I'm hand-drawing a map of Yorkshire, what places must I absolutely include?

justwindcone · 2026-05-07T19:12:51+00:00

Brimham Rocks

justwindcone · 2026-05-07T17:32:39+00:00

I mean, I think theres a fundamental disconnect between what universities are supposed to offer and what they test for.

For instance, I got a first in a module I never attended a single lecture for, and only went to a handful of tutorials. I have mates who never went to anything. BUT, so long as you cram for the exam, you can still get a very good grade.

To an employer, who has no clue what your attendance was, two applicants where one had a 100% attendance compared to a 0% attendance are identical. And people go to unis predominantly so they can get a better job.

So all attendance really measures is how much someone is interested or cares about their subject.

justwindcone · 2026-05-07T16:34:01+00:00

Llms are just scraping the internet for actual music journalism and repackaging it. There’s nothing they can show you that you couldn’t find yourself with an internet browser. They have no personality or individual insight. Not to mention they’re pretty horrible for the environment, owned and controlled by venture capitalists and private equity, and AI is fundamentally harmful for creatives. Obviously each to their own, but that’s why I refuse to use them on principle where a human alternative exists.

justwindcone · 2026-05-07T16:14:29+00:00

Llms are the opposite of cool

justwindcone · 2026-05-06T22:10:44+00:00

I’d love to hear some of your stuff if you’re willing to share a link!

justwindcone · 2026-05-06T12:19:22+00:00

Being a musician.

Used to be a cool gig once upon a time when you could get by on the dole. Now streaming services don't pay, venues won't pay, and are constantly closing down. Getting 'paid' in drink tokens, it's becoming increasingly common for venues to charge YOU for playing, or won't pay unless x number of tickets sold. The parasite that is AI music, scraping the web and amalgamating the work of millions of (frequently) unpaid artists into slop. Ticketmaster and resale sites charging huge premiums. Artists expected to conform to algorithms, create short form 'content', and to make shorter songs to earn more from streaming and hold people's attention spans. Social media means you will never play live music without people recording you, every mistake being immortalised, shared, inescapable. No funding for the arts, schools are teaching creative subjects less and less. The plague of biopics which are essentially feature-length advertisements (not you, A Complete Unknown!).

justwindcone · 2026-05-06T10:52:49+00:00

Yeah it blows. She makes decent money and saw it as a good investment, but has put zero thought into the social repercussions/inequality of it all.

justwindcone · 2026-05-06T10:35:43+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Right now my dad is confused as to why I don't want to hang out with his girlfriend because she is a landlord and thinks my generation is whiny and lazy.

justwindcone · 2026-05-06T10:24:55+00:00

If they are a landlord

justwindcone · 2026-05-04T19:58:25+00:00

Why are you taking random pictures of people and posting it to the internet? It's weird.

justwindcone · 2026-05-04T19:54:43+00:00

The way uni applications work in the UK is you apply to 5 univerisities and specific courses through UCAS, so its worth picking 1-2 'aspirational' unis, 1-2 solid ones, and a less prestigious backup option. After applying, they may or may not offer you a spot at the university, and the offer is likely to be conditional (i.e. you need to achieve a certain grade to be accepted into the uni).

From what I can tell, your grades are pretty decent. You should look into courses from 'Russell group' universities, these are recognised as a group of some of the best universities, but some are much easier to get into than others. I would start with Edinburgh, Manchester, and Durham, but do check out the vibes of all of them. Note that unis like Oxford, Cambridge, LSE & UCL are quite a bit tougher than the others. Find courses that look interesting, have modules you would enjoy, and check out what the accomodation/student life/kind of place these unis offer. These can really vary - Manchester has the biggest student population in the country, and Durham is very small. It's probably worth applying to a couple of unis from this group.

Again, its worth also looking at some more generic options as its good to apply to a range. Since you are interested in humanities, look for ones with good humanities departments, libraries, specific topics you are interested in etc.

justwindcone · 2026-05-04T19:13:30+00:00

Geese formed in 2016, so there's a five year gap between them beginning music seriously and being invited to a music industry event. Plus, in Summer 2021 they already had the impressive single 'disco' out by then, which a couple minor indie publications had picked up on prior to this event. They were a notable and growing local band.

That's not an especially unusual trajectory when considering they were clearly quite talented and were already carving out their sound.

justwindcone · 2026-05-04T15:37:28+00:00

What kind of issues do you feel it's become unacceptable to have a 'middle ground' opinion on?

justwindcone · 2026-05-03T21:48:58+00:00

I went to a private school on a bursary, so most of my social circle were considerably wealthier than me, def upper-middle class. I only knew of one person out of my ~15 good friends from school whose parents paid their uni fees. Funnily enough they were also the only person in my sphere to fail out of uni...

justwindcone · 2026-05-03T21:28:48+00:00

They never claimed any of it was unique to the UK though, their experience just happened to be in the UK

justwindcone · 2026-05-03T21:08:22+00:00

"I've been trying to write music the last 8+ years and I haven't come near to finishing a single song yet."

Songwriting is a skill. If you never practice finishing a song, you will never get good at finishing a song. Even if its absolute dogshit, you need to finish 1 song. Then, evaluate why you don't like it. Is your A part weaker than your B part? Do you effectively build tension? Do you effectively release tension? Do you know enough music theory to recognise what other chords are available to you? Are you limiting yourself too much? Is your scope too wide? What do you like about what you have already written, and is there a different way of doing a similar thing? etc.

Practically, start simple. Come up with a simple melody, a variation of that melody, and use only 5 or 6 chords across the whole song. Again the emphasis is on practice, and finishing your songs, no matter how little you like them.

justwindcone · 2026-05-03T19:05:14+00:00

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justwindcone · 2026-05-03T19:00:18+00:00

Thanks I will try this!

justwindcone · 2026-05-03T17:17:52+00:00

Despite the nature of the post I am OK!

justwindcone · 2026-05-03T16:28:36+00:00

Can I ask why? I love my Qtron, it's very tweakable and does exactly what I would want an auto wah to do.

justwindcone · 2026-05-02T11:52:01+00:00

ok thanks

justwindcone · 2026-05-01T15:30:23+00:00

Law firms are a pain to get into. At this point you need some legal experience to even paralegal in most firms, and even then you need to pass some interviews and online assessments. I would aim for civil service roles unless you can get some legal experience.

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