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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

With the future of Rochdale's iconic (or some may just call them memorable) College Bank flats still to be decided, I took a wander around and shot some photos before they go (or change). Descriptions in the alt-text. Check the full gallery here - www.anexium.com/photos/colle...

A photograph of the Mitchell Hey block. Shot quite square on, the block rises out of the trees at the base of the image, rising towards the top of the frame. The picture is black & white and in portrait orientation. The flats with their balconies make up two parallel columns up the building. To their right, making a fifth column (in an architecture way, not an colluding with the enemy way) are bricks - an usual choice for many tower blocks nowadays but quite common when these blocks were built. There is staining on the bricks where the mortar has repointed and started to leech. In the background, the edge of the Dunkirk Rise block peeks out.

A lower shot of the Holland Rise block. It looks quite squat in this image, and being only 15 stories high it is lower then 4 of the other blocks. Behind the block you can see the edge of the Mardyke block - another of the 15 storey blocks. In front of Holland Rise is the walkway that goes over the garage road and on to the Underwood block. There are trees to the left side of the image, these are what shield the plazas between the blocks from the road the passes the flats.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I doubt there's an international football team who can go from the opposing penalty area back to their keeper faster than England.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've done some new smoke and flash pictures. Check out the full gallery here - www.anexium.com/photos/smoki... #photography #smoke #flash #art #pareidolia

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today I learned that "open until 10pm" is actually a synonym for "we've left the lights but all fucked off home, so actually, we're closed". Which is fair enough if you're an off licence, but less so if you're a FUCKING PHARMACY.

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Robin Rimbaud - Scanner @scannerdot.com · 20/09/2026

Amazing to hear what is probably the earliest live recording of British electronic beat combo Autechre, in Rochdale for Darrell Fitton's birthday party 1990 youtu.be/M70jmp-RCeY?...

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Autechre - AE_LIVE_ROCHDALE_221290

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Shot some smoke photography the other night. Wasn't a huge success - couldn't get the smoke to bloom nicely - but I'm happy with how these three came out. Bit of colour correction applied.

It's a colourfully lit close-up of smoke trails. They're swirling in front of a black background. The lower left quarter is a reddish-orange, while the upper-right quarter is a sharp blue. It's a great example of fluid dynamics and could look like a nebula photograph that NASA may release.

It's a colourfully lit close-up of smoke trails. They're swirling in front of a black background. The upper and lower thirds are a reddish-orange hue, the centre third a sharp blue. There's a flash of blue in the top-left corner. It's a great example of fluid dynamics and could look like a nebula photograph that NASA may release.

It's a colourfully lit close-up of smoke trails. They're swirling in front of a black background. These are mostly red as they fade backwards, with the front most swirls taking on a blue hue. It's a great example of fluid dynamics and could look like a nebula photograph that NASA may release.

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nothing predicted the future of the internet more accurately than Nathan Barley.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

All wrestling shows should have a dog.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For my 1000th post, I'll give this a little bump. Five albums! 70+ tracks! 50+ unreleased until now! Ronseal naming convention! Pay what you want - if times are hard, you can get them for free! You'll not find a better deal! anexium.bandcamp.com

anexium.bandcamp.com

Anexium

Anexium started as a musical project in the latter half of the 1990s by Darren C Shaw. Taking influences from the early 90s rave scene, the nascent braindance scene and a love of the slightly odd, the...

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Dean McPhee @deanmcphee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A few photos of the gear used to record 'Northern Earth'.. 1. Pedalboard + Microbass Porchboard kick drum 2. Fender Telecaster & Fender Hotrod amp/speaker 3. Logjam rattlebox snare drum, slide and eBow 4. Crossover, DI and Preamp 5. Active 18" Subwoofer 'Northern Earth' is out now in record shops

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Got my copy through the post this morning from @normanrecords.com (they package everything really well so it took ages to get into it...) Looking forward to listening to this tonight. I'm also digging how the a-side/b-side legend is done in the Bass Ritual logo. A simple thing, but nicely done.

