Bzangy Groink

Year: 2026

  • I Know You’re Out There…

    LHC: “BRANE AND BRANE! WHAT IS BRANE?” #HandtooledNicheMerriment

  • Tumblr Roolz, Bluesky Droolz

  • The Fairchild Story

    Over the last few years, my lawyer and I have tried to find someone to do the Fairchild Semiconductor story but nothing. I really feel it could be a brilliant true-life drama series because, as you know, the story has sooo many fantastic characters and plot points. Ahh, maybe one day, a lavish Apple series…

  • On Slippy-Slidey Basslines

    [One of my friends showed me the Victor Wooten vid where he plays all the wrong notes for a bassline but it sounds great. This prompted the following.] One of the weirdest things for me, cos I had organ lessons from 12 – 16 was that it was very, very square music. No jazzness, all…

  • Starts With An I…

    Airport “glitches” causing mass disruption and now this new terror threat?  Both just after the UK announced sanctions against the illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank?  Tell me: which Middle East country has initiated the most attacks on other countries?  Clue – it’s not Iran.  ?

  • Wait… Loss?

    So, I started on Wegovy a month ago as it was either that or die. Which sounds dramatic but my weight has got really mad due to me being a comfort eater. And lately, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there’s a lot in the world that I’d quite like to retreat from in…

  • Spider-Man Brand New Day

    Above is a polaroid I took of my beloved Spider-Man when I was 8 or so. He came in a proper cloth suit but for some reason, I didn’t think that was shiny enough so I stripped him naked and painted on my version. It took me fucking ages. I was obsessed with Spider-Man as…

  • I’m Saying Nowt

  • Dolly Parton Saved My Life

    RIP Dolly Parton, not only a razor-sharp mind but a huge, generous heart. And, to top it all, one of the greatest songwriters who ever lived. Now, that’s a life well-lived. I remember being little and my Mummy singing along to Jolene as if it was a Bollywood song. My parents loved her music and…

  • Nazi Terfs Fuck Off

    Terfs = Nazis wtaf is going on in the world? Zionist Nazis, Terf Nazis, Reform/Restore Nazis, plain old Nazi Nazis.  Why have we let fascists become so fucking emboldened?  If you meet a Nazi today, online or IRL, please just remember to scream “FUCK OFF YOU NAZI SHIT!” into their ugly faces. 

  • On Kage Baker

    (This is replying to a post on Bluesky) I wish she was better known as a writer. As someone who has a not-normal gender/sexual identity, I usually skip the romance/sex parts of most books. But Baker… she captures human truth that other writers can’t. I never feel a sense of dread when romance starts flowering…

  • It’s SIMPLISTIC!

    Please stop saying ‘simplistic’ when you actually mean ‘simple.’ ARGHGH “This is a simplistic solution.” DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME AS.“This is a simple solution.” The first is a criticism, the second is a compliment/boast. Yes, I’m a cranky old man.

  • Musk The Mass Murderer

    Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14?051?750 (uncertainty interval 8?475?990–19?662?191) additional all-age deaths, including 4?537?157 (3?124?796–5?910?791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030. (Source: The Lancet) In his destruction of USAID, #ElonMusk will personally be responsible for around 14 million deaths, 4 million of those being…

  • Nat Markeaton

    After our excellent lunch, a few snaps at Markeaton Park. I was burping.

  • Duncombe Arms, Ashbourne

    A short drive away to have some of the absolutely tastiest food I’ve scarfed down in a long time. Everything, EVERYTHING was beautifully flavoured and perfectly cooked.

  • Pressure (2026)

    Taken at face value, this is a gripping thriller about the D-Day landings in World War Two. Andrew Scott plays James Stagg, a metereologist appointed to give Eisenhower (Brendan Fraser) the weather report for the day. If it was just these two, in a box, reciting the script at each other, I would love it.…

  • A Timely Chortle

    This is what it feels like lately. Meanwhile, the SD cards I use in my cameras that used to cost £14 are now £38. The exact same card.

  • TWING TWANG?

