Was looking for a service manual for one of my tape decks and found this incredible website. walkman.land It rules that hyper niche, unique looking, single purpose sites still exist in this web hell.

It's so indicative of the state of this country, that I keep seeing folk pushing 40 being referred to as "young people".

snes, ps1, gamecube, dreamcast, ps2 are all defunct consoles. they no longer require any kind of licensing to make games for them Id love to see a blossoming of GOOD unity/godot tools and exporters for those consoles, so that homebrew can evolve beyond random curiosities into more full games

basically the whole mainstream internet is bad now - if you have a career that means that for whatever reason you have to promote your work online, you're going to have to make at least a couple of choices you feel a bit shitty about, you can't really hate all the players while ignoring the game!

screengrabbing as don't want to beef but - as someone who does have a Substack - there's also a point at which writers have to pay the bills! you can't ethically be on Twitter anymore and you can't ethically write for most publications and Substack does what it does best, sadly - we have to eat!

Little bonus for today: Vol I - II - III of my Odyssey of Noise series are ‘name your price’ (aka free) for 24hrs occamslaser.bandcamp.com/music ⛰️🗼🤺 Not doing this out of the kindness of my heart... Just hoping you get hooked & feel the compulsion to check out Vol IV - V - VI

Really interesting thread, if not slightly alarming. I'm flattered that at 34 I'm still considered a Young Adult, but I'm not sure what that says about the health of our society (I have lots of thoughts about this that are too long for Bluesky).

Heatwave has clearly done a number on me when "23 degrees and a breeze" is giving me the chills.

A cold take here and furious with myself that it's taken me this long to catch up, but Mackenzie Crook's 'Small Prophets' is very very good.

ICYMI:

It’s very funny that all indications are that an adaptation of Homer could be one of the biggest movies of the year with both critics and the box office and this is universally interpreted as a catastrophe for the conservative right because they’re poisoned themselves against culture

The latest Happening Again went out last night and it's accidentally a bit of an ambient issue again. Featuring the new records by Fief, @huntercomplex.bsky.social, as well as revisiting Bill Nelson's 'Chance Encounters In The Garden Of Lights'.

Included is a lovely qd50 variant review by @finmilligan.bsky.social in the always great @electronicsound.bsky.social mag - big thanks to them, support print media if you can! Also @noplacelikedrone.bsky.social and more.

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 116 is out right now... moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-116-...

Looking at my jumpers like "When did I ever wear these"

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! This month’s cover story is a fabulous interview with Green from SCRITTI POLITTI and we have a limited edition gold vinyl seven-inch featuring Scritti’s ‘Wood Beez’ and ‘Perfect Way’ to accompany the magazine. Get your copy now at electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine

they should make it so if you try to use these glasses your head explodes like in that one movie

There are two wolves inside me and one of them doesn't want to post ever again and the other understands it's pretty integral to keep a profile and promote my work.

Can tell how much of a write-off today is with how quiet my inbox is.

I'm back in @moonbuilding.bsky.social this week reviewing Dohnavùr's excellent (and sadly final) album 'We Owe Each Other Everything'. It's a cracker of a record to go out on.

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 115 is out now and it's a good 'un. moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-115-...

They gave the new series of X-Men '97 a synthwave/Berlin School score. They made this show for me, specfically.

Twin Peaks soundtrack just hits different on cassette through a shitty mono speaker.

Burnham being from 'the north' really has prompted some of the unfunniest jokes of all time - an extinction level event amount of Gervais level humour. Although, it has also prompted some of the worst people in the media ecosystem to grapple with the fact that life exists outside the M25 orbital.

🟦 CLEAN FEED | Radio | Whilst BBC Radio 4 LW officially ended at 1am on Saturday, here's the moment the LW transmitter (in this case Droitwich) was shut down for good late this morning. Clip: SW Radio Listener/YT.

It dropped into inboxes on Friday, but the new Happening Again is available to read now.

Into day 3 of the satan mega-sale. If you've taken part already, thank you very much - if not, what are you waiting for, eh? Get 20 years worth of moody electronica down you for £1.75 or whatever it is: worriedaboutsatan.bandcamp.com

DREAM MACHINE AND A HAPPY END: MONUMENT TO A COMPUTER KEYBOARD COLOURFUL SEVENS, the final album by me. AVAILABLE. ON SPOTIFY (and other streaming services). IT'S OUT. LIKE, RIGHT NOW!!! open.spotify.com/album/6EP0o8...

Has anyone actually managed to do any work this week.

Not to hawk my own wares but there are some great summer tunes in this issue to take the edge off the heatwave. @sferro.bsky.social's 'Escapism' is a great starting point.

There are two articles I wish I could find and re-read. One about Cameron/Osborne "all in this together" austerity, another about Brexit. Both were from the mid-2010s and both depressingly predicted (almost to the word) the state the country would be in years down the line.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

'Horowitz fact-checks all the information AI gives him. He was reminded of technology’s fallibility when he asked it for the plot of one of his novels.' So skip the middle man and just do this yourself?

Had a slight refresh of my online portfolio, and have added a few recent articles.

For any new listeners discovering Hawksmoor from the @boardsofcanada.bsky.social DJ Food mix, you can check out the latest release and back catalogue here: hawksmoor.bandcamp.com/album/am-i-c...

Good morning all. New Substack up. I wrote about Arthur Machen’s extraordinary The London Adventure or The Art of Wandering (1924) Machen’s London… harrysword.substack.com/p/arthur-mac...

Digital ID by stealth in the most obvious, idiotic and disingenuous way.

It's here if anyone was interested in seeing where a lot of my album covers are based: blogaboutsatan.blogspot.com/2026/06/a-to...

Big thanks to @finmilligan.bsky.social for the shout out on his Happening Again blog, for the satan tour of Shipley and Saltaire via my album covers: happeningagain.substack.com/p/happening-...

There's @sferro.bsky.social, @huntercomplex.bsky.social, and Boards Of Canada in issue 61 of Happening Again, out now for your reading pleasure.

re the day's debate - I get that I was pretty precocious but I did move to an entirely different country where I didn't know anyone, by myself, at 17 years old, and I'm yet to regret it for even one moment, and I hate that we're apparently building a world where 17yos as seen as babies instead?

weird that my album's now in the world. admittedly in a very lowkey way. BandCamp for now, streaming services and hopefully CDs coming later. been sat with these songs for 5-6 years mostly. strange, and slightly scary, that they're not just mine anymore. colourfulsevens.bandcamp.com/album/dream-...

There's @sferro.bsky.social, @huntercomplex.bsky.social, and Boards Of Canada in issue 61 of Happening Again, out now for your reading pleasure.

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 112 is out right now... moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-112-... The pick of this week’s finest DIY electronic music releases

we watched jackass the first film again and in retrospect the bit that still hits the hardest is the humble golf course airhorn. the timing on the toots makes me lose my mind

David Hockney - what a life and what an extraordinary artist. I spend many happy times at Salts Mill, and his creative energy and passion for art were undimmed until the very end. A great Yorkshireman and a towering figure of British culture. He will be missed.

I hate that it's just depressing navigating the internet these days. Essentially just four websites full of either ads or bots.