#THE DOPE COLLECTION 2017

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i was pretty sure in-competition vs out-of-competition drug testing had different rules from following track and field doping scandals. and i was right! and then i accidentally dug a little too deep into doping regulations so. here's some fun info on anti-doping & motorsports (& how allowed doing drugs is) below the cut (you could perhaps call this a ~primer~ if you wanted)

i'm going off of the FIA's anti-doping regulations (appendix a to the international sporting code, this is from 2017 but it gets the gist across (and doesn't require a download). i checked it against the 2021 version and nothing i referenced changed significantly; click on the "appendix a" link here to download the 2021 version) and the world anti-doping code international standard prohibited list (link is to the 2024 list but i don't think things have changed very much over the years).

the appendix was only added to the international sporting code in 2010, so i can't speak to anything before then.

the FIA link is 69 pages long and also not an easy read BUT from what i can tell their testing works the same as any other international sport's (so if you're looking for a simpler read on the general process than the FIA's code, check out this wiki page on biological passports and the world anti-doping agency (WADA)'s pretty simple anti-doping process page here).

substances

the important part (to me, at least) is article 4: prohibited list and international standards. this is the bit that says what drugs you can and can't do.

it essentially boils down to "the WADA list applies. and also a few other things."

the few others things here are specifically alcohol and beta-blockers. alcohol for drunk driving reasons, beta-blockers because they lower heart rates and reduce tremors (they're banned in many sports that require high accuracy, like motorsports but also archery and golf).

the WADA list is broken down into two main parts: substances & methods prohibited at all times, and substances & methods prohibited in-competition

substances prohibited at all times

these are things like anabolic agents, peptide hormones, growth factors, beta-2 agonists, hormone and metabolic modulators, and diuretics and masking agents (you can explore more in depth here if you're interested).

basically, what i typically think of when i think of doping. the stereotype of bodybuilders taking steroids, you know. not the fun stuff.

substances prohibited in-competition

these are probably what people are more interested in hearing about (especially fic writers). these are stimulants, narcotics, cannabinoids, and glucocorticoids. i will admit to never having heard of glucocorticoids by that name before this (they are steroids used to treat asthma, inflammation, allergies, etc).

these include things like cocaine, adderall and other stimulants commonly used to treat adhd, ecstasy, weed, heroin, oxycodone, and so on.

once again see here for more info; if you're looking for something specific, go to the index and use what page it points you to as a guide. ecstasy, for example, is not listed by name as ecstasy on page 14 (stimulants prohibited in-competition but not out of competition), but if you look in the index, the ecstasy listing points you towards page 14 (where it's referred to by its 'chemical' name), marking it as a stimulant only prohibited in-competition. you might have to google your drug of choice to find other names for it.

in-competition, by the way, is defined as "the period commencing just before midnight (at 11:59 p.m.) on the day before a competition in which the Athlete is scheduled to participate until the end of the competition and the sample collection process." ie 11:59pm the night before right up to after you pee in the cup. assuming competition includes free practice, this period would be wednesday at 11:59pm to sunday after the race.

obviously you can get a therapeutic use exemption, where your doctor says "yeah they need this banned substance for this reason." it's more complicated than that, and there's a lot of paperwork and different agencies' approval involved, but that's the gist of it. this is, for example, how simone biles is allowed to take adhd medication despite those being prohibited in-competition.

the testing method itself isn't explicitly identified in the 2021 code, but it mentions blood and urine testing as options in a footnote. the 2017 code treats urine testing as the automatic option (and lays out the specifics of how that should occur quite explicitly), and blood testing as an alternative or optional addition.

different drugs stay in your system for different lengths of time. cocaine can show up on saliva & blood tests for up to two days, and on urine tests for up to three. weed's urine testing window can be as long as 30 days (depending on frequency of use). and so on. so risk levels vary!

sanctions stuff

you can get hit with sanctions for tampering with tests, evading tests, etc, but i'm gonna talk about specifically sanctions for testing positive because i feel like that's more interesting and relevant than going into sanctions for missing tests three times in twelve months (but if you are interested, read through the FIA's code).

they make special note of what they call "specified substances." these are substances that are "more like to have been consumed or used by an athlete for a purpose other than the enhancement of sport performance" aka fun drugs as opposed to performance enhancers. pretty much all of the in-competition banned ones are specified substances. notable exception here is cocaine. cocaine (and some other stimulants) are not specified substances. you can see which specific substances are specified here.

the definition of "specified substances" above is pretty much just used for sanctions reasons. it kind of helps determine who the burden of proof falls on.

nitty gritty sanctions stuff

the rest of this post gets into the nitty gritty of sanctions (feel free to skip this bit). motorsports has so few violations at the top level (like, to the point where anti-doping lab people are quoted as being genuinely amazed by how clean everyone is) that this kind of thing hasn't really played out (or at least, not since the FIA started working with WADA. or as far as i know). this is different from just about every other sport i've Ever paid any kind of attention to.

this part would honestly make a really solid flowchart. it makes for a pretty rough primer. it is so confusing, but hopefully i make it even a tiny bit more clear than the FIA's code.

there's quite a few cases here, and they're all kind of complicated:

if the violation involved a specified substance, the FIA has to prove it was intentional use to hit the violator with a four year "period of ineligibility," which i will refer to as a ban throughout for ease.

if the violation does not involve a specified substance, the athlete has to prove it wasn't an intentional use to avoid a four year ban.

the two cases above are what i see as the general cases. if a violation doesn't fall under any of the below cases, then it falls back into those. they're the "if not anything else, then these."

a violation for a substance only prohibited in-competition can be ruled not intentional if it is a specified substance and the athlete can prove that it was used out-of-competition, or if it is not a specified substance and the athlete can prove it was used out-of-competition in a context unrelated to performance.

aka (this is an extremely handwavey and flippant example for demonstration purposes only) if they test positive for ecstasy (specified substance), but they can prove they used it at the club for a good time, then it's not intentional. if they test positive for cocaine (not a specified substance), but they can prove they used it at the club and specifically for fun not for performance, then it's not intentional.

if intent isn't there, and none of the other options i go into below apply, you get a two year ban (as far as i can figure it out).

intentional use is specifically "meant to identify those athletes who cheat," basically doing it knowing it was a rule violation/carried a risk of being a rule violation and disregarding the risk (paraphrased from the FIA).

if the violation involves a substance of abuse as specified by WADA here, and the driver can establish that the use occurred out-of-competition and wasn't related to performance, then they get a three month ban. furthermore, if the driver completes an FIA-approved substance of abuse treatment program, then that ban will be reduced to one month.

if the violation involves a substance of abuse and it occurred in-competition, but the driver can prove it wasn't related to performance, then the violation'll be considered not intentional, and is therefore (as far as i can tell) subject to a two year ban.

if the driver can prove they bear no fault or negligence (literally Zero), then whatever ban they would've gotten will go away. this is REALLY hard though; the document states that it "will only apply in exceptional circumstances, for example, where a Driver could prove that, despite all due care, he or she was sabotaged by a competitor."

