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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 24/09/2026

The new issue of Save Ferric has landed through my letterbox, thanks and well done @mflah.bsky.social 👏🏽 📼 #CassetteCulture

Issue 3 of Mike Flaherty's brilliant cassette culture fanzine - spread out on a faux marble table top.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 22/09/2026

The benefits of a super early start for son's new school, is I get a run in through the local park / National Trust site before starting work for the day.

An early morning scene with the sun blazing across a large parkland area, with trees, grass and a blue sky in shot.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 20/09/2026

#Shocktober #Halloween My brother bought me this - it's a copy of a much beloved book that my nan used to have in her house, and every Saturday I would eagerly leaf through its pages when I was waaaaay too young, and find comfort in its macabre and terrifying imagery. It's why I love horror today.

Peter Cushing watches Shane Briant analysing a Frankenstein style man - completely white but with blood red markings round his head and neck, in Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Hammer 1973) on the front of a hardback entitled 'Horror Films' by Alan Frank (1977).

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/09/2026

Well that was very fun to build :) Perfect unwinding task. #Lego #Gameboy

A Lego Game boy with incredible detail and 'moving' faux screen sits beside a Lego Zelda game cartridge. They are on a shelf beside a fake Lego record player, a vintage toy van with Marvel characters on it, and various books about art, hiphop and cassette culture.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 13/09/2026

Vinyl too 🩶. Reading this right now - fantastic.

Long Shadows, High Hopes. The life and times of Matt Johnson and The The by Neil Fraser

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 13/09/2026

#Cassunday I'm going through a massive The The period; Matt Johnson was an outlier in the 80s and early 90s for marrying pop rock and social commentary before his peers. This is a banger. Mind Bomb // The The 1989 // Some Bizarre/Epic records.

The cover of Mind Bomb carries a photo of Matt Johnson's face instead of the usual, more surreal and challenging, artwork by his brother Andy "Dog" Johnson.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 06/09/2026

Super chuffed with my *strictly limited* edition @strawberrystation.bsky.social mixtape, made especially for @mypetflamingo.bsky.social's Eccos of the Past #vaporwave & #FutureFunk night @ Folklore, London 5/9/26. Picked up some stickers from Strawbs too. Lovely to meet you again, man. Top set!

Strawberry Station loving life during his set at Eccos of the Past. He is wearing a classic Floral Shoppe tee.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 06/09/2026

Desert Sand Feels Warm at Night / 新世界の弟子たち [New World Disciples] / 2021 @desertsand.bsky.social. Artwork by @zer0rei.bsky.social. Signed copy. #Cassunday #CassetteCulture #Slushwave

Artwork by Zer0 Rei. A surreal Dune-like desert with a red sky features a shadowy hooded figure standing in front of pyramid sculptures. An obi strip lies next to the tape with Japanese writing on it. A Sanyo Walkman lays open with a golden and deep red / brown cassette inside.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 25/08/2026

It's my birthday and I am on a beach in Greece reading about Matt Johnson and The The. All is right with my little world today.

A beach scene. A biography of Matt Johnson of The The sits on a lounger, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. The sun glistens on the waves.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 16/08/2026

Synthwave supremo L'Avenue's cassettes dropped this week for new album, En Vogue. And it's some of his best work without a doubt. #synthwave #NewMusic #CassetteCulture #Cassunday

L'Avenue's new album En Vogue features a stylised image of a young woman in an 80s high end fashion shoot. We see her face close up as she wears a pink triangular earing and 80s aesthetic make-up. She is a brunette. The tape box sits on a Sanyo Walkman - visible inside is a matching hot pink tape with sharp firey shards on the design. They all rest on a white plain surface.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 22/07/2026

Check your bowels, guys. After years of problems, a rather unpleasant sigmoidoscopy procedure today diagnosed diverticular disease. Rather that than anything more sinister! God bless the NHS though; all free (i.e paid for by my taxes), and each specialist had a smile, good humour & kindness.

I look like this because 1/3 of my bowel had just been examined via you know where. But it's okay, guys.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/07/2026

Incredible scenes watching this IRL this afternoon. BBC News - London Diamond League results: Josh Kerr smashes men's mile world record - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

GB's Josh Kerr doing a runaround after beating a 27 year held world record for fastest run mile.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/07/2026

At the London Olympic Stadium for the London Athletics Meet 2026 #LondonDL @diamondleague.bsky.social

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 14/07/2026

Yes! The plus side of this incredible heat and sunshine, this year my garden tomato crop is coming in properly. Last year they stayed green on the vine and I had to make a chutney from them. #Homegrown

An outstretched arm holding a picked tomato from a plant.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 05/07/2026

All the things at once. Trying to double screen #Wimbledon and #FIBA qualifiers at the same time. Come on GB basketball, and let's have Djokovic beat the Russian.

