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

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 

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 

TIL I learned that A7X drummer is called Brooks… BROOKS WACKERMAN This example of nominative determinism has given me a small smile as we careen towards world war.

“I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins.…

Even Michelin-starred restaurants have a wobbly table.

And just like that, #LinuxMint is up to date, all my apps are up to date and the whole process was even less effort than #MacOS.  (I’m not even gonna touch the nagging horror of some other OSes and their breakgrades.)

Got a pretend Petzval from Ebay as the actual ones are a little pricey. Not bad!

Time for some skiffy book recs! First: I’m convinced M.R. Carey could paraphrase the Thomson Local and I’d find myself gripped. I read this two years ago and I still think about it weekly. MRCarey #InfinityGate #ScienceFiction

When you realise that you don’t love like most people do, it’s always a blessing/curse moment. You feel free and then you feel lost.  Will anyone ever find you?  So, I page forlornly through yet more dating pics featuring climbing walls, “cheeky” glasses of wine and interminable Sunday hikes. 

Had a whale of a time in Bedford last night – THANK YOU to everyone who came out and just danced the whole night. You were fucking awesome! Also, please do check out The Greensands and The Class, the two other bands on the bill as they absolutely brought it and were wonderful. What a…

Soo… … I was watching #AGoodDayToDieHard and I noticed that the cinematography was beautiful. Seriously. Any frame you pause looks like an intricately composed and lit still. The mix of ambient, reflected, hair and edge lighting is soooo well done. And then there are the scenes where lowlight is balanced against club lasers, distant car…

You know those capitalist evangelists, those disruptive entrepreneurs that insist that capitalism will fix everything and we’ll be in this amazing future of AI-generated infinite wealth er… for.. everyone. Apparently, they’re full of shit.

Tonight’s top new tune was Rizikó by Hungarian rapper Kolg8eight: I have NO IDEA what he’s saying but I like the way he says it. (EDIT – thanks to Google Translate, I do know what he’s saying.) Tonight, you heard: Artist Title Photay Quartet Improvisation 053021 ZOPP You Leland Whitty Awake Cosmic Boys Miracle Kante…

In response to the above: I know *exactly* what you mean. I often have a sharp moment of feeling like I’m in another life, another whole existence and I know that person’s history, setting, everything. I used to call it jamais vu as a play on deja vu until I found out that was already…

I don’t often give out 9 stars out of 10 but ‘Skater Girl’ thoroughly deserves each one. If, like me, you’re part of the South Asian diaspora, you’ve grown up watching Bollywood. I’m very used to the feel-good films, the corny-but-cute rom-coms, the classics with their high drama and soaring scores. ‘Skater Girl,’ though it…

And it’s part of my complete discography on there! 🙂

42 years ago today, Harvey Milk made this message: “This is Harvey Milk speaking on Friday, November 18, 1978. This tape is to be played only in the event of my death by assassination. “I fully realise that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target…

That’s me when I was a kid. Around the time this pic was taken, my Mummy tried to have a birthday party for me and my schoolfriends. Bear in mind that both my parents were doctors so we lived in white neighbourhoods, upper working class ones as white middle and upper class people would not…

So much has been happening to me. So much loveliness. I’m fizzing. Do you know those times when you are so terribly excited that you start to lose the ability to speak lucidly or slow down enough to be intelligible? Those times when all the tiny hairs on the back of your neck seem to…

responding to the above meme… Hmm, I dunno ~ there’s the post-Snyder, ruined Batman who wields machine guns and murders his way through a group of henchmen with nary a qualm. He’s not too clever but is BUFF and A BILLIONAIRE. Er… and… er… that’s it? Then there’s the guy I grew up reading about,…

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Good morning, here’s a story about my butthole. Years ago, it was itching constantly, and I couldn’t figure out why. I assumed it was dirty, so when I went to the bathroom, I always made sure to wipe extra hard. Finally a doctor had to tell me to stop that, and give my butthole a…