Conversely, it says that this no fault case wouldn't apply if: a) they consumed a mislabeled/contaminated vitamin or supplement (drivers are responsible for what they ingest), b) their personal trainer/physician gave it to them without explaining what it was (drivers are responsible for their choice of medical personnel), c) sabotage of their food or drink "by a spouse, coach or other person within the driver’s circle of associates (drivers are responsible for what they ingest and for the conduct of those persons to whom they entrust access to their food and drink)." In these scenarios, however, they could potentially use the no significant fault or negligence cases outlined directly below.

if the violation involves a specified substance (but not a substance of abuse), and the driver can prove no significant fault or negligence, then the consequences will be somewhere between a reprimand and a two year ban depending on how at fault they are.

if they can prove both no significant fault/negligence AND that the detected substance came from a contaminated product, then the consequences will be between somewhere between a reprimand and a two year ban depending on how at fault they are. (as an aside, i'm pretty sure this is the out that shelby houlihan tried to use when she tested positive for an anabolic steroid and blamed it on a pork burrito from a food truck).

to be able to use this out, the driver has to prove separately that a) the substance came from the contaminated product and b) they aren't significantly at fault.

these are, as far as i can tell, all of the potential violation cases the FIA's code has articles for. they align with other sports' regulatory bodies' rules, in my (limited) experience.

i hope this was at least a little interesting and informative! (it certainly was for me). thanks for reading :)

several disclaimers here: i make NO promises abt this being perfectly accurate bc it IS me interpreting the FIA's code. and this is nowhere near my area of expertise (i am not a doctor or a lawyer or anything else relevant to this. i am just a nerd with adhd and a whole lot of time). but i did my best ! and i think it's a solid stone's throw at accurate.

and also to be clear if they do coke in fic on thursday night or whatever for the plot or the vibes im still here for it. this is not me requiring pitch-perfect accuracy on doping violations in fic (and all of this info will probably drain out of my brain by saturday); it's (hopefully) a resource!

[justforbooks]

Trina Robbins

American cartoonist and author whose pioneering work in comics included being the first female artist to draw Wonder Woman

The American illustrator and writer Trina Robbins, who has died aged 85, began her career in comics in her native New York in the 1960s as a contributor to the counterculture newspaper East Village Other. She also drew and wrote strips for Gothic Blimp Works, an underground comic.

Then came comic strips, covers and spot illustrations for the underground publications Berkeley Tribe and It Ain’t Me, Babe, often described as the first feminist newspaper, before before she put together an all-women comic, It Ain’t Me, Babe Comix (1970), followed by the anthology All Girl Thrills (1971) and the solo comic Girl Fight Comics (1972).

Her black heroine, Fox, was serialised in Good Times (1971) and another of her characters, Panthea, who first appeared in Gothic Blimp Works (1969), was a regular in Comix Book (1974-76).

She also became one of the 10 founders of Wimmen’s Comix, an all-female underground comics anthology published from 1972 to 1992, and in the late 70s was a contributor to High Times, Heavy Metal, National Lampoon and Playboy.

Later she adapted the 1919 novel Dope, by Sax Rohmer, for Eclipse Comics (1981-83) and wrote and drew Meet Misty (1985-86) for Marvel. She was also the first woman to draw Wonder Woman, in The Legend of Wonder Woman (1986).

Robbins’ wider interest in the history of girls’ comics led her to co-write a book about the genre, Women and the Comics (1986), with Catherine Yronwode, and later A Century of Women Cartoonists (1993), followed by a number of biographies of female comic pioneers, including Nell Brinkley, Lily Renée, Gladys Parker and Tarpé Mills.

Born in Brooklyn, she grew up in Queens, where her mother, Bessie (nee Roseman) was a teacher. Her father, Max Perlson, was a tailor who later wrote for Yiddish-language newspapers and published a collection of stories, A Minyen Yidn (1938), that was turned by Trina into a comic anthology in 2017.

At the age of 10 she graduated from reading wholesome animal comics to Millie the Model, Patsy Walker and others with female protagonists. The Katy Keene comic was especially influential, as it encouraged Robbins to make paper dolls and design clothing for them. She was also a huge fan of the jungle adventuress Sheena.

Having discovered science fiction at 14, Robbins began attending conventions, and at one such gathering she met the short story writer Harlan Ellison. At 21 he was five years her senior, but they dated briefly and he later wrote her into his film The Oscar (1966) as Trina Yale, played by Edie Adams.

Trina attended Queens College before studying drawing at Cooper Union, although she dropped out after a year. In 1957 she married the cartoonist Art Castillo; they moved to the Bay area of Los Angeles until he disappeared to Mexico and the relationship ended.

Working for a time as a model for men’s magazines, she was a cinema usherette when she met Paul Robbins, whom she married in 1962 following Castillo’s death. Her new husband wrote for the LA Free Press, which gave her access to the Byrds, Bob Dylan and other musicians, and she began making clothing to sell to musician friends, including Mama Cass.

Returning alone to New York in 1966 (she and Robbins eventually divorced, in 1972), she opened a boutique called Broccoli on East 4th Street, making clothes for exotic customers and having flings with a number of them, including the Doors’ singer Jim Morrison and the activist Abbie Hoffman; she also had longer relationships with Paul Williams, editor of Crawdaddy magazine, and the cartoonist Kim Deitch, with whom she set up a cartoon art museum on East 9th Street.

Her clothes-making got her into a song by Joni Mitchell, who wrote in Ladies of the Canyon that “Trina wears her wampum beads / She fills her drawing book with line / Sewing lace on widows’ weeds / And filigree on leaf and vine”.

After she had sold her boutique in 1969 and began to make her living in comics, there was no looking back.

Apart from her writing and illustrating activities over the years, in 1994 she became one of the founders of Friends of Lulu, a US-based charity that promotes the reading of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry.

Her later work on the history of women in comics produced three further books, From Girls to Grrrlz (1996), The Great Women Cartoonists (2001) and Pretty in Ink (2013).

She also wrote a number of books for children, starting with Catswalk: The Growing of Girl (1990), and including the Chicagoland Detective Agency series (2010-14) of bizarre high school mystery adventures.

For adults she wrote The Great Women Superheroes (1996), Eternally Bad: Goddesses With Attitude (2001), Tender Murderers: Women Who Kill (2003) and Wild Irish Roses: Tales of Brigits, Kathleens and Warrior Queens (2004).

Her most recent comic was Won’t Back Down (2024), a pro-choice anthology.

She is survived by her partner, Steve Leialoha, a daughter, Casey, from her relationship with Dietch, and her sister Harriet.

🔔 Trina Robbins, writer and illustrator, born 17 August 1938; died 10 April 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[golikehellmachine]

friday, nov. 4th

it’s the end of a very long, covid-y week full of chills, fevers, and the both hilarious and alarming beginning of the end for twitter as we know it.

anyway, social platforms and websites rise and fall. speaking of, i’m still getting reintroduced to tumblr and don’t really know what — if anything — i’ll do with it on the regular, but for now, i’m leaning toward the idea of using it as a music blog.

which brings us to this!

here’s a friday playlist of mostly new music. i’m going to try to stick with things that are available on bandcamp, whenever possible; if there’s something older, out of print, or worth sharing a video for, i’ll use youtube, but i’m going to stay away from the streaming services as much as i can.

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first up, this track from soft kill’s newest, ‘canary yellow’. from their social media, it sure looks like they’re on a long hiatus, if not done for good, and i can’t blame them. some of them have young kids now, and they’re stuck in that terrible spot where they’re doing great work, getting good shows, bringing big crowds, but not big *enough* to even break them even by the time they get home from a several week or multi-month tour. the state of the music business is, well, sort of like the state of everything else.

the whole record is excellent, and their best work, by a *lot*. they finally seem to have a handle on both what they’re doing and what they want to do, and i think they got both right here. i’m going to link two tracks, because they’re both superb.

first up, THE LINE. if you caught the 2017 return of twin peaks, you’ll be familiar with the chromatics, ruth radelet’s full-time gig. she takes over vox on this one, and it’s a lovely, melancholy, swaying kind of song.

next up, my favorite from the record, and, i think, the first single, CONGRATULATIONS TEXT. this, to me, feels like exactly what they’ve been trying to get right since the beginning, and this sound is like a sweet little paper boat set sail down the river. hopefully it turns up again sometime in 2024 or 2025, as they’ve suggested it might.

next up is from a debut that seems to be picking up a lot of steam — big joanie. far too much indie and indie punk has been too straight, too male, and too white for far too long, and it’s super dope to hear a band that is none of those.

