If you like your local then you might want to sign this… petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

AI preventing itself being shut down? Maybe we should be worried that it might not allow us to cancel any AI subscriptions🤔 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

For those that have followed me from Twitter you will recall I put out many threads on the lunacy of the plan by Rishi Sunak to make the excise tax system for Alc be based on the strength rather than volume. This subtle change was devastating for the wine industry with yet more UK Brexit red tape.

@remiharris.bsky.social #petergreen #blues #bluesmusic #bluesguitar #shrewsbury Awesome show! Really enjoyed that. Great band hope to see you all again.

AI is going to cause untold damage isn’t it? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What’s a fair price for 12 hours’ entertainment? Would you pay £50 if you felt you got your money’s worth? And: Do you feel connected to Shrewsbury Flower Show and its parent body’s activities, or does it seem to you like ‘The Haughty Cultural Society’? jimallthetime.substack.com/p/hello-you-...

Rock on, pal. #ozzy

Thousands of mourners came out to watch the funeral procession of Black Sabbath star and heavy metal showman Ozzy Osbourne, chanting “Ozzy!” and raising their hands in “devil’s horns” sign as his cortege rolled down Broad Street in Birmingham. wapo.st/452IZM0

LIVE: Ozzy Osbourne's funeral youtube.com/live/Kto_n9I...

. @vurnt22.bsky.social Vernon Reid’s new song “The Haunting” is out now! “I’m thrilled to share that this is the first single off my new album, Hoodoo Telemetry, which releases on October 3rd - VR” 🎧 Listen to “The Haunting” now 💿 Pre-order Hoodoo Telemetry – out on October 3rd lnk.to/vernonreid

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

It's not every day you get to play on a 1962 Strat and a 1952 ES-175!!! 🤯 Big shout out to the guys at Fair Deal Music, Birmingham for letting us take a look at some amazing guitars this afternoon 🙏👊👍 📸 by Simon Grove #jazz #blues #guitar #fender #gibson #vintageguitars

If you don't want to hear people enjoying themselves, don't move into a house next to Pub that has run live music 4 nights a week for nearly 30 years.

This: “No, I was actually grieving a loss of hope, of promise, of joy.”

I think part of the LLM-Hype is that we all can be managers now. Not knowing anything, not doing anything, but telling others to go and produce a result we can then happily attribute to ourselves.

This is the business plan

Had an excellent chat with Vernon Reid about the greatness of Sly and the Family Stone www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

wizard zines is doing our first ~~ reader survey ~~! very interested to hear about how people who read wizard zines are using computers forms.gle/NZ3adV5ACtNF...

We *need* to talk about my former employer the BBC, because this is shocking Sadly, though, it’s not surprising The BBC is in the hands of people who don’t understand #pubmedia public service. They are not fit to be trusted with it open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

They've just played my new song at one of the local bars. Nice to get it in amongst the Andalucian vibes. open.spotify.com/album/4XOFrL...

Eep!

The Preservation of Women’s Words open.substack.com/pub/15thcfem...

At this point, I'm willing to pay more money for appliances with zero 'smart' features and just physical knobs, buttons and controls for everything.

Thank you! It is unbelievable that for decades as regular people you would get fined or worse for pirating materials.... but now tech companies do this on an industrial scale, it suddenly is fine....

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain

I know nobody gives a shit, but there are a ton of artists from the 50s and 60s who sold their songs for like $100 each, not knowing how valuable they’d be in the future, never regained the master recordings, or any substantial royalties

What fun to discover £7,000 of book royalties, due today, aren't actually going to be paid. Not today. Maybe not ever. So now it's time for yet another round of "What Do I Tell My Mortgage Provider?", and a quick game of "How Do I Feed My Dog?" Fuck you, publishing. What a turd of a profession.

The 2033 Qatar Airways A380 crash (ageing planes, fuel shortage) and the 2037 Thames barrier flood (climate change, then a Reform-led government sacked the maintenance guys).

Did you know that Ynys Môn held a special secret that saved Japanese Sushi from forever being lost? In Japan, April 14th celebrates their ‘Mother of the Sea’, a female scientist called Kathleen Drew Baker, who defied societal norms of her time saving Sushi as we know it in the process 🇯🇵🍣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Simple.

Ladybird man 1961.

Good morning wulferhampton have a terrific Tuesday you talented ex tweeters

Honestly baffles me that it took so long, given that *literally everybody* was screaming from the rooftops at all of the manufacturers that using touchscreens for everything was a terrible idea right from the start.

Good point

What do you like? youtube.com/clip/UgkxDUG...

A friend of mine is selling this early 70s Sound City 50 Plus head with the original 2x12 cab. He's looking for £600. It's in Worcestershire. If anyone's interested let me know and I can put you in touch 👍 #guitar #guitars #guitargear

Framed by darkness - Farringdon Photo taken of a train departing Farringdon London Underground station. Note: Taken safely behind the yellow line with a zoom lens #photography #railway

Wrecking Crew bass player Carol Kaye is 90 today. Provided the bottom end on so many great records! Happy Birthday Carol🎂

The operation to rescue the hostages from the New Cut has started

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're coming to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference in July, here's a bit of the story about where you'll be getting your evening babychams.

Probably the most colorfull person of the 90's and 00's F1 padock sadly passed away at age 76. You will be missed Eddie.

Amazing engineering.

Lots of people being in agreement with each other yet wrong about something doesn't magically make their view right. There was a time when 99.99999% of people thought the Sun went round the Earth, yet the Earth still went round the Sun.

Interesting conclusion