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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

BUSINESSES!! Please know that if I want a price for buying something in bulk (like 1000 window stickers for example), I really can't be arsed to fill in a form so you can contact me with quote. I am going to go to one of your competitors and look at their published prices instead.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Key to this is calling it what it is and them what they are, OUT THERE. It’s all well and good naming the threat to our online circles, but more often than not we’re interacting with people who already know. It’s the people who aren’t in these circles who need to hear it.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

MapQuest have got in on the action with ‘name your own gulf’. I mean, if the Orange Dictator can do it, we all can, right? Such fun! 😃 gulfof.mapquest.com

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

What. The actual. Fuck. From the White House official account no less. Same on Insta. Same on FB. Oh, America, what the fuck did you do? #KingTrump

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

With the world looking increasingly more dangerous and the US turning into a basket case, it’s time to have a long, hard look at who our ‘special relationship’ ought to be with. It’s not with those on the other side of the Atlantic, it’s with those on the other side of the Channel. #Rejoin, now.

Man standing in front of Big Ben with his back to the camera and draped in an EU flag while holding a sign which says ‘Time for a EU turn’.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Ah, the ‘starving artist’ bollocks. Perhaps job centre staff need a training course to help them avoid making ludicrous judgments based on stereotypes.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I have the right to bear arms! It’s in the Constitution! The Constitution is the last word! YOU CAN’T MESS WITH THE CONSTITUTION! 🇺🇸 Except that bit about citizenship by birth. You can mess with that bit. While you’re at it, have a fiddle with the bit that limits two presidential terms.

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ALT: a woman is sitting on a couch with her hand on her forehead .

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Naughty Drax receiving green, renewable energy subsidies while burning primary forest. Last I checked, burning wood kicks crap into the atmosphere regardless of where the wood comes from. Shouldn’t we be more concerned that burning wood is still a thing? #ClimateChange www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Drax power station's further reporting failure exposed by BBC News

Drax, which burns wood pellets, is required to report where it sources its wood from.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Love this! ❤️ When the arts have taken such a hammering in recent years, it’s bloody fantastic to see such a brilliant community resource. Nice work, #Leeds 🙌🏻

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The artist, David Cohen is an Asheville-based artist/musician and resident of over forty years. His cartoon work spans various subjects ranging from local issues based in Asheville to more national political events and even to one-off, word-play-oriented jokes. ❤️ Give credit to artists when you can.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 22/01/2025

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CHRIS. @beardedchris.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

For all the thick cunts in the back this should clear up your confusion.

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Axel Rudakubana was not born with an interest in extreme violence. Something, probably many somethings, made him that way. I do so often wonder in situations like this, how much responsibility we as a society share for the eventual, devastating outcome.

Sketch of Axel Rudakubana seated on a row of red chairs, wearing a grey tracksuit with the top pulled up to partially cover his face so only his eyes are visible. He is holding what appears to be a mobile phone and there is a sign on the wall behind and above him which reads ‘Video Link Court Room 4’.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thank you. I did get seen in the end. Oxygen and drugs got things under control and I’m back home now, with antibiotics and a plan for several days rest.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thank you. I did get seen in the end. Oxygen and drugs got things under control and I’m back home now, with antibiotics and a plan for several days rest.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

FUCK THE TORIES. I've been struggling to breathe since lunchtime. Can't talk or do much of anything. Every breath is an effort and I am so tired. I've no history of this. Contacted 111 at 2.30pm. 10pm and STILL waiting for a callback. The #NHS used to work, before those bastards decimated it.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

AI proved itself to be a useful tool. But that’s all it was, or can ever be. Art - whether music, poetry, literature, painting, acting or many of the other creative pursuits - are, ultimately, an expression of human experience. That’s something AI will never have. 10/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It’s only a human that can e.g. effectively deliver a lyric about sledging, because it’s only a human that can draw on their experience of the thrill of speeding down a hill, or feeling the biting cold of the snow, and that experience - authenticity - is crucial for producing good music imo. 9/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

While there is software out there that can produce audio, it’s not even close to being the same as human musicians. Humans are needed for nuance and authenticity. 8/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

