I'm about to migrate this account to aus.social, ahead of being about to migrate myself.

if you get a refollow request, please allow me!

and if you notice I effed up the migration, please poke me at @slevelt@aus.social!

with many thanks to @hello for the good times here

marking done. now wine to cool down.

soundtrack for the final stretch was Beastie Boys' Check Your Head, what a flawless album, always (and I know it well enough to cancel out the lyrics when working)

just passed that point of the night where I had to either accept that I'd have marking remaining, or commit to continue marking until it's too late to wake up fresh for teaching tomorrow.

I committed.

@Jonathanglick I mean with that man it’s probably pointless to ask the question, but: why

seriously on the photos of today’s rallies, Trump isn’t orange, he’s 💩 brown.

this is how we chill

#NowPlaying Billy Cobham - Heather #fusion @vinylrecords

#NowPlaying James Brown - “Soul Classics” (but, as you can see from the tracklist, mostly solid #Funk Classics) @vinylrecords

@deliberately_me ha! the internet is amazing:

Newly digitized at the Newberry Library, more than 750 maps from the 16th and 17th centuries. https://www.newberry.org/news/digitization-complete-for-world-renowned-franco-novacco-map-collection
(Via @Researchbuzz)

I mean

@slevelt I'm not sure I'll ever for the rest of my life see a grey donkey and NOT think of that book.

is it worth pointing out that LLM-based text generators are already most definitely breaking the first law of robotics.

shit this album is great (even if several of the songs are paeans to Mugabe 🫣)

#NowPlaying Orchestra Makassy - Agwaya @vinylrecords

BBC: "Programmes must not portray representations of sexual intercourse, unless there is a serious educational purpose, when broadcast before the Watershed, or when children are particularly likely to be in our audience for radio or in online content likely to appeal to a high proportion of children."

Also BBC, playing Buddy at 4pm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPUUu7kouww 😂 #hiphop (oh, and BBC *didn't* fade out before the moaning at the end 🤣)

considering the *words* they censor pre-watershed, it is hilarious to me that BBC Radio 6 Music just played De La Soul’s Buddy integrally just now at 4pm 🤭😂 #hiphop

this is an incredible lineup for only £16.50 for anyone anywhere near Leeds. real pity about the 18+ rating because I’d LOVE to see Honeyglaze with our (14yo) daughter.

from the record fair bargain bin 🥳 @vinylrecords

#20albums 21: Fay Lovsky & Joost Swarte - Jopo in Mono XL

from the above, I had some (Public Enemy; Elvis) on vinyl, but CDs had soon taken over.

after my CDs were stolen, I never really started a new collection. then, 2 years ago, my mother sent me this record from the Netherlands, released on 10” vinyl. it is an expanded re-release of a CD I owned - my love for music as a teenager developed in tandem with my love for comics. the artwork is, as expected from Joost Swarte, fabulous.

and having the vinyl on my shelf started an itch - and led me eventually to finally buy a turntable again. this record is changing my life as we speak. @vinylrecords

then all my CDs were stolen.