    These are some of the games I’d like an #Unreal5 remake of, ta!  1. Bioshock Infinite 2. Heavenly Sword 3. Jetset Radio Future 4. Wipeout 2097 5. GTA 4 6. Dishonored (sic) 7. SSX Tricky 8. Jak & Daxter 9. Goldeneye 10. Hitman Absolution 11. Crackdown Feel free to add your own. ?

  • Granite Tears

    I was watching #GraniteHarbour and #JohnGordonSinclair did *one look* at the end of a scene, ONE FUCKING LOOK and I started weeping.  This fucker has been making me cry for the last 46 years, ever since he played a gangly, daft cunt called Gregory.  Actors do not get enough praise. 

  • Matlock Bath With Nat

    We went as a pre-birthday trip and had FISH AND CHIPS! (not the fishies in the pic, they were too quick for us.)

  • McCarthy Again

    These are some polemics by the best indie guitar band of the 1980s. Many try to copy their jangle, their wit, their slyness but they never address the foundation: communism. Revolutionary socialism or get the fuck out of my face with your fake C86 bullshit. McCarthy #CherryRed #PinkLabel

  • Timing

    Curious there’s an article on BBC News today about how it was actually Iran that carried out Lockerbie – I mean, it’s perfect timing, isn’t it?  (Note that I’m not questioning the piece, I’m questioning why it’s being published at this moment.)

  • RIP Sam Neill

    Jurassic Park, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Event Horizon, The Dish, In The Mouth Of Madness, The Hunt For Red October – how many actors have a CV as varied as #SamNeill?  And how many were as consistently brilliant across so many genres and roles, big or small?  I really am gonna miss him.

  • The Sedgwicks – Why Now Girl?

    For you other wizened ’80s/’90s indie kids – do you remember this top jangly tune? They remind me of #TheSeaUrchins.  #80sIndiepop #80s #90sIndiepop #90s #TheSedgwicks #WhyNowGirl 

  • Vox Machina S4

    When you were a kid, did you love the animated series, ‘Dungeons And Dragons‘: Well, hoo boy, are you in luck. If you don’t know about it already, you’ll find exactly the same level of bonhomie, banter and battling of ginormous, crinkly monsters in The Legend Of Vox Machina. But, be warned – this is…

  • Enabling Genocide

    This is how the West ends up arming, funding and culturally approving a genocide. From the news to Hollywood to video games, the entire Western media has drowned us in Islamophobia for the last four decades.

  • So Great You Don’t Notice It

    Just watched #SheepDetectives and bloody loved it. So I went to add an IMDB rating and I am stunned to find out that #NicholasBraun, who plays the plod, is a YANK! Sir, full marks to you on nailing a proper English accent so well that I had not one weird thing triggering my Enery Iggins…

  • Fesshole Waterfall Tragedy

  • £1300 Extra For A Mac Studio? Seems Legit!

    If you hear anyone moaning about the recent #Apple price hike, please make it clear to them that this is *entirely* because of people paying to have ChatGPT lie to them or creating buckets of AI slop for their unfunny Facebook posts.  #RAMageddon #AISlop #Capitalism #CapitalistHellscape #ClimateChange 

  • Rock City 21-28/6/26

    Japes and hurry feets.

  • Twenty-Nine Years Later

    I was lucky enough to see #MarkRadcliffe and #DaveBoardman play live at #WhatstandwellFestival yesterday. They were brilliant, just effortlessly engaging. If you get the chance, go see them!  #WhiteTown #YourWoman #ukma #MarkAndLard 

  • How Google Lies

    I have never, ever subscribed to “Google AI Plus.” I would never subscribe to any Google AI bullshit. But, look, apparently I’m now a happy subscriber to an AI service because… … Google changed the name of an existing service without informing me. And THEN they will report how many millions of subscribers they have…

  • Where Everybody Knows Your Name

    shitposts comes back a few days later to bizarre epistemological arguments between commenters to said shitpost The level of geekery/pedantry on Mast is simultaneously the most charming thing ever and also the most enervating. I really hope alien anthropologists are storing all our nonsense away somewhere. It’ll be a cute exhibit when we’re gone: here…

  • Vocab Owl? Voca Bowl? Vo Cabowl?

