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YouTube video by David Gideon Neil Sedaka Plays Chopin on I've Got a Secret!

Apropos of not much ,but perhaps related to his recent death, TIL that Neil Sedaka was helluva piano player and almost represented the US at the 1966 Tchaikovsky competition, following in the foot of the marvellous Van Cliburn

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Ofcom is broken. Fix it now! I just signed this open letter calling on the Government to do whatever it takes to fix it, in case you want to sign too?

38d.gs/kdr4

Spoiler: it’s every other day

ALT:

Me at midnight waiting for the moronic ‘ what about international men’s day’ posts.

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Brain fart day

😀 can’t believe I had to leave out new order and Joy division

My (current) four favourite manchester albums, one per artist.

Back to Compton Verney on a glorious day to see this fella still living his best life.

Small investors turn on James Watt after BrewDog co-founder admits ‘many mistakes’ Watt apologises to 200,000-plus ‘equity punks’ who joined crowdfunding rounds but were left empty-handed after cut-price sale

I expect a cut of the 100 mill will make it easier for the twat to cope

“I would have loved to save every single job and every single equity punk investment. Ultimately, I couldn’t. That will stay with me.”

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‘I owe Iron Maiden my English A-level!’ The great literature our writers discovered through pop music Ahead of World Book Day on Thursday, Guardian music writers pick out the musicians whose literary references illuminated them – from Adam Ant on Joe Orton to the National on Grace Paley

For me it was
Derrida via Scritti,
Camus via The Cure,
John Webster via The Bunnymen
Gogol via Joy Division , although I’m pretty sure I’d read Dead Souls before hearing the song so maybe not.

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YouTube video by Jill Morton The Bounce - Zoe Rahman, ABRSM Grade 6 2025 & 2026 C2, Jill Morton - piano

Not done a piano practice post for a while. Tonight was mostly about keeping my stupid fingers closer to the keys and some vertical alignment issues in this piece so that the correct notes should actually sound at the same time. This is what it should sound like

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The shop selling the world's tiniest violins is going to run out of stock soon.

#Reverberations Day 28

🗣️ Joy Division
🎶 Decades

Everyone who knows this song knows just how special it is. It will be picked in every challenge for which it is eligible, and I think it's a mighty fitting ending to this mighty fitting challenge.

💯 spot on from Stuart - theyre just fucking actors after all

Baftas 2026: BBC apologises after guest with Tourette's shouts racial slur at Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan Actors Michael B Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage at the time during the award ceremony in London.

FWIW I think the BBC made a mistake, but this shows a crass misunderstanding of the situation by the members of the acting community.

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💯 unbelievable levels of cognitive dissonance here. Yet another reason to boycott the whole sorry shitshow

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

If you’re even thinking of going to the USA on holiday read this and reconsider

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

CARDIACS DOCUMENTARY | Andy Edwards Get more from Andy Edwards on Patreon

Cardiacs documentary - fantastic stuff by Andy

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#totp 1980 sounding better than I recall, in parts at least.

The always excellent Stephen Collins in 2019

A visit to Winterbourne always helps

Also waiting ...

I know people claim they're completely nontechnical and have vibe-coded entire products without any human ever looking at any of the code. Thousands of lines a day or more! they say. Insanely productive! Programming is dead! 🙄
1/3

in the style of Private Eye.

So, farewell then Zemansky and Hecht & Zajac

What fun we had
As an undergrad

But no more.
Landfill is the end

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.

Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.

Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.

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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Why I stopped saying no to my toddler Kelly explains why she decided to try

Because you’re a moron?

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This brave woman speaks for millions of British people.

Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.