#848 Why all the hate?

This week on The Bugcast: we cover off the Supreme Court ruling on gender recognition, and play eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg7pqzk47zo">UK supreme ruling on legal definition of a woman</a><br />
Pink News: <a href="https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/18/nicola-coughlan-raises-thousands-for-trans-charity-supreme-court-ruling/">Nichola Coughlan raises £60K for Trans Rights</a>

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#847 Chicken Jockey!

This week on The Bugcast: Hudson, Hamilton, Minecraft, martial arts, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1eg67vlqg3o">What we know about the Hudson helicopter crash</a><br />
<a href="https://hamiltonmusical.com/">Hamilton</a> Review<br />
Our few days off<br />
IMDb: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3566834/">A Minecraft Movie</a> YAY; People Grrr!<br />
Alex has levelled up!

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Easter 2025</strong> on Saturday 19 April from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
<strong>Less than four weeks remaining to <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submit tracks for the Listeners Choice</a>, episode 850 in May.</strong>

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#846 Shoot your shot

This week on The Bugcast: Val Kilmer, NaNoWriMo, this weekend, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5ry5x9xz0o2">Hollywood remembers ‘wonderful’ actor Val Kilmer</a><br />
TechCrunch: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/nanowrimo-shut-down-after-ai-content-moderation-scandals/">NaNoWriMo shut down after AI, content moderation scandals</a><br />
<a href="https://hamiltonmusical.com/">Hamilton</a><br />
<a href="https://www.rafars.org/rafaota/">RAF Airfields On The Air</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Easter 2025</strong> on Saturday 19 April from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
<strong>It’s time to start <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submitting tracks for the Listeners Choice</a>, episode 850 in May.</strong>

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#845 The show must go on

This week on The Bugcast: an earthquake, High Street and industrial brands disappear, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4gex01m7n5t">Myanmar and Thailand earthquake</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3n3en7gppo">WH Smith name to disappear from High Street after sale</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrdrqx8pygo">British Steel – calls for steel nationalisation if deal not agreed</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>Clocks go forward in the UK this weekend, so live show times may change for you in your timezone</strong><br />
<strong>Podcrawl Easter 2025</strong> on Saturday 19 April from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
<strong>It’s time to start <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submitting tracks for the Listeners Choice</a>, episode 850 in May.</strong>

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#844 Dodekachroniá

This week on The Bugcast: grounded flights, red noses, STEM, a birthday, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly24zvvwxlt">Heathrow resumes some flights and hopes to run full operation tomorrow</a><br />
BBC: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/comicrelief">Comic Relief celebrates its 40th anniversary</a><br />
Stemmy Weekend<br />
Alex is 12!

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Easter 2025</strong> on Saturday 19 April from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
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#843 Got Pi?

This week on The Bugcast: we talk mostly about beer festivals, and play eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Indie Beer Feast 2025 review

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Easter 2025</strong> on Saturday 19 April from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
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#842 Got pie?

This week on The Bugcast: more on Gene Hackman, Inside Number 9, pie of pies, first class price hike, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgeqd2lqx0t">Gene Hackman and wife both died of natural causes, but several days apart</a><br />
Inside Number 9 Stage Fright<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cddym06rmqno">Scottish kebab pie crowned UK ‘pie of pies’</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygl9vj28do">Price of first-class stamp to rise to £1.70</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Easter 2025</strong> on Saturday 19 April from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a><br />
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#841 North, Miss Teschmacher

This week on The Bugcast: Caroline goes to London, Dave reads books, Gene Hackman, planets align, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

London Trip<br />
Shoes on a bus<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewkkkvkzn9o">Death of Hackman and wife ‘suspicious enough’ for investigation, police say</a><br />
Dave records audiobooks<br />
LibriVox: <a href="https://librivox.org/">Free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers from around the world</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ckgd2zk9k9go">Rare planetary parade caught on camera by our expert stargazers</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>It’s time to start <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submitting tracks for the Listeners Choice</a>, episode 850 in May.</strong>

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TuxJam 120 – Tunnels & Texts

Al, Andrew, Dave and Kevie come together again to find their way through some FOSS pickings sprinkled with creative common tunes. They start as always with a round-up of recent releases found on distrowatch.com.

Dave and Al have taken a look at cluster of tools named after burrowing animals – Pangolin, Gerbil, Badger and Newt – which provides solutions for tunneling, reverse proxies and authentication. The collective noun for such things is, apparently, a fossorial 🙂

Going from the complex to the simple, at least for the end-user, Kevie and Andrew try out Deku SMS which describes itself as “proof-of-concept for secure SMS messaging, SMS image transmission and SMS-Cloud communications”.

Podcrawl Easter 2025 will be on Saturday 18 April 2025 from 5pm UTC (UK time). All our welcome with details of how to join being available here.

If you have a comment to make or a suggestion of what we might review in the future, please do contact us.

Creative commons tunes played in this episode includes:

  1. Thecoffeeinthefridge – London Baby
  2. NaTaN CoLD – Unbroken Circle
  3. Radioontheshelf – When Yesterday Was Smooth (feat. Mr Yesterday)
  4. Richard Shekari – You Are Enough

#840 There is no cloud…

This week on The Bugcast: Apple does the wrong thing, stalker poses as missing girl, and eight tracks of amazing Creative Commons and independent music.

Songs played

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj54eq4vejo">Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx29k37lyp9o">Woman in court over McCann family stalking charges</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>It’s time to start <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submitting tracks for the Listeners Choice</a>, episode 850 in May.</strong>

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