May 7th is official album launch day! It is now (technically) May 7th where I am, so here you go:
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Wayne Myers
@conniptions
Musician. Coder. Writer. Cartoonist. Singer-songwriter. Dreamer. Muesli enthusiast. he/him.
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A new TikTok video for your delectation and pleasure, this time an original klezmerish tune called 'Bagel Waltz'. It's about bagels. In 3/4 time. Hence the name:
Goddammit, is an objectively awesome and generally wonderful human being, as anyone with a functioning heart and brain following them will quickly realise, and anyone suggesting otherwise can do one.
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Smoked paprika garlic honey chilli teriyaki potato wedges turned out unexpectedly to be a winner. I think it must have been the celery salt...
buskers fear they won't be able to pay the bills after tfl banned them from playing until the queen's funeral.
the transit authority hasn't said if they'll be compensated either.
'it's absurd to suggest it is a disrespectful activity' says
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Apparently TfL has declared that no busking will be allowed on the Underground until after the Queen's funeral. What a miserable, mean cast of mind this reveals.
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It's perhaps a small thing, but Anthea Bell's wondrous Asterix translation of a (forget which book) Roman legionnaire's name as 'Sendervictorius', alongside another called 'Appianglorius', will soon seem... odd. But changing it to 'Sendimvictorius' will (for olds) be even odder.
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Whatever else, in terms of sheer bloody-mindedness, "I refuse to die until I see the end of Boris Johnson's premiership" is up there.
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Jerusalem Ridge, ono, fwiw, via the Tiktoks:
i think everyone should try knitting or sewing, even just once, because once you make a garment yourself you realize how fucking ridiculous it is to pay as little as we do for clothing
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If you've not read Stone Butch Blues, you should. Along with all the 'important, groundbreaking etc' stuff, it's also a damn good read.
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Celebrating beloved Leslie Feinberg's Sept. 1 birthday & reminding: 'Stonebutch Blues' is available every day FREE at lesliefeinberg.net. 'Magnified'
"...hard to tell the flower from the bee, the insect from the tree, me from you, you from me." From M.B. Pratt, 'Magnified'
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People on the left stop tearing lumps out of each other for just ten consecutive seconds challenge.
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I can't afford heating because I am lower-class.
I can only just afford heating because I am middle-class.
I can afford what ever I want because I make these two pay for it all.
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Techie aside if you are using Firefox and on headphones: this plugin fixes the b0rked left-channel-only audio:
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You've probably seen clips but the MacTaggart lecture by on the question of Journalism In The Age Of Populism is superb and well worth watching in full (starts about 10m in):
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This is the best example of how not to design a survey I have ever come across - worth completing just to see the bias
Choice on units of measurement: markings and sales - Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Citizen Space beisgovuk.citizenspace.com/opss/measureme
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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: put my back out getting out of bed this morning. I *knew* it was a mistake. #ow
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ok universe fine i will change my 3+ yr old mandolin strings before making any more videos on it. fine. thanks.
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STOP COMPOSING DIRECTLY INTO THE COMPUTER CHALLENGE going well then
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I have managed to write a new tune so cursédly awkward to play that not only can I not play it but after trying I am now making mistakes in other tunes that I never used to make before.
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Is ok? His account just retweeted an ad for a $3k a pop 10 week online survivalist course, which... really doesn't seem like him?
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We in the UK will continue applying the "beatings will continue until morale improves" school of management until the day it starts working.
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Germany is more productive that the UK. That's Germany with their shorter working week, collaborative approach with unions etc.
It's almost is if employees having a greater work/life balance drives engagement whilst they're at work.
Extremely excited to have replaced the earpads on my headphones. No more random bits of black faux-leather turning up on the floor, in my ears, on the sofa, in the sink etc.
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'On The Origins Of The Word Wokism And How Continuing To Use It After Realising What The Etymology Implies Means You Are Actually A Massive Racist'. In this essay I will
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Big shoutout to that autogenerated closeup of my man-cleavage. I did not realise that was a thing.
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I seem to have a Tiktok: tiktok.com/@fitconniption - if you do too, feel free to say hello or whatever the hell it is people do over there. Warning: klezmer.
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If you want an inkling of the reason I'm so upset about "in app browsers", here's someone else noticing what I've been wittering on about:
krausefx.com/blog/ios-priva
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Stop Composing Directly Into The Computer If You Want To Actually Play The Bloody Thing Challenge.
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Once again I have written a couple of tunes too difficult for me to actually play. (Not that this is much of a challenge in my case...) Back to the shed!
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Finger ever on the pulse, I’ve made a The Meat Sweaters Facebook page. Go forth and follow (if you like that sort of thing).
(This is a punk band I’m doing with some friends, and apparently nobody wants to give you a gig unless you’re on Facebook.)
facebook.com/The-Meat-Sweat
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Such a shame about the Energy Price Cap, a fundamental law of physics that can never be changed. If only the French would share their secret workaround.
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In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion [video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]
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So much for these special computer care tweezers. There's probably a special keycap remover in the kit they came with but I have no idea what that looks like or how to use it.
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What I thought was a sesame seed trapped under my laptop keyboard has turned out to be a large crumb of some sort which exploded* on being gripped with tweezers. *disintegrated
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Imagine wanting to live in Maida Vale W9 that much you spend £2.35 MILLION on a 2 bed flat. Beyond insane.
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This modern, two bedroom flat in Blomfield Road, Maida Vale W9 is on the market for £2,350,000 and has its own private front patio and rear garden. dlvr.it/SW7r0Q