Retired graphic artist and web designer. History, music – bass guitarist – silversmithing, book gorger with a pile of as yet unread books taller than I am.
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Going through some old printed literature and found this tour guide for the Myoryuji Temple in Kanazawa – we visited in May 2017. A fascinating structure in that it looks like a temple but was a defensive fortress. Hidden rooms, trapdoors and secret tunnels etc.
私はベースソロを弾いて罪を犯しています。😞私の弁護では、私はそれらを1分以上プレイしたことがありません。😇
Erosion of trust ends in institutional chaos and paralysis, opening the way for corruption. It’s almost like it’s part of a plan.
Fingers firmly crossed for you and hope all turns out well. Sending very best wishes.
Cue robot tax havens. Manufacturing would move to the lowest taxing country that is a feasible manufacturing base. Yep, taxing those other things would help avoid this.
Interesting… completely embarrassed myself in trying to pick out the best sounding extracts of six tracks, each presented in three different resolution formats. www.npr.org/sections/the...
If slavery were invented today, Labour would call it "impractical". If torture were invented today, Labour would call it "ineffective". If child labour were invented today, Labour would call it "poor value for money". Moral cowardice. There's a lot of it about these days.
The same financial powers who vehemently backed the failed monetarism experiment and wrecked entire industries, will push for AI adoption whatever the human cost.
A combination as there has been an increase in the number of mandatory services councils have to carry out, whilst getting reduced funding. It’s difficult to balance this with cuts to non-mandatory services.
The off-loading of government expenditure onto councils has been one of the cruelest tricks perpetrated by the unnecessary austerity experiment. Brilliantly and horrendously cynical.
Great news – hope this continues!
Been watching the Adam Curtis series Shifty and it neatly illustrates what an utter shit-show the late 70s, the 80s and most of the 90s were for the non-privileged. Is it perfect? No. It does however convey most of what went horribly wrong and shows in part, why. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Been watching the Adam Curtis series Shifty and it neatly illustrates what an utter shit-show the late 70s, the 80s and most of the 90s were for the non-privileged. Is it perfect? No. It does however convey most of what went horribly wrong and shows in part, why. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
自信と繊細なタッチを組み合わせるのは簡単ではありませんが、簡単に見えます！
The BBC will be first in line for extinction in any recognisable form if Reform ever get power. That begs so many questions of the BBC leadership doesn’t it?
Actually the octopus scenario has better odds. I don’t have Amazon Prime.
Can Amazon Prime find my new favourite music based on an octopus, an orange squeezer and some coloured ping pong balls dipped in custard? Similar odds.
I’m struggling to think how much lower the Israeli forces can go. I’m certain they will find a way however. They now stand alongside the Khmer Rouge, the Einsatzgruppen and the instigators of the Cultural Revolution in the vehemence and determination of their actions.
Have a fantastic birthday – best wishes and dodgy singing of Happy Birthday from me! 😊😁
You should be able to designate someone else to receive it, leaving you bruise free. I know you’d choose wisely.
Instantly transported back to my student days. Gong: Expresso II.
If there’s any justice, it will all come together. I really, really hope it does. 🙏
A visit to the Japanese Gardens at Cowden, near Dollar in Scotland. cowdengarden.com
There’s the problem right there – pretending they are businesses when they provide a service where a business model is inapplicable and damaging. The whole point of this service becomes so skewed it ceases to provide the quality and stability it should.
That is a beautifully concise paragraph.
They’ve certainly stolen the meagre contents of her skull.
They fully deserve each other.
Hope you are fully recovered, and those tunes have melted away as Lloyd Webber should have done, decades ago.
今後、あなたの賢明な指示に従うことを約束します！😇🤣
Hope it’s all straightforward and I’ll be crossing my fingers.
Not Apple, but a similar aesthetic – from 1975.
Unfortunately, this won’t be followed by ‘Lugosi looks like Putin.’
I was on early shift this morning – parents at a wedding. I now have help so all’s good. They’ve been alarmingly well behaved so far. Being utterly daft with them goes a long way. 😊
Now feeling guilty drinking a fresh cup of tea. In and among managing two grandchildren mind, so the guilt only goes so far! 🤣
ゼロさん あなたのお父さんとメモを比較する必要があると思います。股関節から始めて、次に膝、最後に足首から始めることができます。背中と背骨はもっと時間がかかるかもしれません。これはいくつかのメモではなく、本です。
Labour, as presently constituted, have become the thing they once decried. Economic ‘rigour’ over people, knee-jerkism over cogent arguments and judgementalism over empathy. Their Overton Window has become a narrow slit firing barbs and arrows, far from the welcoming gateway it once was.
