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Más hashtags de temas que me gustan y de los que, inevitablemente, hablaré por aquí… :ablobcatwave:
#starwars #elsenordelosanillos #harrypotter #stephenking #spielberg #80s #timburton #juegodetronos #tolkien #strangerthings #lamateriaoscura #thecrown #michaelende #laschicasdeoro #sehaescritouncrimen #marvel #dc #mcu #avatar #lovecraft #gremlins #poltergeist #losgoonies #disney #indianajones #ryanmurphy #chucky #michaelflanagan #cristaloscuro #jimhenson #agathachristie #sherlockholmes #vampiros … -
Más hashtags de temas que me gustan y de los que, inevitablemente, hablaré por aquí… :ablobcatwave:
#starwars #elsenordelosanillos #harrypotter #stephenking #spielberg #80s #timburton #juegodetronos #tolkien #strangerthings #lamateriaoscura #thecrown #michaelende #laschicasdeoro #sehaescritouncrimen #marvel #dc #mcu #avatar #lovecraft #gremlins #poltergeist #losgoonies #disney #indianajones #ryanmurphy #chucky #michaelflanagan #cristaloscuro #jimhenson #agathachristie #sherlockholmes #vampiros … -
Más hashtags de temas que me gustan y de los que, inevitablemente, hablaré por aquí… :ablobcatwave:
#starwars #elsenordelosanillos #harrypotter #stephenking #spielberg #80s #timburton #juegodetronos #tolkien #strangerthings #lamateriaoscura #thecrown #michaelende #laschicasdeoro #sehaescritouncrimen #marvel #dc #mcu #avatar #lovecraft #gremlins #poltergeist #losgoonies #disney #indianajones #ryanmurphy #chucky #michaelflanagan #cristaloscuro #jimhenson #agathachristie #sherlockholmes #vampiros … -
Más hashtags de temas que me gustan y de los que, inevitablemente, hablaré por aquí… :ablobcatwave:
#starwars #elsenordelosanillos #harrypotter #stephenking #spielberg #80s #timburton #juegodetronos #tolkien #strangerthings #lamateriaoscura #thecrown #michaelende #laschicasdeoro #sehaescritouncrimen #marvel #dc #mcu #avatar #lovecraft #gremlins #poltergeist #losgoonies #disney #indianajones #ryanmurphy #chucky #michaelflanagan #cristaloscuro #jimhenson #agathachristie #sherlockholmes #vampiros … -
Bass clarinettist Fie Schouten: ‘We must not control nature but give it room’
Fie Schouten studied with bass clarinettist Harry Sparnaay and follows in his footsteps as an advocate of contemporary music. She organizes the biannual Bass Clarinet Festival and the monthly series Nieuwe Noten Amsterdam. She recently released the CD Nature, with six contemporary compositions.
Already as a child Fie Schouten was attracted to the bass clarinet: ‘At the Amstelveen music school I played the clarinet in a wind ensemble. When I heard an older student playing the bass clarinet I was immediately hooked: I want that too! I love its low sound and wide range, which makes it very versatile: you can take a bass function, but also play the melody; operate in the background, but also take the lead. In this I feel related to musicians who play cello, bassoon or trombone.’
Fie Schouten (c) Annelies van der VegtWhile studying clarinet at the Amsterdam Conservatoire, she heard there was also a bass clarinet teacher, Harry Sparnaay. ‘He specialized in contemporary music, but his class included students with backgrounds in both classical and jazz. He was particularly focused on the musician’s attitude and emphasized that you must always start from what the composer – or a composition – wants to say. As important to him was the question of what you yourself want to convey. After all, you are on stage and must have something to say to your audience. I compare it to reading a story to your children: of course you reproduce someone else’s text, but you put your own accents, in a way you make it your own story.’
With Sparnaay she shares her enthusiasm for contemporary music, following in his footsteps as an ardent advocate. By now over a hundred pieces have been composed for her. How does she decide who to ask? ‘I like variety. Sometimes I ask a Dutch composer, sometimes I feel more like inviting an Englishman, or prefer to have a new piece from a young talent, a contemporary, or an older, established name. As long as I expect them to make something meaningful.’
This may turn out better or worse, which makes it difficult to name favourites: ‘I love the solo Article 7, seven ways to climb a mountain for bass clarinet solo by Rozalie Hirs, but for the last Bass Clarinet Festival Ruud Roelofsen wrote a trio that I think is at least as beautiful. In October I picked up again Jorrit Dijkstra’s duo Veeg (Sweep) with flutist Karina Erhard, part of which calls for improvisation. We’re much better at that now than we were back in 2004 when he composed it, so it was great to play it again!’
