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A monosyllabic illegal immigrant selfishly puts a child's life at risk by modifying his bicycle to escape the authorities.

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A freelance IT technician struggles to switch off some defective, outdated hardware.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

Magnificent album* from the Second Great Quintet, arguably the finest quintet in jazz history. Their offcuts (from Nefertiti, Filles de Kilimanjaro, and In a Silent Way sessions) are better than many bands' cuts. *marred only by the appalling cover.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

🎵Blackbird singing in the dead of night..."🎵 Oh fuck off. 4:30am. Like a car alarm's nails down a blackboard or aural voodoo doll pins or a nipple piercing with rusty barbed wire

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RIP Brian Wilson. I grew up with these Beach Boys albums, which were in my dad's record collection.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

#NowPlaying Ornette Coleman, who is, in Cockney parlance, mustard. #Jazz

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#ChatGPT down. Got itself into a scrape? Perhaps because its ceaseless scraping has scraped the bottom of the cultural barrel, impeding real authors from scraping a living, or at least scraping by enough to afford new shoes from whose soles they might have scraped the #AI in which they've trodden.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

Just catching up on the squabbling between #Trump, #Elon and their respective bros. Two arseholes, both alike in indecency, In fair America, where we lay our scene...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Come Back Lucy, The Finishing Line, the episode of The Waltons with a poltergeist and tons more suitably seasonally nightmarish in Looks Unfamiliar with @richardlittler.bsky.social... timworthington.org/2019/10/31/l...

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#NowPlaying Uhrwerk Orange “Oh bliss! Bliss & heaven! Oh it was gorgeousness & gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!” #soundtrack #Kubrick #WendyCarlos

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I was approached by Unbound a few years ago but didn't pursue it in the end. While I'm starting to feel like I dodged a bullet, I do know what it's like to get ripped off, so completely empathise with all authors/artists caught up in this. I know just how utterly distressing & devastating it can be

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

I essentially lived here rent-free in the 1990s. Open until midnight. Dangerous. Far too many spontaneous purchases on the way home from the pub. #TowerRecords

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

#NowPlaying this particular release of Morris Souffle's complete choral. Just about the only works that rival Faure's Requiem.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Bit obsessed with 16th C woodcuts currently. I began designing my own signet with Latin motto but realised it was a pointless venture: I don't have kids & I'm the last of my line; so I created one better suited to being the last member of the family, the one who turns out the light when they leave.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

I need new glasses, so went to the optician. Me: "At 150 quid these glasses are quite reasonable" Optician: "Your preferred lens type? Lens thickness? Anti-scratch? Visibility range? Anti-glare? Insurance?..." Me: "Oh. These 150 quid glasses are 4000 quid"

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Unexpected but very welcome finds in a stack of James Last, Roger Whittaker and oompah records in my local secondhand bookshop just now. Both first pressings, seemingly mint/unplayed. Koyaanisqatsi is one of those releases I've owned on at least three formats. #minimalism #soundtrack

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

As a little kid I always found the title shot of children in #Bagpuss quite creepy. But, 50+ years on, other shadowy figures seem to reveal themselves. i. 'The Tall Man'. Who, or indeed what, is standing there at the right of frame, dressed in black, long hair, wearing a wide-brimmed hat?..

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

When you've had quite enough of the bass player wobbling his pretty little head and singing 'oooooh!'

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Apparently, it's a national holiday here in Switzerland today. 'Ascension'. Switzerland has to be the only country that commemorates an avant-garde #jazz album by John #Coltrane. Even kids seem to get involved: They're outside right now, making loads of noise, shrieking & yelling over each other etc

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I keep time-slipping to the same spot in London in 1599 or 1934. If you're about meet me at 5pm on the corner of Silver St and Muggle St (Monkwell, if 1934). Good ale at the Cooper's Arms (in 1934), but there's a French tire-maker on that spot in 1599 so we'll head over to the Mermaid in Cheapside.

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

I want to see the #AI industry publicly disembowelled before its parboiled, tarred head is skewered on a pike at the city gates. I hope that's clear enough.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

🧵 What's even more depressing about the state of the world right now is that humans don't seem to change. Reading about life in the 1500s, I see similar culture-war issues, the same old hackneyed grievances, the same disinformation designed to rouse the mob. Two recent examples I stumbled across...

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

Switzerland has been watching too many disaster movies. I just arrived at my favourite secondhand bookshop, which is 3 floors down in a nuclear bunker, to find that it's temporarily closed while the building is being proofed against earthquakes.

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

I'm in a proggy, folk-horror, medieval free-form improv mood, so #NowPlaying Third Ear Band.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Apropos, during my last dentist checkup, they assessed my teeth/gums with their shiny, new #AI technology, despite my misgivings. It detected incipient cavities that a human simply isn't capable of. Which is great. Apart from the fact that the cavities were outside my mouth/head. I wasn't charged.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments