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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 2d

Put some graphite lubricant in my front door lock and, fuck me, it's changed my life.

(In a positive way.)

Reposted by Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈

Artisan Creative @artisancreativeltd.bsky.social · 4d

The adventure continues… 🌟
4 shows. 47 performances. From Fringe Festivals to rural tours, libraries to livestreams — we’re taking flight this year!

Poster with the heading “The adventure continues…” featuring four show titles — The Spirit Dog, Stumbling Over Eden, American Wilderness Odyssey, and How to Survive and Thrive in an Impossible World (with a piano!). Text reads: “From libraries to livestreams, from studio stages to Fringe Festivals —

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 4d

Just plugged my desktop USB keyboard into a USB-to-lightning adapter, to plug into my iPhone, so I could more easily enter the shitty McDonald's Monopoly codes into the app because the code scanner is fucking next-to-useless.

Having done a fair bit of driving recently, I have gathered some tokens.

Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not sure what I just made but they definitely weren’t crumpets.

Quite nice, considering.

(But fucking awful crumpets. The worst I’ve ever made!)

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 4d

Calling it “crowdfunding” is useful as people have kind of forgotten that’s how the indie music industry (/theatre/arts/etc) works, has always worked.

There’s a threshold at which events can make sense financially. Buying a ticket helps reach this threshold. Buying early helps even more!

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 4d

If the crowdfund doesn’t reach its target, the options are: cancel the event, or go ahead with the event knowing that someone is taking a hit financially. (See above for who that is most likely hurting the most.)

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 4d

A venue / promoter / band are working on the notion - the bet - they can sell enough tickets to make it financially make sense.

Someone is taking the risk - rarely the venue, often the promoter, nearly always the artist.

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 4d

Every ticketed gig you’ve ever been to is effectively a crowdfunded gig, it’s not a new concept - but it is useful to have it reframed that way.

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t think I paid attention when I watched Fringe first time round.

I’m sure I’d have remembered Anna Torv doing her best Leonard Nimoy impression, three quarters of the way through season 3.

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 7d

I am only now realising how I have underestimated leeks as an ingredient.

Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 10d

Bugger.
I sat down.

Again.

Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 10d

There’s been a USS Mandela on Star Trek somewhere, right?

We all remember that, don’t we?

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 12d

Please fuck yes Instagram you’ve got the algo just right for me when it’s videos about pottery, recipes for nice food and cats.

Please remember this. 10/10. No notes.

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Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 12d

Oh gahd there’s a RPDRUK to watch today too!

Thursdays are busy for telly right now.

Christopher Lydon 🏳️‍🌈 @daschrislydon.bsky.social · 12d

Do I want to turn on 2FA for the account that I use to switch on the wireless plug socket that the heater is plugged into in my bedroom at my mum’s house?

No, I think it’s OK for now.