She regularly performs in duets, trios and quartets with other musicians and as a substitute with ensembles such as Musikfabrik and Asko|Schönberg. It would make any random person dizzy, but not Schouten. ‘By working with different instrumentalists and singers you appeal to disparate aspects of your personality, which is enriching.’
Schouten occasionally shares the stage with her husband, the reed player and composer Tobias Klein. ‘We met in Harry Sparnaay’s class and have been together for 21 years now; we have two lovely children, aged 11 and 15.’ In 2014 they initiated the first Bass Clarinet Festival, in honour of Harry Sparnaay’s 70th birthday. To celebrate this, Klein composed Too Dark to Read for 7 clarinets and 3 bass clarinets, one of them played by Sparnaay himself.
How did Sparnaay react? Schouten laughs: ‘Actually, the idea came from Harry himself! In 2012 we gave a concert with eight bass clarinets in the Bethaniënklooster in Amsterdam. He then joked: Guys, I’ll be seventy in two years, will you throw me a party? Well, we took up the gauntlet. Harry enjoyed himself intensely and especially enjoyed performing along with his former students
The first Bass Clarinet Festival was remarkably ambitious straightaway, with concerts all over the country, masterclasses, bass clarinet days and more. Since then it has grown into a biennial event. The fourth edition fell largely victim to corona, but precisely on November 3, the night the Government declared a new lockdown, Schouten presented her CD Nature, with six pieces by contemporary composers, two of which were composed for her.
The subject is rather charged today: nitrogen crisis, rising sea levels, insect plagues and a global pandemic threaten life on earth. Should we interpret the CD as a political statement? ‘Not directly,’ says Schouten. ‘The idea arose during a series of lectures on music and nature, at the end of which I always performed a piece live.’
‘My association with nature is mainly that something is not artificial but free, natural. It also means: wonder, concentration, having respect for what others make and for what is already there. In a way, the title is a call to be patient, to listen to the music without judgment. Just like you should respect nature, not try to control it, but give it room. I am dismayed to see how the few remaining empty spaces are swallowed up by construction projects.’
So the six pieces were not chosen from an activist point of view. In the CD booklet she writes: ‘With each track the gaze goes further up: from the sea to the birds in the sky, to the cirrus clouds, to the moon and finally to the stars.’ The album opens with Calling for bass clarinet solo by Calliope Tsoupaki. ‘Calliope composed it for me in 2015. I have performed it many times and have come to love it very much. It is lyrical, has a beautiful form and yet is very free. It is a personal lamento, in which looking out over the sea and the waves plays an important role.’
Next comes ‘Abîme des oiseaux’, the clarinet solo from Olivier Messiaen’s famous Quatuor pour la fin du temps. Schouten does not play this on the regular b-flat clarinet, but on a basset horn. ‘It’s a beautiful and important work for clarinettists in which birds make themselves heard loud and clear. It has been recorded many times, so I chose the basset horn, which conveys the desolate atmosphere even better because of its sonorous yet agile sound.’
Cirrus Light by Jonathan Harvey is very dear to her: ‘He was a special and spiritual person, I met him in 2002. He wrote this solo for clarinet in the last summer of his life, when he was already in a wheelchair, looking at the clouds that drifted by high and slow like wisps. It has not been recorded before, I hope now more clarinettists will pick it up.’
With Oi Kuu for bass clarinet and cello by Kaija Saariaho we travel further to the moon. ‘The Finnish title means something like “for the moon”. I first played it together with Eva van de Poll in 2001, but 20 years later we understand the piece and each other much better, so we decided to record our present interpretation. The flageolets in the cello and the multiphonics of the clarinet create a somewhat dreamy atmosphere, like mists before the moon.’
Following this duo is Façade Trio by French composer Georges Aperghis. ‘It is a theatrical piece for two bass clarinets and percussion that has rarely been performed after its premiere in 1998. The musicians are arranged in a triangle, like the points of a constellation. The percussionist stands in the centre with two kick drums, and is flanked left and right by the two bass clarinettists. Their part moves from the lowest to the very highest regions. Together with the percussion, this creates a wonderful spectrum of sounds, expressive and unpredictable.’
Once Schouten had arrived in the galaxy, she felt the journey was not yet complete. ‘The five pieces form a nice coherent whole, but I felt that something was missing. I decided to add a bonus track and called Michael Finnissy. He had composed a quartet for the 2018 Bass Clarinet Festival in which two bass clarinets engage in a kind of conversation, like two monks chanting to each other.’ ‘
Those recitative-like lines appealed to me, and I asked Michael to create something small on the theme of nature. He wrote the 3-minute Mankind Remix, a contemplative piece that reflects on the previous; it fits perfectly after Aperghis’ exuberant trio – and to my character. I love to be expressive, but then I need reflection. After Mankind Remix I could start all over again at once with the first piece on the CD, it comes full circle.’
