I'll admit that I feel a little bad about how hard I laughed at this.

I'm staying at a flat in Chester for a few days. Yesterday I saw two Roman soldiers. This morning I looked out of my window to see a trans flag flying from a window opposite. https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/trans https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/pride

Is there anyone on fedi that repairs or is interested in old TVs? I have an old Ferguson fault diagnosis pocket book for the TX90 & TX100 chassis. I'm happy to post it to anyone that could get use out of it. Boosts appreciated. [1/2]

I was pleasantly surprised to see this notice on my local council's website.

It's International Museum Day, so I've written a post about a key that I recently saw at our local museum. https://russellphillips.uk/international-museum-day-2026/ [1/2]

My latest eBay purchase. It's complete apart from the 3.5" software disks (it does have the 5.25" software disks). I don't have any way of reading 3.5" or 5.25" disks, so the missing disks don't bother me. [1/2]

I see Games Workshop are taking inspiration from Cold War British AFVs again. At first glance, I thought the Hippogriff was a Saracen armoured car. And the Centaur looks an awful lot like a half-track version of the Humber Pig. [1/3]

I've just added the audiobook of Operation Nimrod to my direct sales store, which is currently the only place you can buy the audiobook. It's discounted until 5th May, the anniversary of Operation Nimrod, when the SAS stormed the Iranian embassy, dramatically ending a six-day siege. [1/2]

Ive been using Ubuntu MATE for years. I've never seen this before. https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/linux https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/ubuntumate

Went to a steampunk event at Middleport Pottery. The tea duelling was surprisingly good fun 🙂 https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/steampunk

I sometimes see retro computing posts on here. I have no interest in old Commodore 64s or game consoles, but a while ago I bought a second hand Palm m105 and reminded myself how much I loved mine. [1/3]

I'm not generally a https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/selfie person, but I have a new t-shirt and I want to show it off 🙂 https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/trans https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/protecttranskids

A friend sent me this earlier. I can't argue with the logic 🙂

I gave blood today. It was my 50th donation, so I got a thank you card.

Saw this model of a https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/spitfire next to the canal in https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/chester . https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/secondworldwar

Snowy says it's important to keep your head warm. https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/dogstodon

I just encountered this weird set of gender options on an NHS survey. https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/nhs https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/nonbinary https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/uk

One for the Dune fans. https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/dune https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/davidlynch

Took me a moment to get this one 😂 https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/startrek https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/trek

I just discovered that the iPhone pocket is a thing. I honestly had to double-check that a) I was really on the Apple website, and b) it wasn't an April fools article. It appears that yes, Apple is genuinely intending to sell a cloth pouch for £140-200 [1/2]

I bought a set of polyhedral dice at a comic con recently. Today was my first chance to use them when my eldest ran a D&D one-shot. First roll was a natural 20 😀 https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/ttrpg https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/dnd

I was listening to the War Movie Theatre podcast talking about Who Dares Wins this morning. They reminded me of this excellent protest banner. https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/movies https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/sas

I've ridden 100 miles on my https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/ebike !

Apparently I'm an old enough geek that I still have BNC connectors and terminators in my tool box. Just in case.

I've been playing RPGs on and off since the late 1980s. I have lots of dice, but until today, I'd never bought a set. Today my youngest and I went to the local Comic Con, and I bought a random set of dice. https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/ttrpg https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/ttrpgcommunity

I have a small RedBubble shop. I've just added a new couple of designs. They're probably even more niche than my previous ones, but they might interest some people here. https://www.redbubble.com/people/rpbook/shop?collections=4367810 [1/3]

At a friend's house, and getting called out.

Won a "paint your own unicorn" kit at Pride today 😀

New blog post about the Second World War pencils that helped Allied airmen escape. https://russellphillips.uk/the-pencils-that-helped-allied-airmen-to-escape/ @histodons @militaryhistory @worldwarshistory [1/2]

It's https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/internationaldogday . Snowy wishes every dog and dog lover plenty of treats and belly rubs. https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/dogstodon https://gts.phillipsuk.org/tags/doggiverse