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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

From the haircuts, guessing around 2003?

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The Centre for Computing History @computinghistory.org.uk · 18/07/2026

Did you help create Britain’s first digital time capsule? In 1985-86, thousands of UK schoolchildren contributed to the BBC Domesday Project. We’re reconnecting people with their work and collecting memories. Took part? Complete our survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/s5HEvKBkV4

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I've just checked and we all looked better than we gave ourselves credit for at the time, however anyone was feeling inside. Fresh-faced and glossy-haired, even after zero hours' sleep in a tent...

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I really like your commitment to historical John clothing style accuracy here - I remember all of those T-shirts (and probably have photos of most, which I won't post here, as 1994 can stay in the analogue world for now)!

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The Wire 508 is out now! Featuring Seefeel on the cover, plus Ibrahim Alfa Jnr, Asher Gamedze, Magic Tuber Stringband, Emilie Škrijelj & Tom Malmendier, Guttersnipe's Jukebox, KINACT, Egg Meat, Paul Pinto and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I love running this project and this year's edition comes with added scenic view (or cave) potential!

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Huddersfield library will make you happy then (just browsing Bsky while my kid's at coding club and remembered spotting it previously)!

Shelf of war-themed library books with Men at War displayed between Army Girls and The Confidence Men.

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Drew Daniel @drewdaniel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Petite (3kg) cat, 2 x 100g pouches, supplemented by occasional treats and her insatiable appetite for local rodents (which she does actually eat). She would eat more and get fatter if we offered it.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Still creeping out visitors to the @mediamuseum.bsky.social to this day!

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

📣NEW CALLOUT: YSWN Rewired To celebrate YSWN turning 10 this year, we’re launching Rewired: artistic commissions for women and gender-diverse people working with electronic music and sound art in Yorks & the Humber. We're offering: • 3 micro-commissions of £750 • 1 main commission of £1,500 🧵1/4

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

🎉NEW CROWDFUNDER: We’re launching Rewired, a callout for Yorkshire-based women and gender-diverse musicians and sound artists to create and share new electronic work in early 2026. And we’re asking for your support to make it bigger and better. Find out more: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/yswn-rewired

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

By 'eating', you mean making them into banana loaf, right? That's the only way I manage it...

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

This is going to be awesome, and did we mention it's FREE? Evening performances (and Sunday's family workshop) open to all!

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This'll be fun, and if it isn't, you can come heckle me on the correct pronunciation of Tago Mago, or something...

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Slightly diminish a book Spanner of the Gods

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Just been on the A646 through Calderdale and there were some feeble attempts on the boarded-up windows of an ex-pub there.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Not to get too LinkedIn on here, but I have some spare freelance capacity this autumn so DM me if you're looking to hire a music writer, copywriter (certified actual human), editor, comms person or ultra-nerdy proofreader. Newsletters, festival brochures, hacking down words to fit, whatever!

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Jake Blanchard @jakeblanchard.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Just added 12 paintings to my Big Cartel- jakeblanchard.bigcartel.com £40-£60 each. I’ve been unable to work the last few weeks due to a wrist injury and my usual chronic pain situation so any support is greatly appreciated! #paintings #artwork #acrylic #psychedelic #nature #illustration #posca

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Derek Walmsley @derekwalmsley.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Oh! New Wire arrived while I was on holiday. There’s a fantastic @abibliss.bsky.social interview with the two remaining Cabs unknotting much of their history plus I was psyched to talk to members of Black Audio Film Collective about their industrial relations

Front cover of September issue of The Wire with Cabaret Voltaire on the cover

Article on the Black industrialism of Black Audio Film Collective and their relationship with the music and ethos of the Cabs

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Dream interview chatting to Cabaret Voltaire and looking forward to reading all the other essays on them too!

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Nice day to walk 369 steps up the world's (allegedly) tallest folly, the 'Tower of Spite' product of some impressively expensive Victorian landowner beef: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wainhou... Thanks to Visit Calderdale volunteers for opening it all up!

Wainhouse tower, a tall Victorian stone chimney with an ornate top.

My partner and I looking rather warm at the top of the tower. Behind is a stone balustrade and a view out across Halifax.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I'm playing in this tomorrow but don't let that put you off!

