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  Gary Numan - Intruder https://musiccloud.io/yFJwr This whole album could make for a perfect #bladerunner soundtrack. It's solid throughout. #garynuman #music

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  My blog finally has a search function. I had a feeling it was missing something. @reedandpickup

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  ♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Insomnium (56) Hanging Garden (32) Elder (21) Deafheaven (16) Enshine (16). #myweekcounted 229 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @lfm_blue

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  Study explores how AI use affects performance on math and reasoning tasks - UC Berkeley #grandtheftautocomplete #digitalasbestos https://news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/using-ai-for-just-10-minutes-erodes-your-ability-to-persist-at-hard-things/

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  Apparently, #qobuz is working on an #appletv app. Unfortunately I forgot to screenshot the notification, but it is now up on TestFlight.

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  Got a major BOT problem. By BOT, I mean Beans On Toast.

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  The new #Sgàile album is very good. Nice bit of Scottish prog/post metal. https://sgaile.bandcamp.com/album/onwards-to-embrace-the-echo #bandcampfriday

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  Hmm... Peter Gabriel's new album is up for pre-order, a day before #bandcampfriday Well, that's that sorted. https://petergabriel.bandcamp.com/album/o-i #music #petergabriel

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  One thing I really dislike about #MacOS is that removing apps continues to be a crapshoot. Deleting them from the Applications folder still leaves traces of them elsewhere on the disk. Any good tools out there that aren't a subscription that you can recommend?

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  The new #stevenwilson track is umm…fine I guess. Music’s fine, vocals/lyrics, not so much. https://musiccloud.io/XKKujMZa #music

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  Last night, when I should have been asleep (thanks, insomnia), I had an idea for a playlist. This probably isn’t an original idea, but I liked it. Basically, you pick an important song released in each year you’ve been alive, whether it was important to you at the time (this gets easier as you reach your teens 🤣) or one you discovered much later (particularly the childhood years when musical tastes are forming). Mine currently looks like this. https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/69880050 #songsof...

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  We don’t love things because they are perfect, we love them because they are not: https://reedandpickup.com/2026/09/05/we-dont-love-things-because.html

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  HAAST —a Welsh doom band. https://musiccloud.io/QnyGWikV Really quite good. #music #welsh

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  Much of my #bandcampFriday shenanigans has been thwarted by sky-high shipping costs. In most cases the shipping costs more than the CD. Sgaile pre-ordered digitally though. The Hanging Garden t-shirt will have to wait.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116958443000291855 Y’all need to buy physical books, ones written by humans, obviously.

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  Why low powered PC hardware matters: https://reedandpickup.com/2026/07/23/why-low-powered-pc-hardware.html #steammachine #steamdeck #gaming

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  @alexisbushnell@toot.wales That’s weird. It could be that they compromised the account and are waiting for a reason to use it. I’d also check there’s nobody else signed into your password manager, just in case it wasn’t that they compromised. There has been a few breaches lately.

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  Do you reckon with the tennis, Wimbledon in particular, if the TV people replaced the video feed with Pong and kept the usual commentators that anyone would notice?

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  Reform loses control of county council https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgpyxw7l5no Didn't take long. #ReformLtd #WorcestershireCountyCouncil

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  Life without US tech - Financial Times https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/07fb30e8-ce62-474b-8f7e-39df74e351f8 #UnplugTrump #FinancialTimes

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  Insomnium - Valediction https://musiccloud.io/FdyWV Have been re-discovering #Insomnium today. Great band, wish they'd stop touring long enough to release an album. 🤣 #music #melodeath

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  @mason @lislegaard Hey Mason, this forum post explains it far better than I can: https://help.micro.blog/t/bluesky-cross-posting-and-mentions/1702 Micro.blog allows you to cross-post to a number of platforms, as well as get replies from Mastodon, Bluesky etc. My blog even has its own handle on here @reedandpickup --it's a neat service. On the replacement of surveillance-capitalist services, I think the fediverse is the best place to discover them. There seems to be a real hunger for them h...

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  RE: https://cupoftea.social/@DoubleTreble/116516056418183066 This is a new low, even for #ReformLtd Effin hell. #UKPolitics

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  This looks like a pretty cool way to share links to songs... #music #musiccloud https://musiccloud.io An example share: https://musiccloud.io/dTOzk

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  I’m guessing we’re in for another week of international diplomacy pantomime again. Mango: ‘We’re making a deal’ Iran: ‘Oh no we’re not’ Someone’s betting on the swings in oil and equities, aren’t they…

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  #ukpolitics folks need to watch Dirty Business on #Channel4 It's a very well-made dramatisation of the #ThamesWater sewage scandal. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dirty-business

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  I am tooting now from the new Tŵt app. It’s very fancy. I think @teamtoot knocked it out ot the park. Any chance of adding an iPad mode? (hint hint)