Hey* comics people! Go read @dubdobdee.bsky.social unpacking the many layers of Locas and the lives it contains
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*(all together now) Hay’s for horses, ass bite!
Would second seeing your GP. I downloaded a sleep app to record my snoring/breathing and showed him it. Got a referral to the sleep clinic at the hospital and was seen to pretty quickly. Took a gadget home overnight, they read the results the next day and immediately issued me with a CPAP.
Yeah that was the point at which I knew I had to do something about it. But it's been worth it for several reasons, not least just having more energy.
Fingers crossed. I went from waking up several times to getting a pretty solid night’s sleep within a couple of weeks. Breathing has been better in general & I don’t get dopey during the day. And no repeats of the horrible time I was in a lucid apnea dream and had to scream myself awake.
The normal Resmed ones are ok though, didn’t have too much irritation once it’s worn in
Yikes didn’t realise it’s supposed to be changed monthly… :(
I got a cheap replacement for the original NHS one and it was horrible. Tried liners but they were useless, so bit the bullet & got one of these. It’s been great. No irritation so far & much more comfortable. shop.resmed.com/GB/en/search...
I’ve had one for a couple of years now. Took me a while to get used to it but it’s really made a difference. Snoring much better & the the sleep apnea frights are gone. Mask can leave marks, but just got one padded with memory foam and it’s much more comfortable. Not cheap but worth it.
Congrats to @drstewartsmith.bsky.social on his excellent cover feature on Wendy Eisenberg for this month's @thewiremagazine.bsky.social.
A great piece, very much looking forward to the new album
A joy to write the cover story on @wendyeisenberg.bsky.social for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social. We discuss their gorgeous new song album @joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social & their wider adventures across free jazz, punk, new music and much more!
This is what Double Nickels On The Dime is about.
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This is an astonishing and extremely poor decision that ought to be reversed.
In memory of Éliane Radigue the makers of this documentary have made it free to view online. What a lovely gesture
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hey this is legitimately terrifying and if you're not paying attention to this you need to be right now
Unfortunately there's like 20-30 people in the media who are real true ride or die believers in the eradication of trans people from public life, and they're just powerful and influential enough to mean saying they're wrong throws a bunch of sand in the gears of your career, so cowardice it is.
Once again: trans rights was & is the pillar holding up the whole of the rest of liberal democracy & the battle to defend trans rights was & is nothing less than battle whose outcome determines the difference between a free, open & tolerant society & a fascist society
Glasgow has lost a radical champion today: David Harding. A beloved Gray Day regular, former Head of Sculpture & Environmental Art at The Glasgow School of Art, and alumnus of Edinburgh College of Art. His belief that “context is half the work” shaped generations.
A part of Akinola Davies Jr's speech the BBC decided not to air
The People's Palace is an important working-class history museum which tells the story of how ordinary people banded together and challenged bosses, landlords and governments to make Glasgow and Scotland a better place to live and work. It's shocking it will now remain closed.
From Go Radio on X.
Gaza death toll in early part of war far higher than reported, says Lancet study.
There are no excuses.
It was obvious at the time that Israel was engaged in the mass slaughter of civilians.
The guilty men and women will pay the price.
Toral also understands how to stretch time and space, something a lot of ambient landfill fails to do, particularly if it’s done in a DAW and sticks to the grid. Same goes for rousay, whose background in free improv drumming gives her music an elasticity.
See also Rafael Toral. I get why his stuff could be described as ambient, but to me it goes beyond that. He’s creating an environment that feels alive, genuinely psychedelic. It’s gorgeous, but there’s weird shit going on. Deeply emotional, too intense to simply be blissful or comforting.
I guess it wouldn't have been so bad had it not been hyped up so much, the second coming of Love Supreme etc. But it really has set off a glut of "spiritual jazz" that reduces the beauty & radicalism of the Coltranes, Sanders, Shepp, Don Cherry, Sun Ra et al to a set of superficial gestures.
With the qualifier that "spiritual jazz" is basically a marketing term and current stuff that operates in that zone tends to be bland pastiche, with all the weird bits of Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry et al taken out.
Amirtha Kidambi's stuff is way too forceful and intense to be ambient. And even at their mellowest or most tonal, The Necks fuck with it. They actually understand how to stretch time and harmony, they add some disruptive elements, it's not just pleasant bougie minimalist piano jazz.
Not really spent much time with it, but I've just found it bland, reducing spiritual jazz & minimalism to some banal gestures.
I've seen the ambient tag applied to stuff like claire rousay and HxH which I kinda get, but their stuff is actually good, i.e. deep and weird electro-acoustic music.
