Scott Common 𓅃
@nocommonswan.bsky.social
Media & Coms Tutor, musician, ex-consultant, ex-gardening contractor, player of games, glass painter. Para-Luddite & Professional Amateur.𓅃
https://thek1500project.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@K1500Project
https://dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com/
https://thek1500project.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@K1500Project
https://dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com/
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Scott Common 𓅃
@nocommonswan.bsky.social
· Nov 24
The Moon Is A Device For Giving Up
YouTube video by K1500Project
www.youtube.com
Hello new followers (nods at 𓅃). Here's a video to explain me - an 8 minute song of one riff with text to speech vocal arguing poetically the space industry is undercutting discourses of climate action. The video is made from a 1950s Frigidaire commercial and 60s NASA PR footage.
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So here’s what we laughingly refer to as our prettiest goth xmas tree looking glorious in the rain this evening 🌱
We counted over 50 blossoms on him (we call him Jack). Really bounced back after those storms a couple of months ago
We counted over 50 blossoms on him (we call him Jack). Really bounced back after those storms a couple of months ago
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
So here’s what we laughingly refer to as our prettiest goth xmas tree looking glorious in the rain this evening 🌱
We counted over 50 blossoms on him (we call him Jack). Really bounced back after those storms a couple of months ago
We counted over 50 blossoms on him (we call him Jack). Really bounced back after those storms a couple of months ago
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2025 music format ranking:
1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
2025 music format ranking:
1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
Tried making hasselback potatoes tonight, not perfect but pretty damn good.
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Tried making hasselback potatoes tonight, not perfect but pretty damn good.
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I have written this thread up into a blog post, it has more extensive links to sources & previous conversations about fake content & users on the internet. It's easier to share, if you want to make sure your friends don't get caught in that honeypot of a corporate blogpost aramzs.xyz/microblogs/d...
Don't trust the human slop telling you how much of the web is AI slop
Is a lot of the web algorithmically created content? Possibly! But don't share the argument that's trying to sell you on creating more fake content.
aramzs.xyz
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I have written this thread up into a blog post, it has more extensive links to sources & previous conversations about fake content & users on the internet. It's easier to share, if you want to make sure your friends don't get caught in that honeypot of a corporate blogpost aramzs.xyz/microblogs/d...
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
I just went for the coolest to be honest.
Sonic Youth & The Dead C
Mclusky*
The Breeders (w/ Smashing Pumpkins**)
Straitjacket Fits
Dinosaur Jr w/ The Bilge Festival & Short
I just went for the coolest to be honest.
Sonic Youth & The Dead C
Mclusky*
The Breeders (w/ Smashing Pumpkins**)
Straitjacket Fits
Dinosaur Jr w/ The Bilge Festival & Short
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
It would be easy to cherry pick the coolest, so I'm just gonna go with the last five I can remember off the top of my head, in reverse order
Shihad
Kraftwerk
Thom Yorke
Peter Hook and the Light
Ash
It would be easy to cherry pick the coolest, so I'm just gonna go with the last five I can remember off the top of my head, in reverse order
Shihad
Kraftwerk
Thom Yorke
Peter Hook and the Light
Ash
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
The Cure
Pantera
Faithless
Freddie Gibbs
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Cure
Pantera
Faithless
Freddie Gibbs
The Smashing Pumpkins
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
I just went for the coolest to be honest.
Sonic Youth & The Dead C
Mclusky*
The Breeders (w/ Smashing Pumpkins**)
Straitjacket Fits
Dinosaur Jr w/ The Bilge Festival & Short
I just went for the coolest to be honest.
Sonic Youth & The Dead C
Mclusky*
The Breeders (w/ Smashing Pumpkins**)
Straitjacket Fits
Dinosaur Jr w/ The Bilge Festival & Short
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youtube.com/watch?v=ajOY...
We’re loving this beauty
Brings back memories of student days sitting around in the backyard talking shit & a guitar would inevitably get pulled out.
Lyrics are haunting
We’re loving this beauty
Brings back memories of student days sitting around in the backyard talking shit & a guitar would inevitably get pulled out.
Lyrics are haunting
Gareth Liddiard "Did She Scare All Of Your Friends Away" Live - Sideshow Alley
YouTube video by SideshowAlleyTV
youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=ajOY...
We’re loving this beauty
Brings back memories of student days sitting around in the backyard talking shit & a guitar would inevitably get pulled out.
Lyrics are haunting
We’re loving this beauty
Brings back memories of student days sitting around in the backyard talking shit & a guitar would inevitably get pulled out.
Lyrics are haunting
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"The right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans. Power recognised that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate.
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
I Set A Trap To Catch Students Cheating With AI. The Result Was Deflating
"I am no stranger to students trying to cut corners by copying and pasting from Wikipedia, but the introduction of generative AI has enabled them to cheat in startling new ways."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"The right to literacy came at a heavy cost for many Americans. Power recognised that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate.