this record’s out on kill rock stars in the US and (i think?) the UK, and while KRS can be really hit or miss, this one’s right on target. it’s a slow build, with electronic drums, really lovely harmonies, and a good danceable club groove. i somehow managed to get my vinyl of this record last week, and i’ve been listening to it on and off since then.

it’s funny — as a hopeless jawbreaker fanatic when i was a young man, i was, at first, a little unsure of what i thought of jets to brazil, because, at the time, they sounded like such a departure from jawbreaker. now, as an (ahem) older man, i can hear all the ways that jets to brazil were just really a natural evolution from where jawbreaker were by dear you, and this really comes through on ETC., the final jawbreaker odds and ends collection.

i did become a jets to brazil fan, and, in a pretty similar progression, as a young man, i thought PERFECTING LONELINESS was inferior to the band’s debut, ORANGE RHYMING DICTIONARY. i feel exactly the opposite about it, today; i rarely put ORD on the turntable anymore, but this record goes on at least once a month.

this particular song, CAT HEAVEN, used to sound so sappy and trite to me when i first heard it, but now, i think it’s the loveliest song on the record, and my second or third favorite. it’s a lovely ballad, and the final lines of the verse have, once or twice, brought me to tears with their sweetness and melancholy. it’s a real gem.

a true story about rainer maria is that a friend of mine played in a wild, screaming, anarchopunk hardcore band called brother inferior approximately 300,000 years ago, who once did a few tour dates (or maybe a whole tour?) with them. it’s weird to think how you used to be able to catch profane existence-ish hardcore bands right up next to saddle creek emo tearjerkers.

this record felt like it was meant to be their big break, coming in 2003, right around the time that saddle creek bands and rilo kiley were finally getting out of basements and bars and moving into small and medium theater shows. they never really went all that far, but i always thought this single was supurb; it’s urgent, exciting, and feels like the wheels are about to fall off all the way through. even towards the end, in the descending close, it sounds like it might come apart any second.

twitter is a weird place, but there is (or, at least was) a lot that was fun about it, and one of those things was discovering other musicians and what they do.

dan lehner’s a fantastic and versatile trombonist based out of new york, and while everything he’s done is great, this is really, really superb.

DEEP RED BELLS is, of course, a neko case joint from blacklisted, and used to be *very* well known and prevalent anywhere you might hear neko case being played (bars, coffee shops, the supermarket). i think it faded to the background a little once fox confessor brings the flood came out, because fox confessor is such a monster record that it blots out the entire sun, but DEEP RED BELLS is still worth remembering.

dan tells me that sami stevens, the vocalist for this lovely rendition, only had a sort period to prep for it, but you could have fooled me, everything’s in the right place here, including dan’s trombone.

RIP twitter, long live twitter, twitter will never die.

x will never, ever, not be one of my favorites. i do not care that exene is paranoid, i do not care that billy zoom is a right-wing libertarian, i don’t care, it doesn’t matter, shut up. x are an american institution and a permanent american punk rock and americana staple, and all of those idiosyncrasies — unpleasant though they often are — are part of that, too.

we’re hoping to catch them next month at revolution hall, e.g., the venue of choice for people old enough to prefer to sit at shows. of course, they’re much older than we are, and doing all the hard work, and i appreciate them for it every time.

under the big black sun always has and always will be my favorite, and REAL CHILD OF HELL is my favorite from my favorite. there’s a version of this on the excellent documentary “The Unheard Music” which is just john doe and exene working on it together that i wish a full recording existed of, but the full band version is legendary and lasting.

bridal veil are locals here in portland, and friendly acquaintances of ours that we’re working on putting some shows together with in 2023. they’re a really fun live act — which is not always a given with their particular brand of droning, driving shoegaze.

this EP reminds me of some of the best parts of 90s alternative radio shoegaze — enough hooks to keep you engaged, even if you’re not a huge shoegaze fan, lush orchestration, heavy low ends and lovely highs that cut through it. jordan at room 13 did a superb job mixing this exactly right, and if we weren’t already firmly in love with our own engineer and studio, we’d definitely be looking them up.

i don’t know much about this band, other than my partner — whose taste is infinitely, unquestionably better than mine is — telling me that i absolutely have to hear it, and she was absolutely right. nothing else on this record hits quite right like this one does, but this song is such an excellent, raucous good time.

it reminds me, more than anything else, of james at their best, and james at their best were very, very good.

and so we come to the end — tumblr has a ten song limit per post, which seems perfectly reasonable, because otherwise this post, already too long, would go on forever.

not all 00s nostalgia is good; like every decade, most of what was released in the 00s was trash, and that was especially true for a lot of synth.

but not ladytron.

ladytron were always effortlessly, unbelievably cool. the kind of cool you absolutely would not ever meet, at least in the united states. they’ve been consistent from the beginning, but nothing ever quite scratched the same itch for me that light & magic, from 2002, did. until… maybe now? twenty years later, CITY OF ANGELS, the first single from their upcoming record, time’s arrow, might hit the exact same sweet spot that their jet black, white belt, neon breakout record did. it’s sure an enticing thought, enough to get me to pre-order it.

[yui-on]

閑話休題 伍

「YoshimiO & U-zhaan

LIVE IN POLARIS Release Commemorative」

at 結音茶舗

【日時】5/3 2023 (水曜日・祝) open 18:00

【会場】結音茶舗

　　　　大阪府大阪市中央区谷町六丁目14-2 路地奥

【料金】限定20名先着（※要予約） 4,000円+ワンオーダー

【予約】E-mail : mailto:tea@yui-on.com

　　　　Tel : (06)4305-4926 (12:00-24:00・月曜休)

出演

LIVE

YoshimiO x U-zhaan

Hideo Nakasako

にしもとひろこ

DJ

あらゆるゔぇーだ

Sound: Kabamix

YoshimiO & U-zhaan

LIVE IN POLARIS

シタール奏者のヨシダダイキチが結成した実験的インド音楽ユニット「SAICOBABA」のメンバーとして1999年から数多く共演をしてきたYoshimiOとU-zhaanが、出会って23年目にして突発的に初開催したデュオ即興ライブのフル音源をBandcamp限定でリリースする。マスタリングはkabamix。

YoshimiO and U-zhaan, who have performed together numerous times since 1999

as members of SAICOBABA, an experimental Indian music unit formed by sitar player Yoshida Daikichi, will release the full soundtrack of their first duo improvisation live performance, which was held suddenly and unexpectedly 23 years after they met, exclusively on Bandcamp The mastering was done by kabamix.

YoshimiO/

Vocal, Piano, Bamboo Flute, Triangle, Synthesizer

　

U-zhaan/

Tabla, Kanjira, Alto Horn

Mastered by kabamix.

Artwork by UTA

YoshimO・ヨシミオ（a.k.a.Yoshimi P-We)

1986年BOREDOMSのEYE等とUFO OR DIEを結成。

初めてドラムを叩き、初動でシャウトするステージから、

1988年より30年以上世界で最も先鋭的なエクスペリメンタル・ハードコアバンド・

BOREDOMSのコアメンバーとして活動。

1993年Kim Gordon,Jullia CafritzとのFREE KITTENのドラマーとして加入後、

1995年より自身のプロデュースバンドOOIOOを結成し、ギターヴォーカル＆トランペットでの表現は現在進行形である。

1999年からシタール奏者のヨシダダイキチが結成した実験的インド音楽ユニット「SAICOBABA」を経て、

2015年には古代ヌメロロジカルな手法をもとに演奏されるラーガコアバンド

[SAICOBAB]をヨシダダイキチ、HAMA(滞空時間）等と結成し

Vocalist・YoshimiOとしての活動を始める。

2020年よりYoshimiOのすべてのインプットは和泉希洋志からアウトプットされる

YoshimiOizumikiYoshiduOでピアノを奏で発声。

複数のパーマネントな音楽活動はもちろん、世界中を舞台にした数え切れないセッション・ワークやレコーディング、プロジェクトへの参加、  映画のサウンドトラックをはじめとするソロ=YoshimiO名義での音源制作、他ミュージシャンへの楽曲提供、 CM音楽制作、さらには、自身のブランドemeraldthirteenでの服飾デザインまでをもこなす、正にポリフォニックな多層型アーティスト。

