Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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The key fact for Musk should be that losing high profile posters is only going to further tank the value of his investment.
Of course the "flouncing" is mildly amusing. And the over inflated self importance that surrounds twitter is worthy of derision, but it does seem that Musk has done a pretty shit job on twitter, and I think that's a shame for the people who used to enjoy it.
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If Twitter was still as good as it used to be, nobody much would care about who owns it.
The reason people are leaving is because it's now less interesting. There's an alternative that doesn't automatically promote the least interesting, yet most opinionated people.
Now, pretty much all the accounts that am interested in their announcements are available elsewhere with the same information, I'd be using it less even without an alternative.
Also.... there is an assumption from people who use twitter for political engagement that this is the reason everyone used twitter. It really isn't.
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Anyway, it's nice to have somewhere for silly jokes and record shop updates that hasn't got porn bots liking random posts. Yet.
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There are more major media outlets on Bluesky by the day... obviously the one I'm really waiting for is the Daily Telegraph.
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I obviously used Twitter a lot for 'breaking news' type things, and US politics, but virtually never engaged, as it wasn't worth the effort, as there was never any 'debate' there in the latter stages, just entrenchment and insults (in both directions).
I'm sure that some media outlets will cross-post on more than one platform, including Twitter, if it's free, can be done easily, and drives 'engagement', but, as I say, I think Twitter & TS will merge, if the two co-POTUSes don't fall out first, as they are serving the same evidence-averse angry people, whose idea of political engagement is calling other people nasty names.
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FTR, Sibelius died in 1957. Still, nice that he's on Bluesky.
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It does actually cheer me up that the Muskyvites are whingeing about the millions leaving Twitter for somewhere where the primary activity is not just trolling, or Musk trying to undermine the government of another country.
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Had my nice watch repaired/refurbished in 2022. Went to wear it on Saturday and found it not working. Bah! Guessed the battery was flat. CBA to take it to town to be ripped off at jewelers so ordered a watch repair kit and batteries online. Delivered yesterday for well under a tenner. 10 mins later watch ticking along nicely.
Happy days! Have spare very very tiny battery to replace next year and so on. No wonder it went flat. It's almost microscopic compared to my other watches.
Sometimes. Maybe. Possibly.
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OK, duly trivial, but that's the Martin Lewis. No idea why though. Maybe he likes trumpets.
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Hmm, or it might be an imposter... that's something Bsky needs to get sharper on.
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There was a new story this week about someone being scammed by a Martin Lewis imposter. Beware.
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I've reported the account and tried to alert the the Martin Lewis. I'll probably resist any offers of trumpet sales from anyone called Martin Lewis for the time being.
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Seeing the inside of the restored Notre Dame well lit now... when I went there about 20 years ago, it was proper gloomy.
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It was proper gloomy in 2007.
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Estate agents always switch the lights on and edit the view through the windows to sunshine.
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I liked the before. After looks a bit kitsch.
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The stepladders look a bit out of place as well.
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Give me gloomy and atmospheric. Over restored, cleaned and lit up, it looks more Las Vegas than medieval.
A bit like removing patina from antiques.
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They probably do need to turn it down, but 'before' you really didn't see much at all, just gloom (certainly when I went in).
I've noticed in Exeter Cathedral they vary the lighting quite a bit, and very effectively. Just because the lighting is there doesn't mean they have to use it all on full-blast all the time. Worth remembering that churches were often painted generously in gaudy colours 50 years ago, and the plain dark interiors (often as a result of dark 19th-century stained glass) are actually a modern phenomenon.
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Looks like you caught them during a power cut there.
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Nope. You can see the lights that were on in the background. Proper gloomy.
For the photo tech savvy that was 1/60 at f1.4, ISO 400 and no compensation. Proper gloomy.
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And right on cue, they turn the lights down. Best of all worlds: options.
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Watching camcorder footage of my kids circa 2004-2007 when they were tiny and really cute and I had hair and my wife was slim.....
(Shhhh.... keep quiet about the last bit. I didn't say that, right?)
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You didn't say it in the best possible way but it cheered me up. 😂
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It's probably pretty much how it looked when it was first built. We get so used to old buildings looking old it is a bit jarring when they are rebuilt and look new!
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I appreciate that’s how it might’ve looked (minus the LED lighting). I guess after another 500 years of candle soot, it’ll be back to my taste.
Impressive that it’s been finished in that time frame. A testament to the
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OK, last one... still looks impressive... the brightest light here is the sunlight. This was Macron's visit with all the luminaries (geddit?) and people who worked on the restoration. I'd guess that the lighting schemes will be subject to a lot of experimentation.
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