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Michael Emonds @michaelje67.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📆 Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. This powerful video from Norwich City highlights just how many people suffer in silence when they don’t have to. It's time to change the narrative on suicide. If you’re struggling, call Samaritans on: 116 123.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bought some wooden alphabet beads. They were only cheap. Two things. First, I'd love to know how they came up with this distribution of letters. Second, what happened to the letter "i"? Kind of an important letter. There's 8 in this message.

A top down show of a green and white cutting board. Atop the board are small piles of wooden beads arranged into rows. The beads have letters of the alphabet on them. There are 25 piles. Three piles in the top and bottom rows. 9 on the second and 10 on the third. We're missing the letter I.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Rochdale photos. Shot on Instax Wide and then heavily cropped.

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b3ta @b3ta.com · 07/09/2026

Artist: hYpe b3ta.com/board/11430928 From the 'Product Placement Books' challenge b3ta.com/challenge/productplacement… #ProductPlacementBooks

An image made by hYpe posted on B3ta, front paged by the moderators, and reposted on Bluesky by code automatically.

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Homebrew Electronica Show @showhomebrew.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Episode 93 now available to listen to at your leisure on Mixcloud, Apple Podcasts and other good podcast places. 🤩 Great to be back with a big stack of exciting new tunes, a couple of classics and a blissfully chilled out Zen Zone www.mixcloud.com/homebrewelec... www.buzzsprout.com/819121/episo...

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When they said stop the boats they didn't mean the cross channel ferries.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's Bandcamp Friday, so I'm going to plug my mate Andy. He does fantastic modular stuff - think more Autechre than arpeggiated noodling - and is regular at EMOMs. He's very good and you should go listen. amfreq.bandcamp.com (Oh, and mine is anexium.bandcamp.com)

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AM Frequencies

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No Place Like Drone @noplacelikedrone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

We'll be fahren auf der Ambient Autobahn from 9 PM tonight. Join us on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social for a medley of ambient, drone and experimental music to get your motor running.

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Homebrew Electronica Show @showhomebrew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This evening 6-8 on Mad Wasp Radio 🤩

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I've just seen the images of the new McLaren and Ferrari liveries for Monza. Talk about phoning it in. If they - and the F1 media - hadn't made such a fuss about it I honestly doubt anyone would actually have noticed.

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Homebrew Electronica Show @showhomebrew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Back on Mad Wasp Radio tomorrow evening between 6-8 after an extended Summer break. 🤩 Play this one loud, or not at all 😁

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I wish I could be so obsessively fixated on something as the people on my street are about jet washing their driveways. Barely a day goes by without one of them out there, cleaning one three-inch strip at a time. It's literally just stopped raining and there's one of them out there now.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Yes, it's another shameless plug. It's five albums that you can get for free. Plus - if I do say so myself - it's all great!

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My two recent camera purchases differ in size somewhat... #BigCamera #LittleCamera (Lomo Instant Wide Glass and - I think - Lenovo G17)

A top down photograph of two cameras lying on their backs on a wooden table. On the left is a Lomo Instant Wide Glass. It's big, really big. It's easily the width and height of three iPhones laid side-by-side. It's silver and black in colour with the back being a retro-themed vinyl pattern. To the right is a "Kodak"-styled mini camera. It's about the size of the thumb. It's yellow.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Fun fact. Today, Oldham is still in black & white, having rejected the move to colour in 1968. Residents voted almost 3-to-1 against the change, with some describing it as "unnatural" and "an affront to northern sensibilities".

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I've just created a flow in Power Automate to send me the weather every morning. I've never used Power Automate before (it's not part of my job) but I'm now the most proficient person in the entire company in using it. I may have to keep my proficiency to myself lest I end up as the "PA Guy".

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My five album retrospective is out now! 72 tracks - over 50 of which are unreleased/unheard - covering fierce drum & bass through to thoughtful electronica with a detour into the unsettled. Stream from the website or download on a pay-what-you-want basis. anexium.bandcamp.com

anexium.bandcamp.com

Anexium

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

anexium.bandcamp.com

Anexium

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Unusual dots of lights around the sun during tonight's #Eclipse. The double image shows that they're moving. I'm not suggesting that these are massive alien spacecraft circling the sun, but...

