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Iain Shepherd
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he/him. Bunurong land / Melbourne Australia.
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Let me just geek out here: this instrument - not this kind of instrument, but this actual example - was played at the premiere of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks almost three hundred years ago

Bloody hell!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLYR...
Introducing the Baroque Contrabassoon
YouTube video by Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
www.youtube.com
Love this.

I’m a double bass player, mine is a mongrel of bits, most of the front is a Maggini copy made in 1700s, the neck and scroll are 1900s, it wound up in a school somewhere. It takes an amazing unbroken chain of care for these *large* instruments to live 300 years in original state
Hah no worries. I found it through the knowyourmeme page which gave me a description of what I was getting into before I got there, so I was prepared 🫠
Many congratulations Mar!
8yo is a Sally and it was such a surprise when we (once, ever) met another in her age group

We’re bringing it back 😄
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Even Men’s Health knows what’s up: “A study published in Brain Communications earlier this month pinpoints the 1st biological evidence to explain long COVID brain fog… The study identified changes in a receptor in the brain called AMPA, which help brain cells communicate” archive.ph/2025.10.14-0...
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What’s the state of play with reverse charging?

To buy a big battery for home, it seems much better value if it has a car attached. Occasionally I’d use the car and the rest of the time it’s my home battery ?
Cool poster, very retro!
I swear some of the white looked yellow here, I thought there were 5 colours till I zoomed in
You sent me down a Leto rabbit hole. Jfc.

Why must journalists euphemise sexual assault (of minors!) as “misconduct” or whatever???
You’d just like to interject for a moment 🤓😆
In BBC history it is a relic from when #Radio4 went to a unified single service that covered the whole UK and the seas around, each got their shoutout in this piece

Very nostalgic (if you left the radio on as you fell asleep you would wake up to it) 2/2

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Radio 4 UK Theme - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
In and out of my head for 30 years: A deft arrangement of 9 traditional tunes chosen to represent the UK nations and its maritime tradition.

This performance of it is so perky and the bass string tones are so rich ❤️ recording engineer leant in on the bass! #UKTheme 1/2

youtu.be/48YxyR-PSi8?...
Classic BBC Radio Theme ~ Radio 4 UK Theme
YouTube video by Mark Holding
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Enjoying Jed’s comic-shaped bitter rant at modern life 😂
RIP WTF

(new episode of my weekly comic up at thoughtleaderz.com)
Honest take on just one of Labour’s electability problems.

I don’t know what Labour even believes is its purpose

A lot of its actual purpose seems to be attacking minorities ie - Trans kids, Immigrants, Welfare recipients
This whole thread explains so much
im still convinced that hbomberguy personally created and released the coronavirus to make his November 2019 video essay about a game where a town is put into quarantine over a mysterious plague more relatable