Be afraid..be very afraid That's a survey in the Observer
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Be afraid..be very afraid That's a survey in the Observer
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Waiting for a reform government and then let’s see what happens feels like an extremely bad strategy for virtually everyone
I hereby request FIFA to remove all World Cup matches from the United States.
Always fun to have a president who is not only an idiot, but also a vindictive prick. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
It's simple, if you throw paint on a plane then you get proscribed and any 80 year olds defending you get arrested. If you ask people to burn down hotels, and they try, you get an interview in the Telegraph and positive coverage in the BBC. That's sensible, proportionate policing.
BBC is a shadow of what it used to be
💥 The NFL is stoked to be woke. “All 32 teams will feature an end zone message of their choice at each home game throughout the season, selecting from four options: ‘End Racism,’ ‘Stop Hate,’ ‘Choose Love’ or ‘Inspire Change.’ africa.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Dear Universal Music Group Go f*ck yourselves Your copyright strikes against the like of Rick Beato You're just a total bunch of c*nts
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Owch Not been a good week for UK Space Science
Boycotting the whole thing
Had to post this ... Given the ridiculous stuff seen on the drive to work
Fingers crossed
That's the point... and merging UKSA into DSIT is not a good look for the UK as a whole, no matter how click baity the BBC headline is, its not a good thing full stop
Lovely weekend at the Rewind Festival. Great to hear real artists, playing real instruments, who pen real lyrics, driven by real experience... and not some tosh, who think that to chuck a prompt at Chat GPT to create a song allows them to call themselves musicians and producers
Chris, if you do that for satellites, you'll look like Jabba the Hut within a week
Jesus H Christ Now, scale that up by a factor of 10 and that's where we're heading in the next 10-15 years if that narcissist man baby's giant phallus starts to work
It's only going to get significantly worse :-(
We did well to get 41 in 2 hours then. (5 sporadics in that mix too) I lost count on the sheer number of satellites we saw :(
My vote goes to Thames Water
Mark and Mary's meteor all sky cam saw 370 in just under 5 hours... Those numbers are real
8 in a matter of a few mins on the radio system we had set up
Yeah, we got a few bursts, quite low mag (+2/3) helped that we had a group of about 20 looking in all directions, as I missed quite a few that others saw. All sky camera and radio obs should validate those numbers
14 days in, and Cakewalk still working, thanks to a rather neat bit of code which legally circumvents their utter mindless stupidity
I am hearing some getting ZHR's close to 100 after 1am. We observed from 10pm to midnight
It was really nice. All of us sat in a big circle, and me logging each one. We got 4 in one minute at one stage
Lovely evening with friends observing the Perseid peak last night. 41 total, some really bright at around mag -3/4 If it's clear again this evening, I'll probably do the same
Holy F*CK When will this insanity end? arstechnica.com/science/2025...
RIP Jim... a true icon of human spaceflight
Outstanding video from #starskycarr on the Jupiter 8 vs System-8. Owning both over the years (and still the System-8) he nails it, and shows why, along with the V-Synth, The System-8 is absolutely the best synth they have done in decades @sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social
Can it come out of Paula's personal finances, like her house and all assets? Asking for a nation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
@sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social ';-) Moral here...Don't mess with software engineers... we always find a way around corporate greed and stupidity... and 100% legal ways too
One week in and Cakewalk still running like a charm, courtesy of neat code that is 100% legal & doesn't infringe copyright or "crack" in any way. @sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social Don't mess with software engineers, we always find a way around corporate stupidity and greed
Quite astonishing test series Vs India ..one of those "I was there" moments for anyone watching
Doesn't fit with their racist right wing narrative though, or their desire to be relevant to the knuckle dragging Reform cohort
And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.
By supporting the expansion of Heathrow Airport and spreading outright lies about decarbonising flying, Labour has again capitulated to lobbyists. This is its defining characteristic: doing whatever powerful lobbyists ask, regardless of the social, environmental and even political costs.
Actually heartbreaking, the list of colleagues that have run the show behind the scenes for so many years who are saying their pre-emptive goodbyes and taking literally thousands of years of amassed knowledge and expertise with them. Not to mention camaraderie and community. Morale is ... bleak.
