Clark Sorley

Maker of recorded works and a total ejit for staying in the music biz too long. Recreational writer. Not greatly arsed with social media.

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@rorysutherland I complain about this constantly like an old guy complaining, and wondering why more people don’t. So again: the wholesale move from talk to text in the digital age is one of the dumbest, most insidious things.

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@ContrarianJolly Exactly that. I bought a smartwatch recently for similar reasons. Only thing is you probably want a dual e-sim so the watch and phone remain 100% tethered. Don't think all providers are offering that yet.

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@sandymb1956 @thebeatles @brucerisk I was oblivious to the hammering RAM got when it came out, and that McCartney at times took what the critics were saying to heart. Loved it then, still do.

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@sandymb1956 @Edin_the_walk @EdinWestEnd_ Did that exact walk recently visiting the city. From Charlotte Square down Melville Street to St Mary’s. Beautifully sedate yet a minute from the rush. One of Edinburgh’s many curious qualities.

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@ContrarianJolly @HaloFred182 See also Can’t Buy Me Love: G note on the melody over a D minor making a 13th chord (chorus). JL could be sophisticated too of course. I loved I’ll Be Back—similar playing around with minor to major changes. Lennon was on fire on Hard Days Night, ten songs to McCartney’s three.

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@newstart_2024 Probably... monogamy arose as a solution to the problems of polygyny; polygyny arose with sedentism and the gradual concentration of control in small numbers of men; pre-historic humans were neither monogamous nor polygynous but naturally polygamous.

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@forthenightbird @ellurmusic Love that song, the whole album actually. Songs, performance, production, arrangements, the lot. All merged into a beautifully constructed piece of work. As good a record as I’ve heard.

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@amandaknox Excellent podcast, and so suitably titled because doubt was in every accusation thrown at Lucy Letby. Yet guilty verdicts ignored the fact. Given UK juries are sacrosanct the reasoning remains a puzzle with much explanatory power.

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@PeteCWilliamson @tomfgoodwin @rorysutherland I installed this just yesterday. Gets rid of “for you” and defaults to “following”. Many other useful tweaks too. https://t.co/tb4MNnTiB8

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@SelfSpidey @ContrarianJolly Yes I know. And even with all the attributes the stars still have to line up. So much of success in the arts depends on factors one has no control over.

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@JamesGl16945567 @markjurgenmayes Come on, it kept his kids going in horses and cars.

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@SelfSpidey @ContrarianJolly I remember one of my studio-mates recording Clare in the later 70s—doing a commercial for milk. So she was still doing sessions. Nothing wrong with that of course but it wasn’t exactly flying high from her brush with the rock gods.

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@ClarkeMicah @gill1109 As I recall, their book was a fair representation of events but with lapses, like when unkind remarks were made about Lucy’s appearance, demeanour etc. Even the nurse’s personal possessions were somehow to be held against her.

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@guyrowlanduk @amandaknox Good to hear. The Knox and Letby cases have obvious parallels, both women having faced similar accusatory forces. @amandaknox to her credit has become a formidable advocate for the wrongly convicted. Could be yet a further step towards Lucy Letby’s eventual exoneration.

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@justdeserts0 @ContrarianJolly @merchant47 @DebbieKennett @justdeserts0 Well said. One hopes such reasoning can apply within the confines of the justice process where truth seems to matter less than what can be argued and what can’t.

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@triedbystats Scrolling down the comments on their Letby segment I notice the majority are not in agreement with the Spiked line, even their readers. The witch-burners seem to be increasingly on the defensive on this, reduced to trolling, insults, and misinformation. https://t.co/inZfAOm4fg

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@CPMorris1234 Looking forward to this. If the book is even close to Wallis’s tour-de-force on the Post Office calamity (by the same publisher) it’ll be well worth a read. Will definitely pre-order.

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@helenlewis Loved Ep8 where some of Schlafly’s minions go off to the National Women's Conference alone. One of them unwittingly takes a psychedelic sparking in her an enlightenment where Steinem et al are not what she’s been led to believe. Beside the point here but a touching moment.

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@amandaknox When process trumps reality you wonder if prosecutors have any sense of how insane they can sound. Lord Denning (UK) argued that if the innocent staying convicted strengthens the system then fine. It contrasted Blackstone 200 yrs earlier: protect innocence before punishing guilt.

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@ContrarianJolly @EruthmaEruthmas Most of the other protagonists in Letby’s imprisonment are back in their boxes conspicuously silent, no doubt the sensible approach. That Evans is seemingly unable to do likewise does suggest a psychological deficit, a deficit that helped put a probable innocent in jail.