Steve

Having resisted the lure of Copilot for a long time I thought I'd have a play today.

And the prompt for a photorealistic image of Viking hamsters riding armoured war goats through the streets of Dickens Heath scattering terrified pedestrians produced a remarkably good and painterly result, I think

JFC, Facebook ads are getting really overattached-needy. It's getting to where you dare not even click on a single one because if you do, your feed immediately gets swamped with similar but utterly irrelevant spam posts crowding out all the real people and groups you actually want to see.

Bob Harris may have called them mock rock but they had all the swagger and cool of the Stones but younger and naughtier.

That Trump closed it by saying "this'll be great TV" says everything you need to know. He is literally no more than the sum of his vanities and neuroses, the ultimate hollow narcissist.

It was one of the most disgusting pieces of performative cruelty theatre I've seen, more fitted to pap like The Apprentice than international diplomacy. I hope his voters are feeling buyer's remorse at electing such a self-serving, venal excuse for a human, but I doubt they are.

While I'm all for free-to-air 6N, two matches on ITV is way more Lawrence Dallaglio wearing just a towel (in the sponsor ads) than anybody needs.
#6Nations #Dallaglio

And Sharon Shannon?

YouTube video by Tom Verlaine - Topic Mary Marie

As a guitarist, what do you aspire to in a solo? A million notes per second shredfest or 16 concise bars of melodic perfection, with a simple motif, a start, build and an ecstatic, climactic ending?

youtu.be/5C5PYCW8Nrc?...

May I bestow upon you a kitten?

I agree, but the justification they'll always throw back at you is that wealth managers make money for other people as well as themselves, while PSWs wipe asses and do the shopping.

That album was my introduction to them, a mate's dad with great musical taste lent it to me in the long hot summer of whenever it was (1976, 77?) and I spent hours under the headphones discovering the legends that are Young, Stills and Furay. The 9-minute Bluebird take as well.

Gotta be honest, I'm a connoisseur of well designed pegheads (pretty much all Fenders, and Gibson Explorers and Vs - NOT Les Pauls), and any head that needs a string butler by design, to getting a straight pull through the nut, is simply the wrong shape to start with.

Lonely warrior.

From many years ago, Duffy up a tree

They're like fractals, but not like fractals. Fractals can never approach the randomness of a tree, or of the many forms of trees.

Some Irish rust belt from many years ago. Silvermines crusher, Co Tipp. A place where I idled away many a happy day studying industrial desolation and abandonment. It's now a tourist trail, I believe.

Just getting started because I already left Twitter (it was pointless even before Musk) and am getting extremely pissed off with Facebook too.

I've got a C3 (I think) that's a bit worn but can't argue with the lovely bright viewfinder and amazing lenses (I have the 80 and 105mm lenses)