Scott Common 𓅃
@nocommonswan.bsky.social
Media & Coms Tutor, musician, ex-consultant, ex-gardening contractor, player of games, glass painter. Para-Luddite & Professional Amateur.𓅃
https://thek1500project.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@K1500Project
https://dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com/
https://thek1500project.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@K1500Project
https://dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com/
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Scott Common 𓅃
@nocommonswan.bsky.social
· Nov 24
The Moon Is A Device For Giving Up
YouTube video by K1500Project
www.youtube.com
Hello new followers (nods at 𓅃). Here's a video to explain me - an 8 minute song of one riff with text to speech vocal arguing poetically the space industry is undercutting discourses of climate action. The video is made from a 1950s Frigidaire commercial and 60s NASA PR footage.
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It's warm enough for the Kereru to start visiting again for our water supply. Yay!
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It's warm enough for the Kereru to start visiting again for our water supply. Yay!
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if we ban social media for kids but they are still allowed to talk to AI, that seems like it could be really really bad
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 AM
if we ban social media for kids but they are still allowed to talk to AI, that seems like it could be really really bad
It's warm enough for the Kereru to start visiting again for our water supply. Yay!
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
It's warm enough for the Kereru to start visiting again for our water supply. Yay!
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Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Just noting which consultancy wrote this report and the history of their reports for public agencies internationally. Anyone check the footnotes of this one?
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
Hundreds of job cuts proposed in new report to Wellington City Council
Wellington City Council could save tens of millions of dollars through cost-cutting, such as reducing staff, according to a new report.
www.rnz.co.nz
December 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Hey, so guess what I did? 🧵
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
Can I prove Deloitte used AI to write this report? No. But that would honestly be the less embarrassing option. The research in this report is below par for a 1st year undergrad, where they even bother to show research.
Let's unpack some of the mistakes I found.
#nzpol
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Yep Yep-yep-yep-yep, uh-huh, uh-huh, Yep-yep'yep-yep!
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Yep Yep-yep-yep-yep, uh-huh, uh-huh, Yep-yep'yep-yep!
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As predicted, got home from work and several other buds have opened 🌱
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
As predicted, got home from work and several other buds have opened 🌱
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Our fave fuschia ‘Falco’ we thought he’d died after he lost all his leaves in a storm. Looking glorious in flower 🌱
December 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Our fave fuschia ‘Falco’ we thought he’d died after he lost all his leaves in a storm. Looking glorious in flower 🌱
Quite nice to get up this morning and find our oldest fuchsia has managed to actually complete a full opening of one of its flowers. Hoping the rest of his flowers turn out so well. 🌱
![A fuchsia flower with deep pink outer petals, deep purple inner petals and many stamen. [Cultivar is Falco]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vlih4mykqzdmxs4e2hnwm542/bafkreifz5mrn44fpgerrposek74f4cfbwjxwenewhfrdknwkcrptqqov5m@jpeg)
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Quite nice to get up this morning and find our oldest fuchsia has managed to actually complete a full opening of one of its flowers. Hoping the rest of his flowers turn out so well. 🌱
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If you're looking for a pocket-sized Xmas present for a music-lover, consider the cool entries in the 33 1/3 Oceania series on notable LPs from Australia & Aotearoa NZ.
There is currently a 30% off sale for these on the Bloomsbury website, until the end of today.
www.bloomsbury.com/au/series/33...
There is currently a 30% off sale for these on the Bloomsbury website, until the end of today.
www.bloomsbury.com/au/series/33...
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 AM
If you're looking for a pocket-sized Xmas present for a music-lover, consider the cool entries in the 33 1/3 Oceania series on notable LPs from Australia & Aotearoa NZ.
There is currently a 30% off sale for these on the Bloomsbury website, until the end of today.
www.bloomsbury.com/au/series/33...
There is currently a 30% off sale for these on the Bloomsbury website, until the end of today.
www.bloomsbury.com/au/series/33...
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Amazing the change in less than a day. Yesterday all light green and I wasn’t sure what colour it’d end up with, 6am this morning noticed the colour turning, by 10am most definitely deep purple. Going to be so glorious when they fully open
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Amazing the change in less than a day. Yesterday all light green and I wasn’t sure what colour it’d end up with, 6am this morning noticed the colour turning, by 10am most definitely deep purple. Going to be so glorious when they fully open
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Oh yeah it's Bandcamp Friday in a little while, I've got no work until January and the digital discography of my main project (6 EPs) is available for less than $10(NZD!)
thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/consid...
thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/consid...
Considered an Unvarnished Truth by Otters, by The K1500 Project
4 track album
thek1500project.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Oh yeah it's Bandcamp Friday in a little while, I've got no work until January and the digital discography of my main project (6 EPs) is available for less than $10(NZD!)
thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/consid...
thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/consid...
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‘It says almost nothing about how the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) will contribute, despite the fact that the strategy’s objectives cannot be met without them.’
Opinion from Auckland University: The Govt’s boldest tertiary policy shift in years barely mentions the arts, humanities and social sciences. That’s a problem.
New tertiary plan blind to some of our most valuable assets
newsroom.co.nz
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
‘It says almost nothing about how the arts, humanities and social sciences (AHSS) will contribute, despite the fact that the strategy’s objectives cannot be met without them.’
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Or if you're feeling a little weirder then I have a horns & strings influenced project that has weird text to voice and is influenced by academic theories of communication (2 EPs + 1 single). Pay what you want.
dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com
dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com
Dolphin Noir
Midi extractive mining sequence providing foundations for noise.
dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Or if you're feeling a little weirder then I have a horns & strings influenced project that has weird text to voice and is influenced by academic theories of communication (2 EPs + 1 single). Pay what you want.
dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com
dolphinnoir.bandcamp.com
Oh yeah it's Bandcamp Friday in a little while, I've got no work until January and the digital discography of my main project (6 EPs) is available for less than $10(NZD!)
thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/consid...
thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/consid...
