate Search website has been down for maintenance all yesterday and all today. Still waiting to be able to download it! #genealogy
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The direction of reading suggests that the home point was originally the centre rather than the north.

#page42
November 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Ĉi-vespere - ne forgesu! 18:30 (UTC). Ĉiuj detaloj ĉe Eventa Servo eventaservo.org/e/esperantom... #Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
How would you describe the genre of this album? Discogs has it as "Folk, World & Country" and "Ballad", which seems about right for most of it... but tracks 8 and 9 are kinda like disco???

esperantomusic.bandcamp.com/album/espera...
ESPERANTO Kaj LIBERECO, by Max Roy Carrouges
12 track album
esperantomusic.bandcamp.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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God *damn* this was hard to film
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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lost another auction for an ace tone fr-15; this is quite a neat little oddity, a fully analog drum machine with custom patterns (sort-of) here's a post on it if you're curious estecho.com/2016/12/ace-...
Ace Tone Rhythm Producer FR-15
The Ace Tone rhythm producer is an early attempt by Ace Tone / Roland / Nihon Hammond to create a programmable drum machine. The sounds available are very ‘Rhythm Ace’ like, and the usu…
estecho.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Fun fact: a raven is in fact a songbird.
“That bird was big, you know, it wasn't a songbird.” A strong candidate for today's most Northern news story: a raven flies into a Whitehorse grocery store.
Check out this grocery store flier in Whitehorse | CBC News
A shopping trip turned into an unexpected spectacle for some Yukoners on Thursday when a large raven stopped in at a local grocery story.
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke

history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
pilin nasa: sitelen pona, taso nimi ma li sitelen lili pi len ma

#TokiPona
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Jen nova ebleco por la plej frua originala Esperanto-kanto kun kaj teksto kaj melodio verkitaj samtempe. Ĝi aperis en 1905, kaj la mencio de aĉetebla partituro verŝajne implicas, ke temas pri muziko originala.

Pliaj detaloj: eomuziko.com/eo/posts/la-...

#esperanto #EsperantoMuziko
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Mi serĉas la plej fruan uzon de la fivorto "piĉo". Ĝi aperas in PIV 1970. Mi aparte scivolas, ĉu ĝi jam havis tiun signifon en 1944, kiam Montagu Butler kaj Frank Merrick uzis ĝin por signifi tonaltecon (de la angla "pitch"). Ĉu iu scias?
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Venontan mardon (18-an de novembro) ni renkontiĝos rete, kaj Thomas Preece prelegos pri La "Unuaj" en Esperanto-Muziko. Ne maltrafu la renkontiĝon! Detaloj: eventaservo.org/e/esperantom... #esperanto #EsperantoMuziko
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
En aŭgusto mia artikolo pri La Unua Kanto en Esperanto diris, ke la plej frua kanto verkita kiel kanto (ne kiel poemo) verŝajne eldoniĝis en la 60-aj jaroj.

Mi nun trovis, ke la kanto "Leono Estas Best'" unue aperis en 1933!

Pliaj informoj: eomuziko.com/eo/posts/la-...

#Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Mi tre ĝojas vidi novan profesikvalitan muzikvideon en Esperanto!

It's great to see a new professional quality music video in Esperanto!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyk1...
"Paca mondo" - KRIS FREDI (Oficiala muzikvideo)
YouTube video by VINILKOSMO Esperanto-Muzik-Prod.
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Ne maltrafu mian prelegon pri "Esperanto-Muziko: 1887-1987" ĉi vespere! Ĝi komenciĝas je 19:00 (UTC) / 20:00 (CET) - petu la Zoom-ligilon de la organizantoj tie ĉi: eventaservo.org/e/a59cd3

#Esperanto #EsperantoMuziko
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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🧵🎬Fakte, mi volas paroli pri «lost media» dum la Tago de #Esperanto, kaj pro tio ke mi ŝatas kinon kaj dublarton...

Ĉu vi sciis, ke en 1934 oni faris la unuan esperantlingvan dublaĵon? Temis pri la germana filmo «Morgen beginnt das Leben», tradukita al nia lingvo kiel «Morgaŭ komenciĝos la vivo».
July 26, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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I can confirm that not only CAN it be sung to this tune but it's quite fun to do so (as I just discovered)
November 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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How important is lighting to photographing a gravestone?

Here is the same stone at 11:55 am and 12:28 pm on the same day. Raking sunlight picks out every detail in the carving (and even the texture of the stone).

grave of silversmith Timothy Dwyt [Dwight] d.1692, Granary Burying Ground, Boston
October 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Jen en Pola Esperantisto de Oktobro 1934

jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/Content/8593...
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM