Meg seanchaibeag
@seanchaibeag.bsky.social
Writer. Disabled (CP, RA, Long Covid and more). Lifelong political nerd (US/UK/RoI/RU/UKR/etc). Owned by cats. Yes, that's Paul McCartney in the profile pic- and me, left.
Unless and until Pete Townshend launches a regular radio show along the lines of Oobu Joobu, the only correct answer here is Pete Townshend. Quite frankly, it might be the only correct answer regardless... the man has so much squirreled away, listening to it would be a full time job!
If you could hear one artist's unreleased songs from their vault, who would it be?
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Unless and until Pete Townshend launches a regular radio show along the lines of Oobu Joobu, the only correct answer here is Pete Townshend. Quite frankly, it might be the only correct answer regardless... the man has so much squirreled away, listening to it would be a full time job!
I've always explained the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to non-American friends as "America's version of Eurovision," at least in terms of gloriously weird moments and their tendency to occasionally enter the general zeitgeist.
I’m convinced that the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a large-scale psychological experiment to determine just how much disparate nonsense the human brain can process without shutting down. I dare you to to make sense of everything you see presented in this clip…
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I've always explained the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to non-American friends as "America's version of Eurovision," at least in terms of gloriously weird moments and their tendency to occasionally enter the general zeitgeist.
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The Beatles Anthology review – the incredible audio shows exactly why the world fell in love with this band
The Beatles Anthology review – the incredible audio shows exactly why the world fell in love with this band
This update of the 1995 documentary series is utterly authoritative. And its tweak of the Fab Four’s songs is a thing of wonder – their music absolutely thumps!
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The Beatles Anthology review – the incredible audio shows exactly why the world fell in love with this band
For those who need alt text, this is a black and white photo of Gerry Marsden, John Lennon, George Harrison, Fred Marsden, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney, sitting in a row and laughing/grinning at the cameras. Nice to see one including Fred - those're a bit thin on the ground relative to the rest!
The #Beatles and Gerry And The Pacemakers, June 7 1963.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
For those who need alt text, this is a black and white photo of Gerry Marsden, John Lennon, George Harrison, Fred Marsden, Ringo Starr, and Paul McCartney, sitting in a row and laughing/grinning at the cameras. Nice to see one including Fred - those're a bit thin on the ground relative to the rest!
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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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I've been thinking a lot about how the Covid cautious, the chronically ill and disabled have all been shoved to the side of society. We're walking ghosts, living in parallel universes that only intersect when we're running errands, soley because we don't want to be statistics before our time.
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
I've been thinking a lot about how the Covid cautious, the chronically ill and disabled have all been shoved to the side of society. We're walking ghosts, living in parallel universes that only intersect when we're running errands, soley because we don't want to be statistics before our time.
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I reviewed Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future - a mind-blowing doc that does a great job of showing how tech can transform disabled people’s lives (but could do more on the tension in how much of it is made by The Worst Men On Earth). www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show
He tries to play the stoic in this look at the incredible changes to disabled peoples’ lives that tech could bring. But the radical benefits of one piece of kit leave him visibly moved
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I reviewed Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future - a mind-blowing doc that does a great job of showing how tech can transform disabled people’s lives (but could do more on the tension in how much of it is made by The Worst Men On Earth). www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Anecdotal supporting evidence for this argument: This fella generally only watched Doctor Who, but if Smokey Robinson or The Who were on tv, he'd sprint over to pat and coo at the screen while they performed.
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Anecdotal supporting evidence for this argument: This fella generally only watched Doctor Who, but if Smokey Robinson or The Who were on tv, he'd sprint over to pat and coo at the screen while they performed.
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This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
Starmer demands investigation into Reform-Russia links after party's ex-Wales leader jailed
The former leader of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, has been jailed for 10-and-a-half years after being paid £40,000 to make pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This is outrageous from Keir Starmer.
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
‘Russian links to Reform need investigating’, he says. So why is his government still fighting case now in Grand Chamber of Strasbourg court refusing to have such an investigation into Russian interference ??
news.sky.com/story/starme...
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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Let’s talk about unfinished parts in medieval and early modern manuscripts. Why would you chose to not finish, for example, a figure on an illuminated manuscript page? The lower body part of the man on the left is only drawn, no colours at all… #bookhistory
November 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Let’s talk about unfinished parts in medieval and early modern manuscripts. Why would you chose to not finish, for example, a figure on an illuminated manuscript page? The lower body part of the man on the left is only drawn, no colours at all… #bookhistory
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The end result of hours of fiddling and cleaning heads, pinch rollers, potentiometers, replacing dead transistors. The sound is incredible. Hope Bluesky doesn't garble up the audio with compression.
November 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The end result of hours of fiddling and cleaning heads, pinch rollers, potentiometers, replacing dead transistors. The sound is incredible. Hope Bluesky doesn't garble up the audio with compression.
Welp, as a disabled person who's known quite a few people with polio and post-polio since *very* early childhood, that's enough internet for me today. Solidarity to anyone who feels the same. We've got to look after ourselves and each other, cause these clowns keep beclowning themselves.
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
The anti-vax movement's wildest claim yet: Polio wasn't so bad
Add this to vaccines make you magnetic, cause AIDS, and measles is not a big deal.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Welp, as a disabled person who's known quite a few people with polio and post-polio since *very* early childhood, that's enough internet for me today. Solidarity to anyone who feels the same. We've got to look after ourselves and each other, cause these clowns keep beclowning themselves.
On behalf of my dead friends, my ruined health, and my mother's two heart attacks and cancer, fuck *all* presidents who say "we did a great job with covid." Indeed, fuck all of those referring to covid in the past tense. Ignorant ghouls, all.
