Scott Common 𓅃
Media & Coms Tutor, musician, ex-consultant, ex-gardening contractor, player of games, glass painter. Para-Luddite & Professional Amateur.𓅃
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- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃I’ve just been sent his Tom Scott caricature & accompanying hilarious write up about Dad from the 14 July 1971 edition of Chaff. Appears to be in response to dad being elected unopposed to Student Exec 🥰😊 No alt text soz
- So this week they're having to grapple with the idea of authenticity (amongst other things) and I am suffering from metaphysical whiplash after marking the first 50.
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- Oh hello keyboard, we're back to the sticky d key are we! I guess it's the Friday of Goo!
- I have been advised that I am legally obliged to post the following video after my previous comment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9QJ...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Astronomers have spotted runaway black holes screaming through space, leaving trails of stars in in their wake.
- Very much loving the second round of flowers on some of our fuchsia.🌱
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Anyway
- Went to the cat café in the Hutt today for mums 80th. As expected there were many cat snuggles.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Visited the Neko Cafe in Lower Hutt this morning for my MIL’s 80th bday. Scott made a new friend
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Well, those boots were not made for walking
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Featured music podcast is back for another year! Do you want your music played on a provincial radio station in New Zealand? DM me or email me things at hugh@mpr.nz. Do so now.
- Very much enjoying the poppies in our wasteland strip of ex-agapanthus garden. 🌱
- I usually paint glass like it's a colouring-in book. Every now and then I try and paint like it's an actual canvas and shit, it appears I'm back in kindergarten...
- Just reassuring myself I don't always do art like a toddler (not that there's anything wrong with toddler art!).
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties. The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized. Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
- And now waiting for students to submit their late assignments so I can actually mark them...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Out first new story of 2026! Whether it be for Headless Chickens, Children's Hour or This Kind of Punishment, Chris Matthews has written some very fine songs (including Flying Nun's only No. 1 'George'). Here, he picks some of his own Aotearoa NZ faves: www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/son...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Good news for musicians www.billboard.com/pro/musician...
- Getting stuck into marking 100+ assignments about social media.
- All Sonic, no Youth.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃From the great Ryoko Kui
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃So some of our fuchsia have taken a bit of a battering over the past couple of months so we’ve been trying to get a few cuttings going. This one decided to start developing a flower bud before it got around to thinking about roots. Now has both 😊🌱
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃So #NotOurCat has been back around again over the weekend
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃What does it profit a man to gain low earth orbit yet lose his own soul?
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃If you’re in NZ, currently melting and have some open space think about putting a tray of water out for the local birds 🪶. We have 2x plant trays out & the birbs absolutely love it
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Right at this very moment we have 2x kereru visiting for a drink 🪶 Pretty happy having such regular visits
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Just received a lovely evening visit from #NotOurCat
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Human words, there’s too many of them, and I don’t care.
- Who are your top 10 all-time favourite guitarists? Top of the head stuff. David Mitchell Andrew "Falco" Falkous Gareth Liddiard Kim Deal J Mascis Kristen Hersh M.J. Clump Lee Ranaldo Suzanne Vega Tanya Donelly
- Very pleased to meet this absolute floof-unit on my walk to the supermarket. Very friendly & talkative and totally up for chin scratches - and what a chin!
- Back to "work" today, I'm tutoring (marking) an online paper on Social & Interactive Media. So I've been going through the lecture material and I'm chuffed to see Haraway's idea of the cyborg front and center alongside a political economic approach.
- So @millycenti.bsky.social made osso buco last night, which means I made pies from it for tonight. Very small pies. [Made the short pastry from scratch - parmesan, black pepper and thyme.]
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Love that you love this Liz, Simon Ward #1 video maker!! I love my friend @simonmward.bsky.social
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃We have a new #NotOurCat visitor. Very friendly wee guy who demanded pats. Quite young and quietly vocal. This was from yesterday they’ve just visited again this morning
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃This is your energy for 2026 *via Zjaan on masto/original source unknown
- I once asked a co-worker to please sit next to our manager during a "discussion" simply so I could proclaim, "There, now you're both next to useless".
