🚨 Alarm bells are ringing in the Horn of Africa. Farms are no longer yielding, pests are spreading, and tropical diseases are emerging. Climate change is real, and it’s destroying lives. #ClimateCrisis #GlobalAction

The baby came in for a spot of breakfast and promptly went outside when finished. #caturday

Cantharis rustica on a peony leaf in the garden.

Exploring our forest with the kids on an overcast but warm day. #forest #nature #discovery

The first deployment of the season of two @openacousticdevices.info #audiomoth this time with a #Cuddeback camera to also see a bit of the goings on. Indispensable help from the 10-year old, marvelling at the opportunity to hear and see everything going on in our forest.

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Spent a few weeks sound designing and mixing for Tori Wrånes’ exhibition at the Nordic Pavilion part of the Venice Biennale. Always such a pleasure to work with my old friend! The exhibition is up until November and well worth a visit.

New drum machine just dropped!

Denne høres ut som en sak for Martin Bech Holte! www.nrk.no/ostfold/poll...

Planted a magnolia in the garden three years ago. Every year since I’ve hoped it would bloom for my daughter’s birthday. She’ll be 10 tomorrow and today it bloomed! #gardening #magnolia

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Packing a suitcase be like… cat. #caturday

Three good things in life: #Plants, #books and #cats. And #tea, of course. So that’s four.

Just a matter of time before “someone” calls the pilot rescued “a loser”…

Nordmenn er et spesielt folkeferd… www.nrk.no/norge/reises...

Sunday couch with #cat

Et mareritt som plutselig er realiteten. Det absolutte knefallet, den ultimate underkastelse. Det totale marerittet som teknologiselskaper, evangelister og regjeringer ønsker seg. #KI #AI

Once, at a wedding, I sat next to a guy who worked with IT for the oil industry, and as we chatted for a bit he mentioned that we had to frequently go to Dubai with work. I asked him what Dubai was like and he said: “it’s like Las Vegas just without the soul.”

Celebrating #caturday in style!

Microsoft Windows is bad. Windows 11 is a new level of bad. Intensely frustrating having to use this utterly garbage OS every day at work. Infuriating even.

Libraries ❤️ At our local library you can borrow seeds for free and then return seeds you’ve harvested yourself in the fall.

Obscured by the snow cannon

It took two sittings but thoroughly enjoyed One Battle After Another. Gorgeously shot and edited, phenomenal performances, and amazing soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood. m.imdb.com/title/tt3014...

A walk in the wood with the kids saying hello to our friends. #funghi #slimemold #lichen

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"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period. Or if everyone used Apple Music it would have been £12,331 more." Los Campesinos:

Here are some nice mushrooms! Happy #MushroomMonday

Laptop froze. After reboot, thunderbird had cleared all my unread email, so I went from 8600 unread emails to 5. Should do this more often.

How your e-mail finds me #caturday

Started playing Hollow Knight: Silksong by @teamcherry.bsky.social at the weekend, or rather: the 9-year old, she’s absolutely killing it! But I’m utterly and completely in love with the art and graphics. Stunningly gorgeous! hollowknightsilksong.com

Every era celebrates its conservation heroes. Far fewer remember the destroyers. My new piece, The Hall of Infamy, traces a century of leaders, industries, and institutions that liquidated the living world — and left us the bill. From Hetch Hetchy to the Amazon… open.substack.com/pub/lylel/p/...

Analog Devices International is sending parts from its Limerick factory to the Israel Defense Forces' largest weapons supplier The IDA gave it €85 million last year Its microchips were recently found in Russian weapons used to attack Ukraine www.ontheditch.com/state-backed...

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Science PSA: Never abbreviate “analysis” as “anal”. Ever.

The return of an old friend. Still sounds pretty awesome!

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Presenting “Unravelling/Desenradando” today with Ximena Alarcón, as part of #CMMR2025 at the black box at @ucl.ac.uk Marshgate.

This is Halloween, this is Halloween Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

A fairly quirky and nerdy video by @bennjordan.bsky.social about the processes and software of early Aphex Twin. An entertaining watch… Feel like a dinosaur for actually knowing (and still using) most of this software. youtu.be/5wIOBBodoic?...

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New neighbours just moved in.

Pretty good mailday yesterday! Pretty good listeningday today! Courtesy of @frozenreeds.com

Got an M-Audio Trigger Finger in an original box the other day. The cat approves. #catsofbluesky

Commute pre-storm.

Severely recommended.

Just found out that my 10 year old MacBook Pro cannot upgrade its OS past v. 12, which means, finally (and long overdue), a goodbye to Apple and macOS. It’s time to leave it all behind! Be free! As in free beer! Yes, please, free beer! Ah, beer!

What will they think of next?

Not a bad haul, some oldies, some newbies, all goldies.