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· Apr 25
Rise Sessions, by Re:Search
4 track album
researchmusic.bandcamp.com
Self promotion post. My old band have started putting tracks we made many years ago online and you might like them. this was recorded in Glasgow tenement 30 years ago, although I don't think it sounds like it
researchmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rise-s...
researchmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rise-s...
Facebook reminds me that 11 years ago today I was at a sprint meeting so cringeworthy it led to the invention of Bad Agile.
December 19, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Facebook reminds me that 11 years ago today I was at a sprint meeting so cringeworthy it led to the invention of Bad Agile.
Work Xmas dinner is in three hours, I just looked at the menu and the non-meat options are a vegan gluten-free pasta or mushroom risotto, IN A GREEK FUCKING RESTAURANT.
Fucking mushroom risotto, it's like hanging a sign on the kitchen door that says "No-one in here gives a fuck"
Fucking mushroom risotto, it's like hanging a sign on the kitchen door that says "No-one in here gives a fuck"
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Work Xmas dinner is in three hours, I just looked at the menu and the non-meat options are a vegan gluten-free pasta or mushroom risotto, IN A GREEK FUCKING RESTAURANT.
Fucking mushroom risotto, it's like hanging a sign on the kitchen door that says "No-one in here gives a fuck"
Fucking mushroom risotto, it's like hanging a sign on the kitchen door that says "No-one in here gives a fuck"
Shout out to every stoner, hippie, punk or raver in the last 50 years who got high and thought "Oh wouldn't it be amazing if we could get the Government on drugs."
* stares*
* stares*
December 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Shout out to every stoner, hippie, punk or raver in the last 50 years who got high and thought "Oh wouldn't it be amazing if we could get the Government on drugs."
* stares*
* stares*
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Romanticism as a political rather than an artistic movement *has* been tried, lads, & the results were very, very bad.
December 16, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Romanticism as a political rather than an artistic movement *has* been tried, lads, & the results were very, very bad.
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"Desecration" is such a tell. These are not reasonable concerns reasonably expressed, it's a religious objection to modernity.
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
‘We hate it. It’s desecration’: the real cost of HS2
The long read: Ten years after I first followed the proposed route, I retraced my steps to see what life was like along the world’s most expensive, heavily delayed railway line
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Desecration" is such a tell. These are not reasonable concerns reasonably expressed, it's a religious objection to modernity.
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At least the precedent has now been set on acceptable public comment when Trump finally dies.
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
At least the precedent has now been set on acceptable public comment when Trump finally dies.
Saw Hamnet at the weekend and feel pretty sure that Jesse Buckley will be nominated for everything. The child actors give what I think might be the best performances by kids I've seen in a film. Paul Mescal ecxellent, Emily Watson also. Beautiful photography
December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Saw Hamnet at the weekend and feel pretty sure that Jesse Buckley will be nominated for everything. The child actors give what I think might be the best performances by kids I've seen in a film. Paul Mescal ecxellent, Emily Watson also. Beautiful photography
For the sake of fairness I'd just like to make it clear I'm enjoying what Apple have just done to iOS just as much as I enjoyed what Microsoft did to Windows 11 .
December 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
For the sake of fairness I'd just like to make it clear I'm enjoying what Apple have just done to iOS just as much as I enjoyed what Microsoft did to Windows 11 .
I saw Henri Lefebvre's Conceptual Triad playing live at London Jazz Festival, it was... *shepherds crook appears from proscenium arch *
Henri Lefebvre's conceptual triad is not the most salient aspect of the Production of Space, it's just the easiest to quote. Discuss.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I saw Henri Lefebvre's Conceptual Triad playing live at London Jazz Festival, it was... *shepherds crook appears from proscenium arch *
I have no doubt that some people will happily front up half a million pounds to be founder members of an AI powered Liz Truss fronted private members club, but I hope they do the necessary research and aren't just going in dry...
*stares directly into camera*
*stares directly into camera*
Liz Truss is back.
The short-lived UK prime minister and businessman Robert Tchenguiz are launching an ultra-exclusive club in London.
Truss and Tchenguiz are hoping to recruit 700 founding members — each paying £500,000. Find out more here: on.ft.com/493H1hI
The short-lived UK prime minister and businessman Robert Tchenguiz are launching an ultra-exclusive club in London.
Truss and Tchenguiz are hoping to recruit 700 founding members — each paying £500,000. Find out more here: on.ft.com/493H1hI
December 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I have no doubt that some people will happily front up half a million pounds to be founder members of an AI powered Liz Truss fronted private members club, but I hope they do the necessary research and aren't just going in dry...
*stares directly into camera*
*stares directly into camera*
"No, no, like the last five time, I didn't _really_ go to see a band called Woo Woo Boob Enhancement, it's a kind of joke but the humour isn't in the actual tweet, it's in the repetition...."