GB playing Iceland to qualify in the FIBA World Cup (basketball)

Djocovic playing Safiullin at Wimbledon.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 04/07/2026

Well done Fery !! Epic match tonight (which I watched from home), but I saw him this week at the tournament IRL, playing Otto Virtanen. Amazing wildcard GB, making opportunities, and now in top 100 players #Wimbledon 🎾

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 01/07/2026

Incredible to be able to get resale tickets at Wimbledon yesterday to witness Serena Williams playing. She put up a huge effort to challenge Maya Joint; the younger player eventually taking the 3rd set to win. What a legend though.

Dodgy phone pic of Serena Williams - using pop filter

Serena Williams in full swing, returning a point

Under the closed roof at Centre Court at Wimbledon - early second set, with Serena Williams on the right, and Australian Maya Joint on the left.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 23/06/2026

Great - HOT AF - day at the Wimbledon Qualifiers in Roehampton yesterday (I was spotted on the telly apparently). Saw a few GBR players - including Dan Evans, and Paul Jubb, respectively win their matches. Well done, fellas.

Dan Evans in full flow, returning a serve at the Wimbledon Qualifiers

Paul Jubb, 27 year old at the start of his Wimbledon career - having debuted a couple of short years ago.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 21/06/2026

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons image.

The Simpsons meme of grandpa in the paper while he shakes his fist at the sky - with the headline 'Old Man Yells At Cloud'.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 20/06/2026

Billy Nomates, and Soul II Soul were absolute highlights and long sought-after live gigs, today @mertoncouncil.bsky.social #StartOfTheLine festival ♥️

Billy Nomates (Tor) on the Start of The Line Main stage.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/06/2026

Very much looking forward to digging into @helenebismarck.bsky.social's new book, Fantastic Kingdom, in the coming days. It's just arrived :)

Helen Von Bismarck's Fantastic Kingdom sits in half-sunlight on a chair with a grey, white, and yellow rectangular design.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 14/06/2026

Saw a Saga single issue (#43) in local @thebhf.bsky.social charity shop, which always gets lots of (likely one individual's) comics and graphics novels. Read it before digitally but nice to own in hardcopy. #ComicSky

Issue 43 of Saga comic has protagonist, Alana, on a strange looking horse with colourful stripes and a mohican. She is dressed like a cowboy.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 05/06/2026

Finally home after a brilliant 2 days supporting the Chartered Institute of Fundraising's Let's Talk podcast at the annual convention and awards. I did find 5mins to read though....

Rob is sitting in a ridiculously oversized deckchair, with Chartered Institute of Fundraising branding, reading AI for Public Relations, edited by Stephen Waddington and Ben Verinder.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/05/2026

I find it "interesting" that once again BBC News has led with a story with Reform voter dog whistles. It's on migrant phone shopkeepers running operations which "fund smugglers and small boats". It's similar to one on legal advisors "coaching migrants to pose as gay" in order to seek UK asylum...

A screengrab of BBC News website. Underneath the one headlined "UK companies linked to payments for small boats, BBC finds" is an emerging story about WHO giving up an update on the Ebola and Hantavirus outbreaks.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/05/2026

It's always a great day at the Super League Basketball playoffs, and an antidote to the political, culture war divisiveness going on the background. Pledging to myself to expend more energy in fun stuff - and to supporting the London Lions all year round! 🏀🦁

A big crown sitting inside the o2 arena in London, at the centre on the ground is a large basketball court.

Closer action of play inside the o2 arena. A large crowd watches the London Lions play the Cheshire Phoenix basketball teams.

Close up of a dance troupe entertaining the o2 arena crowds in between play.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 12/05/2026

It's arrived! @stephenwaddington.bsky.social & Ben Verinder's new book, 'AI for Public Relations', joins my well-read FuturePRoof no. 6 (AI tools for PR) as part of my reading list. & just for the irony / old school touch, I've laid them next to my trusty & battered Filofax - which I use everyday.

'AI for Public Relations' lies next to FuturePRoof edition 6 (AI tools for PR). And just for the irony / old school touch, I've laid them next to my trusty and battered Filofax - which I use everyday for appointments, meetings notes, and scraps of things to remember. Keeping it analogue.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 11/05/2026

Reading Csikszentmihalyi's 1990 classic, 'Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience', & can't help but attach some of his thinking to the prolific use of AI now. Ppl are outsourcing their happiness - & cognitive ability; & becoming miserable as they give away the enjoyment of learning to machines.

