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Vapid Response Unit. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi Also, musical human. Producer for Lush Handmade Sounds. Perform with Scritti Politti, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint etc. More info at rhodri.biz
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My anxiety is off the scale these days, but I thought I'd have a peek at Bluesky this lunchtime, and that was a mistake – as Al says, it's just wall to wall screeching about Cheez Whiz and mushy peas 🙄

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

'Accusations of being wilfully difficult are often fielded at music like this. Lost Crowns symphonically rendered chaos transcends being simply intellectually interesting with a visceral dynamism usually absent from such tunes' Lost Crowns - The Heart is in the Body buff.ly/bAEtGum

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Enjoyed reading this review of our Lost Crowns album - saluting the ambition of the project, acknowledging that most people will hate it, I’ll take that thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

For any tourists visiting these shores this summer, I recommend this detailed map of Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys, from “Topography Of Ireland” by Gerald Of Wales (1187)

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

I just spent three minutes trying to construct an amusing reply to a post on here, decided it wasn’t working, deleted it and started writing this instead, which I’m sure everyone will agree is a far more valuable contribution to the cut and thrust of online discourse

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

If Ivor (3) starts doing high-pitched whingy requests, I’ve started replying “Could you say it again, but in a normal voice?”- and he usually does! So I’ve decided to use this line to anyone who ever raises their voice to me, of any age, hopefully that should work fine

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Gentrification has seen the Muffin Man priced out of the area

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

I was outside for a while this morning without a hat, foolishly - I’m just trying to assess whether I caught the sun or not, I’m not sure

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Get them sweeping the path at 3 and they’ll be doing extensive guttering and roofing work by the time they’re 7, is my thinking

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

I go through periods of being obsessed with early 80s R&B, and it sounds like Rapallo (a Montreal duo) do too, and I kinda love them for it. The whole album from last year (“Merger”) is such fun. youtu.be/X8L-vlpNCBk?...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

No need to create a likeness of a Rhodri Marsden action doll because it’s already been done

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

I inevitably used to do this too. These aren't as good as Andrew's, but I enjoyed searching the downloaded Twitter archive.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

20 years ago today the debut (and only) album by Do Me Bad Things was released. I loved this thing SO much that I attempted to make friends with them, and later ended up in bands with some of them. Who doesn’t like sludgy stoner rock riffs and Steely Dan chords at 6.30am? youtu.be/MEFwlrXBhhs?...

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

I recorded my own version of this for my wife’s 40th birthday, but I’m not as good at singing as the Pointer Sisters youtu.be/6RQySSHfW2E?...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve listened to this lovely folk tune about a dozen times today, and have found it hugely uplifting every time, and so then I listen to it again ♥️ youtu.be/nknpWQCvIQY?...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments