Andrew Curry
@nextwavef.bsky.social
Futurist in London. Pessimistic and sceptical. See my Just Two Things newsletter, plus a folk music sideline at Salut! Live. New here, so still learning.
In which I discover that @microsoft.com has locked together in Word ‘suggest’ mode and Copilot. Result. Have downloaded a competitor. @microsoft.com may be desperate to get a return from its AI investment (fat chance) but I don’t need to help. #Enshittification
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
In which I discover that @microsoft.com has locked together in Word ‘suggest’ mode and Copilot. Result. Have downloaded a competitor. @microsoft.com may be desperate to get a return from its AI investment (fat chance) but I don’t need to help. #Enshittification
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
“Like a pair of large and powerful planets revolving in entirely separate solar systems, Bob #Dylan and Sam Shepard had slowly been gravitating towards each other.” They met on the Rolling Thunder Revue, and it all fell apart. New post at Salut #Folk.
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Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard, and the chaos of Rolling Thunder Revue – Salut! Folk
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November 7, 2025 at 9:26 AM
“Like a pair of large and powerful planets revolving in entirely separate solar systems, Bob #Dylan and Sam Shepard had slowly been gravitating towards each other.” They met on the Rolling Thunder Revue, and it all fell apart. New post at Salut #Folk.
salutfolk.com/2025/11/07/b...
salutfolk.com/2025/11/07/b...
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Tribute to a great figure of Scottish folk music . RIP Archie Fisher @nextwavef.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Tribute to a great figure of Scottish folk music . RIP Archie Fisher @nextwavef.bsky.social
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John Martyn’s classic album Grace and Danger was released 45 years old this month, after a year’s delay. It’s our Album of the Month at the new look Salut #Folk site on Wordpress. I like a lot of Martyn’s records, but I think this is probably his masterpiece.
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Album of the month: the story of John Martyn’s Grace and Danger – Salut! Folk
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October 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
John Martyn’s classic album Grace and Danger was released 45 years old this month, after a year’s delay. It’s our Album of the Month at the new look Salut #Folk site on Wordpress. I like a lot of Martyn’s records, but I think this is probably his masterpiece.
salutfolk.com/2025/10/21/j...
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On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
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![An Indian women holds her young baby in the air. The photo is a background for a description of the two posts: Once the world's population starts to decline, it will keep on falling // 'No snitching, no pigs, no corpos': living the biopunk life. [J2T #651]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lbvlqosvyr4ekonivyjaoh77/bafkreig2tgwxmfppbo6vot5cebcqsbixruygb7gxnvdgq3r4qiy6nosi4q@jpeg)
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
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Anyone who likes seriously good contemporary acoustic music drawing on folk influences should read this American admirer’s excellent piece on Katherine Priddy @nextwavef.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
hi Katherine. Salut! Folk’s admiring assessment of your career so far is live at salutfolk.com/2025/10/16/k...
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Anyone who likes seriously good contemporary acoustic music drawing on folk influences should read this American admirer’s excellent piece on Katherine Priddy @nextwavef.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
@katherinepriddy.bsky.social
If I’d just taken a beating at the hands of some judges I might just issue a short statement saying we were reviewing their comments. But there goes @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social , in a big hole and digging as fast as they can.
October 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
If I’d just taken a beating at the hands of some judges I might just issue a short statement saying we were reviewing their comments. But there goes @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social , in a big hole and digging as fast as they can.
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Please visit Salut! Folk if you have any liking for folk, folk-rock and related musical genres. Salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Please visit Salut! Folk if you have any liking for folk, folk-rock and related musical genres. Salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
On my Just Two Things newsletter—living in a future biopunk world; and the future of global population is down, down, down. And an introduction to the Salut! Folk site, now hosted on Wordpress.
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
justtwothings.substack.com/p/9-october-...
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Campaigners walking from Skye to Glasgow are urging people to join their efforts to highlight 'land justice'
Land justice walking tour urges support as campaigners near end of route
www.thenational.scot
October 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Campaigners walking from Skye to Glasgow are urging people to join their efforts to highlight 'land justice'
I think they are trying to gouge their customers to pay for some of their AI costs, since the product itself isn’t worth paying for.
A 42% increase in the price of #Microsoft 365 @microsoft.com ?! How on *earth* can you justify that. Linux beckons (free, better everything, hard to beat in Linux). And this on top of the appalling productivity and hardware wasting Win 11 'upgrade'. @adammacqueen.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I think they are trying to gouge their customers to pay for some of their AI costs, since the product itself isn’t worth paying for.
Shocking slug on this FT article—because this could also just as easily be “Civil rights in UK”. Or “Democracy in UK”. A sub-editor needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
October 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Shocking slug on this FT article—because this could also just as easily be “Civil rights in UK”. Or “Democracy in UK”. A sub-editor needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is feral and no longer fit for purpose:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Police to get more anti-protest powers as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’
Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of repeated demonstrations to restrict protests
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is feral and no longer fit for purpose:
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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The new-look Salut! Folk - formerly Salut! Live - has risen from the ashes of Typepad and is revelling in its Wordpress home. Give it a try salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The new-look Salut! Folk - formerly Salut! Live - has risen from the ashes of Typepad and is revelling in its Wordpress home. Give it a try salutfolk.com @nextwavef.bsky.social
On the new Salut #Folk site—which looks a lot better than the old one!
