Gavin Skinner
@baltasound.bsky.social
Hominid. Earthling. Composer. Certified Nonentity.
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Gavin Skinner
@baltasound.bsky.social
· Feb 10
There's 312 nahs in Hey Jude
Rabbit holes on here can lead to unexpected places, like here ⬇️ where I see my autograph on a poster and a sliver of my drum kit on a photograph of a gig I can't remember playing as it was so long ago. Jim & I left the band about 4 weeks after this gig and I turned 19 a couple of weeks later.
5 December 1987 Primal Scream played the Buzz Club for the first time. Read more, hear live recording from the night:
indiethroughthelookingglass.com/2019/10/30/t...
indiethroughthelookingglass.com/2019/10/30/t...
December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Rabbit holes on here can lead to unexpected places, like here ⬇️ where I see my autograph on a poster and a sliver of my drum kit on a photograph of a gig I can't remember playing as it was so long ago. Jim & I left the band about 4 weeks after this gig and I turned 19 a couple of weeks later.
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Yesterday we had peas, chicken drumsticks, potatoes & sweetcorn.
December 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yesterday we had peas, chicken drumsticks, potatoes & sweetcorn.
Well...it is still November...
Man pointed gun at three girls singing Christmas carols ‘door-to-door,’ police say
Man pointed gun at three girls singing Christmas carols ‘door-to-door,’ police say
A man in Maryland was arrested after allegedly pointing a gun at three girls who were singing Christmas carols door-to-door.
www.1011now.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Well...it is still November...
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Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Sure, they've made an environmentally catastrophic mass hallucination disinformation plagiarism Clippy that will destabilize the world, but also their other goal is to replace human workers entirely and let us humans starve. A boycott of AI is the most important boycott of your entire life.
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Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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Black Fridays Don't Matter
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Black Fridays Don't Matter
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Billboard got access to Suno’s investment pitch deck.
It revealed that Suno has spent $32 million on compute, and $2,000 on training data.
Let that sink in.
www.billboard.com/pro/suno-cre...
It revealed that Suno has spent $32 million on compute, and $2,000 on training data.
Let that sink in.
www.billboard.com/pro/suno-cre...
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Billboard got access to Suno’s investment pitch deck.
It revealed that Suno has spent $32 million on compute, and $2,000 on training data.
Let that sink in.
www.billboard.com/pro/suno-cre...
It revealed that Suno has spent $32 million on compute, and $2,000 on training data.
Let that sink in.
www.billboard.com/pro/suno-cre...
Ah, dammit
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ah, dammit
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‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
Tech critic Corey Doctorow explains why for so many the internet – from Amazon to Google to Instagram – seems to be getting worse
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for – podcast
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We’re facing an emergency.
We understand how busy MPs are, but ask them to change plans to attend this crucial briefing.
Top scientists will set out latest threats and key actions so MPs can protect the public.
Please click to see if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
We understand how busy MPs are, but ask them to change plans to attend this crucial briefing.
Top scientists will set out latest threats and key actions so MPs can protect the public.
Please click to see if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...
www.nebriefing.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
We’re facing an emergency.
We understand how busy MPs are, but ask them to change plans to attend this crucial briefing.
Top scientists will set out latest threats and key actions so MPs can protect the public.
Please click to see if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
We understand how busy MPs are, but ask them to change plans to attend this crucial briefing.
Top scientists will set out latest threats and key actions so MPs can protect the public.
Please click to see if your MP is coming: www.nebriefing.org
#TimeToStepUp #NEB2025
This prick, along with Cummings, Hancock et al really deserve prison time
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘Devastating to think of lives that could have been saved under different PM’, say Covid bereaved – as it happened
Findings of inquiry into handling of pandemic by Boris Johnson’s government paint picture of delay and inaction
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This prick, along with Cummings, Hancock et al really deserve prison time
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Swoon
Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years
Archive director in Germany says ‘missing piece of puzzle’ now in place to verify authorship after decades of research
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Swoon
Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Two long-lost organ pieces by JS Bach performed for first time in 300 years www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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Wool Vulva is now my new band name
‘One contestant makes wool vulvas!’ Tom Daley on his knockout knitting show – and arguing with Traitors producers
‘One contestant makes wool vulvas!’ Tom Daley on his knockout knitting show – and arguing with Traitors producers
As he prepares to host The Game of Wool, the Olympian diver talks about trying to get murdered faithfuls resurrected on Traitors – and the time he knitted himself a woollen chandelier
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Wool Vulva is now my new band name
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‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?
‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?
It is now seven decades since Little Richard sang Tutti Frutti – and a rip-roaring new type of music burst out into the world. But is rock’n’roll about to die out? Our writer goes searching for signs of life
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:02 AM
‘Everyone seems to be on Zimmers’: after 70 years of hip-shaking thrills, is rock’n’roll dead?
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the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate
October 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate
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NVIDIA and OpenAi:
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“
@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
October 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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That late night emergency wee wee behind a tree will get me killed one day
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
That late night emergency wee wee behind a tree will get me killed one day