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Lambda Miner Edwin

@edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk
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Filker with not enough ukuleles. Occasional harmonica and piano botherer. Nerdy and whimsical folk songs on a variety of topics like science, technology, zombies, games and baked goods. www.lambda-miners.org.uk lambda-miners.bandcamp.com

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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 02/10/2026
I'm watching Back To The Future 2, for some reason. It's nice to see a 2015 period piece. I remember it well.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 02/10/2026
All the websites are wanting me to verify I'm human by clicking a box these days. We are just training machines to know how humans move a mouse pointer aren't we? Okay then. I'm going to take it as a challenge to see if I can move my mouse around weirdly enough that they think I'm a bot. Join me!
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 02/10/2026
Anyway, it's Bandcamp Friday again which means if you buy this Bandcamp don't take a cut. And it's free so I get all of the nothing! Yay!
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 02/10/2026
I still haven't bought the pretty ukulele and so I think by now I must deserve a medal.
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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Headline: G7 to release up to 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil...Donkey Kong, lobbing barrels at Mario.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 02/10/2026
Also I never thought I'd be agreeing with a Pope but here we are. Strange times.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 02/10/2026
I know I say this all the time but... ChatGPT never cried at its grandma's funeral. Never felt loss. Never woke up at 2am desperate for the loo. Never thought "just one more pint won't hurt" and regretted it in the morning. Never groaned at a terrible pun. Stop it everyone. You can do better.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 01/10/2026
I think my new life goal is to be everyone's mad uncle. Not the racist mad uncle obviously. The one who gives you sweets when dad isn't looking. That one. With a ukulele. You have to have ambitions after all.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 30/09/2026
I did my usual open mic nonsense tonight at a studenty pub. I asked who was a snowflake and they all cheered. Good for them. The avalanche is coming. Let's get this right everyone... Joy is an act of resistance. Resist in your own way but make sure you're having fun while you're at it.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 28/09/2026
And if that's not for you, four chord songs about zombies also work. Each to their own.
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Madison Metricula @metricula.com · 14/09/2026
I think people think writing a song is a lot harder than it is, which is why some people are so impressed by the shortcut of Suno. I’m not saying there isn’t craft, work, practice and talent that goes into songwriting but, like… the world will never have enough 3-chord songs about love. Write yours!
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 28/09/2026
I'm a big fan of "scribble it on whatever piece of paper you can find then photograph it" myself
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 23/09/2026
One thing about playing my daft nonsense at open mics is that I go into coffee shops and occasionally people ask me if I'm That Ukulele Guy. But apparently I'm now That Flapjack Guy. I don't know if this is a step up or down, but it's amusing either way. (lambda-miners.bandcamp.com/track/flapjack)
lambda-miners.bandcamp.com
Flapjack, by Lambda Miners
from the album Made By Humans
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Reform aren't racist, they just don't think they should support being against racism. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Sunderland's Reform Council ends Show Racism the Red Card support
Reform ends Sunderland Council support for Show Racism the Red Card in a row with the charity's head.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 21/09/2026
I must not buy the very pretty ukulele I must not buy the very pretty ukulele I must not buy the very pretty ukulele I must not buy the very pretty ukulele I must not buy the very pretty ukulele Please somebody buy all of these so that I don't... worldofukes.co.uk/baritone-bas...
worldofukes.co.uk
Flight Aviator QM All Solid Quilted Maple / Mango Baritone Electro Ukulele — World of Ukes
This is the Flight Aviator QM, a thin body baritone uke with a pickup. It’s made from quilted maple on the top, paired with mango on the back and sides, a nice combination of solid woods that delivers...
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Dr. Jess Hebert @jesshebert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I'm watching The Most Parasocial Behavior happen on an FB group. I think nerdy-type celebrities get it the worst because you get excited folks with a common interest who are already inclined towards neurodivergence so you get the Geek Social Fallacies. plausiblydeniable.com/five-geek-so...
plausiblydeniable.com
Five Geek Social Fallacies
Within the constellation of allied hobbies and subcultures collectively known as geekdom, one finds many social groups bent under a crushing burden of dysfunction, social drama, and general interp
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 21/09/2026
Oh my, I see things that remind me of the GSFs all the time and fall into them myself about as often. Thanks for the reminder to spread this more!
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 21/09/2026
Quite right too. Also, say thank you to the bus driver you monsters.
Sign at this here pub saying "No please, no pint"
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Jean-Luc Picard @spacedadsupport.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you’re avoiding activism because you’re afraid people in your life won’t like you anymore when you speak out for social justice, I have some terrible news about the people in your life.
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Jean-Luc Picard
@SpaceDadSupport
Incoming Transmission...

