DJDarren

Saw this and thought of, well, most of you.

This week's willing marks, who have revealed their birthdays to our spreadsheet. @Andyyyfish82@mastodonapp.uk @artnacrea@mastodon.ie @astronomerritt@hachyderm.io @ausgroucho@aus.social 🎉 Ben Gray @bobthomson70@mastodon.social Dr Caitlin @ccferrie@mastodon.ie @daveybot@mastodon.scot @davidbcohen@twit.social @dddz@fosstodon.org @digitalrodent@universeodon.com 🎉 @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social @FloatingOnion@cyberplace.social @greem@cyberplace.social @KaraLG84@dragonscave.space @LuluHelle@ohai.social & Mr Helle @mejc@mastodon.online @missmelanieh@mastodonapp.uk @mothninja@beige.party @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @RealAleRocks@mastodon.social @RolloTreadway@beige.party @RonaldSnijder@mastodon.social @roytoo@mstdn.social Young Teen Too @sharongascoigne@mastodonapp.uk @sheepnik@toot.wales @sjoerd@aus.social @swisslet@mas.to @Troggie@beige.party @wilpercy@beige.party 🎉 Not Mrs Wulf On a future episode they'll reveal their mother's maiden name, and then their bank balances will be ours for the taking. #ThePlaylist

NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist, a guest theme from @losttourist@social.chatty.monster... Here in the northern hemisphere, the nights are beginning to draw in, the temperatures are beginning to drop, so when better to choose the theme of: Horticulture We realise that you lot don't look like your average horti-bleedin-culturalists, but you surely know some songs about plants and trees and that. And no weed-shaming on our watch! Remember, a weed is just a plant you didn't grow on purpose! Sow your suggestions in the fertile grounds of #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and let them grow into beautiful beanstalks, upon which my giant bot will gobble them all up. // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK // // https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ // #Podcast #NowPlaying #Music #Radio

Having never been to a Discworld Con before, I'm reading through the traditions page on the website to familiarise myself with some of what to expect. This entry is lovely: Silas T Firefly Sir Terry Pratchett was always happy to engage with his fans and attended the DWCons when he could, usually as Guest of Honour. Before becoming a famous author, Terry was a fan himself and understood how Conventions worked from both perspectives. This led to him fostering a good relationship with his fans and when he could, he would sit with folks in the bar, or other communal spaces of the hotel and chat casually with anyone and everyone. There was respect on both sides, but (whisper it not!) even famous authors get tired and need personal space. When Terry felt the need to be left alone, he would subtly indicate this by switching his badge to one that read Silas T Firefly. It was made common knowledge that if you were to meet someone around the hotel who had this badge that it might look like Terry Pratchett, but this was a completely different person. A very private individual who just wished a little peace… The name may be a reference to the Groucho Marx character Rufus T. Firefly in the 1933 movie Duck Soup. In memorandum, one Convention membership and badge is left free each year under this name. #GNUTerryPratchett #DWCon26

As ever, we've collected all the tracks from this week's show into streaming playlists, so you can add your favourites to your own libraries: Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-birthday-numbers-one/pl.u-xlyNjgXtoo5kRNE Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/46agICUHpnYFDkLqi43Gsl And #ThePlaylistExtras; all the other tunes that we didn't have time for: Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-birthday-numbers-one-extras/pl.u-KVXBqZWt11xZMjD Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GKWba5QUxDCQJV2inG8qz #ThePlaylist

Word up from Eastleigh Pride!

Live your life so that people will donate to a charity close to your heart when you die, not a charity you would have hated as an act of spite.

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social "We don't want teens spending all day online!" "Perhaps we should use public money to finance programs that teens could use for free?"

This week's keen interior designers, all of whom are infinitely more fancy than Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen. @alicemcalicepants@ohai.social @astronomerritt@hachyderm.io Ben Gray @bobthomson70@mastodon.social Dr Caitlin Swisslet @ccferrie@mastodon.ie @daveybot@mastodon.scot @davidbcohen@twit.social @dddz@fosstodon.org @donutage@mastodon.social 🎉 @greem@cyberplace.social @julianlawson@beige.party @KaraLG84@dragonscave.space @losttourist@social.chatty.monster @mejc@mastodon.online @missmelanieh@mastodonapp.uk @MrAndrewD@aus.social Mrs Na Crea 🎉 @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @OlDirtyGaijin@famichiki.jp 🎉 Papa Irish @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @RealAleRocks@mastodon.social @RolloTreadway@beige.party @RonaldSnijder@mastodon.social @roytoo@mstdn.social @rvedotrc@tech.lgbt @sheepnik@toot.wales @sjoerd@aus.social @sodslawyer@mstdn.social @tygerkrash@mastodon.ie @whybird@aus.social 🎉 Not Mrs Wulf @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social May every one of them sit comfortably in their bauhaus chair. #ThePlaylist

@greem@cyberplace.social @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social @bigvimto@mendeddrum.org @patrick@mendeddrum.org You fuckin' nerds are NEVER happy! "USE LINUX" you say "BUT NOT THAT LINUX" you say. nerds.

