Ian Robinson
@ianrobinson.bsky.social
Writer, walker, atheist, cinema lover, hobby musician, science junkie, perpetual maths student, cricket fan, chess patzer. I post about new music a LOT! #Music #NewMusic
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Ian Robinson
@ianrobinson.bsky.social
· Feb 8
If you like the nonsense I post here on Bluesky, follow my bridged Bluesky account. It automatically posts what I post on Mastodon here on Bluesky.
At some point soon, I’ll stop cross-posting on both platforms. The account below will have everything.
@ianRobinson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
At some point soon, I’ll stop cross-posting on both platforms. The account below will have everything.
@ianRobinson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Amanda Askell, a philosopher who works at Anthropic on the character of the Claude models, answers questions from the community about her work, reflections and predictions.
36-minute video: https://youtu.be/I9aGC6Ui3eE
#llm #ai #claude #philosophy
36-minute video: https://youtu.be/I9aGC6Ui3eE
#llm #ai #claude #philosophy
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Amanda Askell, a philosopher who works at Anthropic on the character of the Claude models, answers questions from the community about her work, reflections and predictions.
36-minute video: https://youtu.be/I9aGC6Ui3eE
#llm #ai #claude #philosophy
36-minute video: https://youtu.be/I9aGC6Ui3eE
#llm #ai #claude #philosophy
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I have three 3-month free trials of Kagi search to share with any followers who want to try it.
It's now my default search engine.
DM me your email address so I can forward the trial invite email to you.
It's now my default search engine.
DM me your email address so I can forward the trial invite email to you.
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I have three 3-month free trials of Kagi search to share with any followers who want to try it.
It's now my default search engine.
DM me your email address so I can forward the trial invite email to you.
It's now my default search engine.
DM me your email address so I can forward the trial invite email to you.
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Postponed a purchase of the new Folio Society edition of God Emperor of Dune to see if it is discounted in a New Year sale. 🤞🏻
December 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Postponed a purchase of the new Folio Society edition of God Emperor of Dune to see if it is discounted in a New Year sale. 🤞🏻
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This might be good. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rafe-spall-prime-minister-steven-moffat-number-10-cast-show-1236446478/
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Morning after the first night of the Ashes (good times), was invited to a nearby community centre to see the good work being done by MCC's community branch, introducing cricket to a group of Ukrainian teenagers:
It's a shame that we don't play this game at home: How MCC have brought cricket to Ukraine | The Cricketer
Through a link-up with Lord's, 40 Ukrainian teenagers spent the morning after the first night of the Ashes series learning the game as part of a two-week respite trip away from the conflict
www.thecricketer.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Morning after the first night of the Ashes (good times), was invited to a nearby community centre to see the good work being done by MCC's community branch, introducing cricket to a group of Ukrainian teenagers:
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We planned to launch our refreshed app today.
Due to Storm Bram and associated weather warnings, we’re postponing the launch, so you’re not impacted by us making a major change at this time.
Our priority is to ensure you get our weather info & warnings to help you stay safe.
Due to Storm Bram and associated weather warnings, we’re postponing the launch, so you’re not impacted by us making a major change at this time.
Our priority is to ensure you get our weather info & warnings to help you stay safe.
December 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
We planned to launch our refreshed app today.
Due to Storm Bram and associated weather warnings, we’re postponing the launch, so you’re not impacted by us making a major change at this time.
Our priority is to ensure you get our weather info & warnings to help you stay safe.
Due to Storm Bram and associated weather warnings, we’re postponing the launch, so you’re not impacted by us making a major change at this time.
Our priority is to ensure you get our weather info & warnings to help you stay safe.
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the robbery by Oakland Rain is fab 🥰
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-robbery/1847835870?i=1847835891
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4Vstu1elITaiLuuqQgHZKI
#music #oaklandrain #theellasisters https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115692131391592804
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-robbery/1847835870?i=1847835891
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4Vstu1elITaiLuuqQgHZKI
#music #oaklandrain #theellasisters https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115692131391592804
the robbery by Oakland Rain on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 2:42
music.apple.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
the robbery by Oakland Rain is fab 🥰
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-robbery/1847835870?i=1847835891
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4Vstu1elITaiLuuqQgHZKI
#music #oaklandrain #theellasisters https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115692131391592804
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-robbery/1847835870?i=1847835891
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4Vstu1elITaiLuuqQgHZKI
#music #oaklandrain #theellasisters https://mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/115692131391592804
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2025 Hey Siri Songs - Day 338
"Hey Siri. Play Cars by The Ella Sisters."
#nite #homepod #music #theellasisters
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cars/1590655485?i=1590655502
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0KeG3hohPy3iiY5YsDBPrE
"Hey Siri. Play Cars by The Ella Sisters."
#nite #homepod #music #theellasisters
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cars/1590655485?i=1590655502
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0KeG3hohPy3iiY5YsDBPrE
Cars by The Ella Sisters on Apple Music
Song · 2020 · Duration 3:02
music.apple.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
2025 Hey Siri Songs - Day 338
"Hey Siri. Play Cars by The Ella Sisters."
