#Royalty#JukeboxFridayNight
and it also works the other way around
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T8ZPCN4RsQ
(Prince Buster - Madness)
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@zl2tod@mastodon.online @Phil_Tanner@mastodon.philtanner.com @SimonCHulse@mastodon.nz @AdminKirsty@infosec.space the idea for the last few years has been to go to the local civil defence site https://cdsouthland.nz/ rather than a nationwide one because people on the ground are likely to have a better idea what's going on. But yes this is what those "back office staff" actually do - the ones that the muppets in the slopalition are trying to get rid of because the clueless oiks have no idea what it is they actually do.
#AfterTheFlood
#JukeboxFridayNight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH0-WXUFY2k
(Playing for Change featuring John Paul Jones - When the Levee Breaks)
Racism and politics
#AfterTheFlood
#JukeboxFridayNight
with Wellington getting drenched this week... it's time for a Wellington band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vE_ZJ4u5N4
(Mockers - After the Rain)
Something slightly silly to end the weekend on. One problem with discussing West Indies cricket with people old enough to remember 1950 is that they remember silly songs about unexpected cricket victories which require a bit of careful hunting through YouTube to validate...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFl9x3XzKSw
(Lord Beginner and the Calypso Rhythm Kings - "Victory Test Match - Calypso" a.k.a "Victory Calypso" a.k.a. "Cricket, Lovely Cricket" a.k.a. "there was a calypso song about Ramadhin and Valentine, do you think you could find it on YouTube?")
@Shards@kind.social I only managed to get 18 because I never bothered with a Walkman and we didn't have a Blockbuster over here. I still actually do some of these (e.g. CDs, paper maps, own a dictionary, an encyclopaedia and a current telephone directory).
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@tom_geraghty
"It looks like a demonstration ship – one designed to satisfy an ego rather than to perform"
... in other words, a 17th-century Cybertruck?
I mainly know about the Vasa because the Swedish post office released a set of stamps in 1969 featuring engravings on the ship and various of its carvings (the stamps themselves were designed by a very famous stamp engraver).
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@georgepenney My understanding is that there are some parts of the country where it is dangerous to leave your car windows wound down on a hot autumn day, because if you do so, when you get back to the car you will find that someone has left you a bag of feijoas.
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@Cassandra perfect placement of the mug handle on this picture...
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@SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to Kakapo don't know that they can't fly. They'll climb up trees, launch themselves off them, flap like buggery and end up on the ground. And then try it again.
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@CaptMorgan @DanMorgan Calendar nerds diving in to say that the fifth of April was last month...
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@rk Scots are the people. Scotch is the whisky. Scotch eggs hatch into little bottles.
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@rupert@mastodon.nz @eribosot@mastodon.social yup, and more information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Bogey_March the more you read about it, the more interesting it gets...
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@cascheranno@hachyderm.io @neauoire@merveilles.town an old surveying trick I've been told about: an acre is precisely 100,000 square links. So surveyors would calculate areas in square links and then convert the total to acres.
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@floppyplopper @passenger @EF @marnanel those of us of a certain generation start thinking of vehicles the moment someone says "Bedford" anyway...
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@Niall just trying to keep the editorial commentary separate from the public service announcement...
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@fgrosshans@mathstodon.xyz @ShadSterling@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social that would be more logical, but the international standard does it differently. I also remembered slightly wrong - the numbering is arithmetic, not geometric, so the size I thought would be 12A0 is actually 4096A0 .... Which would make the standard rather useless for anything larger than an extremely large sheet of paper, unfortunately. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_standard_paper_sizes
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@greem@cyberplace.social that one looks vaguely like Gir the Robot from "Invader Zim".
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@jeffowski@mastodon.world Something full of saturated fats in case the first time didn't do the trick.
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@patrickhadfield It's touching, the way they seem to think they'll automatically get planning permission for their Temu gulags...
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@alxndr@tech.lgbt @dazfuller@mstdn.social Like OnlyFans, except for techies.
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@Kay@mastodon.nz Post your one anyway. I'm sure heaps of people follow you that don't follow me and it's a great performance.
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@FeloniousPunk the entire story of "1999" is "tomorrow we could be obliterated, but don't let that stop us from partying tonight".