*TSA Agent unfastened holster clip *
*TSA Agent unfastened holster clip *
December 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"No, no, like the last five time, I didn't _really_ go to see a band called Woo Woo Boob Enhancement, it's a kind of joke but the humour isn't in the actual tweet, it's in the repetition...."
*TSA Agent unfastened holster clip *
*TSA Agent unfastened holster clip *
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Haus Lemke – Die Möbel von Mies van der Rohe und Lilly Reich
Die original erhaltene Innenausstattung des Hauses, die von Mies van der Rohe selbst und seiner Partnerin Lilly Reich entworfenen Möbel, sind ab 10.12. im Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin zu sehen. #Bauhaus
www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...
Die original erhaltene Innenausstattung des Hauses, die von Mies van der Rohe selbst und seiner Partnerin Lilly Reich entworfenen Möbel, sind ab 10.12. im Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin zu sehen. #Bauhaus
www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...
Das Haus Lemke von Mies van der Rohe in Berlin-Lichtenberg
Von Antje Bonhage
www.radiodrei.de
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Haus Lemke – Die Möbel von Mies van der Rohe und Lilly Reich
Die original erhaltene Innenausstattung des Hauses, die von Mies van der Rohe selbst und seiner Partnerin Lilly Reich entworfenen Möbel, sind ab 10.12. im Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin zu sehen. #Bauhaus
www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...
Die original erhaltene Innenausstattung des Hauses, die von Mies van der Rohe selbst und seiner Partnerin Lilly Reich entworfenen Möbel, sind ab 10.12. im Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin zu sehen. #Bauhaus
www.radiodrei.de/programm/sch...
I have a joke about Prometheus but its tough to deliver
I have a joke about Icarus, but I don't think it will fly
I have a joke about Cerberus. It’s a shaggy dog story.
December 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I have a joke about Prometheus but its tough to deliver
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I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.
...and mind itself is magic coursing through the flesh.
And flesh itself is magic dancing on a clock,
And time itself the magic length of God
And flesh itself is magic dancing on a clock,
And time itself the magic length of God
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
...and mind itself is magic coursing through the flesh.
And flesh itself is magic dancing on a clock,
And time itself the magic length of God
And flesh itself is magic dancing on a clock,
And time itself the magic length of God
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village.
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I’ve been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph
And became as lonely as a shepherd
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
And became as lonely as a shepherd
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
and as overburdened by vast distances,
and summoned and stirred as from far away,
and slowly, like a long new thread,
introduced into that picture-sequence
where now having to go on bewilders us.
Six police motorbikes and two cars speeding past this bus stop, sirens blazing, heading west on Oxford Street. Perhaps there is a riot at Marks and Spencer
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Six police motorbikes and two cars speeding past this bus stop, sirens blazing, heading west on Oxford Street. Perhaps there is a riot at Marks and Spencer
I just ran across the office shouting "Never underline text in a document, it makes it look like a fucking school newsletter" at a colleague, which might the most Alan thing I've done this year.
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I just ran across the office shouting "Never underline text in a document, it makes it look like a fucking school newsletter" at a colleague, which might the most Alan thing I've done this year.
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I'd never seriously considered the possibility that I might live long enough to one day see the US become a pariah state to rival North Korea, but right now I wouldn't rule it out.
The Trump National Security Strategy is bonkers in many ways but this objective stood out:
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I'd never seriously considered the possibility that I might live long enough to one day see the US become a pariah state to rival North Korea, but right now I wouldn't rule it out.
Misadventures in online shopping Pt 2. Buying something to pickup from a physical shop I have now realised is only open 11am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and it's three miles away and when the fuck am I supposed to collect that, galaxy brain.
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Misadventures in online shopping Pt 2. Buying something to pickup from a physical shop I have now realised is only open 11am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, and it's three miles away and when the fuck am I supposed to collect that, galaxy brain.
Misadventures in online shopping Pt.1 : Putting items with a sale price into my webshop basket, leaving it for 24 hours before checking out and finding out the sale has ended and everything had gone back to full price. 😐
December 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Misadventures in online shopping Pt.1 : Putting items with a sale price into my webshop basket, leaving it for 24 hours before checking out and finding out the sale has ended and everything had gone back to full price. 😐
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Who up widening they gyre
anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Who up widening they gyre
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Introduce yourself with five Fnords you have grokked
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Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
1. Minotaur at a pub off Bethnal Green Road
2. A disgruntled (and lost) leprechaun in Saxmundham
3. A manticore buying milk at the Franprix on rue de longchamp
4. A mermaid washed up on plage Aber (she was ok)
5. Dragons (everywhere)
Introduce yourself with five animals you've seen in the wild:
- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
- Absolute unit ginger and white neighbour cat called Buddy
- grey squirrels everywhere
- effing foxes shitting on my garden sofa
- bloody rats terraforming my flowerbed
- several mice brought indoors by Daphne
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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