Happy Summer Solstice! 🌝

Personally, I prefer darker nights. 🌚

Cheerios serial was invented on this day in 1941. #onthisday

@elmaxx Yep. in '09 I was listening to Spotify on an a Nokia E71, before there was such a thing as Android or (I think) IOS. There was nothing like it; it was a massive game-changer. Had they beaten Apple/Tidal etc at delivering lossless, I'll wager that the music streaming market would look quote different today.

I have no sympathy that Spotify is facing investor pressure after making a net loss of £367m.

The music streaming platform forgot it was a music streaming platform, followed podcast dollar signs, lured fear-factor meat-head with obscene money, and stalled the launch of the lossless music tier it was hyping. The competition capitalised.

I joined Spotify in '08. Qobuz has been my main since last year. The only time I use Spotify these days is for research or in the car.

FAO Babylon 5 fans in the UK: The trailer for 'The Road Home' is up on Amazon. 😀#babylon5 #sciencefiction

https://watch.amazon.co.uk/detail

@danialexis I like it; good way of flipping it around. I like asking people what they enjoy doing. Depending on the job it grinds to a halt rather fast. Sometimes you can see a glint when someone talks about a hobby it interest.

@ceorl I like asking, 'What do you enjoy doing in your free time?' Even if it's something I have no interest in, it's better to encourage people tell me about their yums. Sometimes you can see the passion.

@thewebrecluse Loved her in Warehouse 13.

One pet hate (possibly peculiar to some folks) is when, in social situations, someone asks, 'So, what do you do?', like, immediately after exchanging names. 'Do', as in: job.

I always feel like the reveal of time spent in wage-slavery or in a chosen profession is pending judgment from the asker; over everything we are as a person.

Maybe I overthink it, but I'll wager we've all seen hollow judgement, reductionism, (and stigma), for ourselves.

Well... that's all she wrote...
I'm not a Ferrari fan, but hats off. 🎩👏
#lemans24

Gap still close after my nap but I think it's slipping away from Toyota. That said I don't know fuel or tyre stages. #lemans24

Modified novelty NASCAR is still running strong - that engine sounds good, too.

If I was NASCAR I'd use it for racing road courses in the regular series. #lemans24

Have to say, though, nobody says 'fuck' better than a pisssd off New Yorker.

@Loffreni Yes... 😁

Watching the Le Mans 24hr and they've now switched to an American commentator.

I'm sorry, folks across the pond, but as a Brit, every time he mentions "Poojoe" or "Niecearn" I want to lob something; made of aluminium. 😋 #lemans24

Still alive and kicking, just a lot going on in the real world.

It's good to unplug now and then; never feel obliged to post for the sake of posting. 🤘

Highlight of my week: Gastroscopy - camera down the hatch. The team at Llanwenarth in Neville Hall were brilliant. My eyes ejected from their sockets when I saw how big the tube was. 😳

A while back I found a lump in my neck/throat when I removed my beard of several years, been having chronic acid reflux, issues swallowing for a while. Nothing sinister, aphasia and suspected neck hernia at this stage.

Sods law, it would be me, a CCTV Manager, that the camera failed to capture any images. 📸 😂

@amarand Oh, I wish! 😅 I hate the 50 mile round trip to work, and driving home at night.

I fitted RGB smart bulbs throughout the house. Now, instead of texting the other half to say I'm on my way home, I change the lamp next to my seat to green.

Don't grow up; it's a trap! 💚