It''s also in the background of some of the Oils' 1980s output. "Hammer and the sickle, news is at a trickle, commisars are fickle but the stockpiles grow. Bombers keeping coming, engines softly humming, Stars and Stripes are running for their own big show. Another little flare up, storm brewed in a teacup, imagine any mixup and the lot would go" - "Read About It". "ICBM, SS20, they lie so dormant, they got so many" - "Minutes to Midnight", which isn't the only absolute classic 1980s track based on the doomsday clock.
Geography class, about 1983, we did a quick assessment of what would happen to our town if the Russians decided to bomb a major strategic target about 20 km away. The results would not have been pretty, especially if there was a southerly blowing at the time.
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@georgepenney@sunny.garden A couple of my mum's friends once had chihuahua tribble crosses... I think they called them "Pomeranians". 50% fluff, 50% yap.
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@MamasPinkyToe Angels are just monsters with better PR.
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@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @cstross@wandering.shop I've been calling it "grand theft autocomplete" for a while now (fairly much ever since I read someone else calling it that...)
And I'm still waiting for an anti-malware program to set its sights on de-AI-fying computers...
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@menelion@dragonscave.space @Enthalpiste@social.sciences.re @cstross@wandering.shop
In the past few months AI has wasted far more of my time than it could ever possibly save.
One of the things I do in my day job is proof-read, re-word and fact-check matters of local history. I spent days trying to unpick a batch of information that simply didn't add up and couldn't be referenced. In the end it became apparent that someone had searched the internet for some background and believed the first things they read on those wretched AI overview search engine results.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt RTL Signs needs to get on board with this. I can already think of a couple of places that could do with these signs...
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@Dingsextrem@mas.to @serge@babka.social Whataboutism isn't cool, no matter which side is doing it.
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@tricotfeelya@woof.group @selzero@syzito.xyz That's what makes it funny - a title field that truncates everything after the 20th character just so happening to make a book sound very much more risqué than it actually is.
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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io School library bulk order from David Seymour incoming...
(context: https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/28-02-2025/the-a-z-of-david-seymours-school-lunch-disaster )
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@chris@social.uggs.io @jensorensen@mastodon.social In the 1850s it cost twopence to post a letter. In 2025 it costs 348 pence to post a letter. I don't see the downside.
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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social An acre is approximately 4047 square metres, so (if I understand sizes larger than A0 correctly) just slightly smaller than 12A0.
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@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems there are enough red flags even without that last line (that much money for 30% of a leasehold property? in a sane world the whole point of buying a property would be to be able to yeet the landlord into the sun).
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@macross @DJDarren using that analogy... if I was in the market for a widget, and you were selling widgets, and I went to your store to buy a widget, and your store was cordoned off with a big NO ENTRY sign in front of it, I'd go and find another store that sold widgets.
It may not be your fault. But it's the fault of Facebook for being a walled garden.
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@ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world You can keep the Pastor of Muppets, we don't want him back. You can keep the Wife of Brian too if she shows up with him.
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@randahl@mastodon.social not just UEFA. It's been in the news that this proposed deal is so corrupt that it's even too corrupt for Sepp Blatter to support...
#AWiderWorld
#JukeboxFridayNight
From back in the 1980s where musicians in the English-speaking world were raiding Africa for all the music they could find... Africa raided them right back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMair3ZSMU
(Mory Kanté - Yé Ké Yé Ké)
Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke Live Parkpop, Holland 1988
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@eribosot@mastodon.social
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#Stereotypes night on #JukeBoxFridayNight ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkoSUbVUYIs
(The Eastern - Talking Americana Cowboy Yeeha Blues)
About not being stereotyped or pigeonholed...
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@DenOfEarth@mas.to @neauoire@merveilles.town Anything pre-metric and British Commonwealth does. Back in the 1970s when I weighed a lot less than I do now, it was measured in stones. I think I got up to about twelve stone before the old scales died and had to be replaced.
#JukeboxFridayNight#Waitinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewNah6HidmU
(The Body Electric - You Left Me Waiting (live) )
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@Natsura I have direct family connections to Scotland and somewhat less direct family connections to Samoa. The only reasons I don't go around wearing a kilt or a lavalava are that (1) I don't have the legs for it and (2) it's too bloody cold where I am.