Chris Darby

…I didn’t know I loved you until just now

Thank u for your support

Latitude & longitude. It’s not very funny soz

Yes but will they also compliment your lons?

Cybersecurity is cancelled because of woke and DEI

I want to see it in the magic quadrant

The “studio flat for £700” market is getting out of hand

On my radar just couldn’t find the one I wanted in stock

I got a rack mount case from servercase but it feels like overkill (8? Drives) and much deeper than the UniFi networking kit that I have. I think you’re right about case size / cooling etc tho - probably better to get sth a bit bigger with room for quieter cooling

@ottr.sh you like hard drives

Nerds of Bsky… I have purchased a M-ATX board for a new NAS I’m building. Case recommendations for 2-4 swappable 3.5” drives (and a few more inside the case ideally) please!

I have a *very* severe case of the sniffles but I am being a brave soldier

Running the raffle is very county lines, but in Surrey, isn’t it?

Any idea if donations are gift-aid-able? I can’t see anything on the open collections site but maybe I’m looking in the wrong place

Today was not the day to get whatever plague is going around 🥲

Most thrilling rides in the world, please!

Praying for thee

Wimdy day at LHR 🥴

A Nintendo switch 2 sits on a tray next to a tropical pink drink. In the background, waves crash on the Balinese coast

The perfect gaming setup doesn’t exi…

The big problem with the Breakfast Buffet also having an A La Carte option is my stomach orders from the A La Carte and then immediately visits the Buffet and now I need new clothes 🥲

Not reading “Protect the West” and thinking it’s a new Lib Dem business growth campaign for Weston Super Mare

Minute Cryptic - 13 September, 2025
"100% leather lingerie's always turning heads" (3)
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Mad that the hotel restaurant had the exact 5 miniature bao buns I needed to fill the tiny space in my eepy stomach

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Minute Cryptic - 10 September, 2025
"Playing piano after American season of pipe organs?" (9)
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Minute Cryptic - 9 September, 2025
"Liking when head of state becomes centrist?" (5)
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(DM me your switch codes so we can be friends)

Ok I know what code switching is but now I have a Switch Code? (Im a gaymer now, help)

Smajo Beso • Follow 3d • © I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier. I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about. I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here. After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face. I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again. **

Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together. I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first. My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night. I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in.

One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out. So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming.

While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day. I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special. I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.

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Omfg you, too, are a child?!