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jess

@jess@blop.social

Blop #serveradmin, #musician, #photographer, software dev, village idiot, #lesbian, #Yorkshire, #queer., #eurovision. Once upon a time I ran an ISP in London, now I live in Yorkshire and do other stuff.

For my music/shows etc. as The Bleeding Obvious, go follow https://blop.social/@bleedingobvs but it's very quiet at the moment.

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jess, to random
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I'm on BBC Radio Leeds this morning (Thu 23) talking about Wakefield Artwalk.

I'll be on around 11:40am (BST) chatting to Steve Jordan, who's sitting in for the lovely Gayle Lofthouse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_leeds

jess, to random
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Yesterday I said I'd lost 6kg.

Turns out I've lost 8kg.

Damn...

jess, to Eurovision
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In the meantime here’s a plan of how the Eurovision Year goes.

Look after your Eurovision Fan pals, PED will be kicking in early this week…

jess, to Eurovision
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Bambie not in afternoon dress rehearsal over an EBU incident - apparently something to do with the Israeli commentator. And France interrupted the song to make a stand.

If any more pull out they’re going to have running order issues…

jess, to Eurovision
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Talking to a few OGAE UK folk who were in the arena for SF2 last night - lots of booing for you-know-who which didn't make it to the final audio it seems, some standing audience turning their backs, lots of "ooh I need the loo", and a couple of audience being escorted out by security.

We're off to the afternoon GF dress rehearsal so it'll be interesting to see how it goes. Hopefully it will be peaceful.

(Protests outside the Arena were peaceful and respectful, anyway.)

jess,
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Also, the accidental leak of Italy's televote last night has a lot more support for you-know-who in the televote than I'd have thought. Wow. There's of course no 'negative' vote, and boycotting the whole thing means there's less votes elsewhere.

Consequently, now second in the odds to win (but all that usually indicates is where the money's going, thankfully).

https://eurovisionworld.com/odds/eurovision

Really don't want it to be them. Come on, Baby Lasagna...

jess, to Eurovision
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Fire ✔️
Gratuitous on-screen graphics ✔️
Gratuitous cleavage ✔️
Front wedgie ✔️
Armenia... (just… Armenia) ✔️

Really fun to spend it in a bar in Copenhagen with about 300 other similar nutters. Top job.

Sad Israel got through. Sad San Marino didn't.

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Hallo! Would you like to hear what White Town sounded like 34 years ago, when we a three-piece indie guitar band?

You would?

Well, today's your lucky day!

Car Park Love Songs gathers the songs that ended up on the early Parasol singles and some other totally un-released rarities.

It's a mix of jangly, twee, shoegaze, grungy and everything else we were listening to back then.

Enjoy!

https://whitetown.bandcamp.com/album/car-park-love-songs

jess,
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@Jyoti I think I maybe got a taste of this when you played Long Division in Wakefield a while ago. Thanks for the headsup!

jess,
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@Jyoti I photographed it! Was back in the days I waved cameras at bands. Stayed for the whole set I enjoyed it that much.

jess, to random
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The other Mrs R is in bed, not feeling very well - possibly a reaction to the fish she ate last night - so I’m on my own in Copenhagen for a few hours while she sleeps it off.

There are three record shops in walking distance, I think…

…oh no.

jess, to Eurovision
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I miss Jon Ola Sand.

jess, to Germany
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Germany: “I’ll just put this over here with the rest of the fire.”

jess, to Eurovision
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PSA: Fedi is going to start lagging, especially on small servers. It’s gonna get messy. I think max lag on blop last year was about 30 minutes….

jess, to random
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A couple of decades ago I got a scrolling LED sign (from Maplin I think but it's not a N00GA or Amplus AM03127 variant). Lost the remote a while back.

Investigation inside: it has a RJ11 serial port on the back. No board markings except for "SHL-ALLCPU". It's 8049-based with a 27128 EPROM (which I haven't disassembled yet). The board doesn't look like a N00GA one. @pndc you had one too I think?

Anyone got any clues how to drive this thing? It seems from email archive I managed it in 2001..

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