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Not *the* Iain MacDonald: just another Iain MacDonald. Outer Hebridean Inner Londoner. Harmonising with The Everly Brothers. One man's civilisation is another man's jungle. You might as well laugh - you won't get your money back. How long can these descri
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After researching plectrums, and buying a range, I've concluded that the ones I've been using for years (Dunlop grip 1mm nylon), without research or experiment, are the ones that suit me best, though they're heavier than thought best for acoustic strumming. Dumb luck, with a degree of conditioning.

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Finally remembered David Shrigley's name, which means I am no longer unsettled by hearing @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the FT podcast and thinking isn't he the guy who does those weird cartoons and this is an unusual double career.

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Facebook is one of my set of tabs that open when I open Chrome. More and more often when I find my computer going slow I hover over the Facebook tab and see that it's using more than 1GB of memory, though I'm not on the page, so I close it. Facebook continues to make itself more and more unusable.

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It's said that Love Will Tear Us Apart was inspired by Love Will Keep Us Together, as a bitter alternative; but the former doesn't contain anything as brutal as the latter's 'Young and beautiful - but someday your looks will be gone'.

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Morris Folk Club for February is on this coming Tuesday, 25th, 7.30pm-10.30pm(ish), at The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. Free entry. What it's like: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/folk-club.... What we did last time: www.morrisfolkchoir.org/p/club-setli... Come, sing, play, listen, enjoy!

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Our next project is working with Joanie Bones on her project, The Elephant In The Womb. We will be performing it with her on Sat 29th March at The Church On The Corner in Islington. Information and tickets (£16.50) at www.tickettailor.com/events/joani.... Small venue, early booking advised.

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I buy a Creme Egg in a shop. Man at till reaches under counter. "I don't need a bag thanks" I say. "I'm getting the shop egg," he says. "It has a barcode that'll scan."

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Watched yet another episode of Only Connect in which they might as well have only played the final missing vowels round, so close were the teams. It's my best round, so I'd do pretty well (though probably not under the studio lights rather than on my sofa).

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📢 App Version 1.98 is rolling out now, including: (1/5) • a new option for who can reply to your posts • search posts by a user • lots of little improvements to make the app feel better!

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Deciding not to eat the second half of this odd ham and cheese sandwich in this random cafe in the hope that it will halve my chances of being unwell later.

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Over the last two weeks at work I saw quite a lot of Avatar, for the first time. The animation looked rather dated, but reminded me that it heralded the start of a wave of new and improved 3D cinema which was going to be permanent and transformational, but I think has completely faded away now.

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Just encountered my first 'follows you and then when you don't follow them after a while unfollows you and follows you again so they appear in your notifications again to try to get you to follow them" merchant on Bluesky

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Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

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I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI

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People say Starmer isn't standing up to Trump, but sarcasm at this level is a work of art.

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Trump offers Simple Solutions To Complicated Problems. I remember someone saying that his expressions and movements resemble a small boy who's been told to pretend to be a very important man, and I've always seen that since. There's a childlike simplicity to a lot of his political ideas too.

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- "You said you'd make prices go down, but now they're going to go up, because of what you did!" - "No, not because of what I did; because of other people's reactions to what I did. It's Canada and Mexico's fault your prices will go up, remember that." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...

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Alien: Romulus. In space, nobody can hear you say “can you rewind that bit, I have no idea what is going on.” With spoilers, if you can spoil a film this bad. boxd.it/8Hmxv7

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Saw Hard Truths. It was like there was a whole proper film somewhere else, and this was a long set of scenes cut from it. Some vg scenes and perfs; if you like Mike Leigh you'll like it; you'll like it even more if you don't crave structure or resolution and don't mind a stressful main character.

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I hadn't quite registered that Mike Oldfield was 19 when he wrote and played Tubular Bells. It was released 10 days after his 20th birthday.

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Morris Folk Club tonight! At The Betsey Trotwood, in the downstairs room this month.

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Striking Wikipedia stats: 'as of October 2014, only 15.53% of English Wikipedia's biographies were about women' ... Progress!: 'the percentage ... is now over 20%: specifically reaching 20.003% by 16 December 2024.' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... Progress, but still: 20%.

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