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With immediate effect, I am no longer using or monitoring Twitter. You can find me on Mastodon at mastodon.star-one.org.uk/@si… or on Facebook (if you know me in Real Life) at facebook.com/simonjgray
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[Reposted for anybody who missed it on Friday]
With immediate effect, I am no longer using or monitoring Twitter. You can find me on Mastodon at mastodon.star-one.org.uk/@si… or on Facebook (if you know me in Real Life) at facebook.com/simonjgray
simon gray | @simon@mastodon.star-one.org.uk retweeted
4 Nov 2022
CCHQ: Question Time's Silence On Scotch Eggs Is Now Deafening #QuestionTime
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I’ve wanted to go to Highclere Castle since I was a child; I think it’s now possible to visit without feeling the need to stage whisper ‘I’m here for the Egyptology, not the Downton Abbey’ all the time bbc.co.uk/newsround/63499755
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Death metal is very much not my genre. (Pseudo-) Irish folk is very much not my genre. I won’t say Dutch death-metal-pseudo-Irish-folk fusion *is* my genre, but add a hurdy-gurdy to it and it at least becomes an effective and intriguing ear cleaner. music.amazon.co.uk/artists/B…
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Have I mentioned before that I like hurdy-gurdies?
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simon gray | @simon@mastodon.star-one.org.uk retweeted
22 Sep 2021
So, the next time someone thinks they're being smart by telling you they "should have stayed in France"...
here's the @JCWI_UK 5-step guide to responding, which doesn't involve pointing out how deeply they are lacking in either humanity or imagination...
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4 Nov 2022
Eastwood (Nottinghamshire) Council By-Election Result:
IND: 43.1% (New)
LAB: 41.7% (-0.1)
CON: 15.2% (-31.2)
No LDM (-7.9) or GRN (-5.0) as previous.
Independent GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2021.
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4 Nov 2022
Bushes: Apparently Men And Women Use Them Differently #Bushes
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24% imported electricity feels rather high (though not in the cheese sense), even at 3am when the sun isn’t shining.
4 Nov 2022
British electricity mix at 3am on 4th Nov 2022
Nuclear 20.2% Gas 30.3% Coal 0.0%
Wind 12.0% Solar 0.0% Hydro 3.3%
Biomass 9.5% Import 24.1% Storage 0.0% Other 0.5%
Generation 23GW
Carbon intensity 212 gCO2e/kWh
vs 50-100 gCO2e/kWh target by 2030 #Import
I realise I am but an humble ethnomusicologist and digital strategist-practitioner rather than an economist, but…
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…can anybody explain how the Bank of England thinks the cause of runaway inflation is people going round rashly spending their money rather than saving it for a rainy day, and how they think…
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…the solution to that problem is to increase the profits of the commercial banks, building societies, and credit card companies?
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1 Nov 2022
Elon Musk has had more gender affirming surgeries than most trans people.
I’m not trying to upset the fanboys, just simply exercising my freedom of speech. So glad that I can state my opinions without having to worry about triggered snowflakes.
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So I see @cherryaudiovst are releasing a VST of the Yamaha CS80 then, ‘for all those who celebrate it’
It probably took them two days to twig because at least 18% of serving police officers should have failed their vetting checks and thus shouldn’t even be employed. The question is, are these at least 18% of unfit police officers going to be purged?
1 Nov 2022
“Andrew Leak, the man suspected of firebombing migrant centre had a history of sharing far-right content &posting racist comments online, prompting questions about why it took police two days to treat the attack as an act of terrorism”
#rightwingterrorism
theguardian.com/world/2022/n…
Amongst all the BBC 100th birthday stuff this year it’s been forgotten today is the 40th birthday of Channel 4.
My favourite historic Channel 4 show was After Dark, where every Saturday night after formal closedown they stuck a bunch of noteable people in a room and left some…
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…hour to look for an all night offy, and came back 45 minutes later with a carrier bag full of wine bottles for everybody? […]
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[…] Channel 4 exists as a public service broadcasting channel to be experimental and niche as well as to be profitable; if anything, its current ownership model is much more defensible in the modern media landscape than the BBC’s license fee model is.
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