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Really enjoyed talking to Crystabel Efemena Riley for this about the spaces we find, make and lose, and the shared languages of free improvisation and makeup:

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Yorkshire Sound Women Network @yswn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

TOMORROW! Our @oramawards.bsky.social X YSWN event at Gut Level in Sheffield with @loubarnell.bsky.social performing her live dreamscape GINKO, tape loops from Helen Papaioannou, modular synth from @artistschild.bsky.social and ethereal alt-pop from Cherry Seraph. Tickets: ra.co/events/2155976 🧵1/2

Poster for Oram Awards x YSWN event showing a red-tinted photo of a mini-Oramics machine on a purple-blue background. Text says: 31 May 2025, 5-10pm, Oram Awards x YSWN Changing Gear. Oram Awards and Yorkshire Sound Women Network team up for an evening at Gut Level.
Workshop: Mini-Oramics Machine with Tom Richards
Changing Gear Live: Helen Papaioannou, Cherry Seraph, Artists' Child
Oram Awards Live: Lou Barnell

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

In truth, they all look a bit too optimistic to be waiting for a TPE service...

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Venus in Fur Fabrics First We Take The Manhattan Bus Trans-Pennine Express Nick The Paint Stripper

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Would very much recommend a digital subscription if you don't have a creaking loft like me. 40+ years' worth of searchable issues and your roof beams will remain intact...

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Looking forward to chatting with @elizabethalker.bsky.social about her new book and all things music when this comes around!

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

So did mine! Nestled between the Homepride book and The Bean Book, inevitably.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

True, but I've carried my copy of this around long after the bedsit days and it's served me well... ...However, I have never yet ventured into the chapter on budget dieting, as that's a whole new level of cabbage-salad grimness.

Cover of 'The Pauper's Cookbook' featuring a very '70s brown-tinged photo of a pork and bean stew in an earthenware pot.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Drove past some horrible billboard ads for it today, too - one with a transphobic line about "men muscling in on women's sports" and its neighbour with some 'can't even say you're proud of your country' style nonsense. Weirdly non-Telegraph-buying (but possibly Reform-voting) area of Huddersfield.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Post a photo of yourself from a different era: 1) Home painted Op Art and a black velvet Desiderata poster (top right)... it's June 1980, but still 1973 somehow. 2) Chesil Beach, later in summer 1980, jacket handed down from sometime in the '70s.

Abi as a toddler sitting on a pile of 1970s fabric cushions, playing with a plastic doll. Behind her, a white wall has been painted with an Op Art style circular stripy design.

Toddler Abi lying on large grey and brown rounded pebbles on Chesil Beach, grimacing with her eyes shut, wearing blue jeans, red wellies and a beige sheepskin jacket with wooden toggles.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I bought my partner a set of the Sorcery! books for Xmas and made a point of trawling eBay for the Penguin/Puffin editions with all the John Blanche illustrations rather than the terrible newer versions.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

So much better! The Gollancz one has strong 'Not a question, more of a comment'-guy vibes.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

What about this trio of real charmers threatening me with a good time?

Gollancz editions of The Lathe of Heaven and The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin and Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany, all featuring illustrations of gloomy, grimacing men on the cover and little idea of what the books are about.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Yep, I felt quite reassured when I looked into my family tree and found generations of sturdy, dumpy Kentish peasants* who often lived into their 80s and 90s (as did my maternal gran, who was 5' tall and similar round). *And one French cork-grower

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I've been painting the kitchen ceiling with this as motivation today - same era, and absolutely on fire: soundcloud.com/rem-official...

soundcloud.com

SoundCloud - Hear the world’s sounds

Explore the largest community of artists, bands, podcasters and creators of music & audio

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Finally got around to reading this last year after having my English teacher's passing mention of it lodged in the back of my brain for 30+ years and now I'm in the buying-it-for-friends'-birthdays stage of enthusiasm.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see

Fictional 1980s punk band Jerusalem Crickets having a bad gig (as always), depicted in Love and Rockets #21.

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

1960s food mixer (inherited from grandma), 1996 microwave, 1940s cake tins, 1890 violin

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

"Class 2's Star of the Week: The Idiot"

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Abi Bliss @abibliss.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

First primary: Dave Prowse/Green Cross Code Man Second primary: John 'Pugwash...no that's an urban myth' Ryan Secondary: David Bellamy (opened the new science block, hadn't yet sullied himself with climate scepticism)

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