Salut! Folk’s Artists of the Month: Martin and Eliza Carthy salutfolk.com/2025/10/01/a...
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
@elizacarthy.bsky.social @nextwavef.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
On the new Salut #Folk site—which looks a lot better than the old one!
Looking back at Danny Thompson’s career-a bass player who was at ease playing both folk and jazz—at the new look Salut! #Folk site on Wordpress.
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salutfolk.com/2025/09/30/d...
Danny Thompson: the best of both worlds
Andrew Curry writes: It’s hard to overstate how influential Danny Thompson was in the British folk scene, from his early days playing at Les Cousins with Alexis Korner, then Pentangle, to later pla…
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September 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Looking back at Danny Thompson’s career-a bass player who was at ease playing both folk and jazz—at the new look Salut! #Folk site on Wordpress.
salutfolk.com/2025/09/30/d...
salutfolk.com/2025/09/30/d...
Salut! Folk editor Colin Randall reviews #Altan’s gig at the Irish Cultural Centre on Saturday at the re-launched and re-designed blog now at Wordpress.
salutfolk.com/2025/09/29/a... @salutsunderland.bsky.social
salutfolk.com/2025/09/29/a... @salutsunderland.bsky.social
Altan: the pride of Donegal
Colin Randall writes: 24 hours earlier, Altan were playing to a pleasantly rowdy crowd in Blacksod, a remote corner of Co Mayo. Hopping on a flight from Knock, they joined the bustling throng of Lo…
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September 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Salut! Folk editor Colin Randall reviews #Altan’s gig at the Irish Cultural Centre on Saturday at the re-launched and re-designed blog now at Wordpress.
salutfolk.com/2025/09/29/a... @salutsunderland.bsky.social
salutfolk.com/2025/09/29/a... @salutsunderland.bsky.social
Our Song of the Day at the renamed Salut! #Folk site—now migrated to Wordpress—is all about Richard Thompson.
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Song of the Day: Richard Thompson – Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne
Steve Peck writes: Richard Thompson’s mind-boggling catalog of extraordinary songs makes it nearly impossible to know them all. Today’s Song of the Day is a latter-day classic that may have slipped…
salutfolk.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Our Song of the Day at the renamed Salut! #Folk site—now migrated to Wordpress—is all about Richard Thompson.
salutfolk.com/2025/09/27/r...
salutfolk.com/2025/09/27/r...
The #folk site Salut Live — once at the now defunct Typepad — has now moved to Wordpress as Salut Folk. The first post is an obituary of the great bassist Danny Thompson.
salutfolk.com/2025/09/26/d...
salutfolk.com/2025/09/26/d...
Salut! Folk
Colin Randall and friends on folk, folk-rock, and roots music
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September 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The #folk site Salut Live — once at the now defunct Typepad — has now moved to Wordpress as Salut Folk. The first post is an obituary of the great bassist Danny Thompson.
salutfolk.com/2025/09/26/d...
salutfolk.com/2025/09/26/d...
In which @dropbox.com seems to be telling me that they are limiting support for the current version of MacOS, given that my Mac is on version 15.7. It’s not surprising that the word “enshittification” was a word of the year last year.
September 20, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In which @dropbox.com seems to be telling me that they are limiting support for the current version of MacOS, given that my Mac is on version 15.7. It’s not surprising that the word “enshittification” was a word of the year last year.
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There should be no forgiveness for Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, or anyone else who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's image in the wake of his death. They participated in a cleanup job that is facilitating Kirk's status as a "martyr." They have had a hand in the harm the administration will do in Kirk's name.
September 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
There should be no forgiveness for Ezra Klein, Gavin Newsom, or anyone else who whitewashed Charlie Kirk's image in the wake of his death. They participated in a cleanup job that is facilitating Kirk's status as a "martyr." They have had a hand in the harm the administration will do in Kirk's name.
Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is not fit for purpose: Home Secretaries come and go, but the contempt for the law never changes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Shabana Mahmood accuses asylum seekers of making ‘vexatious, last-minute claims’
Home Office says it will review modern slavery laws to save PM’s ‘one in, one out’ returns deal with France
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Your regular reminder that the @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social is not fit for purpose: Home Secretaries come and go, but the contempt for the law never changes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social if feral and not fit for purpose. (Yes, one more time).
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hundreds of prison officers may have to leave UK after Labour’s visa rule change
Prison Officers’ Association says change in eligibility for skilled work visas is ‘disgraceful’ and ‘pandering to Reform’
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social if feral and not fit for purpose. (Yes, one more time).
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Why lower speed limits are good public policy // Mapping low carbon electricity [J2T #649] #JustTwoThings from @nextwavef.bsky.social
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9 September 2025. Speed | Energy
Why lower speed limits are good public policy // Mapping low carbon electricity [J2T #649]
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September 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Why lower speed limits are good public policy // Mapping low carbon electricity [J2T #649] #JustTwoThings from @nextwavef.bsky.social
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