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Coolmccool

@Coolmccool@mastodon.au

Born in N. Ireland, now living in Australia. Into bush camping - see https://slowcamping.com.au/ and a new holistic view of how we integrate with our natural environment. Professional human-centred designer, service designer (MA Design Futures).

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dangillmor, to random
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Reminder that no one should buy a printer from HP, ever: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/19/hps_ceo_spells_it_out/

Coolmccool,
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@dangillmor Recently bought an Epson 2811 THAT YOU JUST FILL WITH CHEAP BOTTLES OF INK. Works great. Good quality too.

I have been waiting a very long time for a printer like this.

So much better than my previous Canon printer which demanded tiny, super expensive cartridges, and which was always throwing hissy fits, wanting to get itself replaced.

Coolmccool, to auspol
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Right-wing Australian billionaire and money-bag climate change denier Gina Reinhart apparently doesn't want people to see her portrait by the Indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira in the National Gallery.

So it would be just awful if people share this article and her portrait.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/15/gina-rinehart-demands-national-gallery-of-australia-remove-her-portrait.

Personally, I think it's great - and might make a very attractive t-shirt?

Coolmccool, to UX
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@pluralistic brilliantly clarifying our modern world for us, as usual:

We’re nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we’re well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job.

https://doctorow.medium.com/i-assure-you-an-ai-didnt-write-a-terrible-george-carlin-routine-83d447bfbd72

#ux #design #media #uxdesign #hcd #HumanCenteredDesign #tech #technology #ai #aihype

historyofpunkrock, to history
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44 years ago today
London Calling is the third studio album by English punk rock band The Clash, originally released as a double album in UK on this day in 1979 by CBS Records, and in the US on January 1980 by Epic Records

#theclash #londoncalling #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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Coolmccool,
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@historyofpunkrock Classic album with classic cover design by Ray Lowry, the brilliant cartoonist and artist, whose work used to feature in the NME. Based on Elvis's first album, of course. And that amazing photo - perhaps the best rock photo ever - by Pennie Smith.

(And I'm going to play it right now)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Lowry

Coolmccool, to climate
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Giles Parkinson, former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review, on Andrew Forrester's 'loopy' climate speech. Forrester fairly and squarely put the blame on 'business'.

"Climate skepticism is so deeply ingrained – thanks to the deliberate misinformation spread in social media, Murdoch media and elsewhere, and the callowness of our politicians and business leaders – that we flinch and turn our heads when told the reality. It’s time that changed."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/business-will-kill-your-children-was-andrew-forrests-climate-speech-really-that-loopy/

#renewables #climate #climatechange #climateemergency

Coolmccool, to ireland
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Hugely interesting podcast series from @gerrymcgovern 'After the Goldrush'. I had no idea that #ireland is quietly transitioning to an extractive (mining) economy, with the usual disastrous effects on the environment.
#environment #climatechange #climateemergency #mining
https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/afterthegoldrush?selected=HUMAN8375316916

Coolmccool, to ai
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Again @pluralistic brings clarity to the fog of #ai #FakeNews that we are completely drowned in. He highlights the REAL danger and some of the cases he highlights are shocking:

"Nearly 1,000 British postmasters were wrongly convicted of fraud by Horizon, the faulty AI fraud-hunting system that Fujitsu provided to the Royal Mail. They had their lives ruined by this faulty AI, many went to prison, and at least four of the AI’s victims killed themselves."

Similar to the horrors of Australia's own ghastly #robodebt tragedy.

If you are going to read one article today, read this: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-02-27-ai-conspiracies-epistemological-collapse-eabfefa6b2e8

#tech #technology #capitalism

Coolmccool, to punk
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FRAMED: The classic 'Rockaway Beach' 45 cover from the Ramones, 1977.

Much loved.

#punk #1977 #Ramones #PunkRock #vinyl #nowplaying #45rpm #45s

Coolmccool, to auspol
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Critically endangered sawfish and the rare river shark are facing the highest fishing pressure in a decade in Northern Territory waters. Take action now: https://nwmd.io/s/email/ZBI4BDLEH_ftRWWnK7I=/r

#auspol #press #australia #nature #sharks #fish #ecology #extinction #endangered

Coolmccool, to climate
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Sad to see a CATASTROPHIC fire rating for the Far South Coast today - and so early in the season. A bad combination of higher than usual temps and high winds. Stay safe there @trib

https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/fire-information/fdr-and-tobans

#bushfires #climatechange #climatemergency #australia #nsw #auspol

Coolmccool, to punk
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@historyofpunkrock Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre- band The Nips from 1980. Plain white cardboard cover with a stuck-on b&w insert, in typical style. Features the legendary 'King of the Bop' on side one - perhaps the first really cracking song that Shane ever wrote. A cross between and .