If you’re avoiding activism because you’re afraid people in your life won’t like you anymore when you speak out for social justice, I have some terrible news about the people in your life.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 17/09/2026
Yes, that about sums it up. Thanks for the illustration, whoever it was!
An open mic sign up sheet, where someone drew Pacman and a ghost while I was singing Blinky Pinky Inky and Clyde.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 14/09/2026
Anyway. You don't need to fill an arena to make a great show. Turns out a back room in a theatre is absolutely fine.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 14/09/2026
I've been to a few entertaining shows at the Dundee Fringe over the last few days (www.dundeefringe.com). I love that this sort of thing is on my doorstep! Tonight's audience (about 20) was maybe the biggest I've been in so far, and the room was rammed and the show was excellent.
dundeefringe.com
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 13/09/2026
Today's silliness, in case you need it. I'm pretty sure this is an accurate representation of Acceleratus Incredibilus. I used all the most reputable sources in my extensive research. www.lambda-miners.org.uk/demo-painted...
lambda-miners.org.uk
Demo: Painted On A Wall
I've been doing the FAWM September Song Sprint so perhaps I'll post some of the results here if I decide I like them. Here's one of them. It's a song about the Greater Roadrunner, which you'll find in...
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026
(Takes '500 Miles' off the dance playlist) (And yes, I've put it into DJ sets before, it works) (But, you know, fuck transphobia and all that)
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 10/09/2026
Maybe take some garlic along next time
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 10/09/2026
Perhaps I've been reading Dracula too much, but that almost sounds like a threat...
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 05/09/2026
I was wandering about today and learned that the best event posters have titles in all caps that are at a slight angle, so much text that you can't see what's going on, and, ideally, a silhouette of a crowd with hands in the air. Who knew, eh? Thank goodness for AI.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
One time at school, a teacher told someone off in my class for speaking in dialect, in front of another teacher. Said other teacher, when the more senior teacher had left, said to the kid "You speak however you want to". Quite right too. I wonder what conversation happened in the staff room later.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
"Ant" is just how it's said where I come from. I've been mocked for how I pronounce things all my life, either because it sounded too posh (haha, as if) or because I only knew the word from reading it. So, yeah, this is all nonsense to me.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage theonion.com/home-heeled-advantage
This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Heeled Advantage
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Dots and Lines @dotsandlines.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This #BandcampFriday, how about adding a spooky shanty to your music collection?
dotsandlines.bandcamp.com
The Haunting of the Demeter, by Dots and Lines
track by Dots and Lines
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
I mean I am easily amused. But they seemed to enjoy it too :).
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Anyway, while I'm here youtu.be/vqFyhWv0XYQ?... If you see this, which you probably won't, please spread it. My new life goal is to annoy all the TERFs. You've got to have a hobby.
youtu.be
Pronouns (original song)
YouTube video by Lambda Miner Edwin
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Gender affirming healthcare saves lives. I realise I'm yelling this to my -5 followers but I'm going to yell it forever anyway. What is wrong with these people?
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Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I have known many trans kids (and cis kids who needed procedures that would fall under "gender-affirming care"). None of them have suffered harmful consequences for getting the care they needed. The harmful consequence for having that care denied is frequently death.
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Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Make your mind up. Which band is it, FFS? #TOTP
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
I'm just reminded of when I was giving a summer school course in the USA, refused to say anything other than zed when it came up, then referring to the band as Zed Zed Top. I regret nothing. Also I referred to baseball as American Cricket.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Last month people were kind enough that I bought myself an analogue drum machine with the takings and perpetrated some uketronica with it. Use this information wisely.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
You can also get an album by the mysterious Lambda Miners, but that's free so all of the nothing comes to me today :). That said, it's lovely when people are kind and pay for it anyway.
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 04/09/2026
It's Bandcamp Friday! So far, for me, today has involved Lawrence Dean, Mike Whitaker and Vixy and Tony and it's lovely that I get to have my friends in my ears when I take the bus to work :). More on the wishlist to come... There's so much good stuff to hear in this community!
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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 30/08/2026
Photo of a part of the sticker wall, near the gum wall in Seattle. A large glued poster of a cat holding a sign reads, “A.I. IS DẠTA
& CAN ONLY LOOK AT WHERE WE'VE BEEN.
CREATIVITY IS TRYING TO SEE WHERE WE CAN GO.”
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 01/09/2026
Not that anyone asked, but I continue to believe that almost all uses of LLMs can be done cheaper and quicker by the curiously underrated technique of Thinking A Little Bit. Apparently this is controversial. Anyway. Definitely don't use it to make art. ChatGPT never cried at its grandma's funeral.
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T'Other Simon @tothersimon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The name's...
A sign saying 'BISCUITS / CHEESE BISCUITS'.
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Filk News @filknews.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The Pegasus Awards final ballot is online. Voting is open until October 29, 2026. www.ovff.org/pegasus/
ovff.org
Pegasus Awards
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 31/08/2026
I'm sure everyone had fun at WorldCon, but I'm just back from MillCon where a load of UK filkers descended on a house in Peterborough and sang lots of songs. And it was lots of fun. Thanks Mike and Anne for hosting!
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 29/08/2026
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG! www.ovff.org/pegasus/peop...
ovff.org
Pegasus Awards
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Lambda Miner Edwin @edwin.lambda-miners.org.uk · 28/08/2026
Today, in Small Victories: I have managed to get the strings on my hoody to be the same length. I'll take it.
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Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com · 28/08/2026
To those sharing art and art videos they didn't create themselves: PLEASE DON'T. I keep seeing these being shared by popular accounts without crediting the artist or linking to where the artist originally posted. Some including "credit" but only to secondary sources. #PicturesMeanBusiness
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