Kat Five
@katfive.bsky.social
Switch-ing things up https://song.link/KatFiveSwitch
Music & tech. Change. Artist, producer, AI explorer, aka Terry Tyldesley / Feral Five
linktr.ee/katfive
https://feralfive.bandcamp.com/track/truth-is-the-new-gold
Music & tech. Change. Artist, producer, AI explorer, aka Terry Tyldesley / Feral Five
linktr.ee/katfive
https://feralfive.bandcamp.com/track/truth-is-the-new-gold
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Kat Five
@katfive.bsky.social
· Oct 8
TRACK BY TRACK: RECKLESS YES RECORDS - AMONG THE WILDFLOWERS
After a 2-year hiatus co-founders of Reckless Yes records Pete Darrington & Sarah Lay guide us through their compilation 'Among The Wildflowers', packed with tracks by Feral Five, Knitting Circle, & many more.
@recklessyes.bsky.social
After a 2-year hiatus co-founders of Reckless Yes records Pete Darrington & Sarah Lay guide us through their compilation 'Among The Wildflowers', packed with tracks by Feral Five, Knitting Circle, & many more.
@recklessyes.bsky.social
Track by Track: Reckless Yes Records co-founders Pete Darrington and Sarah Lay guide us through their comeback compilation album ‘Among The Wildflowers’ - Joyzine
News of the return of Reckless Yes Records following a two-year hiatus was met with much rejoicing at Joyzine HQ. There are few labels whose ethics and musical taste have aligned quite so neatly with ...
joyzine.org
Thanks @joyzineuk.bsky.social and @recklessyes.bsky.social for the great words and track by track feature on the Among The Wildflowers compilation!
#musicsky
#musicsky
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Looking for some ethical, #coops-friendly #Christmas presents? Here's part one of our gift guide, compiled with Ethical Consumer
Ethical Christmas gift guide for co-operators
The first instalment of our 2025 Christmas gift guide is made up of items from Ethical Consumer’s Best Buy Label list
www.thenews.coop
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Looking for some ethical, #coops-friendly #Christmas presents? Here's part one of our gift guide, compiled with Ethical Consumer
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In a few mins, (and then @bbcsounds.bsky.social) it's our Freak Zone Art Time Punks special on the more experimental end of new wave. Expect Wire, This Heat, ATV, Television Personalities, Swell Maps, Patti Smith, Television, Pere Ubu, The Fall and more....
November 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
In a few mins, (and then @bbcsounds.bsky.social) it's our Freak Zone Art Time Punks special on the more experimental end of new wave. Expect Wire, This Heat, ATV, Television Personalities, Swell Maps, Patti Smith, Television, Pere Ubu, The Fall and more....
Excited to be speaking about music @ethical-consumer.bsky.social Conference today in their session on ‘Moving away from tech monopolies’
It's only a few days away from our annual conference in London.
We've got some great speakers joining us to explore "How can we move beyond corporate power? Why re-inventing corporations can help us build a fairer and more sustainable future"
Find out more and buy tickets here:
bit.ly/4nFvWr8
We've got some great speakers joining us to explore "How can we move beyond corporate power? Why re-inventing corporations can help us build a fairer and more sustainable future"
Find out more and buy tickets here:
bit.ly/4nFvWr8
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Excited to be speaking about music @ethical-consumer.bsky.social Conference today in their session on ‘Moving away from tech monopolies’
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A brilliant book, chuffed to have been able to review this one for LTW
Mike Joyce finally tells his story, offering candid and personal reflections on being a member of The Smiths
@iainkey.bsky.social review for LTW
@johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @newmodernbooks.bsky.social @peteselby.bsky.social
louderthanwar.com/the-drums-by...
@iainkey.bsky.social review for LTW
@johnrobbofficial.bsky.social @newmodernbooks.bsky.social @peteselby.bsky.social
louderthanwar.com/the-drums-by...
The Drums by Mike Joyce - Book Review
Mike Joyce finally tells his story, offering candid and personal reflections on being a member of The Smiths
louderthanwar.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A brilliant book, chuffed to have been able to review this one for LTW
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Looking forward to leading this foresight review over the next 9 months, examining how AI adoption intersects with worker safety, environmental safety and critical infra resilience. Also working with some brilliant partners including the Digital Futures Lab and Global Center on AI Governance
We are launching a new Foresight Review focused on the safe adoption of AI in engineered systems, in collaboration with Careful Industries.
This report will explore the impact #AI can have on worker safety, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.
🔗 https://loom.ly/cd0qW98
This report will explore the impact #AI can have on worker safety, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.
