Nigel

@nigelharpur@musicians.today
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"Nige? Oh, he's that weird kid who likes music more than sport or super heroes"

I'm a composer and recording artist and... mostly an alright kinda geeza 😊 Primary 'playing' instrument is guitar (since a previous century) but I play enough keys, drums and bass to write for them.

Links to my 'stuff of wonder' in the jolly old 'About' tab. Please feel free to rummage with gusto. I don't like genres so will leave that right there.

I'm a he, him ... so far.

websitehttps://nigelharpur.co.uk/
link treehttps://linktr.ee/nigelharpur
bandcamphttps://nigelharpur.bandcamp.com/
Verificationhttps://nigelharpur.bandcamp.com/

This can’t possibly be an original idea, but I made it for possible use on my own sites and so I thought I’d share (as in feel free to use it if you like).

#slop #StopSlop

Did you know that @forgejo doesn’t just replace GitHub for hosting — it can even run GitHub Actions (nĂ©e MicrosoftÂź AzureÂź Pipelines) right out of the box?

The first @organicmaps workflows were up and running with minimal tweaks — no major rewrites needed. Thanks to @zloidemon for making it smooth!

Need a solid home for your project? @forgejo has you covered.
Find out why it's time to #GiveUpGitHub: https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

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"the woke left is turning the pigeons fat and gay!!"

i now support the woke left
As far as I can tell the @mirlo website is back up now. Tried with 3 different browsers - DDG, Chromium (CalyxOS version) and Vivaldi. All seemed as it should. #mirlo
https://mirlo.space/
Mirlo

Buy and sell music directly from musicians.

Mirlo

Bluesky is cancelling accounts when foreign governments ask them to, and Threads is doing adverts soon.

The thing to understand about the corporate public messaging systems is that they do not exist to let you publish or to talk to people. That is not the point of them. That's at best just the bait laid to lure you into their trap.

They exist to make money for the shareholders. That's why Threads exists, that's why Blockchain Inc invested to keep Bluesky running.

Only one network exists in order to let people communicate as the point and reason for it's existence. Only one network has no shareholders and no owners.

Only one is fighting for the user, not the shareholder.

#fediverse

I PROMISE you that if you give up Spotify, follow a bunch of cool-ass musicians and music writers on here, and actually CLICK ON AND LISTEN TO the links they post, you will discover more great music DAILY than you'll find via Spotify "Discover" horseshit in a year.

(2 of 2) #ai

**Metaphorical meaning:** Too many undisciplined or self-interested individuals (the “dogs”) involved in something valuable (the “cadaver”) will ruin it through greed, chaos, or conflict.

It’s similar in tone to phrases like *“too many cooks spoil the broth”*, but darker—suggesting not just failure but destruction.

Do you know where you heard or saw it? That might help refine the meaning.
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These LLMs are not 'thinking' and not 'intelligence'. Obviously.

(1 of2) #ai

Today I asked a faux ai a question. Notably absent replies were "I don't know" or "This is gibberish" - the question asked the meaning of a phrase.
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The phrase *"a handful of dogs spoils the cadaver"* is not a common English idiom, but it sounds like a proverbial expression with metaphorical meaning. Here's a possible interpretation:

**Literal reading:** If too many dogs get at a dead body (cadaver), they tear it apart or fight over it, ruining it.

I once mistook a trebuchet for a park bench. It was the long wooden seat that threw me.

Hive mind, #histodons,

Do I know anyone who is an expert on marriage and divorce law especially as it affected women and their property in the 1920s in the UK? (Boosts appreciated.)

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That laptop is staying closed for now, by order of the boss. Best just relax and enjoy the purring and head butts 💕đŸ˜ș
#CatsOfMastodon #diamanda