Ian Tindale

I’m an artist/designer
Don’t talk to me about technical shit I’m not interested

I’m working on a special project of my own, wish me luck, currently making a dummy in order to get some investment & backing soon – spoiler: basically returning to the kind of work I made a living 80s/90s

I tried programming once in the 80s (FORTH, green screen 80 chars), it didn’t actually work, got the sack for wasting time instead of my real job (industrial photography then)

This year I released an album in Dobly Atmos surround spatial: u0421793 / No Laments for Pale Sunsets
Apple Music, in Atmos spatial (with lyrics):
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/no-laments-for-pale-sunsets/1684857695
Also on other places eg Spotify YouTube etc as a binaural stereo mixdown – I’m not doing any promotion, it’d be impolite, I’m British, it’s not intended to make me rich and famous

My other clutter: video gear (ATEM mini, mini pro, Roland V-02HD mkII); old cameras (35mm, 120); folding bike; watercolours

Cars kill people slowly and sometimes quickly

(This is a new account, but I was originally on here back in about 2017ish, so quite an early fediverse adopter)

“I’m opting in to tootfinder” - supposed to make this account searchable?

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u0421793_at_functional.cafe@mostr.pub

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2024-07-17 11:09:50

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@npub1cne…muve I was on a similar thing called Multiply

2024-02-13 19:55:12

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@npub1ke6…z7av on my mastodon account, I used my Flick r page on flick r (because what normal person has an actual web site of their own) and it worked

2024-02-08 07:17:50

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Found it again and changed it again
It’s absolutely pathetic what they offer – they have a help page which mentions a link which turns out to be deprecated and looks too complicated to install anyway, then on the deprecated page it says they suggest something else instead, ddclient, but ddclient on the raspberry pi doesn’t mention porkbun as an option to select, so that’s useless, and ddclient doesn’t have a mac app at all
It has a ‘nix’ thing on the mac and a ‘homebrew’ thing on the mac but that involves installing yet another untrustworthy thing I don’t know anything about so won’t install, and which looking at the pages for them seems to be incomprehensible and just far too complicated for what should just fucking be a simple app I download and install and run, just like I do with no-ip - they have a simple ‘duc’ app and it works and everything’s free, so it can be done and that’s how it should be done, not this insanely complicated stupid way that those cunts over at porkbun seem to think is the way to do the job, it isn’t
Fucking useless cunts

2024-02-08 06:30:26

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I can’t remember how I manually changed the ip address on porkbun yesterday and the day before

2024-02-08 06:19:48

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Fucking porkbun hasn’t realised my ip has changed, so nothing works again, and the useless cunts don’t have any app or api I can download that actually works that ensures this isn’t a problem
It is a problem – every fucking morning, and those bastards expect us to just log in every time and manually change the ip addresses, every fucking day
Useless cunts

2024-02-08 06:04:55

My ip has changed again this morning

2024-02-07 10:46:47

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@npub19kv…m4nu I think I’ve got it sorted out now
why the fuck hasn’t porkbun got an easy way to do this, useless cunts – even no-ip which is free has a mac app which just works and does what is necessary
Fuck this, I’ve only been with porkbun a few weeks, I’m tempted to just tell them to fuck off and take the domain elsewhere (except gandi, who are also cunts)

2024-02-07 10:07:31

My ip address has changed again this morning so I won’t be able to be on my normal fediverse account – and if anyone wanted to look at my web site, you can’t, it’s unavailable now because porkbun have no usable way of me updating my ip unless I go there and I can’t get into their website because they’ve just emailed me a code to proceed but I don’t see any such email, so fuck it all, you’ll have to do without my stuff from now on

2024-02-05 22:00:27

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@npub1ecp…59pq microwave ovens - it’d be nice to be able to put something in the fucking oven without the fucking door being actually in the fucking way for the entire duration of putting a thing in the thing

2024-02-05 21:59:30

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@npub1ecp…59pq as a designer I design everything to be as hard as possible for the right-handers to use

2024-02-05 21:45:59

My domain name stopped working because my ip address changed (twice in the same day) and there’s no way to make it update automatically
Also my raspberry pi had to be restarted so my Iceshrimp can’t start up either
I don’t think the two are related, they just happen to occur at the same time
So I’m on here for a while, I haven’t got time to sort out the other shit

2023-11-02 13:34:06

Is gandi fucked at the moment?

