Audio archaeology continues. Went from hissy mess to less hissy muffled mess, it is clearer but not clean enough to throw at podcast yet. Can't live tweak and monitor sound in software so it has to be in hardware. Keep hearing snippets of dialogue which sound like adventures.

Enjoying the hell out of Andor then Gilou off Engrenages turns up for an extended cameo and it's the absolute best TV ever. Had to watch Rogue One and Star Wars.

I absolutely love "When Harlem Was" by Eric Bowman.

Somewhere in here are WW2 memories from an actual seaman. 1/3 of an octave of EQ and stomping the compression is not enough. This is 90% noise. I can just about hear the 3 words in ten. Podcast invented words that do not exist. Feel like I'll have to go through it frequency by frequency.

Celebrating 30 Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Class President: Center for Democracy and Technology @cdt.org helped write the rules of the internet. And 30 years later, they’re still fighting to keep it open. See more of the #Classof96 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c...

From CityCenter in Las Vegas #photography #streetphotography #blackandwhite #monochrome #leica #vegas #lasvegas

Been tasked with retrieving some old audio off dictaphone tape. 2 months of thinking about method. (Normally I'd go to Adobe Podcast but this is crispy AF) Tomorrow, instead of jeopardising my future job opportunities in the shelf stacking sector, I'm playing with eq notching and compression.

So, I managed to land the 2 penultimate readings by the mind reader. The final gag was a clever piece of misdirection that totally threw me off.

Got a mind reader in. Lucky for them we're north of the river.

I couldn't go to an anti fascist march. Broke my favourite Garfield mug in the mid 90's when I reflexively kicked the TV stand because BBC had Nick Griffin on.

“Excuse me one moment.” Rik and Ade got inventive when making Guest House Paradiso in order to shoot the famous “hooks up the nose” scene.

I actively resist app updates on my phone unless the app is broken. Accidentally hit update all and this Google photos update seems designed to confuse onboard with cloud storage. I fucking hate that sort of update. Spammers literally have emails targeted at cloud storage users.

Scientology raids / speedruns are extensions of a rush that might have hit if you were a kid / teenager. They're the one time a copper approached a group of you and you were so bored you mercilessly roasted them for 5 minutes then spent 3 years of boring nights trying to recapture.

The 21st century is where racism and corruption found true love. Here's to a Romeo and Juliet ending.

Starfield.

Paris #photography #blackandwhite

#Light at the end of the #Path #Sunbeams #Sunrise #Foggy #Scape #Photography #EastCoastKin #Silhouette #MorningMist

This is why you don't allow elected officials to build bunkers disguised as ballrooms.

'A glorious shambles': The Bruce Willis 'turkey' that became a cult hit www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti... by Nicholas Barber, with contributions from @nickdesemlyen.bsky.social @annodracula.bsky.social & me

NEW | On the media assault against the Greens and one person in particular… POLANSKI IS PAINTED AS A MONSTER WHILE FARAGE ESCAPES PROPER SCRUTINY The same old playbook is in action. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/polanski-i...

Made the executive (and frankly sensible) decision to not build a whole jib crane and instead create a safer facsimile with a carpet roll tube and a cheap electric winch. I wanted to swap out the visually wretched original remote for a sexy multi button job. But sadly no. It needs a big capacitor.

Stratford, London #streetphotography #London #stratford #photography #stairs

Portrait of Walter Gropius

Watching The Split 1968. Another adaptation of a Parker book with Jim Brown and a strong cast. Bar one. I'm sorry Diahann I really want one of those money bags the security guys lug around.

I wish I had that level of self belief. That's appalling behaviour but I think I experience too much guilt to be a good director. Point me at things, leave me alone.

The “controversy” section of Wong Kar Wai’s Wikipedia page is fucking wild. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Ka...

Bought an air fryer. There's now a 1 mile chicken free radius around my home. Eyeballing pigeons now...

Tall Tales • Al Jaffee #snappysaturday

This is a very funny and informative video about Orientalism in music. It is also a reminder of why it's essential to revisit and reexamine what we think history is. youtu.be/LR511iAedYU?...

"traces a disturbed puppeteer's circular efforts to escape the long spidery legacy of abuse": Matthew Holness' bleak psychodrama POSSUM (2018) is now on @shudder.com US. projectedfigures.com/2018/11/07/p...

We had a folk group in today, Lady Maisery. I am not folk's target market but damn! they could sing. Just beautiful harmonies and an unfussy sound. Second 3 piece harmony group to go through the as yet unnamed Subwoofer and sound awesome.

This is the time I interviewed Cheng Pei Pei: Queen of Swords: FFC Interviews Cheng Pei-pei - FILM FREAK CENTRAL share.google/pCf6WZXJXloL...

No. You're laughing at the French pronunciation of Banksy while they reveal his true identity which I don't care about in the slightest.

What a man.

Restocked the back-issues for the week. Mainly with comics that have already had their chance on the livestream. Anything that sits too long in the boxes goes on my eBay clearance. No! I can't be chatting to you all day. (I can if you bring chocolate)

Ooh, nasty work. In hindsight. And probably foresight (I had considered doing it the slow way this morning) Should have used a hacksaw with a new blade in it, but post Covid, power tool junkie me keeps attempting skills I do not yet possess.

Now that I've seen this, I'm totally fine with AI destroying the economy and using up all the water

prepping parts for the projector cradle. Not too familiar with bench grinders so most of the morning has been a bit Swiss Toni as I figure out how to comfortably and safely hold lumps of metal.

If the heat pump is on when I get in to work I'm going to do a jig. Swear to god.

Wonder if he did one on Twitter's Sunday racism slot?

I don’t understand how they thoroughly messed up the widely used software that opens PDFs? Like as apps go this one is pretty close to “you had one job”???

Internet so fucking broken, should be greatest library in human history & it’s desecrated. Reminded I was at a musician’s first ever show in NYC only 15 years ago & can’t find any way to search it. Music sites covered it, all dead links. Can’t search google by year anymore. AI has rotted results.

SNL UK's Keir Starmer impersonator bears an uncanny resemblance to actual US moral vacuum Mike Johnson. I keep expecting him to shrug and say "I wasn't aware of that" Wait a min ute...

Films I've seen more than 6 times? This kooky bastard.

Got very lucky today. On the train a loud ass woman on her phone sat next to me and I couldn't listen to my audiobook because Audible is arse. I moved a couple of carriages up to get away. Just as I was getting off at my stop I realised I left my wallet behind, mad dash to back and there it was!

This is an artistic street photograph titled "The Rainman," captured by photographer Mark Fearnley in Zagreb, Croatia.

If the mentalist was any good none of this would have happened

Can't tell if this image is before or after the kerfuffle. America!

Yul Brynner being meaningfully bald, short, in a cagoule and still the coolest mf in this shot.