Perfectly cromulent sky tonight 10/10 would enjoy again.

By contrast, most of the stalls at Southampton Pride were artists selling things featuring their own designs. It was lovely to see, and we gladly spent some pennies. All we spent at the market yesterday was on a box of freshly baked pastel de nata. Which are delicious.

If you're also at #DWCon26, come over and say hi! I'm the nerdy guy with glasses.

NEXT WEEK on #ThePlaylist I'm off to Discworld Con in a couple of weeks, so next week I think it's only fair that the theme should be: The Discworld Songs about wizards, and flying turtles, and DEATH, and THE DEATH OF RATS, will abound. Or just songs about discs, or worlds. Are there any flat Earth bangers? Sling them this way using #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and together we'll spend two hours attempting to make the memory of Sir Pterry proud. // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK // // https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ // #GnuTerryPratchett #Podcast #Music #DWCon26

NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist, we want to hear your favourite: Three Minute (or thereabouts) Pop Bangers Nothing more complicated than that. Just good quality tunes that refuse to outstay their welcome. Let's see how many we can squeeze in to our two hours. Fling your (maximum of) four suggestions this way using #ThePlaylistSuggestion and my obedient hooverbot will suck them up for my later perusal and judgement. You can also send this link to anyone you know IRL who wants to take part, but doesn't use Mastodon: https://djdarren.site/archive/suggestions/ // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK // // https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ // #Podcast #NowPlaying #Music #Radio

@Nickiquote@mstdn.social *Jean-Luc Picard enters the chat* "Egg tart. Flaky. Warm"

In case you've not yet seen it, here's the trailer for Wicker, in which Olivia Colman gets it on with a wicker man. I very much wish to see this film. https://youtu.be/UVAki9SGrlg

A year or so back, I did a new start induction for the most stunningly, openly bigoted man that I've encountered a good long while. He's a white guy who spent 20 years living in South Africa. He didn't know me from Adam, but recognising me as a fellow straight¹ white guy, led him to thinking that it was ok to say racist, homophobic shit. Well, today his son starts working for us, so I'm interested to see how far the apple has fallen from the tree. _ ¹ lol

As ever, we've collected all the tracks from this week's show into streaming playlists, so you can add your favourites to your own libraries: Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-furniture/pl.u-kv9lqv5C4417qYp Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2wkT4mdGQr9bNwlWX3v8Hq And #ThePlaylistExtras; all the other tunes that we didn't have time for: Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-furniture-extras/pl.u-xlyNjl3Coo5kRNE Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5izJGi6vGEGgRZ7qE1nNwa #ThePlaylist

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social @greem@cyberplace.social @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social @bigvimto@mendeddrum.org @patrick@mendeddrum.org Is there a mode that's the exact opposite of slightly complicated?

@WiteWulf@cyberplace.social @patrick@mendeddrum.org Can you point me to a guide on using proxmox? I might bung it on one of the 7050s so I can test it out and see how much of an arsehole it'll be to rebuild my server from scratch using it.

This week's heroes, each of whom is faster than a speeding locomotive, more powerful than a house, and able to leap a bullet in a single bound! @alicemcalicepants@ohai.social @Andyyyfish82@mastodonapp.uk @arakin@meow.social @astronomerritt@hachyderm.io Ben Gray Dr Caitlin @swisslet@mas.to@ccferrie@mastodon.ie @daveybot@mastodon.scot Mrs @dddz@fosstodon.org @FloatingOnion@cyberplace.social @giflian@techhub.social @gulfie@mastodonapp.uk @ItsThatDeafGuy@beige.party @julianlawson@beige.party @KaraLG84@dragonscave.space @Laura_2222@sunny.garden @mothninja@beige.party @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Nikkileah@mendeddrum.org Papa Irish @RealAleRocks@mastodon.social @RolloTreadway@beige.party @roytoo@mstdn.social @sheepnik@toot.wales @slevelt@aus.social @sodslawyer@mstdn.social @steve199nwep@mastodon.me.uk @swisslet@mas.to @Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot @Troggie@beige.party @tygerkrash@mastodon.ie @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social And at least one them has sticky stuff on their hands that they claim is their "web". #ThePlaylist