2023-10-20 16:14:09

is there anyone in London that would be considered a “vintage digital camera collector”?
I’m going to dump my Nikon Coolpix e995 system, initially I was going to take it to a charity shop or something, but it occurred to me that someone in London might want to have it directly (for free)
Re-post this for wider reach, ta
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/111/268/208/946/414/882/original/8b41b983898c50b0.jpeg
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/111/268/209/357/290/352/original/6f28fd8edb3d40c4.jpeg

2023-09-30 10:12:54

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@npub16gl…syzj https://functional.cafe/@u0421793/111147874427257570 If someone tries to engage you in an argument on mastodon is that mastobait?

2023-09-29 18:18:24

Just had to attend to my M2 MacBook Air which having taken it out of the house for the first time to use on the DLR via my iPhone, now didn’t stay on the BT Smarthub’s WiFi, so I had to restart the BT Smarthub, then reboot the Raspberry Pi 4 that runs Firefish for my firefish instance, and it still hasn’t come up!
While TOTP is on!
Gah!
#TOTP

2023-09-29 10:06:10

If someone tries to engage you in an argument on mastodon is that mastobait?

2023-09-28 10:14:46

What would you get if you put ActivityPub and JMAP together and left them alone for a while?

2023-09-08 11:56:25

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@npub1lsk…6vq7 in fact, I’ve been thinking…
What if back in the late 70s early 80s when the first home computers such as the ZX80, BBC A, Kim 1, Lynx, Dragon, NewBrain, Oric, etc – what if some of those, perhaps the majority, had chosen to build in Lisp into ROM instead of Basic? Where would we be now?

2023-09-07 19:56:56

I hate programming, luckily I’ve never had to do any actual programming, ever
But if I did have to do any programming on a serious level (won’t happen) then I think I’d put some effort into learning Lisp (can’t take more than half an hour to get on top of it, surely?)
Which brings me to…
Why not eraticate all JavaScript and just use Lisp instead, everywhere – in the browser, on the server, everything just Lisp, never seeing any JavaScript anywhere ever again

2023-08-16 05:53:18

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@npub1pwx…xk5j cheers, we’re back in the UK now, weather’s nearly the same actually - 25° and plus, heading warmer as the week progresses

2023-08-14 19:23:52

Final sunset in Gibraltar for now
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/889/585/116/635/210/original/9c4ffb01599e290d.jpeg

2023-08-14 11:01:47

Enjoying a coffee by the beach in Gib, we fly back to the UK tomorrow
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/887/619/667/266/551/original/a9aca072496769af.jpeg

2023-08-13 09:03:38

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@npub1vuj…mr6e was even one screen ever “saved” back then?

2023-08-13 08:47:23

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@npub1dxj…exjn @npub1xzq…kje9 when I had a job in recent years I’d often lie down for a nap at any time I felt the need for (typically 25minutes, probably a circadian quarter wave of some sort) but conversely at spurious times I’d have an idea and just nip back to my work computer and do the thing for half an hour or so, then get back to “not being at work”

2023-08-11 16:48:43

Probably won’t make TOTP tonight
#TOTP #Gibraltar
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/872/001/392/098/377/original/488eda18df0f02b3.jpeg

2023-08-11 07:03:17

https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/869/695/756/612/025/original/74cd80b6c711ed9f.jpeg

2023-08-09 17:17:46

Sitting here in the dying sun in Torremolinos listening to my mobile playlist (mp3s I’ve owned, not streaming) on my AirPods Pros 2s, what just comes up, that summer sun favourite First Class / Beach Baby
First Class of course were a band from Essex / Dagenham area
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/860/792/041/175/805/original/ddbd04710b1b17e7.jpeg

