Lachlan Musicman
@datakid.bsky.social
Systems - computer and otherwise, data science, political and cultural theory. Book reader, music listener, D'n'D participant, traveler.
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
December 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
New blog post! Breaking down the Japanese buzzwords of the year from 2025:
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/e...
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/e...
Explaining the Nominees for Top Japanese Buzzword of 2025
The “official” list of the top Japanese buzzword of the year was announced in November, with the winner 「働いて働いて働いて働いて働いてまいります」 chosen on December 1st. This list is honestly not the most…
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
New blog post! Breaking down the Japanese buzzwords of the year from 2025:
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/e...
wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2025/12/24/e...
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
In "Breaking the World," Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Janelle Monáe to show how their practices of speculation are tools to break apart the antiblack world of the security state. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wsdmSyo
December 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
In "Breaking the World," Justin Mann analyzes the work of Octavia E. Butler, Colson Whitehead, and Janelle Monáe to show how their practices of speculation are tools to break apart the antiblack world of the security state. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/wsdmSyo
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
2025 on stage in Japan: the year in review
www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...
www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...
Tradition, remixed: A year on Japan’s stages
From kabuki’s newfound fans to experimental theater’s widening scope, Japan’s performing arts scene spent 2025 reaching outward.
www.japantimes.co.jp
December 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
2025 on stage in Japan: the year in review
www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...
www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025...
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
"Something bigger than favorite" for Shigeru Mizuki is how I feel too.
Just finished volume two of Tokyo These Days. I think I've decided I have a favorite comic artist, and it is Matsumoto Taiyo. Mizuki Shigeru feels like something bigger than favorite, in a hard to pin point way. So it's Matsumoto.
December 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"Something bigger than favorite" for Shigeru Mizuki is how I feel too.
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
The obvious & cruel irony is: the same welfare surveillance state which uses invasive tech to monitor our behaviour — right down to who we sleep with — refuses to monitor the outsourced providers it pays billions of dollars to make punishment decisions under social security law
December 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The obvious & cruel irony is: the same welfare surveillance state which uses invasive tech to monitor our behaviour — right down to who we sleep with — refuses to monitor the outsourced providers it pays billions of dollars to make punishment decisions under social security law
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
I've started blogging again - this time about why bad food reviews are so rare in Singapore (and the country's last honest food reviewer).
Read it here: www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/the-most-s...
Read it here: www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/the-most-s...
December 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I've started blogging again - this time about why bad food reviews are so rare in Singapore (and the country's last honest food reviewer).
Read it here: www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/the-most-s...
Read it here: www.singapore-samizdat.com/p/the-most-s...
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
Following the region and being Australian is very tricky this time of year! Everything winding down at home but certainly not elsewhere - big Najib update AND an ASEAN meet on the border crisis today
December 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Following the region and being Australian is very tricky this time of year! Everything winding down at home but certainly not elsewhere - big Najib update AND an ASEAN meet on the border crisis today
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
I will never get tired of coming across people sharing my art.
December 21, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I will never get tired of coming across people sharing my art.
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
There is a Locke, Hobbs, and a Rousseau playing in the NFL. There is also a Luther, Calvin, and a Knox.
December 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
There is a Locke, Hobbs, and a Rousseau playing in the NFL. There is also a Luther, Calvin, and a Knox.
No carols at my local cafe at this time. Joy Division and Lou Reed before 9am. The kids these days/the kids are alright (?!)
December 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
No carols at my local cafe at this time. Joy Division and Lou Reed before 9am. The kids these days/the kids are alright (?!)
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
A book of menus from 1809 has been used to re-create historic bento boxes for a 220-year-old Shimosawa inn. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/features/del...
Students Recreate 19th-Century Bento Boxes Made for Ino Tadataka’s Survey Team in Hot Spring Town on Nakasendo Road
<p>NAGANO — University students recently devised recipes to re-create a menu that was offered to the surveying team of Ino Tadataka, who created Japan’s first surveyed map, when they stayed in Shimosu...
japannews.yomiuri.co.jp
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A book of menus from 1809 has been used to re-create historic bento boxes for a 220-year-old Shimosawa inn. japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/features/del...
LOL at private health premium increases.What a scam. They even tell you why - above CPI needed to maintain the same level of profit. Better results with cheaper coverage in the public system. Don't be a sucker.
December 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
LOL at private health premium increases.What a scam. They even tell you why - above CPI needed to maintain the same level of profit. Better results with cheaper coverage in the public system. Don't be a sucker.
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
Just finished volume two of Tokyo These Days. I think I've decided I have a favorite comic artist, and it is Matsumoto Taiyo. Mizuki Shigeru feels like something bigger than favorite, in a hard to pin point way. So it's Matsumoto.
December 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Just finished volume two of Tokyo These Days. I think I've decided I have a favorite comic artist, and it is Matsumoto Taiyo. Mizuki Shigeru feels like something bigger than favorite, in a hard to pin point way. So it's Matsumoto.
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
Me hearing about the Ashes: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me watching the Ashes: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me watching the Ashes: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
December 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Me hearing about the Ashes: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me watching the Ashes: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me watching the Ashes: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
December 11, 2024 at 2:40 AM
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙♀️🎄
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
In 2026 I hope you get freakier and get plenty of money and become the cutest or scariest you wanna be and that your hard earned talents and hobbies reward you endlessly
December 17, 2025 at 1:06 AM
In 2026 I hope you get freakier and get plenty of money and become the cutest or scariest you wanna be and that your hard earned talents and hobbies reward you endlessly
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
tram from footscray station, down ballarat road, all the way to caroline springs town centre via caroline springs station - ALP will never lose another election in the west for at least 3 generations if they build this
These proposals from Infrastructure Victoria to extend tram lines make a lot of sense. They'd make Melbourne's trams more useful for more people by better connecting to railway stations and other suburban destinations.
How about it, Vic govt?
How about it, Vic govt?
December 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
tram from footscray station, down ballarat road, all the way to caroline springs town centre via caroline springs station - ALP will never lose another election in the west for at least 3 generations if they build this
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
💽
Record Store Buys Former Prison’s Entire Vinyl Collection
Pentridge Prison in Melbourne was a most imposing structure
The entire Pentridge Prison music catalogue - almost 2,000 records - now belongs to Joshua Smith,
owner of the beloved Footscray Records
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-E...
Record Store Buys Former Prison’s Entire Vinyl Collection
Pentridge Prison in Melbourne was a most imposing structure
The entire Pentridge Prison music catalogue - almost 2,000 records - now belongs to Joshua Smith,
owner of the beloved Footscray Records
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-E...
Record Store Buys Former Prison’s Entire Vinyl Collection | 10 News+
YouTube video by 10 News
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
💽
Record Store Buys Former Prison’s Entire Vinyl Collection
Pentridge Prison in Melbourne was a most imposing structure
The entire Pentridge Prison music catalogue - almost 2,000 records - now belongs to Joshua Smith,
owner of the beloved Footscray Records
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-E...
Record Store Buys Former Prison’s Entire Vinyl Collection
Pentridge Prison in Melbourne was a most imposing structure
The entire Pentridge Prison music catalogue - almost 2,000 records - now belongs to Joshua Smith,
owner of the beloved Footscray Records
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X-E...
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
While you're reflecting on this year that is almost past, check out our new episode on nostalgia! @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social @philosophymatters.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social
Episode 209 just dropped!
Listen now and remember it fondly later!
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/nost...
Listen now and remember it fondly later!
hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/nost...
Episode 209: Nostalgia - Hotel Bar Podcast
What does nostalgia fondly remember, and what might it dangerously enable?
hotelbarpodcast.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
While you're reflecting on this year that is almost past, check out our new episode on nostalgia! @hotelbarpodcast.bsky.social @philosophymatters.bsky.social @jenhkling.bsky.social
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
As this Crimethinc article I keep coming back to says:
crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/w...
crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/w...
December 19, 2025 at 4:13 AM
As this Crimethinc article I keep coming back to says:
crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/w...
crimethinc.com/2018/03/22/w...
Reposted by Lachlan Musicman
www.youtube.com/watch?v=phV7... Best Chinese Movies of 2025 (and more) by @accentedcinema.bsky.social
Best Chinese Movies of 2025 (and more)
YouTube video by Accented Cinema
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=phV7... Best Chinese Movies of 2025 (and more) by @accentedcinema.bsky.social