Sampled an old nee-naw siren for a remix I'm doing, upped the pitch and speed very slightly to match the key and tempo of the song, and now it sounds EXACTLY like the saxophone in Oh Bondage Up Yours by X-Ray Spex

I was blocked on Twitter by Gary Barlow out of Take That

Calling yourself an artist after you made something with AI is like calling yourself a marathon runner because you drove to the finishing line and took a selfie

"insights"

The resistance has never stopped for Christmas.

Matthew Bowles works for the IEA. Funded by the fossil fuel industry, gambling and tobacco. Times up. Merry Christmas! Join.greenparty.org.uk

Sheffielders: surprise someone (yourself, even) with a hand-delivered book. Last day to order for Christmas delivery

I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”

This is why I'm alive

A not fully-worked through thought: if you accept that capitalism works by enclosing what was held in common, and turning that into exploitable property rights, what we're seeing with generative AI right now is an attempt to enclose the human imagination.

Sheffield people- Longbarrow Press go above and beyond when it comes to customer service. Well worth having a look to see what takes your fancy, and choose yourself (or someone else) a gift-wrapped, hand-delivered book

It will surprise none (0) of my associates in the Bluesky community that @theguardian.com's understanding of "affordable" candles includes candles that retail for the sum of twenty-eight (28) pounds sterling

I've been busy tonight

Don't miss our tenth and final show of 2025 🩷🪩 On 20 December at Hatch here in #Sheffield we've got a stunning line-up of glittery DIY pop with @mylofiheart.bsky.social and Precious Metals Warning: may contain FESTIVE BANGERS 🧑‍🎄🎉 Tickets are few: get one ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precious-m...

FIFA, there, demonstrating its commitment to gender equality by making up an award specially for the "grab 'em by the pussy" guy

This is not a new thing to say but I would just like to reaffirm that if you're a cisgender person who's added pronouns to your bio then that's pretty great and I appreciate you 💖

Woahhhh

yes pyro no party www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

Christmas just isn't Christmas without a hand-delivered volume from Yorkshire's finest purveyor of poetry.

Okay, here we go. Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients. NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer. You know what to do 👇✍️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

At this point I'm leaning towards the conclusion that politicians must now perceive some kind of electoral advantage in pretending to be thick as pigshit, because surely they can't genuinely be *this* thick as pigshit, *surely*

Managed to avoid both the UK budget and the Champions League by getting totally engrossed in one very small detail of a new @pinkopaque.co.uk song I'm making. Clearly I should sample Jesus Jones tracks more often.

"Pink Opaque come across like a more mischievous Human League" We'll absolutely take that 🩷🪩😊 www.punktuationmag.com/the-pains-of...

Nobody can do the shing-a-ling like I do Nobody can do the skate like I do Nobody can do boogaloo like I do Nobody can do the Philly like I do But that's not necessarily a good thing

At the @pinkopaque.co.uk show last night someone said playing synthpop is "a great reinvention" for me, and now I feel a compulsion to go full Kylie and follow up Indie Pete, Poetry Pete and Disco Pete with Soap Opera Pete and Girl Next Door Pete

Well played, Guardian crossword. Well played.

I have this, I love it. A slender, beautiful volume holding a stunning poetic journey. I keep going back and back to it. Local #Sheffield poet @petegreensolo.com whose writing flows with truth (and deserves to be known everywhere). Wonderful. But then all the Longbarrow books are gorgeous...

I fancied playing a Christmas popshow with @pinkopaque.co.uk so I organised one 🎄✨🎹 It's at Hatch in Sheffield on 20 December and we've got Precious Metals and @mylofiheart.bsky.social to play too 🤩 More info/tickets ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precious-m... #sheffield #sheffieldgigs #20251220

map geek/poetry geek venn sweet spot here—beautiful little book

ultimately you cannot appease people whose purpose in life is to destroy you bsky.app/profile/drje...

We're actually a four-piece now - @muddyasblood.bsky.social and @petegreensolo.com have been joined by Hello Kitty and Little Miss Sunshine

Next up! Sheffield Almanac by @petegreensolo.com and published by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Such a vivd snapshot of time and place! Perfect for poetry fans!

We are 5! 🎈 THANK YOU for being part of the mission. At a time when Amazon profits are soaring, and small businesses face ever increasing pressure, WHERE you choose to spend your money makes all the difference in keeping these community spaces on the high street. Bookshop.org

Two questions I will die with: Did you call any place home? If not, what drew you on: the seasons’ slow turning or that faint itch of the horizon? Last day to order Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo' with £2 off longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Never understood why people carriers are called people carriers, as if cars with fewer than seven seats can only be used for carrying gerbils or apricots

Dead excited for this one. Hope some of you lovely Nottinghams can make it along.

Honestly thought orange cats were called ginger cats until I discovered Instagram

I’ve really enjoyed Hemisphere, by @petegreensolo.com (published by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social ) - it’s a set of prose poems describing imaginary travels, but in the process ruminating on all kinds of things. Moving, in more than one sense!

Labour Party hq today

Just heard a BBC radio bulletin covering the Caerphilly by-election. It featured one audio clip from a party spokesperson. Can you guess which of these parties that person was from? a) The party that won b) The governing party, which lost c) A far-right party which also lost

There might be a context in which 'utilise' is a better and more appropriate choice of word than 'use', but in several decades of living on Earth and communicating in the English language I am yet to discover one.

London friends, here is my annual recommendation to visit the Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social 💖👇

Yes, I can see how confronting the transphobia that was the actual cause of Brianna's murder would be just a little inconvenient for this Labour Party

Might seem like it's taken a while for Labour to get round to doing this, but they had to check first that Mahmood hadn't floated the idea first

So. Much. This

Every time I've ever been to Leeds it's felt like the entire city centre has been drunk, and this was no exception. I remember once seeing a fire engine approach and thinking "Well, at least THEY aren't drunk" and a whole HEN DO leaning out of the windows as it went by.

Once the AI bubble has burst and it can be bought cheaply, nationalise the whole thing and the profits can fund UBI directly. Bingo, you cut out the middleman. Or middlebro.

Yes, there are times when I need reassurance as to the value of my contribution to the world, as well as unconditional love in the face of humanity's folly among a seemingly cold universe Yes, there are other times when I just need a Hula Hoop sandwich

Post you from a different era Me in my first band in about 1990. You'd look pissed off too if you'd just spent your entire adolescence in Grimsby.

I wish to make it very clear that I obviously joined the Greens way before it was cool Not in yet? Better late than never, you know what to do 👇