Yasmein has to battle yet again against her account on Bluesky being deleted. Her original GoFundMe account still stands however – I can vouch for it being the genuine and original one. Help her if you can – even a repost like this has value.
It’s actually pretty good, so I’ll be buying more. Yes, very good.
多くの国では、他の人間に対するひどい扱いを含む歴史的なエピソードがあります。私はイギリス出身で、私たちは公正な分け前以上のものを持っています。歴史に立ち向かうことは、国の発展の重要な部分です。
Yep. Doing the ‘right’ thing has taken on an alternative meaning for this government.
Nope. Always the easy targets who can’t fight back.
Can we deport millionaires/billionaires who evade tax? After recouping that tax retrospectively and imposing a fine for the same amount. That would be fair on taxpayers. (I acknowledge that others exist even if not taxpayers, something successive governments seem incapable of).
I agree, but most of the press and media, ghouls that they are, will be elbowing each other to get the information out in any case. I’d be happier if this was released with sensible commentary if possible.
The ethnicity and/or nationality should be absolutely irrelevant as far as the general public are concerned. By all means record that data for proper statistical use, but unless you have a very good reason it should remain undisclosed until a conviction is gained.
Not that I actually need any new strings for the double bass, but someone asked me how much they cost. The low B string alone is £160. The rest as a set are £271. Just as well I don’t need any. 😬😳🤯
2/2 The truth is stuck inside the festering black hole of malevolence they have constructed around themselves and which is only capable of radiating lies or at best, distortions of the truth. *Pirates, thugs and genocidal murderers.
1/2 They claim to have ‘documentation' showing links to Hamas by Anas. Mind you, they also claim to not use violence when bulldozing West Bank Palestinian homes with armed Israeli settlers* in attendance.
أحمد - لقد قمت بإعادة نشر استئنافك وهذا هو أفضل ما يمكنني القيام به في الوقت الحالي. لدي الكثير من الأشخاص الذين يطلبون دعمي ولا يمكنني دعم سوى عدد قليل منهم. إنه يكسر قلبي أنني لا أستطيع التبرع لكل من يسأل وعندما يسأل. أطلب مسامحتك وتفهمك.
The last message I got from Anas… “Thank you so much brother i really appreciate it 🙏❤️” I hope I helped in some small way, but I know it wasn’t enough. This really hurts. 😢
“Limited period trial death offer! Test your coffin for comfort, listen to the AI eulogies* and savour the smells of the generous wake spread your relatives will marvel over.” *TM Eulogics
There’s a templated Russian model for them to aspire to I reckon.
2/2 He undoubtedly knew he was on borrowed time and yet persisted in the face of constant mortal danger.
1/2 The Israeli government and military have become the grotesque monsters which conducted genocide on some of their ancestors. They have murdered someone I was getting to know and whose only ‘crime’ was showing the world what was happening in Gaza.
My last message from him… “Thank you so much brother i really appreciate it 🙏❤️”
It’s OK Joy I understand that, but the Israelis label anyone they find inconvenient as a ‘terrorist’. They’d published false intelligence reports about him to justify silencing him for reporting what is going on in Gaza. This hurts.
I dread that this is Amas Jamal who reported for Al Jazeera. I have been in contact with him for several weeks. I knew he was a target and had been labelled as a Hamas ‘terrorist’. 😢
😍 Perfect.
The cultural equivalent of peering at everyone else’s exam paper, submitting yours as genuine and then setting fire to the ones you copied. #AITheft #AI #IntellectualCopyright #Theft
Saw this in the Tesco supermarket in Milngavie and had to try it – well you just have to don’t you? I will report back when opened. #JapaneseCoffee #Coffee #Japan
Did he lose it in May 1945?
“So sorry madam, but the century you were hoping to catch left 200 years ago. Would a vigorous slap help you adapt to this one?"
I visited Hiroshima in 2017. The most poignant moment came when seeing the preserved child’s tricycle in the Peace Memorial Museum and reading the story behind it. Tears were shed.
Complete capitulation to those who relish living in a desiccated empathy desert.