I bought this in 'Rock On' in London's Camden Town. Three quid and seventy-five pence, at the time. @vinylrecords

A bargain.

Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre- band The Nips from 1980.
Interesting 'white label' semi-bootleg release of Shane MacGowan's pre- band The Nips from 1980.

historyofpunkrock, to random
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46 years ago today
Ari Up of The Slits whacks a skinhead disrupting their gig at the Thames Polytechnic in Calderwood Street, Woolwich.

Taken on March 4, 1978 when The Slits played the venue alongside Penetration and Buzzcocks

📸 Ray Stevenson

#theslits #fucknazis #fightnazis

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Coolmccool,
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@historyofpunkrock Ari was a definite legend.

But how cool were the bouncers, who continued to calmly smoke their ciggies, while ejecting this here young gentleman.

Coolmccool, to ireland
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Remembering Shane MacGowan: here's another interview I did with Shane for The Irish Post, this one from 1997.

https://coolmccool.medium.com/crock-of-gold-shanes-gonna-send-em-home-sweatin-86404a4fbb20

#shanemagowan #ripshanemacgowan #ireland #irish #pogues

Coolmccool, to Facebook
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What is on my mind? Censorship, that's what's on my mind. The Australian political weekly Green Left has been "unpublished" by #facebook #meta, leaving tens of thousands of their followers out in the cold. The crime that inspired this censorship? An interview with Palestinian activist Leila Khaled.

AccessNow, which defends the “digital rights of people and communities at risk” reports that Meta is “systematically silencing the voices of both Palestinians and those advocating for Palestinians’ rights” through arbitrary content removals, suspension of prominent Palestinian and Palestine-related accounts, restrictions on pro-Palestinian users and content, shadow-banning, discriminatory content moderation policies, inconsistent and discriminatory rule enforcement.

This reminds me so much of my own homeland when Sinn Fein activists were silenced - literally, as it was illegal to broadcast their voices - by the British government in the 1980s. It didn't work. It just kept the war pot boiling.

Peace demands true freedom of speech. When Sinn Fein were allowed to speak, dialogue began, and the peace process was allowed to begin.

I'll have to admit that I've always loathed #facebook #meta, right from the start, and have refused to use it. However, I know that billions of other folk do use it - and they have the right to hear the voices of the Palestinians, just as the Palestinians have every right to be heard.

You may or may not agree with the politics of Green Left, but everyone should question whether a corporation such as Meta / Facebook should have the power to silence the voice of a nation.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/beat-facebook-ban-green-left

#press #freedom #media #socialmedia #mastodon #fediverse #palestine #gaza #auspol #australia #ireland #irish #censorship

Coolmccool, to punk
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@historyofpunkrock Picked up some photo frames at a garage sale for $2. Just the right size for some of my old favourite 7" #45rpm favourites. (Actual vinyl stored separately, of course.)

This is the picture cover for the Sex Pistols' PRETTY VACANT from 1977. Still has a small WH Smith (UK retailer) price tag on the front - for 65p! A real bargain.

#punk #1977 #SexPistols #PrettyVacant #PunkRock #vinyl #nowplaying #45rpm #45s

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Small WH Smith price tag - 65p - on vintage 1977 Sex Pistols 45rpm cover.

Coolmccool, to journalism
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@gerrymcgovern I deleted 79,125 'promotional' emails from my Gmail account yesterday.

Didn't think I really needed them.
Didn't think they were useful.

Why do I get so many of these completely useless messages?
Why is so much time and energy expended on these hopeless things that most people completely ignore?
And why should we keep storing them, year after year?

What a terrible waste.

#capitalism #worldwidewaste #media #press #tech #technology #email #spam #climateemergency #energy #clutter #waste

Coolmccool, to australia
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Well, #Bunnings asked for my opinion - so they got it.

Oh! And I should have told them to stop selling freakin' Roundup.

#Australia #consumerism #marketing #surveys #pollution #auspol

Coolmccool, to Amazon
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Publishing without #amazon

https://crashcoursebook.eu/resisting-business-as-usual.html by @crash_course

#writing #publishing #books #diy #climateemergency

Coolmccool, to ireland
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Shane MacGowan funeral procession to pass through the streets of Dublin so people can pay their respects. The procession will apparently end just off Fenian Street - which seems appropriate.

