Yet more evidence that the people who run things are utter fucking numpties.

Current vibe. youtu.be/YyYDZvVXQ1c?...

Doesn't get more Sheffield than this, folks.

Once I was walking to an interview and got rounded up by two border collies, that circled round from behind in opposite directions, and before I knew where I was, I had one on each leg, biting down. The owner stood about 50 yards away shouting "kick 'em, lad." 1/2

Too hot for soldering, so I'm sorting my pedals out. Also I've been window shopping for new ones, and hoping that doing this will help me resist...

In a suburb where half the gardens are now car parks, I'm holding on. I think this will be a burnet moth, as I seem to have gained a small population. Six years after sewing seeds, I've counted over 30 kinds of wildflower, several kinds of butterfly/moth, various bees, beetles, and dragonfly.

I'd like to express my solidarity with all my trans friends, colleague, followers/followees, contacts, and people I randomly bump into at the supermarket, bus stop, or café. This ruling is a crock. Utter shame on those who brought it about. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Roland, Korg, ARP, Moog, EMS, and Crumar.

The winner of the Most Amazing Award is: Ben Swithen with “Trans Theft Horso” 🦩🏆🌴 This game reminds us that, as right wing policies are on the rise, it is a radically political act to create queer joy. Long live gender gladness!🌈 #playfulmedia #mbbfunded #amaze2026

Just me and my synths on this fluffy blue 70s carpet.

This thread seems to confirm the recent decline that I've noticed - particularly in personal posts on Facebook. Nowadays social media seems to be about publicity rather than genuine connections.

*eye twitches*

Fungus people! Any ideas what this might be? Northern UK, just near a garden hedge. A part had broken off, so you can see the underside is white. Very close to the ground.

Just learned of the passing of Jim Cooper, ex Oberheim engineer and MIDI pioneer. midi.org/jim-cooper-1...

Come with me as I make things that go fwonk in the night!

Woohoo! All will be revealed in due course... 👀

Oh so to verify I am not a tiny child and am in fact a withered and ancient stack of mental health issues in a trenchcoat, I'm supposed to give them a) my FACE, b) my credit card details, c) whatever ID I'm supposed to have by this age. Yeah no, that can all fuck off basically. Sigh.

Heads up, for those of you interested in this sort of thing – this book is now available: www.routledge.com/The-Roland-x...

Apparently @ninarichards.co.uk was mentioned on QI XL last Tuesday..!

Typewriters, one of my sub-collections within the collection of collections that appears to make up my world. This is an Adler Gabriele 25 with a sticky ribbon reverse that hopefully now is de-gunked and functional.

The remains of an earthball from the garden. Didn't expect it to be quite to chunky beneath the surface.

Just two cables, hanging out, wrapped up together. Loom-mates, as it were.

So the day after I buy the new version of my preferred DAW is the day they choose to email me a half price discount code. Yeah cheers. 🤦

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

Dropped this earlier, for those interested in tape and electronic gargle: hairdryerexcommunication.bandcamp.com/album/perpet...

Well shit. www.theverge.com/news/837594/...

I'd love to ride my autism bike, but the seat appears to be a child's windmill.

This looks like a good little wavetable synth, but would it have killed Waldorf to make envelope parameters at least shift+twiddle on four knobs? Really?

One of the funniest trailers for the #AdventureX was Trans Theft Horso. Especially thanks to @benjamilian.bsky.social 's excellent rhyming. The melody is so catchy, the songs of the game will follow you around for days. Thanks. 🦨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mG...

Brought out the Circuit Rhythm sampler to both fight GAS and make a full remix for a friend youtu.be/YAbGS0hz9e4 #electronicmusic #remix #circuitrhythm

Yes I did spend my Saturday evening deriving a formula for calculating resistor ratios to give specific maximum boost and cut range for an EQ I'm working on. I've earned a beer I think.

Sign the petition asking the Government to finally end peat compost sales with legislation in 2026 - no more delays. It’s been a long and tiring road to get peat compost banned and we need your signatures and shares now more than ever to get it done. actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Giving my old Phonic PMC-12 mixer a once over. Got this in the early 90s and it's bulky and heavy compared to new gear, but it's a breeze to get into for repairs and still works. Several old mixers have attracted some kind of fashionable reputation, but not these.

On the prototype Doepfer A-100: notebook.zoeblade.com/A-100_protot...

Pottering along with some old 486 repairs. New RTC and some trace fixes this time. I'm not too familiar with computer repair so this is an education.

14 years of excellent service but now beyond economic repair, not least because Firewire is about 85 years out of date. Time for a change. Which annoyingly means finding a shit load of money. Sigh.

Any #mycology fans here? I'm new to this and haven't been able to ID these two. The first two pics are a #mushroom found in a deciduous woodland clearing, the third is a little cluster half eaten by beasties in my garden (both northern UK). #fungi

"I already recapped it"

Having all these different mushrooms on my garden makes me way more excited than literally anything else in my life rn tbh.

After wasting an entire evening I have come to the conclusion that Linux is for terrible people only.

Delia Derbyshire, Suzanne Ciani, Daphne Oram and Wenday Carlos - diy card dioramas from heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com fun summer projects for people who want to stay cool!

A lot of confusion on 'what has actually happened' in Kent with book bans. So we've put this 🧵 together But whatever 'has or hasn't yet happened' – the council *has* instructed libraries to ban Trans+ books from the children's section. That is both deplorable and vastly significant 👇

Am having one of those weeks when technology feels like an absolute racket and I want to go back to just having a landline and books.

TL;DR: Reform are knobheads.

New notes design suggestions: £5 - dog turd bag left on pavement £10 - the lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss £20 - a map of Wakey Wines £50 - Jim'll Paint It

For anyone interested, this is what the inside of a mk. 2 ARP Odyssey looks like. I don't post much, I know, but I'm currently fighting this thing and needed to share.