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The latest entries into this pit of despair

Asha Bhosle: cups runneth over: 13 April; Asha Bhosle, legendary Indian singer, has died aged 92.
(more…); celeb; obituaries
You wear it well Maggie: 11 April; Listening to Rod Stewart's You Wear It Well from 1972, there are distinct similarities to his previous year's hit, Maggie May. I don't have enough musical knowledge to bandy about terms like chord progression, let alone what those chords might be, but there are parts where one could segue into the other.
(more…); random thoughts & brain farts
Pretty pointless: 10 April; A BBC News story relating to the arrest of a man accused in the disappearance of his wife at sea in the Bahamas is accompanied by, of all things, a satellite image of the archipelago. It's rather pretty, I admit, but given that it's not linked into the article in any way, it's kinda pointless.
(more…); quoted for WTF?
Dog TV: 10 April; It sounds like an April Fool's joke, doesn't it? TV for dogs. But I checked, and today's not 1^st April.
(more…); quoted for WTF?
It's the (after)thought that counts: 9 April; Christina Newland is not the only BBC culture vulture to play down Hunter Schafer's star power. Caryn James opens her less-than-fulsome review of the third and final season of Euphoria by naming the same three cast members.
(more…); attention whore; culture vulture

The latest updates to past woes

No place to hide: 10 April; An opinion-piece on the enshittification of LinkedIn—predominantly by AI-generated slop—prompted this thoughtful comment:
(more…); grumpy; politics; teh soshull notwerk; wit & wisdom of the comments section
Not so super girl: 2 April; In response to Variety's post related to the Vanity Fair piece, a comment that'll likely fly far above the heads of those in Hollywood and the access media:
(more…); celeb; entertainment
Jerusalem (palestine): 31 March; Almost two years and two updates later, I finally migrated my iPhone from iOS 17.4.1 to version 26.4—what happened to 19–25?—today, and for neither of the reasons I speculated over: it wasn't accidental, and it wasn't in response to anything compelling coming from Apple.
(more…); politics; technology
BrainFart Inc.: 20 March; After I received a couple of follow-up emails from BrainStorm Inc. reminding me to complete their training, by watching more out-of-work actors extolling the virtues of SlopAI, their email address inexplicably fell into my junk senders list.
(more…); corporate cobblers
4chan: Ofcom can Fukof: 20 March; Oh, this is interesting.
(more…); fearless and favourless BBC; politics; wit & wisdom of the comments section; world's most trusted BBC

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