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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 3h

For me, the vocal lift at 4.25 in that song is just one of the most fucking amazing things ever put to record.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 3h

Unbelievable musician, off to Another Life. RIP D'Angelo.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTAn...

D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Another Life (Audio)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't that y-axis a little funky?

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

It's also simply much better to have a school trip that everyone goes on rather than one a small number do. I want to see six coaches outside the school with the most random assortment of bags all over the pavement, not groups at the airport with "Zermatt 2025" printed hoodies.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

I'm getting old, because I'm doing more and more nostalgia stuff, but it's a real political problem that everything, everything is designed to be maximally extractive of your resources.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

I loved my school trips. The most one ever cost was about £75. Four nights at some ILEA-owned collection of portacabins in Surrey or a coach trip to Normandy for a look at the Bayeux Tapestry and a visit to some war cemeteries. They were completely perfect.

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 1d

Inexplicably, my son’s very standard state school - in a mixed area, not a particularly affluent one - arranged a £4K trip to Kenya last year. I keep meaning to do a story on the astonishing escalation of the school trip.

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1d

I know they just do this to wind people up, but Christ on a bike.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

I would do anything to avoid gift-wrapping, including turning up Bitches Brew even louder.

Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes a customer who braved the shop would ask me (17) "what do you recommend for/on x person/topic?". Fools!

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

Worked in a bookshop as a teenager. Was generally left to it for a few hours each day while the boss headed out to check on his other shop. Used to put this on the stereo to ensure as few customers as possible. Great times.

The Quietus @thequietus.com · 1d

"Finding people like Miles Davis that weren’t afraid to alienate critics and even a portion of his audience was a really important thing for us, not just as a statement but also musically. I just really love this album."

#RonMael of #Sparks on #MilesDavis - Bitches Brew

buff.ly/Y4fpiwP

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew album cover. The sea and clouds and a flower bleeding colour up into the sky where a face looks on.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

There's really no excuse for shrugging it off because "difficult" or "geopolitics", or acting as if it's too small ball to bother with. Need to find a few MPs to take it on.

Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

Yes - and there are so many interesting policy ideas to throw about for all of this (payment + location transparency, tax treatments, are you really "self-employed" if you're working to create content for a platform, extensive media literacy training, media regulation thresholds etc, outright ban).

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

I think the effect of some smart policy choices around monetisation, plus reinflate media a bit would go quite a long way towards righting the ship.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 1d

Monetisation incentives have poured petrol on the problem.

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 2d

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 2d

Late to this, but is Balatro meant to be difficult? (I won second try, and if "that's it" I'm not super motivated to keep going).

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

Within less than a week I have switched to assuming that every charming little video I see is fake and I hate that

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 4d

I stopped watching after the 70s, but yeah, god knows what definitions they've used.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 4d

I guess they're including NI.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 5d

You left Ireland?

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 5d

Zuck announces AI-powered translations for Reels videos, "to help you reach more people around the world". But no transparency about this when you see it - no label, no "translated with AI", nothing. You just have to know he doesn't speak Hindi (or Japanese, or Portuguese etc).

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 5d

Can't be another government in the world where, instead of doing actual work, cabinet-level people sit next to their leader for days every week listening to them drone on and on.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 5d

(To date me, I'm counting ICQ, though we'd met in person before the chats began)

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 5d

Marriage (and therefore my kids) and nearly all my work.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 6d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 5d

No one caught any this year. My neighbours go out in the harbour by me with a line and got absolutely nothing.

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Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 6d

My kids do Irish music (whistle, guitar and concertina) at the Gaelscoil and it's just such a wonderful community. Kids flying around everywhere, joyous music in the air, so lovely!

Sam Jeffers @worklesshard.bsky.social · 6d

When I'm king the airlines will measure you in a box like a cabin bag and it's free exit rows for anyone over 6'4".

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 6d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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