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Thomas Preece
@thomaspreece.net
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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
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There must be an obscure British word for bread roll that rhymes with "cadence".

(Apparently it's actually meant to be "plagal on a bagel")
Meme: "you've heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for" with two bars of sheet music on what is supposed to be a bagel, but the hole is hidden by the music.
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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One for the kids
16.00 BARRY SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC Tragic retelling of the attempt to reach the South Pole equipped with only brightly coloured shirts, a bottle of Cillit Bang, and a very loud ovebearing voice.
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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toki nanpa pi unpa lawa

> tawa
< kama
+ suli
- lili
. toki
, kute
[ open
] pini
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"No man is an island, entire of itself... except for Barry" (according to @politicanimal.bsky.social anyway)

youtu.be/AGCjK-1Bf1Q
Can I cross Wales BY BUS in a day? #Cymru24
YouTube video by Travelling Turtle
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Today's task: replacing the belt in a cassette deck. I have the service manual, but it's in German.
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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If any mutuals would like to exchange Christmas cards, please DM me your address!

Se ni sekvas unu la alian kaj vi ŝatus interŝanĝi Kristnaskajn kartojn, bonvolu mesaĝu al mi vian adreson!
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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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
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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
Teletext mockup/art inspired by yesterday's Cloudflare outage. P100 Teletext 100 Nov18 14:00:13 Internal server error Visit Cloudflare on p799 for more info. 2025-11-18 14:00:13 UTC Pixel art of a TV with bunny-ear aerial with a green tick, a TV transmitter with a red tick, and a PC with a green tick. You, TV: Working London, Cloudflare: Error Teletext, Host: Working What happened? There is an internal error on Cloudflare's network. What can I do? Please try again in a few minutes. Cloudflare Index
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Ne pafu en mi, Ludoviko!
#Esperanto #LaEspero #DekBovinoj
Partituro de La Espero, sed kun la teksto de Dek Bovinoj.
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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🎶 En la mondon venis verda sen...

ne, ne tio ne estas la teksto!
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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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...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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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
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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
Afiŝo por reta prelego titolita “La ‘unuaj’ en Esperanto-muziko.” Maldekstre aperas la titolo, la nomo de la prelegonto Thomas Preece, kaj la dato: mardo, la 18a de novembro 2025 je 18:30 UTC. Centre estas foto de muzikisto ludanta elektran gitaron sur scenejo kun buntaj lumoj. Dekstre troviĝas la teksto “Detaloj ĉe Eventa Servo” super QR-kodo.
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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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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nicole.express
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…
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November 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Fun fact: a raven is in fact a songbird.
evaholland.bsky.social Eva Holland @evaholland.bsky.social · 17d
“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
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pilin nasa: sitelen pona, taso nimi ma li sitelen lili pi len ma

#TokiPona
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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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
Kantoteksto de "Nova Espero - Alvoko al Brita Esperantistaro" de Adela Schafer.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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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
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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
Partituro de "Leono Estas Best'"
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM