On a whim, I went to the Royal Festival Hall to see Bruce Liu playing Ravel. Pretty cool. He makes the fiendishly difficult appear entirely effortless.
I think last time I went there, I was a callow youth. It's bigger than I remember!
#music #classical
UCLA's Hollywood Diversity Report finds that films with casts that are 41%-50% BIPOC achieved the highest median global and domestic box office receipts in 2025 (Arushi Jacob/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/diversity-report-casting-in-fil…
After flying with virtual wings for one week, the brain learns to accept the impossible #noninvasive…
His comment sums things up pretty well, IMO.
https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f771de
POL-HK: Bad Fallingbostel: Mit 1,72 Promille unterwegs; Munster: Autoreifen entwendet; Soltau: Kind durch Unfall leicht verletzt Heidekreis (ots) - 12.03.2026 / Mit 1,72 Promille unterwegs Bad Fallingbostel: Einsatzkräfte der Polizeiinspektion Heidekreis kontrollierten in der Nacht zu Donnerstag in Bad Fallingbostel einen 66-jährigen Autofahrer, der zuvor aufgrund seiner ...
Loooong bike ride, then dinner out with my wife at Evie’s Bakery. One of my favorite spots — that kind of funky, eclectic, indie restaurant you can always walk in and find a table.
Great food, but the desserts, and particularly the cakes (they don’t call it Evie’s Entrees… 😉) are fantastic. Been working our way through the different flavors over time.
Tonight, we split Boston Cream and Strawberry. Figured I’d better get some pics or @…
Seems every news portal is posting the AI video "Narrative of Victory" which supposedly was distributed by "Iran Embassy in China" on Waibo or "Iranian Media" - but no portal is linking to the original post or distribution. So far I have been unable to trace it back to an original source.
I find this deeply disturbing.
#lego
BuzzFeed's shares jump 130% following the deal with Allen Family Digital; BuzzFeed plans to set up BuzzFeed Studios and Tasty as a new independent entity (Sarah Fielding/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91540…
Nice here in the fediverse.
But have you ever been to Ankh-Morpork?
City of a thousand surprises
#GNUPterry #gnuterrypratchett #GNUSirPterry