2023-08-09 14:50:57

Earlier this afternoon I rented a bicycle here in Torremolinos and cycled for about three hours, including through an area depicted on the street posters in this picture
I saw no ursine creatures whatsoever, in any particular state of sanity
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/860/208/237/473/162/original/967e990f2fd6d5e0.jpeg

2023-08-09 14:39:38

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@npub1pvf…093g
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/bayeux-tapestry-penis-why-norman-conquest-battle-hastings-william-conqueror/

2023-08-08 10:17:06

Jack of all trades, Mastodon

2023-08-07 11:06:48

Spain, they just flipped this vehicle back from being on its side just milliseconds before I took this shot just now
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/848/006/043/777/473/original/b72307896be89447.jpeg

2023-08-07 08:30:42

There were a lot of dark clouds just now, though
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/847/393/344/488/797/original/5124a66fa7bc8a8f.jpeg

2023-08-05 16:51:21

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@npub1mg8…ytvv it was a back of the envelope idea

2023-07-20 14:58:46

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@npub1ty0…s5fq
https://youtu.be/qIHfuihoz70
#TOTP

2023-07-20 12:55:48

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@npub19vj…j7yr @npub19vj…j7yr mines fucked too
Oh well, it’s only pissing about wasting time on social media, not important, probably an advantage in fact

2023-07-20 12:47:53

On my morning cycle
The difficult third album
https://flic.kr/p/2oQCRFT
#Comma #butterfly

2023-07-20 12:30:04

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@npub19qm…sn8k also the mode of intake can compound the way that repeated decisions are treated
As a lightweight example: I noticed in the early years of the web that spending a lot of time on eg eBay in the evenings (as a lot of us did) is tiring
Not just because you should’ve gone to bed long ago, but also because it’s a weird mixture of modalities
• scrolling vertically isn’t natural (we’re physiologically more aligned to spot differences across a horizon plane)
• there’s numbers (prices, quantities sizes, dates, but most importantly prices)
• there’s words
• there’s pictures
Each of the latter three are treated quite differently in the brain and at different speeds and in different ways (eg people with more than one language will speak fluently in an acquired language yet dive back into their original language to count or do things with numbers)
Compound this with the non-stop torrent of packets of the above, and it’s no wonder none of us are sleeping properly in the first half of the century – each little packet of info (number/words/picture) takes a heavy load of interpretation and we just shove one after another after another into our eyes

2023-07-20 12:15:44

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@npub1ue8…kvcm best entirely black frame yet, out of all the entirely black frames so far

2023-07-20 11:57:50

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@npub1d84…y4vl it’ll do

2023-07-20 10:05:06

I just livestreamed a film review
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
https://www.youtube.com/live/PJ-OoXeJvFI?feature=share
#FilmConnections #KindHeartsAndCoronets

2023-07-20 09:02:52

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@npub134g…qaau quagaars

2023-07-20 08:40:43

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@npub1vxd…hm9m
You can’t spend all morning staring out the window
You’ll have nothing left to do in the afternoon

2023-07-20 06:04:33

Scientists conclusively prove that nine out of ten of the songs on my album are better than Coldplay
u0421793 / No Laments for Pale Sunsets
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/no-laments-for-pale-sunsets/1684857695
#u0421793 #music #album #atmos #spatial

2023-07-14 17:22:31

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@npub16dw…kdp2 ah, good point

2023-07-14 13:44:34

Quick question to the functional language people and W3c people here
There’s SVG, which is an XML application
What if there were SVG but not XML, instead, it was S-expressions?
All of SVG as it currently is, but in S-expressions instead of XML
Would there be a disadvantage?
#svg #FunctionalLanguage #sExpressions

2023-07-13 07:23:32

It’s always a watchdog, never a watchbitch

2023-07-10 11:32:43

I live-streamed a film review earlier this morning
https://ck.pikopublishing.page/notes/9h07z5ikvgb7vzrg

