Got new noise cancelling headphones, they seem to be burning out my ability to hear with pops and squelches - thus cancelling out all possible noise. Genius….

Off to watch 'Wake In Fright'. A special movie....

I need to get to the cinema. My frontal lobes are circling the drain. I'm this close to googling Smurf porn out of recursive boredom....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpFY... in slightly anxious, slightly exhausted, slightly depressed state of mind. Perfect soundtrack...via @youtube.be

Pro Russian Propaganda (victory…). In Levenshulme. God knows how or why… ;(

I have heavily been advised to obtain ‘Handsome Family’ tickets….

In the Magnet, in Stockport. Came in for Peanut Stout which I am told is the nectar of the gods…. It’s finished. I guess I’ll have to make do with a weisse…

Funny. I only go back to my hometown to get my hair chopped. I still hate the place….

Turkish new wave classic... youtu.be/ULlI8C5c-qY?... via @youtube.be

Once upon a time indie rock was the only thing that made sense. Generally it's too late in history for quaint little things like making sense... but somehow this does... on first contact...

Watching Mexican dub of s1 of the OG ninja turtles show 1987)... Shredder is - for reasons well beyond my ken, is now referred to as '𝐃e𝐬t𝐫u𝐜t𝐨r'. 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆...

This is the poster in Valerie (the Russian) in the Soprano's episode "Pine Barren's". I thought it might be some obscure punk or art... turns out that it is "Secret Memoirs of a Russian Gynecologist". Turns out it is super obscure - even in Russian. Nice surrealist cover art - though.....

It's funny how I've given two hoots about NINs output since "Perfect Drug". It's hard to get too excited about film soundtracks...

Home alone. The night is mine. I could do anything.... Um... Star Trek in Spanish... then...????

I have four packages of "ham seitan" in my fridge. I don't even know why such a product exists... but heavily discounted, it will form the bulk of tomorrows biryiani. I bet that stuff is a historical curio in even six months time....

Leave the house, or finally attack the yellow stickered pot noodle... the choice is mine....

Talking to a friends son last night. He looks like I did at that age. I remember going drinking the night he was born. Do you know how weird I'd have found it drinking with someone who went drinking the night I was born when I was 24?????

I'd go to the doctor... but I don't want the few pleasures I still have being mandated away....

Everything I enjoy breaks down to glucose. I have the feeling that supermarket produce shelves are trying to kill me. I miss merely being fat...

The FA cup taking place before the league has finished profoundly throws me....

I've not cleaned my desk in a year. It evokes images that only novels have previously evoked. I'm drowning.....

2026 was a crap year for TOTP....

It's weird how my family/childhood friends are completely ignorant of whatever strange hells I went through 30 years back. And I am completely fixated on what the strange hells of 30 years back took from me. I am a stranger in my own town and my own land.... and I am not young anymore...

The most gentle, decent person who I knew in my late teens/early twenties moved to Ohio, from Manchester to marry someone he met online. Over 20 years, he turned full on MAGA... &now posts esoteric, racist clearly fictional stuff about Democrat politicians and anti-vax lunacy. Does. Not. Compute.

Went to comedy show other day, where the MC referred to Bill Hicks as "problematic". Could be so, but after Brexit, &the manifestation of the modern American right (say), he sure doesn't come anywhere near the top of the list. Lenny Bruce wasn't laugh out loud hillarious 30yrs after.. (just sayin)!

The trouble with consensus reality, is that ignores the fact that the consensus might be wrong, and utterly so.....

The news, the dreams, nightmares and shibboleths of the hordes seem utterly detatched from any kind of objective, concrete reality...

I have never slept through an FA cup final, without realising it was the FA cup final, without even getting out of bed. FA cup final for me....

having Sunday tea at Wetherspoon. AuHD Salford scallywag has joined my table unsolicited. Insisting on talking to me. Don’t like having to fall back on work instincts this late into the weekend… but to complain about would be like complaining about attracting cats…

I've had the best computer I've ever had. for five months and I've barely ever even booted it up..... I suspect I'd have been better putting the money I paid for it into savings....

Funny looking at social media seeing how my social networks of twenty years ago have burned so utterly to the ground - weird how no-one intended but the ash and the charring is end stage black and has the final word. The world keeps turning. No one cares. So it goes.....

740 minute Neon Genesis extravaganza.... at my local cult cinema...

Do fcuk off...

youtu.be/-eIXhdgxmDQ?... easily in my top 15 all time post punk tunes.....

It's funny listening to Soda Stereo and actually being able to understand the lyrics. I mean I've been getting in two hours of Spanish listening per day at the moment... and I've been listening to them for 9/10 years... but even so....

This might be the best song I've heard in French for a long, long time... youtu.be/8_ul_TsohW4?... via @youtube.be

listening to Spanish language news. When Trump breaks through in English— he genuinely sounds like a legitimate spokesperson for Satan’s entourage…

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

It's the 10th anniversary of getting together with @mysuburbanhell.bsky.social. My wisdom is you have to want to cuddle often and make each other laugh a lot.

My spell check keeps changing ‘Roald Dahl’ to ‘roadkill’...

Also on Spanish Radio, the Manic's "People Ruin Paintings". Don't think I've had the pleasure of hearing a Manics song and not hating it up until this point in the 21st century.... (the 20th century being a very different matter....)

"Goddess On A Hiway lyrics"by Mercury Rev is on Spanish radio. Close my eyes and it's y2k and an uncertain slightly ruined future ahead of me......

It's always slightly. worrying when the account of a regular interlocateur vanishes without warning....

Got tickets to see ‘the Ex‘. Well excited!!!!

“To alienate people from their own decision-making is to change them into objects...” - Paulo Freire

"...a profound waste of resources, a theft machine masquerading as intelligence, and generally a tool which enables numerous social harms at scale..." - Addison Crump (on AI)....

The Spar closing means I will have to cross the gardens for a post 'spoons pint. Do you know how much I want t cross PIccadilly gardens after 10pm??? Not much would be to put it mildly.....

The Picadilly/192 Spar has suddently, unexpectedly and permanently closed. That's pretty much the equivalent of the ravens leaving the tower. Seriously... been going in there for 30+ years.... Weird. And annoying....

Another reason to despise these slimey leeches. Linked in is "ick" codified.....

"There will always be multiple histories, overlapping each other, warring with one another, supplanting each other, or being revived as “lost” histories that reveal a truth that “they” have buried..." - Cory Doctorow