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
Dont surrender to AI your ability to read write+ think when others once risked their lives and died for it."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/set-tr...
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I don’t know what I was going to tell them, but it was going to involve the words “I can’t do my job if none of you fucking listen to me”
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I don’t know what I was going to tell them, but it was going to involve the words “I can’t do my job if none of you fucking listen to me”
We had some rain this morning so everything is looking wonderfully fresh. Loving that we're finally actually getting flowers on our fuchsia and others. 🌱
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
We had some rain this morning so everything is looking wonderfully fresh. Loving that we're finally actually getting flowers on our fuchsia and others. 🌱
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All looking very pink and lusciously green in the front cottage garden 🌱 all fuchsia and geraniums 😊
November 22, 2025 at 5:34 AM
All looking very pink and lusciously green in the front cottage garden 🌱 all fuchsia and geraniums 😊
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Six months ago there wasn't any greenery on this fuchsia. Now it's like some wonderfully gothy little christmas tree!🌱
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Six months ago there wasn't any greenery on this fuchsia. Now it's like some wonderfully gothy little christmas tree!🌱
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A great live version of my favourite track from Kim Deal's solo album from 2024 to ease you into your weekend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6a...
Kim Deal - Summerland (Live from Greenwich Village)
YouTube video by Kim Deal
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A great live version of my favourite track from Kim Deal's solo album from 2024 to ease you into your weekend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6a...
A great live version of my favourite track from Kim Deal's solo album from 2024 to ease you into your weekend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6a...
Kim Deal - Summerland (Live from Greenwich Village)
YouTube video by Kim Deal
www.youtube.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
A great live version of my favourite track from Kim Deal's solo album from 2024 to ease you into your weekend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W6a...
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I think I watch A LOT of The Repair Shop, so much so I’ve decided to give it a go repairing my almost 60 year old teddy. Last time I pulled him together, I must have been about nine years old.
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I think I watch A LOT of The Repair Shop, so much so I’ve decided to give it a go repairing my almost 60 year old teddy. Last time I pulled him together, I must have been about nine years old.
Six months ago there wasn't any greenery on this fuchsia. Now it's like some wonderfully gothy little christmas tree!🌱
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Six months ago there wasn't any greenery on this fuchsia. Now it's like some wonderfully gothy little christmas tree!🌱
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
Oh fuck no.
The world’s 3 biggest music companies have all licensed their works to an AI music startup.
The company, called Klay, is building a streaming service where users to remake songs using AI.
Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music have all signed on.
The company, called Klay, is building a streaming service where users to remake songs using AI.
Universal Music, Sony Music, and Warner Music have all signed on.
Major Music Labels Strike Deals With New AI Streaming Service
The world’s largest music companies have licensed their works to a music startup called Klay, which is building a streaming service that will allow users to remake songs using artificial intelligence ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Oh fuck no.
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So I reckon this will be the next fuschia to pop open after my joy over the other this morning. This one has quite bright red outer petals and dark purple almost black inner 🌱
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
So I reckon this will be the next fuschia to pop open after my joy over the other this morning. This one has quite bright red outer petals and dark purple almost black inner 🌱
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Got up this morning to find one of the fuchsia has had its first blossoms pop open overnight. Taken from cuttings these are going really well 🌱
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Got up this morning to find one of the fuchsia has had its first blossoms pop open overnight. Taken from cuttings these are going really well 🌱
If find this "perfect albums at 16 thing" sort of amusing because there were shitloads of hugely influential albums for me that came out in 1990. But almost without exception I wouldn't encounter them until later because I lived in NZ, and mostly only had commercial radio.
November 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
If find this "perfect albums at 16 thing" sort of amusing because there were shitloads of hugely influential albums for me that came out in 1990. But almost without exception I wouldn't encounter them until later because I lived in NZ, and mostly only had commercial radio.
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A PSA for the holidays!
And for Kiwis, I recommend @pepperraccoon.com- very cool tees, badges, and more (they make great gifts for friends and whānau overseas!)
www.pepperraccoon.com
And for Kiwis, I recommend @pepperraccoon.com- very cool tees, badges, and more (they make great gifts for friends and whānau overseas!)
www.pepperraccoon.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A PSA for the holidays!
And for Kiwis, I recommend @pepperraccoon.com- very cool tees, badges, and more (they make great gifts for friends and whānau overseas!)
www.pepperraccoon.com
And for Kiwis, I recommend @pepperraccoon.com- very cool tees, badges, and more (they make great gifts for friends and whānau overseas!)
www.pepperraccoon.com
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Had an accident with one of our outside fuchsia so I took some emergency cuttings. Sitting in water for two weeks and no movement and then today one of them went, "oh yeah lets do a whole shitload of roots all in one day."
Pretty chuffed.
Pretty chuffed.
November 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Had an accident with one of our outside fuchsia so I took some emergency cuttings. Sitting in water for two weeks and no movement and then today one of them went, "oh yeah lets do a whole shitload of roots all in one day."
Pretty chuffed.
Pretty chuffed.