2023-07-09 20:24:08

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It occurred to me that it might be possible to use Shortcuts to control Keynote – it is, but not in any useful way
Shortcuts can now: Open presentation; Create presentation (what fucking use is that, the presentation already exists); Open in rehearsal mode (also useless); Open in show mode (this is the one) – and that’s it! No more
There’s no way to step through, and there’s no way to specify an absolute time with respect to the start of a sequence that is also running on the same fucking machine – even if I were playing the keynote independently, the only thing you can do to make it run automatically is specify a time delay between this slide and the next, and the next slide will be a time delay that only applies to that slide (so 10 seconds for the first slide, and 10 seconds for the second slide, won’t make both slides happen at once, the second 10 seconds is actually at the 20 second point) – which makes it stupidly tedious to figure out where slides are supposed to change
Fuck this, it’s too complicated

2023-07-09 19:53:28

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@npub1wjf…kmc4 @npub1dm5…5sqe still, can OSC do anything at all with Keynote?

2023-07-09 19:51:36

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 is this a post about Threads?

2023-07-09 19:49:11

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@npub1wjf…kmc4 @npub1dm5…5sqe no, that’s too much complication taking midi out of the iPad or iPhone and then trying to get the now-externals signal to step the iPad or iPhone through somehow

2023-07-09 19:42:13

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@npub1wjf…kmc4 @npub1dm5…5sqe how?

2023-07-09 17:15:49

Is there any way to step through a Keynote presentation using MIDI without spending any money to do it? Basically I want to run a Keynote with lyrics and have it synced to the rest of the sequence

2023-07-09 13:43:14

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@npub15w5…qz09 my old Yamaha QY700 has XG (it’s up in the attic)

2023-07-09 13:20:42

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@npub1h7z…xqvk Bebbanburg’s doing

2023-07-09 13:15:40

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@npub1jtm…rxtn @npub1kx8…0sus @npub1pvf…093g I should point out that I’m seeing a separate market to the ‘make a living from music’ market of music makers
It’s the natural thing to do when starting out that one would think that one day one will become famous and rich and all that stuff, but that’s just a lottery (or if you’ve got enough finance to bully your way in, then give pluggers whatever they ask for, that’s also a valid strategy if the music is actually good)
So there’s the artist without necessarily a day job and all the time in the world to practice, get good, perform live etc, but in most cases they won’t be good enough, won’t get gigs, won’t be motivated every day or even every month because it all seems to be against you
Then there’s the day job person who might have been through the previous but now has a mortgage and too many guitars, mostly covered in dust – a lot of my synth colleagues are in this category and they start things in DAWs but never ever finish them, they sometimes livestream a ‘jam session’ on synths but that’s just unstructured experimentation and you’re unlikely to walk away whistling the hook half an hour afterwards
The area I increasingly see is valid is the one where you just throw out any notion of making any money out of it – not even tips or sales, just completely divorce the music making act from the money getting act
If you know it’s not going to sell, if you know it’s not going to compete, I think there’s a chance there of conjuring something truly new and innovative and of tomorrow
Any time an artist has even at the back of their mind the idea that they’ll have to compete and have to be ‘as good as’ one of the lottery winner artists, any time an artist wants to get tips or money from their tiny sales, they’re inevitably going to bend their work toward making it ‘like’ music that’s already out there
And that’s one of the unseen disasters of streaming – it’s such a big audience that anyone anywhere in the world wants the same stuff as they’re used to, so all bands all artists everywhere in the world all become homogenous

2023-07-09 13:05:17

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@npub1jtm…rxtn @npub1kx8…0sus @npub1pvf…093g I don’t think YouTube actually has a proper mechanism for doing useful things with lyrics at this stage – they could, they could use similar captioning encapsulations to television etc, but like most things google, YouTube seems to be trimming features rather than growing them (eg can’t post a url with a start point any more)
The whole arena of lyric videos is intriguing to me and has been for the past decade or so
Making a video for a song is a big commercial undertaking for most non-professional artists, although shooting a live performance on a phone is all it really takes, people want to edit and stuff
Yet I’ve noticed there’s definitely an appetite for lyric videos, and I personally think that’s a field ready for a lot of future expansion and invention – a fully synthetic video that has timed text, but looks good, and doesn’t have any actual moving video in the normal sense, but is full of synchronisable multimedia (if it knows the tempo of the song, or perhaps even the structure, key sig, style, etc) then it becomes feasible to have a video that (although comprised of simple elements) looks different each time it is played, and different to different people (because parameters etc)
If I could put together a Keynote presentation and have it midi-synced, I’d be able to make nifty cheap videos piece of piss, and so would everyone else

2023-07-09 12:01:03

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@npub1qfw…dq6a fuck is that the time?