🔗 https://loom.ly/cd0qW98
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Looking forward to leading this foresight review over the next 9 months, examining how AI adoption intersects with worker safety, environmental safety and critical infra resilience. Also working with some brilliant partners including the Digital Futures Lab and Global Center on AI Governance
New second edition of the @xqui.bsky.social 'one enchanted evening' CD ft yours truly and other collaborators is out now on @mortalitytables.bsky.social, with alternative artwork.
All profits to Campaign Against Living Miserably (C.A.L.M.)
xqui.bandcamp.com/album/one-enchanted-evening
All profits to Campaign Against Living Miserably (C.A.L.M.)
xqui.bandcamp.com/album/one-enchanted-evening
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
New second edition of the @xqui.bsky.social 'one enchanted evening' CD ft yours truly and other collaborators is out now on @mortalitytables.bsky.social, with alternative artwork.
All profits to Campaign Against Living Miserably (C.A.L.M.)
xqui.bandcamp.com/album/one-enchanted-evening
All profits to Campaign Against Living Miserably (C.A.L.M.)
xqui.bandcamp.com/album/one-enchanted-evening
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The kind of positive trolling I would do if I were rich would be unparalleled.
I’d hire every politics writer laid off from Teen Vogue and start a new publication for them called Teen Rogue
I’d hire every politics writer laid off from Teen Vogue and start a new publication for them called Teen Rogue
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The kind of positive trolling I would do if I were rich would be unparalleled.
I’d hire every politics writer laid off from Teen Vogue and start a new publication for them called Teen Rogue
I’d hire every politics writer laid off from Teen Vogue and start a new publication for them called Teen Rogue
Sanctuary Lab Clare Archibald sound installation people check your emails as @archieislander.bsky.social has news about this wonderful work!
A picture of me alone in the dark at night crossing the Rio Seco (dry river) where I currently live in Perú. If you contributed to my 2021 sound installation for Sanctuary Lab in Galloway Forest then please check your email/spam. I would appreciate you sharing this post in case I've missed people.
October 31, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sanctuary Lab Clare Archibald sound installation people check your emails as @archieislander.bsky.social has news about this wonderful work!
So excited to get to test @subvert.fm out next week. Ethical tech ftw!
Our platform is ready.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4.
Rolling out to co-op members first.
October 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
So excited to get to test @subvert.fm out next week. Ethical tech ftw!
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Great news from aces @trupatrupa.bsky.social!
Check out the new video featuring Trupa Trupa’s music in Agnieszka Holland’s new film FRANZ.
Trupa Trupa’s music is part of the new biopic about writer Franz Kafka. The film is Poland’s official candidate for the Oscars.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcMG...
Trupa Trupa’s music is part of the new biopic about writer Franz Kafka. The film is Poland’s official candidate for the Oscars.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcMG...
Trupa Trupa x FRANZ KAFKA
YouTube video by Trupa Trupa
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Great news from aces @trupatrupa.bsky.social!
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"we're not having a serious conversation about the future of music unless we're talking about public funding, cooperatives, unions, and international solidarity"
- Liz Pelly, Mood Machine
- Liz Pelly, Mood Machine
October 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"we're not having a serious conversation about the future of music unless we're talking about public funding, cooperatives, unions, and international solidarity"
- Liz Pelly, Mood Machine
- Liz Pelly, Mood Machine
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Issue 217 is out now!
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
October 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Issue 217 is out now!
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
This magazine features our brand new guide to Music Streaming and the first trial of our Israel-Palestine rating.
We also updated our Amazon alternatives guides to Bookshops and Ethical Online Retailers and our guide to Ethical Chocolate too:
bit.ly/4hNJhvW
Great to see this @moonbuilding.bsky.social review of the new @xqui.bsky.social release 'one enchanted evening'. Loved contributing to the album and it's out now on @mortalitytables.bsky.social mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/one-en...
October 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Great to see this @moonbuilding.bsky.social review of the new @xqui.bsky.social release 'one enchanted evening'. Loved contributing to the album and it's out now on @mortalitytables.bsky.social mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/one-en...
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Okay, i think we need an alternative to NAMM. Nothing costs money. Everything defies commercial appeal. Best of show awards to the weirdest. Sign autographs with your favorite aleatoric composers. Open bar is coffee. Afterparty is more talks then a linkup to the ISS. Call it... NERDD.
October 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Okay, i think we need an alternative to NAMM. Nothing costs money. Everything defies commercial appeal. Best of show awards to the weirdest. Sign autographs with your favorite aleatoric composers. Open bar is coffee. Afterparty is more talks then a linkup to the ISS. Call it... NERDD.
