Phil Wildcroft
@wildcroft.bsky.social
Programmer, dog servant, perennially novice guitarist
One of the highlights of the original The Muppet Show album.
Muppet Songs: Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear
YouTube video by Muppet Songs
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December 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
One of the highlights of the original The Muppet Show album.
One thing that would help small music venues survive would be not allowing residential developments next to them with no plans on how to mitigate noise and other issues, and then blaming the music venue for the problem.
Will luxury flats kill London's nightlife? | MOTH Club report
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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December 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
One thing that would help small music venues survive would be not allowing residential developments next to them with no plans on how to mitigate noise and other issues, and then blaming the music venue for the problem.
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there’s a woman across the aisle on the bus crocheting a pocket onto a cardigan *that she’s wearing*, incredible, a thing of beauty
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
there’s a woman across the aisle on the bus crocheting a pocket onto a cardigan *that she’s wearing*, incredible, a thing of beauty
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See you all next year!
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
See you all next year!
I love that they did a tour of London, some tiny venues in amongst the big ones. That must have been one of the first gigs at the NEC too, before the Arena even existed.
December 16, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I love that they did a tour of London, some tiny venues in amongst the big ones. That must have been one of the first gigs at the NEC too, before the Arena even existed.
Lookit our George, poster boy for his adoption charity's home-from-home scheme.
#lurcher #sighthound #dogsofbluesky
#lurcher #sighthound #dogsofbluesky
December 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Lookit our George, poster boy for his adoption charity's home-from-home scheme.
#lurcher #sighthound #dogsofbluesky
#lurcher #sighthound #dogsofbluesky
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🐕😕 Researchers found that humans interpret dog emotions opposite to their own mood, contrary to how we read other humans. The study suggests there are still significant gaps in human-dog communication despite 14,000 years of domestication. #dogs #psychology
👉 www.sciencefocus.com/news/te...
👉 www.sciencefocus.com/news/te...
Humans are absolutely terrible at reading dog emotions, study finds | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Our emotions can play a big part in how we respond to our furry friends – but not in the way you might think.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
🐕😕 Researchers found that humans interpret dog emotions opposite to their own mood, contrary to how we read other humans. The study suggests there are still significant gaps in human-dog communication despite 14,000 years of domestication. #dogs #psychology
👉 www.sciencefocus.com/news/te...
👉 www.sciencefocus.com/news/te...
NP: It's A Cool Cool Christmas, a compilation of indie Xmas songs from 2000 which was pressed on vinyl for the first time a couple of years ago. Mostly bought for Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland, but has lots of other cool bands including Eels and Saint Etienne. #nowplaying #vinyl #grandaddy
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
NP: It's A Cool Cool Christmas, a compilation of indie Xmas songs from 2000 which was pressed on vinyl for the first time a couple of years ago. Mostly bought for Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland, but has lots of other cool bands including Eels and Saint Etienne. #nowplaying #vinyl #grandaddy
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Can we get some shares going? This album is free to download or pay what you want, we wanted to give back for all the support you've give us this year. Thank You.
theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Can we get some shares going? This album is free to download or pay what you want, we wanted to give back for all the support you've give us this year. Thank You.
theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
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Some redundant C20 buildings at the edge of the Neolithic/medieval castle Marlborough Mound in Wiltshire are to be removed next spring, offering a unique opportunity to examine the mound's structure
www.marlboroughmoundtrust.org/articles/a-n...
www.marlboroughmoundtrust.org/articles/a-n...
A new archaeological investigation in 2026
Archaeological works in 2026 will explore Marlborough Mound’s hidden history as modern structures are carefully removed.
www.marlboroughmoundtrust.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Some redundant C20 buildings at the edge of the Neolithic/medieval castle Marlborough Mound in Wiltshire are to be removed next spring, offering a unique opportunity to examine the mound's structure
www.marlboroughmoundtrust.org/articles/a-n...
www.marlboroughmoundtrust.org/articles/a-n...
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This day I first did wear a muffe, being my wife’s last year’s muffe, and now I have bought her a new one, this serves me very well.
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This day I first did wear a muffe, being my wife’s last year’s muffe, and now I have bought her a new one, this serves me very well.
A quick visit to Flint Castle next to the Dee Estuary in North Wales today. George did not like coming back up the steps in pic 2 so had to be carried.
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A quick visit to Flint Castle next to the Dee Estuary in North Wales today. George did not like coming back up the steps in pic 2 so had to be carried.
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Great story from the Guardian about radical folk singer Dick Gaughan and the on-going campaign to make his records available again
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music
A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan s...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Great story from the Guardian about radical folk singer Dick Gaughan and the on-going campaign to make his records available again
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Now playing: She Drives Me Crazy from The Raw And The Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals. This was the first US #1 single recorded at Paisley Park. #vinyl #nowplaying #prince
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Now playing: She Drives Me Crazy from The Raw And The Cooked by Fine Young Cannibals. This was the first US #1 single recorded at Paisley Park. #vinyl #nowplaying #prince
Brandi Carlisle singing with Soundgarden was not on my 2025 bingo card. Sounds fantastic.
Soundgarden - 40th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Performance - November 8, 2025
YouTube video by MakeMusicHappen
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November 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Brandi Carlisle singing with Soundgarden was not on my 2025 bingo card. Sounds fantastic.
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Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong
Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong
AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes
Column AWS put out a hefty analysis of its October 20 outage, and it's apparently written in a continuing stream of consciousness before the Red Bull wore off and the author passed out after 36 straight hours of writing.…
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October 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong
Todd Rundgren at The Sub Rooms in Stroud last night (Kasim Sulton on bass and Prairie Prince on drums)
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Todd Rundgren at The Sub Rooms in Stroud last night (Kasim Sulton on bass and Prairie Prince on drums)
Theo is away (again) so I am on dog walking/photography duty (again). Here's a selection so far.
#sighthound #lurcher #dogsofbluesky
#sighthound #lurcher #dogsofbluesky
October 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Theo is away (again) so I am on dog walking/photography duty (again). Here's a selection so far.
#sighthound #lurcher #dogsofbluesky
#sighthound #lurcher #dogsofbluesky
My wife is currently 9 time zones away, though only 8 hours because of summer time. I'm finding it weirdly disconcerting to be on such different schedules, in a way that her being in Milton Keynes or even New York isn't. Kurt Vonnegut probably coined a term for this feeling in Cat's Cradle
October 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
My wife is currently 9 time zones away, though only 8 hours because of summer time. I'm finding it weirdly disconcerting to be on such different schedules, in a way that her being in Milton Keynes or even New York isn't. Kurt Vonnegut probably coined a term for this feeling in Cat's Cradle
Geddy and Alex Send a Message to Rush Fans
YouTube video by Rush
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October 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
September 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
September 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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