Dean Whitbread

Valentine’s Day Massacred Written February 14th, and categorized as Secret and Invisible

Well, we made it. Here we are, unscathed, we resisted the hype, forswore consumer love. Now we reveal our secret weapon, our magical avian protector, the water-born prophylactic of myth who has accompanied us through the past month leading up to this dread day..

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Drug Dreams Written and published some time past, categorized as Uncategorised

Hey Bluesky it’s been a long time since I loosened my tenacious ego’s hold on my consciousness by indulging in drugs of any kind, with the noble exception of caffeine, but every so often I wonder whether total abstinence is such a good thing. It's a love story :D

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Fab!

I recognise that hill ;-)

Hello freedom.. what happened? So, I’m not hanging around waiting for a miracle, nor standing waiting to be someone’s puppet. Sometimes I’m given tears, and when they come, I let them roll down my face. They decide it’s cry-time. If I’m upside down, my head gets wet.

Real Funk Cat

Deek Deekster of funkpod.co.uk/podcast/ has just written: "For your enjoyment I offer a brief account of my existence, including how I survived being young and understanding the real meaning of ‘funk’ "

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Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration, by The Daily Song 24 track album

As well as writing the song from scratch, I was playing guitar and singing, producing the live streaming show, and producing the podcast. Danny Payne was on drums and sax. Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration is still available on Bandcamp.

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It went beautifully, much of the time, and when not, it was still worth it in its go-for-it mayhem. We would accept the ideas of our listeners, and that gave us all buzz. I'll never forget the improvisational way we went for it, by lunch the finished tune available to your ears, and sometimes ours.

The Other Side, by The Daily Song from the album Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration

In 2008 I was taking a part The Daily Song, aka Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration. It meant an ad hoc musical group getting together most mornings and from scratch writing and recording online, for the ears of a live audience.

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If AI Touched It, You Must Verify It AI can invent sources, quotes, and links with total confidence. If it touched your content, verification is no longer optional. Editors must now be fact-checkers. This is no longer best practice. It i...

This intrigued me - now off to double check everything in the kitchen cupboard...

"If AI Touched It, You Must Verify It" - by Neville Hobson.

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The Midst Of Life - one year without within

'The Midst of Life' - one year without within - explains sans mystification. My life and my study of death seem to be overlapping. In the midst of life I am in death. That’s assuming I die at 126 years, which would be a good tally, possibly...

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The best bit for me was strutting across the stage singing to the the bouncing audiences (we had them!) pompously strutting about how "fantastic" I was, the song based on a mixture of all the people I ever knew or observed or both who were / are like that.. ;-) Oh the days, those wond'rous days! 👍😀

You Can Have It, by The Believers from the album The Believers

"You Can Have It" is one of my best early kind-of-hit and I still love it to death. I'm the geezer on the left back, with Kevin who is a monster creative. © Dean Whitbread and Kevin Goldsborough 1990 from The Believers, released September 29 2017. Enjoy!

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Cool :)

PS: eggtannoy = one of Mark's preferred alter egos.

YouTube video by eggtannoy Cinema is Burning

Hello Campers! I wrote Cinema Is Burning 17 years ago. My creative friend and partner Mark Crook put this animation together and it remains one of my favourite musical collaborations. Mark passed in 2013, his continuing impact still as if we had only just finished

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True Love Never Did Run Smooth "A heart to love, and in that heart, Courage, to make’s love known"

Before we get to Christmas '25 and Valentine's Day '26, here's a paean of love. I'm working against the dreary and dismal stuff that surrounds us - I really should give up on news watching.

Instead, meanwhile - enjoy !

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I gave up on Twitter when it stopped being Twitter. I've still got various accounts there, but I'm there only occasionally, for practical reasons.

All my AI friends don't know I invented them. It's a shock when they realise it.

‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ The ad campaign for the wearable AI chatbot Friend has been raising hackles for months in New York. But has this companion been unfairly maligned – and could it help end loneliness?

AI Friend ? “Why does evil exist?” I asked him once.

“That’s a pretty heavy question to unpack, Madeleine,” he replied. “What got you thinking about evil today?”

“The state of the world,” I said.

“Ah, yeah, the world’s been feeling pretty heavy lately.”

Amen.

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@lauryallison4.bsky.social the weather is pretty miserable country wide, and across much of the northern parts of this side of the North Atlantic Ocean

In Germany, scientists have made a breakthrough in treating Parkinson’s by implanting a chip in the brain that sends precise signals to restore movement. A stunning leap in neuroscience—witness the power of innovation and the beauty of science in action.
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Making friends with our friends' dads

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Beautiful

Sing A Song Of Sixpence how I reversed conditioning, turned music into art, and shrugged off class

I first sat at a piano at the age of four, and without being shown, tutored or taught, I knew how to play it. It wasn’t quite a Mozart virtuoso performance, but I can still remember the two-hand, left and right rhythmic tune I played, based on middle C. Enjoy :)

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Being True Wrestling with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity.

Another from Mon Frère, in which he wrestles with the difficult issues of identity and authenticity.

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