#ShaneMacGowan #ShaneMacGowanRIP #Pogues #ireland #irish #Dublin

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/12/05/shane-macgowan-funeral-cortege-to-pass-through-dublin-streets-on-final-farewell/

Coolmccool, to punk
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@historyofpunkrock Here's an interview I did with Shane MacGowan in 1994 for the Irish Post.

I first met Shane at a wild Cramps gig in London in 1980 (Bryan Gregory on guitar), way before he started the Pogues. He really was an incredibly intelligent and gifted person, very well read, quite sensitive and not at all like the image the music business machinery forced upon him.

And over the years he helped and inspired me in many, many ways.

I am sad at his passing but glad that he is at his rest now. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

#ShaneMacGowan #pogues #PogueMahone #RIP #dearlydeparted #punk #legend #ireland #irish
https://medium.com/outlaw-blues/shane-macgowan-and-the-church-of-the-holy-spook-45cbdcdf2c02

CindyWeinstein, (edited ) to random
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Superb sign posted by @wigbert. Love this line: "As Librarians, we're not here to judge, we're here to help." Amen.

#Libraries

Coolmccool,
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@CindyWeinstein @wigbert I love libraries. They can really help change people's lives for the better.

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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Two years ago today
In memory Chris Bailey, Australian singer, songwriter, musician and co-founder of punk rock band the Saints.

Chris Bailey died in Haarlem on 9 April 2022, aged 65

Photo by Gus Stewart

#punk #punks #punkrock #chrisbailey #thesaints #history #punkrockhistory

Coolmccool,
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@historyofpunkrock #RIP Chris Bailey of the Saints, and as a mark of respect 'I'm Stranded' is my record of the week, this week and every other week.
#punk #australia #nowplaying #vinyl

https://youtu.be/S2Lt8F5unhM?si=xaNeTifvltehBGKs

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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Happy Birthday to Christian Emmerich aka Blixa Bargeld, German musician who has been a member of the groups Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and ANBB, born on this day in 1959, Berlin

📸 Bernd Kühn

#punk #punkrock #blixabargeld #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Coolmccool,
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@historyofpunkrock Saw Einstürzende Neubauten in the early 80's at the Acklam Hall, on the Portobello Rd in London. The Acklam Hall was actually underneath the infamous Westway motorway which the Clash sang about.

It was a great, really chaotic, gig.

It was a Friday night, I recall, and I had been working on a building site all week, so I was ready to blow off some steam. When the band started up on stage with their Kango industrial drills I jumped up and gave them a wee hand, showed them how to do it properly! Blixa didn't know WTF was going on.*

An absolutely ferocious noise, it was.

*note that this could also be interpreted as acting like a total eejit. Sorry, Blixa.

(Edit) Photos and an account of the gig here: https://seelebrenntarchive.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/einsturzende-neubauten-london-aug-19-1983/

#punk #noise #industrial

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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46 years ago today - the foundation stone for the best live punk rock album of all time was laid

"It's Alive" by the Ramones was recorded at the Rainbow Theater in London on December 31, 1977 and January 1, 1978

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Coolmccool,
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@historyofpunkrock My mate Brendy G was AT the NYE gig and later bought the album - which, very fortunately - he gifted to ME when we were living in a squat in N. London.

And it still lives on my shelves, many squats, many years, and many thousands of kms later.

Slainte, Brendy, wherever you are (Spain?).

Incidentally, the Rainbow was an amazing venue; home to some incredible gigs over the years - Bob Marley (also recorded live there), PiL, the Clash...

#punk #Ramones #vinyl #nowplaying

historyofpunkrock, to punk
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Happy Birthday to John "Jake" Burns, singer, guitarist and frontman of Northern Ireland punk rock band Stiff Little Fingers, born on this day in 1958, Belfast.

Photo by Steve Rapport

#punk #punks #punkrock #stifflittlefingers #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Coolmccool,
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@historyofpunkrock Happy Birthday to Jake, from my own part of the world - Norn Iron.
Saw SLF live back in Armagh many years ago, an absolutely magical gig:

https://medium.com/outlaw-blues/stiff-little-fingers-it-was-a-great-gig-so-it-was-a9ef016c68a7

#punk #SLF #rock #stifflittlefingers #northernireland #ireland #irish

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