2023-07-09 10:55:57

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@npub1jtm…rxtn @npub1kx8…0sus @npub1pvf…093g what I really want is for YouTube to run the lyrics past in the same sort of way that it does on Apple Music, that way I wouldn’t have to bother making a video for each track – the lyrics were indeed uploaded, but only Apple Music makes use of them and YouTube would be perfect for displaying a timed-text lyric video because it is after all a video venue

2023-07-09 10:53:18

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@npub1jtm…rxtn @npub1kx8…0sus @npub1pvf…093g actually that’s a point – a few years ago with the prev albums I actually made more pence though YouTube than any of the other streaming services (in fact more than all of them put together)
I presume that’s the case now, I haven’t looked (and probably won’t)

2023-07-09 10:42:30

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@npub1jtm…rxtn @npub1kx8…0sus @npub1pvf…093g fuck
Oh well

2023-07-09 10:38:11

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@npub1jtm…rxtn @npub1kx8…0sus @npub1pvf…093g it’s out there somewhere, it’d bloody better be, uploading Atmos cost me about £25 per track and it’s a ten track album!

2023-07-09 10:28:34

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@npub1kx8…0sus @npub1jtm…rxtn @npub1pvf…093g also it depends on leverage to the audience – the trouble with streaming services ‘these days’ is that the audiences are almost one audience per subscriber, whereas with radio, the audience is ‘all the people that listen to that station’, which is a big group
I know the streaming services try to emulate that with playlists and perhaps that is the equiv of a radio station but it also isn’t, in that there’s no commonality, no buzz from the djs getting excited about an upcoming song, no way to get everybody to appreciate a new song all at the same time
With radio you can get in the charts, and it’s a fairly competitive ‘get in, go up, go down, that’s it for that song’ thing (aided by plugging, promotion etc), but with streaming it’s a confused long-tail which works almost like the lottery
My previous two albums were chart-registered for eligibility (with Kantar, PPL, etc) but in the end I decided to delete them (thus increasing their rarity, although nobody noticed)
My latest album back in March I took a different approach and tried to intentionally not promote it, not advertise it, not even talk about it much, so that I’m putting zero effort into promo – it’s not even chart registered this time round (although it’s Atmos so I’m not sure how that would count)
I really think there’s a thing about having an anti-commercial approach whereby an artist produces output that absolutely nobody ever discovers, for me it focuses the effort on whether I made the songs the way I want them, not whether I competed in some sort of expensive willy-measuring waste of energy
Given time there’ll be a large sedimentary layer of songs from many many artists and bands that got released but aren’t promoted and are in effect invisible — intentionally — and I think they’re the true art

2023-07-09 10:00:49

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@npub1kx8…0sus is it the 8 ram or 16?

2023-07-09 09:27:17

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@npub1s88…mp34 oh I have, I remember USENET

2023-07-09 08:45:30

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@npub1zrv…xq4y recommended …occasionally

2023-07-09 08:37:25

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@npub1r7x…q40k it’d be wonderful if alt-text could be translated with ease from other languages into one’s own language
For me, I’d find that useful for foreign-language cartoons which might have the speech bubble text in each frame in a language I don’t understand, I’d be able to understand and enjoy the cartoon

2023-07-09 08:11:04

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@npub178h…hyhr I remember listening to the session they did for John Peel
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/683/106/573/140/045/original/2a8c251d38e03cd3.jpeg

2023-07-08 22:24:42

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@npub1l2z…hs74 if it somehow does you’ll still have to wait an age the next morning to charge it all the way up anyway

