Bez, from the band Happy Mondays. There is a badly drawn Bézier curve around one of his ears.

Can’t believe it’s come round so quickly, but it has! Shake your 🪇, it’s #BezEarCurveDay

cartoon of a couple on their laptops while america burns outside the window. caption: "Oh dear god no... they're using AI to make Ghibli images"

Ben Haylock - Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | Professional Profile | LinkedIn Builder and designer of experiences, products, platforms, teams, and services… · Location: Sydney. 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Ben Haylock’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 b...

Currently freelance, and doing uniformed Defence work, but I really excel in full-time roles.

I unpack your blockers and put things back together so they are better and more humane.

www.linkedin.com/in/benhaylock/

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Looking worldwide for my next role: en Français! Deutsch, auch! English: natch.

I’m a product development technologist: building products/services for telco/media/technology & everything in between.

And I’m cybersecurity certified/qualified, Govt. cleared. I lead, I listen, I learn.

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Nextivity / CEL-FI, your software is kinda no good.

Pretty sure it’s 404’ing when it goes to download some config data. But I don’t have the energy to capture it and troubleshoot.

Have you tested your stuff recently‽

https://support.cel-fi.com/hc/en-us/articles/203313923-PRO-Overview

Has anyone continued to run Electrical Audio in Chicago?

Does anyone tend for the microphone collection?

Was anyone mentored in how to mic-up drums in that spectacular way?

:-(

Lies.

I only ever know it needs an update when a device in my home glitches out: sure enough, every time, if I then go into the admin console it says it needs an update.

When upstream connectivity slightly changes: needs a manual reboot.

Something in DNS land sneezes: you’re offline.

No they do not, New York Times! This is like writing that Santa Claus has IBS.

~The Tesla Fan's Lament~

“First he claimed to be a founder,
And I did not care – because I liked EVs.

Then he defrauded California,
And I did not care – because I liked EVs.

Then he sabotaged high speed rail, sold cars knowing their batteries’ design flaw could cause fires, gamed range ... /1

That’s a third of all the episodes! I’ll have to pace myself and only “Bean!” every few days or so.

Moonlight Concessions Australian tour dates - tickets on sale now at troubadourpresents.com/events/throw...

It’s been the 14th for nearly 17 hours. Please learn to Timezone, Bandcamp!

I would 100% vote for the Australian political party Bring Back Corner Store $1 Mixed Lollies In A White Paper Bag Reform Party.

Can’t help but think I’ve discovered a covert frottage club on the Metro.

People who intentionally sit right next to you and “cosy up” so they’re resting against you.

I say, “non à frottage!”

Breeders/Deal/Wiggs fan(atics): are the credits for this correct?

I thought in the folklore this was written by Jo Wiggs!


https://tidal.com/track/2205757?u

I don’t like winter, and despise when daylight saving time and nice “high” sun ends.

Low-angle light and “lost” hours in winter ruins me until my beloved daylight saving time returns.

I never realised I had mild seasonal affective disorder until I moved to the Middle East.

Queueing: for a hype sandwich in the Bay Run area of Sydney.

What have I become‽

Every other artist that day had to deal with the acoustics. We were asked, for her only, to correct the acoustics.

She can really sing. She was so young and needed more support “from” (“against”?) the industry, and we made her sound amazing.

I just looked it up. It’s so bad in at least four vectors that jumped out to me.

…and when I autotuned her once, at the venue that is now Mary’s Underground, for an A&R manager showcase.

Threads: full of crafted tall tales. People reply with their own tall tale. Tedious.

Mastodon: full of statements, and outrage. The replyguys get berated and blocked, and you can make new friends. Good friction.

Blue Sky: I can’t work out what it’s full of, but it’s full of it. Yawnful.

What this means exactly is not entirely clear, but it seems to mean that the format is free for all now. No license (or license fee) is needed anymore for making discs or players.

Achtung, Achtung!

All @throwingmuses.bsky.social and @kristinhersh.bsky.social fans:

Australia tour dates!

WHO OWNS THE SONG? YOU DO, SAYS KRISTIN HERSH: I ONLY WROTE IT part 1 IN HER WORK AND INTERVIEWS, and certainly in her autobiographical and non-fiction writing up to and including her new book, The Future Of Songwriting – yes, she’s hardly aiming low – singer/songwriter...

Saturday read #1. Some songwriters say once their music is out there, it's out of their hands, but Kristin Hersh goes further: the song is ours & no longer hers. "It’s that kind of invisibility [artists should strive for]."
Here she explains why it matters.
www.bernardzuel.net/post/who-own...

It’s now heritage listed and should stay forever*

!⃝ 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱
ⓘ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴

Is James Reyne still thinkin’ ‘bout the fall of Rome?

Train route sign where every stop is Chatswood.

I've been everywhere, man, I've been everywhere.

I've been to

I thought the true fyre festival 2 was the fyre festival we’re currently living along the way aaaagh aaaaagh aaaaaaaaaaargh