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At the end of the day, we tell you that generative AI is built on unethical copyright theft, exploits and underpays its workers, causes catastrophic environmental damage, and produces increasingly terrible looking shit, and you just decide not to care.

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A reminder that Ukraine was once the third largest nuclear power in the world and voluntarily gave up those weapons. In exchange, the U.S., the U.K. and Russia guaranteed Ukraine's security in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum. www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1...

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"And as they slipped into the icy depths, the captain of the Titanic probably assured his passengers that this would make a great movie some day. Trump on Friday presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history." Nothing to add. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Love going on a podcast to talk about my work and the first thing the presenter does in the introduction is wildly mispronounce the title of the work even though I say it multiple times in the (pre-recorded) podcast.

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The astounding thing to me about brexit is that the people who advocated for it are now turning around and saying “who could have foreseen this!?” when 10 years ago they were ridiculing the people who… foresaw this… “Project fear” was just “project facts” it turns out

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In Liverpool today with Exaudi, for two performances of “Hello Halo” by @rubycolleymusic.bsky.social

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Ask me about what I want to do

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First double bar line of the year

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One of the most bleak truths about modern public discourse is that some of the people who are doing absolutely nothing in real life are all over social media, berating the rest of us for not posting enough on social media.

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A 34-year-old New Jersey man has shown a global audience that the spoken Irish language is indeed not so difficult at all to learn

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HOW am I only just discovering Inside No. 9 now? I watched the first four episodes today and every single one is a miniature masterpiece. I’m not surprised it’s sitting at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes!

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First flight of the year booked and BA really really need to sort out their app functionality

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Really looking forward to visiting this beautiful work

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Mark Gattiss is bloody brilliant in season 1 of Wolf Hall, but I do have a hard time not seeing him as Val Denton basically at all times.

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First double bar line of the year! It’s a shame it was due before last Christmas but that’s how life goes sometimes eh?

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Woke up this morning with this guy on my mind and thought "I simply must cross stitch him" and so, hours later, here he is.

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What does writing music even look like? Most days it’s just scribbling, planning, scheming, plotting. Most of the actual artistic bit happens on scraps of paper. The finished product that a choir sings from is just a lot of tedious typesetting.

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Thomas Hardy’s great end-of-year lyric poem, ‘The Darkling Thrush’, was originally published in The Graphic on 29 December 1900 – though a deleted 1899 on the manuscript suggests he may have written it earlier.

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When it comes to typesetting music for double choir with text in Irish and English and a piano reduction, I can understand why Bach had 17 children to do the fair copies for him.

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Back from Christmas Holidays in Brighton and straight back to the composition desk! Today I’m finishing off a little organ postlude that popped into my head last Sunday, and starting the typesetting of the final movement of my new cycle for double choir, Guthanna ar an gCnoc

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And E-O-G-H-A-NNNNN by priest and people suuungen 🎶 🎄 🔔

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Last day of singing today! State carol service at the Tower of London and parish carol service at St John At Hampstead. Phew! Looking forward to the rest

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35th flight of the year today. Off to Las Palmas with The Academy of Ancient Music for my 7th Messiah of the season. Phew!

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No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter. Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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I loved the new robes at the re-opening of Notre Dame. They seem to have been controversial!

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And a dicey as all hell flight. 2 attempts at landing, but storm Darragh didn’t keep me from getting to Dublin!

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2 tubes, a 2.5 hour car journey, a rehearsal, a gig, 3 trains, an airport bus. Just got to bed at stansted airport premier inn ahead of my flight which is in 5 and a half hours. Rehearsal in 9 hours. What a lifestyle we musicians choose for ourselves

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Working today on a piece of music about living like a snail. Sleamhnaím ar nós slimide búirc lena shliogán “I glide like a snail with its shell” #gaeilge #newmusic #choralcomposer Text by Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin Published by Dedalus Press

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I did the thing where I didn’t buy snacks but now I don’t have snacks

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@swearlymusic.bsky.social Jean-Michel Jarre. The one and only thing that unites contemporary composers with early music

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Jean-Michel Jarre never gets old

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For all that it can be complicated to explain, Proportional Representation is really good at keeping extremists out. Mainstream parties don’t have to pander to the fringes the way the tories (eg) did in order to win back voters from UKIP and reform, thus pulling the party and the whole system right.

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