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29 Mar 2024
Yesca - Mood Loops - Mood Loops · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Bryson Hill - Coastal Love - Euro Seaside · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Bryson Hill - Coastal Love - The Dream Team · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Bryson Hill - Coastal Love - Until The Daylight · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Bryson Hill - Coastal Love - Until The Daylight · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Bryson Hill - Coastal Love - Show Me Your Love · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Kapote - Electric Slide - The Slide · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Kapote - Electric Slide - The Come On · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Kapote - Electric Slide - The See Me · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112178789018430616 · Mastodon View the site

This week I have mostly been ...

Carrying secateurs on the daily walk in case I need to do some guerrilla pruning.


Kapote - Electric Slide - The See Me · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Kapote - Electric Slide - The Party · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Big Miz - Big Miz presents Friends FM - So In Love (feat. Van Damn) · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Big Miz - Big Miz presents Friends FM - Too Much Nature (feat.Hayley Zalassi) · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Big Miz - Big Miz presents Friends FM - Marvelous (feat. Bessa (Sco)) · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Big Miz - Big Miz presents Friends FM - It Just Goes (feat. Bessa (Sco)) · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - Lesson in Stoicism · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - Lesson in Stoicism · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - Descartes Before The Horse · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - Your Face As Art · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - Posing For Pictures When It's A Video · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - Wisdom Of The Crowd · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - Logical Sequences Of Grunt · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - Don't Be A Pedant · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112178761289078456 · Mastodon View the site

Meta YASN discussion


Group chat. Whatsapp works pretty well for small known groups like families or a street. Same with Facebook chat. But what I'm after is something like IRC or XMPP. Scale to a few thousand participants, searchable archives. Ability to catch up on overnight or other timezones. Close to real time.


https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112178705167951493 · Mastodon View the site

If you've been following the Thames Water saga. Do you think it might have been raining in the Thames Valley?

https://www.sewagemap.co.uk/


Third Son - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There - If You Remember The 90's You Weren't There · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Lankum - False Lankum - Go Dig My Grave · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Rezzett - Meant Like This - The Goblin Has Fallen in Love · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Rezzett - Meant Like This - The Goblin Has Fallen in Love · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

DJ PoolBoi - into blue light - last call · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Su Lee - Messy Sexy - Mayfly (feat. Miki Fiki) · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Aleksandır - Contrails - Reveries · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Gazelle Twin - Black Dog - Author of You · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

The Clash - London Calling - London Calling · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Róisín Murphy - Hit Parade - The House · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Four Tet - Three - Loved · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Patrick Holland - Infra - Daytime Disturbance · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112178270486209963 · Mastodon View the site

UK Covid Data

The old Covid dashboard has now gone.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ now redirects to the new one.

There's an archive of the old data here
https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/covid-19-archive-data-download

The final ONS Winter Covid survey report was cancelled.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/datasets/wintercoronaviruscovid19infectionstudyenglandandscotland

There's no testing and no reporting any more. So the official dashboard is useless. The displayed data is probably a 100 times underestimate.

No Data. No Pandemic. Simples!


Patrick Holland - Infra - Daytime Disturbance · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Shall Not Fade - 8 Years Of Shall Not Fade - BOP - Holographic Joy · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

venbee, Rudimental - die young · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112177864000087437 · Mastodon View the site

Meta YASN discussion


A reminder again today. I have about the same number of followers on X-FKA-Twitter and Facebook as I do here. But I get WAY more engagement on The 'Don than either of them. I've pretty much given up on Facebook except for a few special interest groups. Threads and Bluesky seem like a waste of time. Reddit is still interesting and useful. Mailing lists have died, like Usenet & IRC. I'd still like a reliable group chat system.


https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112177659121308512 · Mastodon View the site

Do not make the mistake of thinking she is the rational elder statesman now. She was and is every bit as much of a Hunt as all the rest.


https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112177634550385472 · Mastodon View the site

She screwed up her own snap election and then had to bribe the DUP to stay in power, making any rational Brexit, GB, N. Ireland treaty impossible. Those failures inevitably led to Johnson, Truss and Sunak.


https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112177622496971687 · Mastodon View the site

Theresa May kicked off the hostile environment as Home Sec. And openly talked about "The Nasty Party".

She took the advisory Leave referendum and turned it into Hard Brexit; stopping Freedom of Movement, leaving the Customs Union and Single Market. The Mansion House speech was her doing. Even after the Leave Vote she didn't need to go so hard and so fast. And she then invoked Article 50, forcing it through Parliament, before we really had any idea of the implications.


https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112177607716305027 · Mastodon View the site

Brexit Article 50 Day

7 Years ago on 29-Mar-2017, Theresa May invoked Article 50, which formally began the process of the UK leaving the EU.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_invocation_of_Article_50_of_the_Treaty_on_European_Union

It's a difficult sell, but I believe Theresa May was the worst of the lot. Cameron, Clegg, Osborne, Hammond, Johnson, Truss, Kwarteng, Sunak, Hunt and all the rest have done immense and irreparable damage to the UK. But mostly through incompetence. With Theresa May it looks more like deliberate malice.


https://mastodon.social/@jbond/112174662198456029 · Mastodon View the site

- Tuxedo Rose:

60ml Gin, 22ml Cocchi Rosa, 7.5ml Maraschino, Orange Bitters, dash Absinthe, Lemon twist, Cherry

There are lots of Tuxedos. Most with some sherry, Fino or Manzanilla. This one would have been Cocchi Americano, but I empinkened it with Rosa. Nice.


Sade - Surrender Your Love (Illegal Remixes) - Surrender Your Love (Kenny Larkin Remix) · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

Aaliyah - One in a Million - Came to Give Love (Outro) · jbond's Recently Played Tracks View the site

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