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I'm #PlayEverything in my record collection (now at 72%) but I keep buying more. Includes #DailyVinyl & #MonksMusic

Here for music and art.
#ASD but not in a good way. I post disability stories but avoid politics.

Not a monk, don't dance
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#MonksMusic Part 2 starts today. Working forwards with roughly 225 composers & compilation albums from my collection, starting in 900 and ending in 1700 exploring the rich tapestry of Medieval, Renaissance & Early Baroque music.
As before I'll post a composer, their years, a work & a link
Andreas Whittam Smith, co-founder of the Independent, dies aged 88
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Andreas Whittam Smith, co-founder of the Independent, dies aged 88
The journalist and editor also led the British Board of Film Classification and served as the senior lay member of the Church of England
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:29 PM
#NowPlaying 🎻
Barbara Strozzi - Arias & Cantatas Op 8
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
#NowPlaying

Farewell Symphony - Joseph Haydn
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Happy St Andrew's Day everyone.

As a wee #StainedGlassSunday treat, here's Scotland's patron saint depicted next to St John the Evangelist by the artist Karl Parsons in the historic Whitekirk St Mary's Church in East Lothian.

Both these windows hide secrets, can you spot them..?

🧵 (1/5)
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT-5 offers dangerous advice to mentally ill people, psychologists warn
Research finds OpenAI’s free chatbot fails to identify risky behaviour or challenge delusional beliefs
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:14 PM
#NowPlaying

Brand X - London BBC Maida Vale: John Peel Sessions
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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#NowListening on 1st Sunday in Advent

Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland BWV 62

Des sich wundert alle Welt
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
November 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
#MonksMusic 🎻
Year - c.1441
Album - Armes Amours
Band - Alla Francesca
Armes amours
Armes amours. Naive: OP30221. Buy download online. Alla Francesca, Alta, Brigitte Lesne
www.prestomusic.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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#CeilingsOnSunday Thistle Chapel, St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh. #StAndrewsDay
November 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
#NowPlaying #Advent

Propers for Lady Mass in Advent - William Byrd
November 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Once Upon A Time, by Steve Lawson
4 track album
music.stevelawson.net
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
#NowPlaying #Advent

Pierre de La Rue
Missa Conceptio Tua
November 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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It's Advent Sunday. When I was down South I would visit St Paul's Cathedral, London for the annual Advent carol service. It's an incredible celebration of music and light, all very moving.
Now I'm too far away but I have the CD.
www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...
Advent at St Paul's
<p>Every year on Advent Sunday St Paul's Cathedral in London holds an Advent Carol Service. This recording captures the mood and structure of this event, presenting a selection of the music which migh...
www.hyperion-records.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186 - Bach
It's Advent tomorrow
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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String Quartet in A minor - Felix Mendelssohn
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Giovanni Paolo Colonna - Nisi Dominus - Motetti e Lamentazioni
November 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Galina Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonatas
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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🔗 www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walk...
Somewhat more subdued colouring than that of illustration. It was a hopeful age in which everything was, in theory, going to be forward-looking, clean-cut and easy to care for.
November 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Caramel pie
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Iain Hamilton - Clarinet Concerto
November 29, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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"Aye....do you remember the auld days when we used to hide coins in the Christmas pudding..."

#DangerousNostalgia
November 29, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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The Ladybird look, 1976.
The crimplene trouser-suit

Artist: Martin Aitchison
November 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM