Jay

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Really interesting podcast with Charanga's Max Wheeler https://www.instagram.com/maxwheeler/ and the various GCSE and A level exam boards talking about the government's music curriculum review: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1335544/episodes/19097413-episode-92-the-curriculum-review-exam-board-special-with-aqa-edexcel-pearson-wjec-eduqas

As Max says it's a rare opportunity to influence how music is taught at Secondary for the next decade or so

#GCSE #music #exams

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Finally I get to show the t-shirt design I made for the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. This was for a conference in Toronto, and they wanted a heavy metal tour shirt with the dates being future conferences. I am very glad I got this strange job.

Included are shots of real people from the conference to prove this is not just some strange bit I came up with.

The world is now so full of ridiculous things that at least I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The (political) world really is idiotic. I needed to vent a bit, so I made a list of things that are impossible to believe, yet are very much what is happening. Perhaps seeing it in writing will help you deal better with the situation. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-impossible-things-we-have-to-believe/
The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert's writings

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – Through the looking-glass, Lewis Carrol To stay sane, we have to accept that our climate is going completely haywire, but that it is ok to mostly ignore that since saving ourselves is apparently not cost-effective.

Bert Hubert's writings

Chillin’ with Turnip

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"The basic strategy of all addictive technologies is very simple. They make you feel extra capable, they addict you, then they make you feel inadequate without them."

(Original title: How to smoke)

https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-smoke/

How to smoke

I used to love to smoke. If it weren’t for the whole lung cancer, emphysema, death thing, would you recommend smoking?

Mike Monteiro’s Good News
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Never let anyone try to talk you out of a quick half hour DIY project. Those three hours will be the best six days of your life.
@coldclimate @jamesb damn, that looks good!
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