Trump: "We got hit with covid, remember. And we did a great job with covid."
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
On behalf of my dead friends, my ruined health, and my mother's two heart attacks and cancer, fuck *all* presidents who say "we did a great job with covid." Indeed, fuck all of those referring to covid in the past tense. Ignorant ghouls, all.
Yep. I was happy to see this, but not at all surprised. He doesn't always get credit for it in the moment, but Paul is frequently one of the first to speak out on issues such as this. At the same time, he's a bit of a technophile, so his words carry more weight with tech-loving musicians.
Paul McCartney didn’t need a guitar riff, a melody, or even a lyric to make his point. Instead, he released a silent track just the hum of a studio, the faint rustle of movement to protest a proposed UK copyright change that would let AI companies freely train on musicians’ work.
Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track
Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Yep. I was happy to see this, but not at all surprised. He doesn't always get credit for it in the moment, but Paul is frequently one of the first to speak out on issues such as this. At the same time, he's a bit of a technophile, so his words carry more weight with tech-loving musicians.
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The chasm between the spectacle and the implications of everything that is happening is vertigo inducing.
I laugh, then I realize, and then I laugh, and then I realize again.
It all leaves me feeling nauseous.
I laugh, then I realize, and then I laugh, and then I realize again.
It all leaves me feeling nauseous.
November 15, 2025 at 3:56 AM
The chasm between the spectacle and the implications of everything that is happening is vertigo inducing.
I laugh, then I realize, and then I laugh, and then I realize again.
It all leaves me feeling nauseous.
I laugh, then I realize, and then I laugh, and then I realize again.
It all leaves me feeling nauseous.
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So they officially want their livers eaten? Good to know.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and one of the world’s most influential tech pioneers, is officially returning to hands-on leadership as co-CEO of a new artificial intelligence (AI) venture called Project Prometheus. trib.al/YSsdKSD
Jeff Bezos is reportedly becoming a CEO again—and it's for a $6.2 billion AI startup called 'Project Prometheus' | Fortune
Prometheus brought fire to humanity in Greek myth. Could Project Prometheus help make Bezos' dreams of "millions of people living in space" come true?
trib.al
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
So they officially want their livers eaten? Good to know.
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Our new paper: protocol for a NEW kind of systematic review of mask efficacy.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
Protocol: a systematic review+ (SR+) to combine associative and mechanistic evidence on the efficacy of face masks in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases
link.springer.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Our new paper: protocol for a NEW kind of systematic review of mask efficacy.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
link.springer.com/epdf/10.1186...
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When A.I. has stormed out and walked home alone from a high school party on a cold night in a not-warm-enough jacket and kicked a bottle off the sidewalk while glaring at the moon through the bare winter branches because even the moon doesn't understand it, then I might listen to one of its songs.
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
When A.I. has stormed out and walked home alone from a high school party on a cold night in a not-warm-enough jacket and kicked a bottle off the sidewalk while glaring at the moon through the bare winter branches because even the moon doesn't understand it, then I might listen to one of its songs.
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Hi, folks. I wrote about my buddy @leslieleeiii.bsky.social. He had #LongCOVID and passed away this week. Thanks for reading. adamumak.medium.com/leslie-lee-i...
Leslie Lee III: Funeral for a Friend
Explaining the one important lesson that he wanted you to learn.
adamumak.medium.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Hi, folks. I wrote about my buddy @leslieleeiii.bsky.social. He had #LongCOVID and passed away this week. Thanks for reading. adamumak.medium.com/leslie-lee-i...
Thinking not-so-fondly of the three cardiologists and two pulmonologists who snorted "I don't know about THAT," when I tried to show them a paper on LC and microclots a few years ago. (No, they didn't bother to read it - and they assumed I hadn't read it either. Oops.)
"Strange Structures Found Lurking in The Blood of People With Long COVID."
Analysis found long COVID patients had far more microclots than healthy controls — a median 19.7-fold increase — and the clots were also significantly larger than those seen in healthy blood.
Source: archive.md/iqny3
Analysis found long COVID patients had far more microclots than healthy controls — a median 19.7-fold increase — and the clots were also significantly larger than those seen in healthy blood.
Source: archive.md/iqny3
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Thinking not-so-fondly of the three cardiologists and two pulmonologists who snorted "I don't know about THAT," when I tried to show them a paper on LC and microclots a few years ago. (No, they didn't bother to read it - and they assumed I hadn't read it either. Oops.)
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1/ People treat willful ignorance like it's harmless but it's literally how atrocities happen. "I didn't know" becomes "I didn't want to know" becomes "I knew but it wasn't my problem" and suddenly you're on the wrong side of history wondering how you got there
Willful ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to engage with certain truths
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
1/ People treat willful ignorance like it's harmless but it's literally how atrocities happen. "I didn't know" becomes "I didn't want to know" becomes "I knew but it wasn't my problem" and suddenly you're on the wrong side of history wondering how you got there
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I wonder how many employers might actually refuse to hire the post-ChatGPT generation or they might end up fired because they cant do the things their degrees say they can do
Id be very angry with universities for hyping gAI the way they have, if I was a student or parent, tbh.
Id be very angry with universities for hyping gAI the way they have, if I was a student or parent, tbh.
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I wonder how many employers might actually refuse to hire the post-ChatGPT generation or they might end up fired because they cant do the things their degrees say they can do
Id be very angry with universities for hyping gAI the way they have, if I was a student or parent, tbh.
Id be very angry with universities for hyping gAI the way they have, if I was a student or parent, tbh.
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...