Drew

We're not there yet!

I see the Olympics commentator is DARING to state how much more difficult it has become for British ice hockey players to practise and train post Brexit.

I'm sure someone somewhere would rather attack him for sayng it than accepting the downside of "this is what we voted for".

Now I'm hearing people talking about Tories again - suggesting the fact so many of the most toxic and racist have gone to Reform is actually the best thing that can happen to the party.

While it's clearly the case they left us in a terrible mess, the more of a clean out they have, the better.

All from the same person.
She'll have justified it to herself, of course.

People also don't seem to care about the effect of the wealthiest (ergo 'most successful', to many) man in the world telling students not to bother going into medicine or train as surgeons.

This reaches far more people than Tate.

If his message gets through, it's trouble:
bsky.app/profile/drew...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James - the man who most stands to gain from deterring teens from studying medicine is getting away with spreading this message without media coverage, challenges, or any gov response.

Why is this not a big story?

It's a *commercial* position that risks influencing kids.

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Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

"Don't go into medical school" says man who most stands to benefit from that.

Nobody seems to take seriously the consequences of Musk's comments suggesting it's "pointless" to study medicine now as his own product will be able to do surgery better within 3 years.

Kids are taught to look up to him!

Well many are now seeing EVERYTHING as a cash register and using hypercapitalism to commoditise at speed & scale.

Paintings, music, podcasts, memes.

Look at Musk's response to the outrage over people taking photos of kids and getting Grok to deepfake-undress them.

He made it "only for paid users"

Oh the desperation you see when people highlight that the number of search results for Trump in the Epstein Files, using the official lookup, has FALLEN.

Fewer mentions in the documents than on the day of the latest release.

Yet people say "but a thousand mentions proves they weren't redacted"

Next, let's do "forrest" - which for a while (as teachers will recall) because a common misspelling of forest in the years following Forrest Gump.

I keep seeing & hearing reference to the changing meaning of "Groundhog Day" - from the event itself & what it originally meant to the movie meaning, which has taken over.

Some younger people using the term didn't even know it was a movie - let alone a real event!

But.. I do agree with desirability of a nicely mixed outcome!

I did a soundtrack for a DOI tour and winced when I first heard how echoey some completely dry effects sounded, because tight transients & impacts are lost somewhere in the ice (my theory :p) and dialogue of them was unclear til we EQ'd.

Ah! I suspect the answer you got when you originally asked would have been..

"have you ever heard a combination of direct and live-playback-in-a-super-echoey-arena sound without delay compensation??"

It would have sounded a total mess unless the direct sound were delayed and somehow kept in phase.

Also, I wonder how many people realise that not long after Alan Hawkshaw made Best Endeavours (which became Channel 4 News theme) + the Countdown theme he also worked on that T&D arrangement of Bolero which featured in their Olympic gold winning performance?

Anyone heard it NOT "via stadium mike"?

Nooo!! It's all in the atmos. The "being in the room".

I can't imagine my brain would have kept the 'sonic imprint' of the Torvill & Dean Bolero and Capriccio Espagnol for 4 decades if they had been cleanly fed to TX rather than echoing around the space and off the ice, mixed with audience burble!

..The fact that child went out several times during the class somehow didn't give them a clue that the 'toilet' part might be a false flag.

So then they started treating it as an "excuse".
(ie. a return to the 'naughtiness'/'bad behaviour' framing).

But it was just an escape from sensory overload.

That's really how it feels.

One example - a child wanted to go to the toilet several times during class.
SENDCO talked to the parents about the importance of telling the child to go before the class & not drink too much water - then handed a leaflet that said lack of hydration could be a reason...

They were my favourite medium for radio station pre-launch Test Transmission playout and emergency backup playback..
because they looped seamlessly and were just so much nicer to deal with than CDRs which had to be burned & had no protection.

Such a great format.

Don Keith on X: "🚨I’m in the middle of London England for the @_AdvanceUK policy unveiling and getting mauled by everyone wanting to tell me how much they love President @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/DhZnk3UPHk" / X 🚨I’m in the middle of London England for the @_AdvanceUK policy unveiling and getting mauled by everyone wanting to tell me how much they love President @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/DhZnk3UPHk

Apparently Advance UK fans can't get enough of Donald Trump.

So says this guy(!!!)

Not seeing much evidence in the video, however.
x.com/RealDonKeith...

"How do we go on now that we know the world REALLY IS run by an elite ring of p-..."

Lemme stop you right there.

That's NOT "What you know, now." What you know is that there's HUGE money to be made via organized crime in buying/selling dark vices and keeping them secret. Which you ALREADY knew.

I think that's the fairest assessment I've seen.

The lurching to appease Farage fans neither impressed would-be Reform voters nor did it impress those who had voted for something *different* from Tory hardening.

Above all neither of those parties' positions are consistent or from the heart.

Sometimes the clumsy attempts of a school SEND staffer who is simply following the rules can make things worse.

They sometimes don't dare to follow their best instincts & judgement because if they don't do what a checklist or training has taught them, they'll be exposed to the consequences.

Posting this absurd meme from X because I don't understand what the hell has happened to a developed nation that means people can be ridiculing such a serious issue.

Who are the people that would come up with a 'joke' and argument of this type?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I see Matthew/Marty (+many other names) is still getting the exposure that he craves, even in idiots' corner.

Pretty sure this is a guy with a series of claims (and names) about his professional life that give a lot of people in radio the 'ick', as the kids say.
Best avoided.

Let's face it, if you'd created and deployed tech that allows anyone anywhere to freely, anonymously create deepfake images of strangers' children in states of undress and have them posted by the algorithm itself on their behalf..

And who said he grew up hearing "pedo guy"

You'd deflect focus too.

Ben Habib has enlisted Far-Right Said Fred as Advance UK's "ordinary people" eyes & ears.

I remember when they turned up to a bonkers anti LTN protest in Oxford (in a pedestrianised city centre street)..

They talked to media about the WRONG Council and tweeted the wrong police force (in the USA!)

Remember this quote?

"Mr Musk told the court this week the phrase 'pedo guy' was common in South Africa, where he grew up."?

Makes you wonder why he heard it so often.

Let's face it, if you were the guy who'd created and deployed tech that allows anyone to freely, anonymously create deepfake images of strangers' children in states of undress and have them posted by the algorithm itself on their behalf..

You'd want to deflect the focus from your own connection too