I do hope Chloe Kelly wears a "F**K YOU Gareth Taylor" T-shirt today for the open top bus parade Ex Man City Muppet must be regretting the stupidity of what he did...thankfully now removed from ever making such a moronic decision ever again
I mean, let's be honest here... even Ozzie (god rest his soul) was more coherent and eloquent, and he had 60 years of alcohol and drug abuse as his excuse
Expect one of two things to happen pretty soon 1: Ghislaine Maxwell will be freed 2: Ghislaine Maxwell will fall off a balcony in a Russian apartment block
Pretty much sums up the perfect gig that the Oasis Heaton Park weekend was
Oasis at the weekend were superb, 2 hours of pretty much non stop hits, excellent organisation at Heaton Park, topped off by a quite remarkable set from Richard Ashcroft, who had 80,000 people in the palm of his hands, banging out classics from Urban Hymns. £150 for a ticket, but worth every penny
Hey SIRI...how many creative industry jobs will be destroyed in the next 2 years by people using technology that literally sole decades of hard work and knowledge? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For all synth nerds.. just going to leave this here and let you draw your own conclusions dn790005.ca.archive.org/0/items/Yama... - £20 product s/h (PS3) www.synthxl.com/wp-content/u... - £300+ product s/h & www.noystoise.com/2013/07/yama... @sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social
Terrifying that 24% of the voting population in this country seems to think that Reform is the answer
Protest is your right, but hitting every company in the pocket who support him (Amazon/Microsoft/Meta etc etc) is IMHO a far more effective strategy
You only have to see just how little he cared being literally booed off the pitch at the CWC to see just how his dissociative, incoherent , tiny little rapist brain works. He'll land at a military airport, Helo to WIndsor, Helo to wherever, and won't see nor care about any protests
If anyone in this country is deranged enough to support him in any way shape or form, then they need to be sectioned
Opposition is fine, but we are not the United States. We have no legal jurisdiction over what happens there. That is up to U.S Democrats and the American public to wake up and take action. Protest here will do precisely nothing, loathsome as he is
Boycott everything he goes near, and don't support from home... don't watch adverts, don't give a cent to anything connected with a thing that rapist does Simple really
2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
So which do you think will have a greater impact... complete silence, empty streets, or people, at considerable cost, not allowed anywhere near him, as his agenda is Windsor, and helo flights between points? Mass protest does nothing... Iraq war proved that, his last state visit proved that
The BBC won't air those clips, they never do.. and he is the most powerful human on the planet and a multi millionaire... do you really think he'll care if the Brits boo him?
All the people planning on driving/getting the train/coach to London (at your cost) to protest against the state visit of an orange rapist... THINK ABOUT IT Not turning up, turning the streets of Windsor/London SILENT, would be FAR more effective. Cost the Met, millions, and not feed his ego
In effect, "Don't feed the Trolls" on a quite biblical scale
Or why not all save your time and money, and just don't do anything... The orange rapist loves attention of any form. Why not just make the streets silent... which will cost the Govt millions in policing to do precisely nothing.. Far more effective #boycotttrump
And if I were Carney or Sheinbaum, I'd be telling FIFA to shove it, and pulling out of co hosting
I am 100% genuinely boycotting the next World Cup. The fact it's being held in the USA is bad enough, but as this OP rightly states in his wonderful post, this isn't football, this is corruption of one of the few things that truly unites this world, on a scale never seen before
Siri... define an organisation that once did great things and is now utterly f****d
The second greatest technical engineering feat in spaceflight history, after Apollo.. amazing mission.
I would never advocate software piracy, but Cakewalk Next is a toy, and a POS, Cakewalk Sonar free, has a hideous UI, doesn't port over existing Cakewalk projects and is bloated, premium, bloated too. Bandlab's stance on removing activations Aug 1st is appalling. Been using Cakewalk for 35 years..
So glad I've dropped Amazon... Twatter... Microshaft ... Because in a few years when your kids are looking at zero job prospects in multiple areas ...you'll realise that lauding AI wasn't the smartest move
Dug this oldie but goldie up @sonicstate.bsky.social @prosynthnetwork.bsky.social www.audiotechnology.com/PDF/16/AT16_...