2023-07-08 22:22:58

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@npub1l2z…hs74 no

2023-07-08 22:08:19

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@npub1ue8…kvcm it’s getting good now

2023-07-08 22:07:44

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No wait, that’s not what I meant
I’ve just realised I
haven’t done an introduction
I’ve got a massive box of watercolour paints is
that okay
#introduction

2023-07-08 22:06:57

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No wait, that’s not what I meant
I’ve just realised I
haven’t done an introduction
I’ve got a massive ruler is
that okay
#introduction

2023-07-08 22:05:39

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Oh wait, that’s not what I meant
I’ve just realised I
haven’t done an introduction
I’ve got a massive pencil is
that okay
#introduction

2023-07-08 22:04:44

I’ve just realised I
haven’t done an introduction
I’ve got a massive pen is
that okay?
#introduction

2023-07-08 21:56:22

Weekend booze for me
(I’d better start taking proper packshots for the magazine hadn’t I)
https://functional.cafe/system/media_attachments/files/110/680/685/887/660/478/original/78363ee3ce10340e.jpeg

2023-07-08 21:49:27

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@npub1zsx…zcfs …gigablog? what’s a gigablog!!!

2023-07-08 21:40:56

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@npub1ehj…68hn @npub18vv…expw I remember long ago a Mad Magazine back issues page which announced in headline:
NONE LEFT!
And went on to explain in the body copy
“Yes indeed – last month absolutely none of our back issues left our warehouse…”

2023-07-08 19:47:08

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@npub17fh…23hw @npub1w0k…z3sz and if they have a girl in every port, then they’re doing their bit for equality

2023-07-08 19:44:30

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@npub1w0k…z3sz @npub17fh…23hw in a storm

2023-07-08 16:04:11

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@npub14vj…zx2q this sort of thing:
https://functional.cafe/@u0421793/110679200871898754

2023-07-08 15:36:19

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@npub1g8p…waj7 The focus of the magazine will be on zero percent beer, zero percent wine, zero percent other drinks
Of course that’s a limited topic arena, that wouldn’t be enough to fill an issue each month, but essentially, if someone has made the decision to go for zero percent drinking instead of alcohol, they’ve probably got a lot of other things going on in their lives that are in common with other people who’ve made the same zero percent drinks decision
So it’s sort of lifestyle in many ways, quite wide, and varying somewhat each month, not just about the drinks themselves
For more info and clarification I’d have to pass interested people over to my editor (it’d be by email or something, they’re not on the fediverse)

2023-07-08 15:07:31

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@npub1ye6…6a2z
The skies always had little fluffy clouds in them and
They were long and clear and
There were lots of stars at night
And when it would rain it would all turn … they were beautiful
The most beautiful skies, as a matter of fact
The sunsets were
Purple and red and yellow and on fire
And the clouds would catch the colors everywhere

2023-07-08 14:59:47

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@npub19rr…pepv hah

2023-07-08 14:40:46

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@npub1z4n…awd6 it’s not really that though – it’s definitely a business (family business) with proper publishing and investment on our side, etc as opposed to a co-op I’m afraid

2023-07-08 14:37:37

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@npub19rr…pepv Ideal
I’ll add you to the list of contributors (in fact you can go straight to the top – and also the bottom, simultaneously!)
Thing number one, though – what do you know about zero percent booze around the world?

2023-07-08 14:25:28

How do I go about basically asking “who would like to write for a new magazine I’m starting, you probably won’t get paid much, if at all, and it won’t be for a long time until we see the returns quite a while after the issue has passed it’s on-sale date, and you won’t be able to live off this little, but it represents a possibility of writing for a magazine (heh yeh, that ‘exposure’ thing), and the pride of not ever ever ever fucking handing me a piece of work that you’ve just asked chatgpt to write for you – don’t you ever do that to me
Ahem where was I?
Yes, I’m launching a magazine and we’ll take pride in presenting actual human-written articles on our topics, and we’ll make a big noise in saying so
How do I ask for that?

