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Linguist/Teacher/Translator. Interested in all things linguistic. Otherwise music/politics/cats He/him. Owned by Marmite (see avi) Ateistyczny lewacki degenerat Music: https://dwoogie.bandcamp.com/ #ActuallyAutistic, so please be direct Kraków, Poland

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · May 27

“Music is too important to be left to the marketplace.”
Liz Pelly, a researcher on streaming platforms.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h

hot take: removing the embargo immediately is more likely to lead to democratic regime change in Cuba than keeping it in place

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 11h

#NowPlaying Kluster - "Klopzeichen"
A masterpiece. From 1970. Not an easy listen, it's really quite disturbing in places, but absolutely seminal. If you have any interest in electronic music anc its development at all, you must hear this.

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Klopfzeichen - Album by Kluster

Listen to Klopfzeichen by Kluster on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 11h

#locaangle

Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 18h

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 11h

Beautiful shakuhachi solo on "Benzaiten - Reprise".

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 11h

#NowPlaying Osamu Kitajima - "Benzaiten"
Fantastic album of Japanese prog. With psychedelic elements, too.
Well worth a listen.
everland-music.bandcamp.com/album/osamu-...

OSAMU KITAJIMA - Benzaiten (1976 - 2024 vinyl edition), by Everland Music

5 track album

everland-music.bandcamp.com

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely superb effort by all those who voted for this, many of whom are now dead.

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 12h

Epitaph is a terrific song, though. A towering achievement.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 12h

The Mellotron, on the other hand, I'm a massive fan of. What a fantastic instrument. And how surly in operation. They were forever breaking down.
Did you know that they didn't use electonics or sampling, they actually had a loop of tape for each note.
Can you imagine the number of moving parts??

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 12h

Y'know, I'm really not a fan of Greg Lake's voice. Something about it just rubs me entirely up the wrong way. And let's not even start on what he started doing with it in ELP.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 12h

Oh yeah, how long's that been going on for? 40 years? And to what effect? You might guess, I'm not really a fan. 😊

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 12h

Ah, yes, they did that, but only on reconnaissance missions.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 12h

OK, fair enough.
But then they should be developing and expanding those routes to clear the Tories' backlogs.
Instead of which they're adding further restrictions and a cap. That will solve nothing.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 13h

I mean, that's what an actual *Labour* government would do, rather than this shitshow of careerist whatevertheyares.

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 13h

BTW, this goes for Poland, too. Stop pushing the poor sods back into Belarus and behave like a fucking civilised country.
This campaign is about as anti-Catholic as you can get. Ask the Pope.

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Carl Winberg @carlwinberg.bsky.social · 13h

These earbuds are so shit, it's like a postcard from the music I'm trying to listen to.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 16h

Every once in a while a group of 10-15 tourists vanish without a trace in the Paris Catacombs and then afterward the Eiffel Tower is a few feet taller

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 13h

Gods, this is so tiring. How many times does it need saying?
The way to stop the small boats problem, overnight, is to announce safe, legal routes to asylum in the UK.
Immediately, the people smugglers are out of a job.
Of course, if what you want is more performative batshittiness…

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 13h

We took every personal, cultural, and institutional bias in our language and baked it into the foundation of this tech. I would say good luck with that, but they know damn well this is marketing

People don’t get that their output is derived from *us.* It’s not just biased, bias is in its genes

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 13h

Good gods. WTF were they playing at???

"Der Spiegel": Germany intended to train the Russian army. Cooperation ceased "when there was no other option left".
www.rp.pl/konflikty-zb...

Sekretna współpraca Berlina i Moskwy. Niemcy miały pomagać szkolić armię Putina

Niemieccy wojskowi zamierzali uczyć Rosjan, jak skutecznie prowadzić działania wojenne. Plany te zniweczyła aneksja Krymu – ujawnia tygodnik „Der Spiegel”.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14h

⚡️German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports.

Germany's airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sightings across Europe.

German airlines call to shoot down drones threatening airports

Germany's airlines are calling for drones that threaten airport operations to be shot down, Der Spiegel reported on Oct. 11. The call to action comes amid a recent surge of unidentified drone sighting...

kyivindependent.com

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Mixmaster Morris @mixmastermorris.bsky.social · 14h

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Marina @sand-badger.bsky.social · 17h

Use the link to email MCD & 3arena tinyurl.com/3s9w3kva

#FreePalestine #SaoirseDonPhalaistín #SpeirGorm

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NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 14h

Dzień dobry. Jestem Szalony Filozof.

Nie jest to do końca nieprawda.

Dorka Pyra Kartoflana 🔒 @dorkaz.bsky.social · 15h

Mówcie mi Szalony Uparciuch

Leszek01 @leszek01.bsky.social · 1d

Biorę po 500 zł z konta każdej osoby i słucham Państwa!😁

NeverFadingWood 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @avantgardening.pl · 14h

#NowPlaying Jah Seal - "Jah Soldier"
Quite possibly my favourite reggae song. Everything about it is spot on.
youtu.be/4nX2e70OQVw...

Jah Soldier Original

YouTube video by Jah Seal - Topic

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Pertho 🇨🇦 @saberdomcat.bsky.social · 15h

Should the fourth estate be held responsible for the harm they co-sign through meandering, toothless articles that seek to normalize the rise of neofascist rule? “It depends who you ask”

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