I love my Moog Source! <3

So, it’s a Saturday so I’m obviously watching Columbo on Channel 5 and the ep is Playback. The baddie is a awesome Oskar Werner and this was probably the first time I saw him if I saw this when I was a kid, his Truffaut turns were unknown to me then. In the gallery scene,…

This weekend just gone, 3-5 October, I had the wonderful good fortune to be able to go to Destination Star Trek 3 at the Excel Centre, London. I arrived a bit before my mate and fellow Trekkie, Matt and I quickly got changed into my Voyager costume. Once we’d got ready, we hit the main…

A couple of years ago, I px-ed my Volvo S40 for an Audi TT. Initially, I’d been looking at family saloons but then I realised my brain was stuck in the mode of thinking I was still part of a couple, maybe we’d be having kids sometime. It was only a couple of years since…

Doubts cast on witness’s account of black man killed by police in Walmart theguardian.com Alleged to have threatened customers, John Crawford, 22, was talking on his phone while holding an unloaded BB gun Read the whole story. Heartbreaking. Basically, if you are a black American, the police do not see you as a human being. You…

A gadget for text messaging without cell service sees a spike in interest from the pro-privacy crypto and Bitcoin communities — even though that wasn’t its creators’ intention. (Source: cnet.com) I can’t help but feel that de-centralised, ad hoc networking like this is one possible alternate future. Including, of course, the internet of things, everything alive,…

I think I’ve found my fave new Twitter – DJs Complaining. Almost beats First World Problems.

Comments made by a UKIP MEP about a Thai constituent have been described as outrageous by the woman’s husband. South East MEP Janice Atkinson described Fa Munday, a UKIP-supporting mobile food seller in Ramsgate, Kent, as a “ting tong from somewhere”. Her comments were recorded by BBC South East Today following an interview. (Source: bbc.co.uk) The…

Top Gear’s Burma Special in which Jeremy Clarkson used a racial slur broke broadcasting rules, Ofcom has said. The show featured a segment showing the hosts looking at a bridge they had built on the River Kwai as a local man walked across it. Clarkson remarked: “That is a proud moment. But there’s a slope…

I don’t fall into an intense rage when I see white girls wearing mehndi. Or, for that matter, when white people wear pyjamas, use the word ‘thug’ or the numeral for zero, Indian things that have been so absorbed into Western culture that their roots are forgotten. As long as they’re not doing it in…

As you may know, I’m a little obsessed with Saves The Day. But, until, Sunday, I’d never seen them live. The truth is, I think I was scared. I’ve often loved a band and then a desultory live experience has put me off them and I’ve stopped listening to them at all. I really didn’t…

The last few years have been pretty stressful for me. My separation and subsequent divorce generated emotional responses in me that, in retrospect, I should have questioned. My life was so lonely that I put up with a lot of shit from people. I established and maintained friendships that were pretty much one way because…

‘Steampunk’ was by Chris Bachalo and Joe Kelly and remains one of my favourite ever comics. It was published from 2000 ~ 2002 and finished early because of poor sales. Which fucks me right off. It’s perfect. The story, the characters, the insanely detailed art. I only wish they’d got to finish their story arc.…

Well, I’ve had my PS4 for a couple of weeks now (late Crimbo pressie from my sis!) so I thought it was time to do an introductory appraisal, like what I did with the Xbone. Sooo… The first few hours, the PSPaw easily bested the Xbone. The startup was slicker, I was immediately soothed by…

Emma Goth, a set on Flickr.

Mosh & City 5-10/11/13, a set on Flickr.

Five years ago today, my wife left me. I was due to DJ at Big Blue that night as it was Halloween. People had been texting me, excited at dressing up, excited to hear what I’d be playing. I couldn’t let them down. So, heart like a boulder, I packed all my gear up and…

https://twitter.com/JyotiMishra/status/376858312999858176 Hancock plays Gershwin which inevitably leads me to think of Tracy and how good it might have been if only I could run faster. Didn’t even make it so six months.