So far so good. Sort of. ChatGPT can undoubtably create, but it needed help and was only as good as the info a human - me - gave it. What’s lacking though, is artistry. AI might do a perfectly fine job of writing something (in partnership with a human) but music is supposed to be heard. 7/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

While AI did create something, it needed to do it in partnership with a human - me. E.g. I asked for a higher vocal harmony (my creativity). The actual harmony was written by AI (its creativity). 6/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

So: Did AI create something new? Yes. Did it just rearrange other existing ideas? Yes, but that’s what musicians do anyway - we take existing conventions and rearrange them in new ways. Was it a substitute for human creativity? That’s where it gets interesting. 5/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

After a great deal of ‘Now can you add X’ (higher vocal harmony, rhythms, etc, etc), I ended up with something that fulfilled all my specific requirements and wasn’t bad at all (notwithstanding some lyric tweaks from me). Using just the info it gave me, I was able to notate it. 4/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I also needed to specifically ask for (in no particular order): Chords Melody Vocal harmony Rhythm Dynamics The more info I gave it, the better the song got. 3/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I asked it to write a Christmas song. Its first attempt was pants, but that had more to do with what I hadn’t specified than anything else. I needed to tell it (in no particular order): In the style of Form Tempo Metre Vocal range Emotion Instrumentation/voicing Genre conventions Key 2/10

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I find these questions fascinating: Is #AI capable of creating something new? Is it just rearranging of other existing ideas? Is it a substitute for human creativity? Curiosity got the better of me over Xmas and I challenged #ChatGPT to write a song. Here’s what I learned -🧵 1/10 #NewMusic

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I just can’t get on board with all the schadenfreude about celeb homes being devastated by the #LAFires. I know some of them are proper bellends but they’re still people, and the emotional impact will still hit regardless of wealth. I can’t be gleeful about people suffering, no matter who they are.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

‘The first six months have been marred by policies that have unnecessarily alienated section after section of Labour support: winter fuel allowance, the two-child benefit limit, Waspi women, tuition fees, Gaza’. Nail. Head. The longer they keep this up, the less likely a second term is. Then what?

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Same place and same day of the months screams ritual offering. So, off to Google I go…

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I include me in this: Get off social media and get out into the real world. It’s what we used to do - talk to people irl, protest, etc. These days we say what we need to say in the little digital box, maybe vent a bit, and think it’s enough. It isn’t. SM is easy to ignore. Physical people aren’t.

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Mike Kegil @mikekegil.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I stand by this.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This. I’ve gone back to X in recent days for the sole purpose of community noting Musk. It’s not much, but it’s something, because I can’t do nothing. Please consider doing similar - he shouldn’t be left unchecked.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Sounds delish. If you fancy a change, garam masala instead of just nutmeg is lovely. I’ll give just nutmeg a try :)

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Surely this must have just been a slip of the tongue, a mistake, methinks. But no, she did say it and she did mean it. She’s seen the wall on Italy’s land border with Turkey 🙄 Listen for yourself - 0:41:37. www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

With Musk pimping for Reform, spreading hateful misinformation, calling for our govt to be brought down and one of its MPs to be imprisoned, all decent MPs should question whether they should be on X at all. They’re enabling a profoundly undemocratic threat to our country by being on his platform.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I really like meat, fish and cheese, and drink gallons of tea. It’s getting hard to ignore the implications though, so I impulse-joined #Veganuary 10 mins ago at www.veganuary.com Tea was a potential wobble but I just tried it with almond milk and it tastes like… tea. Any #Vegan tips welcome!🙏🏻

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Israel can’t say ‘Hamas are there’ forever. At some point there will be nothing left of Gaza. Then what? Say ‘Oops, we bombed everything for no reason’, or move onto the land and no longer be able to spin what this is: a genocidal land grab. Israel is fucked either way. Stop the slaughter now, eh.

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Dillymint 🎶❄️🕷🕊🇪🇺🇬🇧 🌈 @dillymint.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

100% this. Yes, yes, I know Labour have done *this* and done *that*, but not much of anything that will make a significant improvement to most people’s lives. They’ve got a solid majority and 4 more years. They can do anything they want right now. Time to go big or go home, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

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