Two close-up images of tonight's solar eclipse. The eclipse is nearly over so the moon is only obscuring a small portion of the right-hand side of the sun. Around the sun, at roughly the 5 and 7 o'clock positions, are small dots of light - something is catching the light. For a laugh I've proposed that it's aliens, but realistically it's more likely to be something close to the camera.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Just found out that Flock call the compute unit for their latest cameras "Picard". They've got to be trolling here, everything that company does is antithetical to Picard's actions. Plus, pissing off the Star Trek fans is not going to end well for them.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is going up be released Monday 17th August 2026. Five albums, 70+ tracks. Pay what you want on bandcamp. There's half a dozen YouTube Shorts with snippets of the tracks to wet your whistle. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Retrospective Shorts - YouTube

A collection of Shorts promoting the Retrospective 1999-2011 album release.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Munich Court Rules AI Music Training Illegal "For Suno [...] that’s a clear signal that the existing approach of using copyrighted material for training without licensing it is going to be very hard to defend legally in Europe going forward." www.gearnews.com/gema-vs-suno...

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GEMA vs. Suno: Munich Court Now Rules AI Music Training Illegal - gearnews.com

GEMA vs. Suno: Munich's Regional Court rules AI music training illegal, the first European ruling to establish a licensing requirement for music AI.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 31/07/2026

This has really pissed me off, if you're in the area and can afford it go and give the cafe owner some money to help fund the kids meals. And if he refuses buy yourself a nice coffee and tip him as much as you can. Fuck Reform taking food from kids in need. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Reform council chief threatens to report café boss who fed kids for free to cops

EXCLUSIVE: Barry Ashley, who runs the Grumpy Cook café in Hastings, and Labour MP Helena Dollimore have been told by East Sussex County Council chief Andy Woolley that he plans to contact police after...

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Today is a full moon. My condolences to everyone working in retail, customer support or IT on these challenging days.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Nearly there. I've sorted the artwork and updated the website. It's now got the artwork previews and a link towards the Bandcamp page. Just need to sort out the housekeeping of the media files and some PR copy and we'll be ready for an August release. www.anexium.com/anexium/anexium.html

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

How's my day going? Well, I'm using Copilot to figure out the professional, business alternative to the phrase "useless bunch of fuckstains"...

A screenshot of a "conversation" with Copilot. It reads -

"What is the business professional way of saying "Stop being lazy. Just go and look at the source code and answer the questions I asked you seven months ago!"

Copilot

If you want the professional equivalent while still conveying urgency and accountability, here are a few options:

Direct and Firm

"To answer these questions properly, you'll need to review the source code rather than rely on assumptions. The information requested was first raised several months ago, so I'd appreciate it if you could investigate the codebase and provide a definitive response."

Manager-Friendly

"These questions have been outstanding for some time. Please take the opportunity to review the relevant source code and come back with evidence-based answers rather than high-level estimates or assumptions."

Polite but Pointed

"The answers should be available from the source code itself. Could you please..."

The text continues off the bottom of the screenshot.

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Matt Goldberg @mattgoldberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If you don't think people would want to see this movie, get out of the entertainment business.

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Coyote vs. ACME | Final Trailer

YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Looks like we're playing Fergie time. I'm surprised they've not declared it next Argentine goal wins.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The uniforms for the police around the pitch in the World Cup final are giving a real North Korea-style despotic regime vibe.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Nice short thread about how LLMs fake "memories" about their conversations.

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

One of my neighbours is doing some jet washing. Sat in my room I'm getting a very odd binaural experience - the sound of the pump though the back windows, the sound of water through the front windows. I'm down for avant garde audio, but this is starting to freak me out a little.

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Homebrew Electronica Show @showhomebrew.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Football may not be coming home 😞 but the Homebrew Electronica Show is coming back 🤩 To submit music for the show, please send a download link, Bandcamp code or mp3 attachment to me at homebrewhq@icloud.com

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Had the FA checked to see if Mike Bassett is available to take over from Tuchel?

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Darren Shaw @anexium.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For the France game on Saturday I propose that work go full Kevin Keegan and put 6 strikers and 4 midfielders. Sack off any defenders, let's just go balls out for the win.

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