Stuart Dredge

It can't be just me who tried to do the slider in that Bluesky post image, can it? It probably can :(

always be there

a piece of advice I didn't put in here but I really wish to offer:

if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'

UK minister Ian Murray MP talks ticketing reform and grassroots venues levy Ian Murray MP is the UK's minister for creative industries, media and arts, appointed to that position in a September reshuffle.

UK minister Ian Murray MP talks ticketing reform and grassroots venues levy

Ian Murray MP is the UK's minister for creative industries, media and arts, appointed to that position in a September reshuffle.

(That's not to invalidate your point about the sadness, of course)

Do you think this is partly Reserved-For-Settlements-And-Deals money though? I'm tempted to start counting down to announcements on that front...

GenAI music firm Suno raises $250m at $2.45bn valuation Being sued by the music industry's major labels is clearly no barrier to raising money. GenAI music startup Suno has just trousered $250m.

GenAI music firm Suno raises $250m at $2.45bn valuation

Being sued by the music industry's major labels is clearly no barrier to raising money. GenAI music startup Suno has just trousered $250m.

That's a bit harsh and that's not my nicknam... Oh wait yes.

My hand holding the new book by author Claire North, Slow Gods. It's a sci-fi book so the artwork has planets and a spaceship.

New book-arrival day! Claire North is a WONDERFUL writer.

If I ever manage to tear myself away from this keyboard *eyes day's music industry news sadly* I can't wait to get stuck in.

I salute you :)

There were bad people on BOTH sides of the cold-blooded, state-sanctioned bone-saw murder, y’say?

Also I love Amorica, I know it's when they started to slide gently out of mainstream interest, but some of the songs are wonderful (to me)

Haha, yes almost certainly

It's cool although I already have the Lost Crowes album they released, which had a lot of the Tall tracks on. Can't afford the box set but glad they're doing it!

I mean, he met Prince Andrew so this is at least a ranking system of sorts

I see Elon has hit the ‘promote anti-BBC tweets from rando accounts in push notifications’ button…

Music Ally's guide to micro-dramas – and what they mean for music Very few things wouldn't be improved by the addition of a nine-tailed fox demon, don't you think? It's certainly the case for TV romance.

Spent this afternoon writing about something I'm fascinated by: the world of micro-dramas – and what they could mean for music. I even came up with some ideas, and a TERRIBLE AI-generated teaser for one of them...

musically.com/2025/11/07/m...

Oh yes, agree. I just think it'll have made the famously Tory-dominated readership of the Telegraph choke on their cornflakes. Then again, maybe many of them are Reform now..

Heaven 17: ‘We refused to produce Rod Stewart because he’s a Tory’ The Eighties synth band on kickstarting Tina Turner’s comeback and turning down ‘Rod the Mod’

Appreciate their principles, but not sure 'We refused to produce Rod Stewart because he's a TORY' is a take that will go down well with readers of an interview in *checks notes* the Daily Telegraph...

www.telegraph.co.uk/music/interv...

ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly users and adds Spotify integration OpenAI has reached some significant new milestones with its ChatGPT service. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over six billion tokens per minute on the API,” CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s ‘Dev Day’ yesterday. And, like so many big tech services before it – Facebook, Spotify and others included – ChatGPT is entering its ‘I’m a platform for third-party apps’ phase…

ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly users and adds Spotify integration

OpenAI has reached some significant new milestones with its ChatGPT service. “More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, and we process over six billion tokens per minute on the API,” CEO Sam Altman announced at the company’s…

I see Robert Jenrick just finished his speech at the Tory conference with "Let’s take our country back". Entirely accidentally *very* similar to an old BNP slogan, of course 🤔

@jamesrball.com d'you know anyone who's trying to dig into this from a data perspective?

It's a private company, Musk can do what he wants etc etc. But I wonder if people realise how much far-right stuff is being shoved at users – a lot of it seems to be happening below the surface of what's easily trackable publicly

I didn't get round to turning off homescreen notifications either. I get one of these every few days - always far-right / pro-Trump things, despite everything its algo should know about me

I don't use my Twitter account any more, but I had to log in to check something.

The 'all notifications' column is 90% far-right tweets. Any basic algorithm analysing at my posting/following history would realise that's anathema to my views.

6 Tommy Robinson tweets in the top 30 served up to me...

YEAH! Email came in, clicked on the link and chose standing tix as fast as I could. Think I was lucky as friends literally 30 seconds behind me hit the sold-out wall.

A screenshot from a news report with a quote from an eejit politician.

And perhaps once investigating imaginary terrorist networks is done, they'll get round to tackling the whole 'children getting shot in schools' thing...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

Elon Musk really is quite the human being, eh? Jesus…

I just laughed out loud at the final quote :)