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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I recently read "Mood Machine" by Liz Pelly and it significantly eroded my appetite for producing/releasing music. It also increased my respect for the people who invest their effort and energy in it when vast cultural and economic structures stand in their way.

Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

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(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Agree, that is monstrous (in a good way)

brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"One to check!" written on the stickers

brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I prefer to stay away from that kind of stuff too, although I do have a Boy And The Heron themed T-shirt that once caused a colleague to gingerly ask me if I knew what it was. They were visibly relieved when I said yes (although I shamed myself later on by forgetting who directed Pom Poko)

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The other day a work colleague was wearing a New Order "Technique" t-shirt so I complimented him on his music taste. Turns out he'd never heard that New Order was a band

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It wasn't too bad, I got good feedback on a Sylvanian Families* birthday card more recently, so I have some life left in me yet! * although they call them Calico Critters here

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I lost dad points when I made Esther a Kpop Demon Hunters Christmas card - already played out by then

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What's she reading? I'm always on the lookout for book tips

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

AI slop cover of Billie Jean plays in background: I furrow my brow but don't really pick up on the fakery AI slop cover of The Message comes on next: by the time the second bar begins I've already pulled the speakers out of their sockets and hurled them across the room in disgust

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If sulphur is a "niche yellow powder" then I wonder what counts as a "mainstream yellow powder". Sand?

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 13/02/2026

My jaw dropped at this quote

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Sounds similar to my experience. I have a Garmin watch which tracks heart rate, sleep data and so on - it reckons my REM sleep cratered during the illness, and is just slowly inching back to normality now. This was all despite getting the flu vaccine (probably kept me out of hospital though!)

brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Made it to the last day of the Art of Manga exhibition at the de Young museum on Sunday, cosplaying as a culture vulture. It was educational - I'd never realised manga's breadth and diversity. A curatorial panel described it as a medium rather than a genre, and by the end I saw what they mean

brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I had it in the first half of January, it wasn't fun at all. Although I did manage to emerge with my caffeine habit intact

josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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My dentist can do it all, from a simple cleaning to identifying my charred remains

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Then YT Music followed it up with a horrific schranzy techno atrocity at 200% volume. Nearly had a heart attack. Back to DJ school for Sundar Pichai

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Days since last out-of-body experience triggered by Model 500 Starlight (Intrusion Dub): 0

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konnaire @konnaire.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

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Gigi Economy @dan-bean.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It's that special time of year again...

Season's Greetings card depicting a monster clawing at another monster, festively.

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

After watching episode 7 of Pluribus last night I had to go straight to Bandcamp and start mainlining "Esperanza" by Hermanos Gutiérrez hermanosgutierrez.bandcamp.com/track/espera...

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The Daily Mail has been relentlessly attacking the BBC over the editing of Trump quotes in a documentary and look: It completely fabricated a quote from a BBC presenter. Robinson should sue them for, ooh, at least $2 billion dollars as it’s worse than what they accused the BBC of.

Clarifications & corrections
•A COMMENT piece in Wednesday's paper wrongly
In fact Mr Robinson made no
• To report an inaccuracy, please
such statement. We apologise email corrections@dailymail.co.uk.
claimed that BBC Today
for the error.

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

In a just world, RZA would be a billionaire and Dr Dre would have a voice acting credit on Minions: The Rise of Gru

brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this"

brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Just got woken up at 3am by a legitimately scary earthquake and realised that I have terrible earthquake instincts - went running to my kid's bedroom when I should be rolling under the nearest bit of furniture

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I recently walked past a car that had a Terrance McKenna bumper sticker, which also made me think of this album. Thanks for posting the link, now I can have a re-listen too!

Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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Is this the coolest backdrop on Channel 4 News ever? I mean, Cluster &Eno?!

Man on Zoom with CDs behind him, including Joy Division, Cluster and Eno, MARRS, Talk Talk etc.

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Props to whoever is writing these "Cloud+" phishing emails, they've been running rings around Gmail's spam filters for a good few weeks now

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I've been considering whether to get one to sell stuff on Marketplace, sounds like it's probably not worth the psychic damage

brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

If you did, it would give some of us the chance to stroke our chins saying "of course, I was into PC Hipsta before it went mainstream"

brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Found this old PC Hipsta cartoon in the archives and was glad to see that @pchipsta.bsky.social made it over here

Cartoon of hipster police officer saying "can you stop filming me like that" to a person holding a smartphone. The person thinks his rights are being violated but the hipster policeman's objection is actually that the video is being filmed in portrait mode

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Still less wild than the Louis Theroux thing IMO, boggled my mind to arrive in the US and hear it on pop radio all the time

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Chris Plummer @chrisplummer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

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brelson @brelson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Pouring one out for Google Reader as I type this