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#CalliopeTsoupaki #FieSchouten #GeorgesAperghis #HarrySparnaay #JonathanHarvey #KaijaSaariaho #MichaelFinnissy #OlivierMessiaen #TobiasKlein
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podcast + documentation about the latest case held against israel at the icj
the following podcast can be found as a link here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/28/icj-opens-hearings-on-israeli-obligations-on-gaza-aid
‘The Inside Story Podcast‘: “What’s the latest case held against Israel at the ICJ?”
28 apr 2025“The International Court of Justice hears another case against Israel – in what could be a test of Israeli defiance of international law. More than 40 nations argue its ban on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees is a breach of the UN charter. So, can the world court hold Israel to account this time?”
In the episode:
Sam Rose, Senior Acting Director, UNRWA Affairs in Gaza.
Michael Lynk, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Western University.
Gideon Levy, Columnist, Haaretz.Host: Folly Bah Thibault
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Look for more infos —from the ICJ site:
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/196
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Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian TerritoryLatest Developments, Verbatim record 2025/4
(bilingual version)Public sitting held on Monday 28 April 2025, at 3 p.m., at the Peace Palace, President Iwasawa presiding, on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organizations and Third States in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Request for advisory opinion submitted by the General Assembly of the United Nations)
Written record available here:
https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/196/196-20250428-ora-02-00-bi.pdf#bambini #caseAgainstIsrael #children #colonialism #FollyBahThibault #Gaza #GeneralAssemblyOfTheUnitedNations #genocide #genocidio #GideonLevy #Haaretz #ICC #icj #IDF #InternationalCourtOfJustice #internationalLaw #invasion #IOF #Israel #israelcriminalstate #israelestatocriminale #israelterroriststate #izrahell #MichaelLynk #OccupiedPalestinianTerritory #Onu #Palestina #Palestine #PalestinianRefugees #PeacePalace #PresidentIwasawa #SamRose #sionismo #sionisti #starvingcivilians #starvingpeople #UN #UNAgencyForPalestinianRefugees #UNCharter #UnitedNations #UNO #UNRWA #warcrimes #WesternUniversity #zionism
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Ex-Sony Pictures Boss Regrets Seth Rogen’s ‘The Interview’ and Says Obama Told Him After the Sony Hack: ‘What Were You Thinking? Of Course That Was a Mistake’
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I was able to switch off all unread-counts, badges, and alerts, too. And everything's just listed chronologically, rather than algorithmically pushing click-bate at me.
Just in the last few days, I think this is actually becoming one of my favourite things. Reducing a lot of noise and distraction without cutting off all news and media altogether.
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I was able to switch off all unread-counts, badges, and alerts, too. And everything's just listed chronologically, rather than algorithmically pushing click-bate at me.
Just in the last few days, I think this is actually becoming one of my favourite things. Reducing a lot of noise and distraction without cutting off all news and media altogether.
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I was able to switch off all unread-counts, badges, and alerts, too. And everything's just listed chronologically, rather than algorithmically pushing click-bate at me.
Just in the last few days, I think this is actually becoming one of my favourite things. Reducing a lot of noise and distraction without cutting off all news and media altogether.
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I was able to switch off all unread-counts, badges, and alerts, too. And everything's just listed chronologically, rather than algorithmically pushing click-bate at me.
Just in the last few days, I think this is actually becoming one of my favourite things. Reducing a lot of noise and distraction without cutting off all news and media altogether.
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Continued adventures in RSS...
So far so happy with Inoreader! With rules and filters to mark things as read if they don't (or do) meet certain criteria, I can subscribe to all sorts of feeds without getting bombarded with too much stuff in the main feed. While still being able to click into a particular feed if I want to, say, browse the headlines on TheJournal.ie or BBC, etc. They're there – just not all up in my face about it.
Keyword monitoring works great too.
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Continued adventures in RSS...
So far so happy with Inoreader! With rules and filters to mark things as read if they don't (or do) meet certain criteria, I can subscribe to all sorts of feeds without getting bombarded with too much stuff in the main feed. While still being able to click into a particular feed if I want to, say, browse the headlines on TheJournal.ie or BBC, etc. They're there – just not all up in my face about it.
Keyword monitoring works great too.
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Continued adventures in RSS...
So far so happy with Inoreader! With rules and filters to mark things as read if they don't (or do) meet certain criteria, I can subscribe to all sorts of feeds without getting bombarded with too much stuff in the main feed. While still being able to click into a particular feed if I want to, say, browse the headlines on TheJournal.ie or BBC, etc. They're there – just not all up in my face about it.