音楽制作、延いてはその根幹となる器楽演奏や発声の方法までもが完全にオリジナルなメソッドで

貫かれており、楽器や音そのものから放たれるバイブレーションと素直に対峙することから始まる

身体的反応を第一義としたプリミティブな表現を核に、同時代性を伴う鮮烈な色彩感覚をちりばめた、独自のエートスを獲得している。　

U-zhaan・ユザーン

オニンド・チャタルジー、ザキール・フセインの両氏からインドの打楽器「タブラ」を師事。2000年よりASA-CHANG&巡礼に加入し、『花』『影の無いヒト』など4枚のアルバムを発表。2010年に同ユニットを脱退後、U-zhaan × rei harakamiとして「川越ランデヴー」「ミスターモーニングナイト」等を自らのサイトから配信リリース。2014年にはゲストに坂本龍一、Cornelius、ハナレグミ等を迎えたソロ名義のアルバム『Tabla Rock Mountain』を発表した。2021年にU-zhaan×環ROY×鎮座DOPENESSによるアルバム『たのしみ』、2022年に蓮沼執太との共作アルバム『Good News』をリリースしている。

Hideo Nakasako

関西を拠点にAmbient〜Dub〜Technoに影響を受けた電子音楽を制作するプロデューサー。現在は自身で録音したフィールドレコーディングやシンセサイザーで作ったテクスチャーをレイヤーしたAmbient Musicに傾倒している。

Blue Arts Music,shrine.jp,Muzan Editionsなど国内レーベル中心にリリースを重ね、自身のBandcampにて精力的に作品をリリースし続けている。2023年2月Muzan Editionsより「Collected Sound Fragments」をリリースする。

2017年よりクラブの音響、環境でアンビエントミュージックを楽しむパーティーDon't Danceを主宰する。

https://hideonakasako.bandcamp.com

にしもとひろこ

散らばる光と戯れるように、独特な声色でうたを紡ぐ。

アコースティックデュオ「たゆたう」、女性5人バンド「Colloid」などで活動するほか、主に声のみで物語を奏でるソロパフォーマンスやボーカル・コーラスサポートも行う。

2014年 劇団sunday『友達』、2016年 423アートプロジェクト『とちのこゑ』、 2017年 瀬戸内サーカスファクトリー主催『サカイデマングローブ』、2018年 『大阪府障がい者舞台芸術オープンカレッジ2018「うみのうたごえ」』、BRDG vol.5『Whole』、2020年BRDG vol.6『ふれる～ハプロス』などで楽曲提供、劇中での生演奏に参加。

日々の暮らしの中、歌ったり、描いたり、作ったり、多岐にわたるアーティスト活動をめぐりながら独自の世界観を表現する。

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1 to 5 for rain world asks (:

1: when'd you start playing Rainworld? According to my steam library, 21 Apr 2017!

2: Have you completed the game? Which of the campaigns have you completed? Yes! And no! I have not touched a single campaign of the dlc that i paid for! All that money truly did go to just having Double Jump Slugcat back. Wistful sigh! I have finished Survivor's campaign though, mostly because its a requirement to unlock Hunter's, and THAT'S the one i'm always playing on for my pearl runs or random touring around the world. I forget if I finished Hunter's... I enjoy playing so much that I usually have mods to extend the cycles for Hunter. Never touched Monk <z3 I love him but i don't rlly care for playing an easy mode version of RW

3: What is your favorite region? Never ask me that <3 one thing about me is i'll never make a decision in my life let alone will I pick a favourite. Visually, Garbage Wastes stood out to me heavily. It is a disgusting, ugly, rotten place and i froth that shit. This shit look like scumdoggia out here. This place look like gwar lore. Yknow. Absolutely nasty place. I'm in there right now on my current pearl run! With two babies x.x Industrial Complex is also up there, if only because that was the first place I learned like the back of my hand and it has the best song in the entire game at its entrance. "Level" two of the game, and already we have the best song in it. Stellar experience. Also introduced me to Blue Lizards, which are one of my most beloved Lizard types &lt;333 Shoreline might also be somewhere up there.... Maybe... It's frustrating though. But a distinctly beautiful place all on its own. I LOVE stormy (cloudy in this case) waters. Its [spoiler] subregion is where i store all my pearls that i collect!

4: What is your least favorite region? This one's also hard, but... Look, i don't think i'm aware enough of game design for each region. EVERY region has fucked me over at one point with some intended or accidental game bullshit (scavs stabbing garbage worms affects YOUR reputation with them fun fact.... ugh) but i still go to all of them for their pearls or unlocks, and i must have some semblance of fun doing it cause i keeeep doing it! Maybe in world design... Filtration System? It's not exactly a linear region (vanilla Farm Arrays..........) but it does have an "end point", and i found it pretty easy to vibes-memorise my way through that place even without any light sources. The darkness is a real bloody challenge in Shaded Citadel, but it's also a feature and i can appreciate it there, somewhat. In Filtration System it's just kind of annoying on my eyes. I dunno, maybe i should go play all campaigns and take notes to really sus this one out. Edit: it's fucking Farm Arrays straight up Farm Arrays im there rn i hate it here and its 90% the rain deers fault

5: What is your favorite creature? THE DREADED FAVOURITISM QUESTION!! FUCK Lizards: Blue & Orange. Pink is also up there All Scavengers!! I LOVE their design, even if we are mortal enemies in gameplay...... Leviathans are also dope, and I am a friend of all Hazers and Lantern Mice, short of making them my meals, that is. I like to save them from water/save them from land This game is VERY GOOD at making bugs feel like bugs and making my skin crawl. Hell if i'm gonna put any of the bastards on this list but i figured i'd mention that i appreciate it..... And Scugpups :) my babies

[wordexpress]

Gymnast Dipa Karmakar handed 21-month ban after failing dope test 

Karmakar's dope sample collected out-of-competition by the ITA was found to contain Higenamine, which is a prohibited substance under World Anti-Doping Agency Code.

NEW DELHI: Star gymnast Dipa Karmakar has been handed a 21-month ban for failing a dope test conducted by the International Testing Agency, contrary to claims made by Indian officials that her "suspension" last year was not related to doping offences.

Karmakar's dope sample collected out-of-competition by the ITA, an independent organisation that manages the anti-doping programme of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), was found to contain Higenamine, which is a prohibited substance under World Anti-Doping Agency Code.

Her ban period will, however, end on July 10 this year as it was counted from the day (October 11, 2011) the sample was collected.

"The ITA confirms that Dipa Karmakar has been suspended for a 21-month period, effective until 10 July 2023 after testing positive for higenamine (S3.Beta-2 Agonists as per the World Anti-Doping Agency prohibited list)," the ITA said in a statement late on Friday.

"The positive sample was collected on behalf of the FIG in the scope of an out-of-competition control on 11 October 2021," it added.

The Switzerland-based non-profit organisation works under the supervision of WADA and the International Olympic Committee to implement anti-doping programmes for various international federations.

The ITA further said Karmakar's dope issue was resolved under a case resolution agreement pursuant to article 10.8.2 of the FIG Anti-Doping Rules and an equivalent provision in the WADA.

"The athlete's results have been disqualified from October 11, 2021, onwards.

" Karmakar, who shot to fame after finishing fourth in the 2016 Rio Olympics in the vault event, has been struggling with injuries ever since she underwent surgery to treat an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in 2017.

Her last FIG event was the 2019 World Cup in Baku.

