simon gray | @[email protected]

i make post-jazz-rock-dub-persian-indian-techno with a santur, a trumpet, and ableton live. and things for the internet

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

With immediate effect, I am no longer using or monitoring Twitter. You can find me on Mastodon at https://t.co/BAroWPOH0e or on Facebook (if you know me in Real Life) at https://t.co/Swuu1JdOb5

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@TheGoldenRatio4 @shreyas @Pentosh1 @garyblack00 @pulte @UpdateHLD @MakeupForWOC Ah, so indeed it’s still poor user data security on the part of Twitter looking after your data

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@TheGoldenRatio4 @shreyas @Pentosh1 @garyblack00 @pulte @UpdateHLD @MakeupForWOC I mean if you’re good with that; just looks like leaky user data to me rather than an actual deliberate choice on the part of the App Store deployment

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

[Reposted for anybody who missed it on Friday]

With immediate effect, I am no longer using or monitoring Twitter. You can find me on Mastodon at https://t.co/BAroWPOH0e or on Facebook (if you know me in Real Life) at https://t.co/My1ADl9hPc

[Clickbait Robot @clickbaitrobot]

CCHQ: Question Time's Silence On Scotch Eggs Is Now Deafening #QuestionTime

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

I’ve wanted to go to Highclere Castle since I was a child; I think it’s now possible to visit without feeling the need to stage whisper ‘I’m here for the Egyptology, not the Downton Abbey’ all the time https://t.co/tgjJ4uIEmH

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@misterunderwood @priddy I suspect Richard may be the friend of mine and @VermisstPfarrer ‘s friend Alison, who taught both of us quite a lot of what we know about mediæval and renaissance music.

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

Death metal is very much not my genre. (Pseudo-) Irish folk is very much not my genre. I won’t say Dutch death-metal-pseudo-Irish-folk fusion *is* my genre, but add a hurdy-gurdy to it and it at least becomes an effective and intriguing ear cleaner. https://t.co/6rVBin4UbN

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@misterunderwood @priddy Nope, just found it now!

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@misterunderwood @priddy I suspect even a symphony would weigh in quite expensive these days, but they of course, having no chien, are Not The Same

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@priddy I’ve always wanted to go to one of the Breton folk festivals in Brittany with my bombarde, but what with one thing and another never got around to it. The nearest I’ve got is a weekend event at Burnley Mechanics about 25 years ago I went to with my parents.

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@priddy It’d be rude for there not to be. (The ensemble in question I’ve discovered because a German hurdy-gurdy player I follow on Facebook has just joined them)

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@priddy 😀

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@DC_Breslin @RachelTobac @OSINTtechniques You’ve kind of missed the point of what she’s saying there. She’s not saying paying for things online is dangerous, she’s saying making it so all a Bad Guy needs to gain access to accounts is pay $8 to look like a legit customer support channel is dangerous.

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@iskandarv Our usual annual average for import is about 3% — but what I don’t know is whether it always goes up much higher overnight in autumn

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

24% imported electricity feels rather high (though not in the cheese sense), even at 3am when the sun isn’t shining.

[British Electricity Tracker @myGridGB]

British electricity mix at 3am on 4th Nov 2022

Nuclear 20.2% Gas 30.3% Coal 0.0%
Wind 12.0% Solar 0.0% Hydro 3.3%
Biomass 9.5% Import 24.1% Storage 0.0% Other 0.5%

Generation 23GW
Carbon intensity 212 gCO2e/kWh
vs 50-100 gCO2e/kWh target by 2030 #Import

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@iskandarv And “The airline owner says he is still physically capable of ‘picking up ladies’ but ‘times have moved on’”

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

So, the next time someone thinks they're being smart by telling you they "should have stayed in France"...

here's the @JCWI_UK 5-step guide to responding, which doesn't involve pointing out how deeply they are lacking in either humanity or imagination...

[simon gray | @[email protected] @simonjgray]

@apmbsd They were never my genre but I do remember once at 2am a concert film coming on telly and the group of us suddenly stopping chatting to pay attention because of the kicking backing band and it gradually dawning on us it was Bros

[Election Maps UK @ElectionMapsUK]

Eastwood (Nottinghamshire) Council By-Election Result:

IND: 43.1% (New)
LAB: 41.7% (-0.1)
CON: 15.2% (-31.2)

No LDM (-7.9) or GRN (-5.0) as previous.

Independent GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2021.