So, my customary period of absitence from social media begins. I'll just leave this here:
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So, my customary period of absitence from social media begins. I'll just leave this here:
open.spotify.com/track/3qF9Ay...
I have seen Londoners perform random acts of kindness many, many times. Especially to the elderly. And have also had a wallet returned - twice!
Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.
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Karita Mattila IS Liza Minnelli IS Klytämnestra
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Jesse Jackson, the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who mounted two groundbreaking but unsuccessful bids for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died aged 84. ft.trib.al/jlMv97E
Love. Unity. Hope.
These are the things that will stop the far right in its tracks ✋
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William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.
The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
Can’t listen to music while working. Occupational hazard!
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I feel like we've gone through the looking glass at some point
It *literally* does.
Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
Celtic Sinfonietta here we come!
…and look how that worked out for DD! Totally agree re the visceral energy. As with the most gnarly Birtwistle.
Oh thank you for posting this. I worry sometimes that I’m the last person alive who actually enjoys this kind of thing. It makes me remember why I got into this in the first place…
![Iannis Xenakis - Voile [w/score]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6prtuwtwguyt3xspuxdebwnp/bafkreihg5szljf56xma6pxehwisse74yzk3lbljtrbvju2brsx5cfgumcm@jpeg)
One of the things I love about the music of Iannis Xenakis is how “Xenaskissy” it can be. Unmistakeable, almost like he’s parodying himself sometimes. Who else would have written this? A little 5-minute cataclysm. Sounds like a fissure opening in the earth. Fantastic.
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I look forward to her prize winning discs of unjustly neglected repertoire!
Screenshot of contents of Tim Buckley Wikipedia page: Middle period "Sex funk" period Death
How I envision the rest of my life
Moderation in all things. Moderationmaxxing.
I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks
Wait, I thought Anthropic were the nice guys?
The meaning of words is to be decided not by their use, usefulness, or history, but by their commercial benefit to the most powerful lobby groups. I have a recipe for almond milk in a cookbook from 1226. It has been used as a term in English for hundreds of years.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
Knew nothing about Bad Bunny until the Grammy's. Loved his half-time performance - found it powerful and moving.
Reminds me of the William Carlos Williams quote that for a poet to be universal, first he must be local.
*singing to the tune of the Sade song*
Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake has criticised Reform UK for being “absent” from a parliamentary debate on Russian interference, in the wake of the jailing of its former Welsh leader Nathan Gill for “treachery"
Lake was speaking in a Westminster Hall debate on Monday re the petition on Russian interference
Ignore the smears: I have literally never been fed, like ever.
A. Cat
My outside bet has always been that REF 2029 never happens. At a time of massive financial instability (including redundancies) around HE it simply seems like an obscene waste of money.
