"She made music jump into 3D": Wendy Carlos, the reclusive synth genius www.theguardian.com/music/2020/n...
JRD
@jrdoyle.bsky.social
Often seen in Brussels, London, The Hague or Edinburgh. 🏴 🇬🇧 🇧🇪 🇳🇱
This is crazy lol. I’m slipping a piece of paper with Chinese written on it under a door and someone inside is responding in Chinese with another slip of paper. Whoever’s in there must be a native level Chinese speaker! Well, guess I’ll stop thinking about it now
Been trying to articulate this on the show for years and he just comes out and says it
The country in the world with the most Japanese people, facing off against the country with the second-most Japanese people, in the country with the third-most Japanese people.
On checking the BBC site this morning I read this "In just over 48 hours, Scotland's chances of reaching the World Cup knockouts for the first time have dropped from 42% to just 0.07%."
I thought kick off was later and I’m sad I somehow missed it but that’s a great result for Scotland.
10 years ago I messaged this to my now wife. Brexit wasn't all bad...
Having occasionally connected to the GovWifi network for work purposes, it's sometimes a bit disconcerting to be out and about and suddenly connect to the network when there are no obvious GovWifi-type buildings.
I approve. Goedgekeurd. The Scottish-Dutch axis is more powerful than most people realise.
General Boles@generalboles.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is cultural appropriation and the Scots should not stand for it #NedSwe
This was at quarter to three in the morning. Entirely possible we all collectively hallucinated it
Oldfirmfacts@oldfirmfacts.bsky.social · 2mo agoScotland so good they’ve broken the telly
We now have the answer to the future pub quiz question: “When Scotland won their first World Cup, who scored their first goal?”
The jerseys also say "Ceci n'est pas un maillot" ("This is not a jersey") on the back. Perfect detail.
Argyle St Tearoom chair. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1897. Featured in Star Trek The Next Generation S3E13. 1994.
english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.
Lego should release a set that’s of your house and you build it and see a tinier version of you inside of it, and what are you doing? You are building a Lego version of your house, but smaller. And who is inside that house? A third, even smaller, you
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2mo agoLEGO Architecture - Sagrada Família up for preorder at LEGO Store ($799.99 - 12060 pieces) buff.ly/tKGp395 #ad
“Content” also insidiously shifts significance and validity to the platform, not the substance — content is contained, what defines content is the existence and form of the container
Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.
