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Composer, climate campaigner, dad. Main site: https://hutchingsmusic.co.uk Songs trying to save the world: http://choirsforclimate.com Listen: http://soundcloud.com/hutchingsmusic Videos: http://youtube.com/@choirsforclimate he/they, Edinburgh

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hello Bluesky! Quick #introduction: I'm a composer from Edinburgh, writing mainly choral music. I also run choirsforclimate.com, which has loads of resources for choirs on it and music from over 50 composers - if you know a choir that wants to make the world a better place, come and browse.

Choirs for Climate – Singing to change the world

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 4h

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 1d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Younity @younityuk.bsky.social · 1d

🌞⚡ Power Anywhere...simplified.

Introducing Paired Power’s “Grid in a Box” - absolutely love that name!

A fully integrated microgrid solution that combines solar PV modules and battery storage inside a single 20-ft container.

Designed to support rural electrification in Indigenous communities 🙌

‘Grid in a box’ combines storage and solar PV modules for a microgrid in a 20 ft. container

Paired Power’s modular microgrid targets is assembly-free remote industrial and agricultural applications and rural electrification for Indigenous communities.

www.pv-magazine.com

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Yep! (The name derives from the city of Hamburg and has nothing to do with the meat ham.)

Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Circamcision - when you know it's approximately in the right place

Joe Lavelle @joelavellesongs.bsky.social · 1d

Circumstellar
When someone performs a stellar audition but the casting director yells, “NEXT!”

Guillotine Hunger Force @themilfmag.net · May 21

circumvision when u cut off the eyelids

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 2d

That England has had its three worst harvests on record inside the past five years really should be being treated as a much bigger cause for concern than is currently the case. www.businessgreen.com/news/4520171...

'This is what farming with climate change looks like': England endures second worst harvest on record

New analysis confirms three of the five worst harvests on record have occurred in the past five years on the back of extreme heat, drought, and rainfall

www.businessgreen.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Her armour's different in every shot too (for some people this will be easier to spot than the facial differences).

Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Counter-proposal: as "burger" isn't a word that actually has anything to do with meat (hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg in Germany)...

we should call every non-vegetarian burger a "fleshburger".

(This will definitely not offend or bother anyone.)

Anna Strolenberg @annastrolenberg.volteuropa.org · 3d

Today the EU parliament voted to ban the word burger if they are made with plant protein, instead of animal protein. 🤦🏻‍♀️

They claim it’s to stop consumers being ‘confused between meat and plant products’ - solving a problem that nobody had!

This new rule leaves a bad taste in the mouth…

Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Calling every non-vegetarian burger a "fleshburger"

Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 2d

You don't need to: the guy on the left in particular has already fucked his lifelong image more than any journalist ever could. bsky.app/profile/leit...

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 2d

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Wick itself, of course, is quite different

Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently one of them just published a pro-incest article in the Spectator (the guy in the hat, i think)

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 2d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Hamburgers were never made with ham - they're named after the city of Hamburg! There is no reason for them to be made from meat!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 3d

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

www.reuters.com

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 3d

At least they're admitting the Green Party was, in fact, founded on sound environmental ideas?

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 3d

And they don't even know the difference between principals and principles... yet they call themselves journalists?

Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 3d

I appreciate that you took the time to count it correctly

a little boy wearing a hat that says respect on it

ALT: a little boy wearing a hat that says respect on it

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 3d

worse than anything Spotify's ever done (OK, maybe not, but still pretty bad)

Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 3d

I'm somewhat relieved to see the Commisison originally proposed to ban "only 'bacon' and names of animals and their parts". However, an amendment calling for bans on "'steak', 'escalope', 'sausage', 'burger', 'hamburger', 'egg yolk', and 'egg white'" seems to have passed after that.

Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Banning "burger" for vegetarian food would be particularly ridiculous, given that the word "hamburger" comes from the city of Hamburg in Germany (not from the meat) and therefore linguistically it just means "from a city".

Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 3d

With all the many problems facing Europe, glad to see these MEPs are keeping their eye on the big picture 🙄

Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv

Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

www.euractiv.com

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Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate @hutchingsmusic.bsky.social · 3d

"Renew’s Barry Cowen (Ireland) failed to secure enough support for a softer alternative that would only ban names “explicitly tied” to animals, such as “beef”, “chicken” and “hamburger”."

HAMBURGER COMES FROM THE CITY OF HAMBURG NOT FROM THE MEAT HAM, YOU DOLT

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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