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šŸŽ¶ Listened to So Much To Say from Daisy Grenade.

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I first encountered these musicians from their very amazing cover of Pierce The Veilsā€™s King For A Day (although I have to say the original PTV video canā€™t be beat).

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Since then theyā€™ve released a few EPs, of which this is the latest. Seemingly universally...

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Person of Interest - an action sci-fi show from 15 years ago - raises questions about AI and surveillance we still need to urgently grapple with \"A : thebraindumpblog.com

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šŸŽ„ Watched The Creator.

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Itā€™s a few decades from today, where humans, of course, gave up many of their former responsibilties to AI powered robots. Unfortunately, there was a nuclear disaster, killing huge numbers of people, which was attributed to said AI. Certain parts of humanity - particularly the US -...

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The Monevator blog summarises the darkly hilarious offer our big tech AI overlords incessantly promote to us:

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Behold, our new model is so terrifying that even we canā€™t control it. Get your access for a special price of Ā£9.99 per month

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Rescue iTunes music from your iPhone by connecting it to Linux as thought it was a disk drive: thebraindumpblog.com

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An investigative journalist describes how one of the most consequential acts of sabotage in recent history (probably) took place, and what came next \"The : thebraindumpblog.com

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šŸŽ¶ Listened to The Wow! Signal by Muse.

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The name of this album is a shoutout to the actual ā€œWow signalā€ which was an unexpected radio signal recorded by an American radio telescope on August 15th 1977. The signal remains, to this day, unexplained, although much has been made of it as being a broadcast from aliens, in both non-fiction and fiction literature. We can only hope. Although if it was, the extra-terrestrials clearly werenā€™t excited about what they found as something like that has not been detected ever since.

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Anyway, this album certainly comes across as having a very sci-fi atmosphere in places.

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Facebook is apparently experimenting with a ā€˜featureā€™ where, for some people at least, if you want to post more than 2 links to other websites a month then you have to pay them a subscription (of course).

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Seems like it started being tested end of 2025 and is still happening now.

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A slightly unbelievable new...

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Reform UK are wasting time and money launching a dumb mobile game to let you pretend you are the navy stopping small boats: thebraindumpblog.com

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Two non-resident crypto billionaires are attempting to wreck British politics even further by funnelling astonishing amounts of cash towards Nigel Farage: thebraindumpblog.com

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Political high-ups accusing everyday people or fraud are simply telling you what they themselves would do: thebraindumpblog.com

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At least some members of Patriot Platform clearly had something beyond the extremely misnamed and much abused phrase ā€˜valid concernsā€™ on their mind when building up to their recent protests.

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At least one person is understood to have sought to pass on details to counter-terrorism police after people heard the far-right activists boasting in the local pub that they intended to go to Dover and ā€œattack Muslimsā€.

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Unfortunately it seems that neither the counter terrorism police nor standard police had much interest in this tip.

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As predicted, whilst Nigel Farage can be rightfully credited with coming out against the tactics - if not the goal - of the ā€˜Patriot Platformā€™ ā€˜protestorsā€™, some of his party members are in fact massive fans.

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Nigel Farage said demonstrators in balaclavas were ā€˜horribleā€™, but others in the party defend them as ā€˜brave, passionate patriotsā€™

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This sort of thing has been an issue for a long time. Reform as a party have tried to distance themselves from the right-wing-nut criminally convicted chief grifter Tommy Robinson, but not all of their members agree with that decision.

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This will always be a problem...

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Been a while since Iā€™ve seen a decent comedy redirect. Thank you https://unsatisfying.penis.ceo/.

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This week in British far-right idiocy \"Auto-generated\"The : thebraindumpblog.com

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šŸŽ¶ Listened to Iā€™m camera by Sofia Isella.

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This is a dark, kind of creepy EP from singer/poet Sofia. Real ominous, occasionally whispered lyrics. It must be quite the experience to go see a live gig.

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Confronting some of my favourite political concerns; surveillance, technology, the horrendous sides of the experience of being a woman and so on.

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Forgive the lengthy lyrics quote, but who canā€™t recognise this as an especially insightful take on the world we are in, or at least heading to:

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The humans are gray\nThey all act the same\nThey have metallic-glossed brains\nThey respond to dings\nAnd bells and rings

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T...

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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africaā€™s true scale.

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Todayā€™s typical Mercator projection maps make Africa look similarly sized to Greenland - but in fact itā€™s 14x larger.

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Hereā€™s a quick before and after, comparing todayā€™s map to one thatā€™s based on the Equal Earth design thatā€™s to underly the newly proposed map.

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Per Wikipedia, some advantages of the Equal Earth map, creates in 2018, are that:

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British people urged to make emergency preparations before next year's weather starts its deadly onslaught: thebraindumpblog.com

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šŸ“š Finished reading All in the Mind by Alastair Campbell.

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In this novel we follow the life of Professor Sturrock over a few days. Heā€™s a very well-regarded psychiatrist who treats all manner of patients who have severe mental illnesses of one kind or another. But theyā€™re not the only ones struggling with...

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@manton excellent, great news! Is it possible to see somewhere the template that the micro.blog default original book page versions used? I already like the look of those so would love to start from that when adapting my own.

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(I know there is also already a simpler template as part of the book goals plugin)

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So ā€˜quietlyā€™ has pushed its way through the ranks to be the word that I now most assume indicates that the text you sent me was never written or read by an actual human, and hence likely to be worth little.

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Even more so than the ā€˜not only X, but Yā€™ construct.

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Although I suppose there will be a point -...

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Not only WEIRD, but DEAD: thebraindumpblog.com

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This is a shame (in my view):

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Iceland rejects EU accession talks after divisive referendum campaign.

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Lord knows we donā€™t need less European solidarity at this point in time. You can see that itā€™s an unfortunate result simply by looking at who is celebrating it (Farage, Le Pen, and, I would assume, Putin).

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It...

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Staying in bed extra at the weekend turns out to be a healthy habit: thebraindumpblog.com

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Developing the UK's North Sea oil fields further would likely end up being a pointless disaster: thebraindumpblog.com

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Albums worth listening to: 2026 releases (so far, non-exhaustive): thebraindumpblog.com

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@robertbreen Thank you for your kind words and the info on the Vera book. It sounds very compelling - I can see Iā€™m going to end up wanting to read every book that Shteyngart has written. Sounds like it is yet another warning from the potential future.

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I enjoyed your review of it, thank you. Iā€™m very jealous of the event you went to to see the author discuss it. As you say, a great part of living in New York must be that these things happen! Iā€™m definitely following your blog to see what other gems you read.

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@paulw ā€œre-exploration of a classic novelā€ isnā€™t really a genre that ever occurred to me before, but I certainly thought this one was great so Iā€™m into it! Thanks for the James recommendation, will definitely take a look.

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@umerez_ I definitely agree with your daughterā€™s taste, itā€™s certainly worth giving it a go, and great if itā€™s helping to inspire or educate the younger generation! I found another show by the same writer, Toxic
\nTown, very good too (on a totally different subject).

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@jsonbecker Itā€™s been a while so if Amazon changed something maybe this wonā€™t help - but in the past I had success with the ā€˜kindle.pyā€™ bit of this script for downloading all books at once.

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(Tho thereā€™s not much in the way of English documentation! And I feel like it didnā€™t get the books shared with me via being in a household, if thatā€™s a concern)

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@MylesInTheNorth I never actually realised the UK had a law on it! thanks for sharing. Tho makes me worried if I accidentally committed a crime in my youth šŸ˜€

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@wfm Nice thank you! I listen to their regular podcast quite often but itā€™s been a long time since I looked at their interview series. But Iā€™m certainly going to listen the the Snyder ep next now you mentioned it, thanks.

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@toddgrotenhuis Thatā€™d be a great follow!
\nThis link seems to work for me:

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www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rss

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@SimonWoods agreed! I never use the Wordpress dashboard reader so had forgotten it even exists but thatā€™s annoying.

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Also Iā€™ve had a paid plan at Wordpress.com a while and itā€™s extremely restrictive - the point about disabling features being bad is ironic. (Granted I am on the cheapest plan so maybe thatā€™s my fault - WPEngine is much more expensive! )

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@odd happy memories indeed! I vaguely remember getting emm386.exe to do something to the tiny memory we had back then that meant I could play Doom as being a formative experience of my youth, and then when CDROMs came out, magical šŸ˜ƒ

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@JohnPhilpin Getting Richard Dawkins to contribute to your magazine back then seems an impressive achievement! Iā€™d certainly much rather read something he was involved in around then than the average corporate PR newsletter.

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@JohnPhilpin Amazing! Good to know the legacy of the original SEQUEL lived on via your magazine :)

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@odd if Iā€™m honest I had to use the randomly click on squares that seem feasible technique to get through the first one šŸ˜‚

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@SimonWoods Great idea, no need to stop at ā€œhow to use your phoneā€! In some ways I think weā€™ve created, or at least allowed, a society thatā€™s become so unnecessarily difficult to thrive in that thereā€™s a ton of things we have a responsibility to offer support for. Stories like this one from todayā€™s paper about the plight of some of our children are so tragic.

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To be honest, Iā€™d happily be an adult learner in a how to live well class myself :)

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@chrisfoley Sounds like youā€™re making great progress! Yes, I think tracking is one of the few techniques that the research suggests is quite effective in most circumstances regarding weight loss. The main problem is that itā€™s effortful so most people arenā€™t able to keep it up for a long time, so good on you for persisting!

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Iā€™m glad folk are trying to work out ways to make it less of an ordeal. But as you say I guess intentionality is likely a part of it so making it too automatic might be unhelpful in the end. Perhaps thatā€™s why the researchers in this paper noted that tracking by taking photos might be less effective. But otoh itā€™s good to know that itā€™s certainly not critical to be a ā€˜perfect trackerā€™.

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@SimonWoods youā€™ve a great memory! And, I agree, if the various dictionaries donā€™t nominate ā€˜enshittificationā€™ as word of the year this year itā€™ll be an injustice.

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@odd Ha, I donā€™t think Iā€™ve seen those shows but they sound hilariously undramaticā€¦accidental seed smuggling!

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@odd Agree, itā€™s absolutely wild! Thereā€™s so much Iā€™m sure weā€™ve yet to discover about the brainā€™s influence onā€¦everything.

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@Miraz Glad you liked them! I see that the author has released a book with several short stories and also made a novel based on the Cat Pictures world, ā€œCatfishing with Catnetā€ Iā€™m also curious about.

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@rknightuk Thanks for the reminder! I never got around to checking it out before but just used your link to sign up for a good few years as plenty of folk seem excited about it. Now to figure out what I bought šŸ˜‚

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@sherif It did amuse me, if only all drunken escapades ended with such impressive results!

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@jean Amazing, I canā€™t believe I didnā€™t know this was a thing until now!

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@amit Looks great! Iā€™m already grateful to you for the Paper theme you produced. Thanks for producing more great options those of us with less knowledge can use :)

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@otaviocc This looks so cool! I use Obsidian and was kind of surprised there wasnā€™t a direct way to publish to micro.blog from it given all the other plugins. So thank you so much for creating a way for us to do this. It looks great.

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@manton Very exciting! Once this gets featured in an app a novice like me can use it feels like micro.blog then has all the main features one could want to replace basically all other social networks :) So great that it feeds back to OSM too.

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