Happy #MusicWomenWednesday!

The YouTubes served this one up today and it's so beautifully wholesome.

Hooray for Astrid Jorgensen, founder and director of the #PubChoir and all the women in this clip. (Ok, the men are pretty great too.)   

We Belong - sung by Pub Choir and 12,000+ strangers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kILuJNSNW7g

I know .. shockingly, #NotKPop! 🤯

We Belong - sung by Pub Choir and 12,000+ strangers

YouTube

Not content with killing Americans on the streets, fuck it he says, lets melt the planet. 😳

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/trump-epa-greenhouse-gases-climate-change.html

#NotKPop

Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.

The New York Times

Adding to the divisive-dystopia-culture-war vibes, it's Invasion Day here, a heatwave is predicted and the racist rhetoric is rhetoricing. Fun times. 

short explainer on Invasion Day's very long history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqwrqwCtNL8

#NotKPop

A short explainer on Invasion Day's very long history

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It's #TuneTuesday and the theme is #PulsarTwin. So, let's have this silly, joyful song, because it always reminds me of dancing around the house with one of my all-time favourite humans. (Shock! #NotKPop!)

HAPPY - Walk off the Earth Ft. Parachute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbVoo7YLWnI

#WalkOffTheEarth #Parachute #Pharrell

HAPPY - Walk off the Earth Ft. Parachute

YouTube

How is this 10 years old. HOW!?

My Shot — #HamilTen Anniversary Music Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml_oY_zTFJA

#Hamilton #NotKpop

My Shot — #Hamilten Anniversary Music Video

YouTube

But this has reminded me of the family lore around my musical obsessions, which started early. So that makes this my for-realsies oldest fave. Released in 1976.

3yo me learnt all the words from my grandmother, and performed the song for everyone (who couldn't escape me and my vocal stylings).

ABBA - Fernando
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsjAbZDx-4

#NotKPop #Abba

ABBA - Fernando (Official Music Video)

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Today I've been helping a student who is in her 80s complete and submit a very technology-focused assessment task and it has been so lovely. Her whole vibe is so much inspo. Never stop learning!

#Work #NotKPop

It's #MusicWomenWednesday and I dug out my old Sabbath playlist today, so let's go with these very cardiganie covers from The Cardigans. Because Nina Persson singing Sabbath Bloody Sabbath is a whole vibe! Vale Ozzy.

The Cardigans - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
https://song.link/y/aAOlvbKmU4A

The Cardigans - Iron Man
https://song.link/y/Zb7IpfOzon4

The Cardigans - Changes (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyHKPRLtXOw

#TheCardigans #BlackSabbath #OzzyOsbourne #NotKPop

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by The Cardigans

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RIP Ozzy 🖤

BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3b6SGoN6dA

#OzzyOsbourne #BlackSabbath #NotKPop

BLACK SABBATH - "War Pigs" (Live Video)

Black Sabbath performing "War Pigs" live at the Olympia Theater in Paris, France on December 20, 1970Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BlackSabbathInstagram...

YouTube

Late Night is not taking the Colbert thing lightly, and with so much comedy style. This is so funny! 😂

A Coldplay Song Might Cheer Up Stephen's Audience (feat. Weird Al Yankovic And Lin-Manuel Miranda)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv6SNu0aavU

Oh, CBS, what have you unleashed! We are so here for it!  

#Colbert #NotKPop

A Coldplay Song Might Cheer Up Stephen's Audience (feat. Weird Al Yankovic And Lin-Manuel Miranda)

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