- Yay, 3:45am and I'm up waiting for the painkillers to kick in so I can go back to bed. Awesome.
- Christmas music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZ_...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Last Christmas I gave you my heart. The very next day You gave it a weigh.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
- Was enjoying South of Midnight right up until I got to the first boss battle (a couple of hours in) and then just, nope. Shame, I was enjoying it.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃YOU CAN LITERALLY CTRL+F LOOK FOR TEXT AND IT WILL JUMP TO IT IF YOU GUESSED CORRECTLY OH MY FUCKING GOD LMAO
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃NEW: Organ tuners have been leaving temperature and humidity records in little-known books for decades. 🎹 They reveal how temperatures inside churches have changed over time due to climate change and increased heating. A new scoop for The Reengineer! www.thereengineer.pro/p/church-org...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃On one level, Splore calling it a day is ... well, things do end, better a graceful exit and a proper farewell to a unique festival. On another, a Linkin Park show at Spark getting NZ taxpayer funding that Splore didn't is everything that's wrong with the world. thespinoff.co.nz/pop-culture/...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃OMFG, this is amazing. A foot-treadled Singer sewing machine hooked to a Hurdy Gurdy with a self-made mute (so he can play notes instead of the steady drone of the typical hurdy gurdy) using a theremin as a flange. I was instantly transported back to the 4th Doctor Who.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃I appreciate this graphic issued by the NZ Central Sikh Association in response to the Destiny racists for its inspiring message of anti-discrimination, mutual aid and unity across ethnic & faith communities, and also its subtle reminder that Sikhs are known badasses so why would you fuck with them.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃[Not loaded yet]
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃now THAT'S what I call DIGITAL PRESERVATION Volume 1
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃lol spotify got scraped. 186 million songs about to hit torrents annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃I don’t know what I want. I said that at some point, I think. But it isn’t that, it’s that I don’t want anyone to tell me what I want, or to make decisions for me.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
- A rare photo of me and Milly, because we realized we didn't have many photo's of us together from the last couple of decades.
- Things I didn't have on my bingo card for the funeral was having a long conversation with John Minto over a lamb shank meal. Really great conversation though.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃We realised we have very few photos of us together. Here’s a rare pic of me and Scott taken at the tail end of dad’s funeral gathering
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Always nice to get a scientific poll to remind us that TalkBack radio and the Facebook comment section are not actually representative of public opinion www.phcc.org.nz/briefing/pub...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃*This is true, but policing doesn't work even in the way that *the police themselves* think it works *It works sort of like a Church works. If the church fails, you'd think everyone would turn into Satan, but they don't *Eventually another Church shows up with different robes and badges
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃HELP, MY HEART
- Seeing all of these (some of which I've seen) has been pretty grounding. There's going to be a big gathering in Wellington in January for all the union folks and I think I'm going have to spend some time at the Alexander Turnbull Library finding some more photos of his time with HART and C.A.R.E.
- Went exploring through Black & Co in Timaru (amazing shop, almost went to town on a bundle of 60s & 70s Analog magazines) and came across this chair... Seemed pretty heavy but no, it is no chair at all but a commode!
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃A rare and fascinating close reading of what was said in the NZ Parliament about the Bondi attack. Reading carefully from prepared remarks, PM Chris Luxon referred to “mass, uncontrolled immigration”… …drawing an off-the-cuff rebuke from Labour’s Chris Hipkins: #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃I wanted to stop and lean my head against the bulkhead, but there was no time.
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Loved seeing this at Timaru airport this morning
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃Fireworks over Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, January 20, 1959 Photo: Evening Post; digitalnz.org/records/2326...
- When catching a cab to the airport one does not usually want to hear weather related news about one's destination on the radio...
- Reposted by Scott Common 𓅃this made my soul ache
- Haha locked out of my work email address. Should have been a simple refresh on my contract but apparently not!