    Whatever, I got this: No, I’m not Stephen Fry because I’m against genocide and babies being bombed. Anyway, test your wanky wordniness below. https://vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app

  • ARGHHHHTRON

    No, #Elektron, you go ahead and put your MIDI patch receive toggle under the Sync section, it makes PERFECT sense and don’t let any spoilsport tell you otherwise.  Got to keep us on our toes, innit? 

  • Fuck Tony Blair

    Tony Blair is a #WarCriminal He lied, 1.2 million Iraqis died.  Never forget this monster’s crimes, he should be rotting in a prison, not spouting his bile on the #BBC. 

  • Pixie Kut, Jamma, Live @Dubrek, Derby 7/5/26

    I had a great night out on Thursday at Dubrek watching Jamma’s FIRST EVER GIG and also seeing Pixie Kut (who used to be Kelsey And The Embers) for the first time. Sadly, I missed most of the opening act but they seemed to be going down well with the audience. Jamma brought the rock…

  • Blackbird

    In me garden, innit? CHEEP, CHEEP!

  • Hovering Around The 3 Mill Mark

    My monthly listeners oscillates around three million. Which is mind-boggling for me, it really is. When I started on indie labels like Parasol, I would be amazed if a pressing of 2,000 singles sold out. To be honest, you would have been far safer pressing 1,000 or even 500 unless you wanted your house to…

  • Garden April 2026

    The sun was sooo lovely, I had to pop and get some pics. Click the pic above for more!

  • Naked Justice

    I dreamt that I was a crimefighter’s sidekick. My boss was a French woman who battled billionaires stark minge naked. She was as ruthless as she was gorgeous, de-capitating capitalists with her shiny scimitar. She said that Justice was not justice unless she was naked. It was amazing. My conclusion: I probably need a wank.

  • Spring Is In The Air, Scent Of Jizz Everywhere

    I wonder if it’s these trees responsible for the OLD JIZZ stench on Derby Road, up towards the QMC after the Shell roundabout. #Nottingham #Jizz #ComeTrees

  • Project Hail TECHNO

    I’m still bemused that one of the kids in the classroom scene at the start of Project Hail Mary has a Roland TR-909 in front of her. That’s some pretty big bucks on a teaching aid.

  • Rock City 12/2/26 To 18/4/26

    Recent clubbing shenanigans. Click da pic!

  • War Criminal Quips On Camera

    In his recent self-aggrandizing memoir “A Promised Land,” Obama defends his drone program through a messiah complex; he writes, “I wanted somehow to save them … And yet the world they were a part of, and the machinery I commanded, more often had me killing them instead.” President Obama would have the reader believe he wanted to…

  • Let Me Out Of The Box!

    I’m aware its ad hominem and I’m aware that *I* look like Boss Nass BUT why does Wes Streeting look like a possessed ventriloquist’s dummy? Look at that face – he’s gonna get up in the night, waddle off and sell the NHS to Palantir, cackling throughout.  #AVoteForLabourIsAVoteForReform #VoteGreen

  • Black Ice Ahead

    Hey, are you NOT feeling paranoid today? Boy, have I got the solution: And I was thinking… …we don’t have AI at the moment. We have some stuff that’s maybe approaching the processing an individual ant does but nothing even approaching an ant colony. BUT somewhere, someone is working on real AI. And when they…

  • Dan Romer – The Luck Is Ours Alone

    Having recently finished re-bingeing Game Of Thrones, I thought I’d give the new Throneverse series A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms a go. I just watched the first ep and I like it. It’s well written, well acted and has one of the most undervalued virtues of Game Of Thrones: really stupid jokes. Yes, we…

  • Billionaire Scum

    If this doesn’t make you incandescently angry, you might want to remove that boot from your mouth. AllBillionairesAreEvil #YesEvenThatOneYouBootlick #EatTheRich

  • Israel Votes In Nazi Death Penalty

    (Beirut) – On March 30, the Israeli Knesset passed a discriminatory bill expanding use of the death penalty for terrorism-related offenses, Human Rights Watch said today. The wording of the bill makes it clear that it would primarily, if not exclusively, be applied to Palestinians. Within the civil court system in Israel, the bill imposes the death…