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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 7h

730. The Byrds - The Notorious Byrd Brothers - 0/10

David Crosby was fired during this recording and replaced in the album artwork by a horse. I'm not sure who comes out of this best, band or sacked guitarist. Actually, it's the horse who was probably a better musician than any of them. Awful.

Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 1d

729. Hookworms - Microshift - 0/10

A Commodore 64 had slightly better sound quality than this droning, blipping effort. Not just any Commodore 64: the one I owned, which had a cup of tea dropped on it. The fuzzy reverb throughout is a synæsthetic tribute to retinal migraines. Awful.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: there are No. Good. Billionaires.

Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 2d

728. OutKast - Speakerboxxx / The Love Below - 0/10

An album made by two people on different planets: Big Boi is from Mars and André 3000 is from Venus. And somehow we were stuck in between, caught in the middle as the two launched songs at each other across the gulf of space. Awful.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 2d

That last bit's not true though, is it? Researchers recently mapped an entire fruit fly brain and it's small enough to fit on a single computer.
Mapping it was the hard bit.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 2d

Mar: Soon, the AI bubble will burst!
Apr: Soon, the AI bubble will burst!
May: Soon, the AI bubble will burst!
Jun: Soon, the AI bubble will burst!
Jul: Soon, the AI bubble will burst!
Aug: Soon, the AI bubble will burst!
Sep: Soon, the AI bubble will burst!
Oct: (The Zitron bubble bursts)

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 2d

It's almost like he's been a grifting cunt whipping up the outrage of gullible idiots for personal gain all along.
Dozens of people will be shocked.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 3d

Noble vanished? Seems to still be common use to me.

Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 3d

I prescribe you proscribe "proscribe"

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 3d

President Farage would be better than King Nigel.

The whole point of democracy is you get to vote them out if they're shit.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 3d

I could go on but I won't

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 3d

727. Steely Dan - Aja - 0/10

I once spent an afternoon sorting a big pile of loose change into year order. At the end of this process, I mixed them all back into the same jar. A similar feeling of bored futility arrived listening to this. To coin a phrase: awful.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 3d

On a tangent, this is why I do not trust media that carries adverts.
The power advertisers have to influence editorial decisions is too great.

Cormac @cormacos.bsky.social · 3d

Louis Theroux has interviewed actual literal murderers before, but a musician with views that the British establishment don't like is just a step too far for British Airways.

A sky news alert showing Louis Theroux and Bob Vylan, which states that British Airways are pulling funding from Theroux's podcast over his interview with Bob Vylan.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 4d

No

Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 4d

726. Sugar - Copper Blue - 0/10

The funniest thing I have read in all my research to date is that this singer, Bob Mould, got into the wrestling world but left due to "creative disputes with other writers". This album suggests that the dispute was over the fact he has none. Awful.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 5d

"Greatest nation in the world" 🤣

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 5d

725. Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction - 0/10

This chaotic, manspreading callithump of an album leaves a taste of sweaty leather and the sting of hairspray in your mouth. It's what's left when an ego has grown so large all trace of sense and decency have left the building. Awful.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 5d

America is hell

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5d

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 6d

Way more detail than anyone wanted, but it's there now :)

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 6d

The marriage wasn't happy. The Earl's daughter was Georgina Howe, who wanted to marry the guy who masterminded The Great Escape.
The guy she did marry had brother called Glen who was Barbara Cartland's lover and died in a plane crash after surviving another where the pilot was a German prince.

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 6d

But what about all the bots Zach!?

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 6d

The chances of you actually getting this right are diminishing and going into the west

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Alun @alunh.bsky.social · 6d

Also: trans rights are human rights