Tags:
- 1. UK Medical Academies respond to the government consultation on Growing Up In An Online World
- (tags:children internet health safety )
- 2. The Great Depopulation - how drastic is our population decline going to be?
- (tags:population thefuture )
- 3. Starmer bans Labour councillors from doing deals with Green Party, happy to work with Tories
- (tags:Labour GreenParty politics UK OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Ukrainian intelligence tricked Russian troops who wanted to activate Starlink terminals, got cash and precise locations out of them.
- (tags:Ukraine Russia fraud intelligence war communications )
- 5. The Strange Melancholy of Slaying Monsters
- (tags:games morality art violence )
- 6. Green sector is 5% of Scotland's GDP
- (tags:scotland economics renewables )
- 7. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn't really Google anymore (I use Kagi and it's great)
- (tags:search web recommendation )
- 8. Owner's relief as escaped tortoise found yards away
- (tags:tortoise pets headline )
Tags:
- art,
- children,
- communications,
- economics,
- fraud,
- games,
- greenparty,
- headline,
- health,
- intelligence,
- internet,
- labour,
- links,
- morality,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pets,
- politics,
- population,
- recommendation,
- renewables,
- russia,
- safety,
- scotland,
- search,
- thefuture,
- tortoise,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- violence,
- war,
- web
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dancefloorlandmine May. 25th, 2026 10:13 pm)
Only a couple of weeks after Whitby, once again behind the decks. The Memepunks were playing a gig at The Cavendish Arms in Stockwell, and had asked me to DJ, with a remit expanding from 'after the bands' to 'before and after the bands' and then 'before, between, and after the bands'.
The bands were ULTRARABBIT, the latest project by Andy and Eva, formerly of Flesh Tetris, and Nothing New, with The Memepunks headlining with their live mashups ('thirty songs, one hour'). All bands linked by a touch of synths and a sense of humour, with The Memepunks joined for a couple of tracks by international violinist and artistic director of the Bach Akademie Australia, Madeleine Easton.
I should also thank some of the DJs who introduced me to some of the tunes I played, including DJ Lee Chaos, DJ Kat, and DJ Charliemouse, as my set wouldn't have sounded like this without them.
( What I played ... )
And, as a bonus (?), this weekend I recreated the setlist as a digital set (I DJ off CDs live), and uploaded it to Mixcloud, here, should anyone want to stream it.
The bands were ULTRARABBIT, the latest project by Andy and Eva, formerly of Flesh Tetris, and Nothing New, with The Memepunks headlining with their live mashups ('thirty songs, one hour'). All bands linked by a touch of synths and a sense of humour, with The Memepunks joined for a couple of tracks by international violinist and artistic director of the Bach Akademie Australia, Madeleine Easton.
I should also thank some of the DJs who introduced me to some of the tunes I played, including DJ Lee Chaos, DJ Kat, and DJ Charliemouse, as my set wouldn't have sounded like this without them.
( What I played ... )
And, as a bonus (?), this weekend I recreated the setlist as a digital set (I DJ off CDs live), and uploaded it to Mixcloud, here, should anyone want to stream it.
No se si comenté que hice un pequeño concierto el viernes pasado en Café Palestina, localmente (tienen una sala de eventos así que fue un concierto propiamente dicho no un tigre). Treinta personas pero esa era la capacidad de la sala así que bien. La mitad de los recaudos para su charity que trata de ayudar niños palestinos. Estuvo bien; me salió bien a pesar de mis temores previos (yo siempre pienso que me voy a equivocar mucho, se me va a olvidar la música, no va a venir nadie). Pero salió bien, no se me olvidó mucho ni hubo muchas equivocaciones y llené el local. Bueno para el espíritu.


Tags:
- 1. I missed that Israel was now keeping out the wrong kind of Jews
- (tags:Jews Israel OhForFucksSake viaFJM )
- 2. The meaning of doing mathematics
- (tags:philosophy mathematics ai )
- 3. I'd be more impressed with this article on how awesome free bus passes for young people in Scotland are if the graphs included before the lockdown...
- (tags:history visualisation transport buses )
- 4. Stranger danger, the beloved myth
- (tags:children abuse society myths )
Tags:
- abuse,
- ai,
- buses,
- children,
- history,
- israel,
- jews,
- links,
- mathematics,
- myths,
- ohforfuckssake,
- philosophy,
- society,
- transport,
- viafjm,
- visualisation
- 1. Labour continue to try and cherry pick an EU deal, with as much success as you'd expect
- (tags:UK Europe Labour )
- 2. What effect will global warming have on the UK? (figure 2 is terrifying)
- (tags:globalwarming UK doom )
- 3. Why Do Our Fingers Get Wrinkly In Water? An Evolutionary Biologist Explains
- (tags:water bodies evolution viaPatrickHadfield )
Tags:
- 1. EHRC's new chair in Scotland linked to anti-abortion dark money groups
- (tags:UK rights abortion OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 2. The Translator Behind Elden Ring & Dark Souls
- (tags:games Japan translation video )
- 3. The science of spaghetti: Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart
- (tags:gluten pasta food )
- 4. Is AI Profitable Yet?
- (tags:ai business )
- 5. The Entire History of Medieval Europe in 23 minutes
- (tags:europe history video )
- 1. Amnesty International on the growth of transphobia in the UK
- (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender media )
- 2. Health and Safe-Tea at Work: Brewing Time (an advert that made me giggle on the bus)
- (tags:tea video advertising funny )
- 3. What does the new EHRC guide say about trans people
- (tags:transgender rights LGBT UK OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 4. Edinburgh in 2026, by the numbers
- (tags:Edinburgh stats )
- 5. What is the Gen Alpha Melody, where does it come from, and why has nobody been sued yet?