That's okay then, because it's the lead poisoning that usually kills when a high calibre, high velocity rifle blasts a hole through a grouse or deer's internal organs for fun (sic)
And alongside NASA being f*****d let's tag the rest of the United States in that too, given morons like this are running the country
Transportation secretary in charge of NASA.. They're fu***d... Trump has utterly f****d NASA in so many ways, but this is the final nail in the coffin
After over 35 years of using Cakewalk, I am now dropping @bandlab like a ton of bricks. I will not pay you a regular subscription fee, when I buy software, I own it. I have been a tier 1 beta tester for you, worked with you to develop all sorts whilst at Yamaha R&D, so you can take a running jump
Hell yes Chvrches are working on a new album .. loved ever album they've released this far
One of the greatest tragedies of AI is you simply cannot believe what you see any more, and scum like the orange rapist can easily deny something he did was real, and claim it's a fake/AI video. It's a loathsome thing, in the creative industries and if you use it for adverts... you're dead to me
And here's a thought... Instead of descending on London to protest when the Orange rapist shows up for a state visit. turn London into a ghost town... shutter the shops for a few hours, don't turn up, or if you're in London, just silently turn your backs. The impact would be far greater on his ego
Not sure if I am alone in this, but I am genuinely boycotting next year's world cup games held inside the borders of the U.S. Games in Canada or Mexico, I may consider, unless FIFA pursue this ridiculous new "catwalk show" they're turning football in to
If the Golden Dome fails to work, and the missiles get through, does that mean that agent Kraznov will get another "golden shower"
Dear Waves Software.... go f*ck yourselves. YOU CANNOT give products away for free with a lifetime licence and then randomly some time later decide "ooops we should really screw people over for that" and stop it working/demand a fee There's a reason people pirate software, and you're it
Take the train they say .. Save the planet..they say From where I am to Paris one way on the train ..£420..Eurostar and GWR rtn to London ..and then £280 back =£700 Flight on the same days rtn from Bristol to CDG..total Inc train and bus to airport and transfer to central Paris.. £96 return!!!
Switzerland has nuclear bunkers below many homes .. Switzerland is smart ...
Yeah .. like nobody saw this coming ...
Forget just popcorn.... this needs pretzels too
A quick reminder...Ketamine is a horse tranquiliser And Orange is the new black
Someone quickly build an AI slanging match API between Truth Social and Twitter... Codemageddon time
Next to Trump and Musk, Shatner and I look like adoring newlyweds.
No doubt he'll be provided with free accommodation at the Royal Society premises in London.
Yeah, we'll get to that matter soon enough, won't we ...Royal Society?
We take you now, live to the home of Taylor Swift #trumpmusk
Oh Santa....can I have this for Christmas?
Scam currency nosediving...quel shocker
I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.
The implications for defence are far far worse
musk will pivot to being a center-right "abundance" deregulatory guy and the press will help him pretend he didn't kill millions of people and set U.S. science and innovation back a generation either that or he overdoses in a hot tub
Tenacious D.... D standing for Disassembled , on the lunar surface
The implications for what's happening between Sissy SpaceX and The Orange Felon are profound, like , up-ending the U.S profound, in a way nobody can even contemplate
Get the popcorn ... Sissy Vs The Orange ball Round 1
Very best of luck to the iSpace team on their attempt at lunar landing www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
Nawww diddums.... did Dobbies little planes get hit... aww
Tears for Fears announcing a tour again? Perhaps this time, try not ripping off fans with extortionate ticket prices and then cancelling the gig, when people have booked time off and accommodation that'd be a winner
Facebook is now (and has been for some years, hence I rarely if every post there any more) a cesspit of racists, MAGA nutjobs and fake/scam adverts So much for AI/Freedom of speech. Zuck the Cuck bent more than the knee to Orange Don in January
If you're not familiar with the Alarm, here's a great place to start www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaZ6...
Today is the funeral of a beloved human being, a true champion for Wales, and an outstanding song writer. Mike Peters of The Alarm, fought bravely for 30 years, and gave so many people Love, Hope and Strength to fight any battle they encounter in life RIP Mike www.youtube.com/live/6cEW9Ds...