2023-07-08 14:20:35

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@npub1huu…vyxe good name for a cat

2023-07-08 14:14:53

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@npub1ndr…ku2d I normally post this clip for an entirely different reason – altogether
https://vimeo.com/234530750

2023-07-08 12:48:33

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@npub1y60…sv08 one of the best thus far

2023-07-08 12:47:05

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@npub18gc…v7cg worse, (although I haven’t looked into it, I only saw the poster ad and thought ‘Hmph’ and moved on),
I suspect it’d trap the consumer,
if the bike got stolen (bikes get stolen and this one looked a very smart bit of kit) then they’d still have to keep paying no doubt,
and similarly if it ended up in an accident or got broken or suchlike, they’d still have to keep paying
(unless the rental sorry I mean subscription incorporated a kind of insurance component, and if it does you know that won’t be cheap)

2023-07-08 12:38:37

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@npub18gc…v7cg it was for a thing you get to take home and keep, but instead of buying outright, you’re effectively renting or paying monthly or something, but it’s “your” bike (until it’s not)

2023-07-08 12:36:40

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@npub12vy…a494 you utter bastard

2023-07-08 12:33:17

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@npub18gc…v7cg @npub183n…2z23 yesterday in Stratford Westfield I saw a huge poster saying “Don’t buy this electric bike – subscribe to it”
Is that actually in the slightest bit appealing to any generation alive today?
And why is the word “subscribing” more compelling (it isn’t) than just saying “renting”?

2023-07-08 12:27:03

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@npub129c…hdz5 will it totally eclipse it?

2023-07-08 12:24:07

I’ve been on a few-week (maybe few-month really) adventure of digging out old email and phone numbers of all the people I knew
This past week I’ve managed to get back in contact with some key people I knew back in the 90s from mag publishing and had very productive chats
The one thing in common – I mentioned that I’d been emailing people I used to know on email addresses and phone numbers that produced no replies, and I was never quite sure if they didn’t want to talk to me or if the emails and phone numbers were so old they simply didn’t work any more
Each person I chatted to and told this, replied “yeah, tell me about it” – we’d all been through the same experience recently
#oldEmails #oldPhoneNumbers

2023-07-08 12:09:31

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@npub1tj4…zh8f @npub17jy…4tr7 having said that, I’m personally, myself, very much of the position that all ideas exist — out there — and we simply access them, or fail to access them yet, or fail to access them properly through misinterpretation or under-reaching or bad photocopying, and that’s kind of why there’d be a “one” knowledge of the thing we have knowledge of rather than each person stores a duplicate copy of that knowledge of whatever aspect we’re referring to
In the cases where a person has horrendously misinterpreted the situation or is laughably incorrect about what they think the truth of the matter is, then yes they do have their own flawed and mutated copy because nobody else shares it so it isn’t ‘out there’ it’s ‘in here’ and they’re the only one with that one instance of batshit daft un-knowledge
In the cases where an entire population ‘knows’ a thing to be true, it’s more as if the canonical master-plan of that knowledge morsel is ‘out there’ rather than in each person, because let’s face it, that’s far cheaper
So given that, I posit that a person can’t ‘have’ a valid idea in the context of owning the idea – the possibility for that valid idea was already out there (statistically) and all it takes is a bunch of people to access it and share the accessing of the idea
Which kind of blows a hole in copyright and patents etc

2023-07-08 11:44:00

Hello losers, I know you’re not my audience (nobody is, why should they?) but it’s time to go through the motions of promoting my shit
Here’s a song wot I wrote and singed u0421793 / Agent of Thwart
(Also on YouTube and sprotify and all the other music screaming places that nearly put the record shops out of business)
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/agent-of-thwart/1684857695?i=1684857868
Lyrics are displayed on Apple Music (really wish they were displayed like this on YouTube music etc)
#TOTP #promo #u0421793

2023-07-08 08:59:10

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@npub1ndr…ku2d it’s all the fault of JavaScript really – turn back, it’s not too late

2023-07-08 08:56:34

Heaven 17 / Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry (1983)
https://youtu.be/uies5prvsto
#TOTP