Simon Christopher Buck

i'm blocking any account that posts a cute picture of - well i'm starting with cats, dogs and rabbits. i don't hate the animsls or the posters/users but new to Bluesky i'm seeing faaar too many such pics...

looked it up: billing for emotional toll. should become standard practice.

i notice that Gameification has not <nearly> taken off as much as predicted say ten years ago

groo y! i just had flu and Yellow Fever (long haul travel coming up) with shingles the day after tomorrow. i'm 70 and don't look like this BTW.

this is the most fundamental criticism of capitalism and its mirage of meritocracy and opportunity only limited by imagination and enterprise

FFS Kyïv is TWO syllables.

age thirteen i wrote in my composition "the children were delighted to discover that they would be to receive a prize". teacher corrected "would be" to "were". but to this day i feel my own version was a stylistic choice rather than a grammatical error.

content aside, UK user personal observation. first time i've personally seen the hash mark # sometimes known in US as the pound sign (eg. US voicemail), actually used to indicate lbs.

So this story is WAY wilder than I thought The Trump post I flagged this morning because it includes Natalie Harp is actually based on the Getty photo you can see below. But there is one key difference -- MONICA CROWLEY'S FACE HAS BEEN EDITED TO LOOK LIKE NATALIE HARP'S WTF is going on here?

Henry Mancini, Tubby Hayes & Orchestra with a live version of THE PINK PANTHER theme in 1964. Fabulous.

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another pic of leading lady looking uncomfortable with Hitchcock

part of the problem with some sections of the political debate is that this is not what the so-called working-class person typically looks like (occupation/gender/ethnicity etc etc). it is a lovely piece of artwork for all that.

and not just current members of the EU

@twonks.bsky.social

schadenfreude perhaps. but China is racing ahead with robots in more ways than one - similarly renewable power.

metaphor for greenwashing in general

756 miles over 3 days! Great and very busy weekend between @celtfest and Ludlow History Festival. A day off and then back to emails, planning, sketching, rehearsing, and preparing for next weekend's @goblintownfestivallarp #Storytelling #storyteller #storytellingforgrownups

assuming this is true this is a great exemplar

AI and Amazon's SEO gone mad together. mrs and i looking into a recent spate of flies in our flat. i typed in "common species of fly UK" and guess what came first in the hits?!? Amazon trying to sell me flies!?! (as usual it doesn't even check first to see if what you are seeking is even available).

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estudiando la música de John Coltrane recemente

Spain should display a Free Palestine banner when they win the World Cup tonight.

www.simoncbuck-sw6.com/links

been on a course to study the music of #JohnColtrane. his compositions don't allow much room for the rhythm section. they're all about his improvisations. he was a genius and i love his music but looking at it from the inside was an oddly disappointing experience in certain respects.

my music project web site is finally back up. simple problem once i uncovered it - which reminds me of many bug-fixes i carried out in my past life as a software developer. outlines what i am trying to do musically over a 18-24 month period. www.simoncbuck-sw6.com

been hearing a lot of stories about crows' gifts recently

been on a course to study the music of John Coltrane. his compositions don't allow much room for the rhythm section. they're all about his improvisations. he was a genius and i love his music but looking at it from the inside was an oddly disappointing experience in certain respects.

friend of mine from school posted a sneary anti net zero comment on another platform. insight - i'm guessing - into what some Americans feel like when they realise members of their own family are pro you know who

more than depressing

for a variety of reasons i won't go into i don't celebrate Fathers' Day

not funny lol

Al Janokovich vs Tiny Tim

long weekend in Warsaw/Warszawa in prospect. looking like it will be raining every day...

looks like the majorana 2 thing over-hyped and not very scientific

just heard Eric Satie described as Symbolist. Debussy (i believe) preferred Symbolist to Impressionist. once saw a photo of Debussy and Satie at a party. looking at that picture and listening to their musics they seem pretty strange bedfellows in the same artistic movement. #SarahMorpietsch

genres of being at a parade. like it.

very well said

very much agree. too much bread stuff is too sweet these days...

Most "science fiction" is actually "engineering fiction"

" I just don’t get this idea that dreadful music is somehow cool and funny." sorry although i half like it and sometimes watch it and leaving boycotting aside that's the best comment on Eurovision ever.

I work with audio and video primarily because of my love of restarting my computer to complete installations, updates, etc

many men in my age group seem to not-quite retire. i have definitely retired (from IT) but sometimes my personal music project seems to re-invent my old world (in a good way perhaps) ...

OK obvs this is mere petifogging in the current climate... but i have already made clear on my pinned post that i reserve the right to block accounts that post cute pictures of cats and even dogs. but i am staggered that i am now getting SICK OF PICTURES OF PIZZA and may have to act accordingly

is this a Top Tip?

resistance is futile