The ban on Karmakar flies on her face as well as on the Gymnastic Federation of India officials who have been claiming ignorance after she was put in the "suspended" category by the FIG in February last year.

GFI president Sudhir Mittal then said that he had not received any communication from the FIG regarding her suspension.

Karmakar herself and her coach Bisheshwar Nandi kept quiet at that time. Other GFI officials went to the extent of saying that the "suspended" status could be due to other issues, like ethical or disciplinary, not related to a doping violation.

[music-addiction-disorder]

kev ray This album has the ability to stay fresh with each listen. You don't need to be high to appreciate it,... but it never hurts. Favorite track: Nasa.

DOPE SMOKER - Nasa Legalize It (2017) Black Farm Records South West Wales

Tracklist: 1. Nirvana 03:50 2. Trenches 04:17 3. Legalize It 03:16 4. Nasa 03:24 5. Over 03:30 6. Scimiter 04:00 7. Widow 04:38 8. Ulvaner 04:24 9. Stone 03:41 10. Scars 04:08

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[ramp-it-up]

Another Lonely Christmas

Pairing: Steve Rogers x Reader

Word count: 1.5K

Warnings: 18+ Only, Minors DNI. SMUT! Not Beta’d. Read at your own risk. Fluff, ANGST, Captain kink, commitment phobia, snowball fight, oral sex (m receiving), flashbacks. 

A/N: This is my contribution for the Soulful Hoeliday Collective created by @geminixevans​ @fineanddandy​ @cocobutterqwueen​, @syntheticavenger​, @jamalflanagan​, @sunshinexsin​, & @afriendlyblackhottie! 

The song choice of Another Lonely Christmas x Prince is one of my absolute faves. I’ve been singing it all day. I’ve also been feeling angsty lately, so sorry, not sorry.  Hope you enjoy! Let me know by liking, commenting, and reblogging.

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December 2018

Last Night, I spent another Lonely, Lonely Christmas…

Steve missed you.

He blew it, he knew it. And as soon as he did it he realized it. He had to make it right.

Steve had blown up at you for no reason, and flown away on the quinjet with no word of where he was going.

You were talking marriage, and Steve just couldn’t commit. It was your second Christmas together, or was supposed to be, and your expectations had flown sky high. But he’d launched them there.

December 2017

Steve was pulling you down 5th Avenue looking into jewelry shop windows after ice skating at Rockefeller Center. You stopped in front of Tiffany's, looked up, and poked him in the chest. He looked down on you with a goofy smile, amused.

“If we are really gonna get married, Rogers. No diamonds. I want a sports car.”

The snow was falling down over your poof of hair and your woolen satin lined headband. Your dimples were deep in your face as you smiled at him. A more beautiful Christmas angel he’d never seen.

“Baby, you’re much too fast already. You don’t need a sports car.”

You pouted, ran into the park and back with a snowball, and Thwack! You hit him in the face. He chased you back to the park and you let him catch you, so you could roll around in the snow with him.

Steve smiled so hard that day that his cheeks hurt, and the hot chocolate that you made him in the Manhattan safe house, with the fire roaring in the fireplace hit the spot. You two wanted to be alone and as everyone was partying at the tower, this was the perfect place.

You were warming your hands by the fire in between taking sips of the steaming hot beverage which you’d spiked with Bailey’s. Steve watched you shiver by the fire, waiting to hear his signal.

You gave him a side eye.

“I’m coolllldddd!”

Steve grinned and joined you, picking you up and rewrapping you and he both in the blanket you wore over your underwear in front of the fireplace.

Within a few seconds, you were toasty, Steve’s super soldier body heat warming you quickly.

He just held you and you two stared at the fire, content to just be. It was never like this with her. With anyone but you.

You heard the bells of St. Patrick’s toll midnight.

You looked up at him.

“Merry Christmas. I love you.”

“Merry Christmas. I love you too.”

“I have a present for you.” Steve reached for his jacket and into the pocket and pulled out the Tiffany blue box.

“Steven Grant Rogers! We said no presents!”

You crossed your arms, turned away, and huffed, peaking at the box in his hands under your lashes.

Then you giggled and reached for it.

“Gimme!”

Your heart beat fast at the flat blue square shape. Not a ring box. You meant what you said about no diamonds, but anything else from Tiffany’s would be dope.

You looked up into Steve’s blues which were reflecting the firelight and grinned.

Steve felt as if he couldn’t breathe, looking at you, your brown skin glowing in the light.

He’s never been happier.

You slowly opened the box and saw the silver Tiffany key ring. You lifted it out and grinned. There was a key on it.

“It’s a key to this safe house. It’s been decommissioned. It’ll be our place. It’s also a ring. A different kind of promise ring. Most importantly, it’s the key to my heart.”

Steve’s soft baritone voice and the way he wouldn’t look at you made you cry.

“Oh Steve! It’s perfect!”

You climbed into his lap and made him look at you, seeing the emotion in his eyes.

“You are the best thing to ever happen to me, Steve. You saved me.”

“No, Sweetheart. You saved me.”

You sighed. “Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.”

Steve kissed you, capturing your lips with his own, forcing his tongue inside your wet mouth where yours met it, you kissed long and deep and were breathless when you pulled apart.

You were now riding his boner, two thin layers of your underwear separating your now hot bodies.

“I have an idea for a present you can give me?”

Steve grinned into your cheek and lifted you up as he scooted back to lean against the sofa and take off his boxer briefs, putting his hands behind his head. His long thick smooth dick was against his stomach.

You sat on your knees and watched him as the grin spread across his face. He raised his eyebrow when you didn’t move.

“Well. It’s not gonna suck itself.”

You smiled. You did owe him.

“Yes. Captain.”

You reached for his thick shaft and pumped it as you gave his balls the royal treatment first, sucking them and getting them good and wet before you trailed your tongue along the vein on the underside of his dick.

“Oh, fuck, Merry Christmas to me!” Steve exclaimed as you deep throated him. He reached between your legs for your clit.

“After you swallow like a good girl, I’m gonna feast on this pussy pudding.”

You choked around his cock with laughter.

“No jokes, Rogers, I’m trying to concentrate.”

“By all means… fuck!… Shit that feels good. Carry on.”

Steve leaned back and enjoyed his present.

That night and into Christmas morning, you two enjoyed each other, certain that you had time enough not to hurry.

That was last year.

He’d started talking forever with you before the snap and then everything changed. Thanos’ act made him realize that state of the world was not forever- proof. A world where millions of people could disappear was not stable enough to think of forever.

You’d asked him what the difference was. Didn’t you two still love each other? 

Steve didn’t answer, but the difference was the snap. He’d lost friends, enemies, people he thought would be there. He couldn’t guarantee you forever anymore.

So he ran. A week before Christmas, Steve flew to Wakanda to spend the holiday with him. Bucky would understand.

“You gonna tell me about it?”

“Tell you about what, Buck?”

Steve and Bucky were walking along the edge of the savannah in Wakanda, taking in the scenery. But Steve was distracted.

“What’s got you in your head?”

Steve looked at Bucky. He didn’t know about you. Then he looked down at his sandals. He was dressed in traditional Wakandan attire.

“Who is she!”

Steve was silent as they stood by the river, skipping stones.

“She’s incredible... I… she makes me feel…”

Bucky nodded his head.

“I feel like I’m having a heart attack when I’m with her. I get light headed, have palpitations. I’m an old man, and also a young boy when she’s around.“

He sighed, a small, goofy smile on his face that was reserved for you. He was so gone. So gone that he couldn’t form complete sentences to describe you.

Bucky just let it sink in. His best friend was in love.

“Alright, but tell me about that ass.”

They burst into boyish laughter.

“You already know,” Steve gave his friend a look.

“Sounds like you need to go back and handle that.”

“I can’t. She wants to get married.”

Steve smiled ruefully at his friend.

“Shit. I take it you don’t?”

