Patrick Down

Figures certainly show I'm very much in a minority in how I use Spotify - mostly as a means of playing individual albums through in full. Maybe a habit that identifies me very much as late gen-x (or older)

Great piece - I've been weirdly fascinated by Spotify streaming numbers for a while now. Was a bit surprised by the Wet Wet Wet numbers - but turns out there are actually 2 versions of 'Love is All Around' - one of which has a quarter of a billion streams.

Is it Rachael Reeves?

I mean obviously the answer is on top, but I've no idea what side of any class divide that puts me on (except that my flatmate disagrees with me on this which is a hint...)

First rule of introvert club: We don't talk

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www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac... Gritallica vs Taylor Drift...

Seems busier here than when I last dropped by...

Early days, I suppose...

I was always a spectator - never had any inclination to share my own views with the world, but it went from being a place where I could understand where different people were coming from, to being one where more and more of it was just people being abusive to whoever the OP was...

FWIW, what I used to like about xwitter is that it was a place that you go to get views from across the political spectrum, but of late it feels that it is becoming increasingly over-run by trolls with no interest in putting across a point, just in being abusive to those with whom they disagree...

I considered moving over 6 months ago - but most of the people I want/need* to follow weren't there. In the last week that seems to have changed... *for professional reasons, I find it useful to follow a lot of political types... They all seemed to be on xwitter

Montepulciano and around Explore this photo album by Patrick Down on Flickr!

Recent travels www.flickr.com/photos/patri...

British Moto GP - SIlverstone 2024 Explore this photo album by Patrick Down on Flickr!

First outing for Sigma 400mm lens - www.flickr.com/photos/patrickdown/albums/72177720319426963 - pretty much the bare minimum needed now for photography at modern GP circuits

The variant I heard was "The Guardian is read by people who think they should run the country, The Times is read by people who think they run the country, and the Financial Times is read by the people who actually run the country"

Another 365 challenge completed 365 Challenge - 2023 | Flickr

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I have no idea what the use-case is for this, but... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfPq...

I think mine died some years ago - I'm going to blame the dog/children but I probably killed it myself.

I think that '-It's a hard life, I had to start stealing sheep on a bleak hillside' has to be in there somewhere...

Bit of 90s nostalgia for the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSeD...

A perfect album that came out when I was 16

Hi - I like the idea of the place, but I use twitter in large part to keep up with the Scottish political village, and not many of them seem to have migrated over here... Hope you and Chris are doing well. And belated happy birthday - welcome to decade 5...

so here I am. Seems I'm ahead of most of those I follow on twitter...