Duncan Parsons

Developer, musician, technical writer, sound engineer, producer.
A drummer who gets distracted.

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@penfriendrocks @lizzlipscombe @johnhackettband Oh.. and a video I'm very pleased with, quirky pop about Temptation - Lead Us Not

Literal vibes.

https://t.co/X0G0D2cTgD
Bass on this by @lelandsklar :-)

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@skeuomorphology Band played Sheff 23rd Oct. Had my HEPA filter blasting at me.

Nottingham tomorrow/Friday night, Northampton Sat, Staines on 22nd.. Then that's the UK wrapped for 2026.

I am, however, running an SHF acoustic evening on Tue, but it's a big space and will have at most about 30

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

..I better not stop masking, then..

[Dan O'Hara @skeuomorphology]

The most rapid rebound of all is in Sheffield, quadrupling in a week.

Neighbouring areas like Barnsley and Rotherham are tending the same way and it looks like the same is about to happen from the Wirral to Hull.

Tyneside and Teesside are also rebounding upwards.

5/7

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@mickfirstalert @angelmbrewery @blackprincenn @Kaprekars @thamessidebrew @dikajee_of @TigerMothTales Marv'lus

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

John Hackett Band have three more UK dates this year!
Nov
Fri 13th - The Chapel/@angelmbrewery
Sat 14th - @blackprincenn
Both with Dorie Jackson Band/@Kaprekars

Sun 22 - @thamessidebrew Progzilla Day
+ @dikajee_of (solo), @TigerMothTales (solo), Dry Rot

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#prog #livemusic

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@1goodtern I 'spose I am..

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

Tix..
Fri 13th
The Chapel Nottingham
https://t.co/V5Id4QwTqw

Sat 14th
The Black Prince, Northampton
https://t.co/XCKu9t0srv

Sun 22nd
Thamesside Brewery, Staines
https://t.co/nA8FISu02w

Might not be for you, but mebbe tell a friend!

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#prog #JohnHackettBand @HackettOfficial

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

I want to past the whole text of what @GretaThunberg said at COP31, because it is so profound and true.

'Greta Thunberg has said that the planet is “not dying, it is being killed and we know by who” in a stark intervention at the Cop31 climate talks in Antalya, Turkey.

“It is being killed by the very same people thought to come to our rescue,” Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, said. “No one is coming to our rescue.

“When our human rights are being threatened by states and other institutions, it’s our duty to stand up and be the adult in the room and fight for everyone’s human rights.”

Thunberg spoke at a packed press gathering in the Cop31 venue alongside other activists from Nepal, Australia, Palestine and Canada. All of them lambasted governments’ inaction on the climate crisis and called for the end of Turkish energy shipments to Israel, which Thunberg said was “directly feeling the genocide in Palestine.”

“We are heading towards a future of more genocides and more ecocides and the complete compromise of our basic rights and where basic necessities become luxuries,” Thunberg said. “It’s more clear than ever in spaces like these that the situation could not be any less under control, the planet is not dying, it is being killed.”'
https://t.co/fSxI07LXK4

Now ask, why so few other if any people with a platform, are speaking the unvarnished truth like this.

[Dr Juliet Turner @juliet_turner6]

Millions of years before humans began farming, ants had already mastered the art of keeping livestock.

Here, black ants (probably Lasius niger) tend to aphids much like human farmers tend to cattle. They herd them around, keep them close, and protect them from predators like ladybirds and lacewings.

In return, the aphids provide them with a sugary secretion known as honeydew, which the ants love to drink.

To encourage the aphids to release their honeydew, the ants gently stroke their bodies with their antennae.

This entire miniature world unfolds on the globular clusters of flowers and unopened buds of an ivy plant. It’s amazing how much life a single native plant can host.

I took these photos around a week ago.

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@JenMsft A Binatone console in 1979/80 with Pong, 'Football', Squash, and shooting..

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@BladeoftheS Home

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@ProofreadJulia If only she were

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@Jupiter_917 @ProofreadJulia "Do you not wish.."

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@philchamp_ @archer_rs My silly eyes told me "..or marmalade filling."

What a strange world my eyes believe I inhabit..

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

"..during covid.."

[Gwladwr @gwladwr]

UK Registered Covid Deaths in 2026
to (inc) Week 44

England 1251
Wales 74
Scotland 152
N Ireland 51

UK Total Covid Deaths 1,528 in 2026
Weeks 1-44

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[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

Masking saves lives. It protects you and those around you.

We're still "during covid."

[Gwladwr @gwladwr]

Covid Deaths in the UK

(in memory of @tigresseleanor)

Week 44 = 119 Registered UK Covid Deaths
w/e 30th October 2026

England 105
Wales 1
Scotland 7
N Ireland 6

UK 119 ( +14 )

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[Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056]

The currently spreading new variant of SARS-CoV-2 is PJ.2.1, which has over 25 spike protein mutations. PJ.2.1 has demonstrated unusually strong binding to human cells compared to previous variants (e.g., JN.1). These changes may help this variant to spread further among people, although no one cares.

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@BladeoftheS Je suis ici, sans le.. err.. tique bleu

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@DHSCgovuk @YvetteCooperMP One assumes the air filtration in that area is fantastic, and everyone has had at least a rudimentary test, such that masking isn't needed for the 60sec it took to stage that photo op.

Back to FFP3s after the shutter closed, yes? It is a hospital during a covid wave, after all

[Lara - Covid is Airborne @fillthewhole]

This was rare until COVID. Now it is not. How many GPs are asking kids & parents if they’d had a ‘cold’ in the run up to shingles? Our kids are being force infected with SARS-CoV2 in schools & there is silence. Do parents know we are in a Covid wave now?

[Duncan Parsons @jefph]

@adolfnigglus @Yum_fr_ @karbarmamoli Is this via the app? I only ever access the site in a browser and it doesn't appear to be there.

o well