“Of course I do. I just need time to be sure… to make sure that she will be safe. I can’t give her the life she wants. She wants, needs, stability. I need time to think.”

“I don’t know. You never have as much time as you think you do.”

Bucky was looking over the water, thinking that he’d never had a chance at love at all.

Steve wished he had listened to Bucky.

Darlin’ Darlin’ You should have been there.

He sped back to New York as soon as he could say goodbye to Bucky. Nat had told him that you had been crying all week.

You and your friend Constance didn’t notice him across the street.  It looked like she was cheering you up and introducing you to another man. The smile on his face made his heart skip a beat. You would be okay.

Steve was frozen. It was like he was in the ice again. He wanted to go up and interrupt you, claim you as his own, but the way the man was looking at you gave him hope that someone else could make you happy. 

Maybe he should let you be.  Maybe you could find happiness without him. Maybe he wasn’t the one to love you with the hopefulness of the future that you deserved. Because of his job. He was up close and personal with evil and you didn’t deserve to come home to that. 

Steve decided that he just wasn’t destined for the happiness you could bring him. But then he saw the keychain dangling off of your purse. He couldn’t help but smile. 

“Merry Christmas, Sweetheart,” Steve said to himself as he watched you and your friends walk toward 5th Avenue in the snow.

Steve drove to the safe house, alone.

Another lonely Christmas is mine.

Read the next part, Candydrip.

[possession1981-moving]

hi aleks 🌼 sf9 and tbz for the group ask :)

hiiii julia!!!

sf9

do i already stan them? no not at all never heard of them jk i would die for them | only for the music | attempting to | no

my bias + bias wrecker: i ult tyang but seokwoo and jaeyoon are my biases it's a thing. no wrecking here.

first time i heard of them: 2017??? i'm bad with time. i think 2017 but it could've been earlier.

when i became a fan: i was into the music since roar/easy love but i only started stanning later like sensuous era

favorite (and least favorite) title track: now or never are we surprised i'm not i will never shut up about her. least favourite is fanfare she's a tiny bit annoying (with love)

favorite (and least favorite) b-side: like the hands held tight <3333333 scold <333333333 stop it now <33333333 and least favourite is that one.... jungle game??? i don't even have it on my playlist bgjkdbkj

favorite (and least favorite) mv: enough for the styling, summer breeze for the vibes. least fave mamma mia i am sure people can figure out why it's not bc of the whack storytelling that i actually love.

favorite (and least favorite) album: the first collection is cuntress supreme the absolute UNTOUCHABLE level of her excellence!!! i won't have negativity here so no least faves.

a concept i wished they’d try: i'm thinking oneus lit i'm thinking vixx shangri la but also vixx fantasy that'd be a vibe...

what i like most about them: the fact that they keep trying to say seokwoo is shorter than he is even though he stands out like a sore thumb even in kpop's designated tall group

tbz

do i already stan them? yees | only for the music | attempting to | no

my bias + bias wrecker: i just double bias sangy n cobie, easy.

first time i heard of them: debut.

when i became a fan: i liked their music before but i only started stanning with reveal bc i was intimidated by the amount of members before.

favorite (and least favorite) title track: bloom bloom is my beloved and they don't have a single tt i don't vibe with till death

favorite (and least favorite) b-side: salty!!!!!!!!! is my fave. and like do they have a single track i don't love at least to some degree? i don't think so.

favorite (and least favorite) mv: i just... the styling for the stealer does it for me. but all their mvs are dope so no hate.

favorite (and least favorite) album: honestly breaking dawn might be my favourite album i'm obsessed with SEVERAL of the tracks... it could be like a temporary thing and i actually love them all equally but rn i'm feeling breaking dawn.

a concept i wished they’d try: letting sangyeon and jacob get lines <3

what i like most about them: they're insane (honoriffic)

send me a group!

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16 July 2021

Food for thought

At last week's Data Bites, I noted how 'Wales' is a standard unit of area. This week, along comes a map which shows that all the built-up land in the UK is equivalent to one Wales:

The map is from the National Food Strategy, published yesterday (and the man has a point).

It has divided opinion, judging by the responses to this tweet. I understand where the sceptics are coming from - at first glance, it may be confusing, given Wales isn't actually entirely built up, Cornwall made of peat, or Shetland that close to the mainland (or home to all the UK's golf courses). And I'm often critical of people using maps just because the data is geographical in some way, when a different, non-map visualisation would be better.

But I actually think this one works. Using a familiar geography to represent areas given over to particular land use might help us grasp it more readily (urban areas = size of Wales, beef and lamb pastures = more of the country than anything else). It's also clear that a huge amount of overseas land is needed to feed the UK, too.

The map has grabbed people's attention and got them talking, which is no bad thing. And it tells the main stories I suspect its creators wanted to. In other words, it's made those messages... land.

Trash talk

Happy Take Out The Trash Day!

Yesterday saw A LOT of things published by Cabinet Office - data on special advisers, correspondence with parliamentarians, public bodies and major projects to name but a few, and the small matter of the new plans outlining departmental priorities and how their performance will be measured.

It's great that government is publishing this stuff. It's less great that too much of it still involves data being published in PDFs not spreadsheets. And it's even less great that the ignoble tradition of Take Out The Trash Day continues, for all the reasons here (written yesterday) and here (written in 2017).

I know this isn't (necessarily) deliberate, and it's a lot of good people working very hard to get things finished before the summer (as my 2017 piece acknowledges). And it's good to see government being transparent.

But it's 2021, for crying out loud. The data collection should be easier. The use of this data in government should be more widespread to begin with.

We should expect better.

In other news:

I was really pleased to have helped the excellent team at Transparency International UK (by way of some comments on a draft) with their new report exploring access and influence in UK housing policy, House of Cards. Read it here.

One of our recent Data Bites speakers, Doug Gurr, is apparently in the running to run the NHS. More here.

Any excuse to plug my Audrey Tang interview.

The good folk at ODI Leeds/The Data City/the ODI have picked up and run with my (and others') attempt to map the UK government data ecosystem. Do help them out.

Five years ago this week...

Regarding last week's headline of Three Lines on a Chart: obviously I was going to.

Have a great weekend

Gavin

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Vax populi

Why vaccine-shy French are suddenly rushing to get jabbed* (The Economist)

Morning update on Macron demolishing French anti-vax feeling (or at least vax-hesitant) (Sophie Pedder via Nicolas Berrod)

How Emmanuel Macron’s “health passes” have led to a surge in vaccine bookings in France* (New Statesman)

How effective are coronavirus vaccines against the Delta variant?* (FT)

England faces the sternest test of its vaccination strategy* (The Economist)

Where Are The Newest COVID Hot Spots? Mostly Places With Low Vaccination Rates (NPR)

There's A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States' Vaccination Rates (NPR)

All talk, no jabs: the reality of global vaccine diplomacy* (Telegraph)

Vaccination burnout? (Reuters)

Viral content

COVID-19: Will the data allow the government to lift restrictions on 19 July? (Sky News)

UK Covid-19 rates are the highest of any European country after Cyprus* (New Statesman)

COVID-19: Cautionary tale from the Netherlands' coronavirus unlocking - what lessons can the UK learn? (Sky News)

‘Inadequate’: Covid breaches on the rise in Australia’s hotel quarantine (The Guardian)

Side effects

COVID-19: Why is there a surge in winter viruses at the moment? (Sky News)

London Beats New York Back to Office, by a Latte* (Bloomberg)

Outdoor dining reopened restaurants for all — but added to barriers for disabled* (Washington Post)

NYC Needs the Commuting Crowds That Have Yet to Fully Return* (Bloomberg)

Politics and government

Who will succeed Angela Merkel?* (The Economist)

Special advisers in government (Tim for IfG)

How stingy are the UK’s benefits? (Jamie Thunder)

A decade of change for children's services funding (Pro Bono Economics)