Considered an Unvarnished Truth by Otters, by The K1500 Project
4 track album
thek1500project.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Oh yeah it's Bandcamp Friday in a little while, I've got no work until January and the digital discography of my main project (6 EPs) is available for less than $10(NZD!)
thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/consid...
thek1500project.bandcamp.com/album/consid...
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In todays episode of fuchsia watch I still can't fucking believe how many flowers we're getting from these plants which were all essentially sticks with no greenery six months ago. 🌱
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In todays episode of fuchsia watch I still can't fucking believe how many flowers we're getting from these plants which were all essentially sticks with no greenery six months ago. 🌱
In todays episode of fuchsia watch I still can't fucking believe how many flowers we're getting from these plants which were all essentially sticks with no greenery six months ago. 🌱
December 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
In todays episode of fuchsia watch I still can't fucking believe how many flowers we're getting from these plants which were all essentially sticks with no greenery six months ago. 🌱
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So, in retrospect, I could see that hadn’t gone so well.
December 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM
So, in retrospect, I could see that hadn’t gone so well.
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So here’s what we laughingly refer to as our prettiest goth xmas tree looking glorious in the rain this evening 🌱
We counted over 50 blossoms on him (we call him Jack). Really bounced back after those storms a couple of months ago
We counted over 50 blossoms on him (we call him Jack). Really bounced back after those storms a couple of months ago
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 AM
So here’s what we laughingly refer to as our prettiest goth xmas tree looking glorious in the rain this evening 🌱
We counted over 50 blossoms on him (we call him Jack). Really bounced back after those storms a couple of months ago
We counted over 50 blossoms on him (we call him Jack). Really bounced back after those storms a couple of months ago
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2025 music format ranking:
1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
November 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
2025 music format ranking:
1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
1 Bootleg cassettes
2 Radio
3 Supermarket
4 Person with loud phone on bus
5 Illegal downloads
6 Tapes
7 Passing car blasting music
8 CDr
9 Vinyls
10 Talented bird
11 VHS
12 MP3
13 Minidisc
14 LPs
15 CDs
16 Hold music
17 The gym
18 FLAC
19 Records
20 Streaming
Tried making hasselback potatoes tonight, not perfect but pretty damn good.
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Tried making hasselback potatoes tonight, not perfect but pretty damn good.
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I have written this thread up into a blog post, it has more extensive links to sources & previous conversations about fake content & users on the internet. It's easier to share, if you want to make sure your friends don't get caught in that honeypot of a corporate blogpost aramzs.xyz/microblogs/d...
Don't trust the human slop telling you how much of the web is AI slop
Is a lot of the web algorithmically created content? Possibly! But don't share the argument that's trying to sell you on creating more fake content.
aramzs.xyz
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I have written this thread up into a blog post, it has more extensive links to sources & previous conversations about fake content & users on the internet. It's easier to share, if you want to make sure your friends don't get caught in that honeypot of a corporate blogpost aramzs.xyz/microblogs/d...
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
I just went for the coolest to be honest.
Sonic Youth & The Dead C
Mclusky*
The Breeders (w/ Smashing Pumpkins**)
Straitjacket Fits
Dinosaur Jr w/ The Bilge Festival & Short
I just went for the coolest to be honest.
Sonic Youth & The Dead C
Mclusky*
The Breeders (w/ Smashing Pumpkins**)
Straitjacket Fits
Dinosaur Jr w/ The Bilge Festival & Short
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
It would be easy to cherry pick the coolest, so I'm just gonna go with the last five I can remember off the top of my head, in reverse order
Shihad
Kraftwerk
Thom Yorke
Peter Hook and the Light
Ash
It would be easy to cherry pick the coolest, so I'm just gonna go with the last five I can remember off the top of my head, in reverse order
Shihad
Kraftwerk
Thom Yorke
Peter Hook and the Light
Ash
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
The Cure
Pantera
Faithless
Freddie Gibbs
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Cure
Pantera
Faithless
Freddie Gibbs
The Smashing Pumpkins
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen:
I just went for the coolest to be honest.
Sonic Youth & The Dead C
Mclusky*
The Breeders (w/ Smashing Pumpkins**)
Straitjacket Fits
Dinosaur Jr w/ The Bilge Festival & Short
I just went for the coolest to be honest.
Sonic Youth & The Dead C
Mclusky*
The Breeders (w/ Smashing Pumpkins**)
Straitjacket Fits
Dinosaur Jr w/ The Bilge Festival & Short
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youtube.com/watch?v=ajOY...
We’re loving this beauty
Brings back memories of student days sitting around in the backyard talking shit & a guitar would inevitably get pulled out.
Lyrics are haunting
We’re loving this beauty
Brings back memories of student days sitting around in the backyard talking shit & a guitar would inevitably get pulled out.
Lyrics are haunting
Gareth Liddiard "Did She Scare All Of Your Friends Away" Live - Sideshow Alley
YouTube video by SideshowAlleyTV
youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 AM
youtube.com/watch?v=ajOY...
We’re loving this beauty
Brings back memories of student days sitting around in the backyard talking shit & a guitar would inevitably get pulled out.
Lyrics are haunting
We’re loving this beauty
Brings back memories of student days sitting around in the backyard talking shit & a guitar would inevitably get pulled out.
Lyrics are haunting
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