hey @capgrasman.bsky.social .... I know you probably can't say much but are you feeling optimistic today?

The Should B52's

I'm not on the public electoral register, so how did Reform get my name and address to send me a survey through the post?

🧵 As we prepare to reopen our doors next week, a reminder that Jennifer Reid's pop-up exhibition, The Singer Not the Song, is on display at the library until April!

The U G ORGANIC THROAT BLOWER subscription is the most important music purchase you can make this decade. If you pride yourself on listening to and enjoying deep, original sounds made by people with real talent, you are simply kidding yourself if you don’t have this subscription.

Returning to this album again. I love how Pullen created a sound all of his own. He just went further and then further still... Nobody else sound like him. music.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2l...

I AM NOW UNEMPLOYED AND OUT OF WORK TERRIBLE TIME FOR IT HELP ME IF YOU CAN THIS IS THE ONLY WAY I CAN MAKE MONEY AT THE MOMENT THANK YOU umbrog.bandcamp.com

@jameswaterhouse.bsky.social ..

“Auld Land Syne” on a Stylophone. #NewYearsEve

High Quality sound desk recording of Cocteau Twins Live at The Warfield San Francisco. 13th March '91 TY @lincolnfong.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zEb...

Listening to one of the albums of the year. It is absolutely terrible and you have all lost your minds.

I can't reply to this but I'm raising the stakes with this slab of unbridled joy youtu.be/XjMQmXAJ3y4

music.youtube.com/watch?v=gFQH.... Time for one the greatest, if not the greatest ECM release...

what capital has always promised is a debasement of human creativity; generative ai offers a very specific debasement of language and imagemaking. any properly sane and viable society would protect these things at almost any cost

so what's up with this 'physical release is way cheaper than the digital download' thing you occasionally see on Bandcamp? Am I missing something?

Stephen Laub. smile support, 1970 [seasonal mood]

Gottfried Benn on the life of the poet:

Twenty years ago spent great effort in rescuing a loved one from a cult. Social services and the courts were involved. I see how society has become brainwashed by social media. The similarities are stark except there will be no one to rescue us.

This is true.

A spectacular Ghost Slug (Selenochlamys ysbryda) found by my daughter in N Cardiff - within a mile of the home of the late Bill Symondson who first described the species, along with Ben Rowson of @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social It is one of the few species with a Welsh scientific name (ysbryd = spirit)

"Much about The Black Dog was and remains wrapped in an air of mystery and mischief, so perhaps it’s unsurprising that Ken Downie’s death this week came as an unexpected shock to those outside of his small immediate circle." “Magic Can Be Fun” — remembering Ken Downie of The Black Dog:

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This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.

Christmas reading has arrived!

The superb 2019 adaptation of Dickens's Christmas Carol is up on YouTube in its entirety. Guy Pearce, Vinette Robinson, Steven Graham and Andy Serkis. Pour yourself something strong and dive in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlTN...

Me at my best

Seconded

Wellington in wellington boots is absolutely not an adjective

Most people think teaching involves filling in empty spaces in children's knowledge. Actually, it's disabusing them of bollocks that they've picked up from halfwits on the internet and, often, their families.

The table saw blade is being raised up through the board as it cuts backward. There's an angle grinder grinding sparks off the top of some pine. The '2026' thing at the end isn't legible. Why the fuck does this exist? Who thought this malformed turd should be shat into the world?

Took the title of this song from an essay by Walter Benjamin from Berlin Childhood. While the lyrical content is influenced by Genet’s The Tightrope Walker m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch48...

This new 'massive banner taking up 60% of my screen stays still while I'm trying to scroll through someone's account' feature is bullshit

I love this observation from William L Weir’s excellent book on the Radiophonic Workshop. A perfect demonstration of the subliminal effect of the ‘small things’. Weir goes on to explain how the Workshop harnessed this effect. Strong parallels with Perec’s idea of the ‘infra-ordinary’.

Fuck sake, the cost of the E&D Google Workspace licences is going to go up by nearly 30% next year to pay for a bunch of AI bullshit features that no one asked for & you can't opt out of. I hate this shit. 😡

Lots of folks claiming Martin Parr captured the world 'as it really was' and was just documenting reality,.in order to defend his work from accusations of snobbery and exploitation.This implicitly exempts him from commonly understood systems of representation which is... a bit much.

I hope that Putin's regime collapses soon because I want to go back to Russia and photograph more 'accidentally' vulgar CCCP era statues which, a friend tells me, are an actual thing. This one is in Moscow.

I am but a...

This film represents the only visual record of the Blue Notes playing in the 1960s, and is also incredibly rare footage of Ronnie Scott's legendary Old Place, London W1 The Real McGregor (2025 Restoration) youtu.be/TC0CoqSDV8U?...

I took a year off in my 30s. Just travelled. Made new friends, hung with them a while, then left on a bus before sunset. From beach to beach. It haunts me now. I will never feel that light again. I think about it every day.

Apart from the daylight/being awake stuff I'm having quite a good December

music.youtube.com/watch?v=duqn... Music for the lux brumalis

A.I isn't even intelligent enough to know nobody is interested. If it fucked off and hid whimpering on its own website I'd have more respect for it.

When I was a kid there was a lot of folklore around 'snuff videos' depicting people *actually* getting killed. Nobody knew how to get these VHS's and we were all a bit frightened of the idea. We are now mere clicks away from watching every kind of gore and suffering imaginable. It's fucked.

Brexit was in Russia's interests. Not Britain's.

Shit. You know what this means? The Wicker Man is a Christmas movie.

I’m ecstatic to announce my new double LP, Autechre Guitar, is now available for preorder from Bill Orcutt’s Palilalia Records. Ten songs by the English electronic music duo, Autechre, transcribed and arranged for solo acoustic guitar. 🙏 🟩 shaneparish.bandcamp.com/album/autech...

I had two releases on the excellent @room40.bsky.social this year. Give them a listen if you haven't already. #bandcampfriday siavashamini.bandcamp.com/album/caligo

AAAH THERE HE IS