Flicking channels, idly happened across "The House in the Woods", "Midsomer Murders" Series 9. At various points, Barnaby refers to the booklet "Ghosts of Olde Midsomer". The name of the house in question? "Winyard" (Well, close enough.) Just saying... @oberonsghost.bsky.social

So. We should probably start calling it "Blood Diesel"?

Very pleased for Shane. #AussieGoldHunters

Doing *anything* to avoid listening to the UK #ToryConference. Admittedly a little niche, but I am heartened to see a Wollstonecraft station (T1,9) on the Sydney transport network. Very (politically) encouraged by this. #ukpol @sydneystations.bsky.social

It's going to be the "slashing red tape" Shadow Chancellor speech again. #ukpol

BBC News is reporting OpenAI has fired (three) researchers for allegedly mishandling information. Hold on. OpenAI has based its business on mishandling other people's sensitive data - only the data is called IP and the company refers to the process as "training".

The only way we can really know is for the peerless Rob Cowan to go down to his shed. However, I would venture to suggest this is a candidate for one of the finest accounts of Mahler's 9th (or is it the 10th?) Symphony. #Solti #ChicagoSymphony #Mahler #MusicSky

For my birthday I'm going to buy a book on James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Any suggestions?

I'm thousands of miles away, and even I can see this @karinarykman.bsky.social thing is happening. 🎸🌞

Contingent events. A problem for Manchester City and the Premier League is that, subject to possible appeal, everyone now faces an avalanche of what-ifs. We are about to enter the era of the football counterfactual. The breaches mean years of sporting endeavour have been tainted. #ManCity

If I illegally access ("hack") private healthcare data belonging to Australian citizens, I would rightly face the full force of Australian law. If an AI *agent* does likewise, are we saying there is a victim but no indictable perpetrator? OpenAI leadership *must* face direct consequences. Enough.

So, Ed Davey, suddenly it appears that, if the UK does this new thing and joins the EU single market, it can miraculously find £17b for tax cuts, upping the tax free personal allowance to 15k and the 40p threshold to 56k. Genius thinking? New money? No. Just partial repair of a disastrous #Brexit.

Interesting vocabulary and sound bytes coming out of #Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. „Die Frau gegen Blau” is a good one (for Manuela #Schwesig). I also like „Kanzlertausch” (maybe for Friedrich Merz). „enttäuschen” (to disappoint) is seemingly rather closely related to changing the Chancellor.

Thinking of moving house. "Total Recall" on the TV. Maybe I should have an implant, and get my ass to Mars. #FilmSky

Maitlis2.0 #RepublicUK

UK law makers should understand it is a tradition for the country to fail (Sam Fender aside) in the #Eurovision song contest. There is *no point* in an inquiry; this is utterly ridiculous and a complete waste of parliamentary time. #aucunpoint #ukpol

Well, obviously... #BBC6Music #TShirtDay @supergrasshq.bsky.social

The problem I have with AI is a rather obvious, but nevertheless seemingly intractable, one. It creates a crisis of trust - in people, content, most things; even extending to rejecting the valid and truthful 'to err on the safe side'. The only antidotes are embodied experience and curated knowledge.

Just thought I should call my band 'And Many More...' Instant royalties.

I don't think we are that far away from there being no need for a dictionary to contain the word 'consensus'. I think the thesaurus entry 'fragmentation' will be ever more useful.

Can't help but think Eric Coates should have got the commission for "Land of Hope and Glory". #TheProms

And breathe. #TheProms returns to *classical* music. #YujaWang is a genius of the age. Sublime interpretation on top of unbreakable technique. Stylish heels, too.

The embers of a band I used to see around Birmingham (UK). Many times, at the end of the gig, sang along with my friends to this Little Feat ballad. Don't exactly remember how I got home afterwards. Thought @vermontom.bsky.social you might enjoy. #VincentFlatts #enumbers youtu.be/WiBC7xajNF8?...

Willin', Little Feat (1971), performed by Vincent Flatts Final Drive

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They just remind me of sales guys fronting a water filter pyramid scheme, or some crypto selling scam. Same gaudy patter, same badly fitting suits, same way of working the audience.

Beauty this. #NowSpinning. Lovely plaintive pacing to it from Sir Malcolm. #MusicSky

As the C4 News story hits the wires, it really does bear repeating just how impressive is Jane Mayer's "Dark Money". Want to see how the American radical right bought politics? Read Jane Mayer and weep. #ukpol #c4news #reformuk

You've got to love Sally Bowles. No? I think I do. #isherwood #berlin

How abject is British politics. We have a Tory opposition leader trying to deliver a lecture about borrowing costs. #Truss

"We're in the Common Market now, and my new deal is with Europe." It's depressing that #HaroldShand is actually more pro-EU than the Prime Minister. #LongGoodFriday

Any day you get up and travel to one of the greatest cities in the world is, to quote an Australian philosopher, "Lucky, lucky, lucky".