National Food Strategy (independent review for UK Government)

National Food Strategy: Tax sugar and salt and prescribe veg, report says (BBC News)

Air, space

Can Wizz challenge Ryanair as king of Europe’s skies?* (FT)

Air passengers have become much more confrontational during the pandemic* (The Economist)

Branson and Bezos in space: how their rocket ships compare* (FT)

Sport

Euro 2020: England expects — the long road back to a Wembley final* (FT)

Most football fans – and most voters – support the England team taking the knee* (New Statesman)

Domestic violence surges after a football match ends* (The Economist)

The Most Valuable Soccer Player In America Is A Goalkeeper (FiveThirtyEight)

Sport is still rife with doping* (The Economist)

Wimbledon wild card success does not disguise financial challenge* (FT)

Can The U.S. Women’s Swim Team Make A Gold Medal Sweep? (FiveThirtyEight)

Everything else

Smoking: How large of a global problem is it? And how can we make progress against it? (Our World in Data)

Record June heat in North America and Europe linked to climate change* (FT)

Here’s a list of open, non-code tools that I use for #dataviz, #dataforgood, charity data, maps, infographics... (Lisa Hornung)

Meta data

Identity crisis

A single sign-on and digital identity solution for government (GDS)

UK government set to unveil next steps in digital identity market plan (Computer Weekly)

BCS calls for social media platforms to verify users to curb abuse (IT Pro)

ID verification for social media as a solution to online abuse is a terrible idea (diginomica)

Who is behind the online abuse of black England players and how can we stop it?* (New Statesman)

Euro 2020: Why abuse remains rife on social media (BBC News)

UK government

Online Media Literacy Strategy (DCMS)

Privacy enhancing technologies: Adoption guide (CDEI)

The Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset is now available in the ONS Secure Research Service (ADR UK)

Our Home Office 2024 DDaT Strategy is published (Home Office)

The UK’s Digital Regulation Plan makes few concrete commitments (Tech Monitor)

OSR statement on data transparency and the role of Heads of Profession for Statistics (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Good data from any source can help us report on the global goals to the UN (ONS)

The state of the UK’s statistical system 2020/21 (Office for Statistics Regulation)

Far from average: How COVID-19 has impacted the Average Weekly Earnings data (ONS)

Health

Shock treatment: can the pandemic turn the NHS digital? (E&T)

Can Vaccine Passports Actually Work? (Slate)

UK supercomputer Cambridge-1 to hunt for medical breakthroughs (The Guardian)

AI got 'rithm

An Applied Research Agenda for Data Governance for AI (GPAI)

Taoiseach and Minister Troy launch Government Roadmap for AI in Ireland (Irish Government)

Tech

“I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Go Back”: Return-to-Office Agita Is Sweeping Silicon Valley (Vanity Fair)

Google boss Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom (BBC News)

The class of 2021: Welcome to POLITICO’s annual ranking of the 28 power players behind Europe’s tech revolution (Politico)

Inside Facebook’s Data Wars* (New York Times)

Concern trolls and power grabs: Inside Big Tech’s angry, geeky, often petty war for your privacy (Protocol)

Exclusive extract: how Facebook's engineers spied on women* (Telegraph)

Face off

Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet? (The Observer)

#Identity, #OnlineSafety & #AgeVerification – notes on “Can facial analysis technology create a child-safe internet?” (Alec Muffett)

Europe makes the case to ban biometric surveillance* (Wired)

Open government

From open data to joined-up government: driving efficiency with BA Obras (Open Contracting Partnership)

AVAILABLE NOW! DEMOCRACY IN A PANDEMIC: PARTICIPATION IN RESPONSE TO CRISIS (Involve)

Designing digital services for equitable access (Brookings)

Data

Trusting the Data: How do we reach a public settlement on the future of tech? (Demos)

"Why do we use R rather than Excel?" (Terence Eden)

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How did my phone number end up for sale on a US database? (BBC News)

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John Burnside

Poet, winner of the TS Eliot and Forward prizes and the Whitbread poetry award, memoirist, novelist and academic

Being John Burnside was a remorseless exercise in human resilience. Even after he left behind childhood deprivation and became a professor at an ancient university, there were always demons to be banished, myths to be busted and issues urgently to be addressed for Burnside, who has died aged 69 after a short illness. Writing was his best revenge, the means by which a sense of stability could be imposed on personal turbulence.

It was his abusive, alcoholic father George who taught him how to make a living by telling stories, though the stories his father told were more often than not lies. “No one,” recalled John in A Lie About My Father (2006), the first of three celebrated memoirs, “ever did find out where my father came from. He was really a nobody: a foundling, a throwaway. The lies he told were intended to conceal this fact, and they were so successful that I didn’t know, until after he died, that he’d been left on a doorstep in West Fife in the late spring of 1926, by person or persons unknown.”

John’s debut collection of poetry, The Hoop, appeared in 1988, and few were the following years when there was no new book from him. His poetry, like his prose, often drew on the past and his own experience, such as The Woman Taken in Adultery, from A Normal Skin (1997), and Memories of a Non-existent Childhood, from Still Life with Feeding Snake (2017): “For years I was lost in the details / heart like a flower, / tending towards the light, / the fog of the cursive, / the beauties of mistranslation.”

For his 2011 collection Black Cat Bone, he won the TS Eliot prize and the Forward prize; he was one of only four poets – the others being Ted Hughes, Sean O’Brien and Jason Allen-Paisant – to win both prizes for the same book. In 2000, The Asylum Dance won the Whitbread poetry award. A Lie About My Father was chosen as the Scottish Arts Council’s nonfiction book of the year and the Saltire Society Scottish book of the year.

Last year he was awarded the David Cohen prize for literature in recognition of his entire body of work. Previous winners include VS Naipaul, Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing and Seamus Heaney.

Secrets, passed from father to son, defined John’s youth and obsessed his adulthood. He was born in Dunfermline, but was raised in a prefab in Cowdenbeath. Once a thriving mining community, nicknamed “the Chicago of Fife”, by the time of John’s birth it had lost its raison d’etre and everyone who could escape did.

For the Burnsides the hoped-for nirvana was the new town of Corby, Northamptonshire, which attracted so many unemployed Scots to its steelworks it was known as Little Scotland. By then, however, as John recalled in his memoir, his father had begun to fall apart, physically and mentally; his much-loved mother, Theresa, did her best to keep up appearances, attending mass and reading Mills & Boons by the yard.

For his part, John took to smoking dope and playing “childish pranks” for which he was expelled from school. By 16 he had progressed to LSD, which he found more rewarding than the communion host. “Acid did what the host failed to do,” he wrote. “Acid was the only real sacrament to which I had access … Here I was, the boy who had seriously thought about a vocation. Now, though the source wasn’t quite what I’d expected, I had one.”

Of an autodidactic tendency, he read deeply and widely, claiming he was “a Seneca nut into my 20s”. He attended Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (“for something to do”), thereafter becoming a computer software engineer. He began to publish poetry in the 1980s, and became a full-time writer, moving back to Fife in 1996 after a long period in Surrey.

In 1997 came The Dumb House, the first of John’s eight novels. Fantastical, disturbing, chilling, it is full of startlingly arresting sentences that provoked critics such as Karl Miller to describe the author as an “extraordinarily good writer”. Rereading it recently, I caught echoes of Proust: “For a long time, I refused to speak – or so my Mother told me.”

For John, his formative years in Cowdenbeath and Corby were the ore from which he sought to extract diamonds. In Living Nowhere (2003), for example, he returned to the Corby of the 70s, where the hope of a better future for its transplanted inhabitants and their offspring is dashed by violence that hangs over the town like the ash and stench from the steelworks.

His taste was catholic, his enthusiasms boundless and his curiosity infectious. In his third memoir, I Put a Spell on You (2014), he describes incidents from his life and muses on popular music, classical literature, old and foreign movies, Diane Arbus and Mel Lyman, the American folk musician and film-maker who provided a link between Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Andy Warhol.

