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Hoping one of the reasons you follow me is you're interested in my music. After all, that's what I do.

Find all CBQ (back to 1996, including these 52) here

cloudlandbluequartet.bandcamp.com
Free to Stream/Name Your Price to Download (Most DL Bundles contain myriad bonuses)

Dive in Fill Your Boots

Paul?

I reckon the last time the son of a sovereign was taken into custody in Britain was the Duke of Monmouth in 1685.

Just the other day Google told me their AI Plus service was now included in my existing Google One subscription at no extra cost.

Still ain't using it though.

Picture of Jimmy Page entitled FRATER JIM THE DARK DANDY generated by AI.

Close up showing a fretboard that look like someone has put it through a Perkins Brailler and mashed the keyboard.

He's at it again.

When you’re a UK trans woman, you roll invisible dice every day before work. All sixes, and a coworker with billionaire money will take your employer to court over you, you will be on the news, and when you leave the country, men with abuse allegations against them will call it a victory for women.

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

Ratcliffe is so horrible that he got me agreeing with Piers Morgan of all people.

Jim Ratcliffe 🤝 Nigel Farage

Ratcliffe says 'sorry my choice of language has offended some people' Ratcliffe has just issued the following statement: "I am sorry that my choice of language has offended some people in the UK and Europe and caused concern but it is important to raise the issue of controlled and well-managed immigration that supports economic growth. "My comments were made while answering questions about UK policy at the European Industry Summit in Antwerp, where I was discussing the importance of economic growth, jobs, skills and manufacturing in the UK. "My intention was to stress that governments must manage migration alongside investment in skills, industry and jobs so that long-term prosperity is shared by everyone. It is critical that we maintain an open debate on the challenges facing the UK.

"Sorry if my racism was offensive, but only *if* you find racism offensive because if you don't my racism was fine."

It's always the blinking billionaires, isn't it?

From the Popbitch newsletter: Big Question << Who's asking what this week? Which social media - friendly star has been loudly claiming that they resigned from the BBC for noble reasons related to their political Views? In reality their cancellation is less of a free speech issue and more of a personality one; due to a massive falling out with the wife of their co-star along with a tendency to be horrible to female members of staff that had made them roundly disliked.

If this is about who I think it is: the context is that the person concerned is pro-trans and the wife of the co-star is a TERF. Quite an important detail. As to dealings with female staff, I know not, but the lack of candour in one detail makes me question Popbitch's overall accuracy.

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Laura Dern had one of the best entrances in movie history on Blue Velvet. Happy 59th birthday to a queen.

Low Peach Winter Sun, by Cloudland Blue Quartet 12 track album

Out Now! Cloudland Blue Quartet "Low Peach Winter Sun", perhaps a continuation of ambient works "Cold Clear", "Gewitter", "Mercurial" & "Like a Sunday". Free to Stream/Name Your Price to Download (Bundle comes w/ 2 Alt Versions of the 80 minute LP)
cloudlandbluequartet.bandcamp.com/album/low-pe...

SO many options!

Ah yes. My first suggestion then.

You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

Would I Lie To You

Shame

Don't Ask Me Why

The choices are endless.

On Les Dawson’s 95th birthday:

All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money

Field Music form The Doors tribute band due to "dire finances" In a statement, Mercury-nominated band Field Music have formed a tribute band to The Doors due to financial challenges in the music industry.

You've come across Field Music's move?

faroutmagazine.co.uk/field-music-...

Blimey.

Meanwhile, where are the SAHB tribute acts when you want them?

One big piece of advice I would give everyone who can is to get a proper sound system. Even if you're only going to play streaming audio through it, the experience of hearing music filling the room is *infinitely* better than headphones, a laptop speaker or, God forbid, a phone speaker.

HT @brianbutterfield.bsky.social

Ah dear.

Happy birthday!

I set my birthday to hidden precisely so I didn't get birthday wishes any more.

Perhaps they took the lack of reminder seriously?

From the official White House account, not realising that penguins are Antarctica not the Arctic.

The White House also saying penguins and Trump have the same sized feet.

When it comes to funerals, that sounds like one of the better ones in my experience.

That had crossed my mind before. Glad to see it tested empirically.

Hope it wasn't too trying a day for you.

As Steve Albini used to say: Requiescat.

Two possibilities here.

1) this chemical activates random floating shapes in your vision but connects them to the person-recognition pathway, so you identify them as tiny people

2) this switched off the bit of the brain that stops us from seeing Them

New Podcast! 🚨Episode 100!🚨 To celebrate 100 episodes, I’ve collated together excerpts from some of my favourite conversations over the past 5 years. Thank you all so much for listening, and here’s to the next 100!