It’s sublime stuff. 😊
I’m dreading any sudden loss of contact with those I have been speaking to and helping as best I can. It’s not happened yet but it’s an increasing worry. It will be like losing family members.
Apologies to all the Gazans requesting help. I’m doing what I can in helping five families when I can, but I cannot possibly help everyone. Having to choose who to support after checking the legitimacy as genuine Gazans in real need, is torture. It’s nothing compared with their lot however. 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸🍉
The Israeli government is bent on depopulating Gaza by a combination of indiscriminate lethal force and starvation. The obscene irony of this situation is beyond comprehension.
Very blustery and wet up here. Managed to get Polly out for her morning walk earlier during a brief lull. Now inside doing chores – hanging up the washing, sharpening knives etc. coffee break imminent however!
One of this morning’s jobs that cannot wait. It won’t take long to get them absolutely lethal again.
You should have been given a medal!
And there’s one of the donkeys!
I got recommended this book by a recording engineer on Facebook. And as that engineer is: 1) the author and 2) his CV includes Bowie, Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Pink Floyd, Robert Palmer, Steve Winwood, John Martyn, Mark Hollis, and Talk Talk… how could I not….? 🤣
I like Balfron more and more.
I’ve done a fair bit of computer training in my time and the first reminder to myself was “Remember what it's like to be a beginner, completely uninitiated.” Interface designers should think similarly. What’s intuitive with lots of experience, isn’t necessarily intuitive at all.
Private equity and the crushing cost of UK vets’ bills. 60% of local vets taken over by corporates. Usual story -price hikes, debt, profiteering. Drugs prices up to eight times the online prices. Profit margins of up to 43%. How many pets will suffer? archive.ph/ikhpP
Love the juxtaposition of angles and shapes etc. Stop putting us all to shame! 🤣
Been communicating with several Gazans including an Al Jazeera journalist, accused by the Israelis unsurprisingly, of being a Hamas operative. We cannot possibly fully appreciate their torment. She cannot appreciate anything other than varying degrees of self-imposed stupidity.
If that ceremony, that collective experience were a person, they would have been pitying us by 2014 and mocking us a short time afterwards.
She’s fine! We can laugh now but two hours stuck in a loo isn’t fun – admittedly with a plentiful supply of water at the sink and a continuous supply of replacement air from a distributed extraction system so the basics were covered! One of those times where problem solving resolves to brute force!
It took some force, but minimal damage and Gillian rescued. No locksmiths were available so crowbar it was. Having no access to the mechanism other than from the installation slot on the door edge didn’t help. 2/2
Interesting couple of hours. Gillian locked in the downstairs loo. No window to climb out of and really solid internal doors. The lock mechanism was fine, it was the handle and latch mechanism that failed and locked up. Ironically. Cue ex-policeman neighbour with crowbar. 1/2
The key indicator is booking on an organised coach trip to a stately home. The National Trust is a money generating front for these white haired, subversive, front line killers. I’ve heard the conversations in the tea rooms. I’ve started a few and that’s how easily you can get tangled up! Beware!
حمزة - لن أتعب أبدا من مساعدة الفلسطينيين. كل شخص تحدثت إليه كان إنسانا رائعا. أبذل قصارى جهدي الآن لدعم خمس عائلات أو أفراد ومن الصعب العثور على المال لدعم المزيد. ومع ذلك، سأشاركك منشورا بكل سرور.
Who's up for a night of psychedelia and space rock at the iconic New Adelphi Club! Our next full Loudhailer Electric Co psychedelic gig in Hull is at The Adelphi, with our friends from York Spirit of the Hawk opening the show. Info and tickets: loudhailer.net/2025/07/23/p... #musichull
Complete inability to put themselves in this position and think it through. “Ah, but we need the optics.” No, you need to think like human beings.
Correction… St Georges Hall, Bradford.
I wish I could do more Ahmed. I try to donate as regularly as I can to two Palestinian families – perhaps a third one should be included?! I’ll do my best.
Ahmed is a graphic designer. Instant quote post from me, a retired graphic designer.
In Japan, if a plate breaks, they fix it with gold. If I go to Japan after this genocide, I expect that they will make my entire body in gold😂😂
Farewell Mr Osbourne and thanks for the tinnitus*, still with me after all these years. *Acquired at Bradford City Hall, 1974.
We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.
Out of the thousands of gods man has created, I am intrigued to know which one he is referring to. Apep or Balor perhaps? Or Eris or Vritra maybe?
