Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Matt Round @mattround.com · 40m

Originally it was scans of physical paintings

Matt Round @mattround.com · 46m

Your occasional reminder that Jeff Bridges has been hand-drawing his web site for decades www.jeffbridges.com

JEFFBRIDGES.COM

www.jeffbridges.com

1 10 16

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1h

I had this! Yes, it was just one bit of cardboard sliding inside another to show some planetary stats, but it was very exciting back then

Craig Grannell @craiggrannell.bsky.social · 11h

Huh. Found a free gift inside issue two. (Issue one didn’t have its one, alas.)

3

Matt Round @mattround.com · 12h

Even right-wing Welsh people don’t like the Tories

Matt Round @mattround.com · 13h

Total could be higher if doing lots of testing, but never more than 6 or 7 in a single window, starts feeling cluttered

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 16h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

1 2

Reposted by Matt Round

Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 13h

Subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz349bs

3 100 450

Reposted by Matt Round

ChrisP @wordsmithgetxo.bsky.social · 21h

In an old ad for board game Scattergories in Spain a player was shown flouncing out while anothet said “OK, we’ll accept ‘octopus’ as a pet”.
“Aceptamos pulpo” has now entered the language in the meaning of “that’s a bit of a stretch but let’s go with it just for the sake of argument”.

4 71 320

Matt Round @mattround.com · 15h

The next vole project is even stupider, an even worse use of your time

3 6

Reposted by Matt Round

Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 19h

tumblr post by barackinaroundthechristmastree which reads:
please. stop praying for my grandpa!!!! you are making him too strong. he broke out of the hosptial and the cops cant get him. he's too powerful

7 180 780

Matt Round @mattround.com · 15h

They’re going to be doing articles & talk show appearances for weeks to justify going, it’s already tiresome

iucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 15h

*long fart noise*

I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili

The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.

www.theguardian.com

2 4

Matt Round @mattround.com · 17h

Ha!

1

Matt Round @mattround.com · 17h

Just noticed it’s gone past 50 million reloads, well done everyone, a v productive use of our time & resources! vole.wtf/reload-click...

Reload Clicker 🔄 incremental game

A most refreshing browser experience.

vole.wtf

2 1 9

Reposted by Matt Round

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

3 37 160

Reposted by Matt Round

Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 1d

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

11 71 220

Reposted by Matt Round

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

30 270 1.1K

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

(This is why I’ve kept my loss-making Mastodon server going, the fediverse has a LOT of social & technical problems but the scrappy decentralisation thing is… kind of working fairly well? It’s a real shame it wasn’t more ready & welcoming when Twitter died)

1

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

It’s not that it’s a bad protocol, just that it won’t deliver what many mistakenly expect

1 1

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

People are already offering alternatives for parts of Bluesky infrastructure, and maybe there’ll be a few independent Twitterish alternatives eventually, but they’ll have their own biases & financial pressures and if Bluesky’s the biggest its moderation etc will continue to dominate

1 1

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

Oh god, I remember that, wasn’t a fan

1

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

ATProto doesn’t lend itself to fediverse-/Mastodon-type decentralisation with thousands of little servers all over the place, & anyone able to cope with the complexity & expense is surely going to look at offering something new
Bluesky is ATProto’s Twitter clone, it’s been done already

1 3

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

My mother considered herself a bit artistic & bohemian, so were also occasionally introduced to cutting-edge foods like rice and pasta

1 2

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

I grew up in a working class English family in the ‘70s, I have a high tolerance for tasteless processed food

2 3

Reposted by Matt Round

Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 1d

“Agree or disagree on whether Bluesky has treated Link fairly, the incident has exposed that the social network’s decentralization plans have yet to be fulfilled.”

In a world where nearly everyone is on the same server, a single-server block is a service ban.

plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Twitter alternative hasn’t been able to let its users spread their wings amid moderation disputes

plus.flux.community

1 4 12

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

Edible but not great

1 2

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

Brought back memories of one my most reviled tweets, some people could barely believe such a foodstuff existed

Twitter screenshot
May 7, 2020
Fray Bentos cheese & onion pie doesn’t look promising
[pic of uncooked pie; it doesn’t look promising]

1 3