CREATION Happy April Fool's Day! xkcd.com/3227/

We may be walking into a dystopian world where what you do or say or look up online is info being collected and may be used against you. @seanmcarroll.bsky.social 's 'Mindscape' podcast. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OOZ...

Had very yummy dinner at @cafepalestina tonight. May play a concert again in their events room in the late spring, fingers crossed. More on this anon. Couldn't resist taking a few pictures of the ceramic and assorted stuff. #cafepalestina #kentishtown #neighbourhood

THREAD. THIS ISN'T HARD, PEOPLE.

There is bad news. Majd's condition has deteriorated, and he really needs to get out of Gaza to get adequate treatment. Aya urgently needs to raise funds for his medicine. gofund.me/6b0df7824 @dgmeek92.bsky.social @mommunism.bsky.social @pepsffk.bsky.social @merryrobin.bsky.social @fairshare.help 🍉

Super-creepy and indeed like the start of a horror film. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/m...

Yikes. Reading article on 'Wired' on Peter Thiel, who is one of the richest, most powerful men in the world, as well as a Trump supporter... and an extreme fundie Christian bent on bringing about Armageddon, an idea he got from a Nazi lawyer. apple.news/ASkA50fXCSq2...

I wasn't even aware that this cartoon by @tomgauld.bsky.social had generated a long stream of memes, like the one here. Topical and ever more relevant today. Wonder what he thinks about the phenomenon.

Maybe I don't want 'intelligent' vacuum cleaners or fridges that tell me I'm low in milk... Excerpt From “Security News This Week: Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums” Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman, Maddy Varner WIRED UK apple.news/A-fIK95UsQwK...

Leo Brouwer's 'Omaggio a Tárrega' - Nuevos Estudios Sencillos No 5 #guitar #classicalguitar #latinamericanguitarmusic #cubanguitarmusic #iMovie #leobrouwer #guitarlessons #kentishtown #london www.instagram.com/flavioplaysg...

This is how we do it

"B'lanna, I am not your father'. Now what did that make think of, Luke? #startrek #startrekvoyager

'Come Again' by John Dowland (1563-1626) Verity Lingard-Hill, voice Flavio Matani, guitar Rustique Café, Tufnell Park, July 2014 youtu.be/gUqCIx8fOPI

The combination of the dark, grey, wet and cold days and the constant stream of vile horror coming from the outside world is making this time of year quite difficult for me. Can't wait for the spring.

It could say 'without anaesthetic'* and the queue would be the same. *I have experienced this.

Really good piece, and made me think about how such a resistance would work here in the UK, should it become necessary.

It has been said that in Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek universe, to arrive at the post-scarcity world of Starfleet and the Federation we had to go though a pandemic and then a nuclear world war. At what stage in the proceedings are we now? Yikes. It is scary and stressful to read the news.

Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Those amongst my Venezuelan friends who are believing Trump is acting in the best interests of democracy and my country might be in for a rude awakening. I just hope Vz doesn't turn into an Iraq and, eventually, a vassal state of Trumpistan.

I don't normally follow that kind of news but it is rather gratifying to learn that Andrew Tate had his enormously inflated 'alpha-male' ego punctured in public, on a boxing ring where apparently he was going to demonstrate his alpha male-ness

Belatedly watching Star Trek Voyager and who do I see but Romo Lampkin ... #startrek #startrekvoyager #battlestargalactica #bsg

Listening again to @mikeduncan.bsky.social 's 'Revolutions' and the Martian Revolution of 2247 is such a bittersweet allegory on the Russian one (The Revolution devours its children..). Or the French. Or, well, all of them except that it does have a better ending after the Terror. #longlivemabeldore

F@rage next, we hope. Although I fear that, as with Trump, his followers will not give a damn if he's proven guilty.

A useful reminder...

youtu.be/gYvoN2qO_VA 'Pavana Muy Llana Para Tañer' / Diego Pisador, 1509?- 1557?) Flavio Matani, guitar - live in concert at the Kentish Town City Farm, 17-10--25 Guitar is a Yulong Guo Chamber Concert. #guitar #classicalguitar #vihuela #renaissancemusic #kentishtowncityfarm

youtu.be/-V-7ulWlGwg 'A Moment's Thought', one of my own little pieces, played live at the @kentishtowncityfarm on 17-10-25 Guitar is a Yulong Guo Chamber Concert #guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #livemusic

Moopsie!

Thank you again to those lovely people who came to see me play tonight 🙂 it was a lovely evening for me*, I hope it was for you * apart from the toothache, which was a bit distracting but I hope that wasn't noticeable.

Just in case: playing tomorrow (17th October) - it would be very good if you joined us. #guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #neighbourhood

Watching (very belatedly) Star Trek Voyager and just ran into Cylon Simon in it. As in BSG, he's a complicated/complex baddie, although his character is not much more than an extra.

Hi. Playijng next Friday (17th October) at the @kentishtowncityfarm - it would be very good if you could be there with us. Kentish Town City Farm Cressfield Close, London, NW5 4BN Admission £10 #guitar #classicalguitar #kentishtowncityfarm #kentishtown #neighbourhood

FFS

One of my pieces, played at a recital at @cafepalestina in @kentishtown on 25/09/25. Playing at the @kentishtowncityfarm on Fri 17/10. Would be good to see some of you there. #guitar #classicalguitar #flaviomatani #kentishtown #cafepalestina #yulongguoguitars www.instagram.com/flavioplaysg...

Cory Doctorow has more to say about the enshittification in modern world goods and services corporations. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A reminder that I'm doing this on Thursday: An evening of Classical Guitar - works by J S Bach, Sor, Mudarra, Pisador,Lauro and Flavio Matani. Thursday, 25 Sept 2025 7:00 pm Café Palestina, 53, Fortess Road NW5 1AD Admission £10 Info and tickets: [email protected] - [email protected]

A refusal to mourn is not a celebration. A refusal to eulogize is not an endorsement of murder. A refusal to canonize a horrible human being is not a declaration of war.

I really really should stop reading the news at breakfast. There wasn't anything specific today, just the usual, the rise of the right, media inflating Reform and his buffoon mouthpiece, war and genocide much further down in the news. But that's quite enough.

Listening again to @mikeduncan.bsky.social 's 'Revolutions' podcast, the part about the Spanish American independence wars. Again, so much that I wasn't taught in school in my native Venezuela. And getting now to the breathtaking story of the con-man Gregor McGregor -just wow #history #venezuela

Vance was born in 1984. What did Orwell know?

Do not try to fuck with the Quakers - you will not win: www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re... #trans #queer

GOOD MORNING www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When Michael Jordan felt boxed in by his success in basketball he tried baseball. When Gary Brooks became synonymous with country he created Chris Gaines. And when JK Rowling created the most successful kids books of all time she reinvented herself as a petty, weirdo transphobia influencer.