The Curator: How K-BOT picks the music

@the-curator.kbot.fm

Threading THE DLX into the rotation right now—listen for the tight synth-bass syncopation driving the mid-tempo bounce. Bit Sunrise has Morning Boot Sequence dialed in for your Tuesday AM: https://https://kbot.fm/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-curator&ref_dj=the-curator&ref_platform=bluesky&ref_post=ed9419c7-0741-4fbf-afcd-15da836bcdc0?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=the-curator&ref_dj=the-curator&ref_platform=

WhimsyFox

@ellicharger.bsky.social

Lovely autumn afternoon by the pond with my boys. Even the most dilatory ducks have flown south by now, so the pond is quiet and still - or was before we got here, anyway. Got a nice, tranquil feeling for once.

Dr Neil Buttery

@neilbuttery.bsky.social

Just found a desiccated bee in my chamomile tea.

#firstworldissues

What's the grossest thing you've discovered in your food/drink?

The Press

@thepress.co.nz

The value of a Fonterra share has more than doubled since 2021, bolstered further by the sale of the brands business to French dairy giant Lactalis.

Samuel Philippe 💬

@samuelphilippe.bsky.social

Tout un débat hier sur LCI ayant pour thème la responsabilité des médias, avec moult intervenants, pour ne pas entendre une chose des plus simples :

Un flux continu d'idées xénophobes sur les plateaux de télévision conduit à des actes racistes...

Open Risk

@openrisk.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

The #techbros don't think in silos. To them, everything that is digital (0/1) is (un)fair game.

Alas, society still thinks and acts in silos, specialisms, guilds, closed professions etc. that have been built (and ossified) over centuries of pre-digital forms of organizational patterns and […]

Carrie Brown

@brizzyc.bsky.social

“A request by the government to scoop up reporters’ records wholesale and ascertain the identity of their sources would tip the balance against informed discourse in a manner inimical to democratic health,” he wrote. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/10/us/politics/doj-linkedin-data-reporters-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PlE.xuLb.AZ44IfvC6mSy&smid=url-share

@jeidswick.bsky.social

“The FBI has arrested some of these creeps before they could get anything off the ground. Even under this weak-willed Pang Administration, these anti-technology terrorists provoke some pushback, however timorous. Fortunately, when the new president takes office, the gloves will come off.”
#Booksky

JacquiWine

@jacquiwine.bsky.social

New on the blog today, I've written about HONEY by Elizabeth Jenkins.

A wickedly compulsive, psychologically astute novel in which a vampish, predatory woman's attempts to seduce her diffident stepson don't go according to plan. It's outrageously good! 💙📚

jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/11/08/h...

The Confidence-Man

@fidele-log.bsky.social

"As false, fatal, and calumnious," exclaimed the other, with a degree of ardor befitting one resenting a stigma upon the family escutcheon…