#nite #homepod #music #theellasisters
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cars/1590655485?i=1590655502
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0KeG3hohPy3iiY5YsDBPrE
"Hey Siri. Play Cars by The Ella Sisters."
#nite #homepod #music #theellasisters
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cars/1590655485?i=1590655502
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0KeG3hohPy3iiY5YsDBPrE
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Why did nobody tell me that The Ella Sisters also have another project called Oakland Rain!
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/oakland-rain/933530595
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5KfRoJYMy6yuBdJfDXU1wR
#music #theellasisters #oaklandrain
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/oakland-rain/933530595
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5KfRoJYMy6yuBdJfDXU1wR
#music #theellasisters #oaklandrain
Oakland Rain on Apple Music
Listen to music by Oakland Rain on Apple Music.
music.apple.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Why did nobody tell me that The Ella Sisters also have another project called Oakland Rain!
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/oakland-rain/933530595
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5KfRoJYMy6yuBdJfDXU1wR
#music #theellasisters #oaklandrain
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/oakland-rain/933530595
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5KfRoJYMy6yuBdJfDXU1wR
#music #theellasisters #oaklandrain
2025 albums retrospective post 11.
From March 2025.
It's About Time For The World To End - Desert Radio.
A fantastic heavy rock album with ace vocals and melodies.🤘🏻
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/its...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2eeBJK...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
From March 2025.
It's About Time For The World To End - Desert Radio.
A fantastic heavy rock album with ace vocals and melodies.🤘🏻
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/its...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2eeBJK...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
It's About Time For The World To End by Desert Radio on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 10 Songs
music.apple.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:49 PM
2025 albums retrospective post 11.
From March 2025.
It's About Time For The World To End - Desert Radio.
A fantastic heavy rock album with ace vocals and melodies.🤘🏻
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/its...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2eeBJK...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
From March 2025.
It's About Time For The World To End - Desert Radio.
A fantastic heavy rock album with ace vocals and melodies.🤘🏻
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/its...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/2eeBJK...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
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Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”: supposed to be SATIRE but eg, "To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong." That's just reality now. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong.
2. To se...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”: supposed to be SATIRE but eg, "To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong." That's just reality now. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...
This 👍🏻
The world needs social sovereignty - Hannah Aubry - Community Director - Mastodon
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-...
The world needs social sovereignty - Hannah Aubry - Community Director - Mastodon
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-...
The world needs social sovereignty
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodo...
blog.joinmastodon.org
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This 👍🏻
The world needs social sovereignty - Hannah Aubry - Community Director - Mastodon
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-...
The world needs social sovereignty - Hannah Aubry - Community Director - Mastodon
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-...
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Nearly four in ten people in Northern Ireland hold Irish passports. So if any of them get done for possession or shoplifting or drunk and disorderly the Tories are gonna put them in a van and chuck them over the border into Monaghan or Donegal? Hahahaha, thickos. factcheckni.org/topics/europ...
Do more than 700,000 born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport? - FactCheckNI
831,779 Irish passport applications (2010-19) represents 44.7% of the Northern Ireland-born population living in the UK at the time of the 2011 Censuses. On the 29 January 2020, BBC Newsline made the ...
factcheckni.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Nearly four in ten people in Northern Ireland hold Irish passports. So if any of them get done for possession or shoplifting or drunk and disorderly the Tories are gonna put them in a van and chuck them over the border into Monaghan or Donegal? Hahahaha, thickos. factcheckni.org/topics/europ...
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You simply cannot just trust mainstream reporting of cases like this. It is designed to mislead
If you’re tired of explaining yourself and the misreporting of the Peggie tribunal to your lazy and ignorant friends save your energy and send them this.
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
open.substack.com/pub/ajustsoc...
When the Law Said No: How Gender Critical Arguments Failed in Court
A plain English guide to what the Peggie judgment actually decided
open.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
You simply cannot just trust mainstream reporting of cases like this. It is designed to mislead
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The episode of No Such Thing As A Fish episode with Michael Palin as guest is on YouTube. Full video version.
50-minute video: https://youtu.be/MpFYPL7OuvA
#comedy
50-minute video: https://youtu.be/MpFYPL7OuvA
#comedy
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The episode of No Such Thing As A Fish episode with Michael Palin as guest is on YouTube. Full video version.
50-minute video: https://youtu.be/MpFYPL7OuvA
#comedy
50-minute video: https://youtu.be/MpFYPL7OuvA
#comedy
The wind is starting to howl in nearby trees or buildings due to Storm Bram. I'm in Dundonald, East Belfast.
#Weather #StormBram
#Weather #StormBram
December 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The wind is starting to howl in nearby trees or buildings due to Storm Bram. I'm in Dundonald, East Belfast.
#Weather #StormBram
#Weather #StormBram
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For another year, it appears, this article I wrote with @nccomfort.bsky.social is the most read of @nature.com's News articles...
