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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke

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We are where we are, because who could have imagined we would end up here? #oracle ACE alumnus #PLSQL #music #books #films (but mainly music) ✝️ Mark 9:24 lapsed blogger https://radiofreetooting.blogspot.com

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 8h

#TheTwen2ie5 day 28

2️⃣3️⃣ Ibibio Sound Machine | Electricity | Electricity | 2021 | UK

HAve you ever wondered, what if Kraftwerk had hailed from Lagos rather than Düsseldorf?

ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/track/electr...

Electricity, by Ibibio Sound Machine

from the album Electricity

ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 1d

#autumn in #Southwark

A brick wall overgrown with creepers (ivy?) in various shades of red and gold. The wall has a blue wooden door which presumably affords access to the brick building in the background

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 1d

Tbf Bowie wears it better 😃

Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 1d

To all those principled #FantasyFootball managers - like my son - who refuse to even put Haaland in their team, let alone make him captain: We salute your integrity even as we enjoy our higher league placings. Yours is the moral victory.

Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 1d

Friends fear he is flexing again

#NYT Spelling Bee GENIUS image for 2025-11-25

#NYT Spelling Bee for the w/e 2025-11-25 showing GENIUS for the whole of the week

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5 day 27

2️⃣4️⃣ Lola Young | Messy | Messy EP | 2024 | UK

A tidy littel number

youtu.be/k-k2_Liofy8?...

Lola Young - Messy (Official Video)

YouTube video by LolaYoungVEVO

youtu.be

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 2d

"Our target demographic is divorced wankers with a drink-driving conviction and low serotonin"

Leif Hancox-Li, PhD @struthious.bsky.social · 3d

This is Bad (source: network.fintechtakes.com/library/3d38...)

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 2d

#TheTwen2ie5 day 26

2️⃣5️⃣ Lady Blackbird | Black Acid Soul | Black Acid Soul | 2021 | USA

Is it perverse to pick a largely instrumental track from such a talented singer? Yes, yes it is. I don't know what I was thinking. Anyway, whole album is marvellous

iamladyblackbird.bandcamp.com/track/black-...

Black Acid Soul, by Lady Blackbird

from the album Black Acid Soul

iamladyblackbird.bandcamp.com

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

At some point in the future US citizens will sport the same expression as they wander around the East Wing ballroom

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

In Bucharest we visted Ceausescu's palace. We were the only English speakers in the building. Everybody else was a Romanian, wandering around slacked-jawed as they contemplated three decades of poverty, misery and oppression made manifest in marble, gold leaf and brocade around them.

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

In 1990 me and a mate went Interrailing. It was right after the Berlin Wall came down, and we were among the first backpackers to travel to Czechoslovakia (as it was then), Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.

Greg Chernack, CEO, Four Seasons Total Landscaping @gchernack.bsky.social · 3d

Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

Your immortal soul is unique to you but just one among seven billion to the Satans

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

Remembering a talk on private browsing at Open Tech London back in the day. The speaker reported a survey in which people were perfectly happy to sell their private data to Google - until they found out that Google only valued their private data at £5.64 (give or take a few pennies).

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

Obviously the weather deterred the trick-or-treaters, so we're working our way through a bag of spooky Swizzlers lollipops.

Although the spookiest thing about a Maslow Drumstick is deciding whether to leave some lolly on the stick, or have it all and coommit to eating some cardboard...

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

And for dessert ...

Poster for the Larry Cohen movie The Stuff

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

Seems like it could only have been achieved by alien technology

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

Certainly seems fairer than consumers under prohibition paying big bucks for baggies of licorice, stock cubes and dried oregano

Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

Would have backed this but Barclaycard authentication is having its Friday evening meltdown: I'll try again tomorrow

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

The thing in this photo which scares me the most is that wall of CDs: how do you play something from the bottom stratum without the whole thing collapsing?

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

All good things come to an end

Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

Very big lightning in London at the moment, which is good news for anybody who wants their Victor Frankenstein costume to be a bit extra

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 3d

A favourite track of 2021 but not eligible for #TheTwen2ie5 b/c the original came out in 2013

SOPHIE | Bipp (Autechre Mx) | single | UK | 2021

SOPHIE said that she didn't want any remixes except by Autechre, so this posthumous release is a poignant tribute

nmbrs.bandcamp.com/track/bipp-a...

BIPP (Autechre Mx), by SOPHIE

from the album BIPP (Autechre Mx) / UNISIL

nmbrs.bandcamp.com

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 4d

#TheTwen2ie5 HM 5

Bob Vylan | We Live Here | We Live Here | UK | 2020

Teenage me would have loved this, right down to the CRASS t-shirt. tbh I can't see old me playing this again. But they're right to be angry and they have a right to be heard.

h/t too many to mention

youtu.be/VFqhJyvly1g?...

Bob Vylan - We Live Here

YouTube video by Bob Vylan

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 5d

Some very poor management from Slot. It's one thing to rotate your squad, quite another to offer up the youngsters on a sacrificial altar. He owes Amara Nallo a grovelling apology

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Andrew (Arfur) Clarke @apcrft.bsky.social · 5d

I trust the Aston Villa ultras are learning the words to Glad All Over in preparation for Saturday's match #PsyOps