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Failed musician, sound designer and composer. Mostly former NHS worker thanks to privatisation. Sometimes a bike rider. https://thetiredhorizon.bandcamp.com/album/hopeful https://deceptonaut.bandcamp.com/track/nature-burns

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downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · Aug 8

Well hello, Mr Fox!
Have I forgiven you for pissing all over my washing line 2 nights ago? Maybe.
#nature #garden #fox

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1h

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3h

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Will is too honest to ever be an MP 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.bsky.social · 5h

Labour hates the poor.
Labour hates trans and/or disabled people.
Labour hates the planet.

Labour LOVES the very rich and will do anything to protect them.

Tom Ward @tomdward.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Starmer seems to go out of his way to piss me off

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 6h

We're literally not flushing the toilet all day to get around the cost, now.

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downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 6h

Our bill went from £90 a year, to £600, now to £1200 a year, all in the space of 4-5 years. They are scum. They took our money, put it in their pockets and gave it to share-holders, dumped the shit in the rivers and came cap in hand back to us.

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2 Wheeled Wolf @2-wheeled-wolf.bsky.social · 7h

Been hearing adverts from Southern Water trying to explain increases as 'to make improvements in the water network', failed to inform that's due to the stealing of customer's money, not invested in decades & filled pockets of shareholders. Fuck them! Renationalise water & let them collapse!

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 7h

Customers of five water firms are facing higher than expected rises to their inflation-busting bills after the companies disputed limits imposed by the industry regulator
news.sky.com/story/custom...

Customers of five water firms are facing higher than expected hikes to bills

While most claims for extra cash were found to be unjustified, rises to bills on top of what Ofwat has allowed look set to be granted at each company

news.sky.com

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downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 6h

Spent yesterday clearing my SSD of everything other than Win10, Ableton 9, the VSTs, one video editor application. Oh and some 3gb of samples I made some 20 years ago. New SSD on the way for Linux, fuck you Microsoft. Fuck you Ableton for not doing a Linux port.

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Andrew Long @closetotheedge.bsky.social · 7h

Seems like ages since I've listened to any Caravan, so I'm dipping into this four disc anthology. I'll play it over the next few days.

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downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 6h

Seriously though thats what I say to people at work who say something is my fault.

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 6h

Pfft.

Its I am BECOME God.
Capital G.
😂

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 6h

The mysterious IPPR, eh? Daily Mail research brigade there, blaming the working classes once again for harming the poor little economy. And if people are driven to drink thats probably because work is shite, shite pay - shite conditions. 😂

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theexerion @theexerion.bsky.social · 19h

In case anyone missed it,
my latest track featuring @sparkysynth.com has been released recently on this amazing SHIFT CTRL records compilation

shiftctrlmusic.bandcamp.com/album/vol-1-...

Back to
an #atmospheric #ethereal and #futuristic #drumandbass #glitch

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

#NowListening
theexerion.bandcamp.com/track/vintag...
Via @theexerion.bsky.social 👍

Vintage Melody, by The Exerion, SparkySynth

track by The Exerion, SparkySynth

theexerion.bandcamp.com

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downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 21h

Christ. Is that really 20 years old now?

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Ade Hodges @adehodges.bsky.social · 22h

Batman Begins (2005) #NowWatching

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downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 22h

Down here they use the road if the driveways impact the knees.

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 22h

Some very good points made about #window10 here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqh_...
This targets poorer people unfairly. Tell them to try linux as an alternative to unsafe internet use, etc.

#win10

Why the end of support for Windows 10 is uniquely troubling

YouTube video by Nathan Proctor

www.youtube.com

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 22h

That ...ahhh I want to call him bad words... bent over for the Tories in 2010. Could have formed a minority government with Labour.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

Win10 will even be disconnected from the web after next week.

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

My windows10 wont be updated. I'll see how it goes. I plan on creating an image and installing that first, then 1 or 2 linux distros after.

If it goes belly I might use wine. Trying to keep Ableton going.

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks very much!
I run out of space on mine every 12 months. Will need a bit more freedom to move with the linux dual boot.

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

I'm doing audio work in Ableton (old v9), and some video and audio work with Linux.

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

Computer folk.
My old laptop has a Gen3 NVME drive. I'd like a much bigger drive to multiboot (1-4tb). Would this lexar drive work as a replacement?
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DZ6DVLDD/
The laptop is a gen6 i7 Dell XPS.

#Computer #pc #SSD #upgrade #computers
#linux #windows

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody can be all things to all men. Or women, or them or us...

Beware when someone tells you they are all things, or someone they represent is.

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

They're not just gaming. They're building whole PCs from scratch to run games at peak levels, dipping into the OS and BIOS to peak every performance. Coding their own apps too.

Previous generations scared them from playing outside so they created their own sense of space.

Jeremy, Storm & Vanessa On 5 @jeremyandstormon5.bsky.social · 1d

Should we ban teens from gaming?

A landmark study revealed that one in ten boys will get into it so much that it affects their mental health and relationships.

Is this the parents' responsibility?

Or is it just another gaming moral panic?

downfader.bsky.social @downfader.bsky.social · 1d

Didnt Kemi give up a computer science degree for an easier law one? (I might have it wrong, was a quick google today)