The book’s title is taken from the much-covered song written by Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, another maker of his own myths. The version John first heard as a nine-year-old was by Nina Simone and whenever he heard her or anyone else sing he was transported back to Cowdenbeath. There, as a teenage barfly, he heard a girl called Annie sing it in a cafe, not long after which she was murdered.

Burly, bespectacled, latterly bearded, John taught for many years in the English department at St Andrews University, where he became professor in creative writing in 2009. Among his colleagues were Douglas Dunn, Robert Crawford, Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson.

As my wife and I witnessed when we paid an annual visit to the university, John was an impassioned and eloquent educator and revered by his students. Not so long ago, he sent us a copy of his 2019 book The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century, generously inscribed and thanking us for “the criticism and the encouragement over many years”. Not many writers are so forgiving of reviewers.

In 2018, writing in the London Review of Books, John told how he was suffering from sleep apnoea, “a condition where the patient stops breathing while asleep, then starts awake and desperately gasps in some air, before settling down again, all in a matter of seconds”. Two years later, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, he suffered “huge heart failure”, as he described it, and was given a “do not resuscitate” order by doctors who feared he would not pull through. Somehow he did and continued to work at full pelt.

In Ruin, Blossom, his most recent collection of poetry, published earlier this year, John explored ageing, mortality and the parlous state of the environment. Having long since rejected organised religion, he labelled himself a “deep ecologist/anarchist”. He was particularly exercised about the building of a windfarm beside a nature reserve near his home a few miles south of St Andrews, not because it spoiled his view but because of the harm it would do to bats, birds and other wildlife.

He wrote regularly for publications including the New Statesman, the TLS, the New Yorker and the Guardian, and became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1998.

He is survived by his wife, Sarah (nee Dunsby), whom he married in 1996, their two children, Lucas and Gil, and their grandson, Apollo.

🔔 John Burnside, writer, born 19 March 1955; died 29 May 2024

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What are your favorite movies? I saw you tagging Dirty Dancing so which other ones would you recommend?

!!!! so! anon you may not know this but i’m actually a mass communication major with a concentration in film studies, so this is gonna be a LONG list lmao. i have a collection of 200+ DVDs, but i won’t list every single one of those haha

list is gonna be under the cut!

my favorite film of all time is my own private idaho (1991, dir. gus van sant). it’s a drama about an unhoused gay sex worker with narcolepsy and his quest to find his estranged mother. extremely sad, but really fucking good. starring river phoenix and keanu reeves.

runner-up for my favorite film is jack and the cuckoo-clock heart (2013, dir. stéphanie berla and mathias malzieu). this is an animated musical from france that's based on a concept album by the band dionysos, and it's a gorgeous film to look at. if you like the work of henry selick or tim burton, you'll probably really like jack and the cuckoo-clock heart. it's a story about a boy with a delicate clock for a heart who falls in love even though he's not supposed to. the music slaps and the film is both heartwarming and heartbreaking.

i don't watch a ton of comedies, but i'd have to say my favorite comedic film i've seen in a very long time is dr. strangelove, or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (1964, dir. stanley kubrick). you've probably heard of this movie, as it's considered a classic, but it's still worth the recommendation. funniest movie about nuclear annihilation i've ever seen and holds up even 55 years later.

while we're on the subject of "movies you've probably already heard of but need to watch anyways": pan's labyrinth (2006, dir. guillermo del toro). del toro is one of my favorite contemporary filmmakers (i highly recommend his 2017 film the shape of water if you haven't already seen it) and is the master of the grown-up fairytale. pan's labyrinth is a fucked up movie. it's scary, both because of its monsters (the pale man still gives me shivers) and because of its humans (the film takes place in fascist spain in 1944; suffice it to say some of the characters are reprehensible people). it's a spellbinding film.

let's move on to something more lighthearted. i am not joking when i say that mamma mia! (2008, dir. phyllida lloyd) and mamma mia! here we go again (2018, dir. ol parker) are two of my favorite films of all time. yes, they're corny and silly and the timeline makes no goddamn sense (i could write essays about why the timeline makes no sense...), but they make me feel joy like no other film series can. the second one is leagues better than the first in my opinion (mostly because pierce brosnan doesn't sing at all in the second one), but they're both worth a watch if you just want some good old-fashioned campy fun.

last of these that i'll describe: moonlight (2016, dir. barry jenkins). you have probably heard of moonlight. but i will hammer home that if you are at all interested in the art of filmmaking, you need to see moonlight. i've seen moonlight and i've seen citizen kane, and in my opinion moonlight is better. moonlight tells the story of a young black man's coming of age and self-discovery. it is beautiful and it is heartbreaking and it is honest. i can't count how many times i've seen it.

more films that i strongly recommend: brokeback mountain (2005, dir. ang lee), barbarella: queen of the galaxy (1968, dir. roger vadim), american pop (1981, dir. ralph bakshi), inception (2010, dir. christopher nolan), do the right thing (1989, dir. spike lee), dope (2015, dir. rick famuyiwa), moonrise kingdom (2012, dir. wes anderson), roma (2018, dir. alfonso cuarón), the iron giant (1999, dir. brad bird), and beasts of the southern wild (2012, dir. benh zeitlin).

EDIT: i don’t have time to look up the director or release year now but i forgot. orlando starring tilda swinton. immortal trans main character. it slaps.

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i was tagged by @darnitdraco

Nickname: technically daisy is my nickname

Pronouns: she/they

Star sign: leo

Height: 5′2. i am a short king fight me

Time currently: 6:31 pm

Birthday: July 31st

Favorite groups/bands: so much little mix and chloe x halle has been listened to lately, i love them so much

Favorite solo artist: hmm hozier probably or lorde

Song stuck in my head: recently it has been rotating between nobody by mitski, by myself by FIDLAR, tipsy by chloe x hall, and montero (call me by your name) by lil nas x. i never have just one they rotate until im losing my mind

Last movie you watched: just finished watching pride and prejudice (2005) for the thousandth time

Last show you binged: my sister and i are rewatching castle, or also fantasy high counts bc ive been bingewatching that

When you created your blog: 2017 for this one, 2011 for my first ever tumblr i think

Last thing i googled: nerdy fabric. im trying to find a fabric for a dice bag bc imma make a dice bag

Other blogs: this is my only one

Why I chose my url: bc i love my lord and savior hozier and this song means so much to me but to-noise-making was taken i think. it used to be sapphic-vilde-lien but i wanted to distance from skam a little

Do you get asks: rarely but occasionally ppl do when i reblog an ask game

How many people you are following: im following 693 blogs

How many followers: 223 followers

Average hours of sleep: it depends tbh. but mostly i do manage at least a solid 7 hours if i dont wake up during the night

Lucky number: idk if i do

Instruments: piano, ukulele, guitar. i wanna play drums and bass too tho

Currently wearing: a daisy print shirt dress from h&m (its in the super cute to all the boys collection if ya want it)

Dream job: i wanna one day work as a school librarian, but i wanna teach before then (just need to find any job)

Dream trip: i honestly dont know. just to go everywhere

Favorite food: this is the hardest question ever, but maybe chocolate of just any type. or savory i guess i love greggs sausage rolls so much ive eaten so many since moving

Favorite song: to noise making by hozier is one of them, or i wanna get better by bleachers bc i like screaming it, idk anything by any of the previously listed artists bc it depends on my mood

Top 3 fictional worlds to live in: julie and the phantoms bc id love a world where they are a band doing shows and also theres no covid in jatp, the world of fantasy high seems fucking dope and i would love to be friends with all of the characters, and the mcu i guess i mean id love for wanda to accidentally kidnap me

im gonna tag @smash-ash26, @sunshine-wlw, and anyone else who wants to do it bc i struggle with knowing who to tag

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