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The Maestro

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Some music, some football.

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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
With the Manchester City news about their rule breaking getting more serious, I see that The Rangers birth in 2012 has been misrepresented once again in the press. Regardless of how anyone wants to (face) paint those tainted years, this headline is the one that should be thrown at them every time.
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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"A second container of diesel is unaccounted for."
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Happy birthday to Suede frontman Brett Anderson who is 59 today. Here's a live version of The Power from 2002. A magnificent group.
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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sad to see Daft Punk having to make ends meet like this.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy 54th birthday to Liam Gallagher. Here's the video for Morning Glory featuring some of the worst football skills since Celtic played The Rangers yesterday.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If we lose tomorrow I think MON will have to go. We should then bring in MON to steady the ship until a permanent manager is appointed.
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Mr too tired for a halloween name @laotianrockrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's agent: Ok fuck me that was a wild few days. Still we should be over the worst of it now...
Twitter post by that cunt Stephen Yaxley-Lennon expressing solidarity with Ed Sheeran (not reposting the exact text because fuck whatever he has to say)
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Marc Bolan from T Rex tragically died on this day in 1977 aged just 29 in a car accident. Here's Life's a Gas from a 1971 appearance on German TV.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Happy birthday to Justine Frischman from Elastica who is 57 today. Now retired from the music scene, she co-founded Blur with Brett Anderson and then Elastica as part of the Britpop era. Here's Vaseline from an appearance on Later with Jools Holland.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Marge Simpson bollard. #WorldBollardAssociation
A concrete bollard painted to look like Marge Simpson.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
John Power from The La's and Cast is 59 today. A great songwriter who's written some classic tunes through the years. Here's Feelin' from The La's.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Glasvegas released their fantastic self-titled debut album on this day in 2008. Here's the brilliant lead single Geraldine.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Who's drummer Keith Moon died on this day in 1978. His life, and death, was absolutely chaotic. The upcoming biopic on him will hopefully be worth a watch. Here's his last ever live performance from May 1978. The full 9 mins.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Part time officials in an increasingly intense full time sport are shite. I’m shocked.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It is very likely that Celtic officials didn't know the rules for including players in the Europa League squad. There is no other reason why they rushed through 5 signings on the day of the squad submission deadline that aren't included. The players must be livid. We are run by a bunch of clowns.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Happy 71st birthday to The Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones. The iconic opening riff to Pretty Vacant will live forever.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So farewell Reo Hatate. Sometimes you were brilliant, sometimes you were shite but those glorious first 12 months under Ange made us all think you were the best midfielder in the world. I'll forever remember your first Celtic goal which was this thunderbastard against the wee Huns.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Van Morrison is 81 today. Despite being a grumpy old bastard, he has been brilliant. As in this live performance of Into The Mystic from The Orphanage club in San Francisco in 1974.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Glenn Tillbrook of Squeeze is 69 today. One of the finest songwriters this country has ever produced. Here's the video for 1982 single Black Coffee In Bed.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Happy 40th birthday to Florence Welch. Here's a live version of Dog Days Are Over from 2010.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I have one of those Oura rings that track your heart rate, sleep patterns, activity etc. Here’s my stress levels from yesterday. I got up at 6am, was on a train to London, had 3 fairly important meetings and then walked 2.5 miles to my hotel. Can you work out when the Celtic game started?
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m still completely baffled by the decisions to 1) bring on McCowan when we were being overrun in midfield 2) bring on Ralston when it was painfully clear we couldn’t see the game out 3) buy Hassan when he was unfit for CL when we could have spent the money on a defender
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When you finish a Champions League qualifier with Murray, Scales and Ralston in defence and McCowan in midfield you really shouldn’t be surprised to lose 5 goals.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts passed away on this day 5 years ago aged 80. He was always the coolest guy on the band. Here's a live version of Brown Sugar from 1972.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Be Here Now, the widely anticipated third album by Oasis was released on this day in 1997. A coke-soaked over produced mess, or under-appreciated classic? Here's the video for the album's third single, All Around The World.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It would have been American country great Kenny Rogers 88th birthday today. The video for his 1978 hit The Gambler probably didn't cost too much to make.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Happy heavenly birthday to Joe Strummer who died at the tragically young age of 50 in 2002. Here's a live version of The Clash's debut single White Riot.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
On this day in 1979, Celtic came back from 2-0 down and a Roy Aitken sending off to score two late goals from Alan Sneddon and Tom McAdam and leave the midden with a point. The Copland Road stand was opened that day. They all look as though they had a great day.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Happy 59th birthday to the lead singer from The Primitives, Tracy Tracy (possibly not her real name). The shone brightly but briefly in the late 80s and, as proof, here's them chirping their way through their single Way Behind Me on Wogan of all places!
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Happy 73rd birthday to Kevin Rowland today. Here's a live version of Seven Days Too Long from 1982. With extra swear words.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Fair fucks to this chap. He’s relentless.
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Man Stressed and Exhausted at Work
ALT: Man Stressed and Exhausted at Work
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Today would have been David Crosby's 85th birthday. Here's the Byrds iconic performance of Mr Tambourine Man on the Ed Sullivan show in 1965. They looked like the coolest men on earth.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Cure's magnificent Head on the Door album was released on this day in 1985. Here's a live version from 2019 of the album's greatest track - A Night Like This.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Happy 67th birthday to The Undertones frontman turned environmentalist Feargal Sharkey. Here's them performing You've Got My Number on Top of the Pops in 1979.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Neil Young - Harvest Moon
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In celebration of #YorkshireDay, please enjoy this Sean Bean bastard collection. Sound up, bastards.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Rangers have been held to a draw from a goal 49 year old Antipodean.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wait! Aasgaard is a scouser? 😂
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Suzy 🍀9️⃣ @nul67.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Who you gonna call?
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Derek McInnes is the first Rangers manager that we can call an orange bastard without any fear of being called sectarian.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Happy birthday to Bobbie Gentry, one of the first truly successful female pop and country singers. Here's her cover of Doug Kershaw's Louisiana Man from 1968.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Amy Winehouse tragically died on this day in 2011 aged just 27. This live performance of Monkey Man in 2007 is in the middle of the period where she started to cancel shows as her addiction started to take hold.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Happy 65th birthday to Depeche Mode's Martin Gore. One of the most underrated songwriters of the last 40 years. He could hold a tune too. Here's a live version of It Doesn't Matter Two from Paris in 2001.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Travis frontman Fran Healy is 52 today. Here's a live version of The Cage in Glasgow from 2001. Sweet melodies.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Just the President of the United States paying $5m damages for sexually assaulting someone and the BBC have it half buried on their website. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump pays writer E Jean Carroll $5m in damages over sexual abuse and defamation
The president had sought to delay the payment as he tried to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn the judgement.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Happy birthday to Roger McGuinn from The Byrds who is 84 today. His signature "jingle jangle" guitar sound developed into the jazz-drone heard on the Eight Miles High single.
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The Maestro @themaestro1888.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It's Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (and The Bluebells) bassist, Lawrence Donegan's 65th birthday today. He's now a journalist and author but will forever be part of Scottish musical royalty. Here's a live version of Sweetness, the b-side from their Rattlesnakes single from 1984.
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