@solobasssteve
'Britain's most innovative bassist, no contest': Bass Guitar Mag. 🎯 Bass person. Bike person. Lymphoma-remission person. PhD in artist-audience communities and their impact on the music. www.stevelawson.net he/him/doctor
Two days away from my house concert in Birmingham with the brilliant Millie Turner. Would love to see you there - deets/tix on Bandcamp:
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/merch
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oh I think those two are completely in sympathy. Excellence begins with the bravery to be terrible at something, and the joy of doing it anyway. :)
In a convo with a friend about the frustrations of maintaining contacts online, I just coined the term 'tollbooth sociality' to describe the experience of having social media platforms algorithmically block connections until we buy ourselves access to them. Need to explore that one. :)
A blog thing : What Does It Mean To Do Your Own Thing.
www.stevelawson.net/2018/02/what...
Anthropomorphic language around AI is bogus and unhelpful - this paper delves into that - firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
"... as soon as you shift the frame to, these are politicians who've been bought & paid for by oil & gas, arms trade companies, private healthcare companies, gambling companies, their behaviour makes absolute sense"
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Labour. Spot on.
Weekend At Bernie's 2 - this time he wins the Luge.
"Everything Is Synthetic" - a blog thing about the myth of originality:
www.stevelawson.net/2026/02/ever...
Going out on a limb to say 'ideally yes'
#NowPlaying
All Back To Mine - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/all-ba...
#NowPlaying
Once Upon a Time - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
music.stevelawson.net/album/once-u...
The front cover shows a calm sea
The inner cover with my light trails photo, taken at a gig
The track listing and credits
#NowPlaying: @solobasssteve.bsky.social : Grace And Gratitude: 2004. One of my favourites from the days when Steve made actual CDs, not least because I took the photo on the inside cover.
ha! Yes, quite, it was a little tricky to work around 😂
It seems like the rollout is all over the place. Was apparently started in September, but I only started getting the messages today!
uhm, is anyone else getting the 'subscribe to meta for £2.99 a month to not see ads' thing? Any conversations happening on Bluesky about it? Analysis? what gives?
right? I spend a lot of time telling my students this... they aren't suddenly a pile of shit, and it will get better again soon ;)
also music advice... 🙏🏼
Well, it’s the 9th anniversary of this today. No special reason for mentioning it now, obviously
I swear the chatgpt prompt for 90% of what I see on FB these days is "simplify the Wikipedia entry about ******* and add a bunch of random vaguely believable lies for absolutely no reason other than clicks."
It's insane how many outright lies are being shared by otherwise smart people 😬🫣
Surely there's a point where all the defections start being a bit of a burden for Reform? Can't really go around acting like insurgents against the political class when you are simply half the Tory party can you
#NowPlaying
On The Town (feat. John Pope) - @solobasssteve.bsky.social
stevelawson.bandcamp.com/album/on-the...
just put the full version of my Bruno Mars reharm on YouTube... partly as an experiment to see if it gets taken down... No idea how copyright works on things like that... Anyway, let's see if the people of the YouTubes enjoy it :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXgT...
"David Bowie was Lego" - wrote this 10 years go:
www.stevelawson.net/2016/01/insi...
This is wholly pointless. This weird response that evidences zero knowledge of the context for my comment is all I know of your existence. It does not bode well for any future meaningful reaction.
I wish you well, but hope you manage to avoid my posts from now on.
Well, this sounds like the beginning of a really fruitful conversation with a curious and humble person. Nice to meet you.
I love this album 🥰
People saying that everything went to shit when Bowie died seem to be forgetting everything the Tories did from 2010-2015.
My friend @solobasssteve.bsky.social has had his identity stolen on Facebook under the name ‘Flavian Rhys’ (not a name that sounds like it exists to me) so I searched it to report it and… wow…
