It's still #fortnightFridayMusic with a cue of #green  because we're doing the reverse rainbow 🎉

It's after midday on a Friday so it's time to start thinking about the night ahead, we've got the:

Skunhour - Green Light

Live at the home of so many musical memories, the Metro:

https://youtu.be/-F1cYvqgIVo

Another band that swam against the tide in the 90's.

🎶 Day shine appears I change a gear up
Touch the spirit loose within the shell
That drinks the breath I drew
My field's unbounded
I'm surrounded under sound that gives grounding
Pressing go, got good brew

Oh yeah, head high
We got, the green light 🎶

@Bishopjoey @dgar @electric_gumball  @stormygleason  @fc

#ausMusic

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Hey! It's #fortnightFridayMusic & the cue is #green  because we're doing the reverse rainbow 🎉

I'm easying into my Friday with:

The Killjoys - The Greener Side

https://thekilljoys.bandcamp.com/track/09-the-greener-side

When Australia was neck deep in punk, pub rock and the emerging grunge scene, in 1990 the Killjoys felt all our lives needed a little more vibraphone in them.

Can't say I disgreed and this track is off what remains  the most beautiful album in my collection. Posting the entire lyrics as they're not online and I had to read them off the vinyl cover...

🎶 A grinning sun, some birds and trees
The colours run
Is that a picture you'd think I'd forget
When it's all right there, laid out in front of you
Never do something that you'd regret

But here and now
What would they ever know
If you and I, we took just one
And kept it alight

Though I know it's wrong to think no harm in this
I'd never undermine the vows you made
And give them back just as soon as you wanted them
Unless it's lost it's something you can't keep

...seasons never keep the peace inside
Someone's always feeling left behind
Though the path's well worn by now
Never's not enough anyhow

Funny how you're never really satisfied
Always looking to the greener side
Sometimes leap like sailors do in calenture
When what you wanted most was right beside 🎶

@Bishopjoey @dgar @electric_gumball  @stormygleason  @fc

#ausMusic

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Do you use WhatsApp?

#poll #whatsapp #fedipoll

Imagine a system where contributing to the common good is our yardstick for success, not personal enrichment by any means possible.

Such a system would not extract a “cost of living.” A dignified life with access to modern housing, healthcare, etc., would be considered a human right. Furthermore, everyone would have a basic income they can use however they wish. Imagine the progress we could make as a species if more of us could contribute to science, to art, to all aspects of human knowledge and the human experience because we were no longer wasting our entire time on Earth just trying to make ends meet.

This is not some pipe dream. For the first time in history we have the technological means to implement such a system.

Instead, we choose to live under the yoke of capitalism, a cancer that rewards the tumours that feast on society. Instead we use our technology to build walls, to mass murder, and to destroy our own habitat.

Again for the first time in history, we have the technological means to destroy our entire species or to expand it to new horizons.

Humanity has reached adolescence. Whether we make it to adulthood is up to us entirely.

Oh jeez, a new track from Massive Attack!

https://youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE

Tom Waits' voice perfect for this, to my mind. And that's the percussion from Earth Died Screaming, too, unless I'm mistaken?

And good grief that's some great photography by thefinaleye in the video, too.

#Music

The little devil on my shoulder wants me to tell you about https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/copilot-flex-routing

Apparently #Microsoft is not able to get enough compute within EU datacenters to handle #Copilot requests.

Instead, it will do "Flex-Routing", which processes some requests in non-EU datacenters. This is Opt-Out. The only notification was an e-mail to Admins. If they missed that, companies might be leaking PII outside of the EU from tomorrow on.

Get your GDPR Nightmare letters ready!

So a load of kids meeting up is a riot now? Really?

I remember ACTUAL riots, this aint a riot, LOL. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/03/experts-respond-to-mass-teen-meet-ups-clapham-london

Reminded of the mods and rockers etc, this has been happening forever and this is also the lockdown generation which don't have the spaces to meet.

Disappointed in my mayor playing into this nonsense, it should be more 'hey, meet in parks and stay safe, have fun but don't break the law ' but like protests, meetups are being banned now too?

Provide the spaces to meet, or get this...this is just bored teens. Easily solved.

#london