What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
For another year, it appears, this article I wrote with @nccomfort.bsky.social is the most read of @nature.com's News articles...
The synth bass line on Girl is 🥰😍🥰
2025 albums retrospective post 10.
From February 2025.
Late To The World - IDER.
A fantastic synth led pop-rock album from London duo IDER.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/lat...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/52IVBs...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
From February 2025.
Late To The World - IDER.
A fantastic synth led pop-rock album from London duo IDER.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/lat...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/52IVBs...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
Late to the World by IDER on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 12 Songs
music.apple.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The synth bass line on Girl is 🥰😍🥰
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If you’re a member, and enjoyed SOME BODY LIKE ME, the girls and I would love a mention. We won’t win anything, but we like being thought about 🩵🤖
🚀 Members! Nominate your favourite works of the year to the BSFA Awards Longlist today!
If you're not yet a member, it takes minutes to join - just go to www.bsfa.co.uk
If you're not yet a member, it takes minutes to join - just go to www.bsfa.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you’re a member, and enjoyed SOME BODY LIKE ME, the girls and I would love a mention. We won’t win anything, but we like being thought about 🩵🤖
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Yeah, I just checked on the EPA's climate pages and it is now a climate denialist site. No mention of human activities on "Causes of climate change." Just the ambiguous "recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone."
www.epa.gov/climatechang...
www.epa.gov/climatechang...
Causes of Climate Change | US EPA
Burning fossil fuels changes the climate more than any other human activity.
www.epa.gov
December 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Yeah, I just checked on the EPA's climate pages and it is now a climate denialist site. No mention of human activities on "Causes of climate change." Just the ambiguous "recent climate changes cannot be explained by natural causes alone."
www.epa.gov/climatechang...
www.epa.gov/climatechang...
2025 albums retrospective post 10.
From February 2025.
Late To The World - IDER.
A fantastic synth led pop-rock album from London duo IDER.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/lat...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/52IVBs...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
From February 2025.
Late To The World - IDER.
A fantastic synth led pop-rock album from London duo IDER.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/lat...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/52IVBs...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
Late to the World by IDER on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 12 Songs
music.apple.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
2025 albums retrospective post 10.
From February 2025.
Late To The World - IDER.
A fantastic synth led pop-rock album from London duo IDER.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/lat...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/52IVBs...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
From February 2025.
Late To The World - IDER.
A fantastic synth led pop-rock album from London duo IDER.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/lat...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/52IVBs...
#Music #ReviewOfTheYear #IFRFavAlbums2025
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A rare photo of Schrödinger’s cat. See picture.
As see on the iunify Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/iunify?igsh=Y3Izd2E2MWppYjRt
As see on the iunify Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/iunify?igsh=Y3Izd2E2MWppYjRt
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A rare photo of Schrödinger’s cat. See picture.
As see on the iunify Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/iunify?igsh=Y3Izd2E2MWppYjRt
As see on the iunify Instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/iunify?igsh=Y3Izd2E2MWppYjRt
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I added 30 new releases to my music library this week. The playlists below have a selected track from each one. In no particular order.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Bw...
#Music #NewMusic
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Bw...
#Music #NewMusic
IFR New Music Playlist - 7th December 2025 by Ian Robinson on Apple Music
Playlist · 30 Songs
music.apple.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I added 30 new releases to my music library this week. The playlists below have a selected track from each one. In no particular order.
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Bw...
#Music #NewMusic
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/playlist/...
Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Bw...
#Music #NewMusic
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14:30 me stripped my bed sheets.
22:30 me has just remembered, and cursed 14:30 me.
23:50 me will thank 14:30 me when enjoying the feel of fresh bed sheets.
#sundaystories
22:30 me has just remembered, and cursed 14:30 me.
23:50 me will thank 14:30 me when enjoying the feel of fresh bed sheets.
#sundaystories
December 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
14:30 me stripped my bed sheets.
22:30 me has just remembered, and cursed 14:30 me.
23:50 me will thank 14:30 me when enjoying the feel of fresh bed sheets.
#sundaystories
22:30 me has just remembered, and cursed 14:30 me.
23:50 me will thank 14:30 me when enjoying the feel of fresh bed sheets.
#sundaystories
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Humanity launched more satellites in the last four years than in the previous seven decades. Space-telescopes - once on a vantage point away from light pollution - will see how most of their images get contaminated by reflections from internet satellite constellations. Read more behind the paper:
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Low Earth orbit space telescopes are getting blocked by internet satellites
Humanity launched more satellites in the last four years than in the previous seven decades. Space-telescopes like Hubble or SPHEREx - once on a vantage point away from light pollution - will see how most of their images get contaminated by reflections from internet satellite constellations.
spklr.io
December 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Humanity launched more satellites in the last four years than in the previous seven decades. Space-telescopes - once on a vantage point away from light pollution - will see how most of their images get contaminated by reflections from internet satellite constellations. Read more behind the paper:
🔭
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