Keyword monitoring works great too.
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Continued adventures in RSS...
So far so happy with Inoreader! With rules and filters to mark things as read if they don't (or do) meet certain criteria, I can subscribe to all sorts of feeds without getting bombarded with too much stuff in the main feed. While still being able to click into a particular feed if I want to, say, browse the headlines on TheJournal.ie or BBC, etc. They're there – just not all up in my face about it.
Keyword monitoring works great too.
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Inoreader's 'rules' might solve the problem of too many notifications.
Basically, I'll put my busy news feeds into a folder, and add a rule to mark everything in there as read on arrival. I can still click through to see the headlines, but I'm not pestered with "new thing!!" notifications all throughout the day.
It's a 'Pro' feature on Inoreader though. Nearly €100/yr! I'll see how I get on with the 14-day trial.
It does seem a nice platform.
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Inoreader's 'rules' might solve the problem of too many notifications.
Basically, I'll put my busy news feeds into a folder, and add a rule to mark everything in there as read on arrival. I can still click through to see the headlines, but I'm not pestered with "new thing!!" notifications all throughout the day.
It's a 'Pro' feature on Inoreader though. Nearly €100/yr! I'll see how I get on with the 14-day trial.
It does seem a nice platform.
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Giving RSS feeds another go, again again. Inoreader seems nice. It's good so far for a few blogs and YouTube subscriptions.
News sites seem more difficult though. I want a few headlines maybe throughout the day, not a notification every time a celebrity farts or a sports star scores a point.
Anyone know a good less-is-more news feed solution? Preferably Irish news.
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Here's a small user-style for the Mastodon advanced web interface that hides the drawer from the left-hand side until you hover over it, and keeps it active if you select an input.
Works with Stylus and maybe other userstyle browser plugins.
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Here's a small user-style for the Mastodon advanced web interface that hides the drawer from the left-hand side until you hover over it, and keeps it active if you select an input.
Works with Stylus and maybe other userstyle browser plugins.
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Here's a small user-style for the Mastodon advanced web interface that hides the drawer from the left-hand side until you hover over it, and keeps it active if you select an input.
Works with Stylus and maybe other userstyle browser plugins.
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Here's a small user-style for the Mastodon advanced web interface that hides the drawer from the left-hand side until you hover over it, and keeps it active if you select an input.
Works with Stylus and maybe other userstyle browser plugins.
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Here's a small user-style for the Mastodon advanced web interface that hides the drawer from the left-hand side until you hover over it, and keeps it active if you select an input.
Works with Stylus and maybe other userstyle browser plugins.
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A nearly 5 hour long ranking and deep-dive into each and every one of Ringo Starr's solo albums?
HIT ME!
😍
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Human sounds like she understands, but – oops – human's computer can not accept my request for a technician call out until I drive out to the house and plug in the box to a power outlet so they can attempt to send a signal through the fibre cable that I've just told them is 100% disconnected and then tell them which fecking lights are blinking on it.
But I've just told you exactly what I need!!
"Yes but the computer will not let me accept your request until…”🤖😭
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Human sounds like she understands, but – oops – human's computer can not accept my request for a technician call out until I drive out to the house and plug in the box to a power outlet so they can attempt to send a signal through the fibre cable that I've just told them is 100% disconnected and then tell them which fecking lights are blinking on it.
But I've just told you exactly what I need!!
"Yes but the computer will not let me accept your request until…”🤖😭
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Human sounds like she understands, but – oops – human's computer can not accept my request for a technician call out until I drive out to the house and plug in the box to a power outlet so they can attempt to send a signal through the fibre cable that I've just told them is 100% disconnected and then tell them which fecking lights are blinking on it.
But I've just told you exactly what I need!!
"Yes but the computer will not let me accept your request until…”🤖😭
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Human sounds like she understands, but – oops – human's computer can not accept my request for a technician call out until I drive out to the house and plug in the box to a power outlet so they can attempt to send a signal through the fibre cable that I've just told them is 100% disconnected and then tell them which fecking lights are blinking on it.
But I've just told you exactly what I need!!
"Yes but the computer will not let me accept your request until…”🤖😭
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Human sounds like she understands, but – oops – human's computer can not accept my request for a technician call out until I drive out to the house and plug in the box to a power outlet so they can attempt to send a signal through the fibre cable that I've just told them is 100% disconnected and then tell them which fecking lights are blinking on it.
But I've just told you exactly what I need!!
"Yes but the computer will not let me accept your request until…”🤖😭