♫ My Top #lastfm artists: ∞ (20) Jack Hertz (16) The Clash (7) Pretenders (6) Sir John Betjeman (6) The Beatles (6) Tiny Tim (5) and 187 other artists last week. #Music https://last.fm/user/jovike
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mastodon 4.7.3I like books, Hawkwind, art, dark chocolate, sf, Marmite on toast, beer, purple, music, beetroot, photography, fountain pens, film, cheese, Apple Macs, coffee, old notebooks, actors, design, curry, hauntological radiophonic weirdlore, vinyl discs, CD booklets, things in old tobacco tins and lists.
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: June Tabor (26) Volker Lankow (24) The Beatles (8½) Fats Waller (7) Pretenders (7) Faust (6) Girlschool (6) The Rolling Stones (6) June Tabor with Martin Simpson (5) and 209 other artists last week. #Music https://last.fm/user/jovike
1976 A level coursework found while searching the attic #computing • My main project was a draughts game written in BASIC
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@TheJen@beige.party Hear, hear! I passed Computer Science A level, 1974-76, on an Olivetti teletype connected by a Post Office private wire to the ICL mainframe at the town hall.
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@bridgeenjoyer@gamepad.club @TheJen@beige.party Your hand-written code could be so much more efficient, secure and maintainable.
♫ My Top #lastfm artists: June Tabor (28) Cousin Silas (25) June Tabor & Oysterband (22) Jack Hertz (21) Hawkwind (11) Be-Bop Deluxe (8½) Sleater-Kinney (6) Stackridge (6) and 171 other artists last week. #Music
https://last.fm/user/jovike
♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Inkubus Sukkubus (31) Soft Machine (30) Stan Getz (17) Hawkwind (16) Be-Bop Deluxe (13) The Kinks (8½) Brinsley Schwarz (7) and 241 other artists last week. #Music https://last.fm/user/jovike
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@neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org not a game, but have you seen https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/crowfi-for-mastodon/id6756513753
♫ My Top #lastfm artists: The Beatles (7) Catharæ (6) Séraphitüs-Séraphîta (6) The Rolling Stones (6) Fats Waller (4) Birth Control (4) Albert Elms (4) Girlschool (4) and 207 other artists last week. Low numbers due to compilations. #Music #iTunes https://last.fm/user/jovike
Is there something in the air https://www.macpsych.blog/posts/is-there-something-in-the-air by MacPsych
A rare horror film on TPTV at 00:15 ‘The Body Beneath’ (1970)
Harry Harrison: March 12 1925 – August 15 2012. #scifi https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/harrison_harry
♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Cousin Silas (23) Cousin Silas & James Hoehl (8½) Cousin Silas & Kevin Buckland (7) David Bowie (6) The Beatles (6) Girlschool (6) Hawkwind (5) John Lennon & Yoko Ono (5) and 173 other artists last week. #Music https://last.fm/user/jovike
‘The German City That Defied McDonald’s and Dumped ‘To-Go’ Waste’ https://reasonstobecheerful.world/tubingen-germany-defied-mcdonalds-dumped-to-go-waste/?utm_source=Mastodon
I saw Booker T at Koko in Camden, London on Saturday. Amazing. I need to fill in the gaps in my collection now.
‘Ignore the humanities at your own peril' by Maaike Brinkhof #AI https://www.maaikebrinkhof.nl/ignore-the-humanities-at-your-own-peril
♫ My Top #lastfm artists: The Bevis Frond (27) Willebrant (20) Jack Hertz (18) Jack Hertz & William Spivey (12) The Beatles (8½) 801 (7) and 176 other artists last week. #Music https://last.fm/user/jovike (whoops, forgot to post this on Monday)
Freedom released today! The new Suzi Quatro album https://www.loudersound.com/music/suzi-quatro-freedom
on #homebrew, ffmpeg-full is no longer dependent upon llama.cpp. More AI excised from my system!
♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Area (17) Forrest Fang (16) Black Tape for a Blue Girl (11) loveliescrushing (10) Mercury's Antennae (10) theAdelaidean (9) Hawkwind (6) Peter Phippen/Ivar Lunde, Jr./Paulina Fae (5) and 176 other artists last week. #Music https://last.fm/user/jovike
the “inkies” released 28 albums? I completed my collection: one from the iTunes shop and five from Bandcamp. https://inkubussukkubus.bandcamp.com/album/wytches
Cursive is Back by Ava Berger https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5669426/cursive-handwriting-school-controversy?utm_source=Mastodon via Inky Insights
♫ My Top #lastfm artists: silver biplanes (31) June Tabor (30) Spaceship (15) The Grateful Dead (14) The Beatles (8¼) Kate Bush (7) and 195 other artists last week. #Music https://last.fm/user/jovike
‘Your Backpack Got Worse On Purpose’ by Keyana Sapp https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose via kottke.org
Beep, Boop, Sad 🤖 😞. ‘The unofficial AI "Wall of Shame Sad"’ https://shellsharks.com/ai-wall-of-sad #AI links compiled by Shellsharks
“HomePods will be updated automatically” — actually the update starts downloading if (and when) I manage to find the correct pane in the iOS Home app. #Apple
How Taking Time Off Helped Me Finish My Book | Jane Friedman #astronaut #yarn
https://janefriedman.com/how-taking-time-off-helped-me-finish-my-book/
Wordle 1,785 3/6
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iMac updated to #macos Sequoia 15.7.5, although the System Settings tried to trick me into installing Tahoe. (Not Me, Not Amos Cabot!) On the first boot the system got stuck after putting my usual three widgets on a black screen. I could only access them and the widget editor but then got the spinning rainbow wheel. Ran recovery and all was well. The Music app is the same as in 15.7.4.
‘Human JSON - community against AI generated content’ by Stefan at STFN https://stfn.pl/blog/94-human-json/
Typography on 33 erasers we have found and sold. – Present & Correct
https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/typography-on-33-erasers-we-have-found-and-sold
Big update to Nitro Photo. One detail is nice to see: “the new [perspective] tool keeps more of your image visible while you work” https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/nitro-photo/id1591292532
ePub fans: updates to Sigil and PageEdit.
RIP Country Joe McDonald. I was introduced to him fifty years ago by a school chum who loved his US country-rock.
‘How I built a ~30 MB PDF editor that's 10× smaller than the industry standard’ RevPDF https://revpdf.com/blog/how-i-built-a-15mb-pdf-editor
macOS PhotoSketcher app gets first update in 10 years: now universal. https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/photosketcher/id463633845?mt=12
I must remember to get Uncut magazine this month #music
Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection - BBC News
‘You’ve Probably Never Seen a Full-Spectrum Color Photo’ https://petapixel.com/2026/05/20/youve-probably-never-seen-a-full-spectrum-color-photo/ by Jeremy Gray
Google review of War of the Worlds/When Worlds Collide Blu-ray disc set.
The Ugly, Essential Books Edition https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-ugly-essential-books-edition-d22 by Reilly Brennan. (Me, I’ve moved four times with thousands of #books.)
Lost in the Met by Nick Simson https://www.nicksimson.com/posts/2026-lost-in-the-met #art #arthistory
♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Steeleye Span (26) Taste (25) Yoko Ono (10) Amy Winehouse (8½) Stackridge (8⅓) The Beatles (8¼) Alexis Korner (7) and 232 other artists last week. #Music https://last.fm/user/jovike
Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible https://nooneshappy.com/article/native-apps-should-be-avoided-whenever-possible/
- via Mikael’s Pinboard
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https://subvert.fm is a #music platform with 16264 artists so far that hopes to supplant the mighty Bandcamp. Subvert launches soon as “the artist-owned internet” and now you can join for £75 as a founding member — artists/labels join free.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waFl4uBfXRA via Mikael’s Pinboard
'J.G. Ballard’s surreal fiction continues to resonate through the century' by Michael Moorcock https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/04/j-g-ballards-surreal-fiction-continues-to-resonate-through-the-century/