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@danxduran.bsky.social
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🎵 Anecdata - anecdata.bandcamp.com - music by a human about what it feels to be at threat of being replaced by a robot bsky.app/profile/anecdata.bsky.soci… - digital news editor at RNZ, at least until the robots take over

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 5h
My new song... it has a lot of words. No idea what possessed me to write four different choruses, but it is what it is.
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Tom @kiwiteej.bsky.social · 3h
Aren't we all
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 3h
Accidentally just googled 'Pearl Ham'
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 3h
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 5h
My new song... it has a lot of words. No idea what possessed me to write four different choruses, but it is what it is.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 6h
That feeling when you taste pizza for the very first time. Original post
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 6h
This new 30th anniversary (!) edition of Suede's Coming Up album includes instrumental versions of every song, ie karaoke, which is great for those of us who like to drink wine and listen to Suede and an absolute disaster for anyone else in the house
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 7h
The distro I use for @anecdata.bsky.social is known for its AI tools, yet when I submitted my new album this week had to click a button for every song confirming it was NOT AI, then when I had a small problem, a real human intervened to fix it. Even the companies offering AI know no one wants it...
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 8h
Big day today! New Giles Martin mix of Rubber Soul, a Steven Wilson remix of Suede's Coming Up... and I'm gonna release a new @anecdata.bsky.social song too, I guess *sighs in excitement*
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 8h
If you had to convert a Queen song into a picture, this is what you'd get
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 9h
BREAKING NEWS: Tensions between Thor and the Care Bears have escalated rapidly overnight.
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 10h
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 10h
What a strange country. Bet they send her the bill
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 23h
Appetite for construction
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Probably already polling above Luxon and Chippy too
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eh, just chuck it in the square hole with all the others
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Listening to Gary Numan's 2000 release, Pure. Pretty awesome his 14th solo album might be his second best. Gives me hope, anyway...
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Lupus Londonwolf @lupuslondonwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was making potato and leek soup and the recipe asked for five potatoes cubed. Even for potato soup, 125 potatoes seems a little excessive.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2025
I am no longer accepting the argument "there are bigger problems than this!" unless you are personally working to stop the ultimate Heat Death of the Universe.
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So you're saying to only trust probabilities of 96 percent and higher. Got it.
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Has the way armies worked changed, or something?!
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well that debate is over now, right?
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here we go... recording the vocals for this tune, I was fucking livid at my past self for writing new lyrics for every chorus. Wasn't able to cheat and just copy-paste the best takes. Took forever...
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ugh, gotta do the worst part of releasing music... making sure at least three people hear it before it's consigned to the trash heap
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GPS on my phone stopped working, so now I can tick 'get lost in the country's biggest cemetery, in the rain' off my bucket list
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This lede works even if you read 'beef' as 'arguing', like I did the first time through
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ms 7 is making her album cover debut! She was Ms 6 when @tariqa.bsky.social took this photo of her with a weird cloud in Bali last year. Might look like a Pink Floyd album cover, but I promise there's only about 20 seconds of guitar solos all-up in its 33 minutes and 59 seconds.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 27/09/2026
"Something about this map feels wrong, but I can't quite put my finger on it"

[A green world map with black borders on a white background where the continents have been rearranged. The Americas are attached to the eastern edge of Asia. A faint watermark reads "Terrible Maps".]

Luol Deng Xiaoping (@JungAristotle) on twitter quotes with: "The Mexican food from this universe would go insane"
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Max Johns (MxDEJ) @maxjohns.nz · 27/09/2026
I'm no demographer nor a criminologist, but I reckon that the Herald probably has Auckland's murder rate wrong here. I reckon it's probably lower than 3.6 per person.
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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Countries by how New Zealand they are
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
None of which looked like that
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Might be the most niche post I ever do, but was just listening to 'Push Upstairs' by Underworld and surely, this is the exact tune Strong Bad's 'Techno Song' is based on
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
$100,000 each!? What are they buying, vintage Neumann u47 microphones used by Frank Sinatra himself? www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hastening the robot apocalypse by asking a robot about an apocalyptic robot
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sometimes you don't decide what a song's title is until it's time to mix it down, ready for distribution...
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As is tradition
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Don't think I'll ever eat a basic two-minute noodle again now I've discovered the identically priced stuff they sell in Asian supermarkets
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NRL grand final now safe to watch there's no risk of hearing 'Dance Monkey' www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/1...
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Tones And I turns down NRL grand final pre-match show citing prior commitment with Macklemore
Tones And I has broken her silence after the NRL declared it will forego a grand final tradition of pre-match entertainment.
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So what happened to Bluesky users being above using AI-generated political slop? Been a noticeable rise in it the past couple of weeks. Don't wanna start insta-blocking people, but surely you can tell the difference by now
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Isn't this how we ended up with Crazy Frog?
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The feed, most days
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sure, but who is Lex Luthor donating to?
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He's in his embarrassing '80s era, then?
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That's nine new @anecdata.bsky.social songs ready... one more and I guess that's a new album? Still have no idea what it's gonna be called, which is unusual for me at this stage.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pray they do not alter it further
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Netflix doesn't understand what the kids really want
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is why we should bring back the Newshub "slams"
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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Was tasked this morning with writing an article about a song I'd never heard before... Think I did alright www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/w...
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'We are the Warriors, 100 percent': The story behind the Wahs' iconic victory song
Peter Urlich had a hand in some of our biggest classic rock hits, but it's a simple sports chant he wrote 25 years ago newer generations will know best.
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