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Thanks for mentioning us!
Co-op Cloud is actually a cooperatively governed software project that helps collectives spin up and manage their own infrastructure.
If you're looking for non-corporate alternative to AWS run by rad people, we recommend our friends at capsul.org :)
Co-op Cloud is actually a cooperatively governed software project that helps collectives spin up and manage their own infrastructure.
If you're looking for non-corporate alternative to AWS run by rad people, we recommend our friends at capsul.org :)
Capsul - Capsul
capsul.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Thanks for mentioning us!
Co-op Cloud is actually a cooperatively governed software project that helps collectives spin up and manage their own infrastructure.
If you're looking for non-corporate alternative to AWS run by rad people, we recommend our friends at capsul.org :)
Co-op Cloud is actually a cooperatively governed software project that helps collectives spin up and manage their own infrastructure.
If you're looking for non-corporate alternative to AWS run by rad people, we recommend our friends at capsul.org :)
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I’m always surprised we don’t talk more about AWS as a single point of failure — and hence of vulnerability to censorship pressure.
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.
www.techpolicy.press
October 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’m always surprised we don’t talk more about AWS as a single point of failure — and hence of vulnerability to censorship pressure.
So much of the internet down with the AWS issues. A painful reminder that even some more ethical services rely on Amazon. Who’s got alternatives to recommend? I’ve spotted @autonomic.zone’s Co-op Cloud for small tech providers.
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
So much of the internet down with the AWS issues. A painful reminder that even some more ethical services rely on Amazon. Who’s got alternatives to recommend? I’ve spotted @autonomic.zone’s Co-op Cloud for small tech providers.
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King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’
King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’
Australian band’s decision to remove catalogue in protest of CEO’s military investments an easy one, frontman says, and making music with friends remains ‘top of the triangle’
www.theguardian.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’
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“In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity.”
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, Barbara Müller, Edwin van Meerkerk, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Ronald de Haan, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Mark Blokpoel, Natalia Scharfenberg, Annelies Kleinherenbrink, Il...
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. ...
philarchive.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously to a) counter the technology industry's marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity.”
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU
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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
October 16, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.
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We may be D.C.’s first worker-led nonprofit newsroom. But we’re part of a larger system of cooperative organizations working to build a better world.
Last week, one of our co-founders spoke at a gathering of these businesses, from credit unions to neighborhood grocers.
What she's bringing back:
Last week, one of our co-founders spoke at a gathering of these businesses, from credit unions to neighborhood grocers.
What she's bringing back:
This moment isn’t normal, but here’s our glimmer of hope
Lessons from a cooperative businesses conference, and being a part of a larger movement
51st.news
October 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We may be D.C.’s first worker-led nonprofit newsroom. But we’re part of a larger system of cooperative organizations working to build a better world.
Last week, one of our co-founders spoke at a gathering of these businesses, from credit unions to neighborhood grocers.
What she's bringing back:
Last week, one of our co-founders spoke at a gathering of these businesses, from credit unions to neighborhood grocers.
What she's bringing back:
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On the release of their career-defining 5LP boxed set, electroclash guerilla girls Alex Murray-Leslie and Anat Ben-David guide Lucy O’Brien through 10 key Chicks on Speed moments
The Strange World Of… #ChicksOnSpeed
buff.ly/7PLt3tA
The Strange World Of… #ChicksOnSpeed
buff.ly/7PLt3tA
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
On the release of their career-defining 5LP boxed set, electroclash guerilla girls Alex Murray-Leslie and Anat Ben-David guide Lucy O’Brien through 10 key Chicks on Speed moments
The Strange World Of… #ChicksOnSpeed
buff.ly/7PLt3tA
The Strange World Of… #ChicksOnSpeed
buff.ly/7PLt3tA
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Imogen Heap explores identity and the digital world on latest single ‘Aftercare’
Trailblazing artist Imogen Heap shares ‘Aftercare’, the final glimpse into her new era of futuristic work.
Trailblazing artist Imogen Heap shares ‘Aftercare’, the final glimpse into her new era of futuristic work.
Imogen Heap explores identity and the digital world on latest single ‘Aftercare’
Trailblazing artist Imogen Heap shares ‘Aftercare’, the final glimpse into her new era of futuristic work.
loudwomen.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Imogen Heap explores identity and the digital world on latest single ‘Aftercare’
Trailblazing artist Imogen Heap shares ‘Aftercare’, the final glimpse into her new era of futuristic work.
Trailblazing artist Imogen Heap shares ‘Aftercare’, the final glimpse into her new era of futuristic work.