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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · Mar 24

Wrote about my illness. 72.peteashton.com/the-state-of...

This took me a couple of weeks to write and partly in lieu of me being able to stay in touch with a number of friends and family. Chronic fatigue is a fucking arse, but I'm slowly learning how to manage it.

The state of Pete

I've been unwell, and will continue to be unwell for a while. This is an account of where that unwellness is at.

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 11h

Notes for 18 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/18/notes-for-october.html

A gathering of people in a public place. There is bunting and signs. Most people are milling around, some smiling and laughing. On the right are two people in high-viz holding phone cameras in the face of a man who is taking with them.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 1d

Notes for 17 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/17/notes-for-october.html

A red skip with the words CALL-A-SKIP painted on with a phone number. Behind the skip are the yellow lids of two wheelie bins

Flyer with the title Leave Stircley Alone and a lot of text.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 1d

People significantly younger than me and/or who have been paying attention to music this last decade, what is this sort of music called? www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkRd...

City On The Map- Donn Eclipse

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 2d

Notes for 16 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/16/notes-for-october.html

A photo of a mushroom growing in the grass

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 3d

Notes for 15 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/15/notes-for-october.html

A photo of a washing line and pole in a garden. The pole is wonky

Album cover showing three young dudes standing outside. The title is Hüsker Dü: Jan. 30, First Ave Pt.3

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 4d

Notes for 14 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/14/notes-for-october.html

A blue garden shed that is nearly falling down. The walls are crooked and the doors are wonky.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 5d

Notes for 13 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/13/notes-for-october.html

A black a white photo of some 5 pence coins on a wooden surface.

Cover to Sun Kil Moon and Amoeba, Vol. II showing a desolate coastline.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 6d

Notes for 12 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/12/notes-for-october.html

Lots of small mushroom heads sprouting in a compost heap.

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 7d

Notes for 11 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/11/notes-for-october.html

A ginger rabbit's rump fill the frame. A black and white rabbit peeks over the top.

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 7d

Notes for 11 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/11/notes-for-october.html

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 7d

Perfectly timed for the SPX panel I watched this morning. :)

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SPX 2025: Ideas: Tom Gauld and Kevin Huizenga In Conversation

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 8d

Notes for 10th October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/10/notes-for-th-october.html

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 9d

Notes for 9 October: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/09/notes-for-october.html

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 13d

It’s gourd season, and occasionally nice afternoon light season. Quite pleased with this photo.

A photo of a grey pumpkin-shaped squash on a table outdoors with greenery and blue sky in the background.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 14d

If Books Could Kill on Dale Carnegie.

One of my go-to podcasts for entertaining insomnia brain food, they tackle exploitative easy-answer self-help books and this episode is the ur-text that started it all - How To Win Friends a... https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/10/04/if-books-could-kill-on.html

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 14d

You should take a cane.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 15d

First time! How little they know...

(Well done, mate!)

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 16d

Taskmaster good. It's weirdos being allowed to be weird.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 16d

There's a new season of Taskmaster? And this is how I find out?

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 24d

Belt attachments are still the future.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 24d

I’m the fucking best at Stackdown until suddenly I’m really not. (Yesterday’s results - no spoilers)

Screenshot of the results of a game of Stackdown. All words were found in a few seconds except one which took me 15m 26s.

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 26d

Notable new music: Branwen and Gouge Away: https://notes.peteashton.com/2025/09/22/notable-new-music-branwen-and.html

Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · 27d

Was convinced for a short while that Addicted to Love was a ZZ Top song, but I think it’s excusable. Sharp Dressed Man could totally be by Robert Palmer.

ZZ Top have been on my mind as I’ve spent days wondering if they’re a novelty act or not. #music

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Woodrow Phoenix @mrphoenix.bsky.social · Sep 16

One thing you can say about Sanrio: they weren’t afraid to push the boundaries of product design.This vintage Hello Kitty charging hub approaches Hieronymus Bosch-levels of cursedness. Nightmare generator body horror, on/off? Oops. Too far. (Also, extension cord is too short.)
But I still want one.

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Pete's notes & links @peteashton.com · Sep 14

I think you can have emasculated. It has a non-gendered meaning as well as the bollock-chopping one. "The act of depriving, or state of being deprived, of vigour or effectiveness." en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emascul...

emasculation - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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