- (tags:music video copyright viaSwampers )
Tags:
- advertising,
- bigotry,
- copyright,
- edinburgh,
- funny,
- lgbt,
- links,
- media,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- rights,
- stats,
- tea,
- transgender,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- video
- 1. Starmer letting Putin off the hook is a betrayal of Britain (and Ukraine, of course)
- (tags:UK Russia oil trade economics OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Tracking Starbucks' 'Widely Recyclable' Plastic Cups. None Ended Up at a Recycling Facility.
- (tags:recycling fraud coffee )
- 3. Declining America
- (tags:travel USA fascism )
- 4. Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.
- (tags:eggs birds extinction )
- 5. Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing
- (tags:drugs research brain death )
- 6. An LLM has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
- (tags:ai mathematics )
Strange days, the counterpoint of long days spent teaching guitar or practising it and trying to stay on top of all the things that you have to stay on top of, while the world outside burns -or threatens to burn.
Now sitting at my school of Wednesdays; half of my charges are not doing their lesson today because they're in exams, some others are away on school outings.
Preparing (or trying to) for concert on Friday. At this point you always feel like you're playing your worst ever; hopefully it won't be like that on the day.
Completely missed the whole Eurovision thing, which so many of my friends follow with dedication -I just don't get it, that kind of pop show doesn't do it for me and in the shape of a competition... even less.
Half of my friends seem to already be in Leipzig for the WGT. I kept saying I would go next year, every year but realising it was an expense I couldn't afford and it needed a bit of organising things that I most often are bad at and don't have time or energy for. Would like to go but every year the chances that I will do it one day are less and less. Not that there aren't lots of things to keep me occupied.
Now sitting at my school of Wednesdays; half of my charges are not doing their lesson today because they're in exams, some others are away on school outings.
Preparing (or trying to) for concert on Friday. At this point you always feel like you're playing your worst ever; hopefully it won't be like that on the day.
Completely missed the whole Eurovision thing, which so many of my friends follow with dedication -I just don't get it, that kind of pop show doesn't do it for me and in the shape of a competition... even less.
Half of my friends seem to already be in Leipzig for the WGT. I kept saying I would go next year, every year but realising it was an expense I couldn't afford and it needed a bit of organising things that I most often are bad at and don't have time or energy for. Would like to go but every year the chances that I will do it one day are less and less. Not that there aren't lots of things to keep me occupied.
Tags:
- 1. Did Zohran Mamdani's New Budget Really Eliminate New York City's Deficit?
- (tags:budget tax newyork facts )
- 2. Standard Thermal - dirt cheap thermal energy from renewables
- (tags:renewables heating energy )
- 3. Impressive Gassian splat of a bumblebee. Amazing level of detail.
- (tags:photography bee )
- 4. What do Labour members think of Streeting, Burnham, and other leadership contenders?
- (tags:labour politics uk polls )
- 5. A good video guide to Ozempic, how it works, and what the long term looks like
- (tags:obesity medicine video )
- 6. More than 60 Labour MPs call for review of UK voting system
- (tags:voting reform labour UK politics )
- 7. Autistic children are the best
- (tags:children autism funny )
- 1. EU states must provide proper ID for transgender citizens
- (tags:LGBT transgender Europe law GoodNews )
- 2. The two methods for improving research
- (tags:research fraud psychology behaviour ethics doom )
- 3. Iran Starts Bitcoin-Backed Ship "Insurance" for Hormuz Strait
- (tags:Iran blockchain trade )
- 4. Iran is going to charge for the safety of internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz
- (tags:internet infrastructure Iran )
Tags:
- behaviour,
- blockchain,
- doom,
- ethics,
- europe,
- fraud,
- goodnews,
- infrastructure,
- internet,
- iran,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- psychology,
- research,
- trade,
- transgender
Gideon picking up language from YouTube is hilarious. I explained to him yesterday that you can use the right trigger to drift in Mario Kart and he replied "Bro! That's sick!"
Tags:
- 1. Edinburgh Castle paths reopen after eight years but high-risk routes closed for good
- (tags:Edinburgh castle walking Scotland )
- 2. Running the numbers on a zero-emission way to make cement
- (tags:cement materials co2 electricity )
- 3. Hantavirus 'can remain in semen for six years' and can be sexually transmitted
- (tags:disease sperm virus )
- 4. CWU votes to support PR: four of 'big five' Labour-affiliated unions now back electoral reform
- (tags:voting reform UK unions Labour )
So the book tour was a lot! Five cities in five days was kind of exhausting. (Boston, Fort Collins CO, Seattle, Portland, San Diego) There's one more city to go tomorrow 5/16, Dallas: https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062204379-0
Also good news: Platform Decay was #8 on the New York Times Bestseller List, #8 on the USA Today Bestseller List, and #6 on the Indie Bestseller List. That's never happened before and I'm freaking out a little.
Also good news: Platform Decay was #8 on the New York Times Bestseller List, #8 on the USA Today Bestseller List, and #6 on the Indie Bestseller List. That's never happened before and I'm freaking out a little.
Tags:
- 1. Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
- (tags:teeth dental prehistory neanderthal )
- 2. Baying electorate demand new mewling fool in Number 10 to loathe and despise
- (tags:politics UK satire )
- 3. The AI systems approved for Ontario healthcare providers routinely missed critical details, inserted incorrect information, and hallucinated content that neither patients nor clinicians mentioned
- (tags:ai healthcare Canada )
Tags:
- ai,
- canada,
- dental,
- healthcare,
- links,
- neanderthal,
- politics,
- prehistory,
- satire,
- teeth,
- uk
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