This week's stout Watch members, bravely looking away in the face of correctly sanctioned Guild activities. They had the paperwork, y'see. @arakin@meow.social @artnacrea@mastodon.ie @astronomerritt@hachyderm.io Ben Gray Dr Caitlin Swisslet @ccferrie@mastodon.ie @dandelioncapers@cupoftea.social 🎉 @daveybot@mastodon.scot @davidbcohen@twit.social Mrs @dddz@fosstodon.org @dddz@fosstodon.org @FloatingOnion@cyberplace.social @julianlawson@beige.party @KaraLG84@dragonscave.space @Laura_2222@sunny.garden @losttourist@social.chatty.monster @mejc@mastodon.online @mothninja@beige.party @MrAndrewD@aus.social @Nickiquote@mstdn.social @Nikkileah@mendeddrum.org Papa Irish @patrick@mendeddrum.org @pete@masto.hypertelia.com @RealAleRocks@mastodon.social @RolloTreadway@beige.party @RonaldSnijder@mastodon.social @roytoo@mstdn.social @rvedotrc@tech.lgbt @sheepnik@toot.wales @slevelt@aus.social @sodslawyer@mstdn.social @swisslet@mas.to @theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social #ThePlaylist

If you get paid on the last Friday of the month, then congratulations on surviving another five week month. Treat yourself by paying your bills and buying the basics that you've been running very, very low on.

NEXT WEEK ON #ThePlaylist There will be no next week! Because we'll be at Discworld Con and I'm far too lazy to pre-record a show. But... ON THE 17TH OF AUGUST ON #ThePlaylist... Yet another guest theme, this time from @RealAleRocks@mastodon.social and Ben Gray, who, because they're drug dealers or they work in a pharmacy or something, would like to suggest: Pharmacy A terribly difficult one, I know, as there are basically no songs about drugs. HOWEVER, they're ACTUALLY asking for songs about a pharmacy. So bear that in mind. Or not. Whatever. I'm not your mum. Dispense your suggestions this way with #ThePlaylistSuggestion, and with any luck we'll get high on our own supply. // https://stream.djdarren.site // Monday 19:00-21:00 UK // // https://djdarren.site/archive/podcast/ // #Music #Podcast #Drugs #BootsTheChemistCanPissUpARope

As ever, we've collected all the tracks from this week's show into streaming playlists, so you can add your favourites to your own libraries: Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-heroes/pl.u-GgA52R6sxxYZqGr Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1O7aThgiMfDkjuKS4tpUEj And #ThePlaylistExtras; all the other tunes that we didn't have time for: Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-heroes-extras/pl.u-jV89akpIaa2dYAV Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55n2EnnKVQX6tozffrqo3w #ThePlaylist

@gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk @TwoClownsEating@beige.party I know next to nothing about jazz either, but I'll offer a hearty +1 to The Bridge. Also, I'm awful partial to Dizzy Gillespie's 'Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods'. I can't remember when or why I first became aware of it, but ever since I did I've always enjoyed getting lost in it. https://youtu.be/qrsgDzVGsGc

A discussion on here this morning has reminded me once again of one of the finest 2 1/2 minutes of TV ever broadcast. https://youtu.be/oXh4T-ShaL0

As ever, we've collected all the tracks from this week's show into streaming playlists, so you can add your favourites to your own libraries: Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-the-discworld/pl.u-2aoqpAvTkk0NBXo Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3MxuNP3KHNb9sROuRvQQbV And #ThePlaylistExtras; all the other tunes that we didn't have time for: Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/theplaylist-the-discworld-extras/pl.u-kv9l0rVC4417qYp Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7d2XMmeQZJiB5QUotuSilX #ThePlaylist

Quite often I lament that, despite putting out tunes as monumentally exhilarating as Die, Alright!, somehow The Hives didn't end up running the world. https://youtu.be/QI8NccqlygQ

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social No, that would be mad.

@artnacrea@mastodon.ie @WiteWulf@cyberplace.social

The other night in #TheChat, I was reminded that, for many years I thought that Twoflower the Agatean tourist in the Discworld books literally had four eyes, because he was described as having four eyes. I have been a spectacles-wearer since I was 7, yet somehow I didn't clock that it was a reference to him wearing glasses. I am not a smart man. HOWEVER, I was vindicated when someone noted that apparently Josh Kirby, the cover artist for the early books didn't clock it either, according to Twoflower's depiction on the cover of The Colour of Magic.

@MikeFromLFE@cupoftea.social @Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social For a few moments I thought you were talking about one of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Gage

Why yes, this *is* a different version. And the personnel list is just stupid. #ThePlaylist

@Erased_Citizen@cupoftea.social @miffyhelen@beige.party @Troggie@beige.party Or a specific MIDI output from the keyboard?

And yes, this *is* the FULL 5:44 of this magnificent slice. #ThePlaylist

This suggestion wins this week's prize for stupidest link to the theme. #ThePlaylist