That moment where you discover that something you though William Gibson completely made up is actually a genuine Japanese aesthetic concept (I’m laughing at ‘useless Hisashi’ though; sorry, Imai-san) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperar...

So I was just idly googling Jen and Jon and wondering where they are in life, and you are not going to BELIEVE where OneCat Studios (where the L0llies used to record) is located now - if I had walked one more warehouse down from here:

Watching a bootleg of MBV live in Tokyo thinking 'hmm, that keyboard player looks familiar' - look her up and BLOODY HELL IT'S SOMEONE I PLAYED SO MANY GIGS WITH (were we ever in a band together? Can't remember. Her partner recorded my old band and played keyboard at our live gigs sometimes too)

Who played theremin for Portishead? They’re a genius!

Realising exactly how aromantic I am when my Mah Jong game switches to a VD theme you can’t switch off and I feel the urge to vomit and immediately stop playing the game for 48 hours

Social media is really changing my relationship to drawing practice and not in a good way

Hey Bsky art type people, before I renew my Flickr subscription, is there a better (cheaper, more focused on art rather than photography) place to host my drawings? Consider me an idiot, I've never even used DeviantArt or Pinterest so please feel free to express opinions on anything?

Forgive me, I gave in to hatereading for a bit. I always feel worse afterwards, like I’ve binged on junk food and eaten too many E numbers and feel sick (But i’s also kind of necessary sometimes to understand that folks hate you because of their own internal issues and nothing to do with you)

Survived a first round interview for a job. 👍 Two more rounds to go, though…

Are we posting bangers that aren’t in English? Contains the coolest guitar known to mankind!!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=oaU5...

Now this has gone too far. IT MADE ME JAPANESE 😭 Going to have to change my name to ‘Lord Teadrinker of Muddleton’ or something 🤣

Another ‘wake in a cold sweat’ nightmare about ILX. Can a messageboard give you fully-fledged PTSD? The answer is clearly ‘yes’ 😫

Ok i’m over Shibuya. I have found junk shops like you would not believe round the back of Crystal Palace! 😍

It’s not bluebell season yet, but in the meantime this lot are loving the wet weather!

Gardening in the rain, these are the layers I just peeled off: -tweed blazer -fleece hooded gilet -knitted hat -tweed waistcoat -huge fluffy scarf -turtleneck (I‘m dry from the hoodie down)

I find this fascinating: the world of Japanese Host clubs. (I walked past lads like these in Osaka but obviously they weren't remotely interested in me) www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Planting seeds and reading seedling catalogues because it’s February already 😂 (Starting off with sweet peas and snapdragons)

I don’t know if there are many other AO3 users on bsky but is anyone else getting a ton of spam comments, promoting comic art, discord servers, whatever? I block the users and don’t approve the comments but there’s been like 4 in the past week and it’s annoying

Well. Update on the bin war: someone else finally put the bibs out. However, they put ALL the bins out even though it is not All Bins Night. Which means someone else on the street will fill our (half empty) bin to the brim with their rubbish. (not my problem, I have resigned from dealing with bins)

I have never heard the phrase ‘bare beating’ - this is SODCASTING and it is literal hell if you have misophonia (and this is something where we need to put more staff on transport to enforce existing regulations around it) www.flareaudio.com/blogs/press/...

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Reading this and it kind of terrifies me, because of my fear this is where I will end up if I can’t get my own mental health back within more acceptable parameters: www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/what-do-we...

(The absolute irony being, this was the 'nose is usually found in the centre of the face' level concept that the usual suspects on ILX simply could not wrap their head around)

Lost my thread, but I'm picking up blogging about music again to try and combat the seasonally affected mental health woes. If you're new to Buck-Tick, the violin-driven anti-war anthem, Sayonara Shelter is a fine place to start www.tumblr.com/gaijin-fujin...

Went to the Community Garden for this first time this year and the organiser asked ‘did you get my text? It’s my birthday! I made cake and invited you’ and I was like ‘no I didn’t see your text I just came down, Happy Birthday!’ Then we had mango cake. It was good. 🎂

LKM was doing nothing for me today so I tried channelling some Anger and Rage Meditation from my 15 y.o. punk self instead and guess which japanese synth boffin turned up on my favourite track?!?!! m.youtube.com/watch?v=djQm...

Halfway through an article saying ‘don’t consume poison you don’t have an antidote for’ WRT dealing with the horrors of American politics, I remember that the rancid details of American politics are exactly the poisons I have no antidote for (and close the tab)

This is long, but well worth reading taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/political-...

Tried chocolate cherry hot cross buns and they are… weird. I’m not sure the clove heavy seasoning of the hot cross works with chocolate cherry sweetness

Having really, really bad intrusive thoughts at the moment (mostly rehashing old shit from ILX) and really struggling. Does anyone know any effective strategies for banishing intrusive thoughts because this leaves me in a terrible place mentally?

What the fucking fuck, man??!?! I've had this Yahoo email account for 25 YEARS and now they want to put in a 15Gb limit? I'm going to lose my entire online life 😭

Aw man, Aphex Twin is way too listenable these days. Richard Devine is my go-to drill’n’glitch man these days www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Listening to Bowie's drum'n'bass period and all I have to say is damn, what a terrible rockist I was back in the 90s (I blame britpop!) this is actually great

Burns night: vegetarian haggis, neeps’n’tatties - and I even dug out a wee dram of Ardbeg to satisfy The Ancestors

Even in the darkest winter, you have to remember the promise of Spring (forest bathing again)

this is a kind of lovely thread

Harry Styles (James Holden remix) who is the new James Holden since he indulged in too many mushrooms and wandered off into wibbling prog? Daniel Avery or someone?

Oh help I like the new Harry Styles single 😭

Young men: it evens out sometimes. I missed my train at New Cross Gate, so a very kind young man checked his schedule and told me I could catch his train and transfer quicker than waiting for the next train!

Why are young men so RUDE? I’m waiting for a train. A man is waiting further up the platform. When the train comes, he walks down the platform and stops LITERALLY in front of me, blocking my access to the train doors

Hardware, it's what makes up the computer - the software lives inside of it and cannot be seen by the naked eye. Dishware goes in the sink, and silverware goes back in the cabinet, and Edgware is a suburb of London.

Still trying to manage the carnage in my garden. Keep finding pelargoniums that looked fine the morning after the frost but are clearly just rotting now :(

Japanese music Twitter has erupted in ‘HOW MANY OF THE 32 DISCS ARE SILENCE?!’ jokes. John Cage would be proud! (Darker Than Darkness is being reissued as a box set)

Right, I’ve decided. Going to finish the 2 Japanese house drawings I have in progress then i am going to draw A TOKYO BRIDGE (guess which one?) -Rainbow Bridge 🌈 -Kiyosubashi ⚙️ -Kachidoki ➿ -Some other bridge (specify below please)🙏

(pretty sure the hashtag was coined for Reeva Steencamp but i‘m tired of arguing with Americans who think they invented everything)

I just want to make it clear that i‘m not staying with Twitter for so long for any other reason than none of you will talk about Japanese Cyberpunk guitarists with me 😭

Genuinely thought this was Shibuya on first glance!

So free Flickr is basically unusable these days, huh?

My brain keeps supplying ‘新しいロックンロール’ in answer to everything (‘Everything is mostly me telling myself ‘come on, get up! Hurry up!’)

This is the scary thing: if you are prone to this kind of paranoid delusion, the internet reinforces your paranoid delusions over and over and the paranoia is real even if the delusion is false www.uclahealth.org/news/publica...