Image is a battered edition of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s 1990 book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. It's a lovely teal colour.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 10/05/2026

Okay - this rayu, made by friends of friends - is well nice on avocado on toast, with a lentil, tomato, mustard, & dill salad on the side. What you having for brunch?

Korean style peanut rayu on avocado on toast, with a lentil, tomato & dill salad on the side.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 08/05/2026

Kanji and vaporwave aesthetic continuing to represent in mainstream fashion....these in Sainsbury's:

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 04/05/2026

Joined MC Till's Everybody's HipHop community, finally. My go to for new boombap every month 🎧. Chipping in where I can - discovered loads of new hiphop artists and releases from Till.

An image of a boombox with Everybody's HipHop written above it. At the bottom is membership details for Rob Dyson.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 02/05/2026

Can confirm the cassette-boxed USB plug and play version of Nobody Here looks amazing in HD in my telly.

A big screen TV is showing a USB plug and play HD version of the vaporwave documentary Nobody Here. A lego portrait of Batman looks on.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 27/04/2026

Some evening Mac Lacrosse / @occams-laser.bsky.social in the form of 2023's Truth Decay. Love side 2 in particular.

The cassette cover of Truth Decay has a faux ripped barcode sticker over the top of a young woman's face; cut off at her eyes - she has her fingers lightly touching the bottom lip of her mouth which wears glossy red lipstick. It resembles a fashion magazine photograph.

The tape sits on a Sanyo Walkman.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 26/04/2026

Lovely morning stroll / jog with these companions.

My feet in a pair of old maroon Adidas with holes everywhere

A beauty spot of river, trees and wildlife in South London (River Wandle)

Oooh Rap I Ya by George Clanton - which has an abstract cover design in oranges, blues, yellows and green

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 25/04/2026

Another fun fact, I love cooking - and here is tonight's "scruffy lasagne".

A plate of scruffy lasagne with wholewheat past sheets broken up and cooked inside a mix of beef mince, carrots, celery, cauliflower, baby spinach, tahini, oregano, miso paste, sundried tomatoes,green lentils, smoked paprika, onion, garlic - topped with basil and chili flakes.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 24/04/2026

Fun fact, my journey into loving synthesised music - which would ultimately lead me to synthwave and vaporwave - began in the late 1980s when my parents took us to the Ideal Home Exhibition in London, and at one point there was a huge laser light show set to Jean Michel Jarre music. It was profound.

A laser show scene inside a large venue.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 24/04/2026

As briefly referenced in the new Nobody Here doc [now in SD on YouTube for free!], the *first* 2814 album sounds amazing in the sunshine. This was the precursor to the legendary 'Birth of a New Day', but is still lovely. Watch Nobody Here, free: youtube.com/watch?v=6kNq...

A Nobody Here promo cap lies on the grass next to an old Sanyo Walkman and the cassette format version of the inaugural 2814 release, 2814 [self titled].

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 23/04/2026

As part of my AI training for PR teams offering (I have done workshops for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social & @CharityComms.bsky.social) - I'm getting further certified through @anthropic.com. I offer online 'power hours' or on-site IRL training for charities' comms teams. Hit me up.

AI fluency or nonprofits certificate for training through the team at Anthropic AI.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 21/04/2026

The release and reception of Nobody Here makes me want to revisit this, which - while it will have aged beyond forgiveness - still has a nice storytelling narrative and some cool aesthetics.

A dvd version of the 2019 documentary Rise of the Synths, by Ivan Castell.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 20/04/2026

It's tonight! The global premiere of Nobody Here. I had a sneak early preview in order to write my review: future-sounds.uk/2026/04/16/n.... You're going to love it.

A dark, neon lit room has a laptop with The Story of vaporwave on the screen, and to its right a larger monitor with a scene from the movie (people at a live gig). Dotted around the laptop and monitor are house plants and a neon pink flamingo light, as well as a Nobody Here merch cap and cassette.

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Rob Dyson ✍️ 📼 🎧 @robdysonpr.uk · 18/04/2026

Really pleased I gifted my hardcover version, and re-bought the paperback of Ash Sarkar's excellent Minority Rule. The new afterword is worth the price of admission; "In an age that profits from keeping us isolated & suspicious, every relationship of trust that we nurture is an act of defiance" 🤝✊🏽

MINORITY RULE leaps from the front cover in bold dynamic superhero colours of red, blue and yellow. ASH SARKAR's name does the same below. The subtitle is Adventures in the Culture War.

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