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Fraser H @hungryforsound.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Way home music, something lush, gorgeous and very relaxing. Loving this, will no doubt feature on the AOTY listings for me hvalfugl.bandcamp.com/album/island

hvalfugl.bandcamp.com

Island, by Hvalfugl

11 track album

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The new Belbury Poly album, Sorcery, looks to the 80s instead of the 70s. With Christopher Budd joining on fretless bass (and more) and a name-check of Japan in the promo copy, "Crawlspace" can be heard as homage to Mick Karn

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Crawlspace

YouTube video by Belbury Poly - Topic

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BOFA Rewards, seriously? The joke writes itself

Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been talking about getting this on a license plate frame for so long that my wife got me one for my birthday!

A red license plate frame with text in white caps reading:
"MY OTHER CAR IS A
HERKIMER BATTLE JITNEY"

(the finest non-lethal military vehicle ever made)

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Richard Ayoade's outfits on Taskmaster Season 22 are impeccable, with his studio ensemble of Episode 4 the best so far. He's my new fashion inspiration (for those rare occasions when I actually go somewhere and it matters how I look)

Richard Ayoade seated in the Taskmaster studio, wearing wide-legged olive trousers, a dusty light green blouson, a green, gold, and navy scarf, dusty rose socks, and tricolored chukka boots

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Neil Welliver (American, 1929–2005) "Sky in Cora’s Marsh", 1988. Color Woodcut, 69.8 × 76.2 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

40-some years I have waited to see Cabaret Voltaire, and it's happening tomorrow night!!!

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It finally worked! Now I'm back from the brink of 94% space used to 49%.

Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Shower thought: "one of these things is not like the other, one of these thing just doesn't belong" was not the best wording for teaching similarities/differences to young children

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am fascinated by crape myrtle trunk and bark patterns

Crape myrtle roots and multi-trunk (about two dozen)

Crape myrtle with three main trunks that then split into more, some veering off nearly horizontally

A shrub-sized crape myrtle with dozens of trunks

404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026

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NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

404media.co

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.

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theroundtable.bandcamp.com

Another one from The Roundtable label: "SYNTHS, SAX & SITUATIONISTS (Music From The French Underground 1973-78)" (shut-up-and-take-my-money.gif)

SYNTHS, SAX & SITUATIONISTS (Music From The French Underground 1973-78), by Various Artists

6 track album

For most of my life the Dwarf and Slow-Growing Conifer Collection at the National Arboretum has reminded me of the toxic plant planet colonized by a hippie cult in Star Trek

Several different species of bushy considered and a bed of pink flowers

Just watched Mazes and Monsters (1982) which, as a D&D scare movie, can't be anything but cheesy, but the downtempo psychedelic jazz-funk that plays as Tom Hanks is wandering in a daze around dirty New York City is sheer perfection

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I can't find apps on my phone when they change the icon, even if it's in the same place it's always been

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🇦🇺Holy grail electronic 4-track soul-jazz album originally released in ‘76 Rediscovered by the fab Australian label Roundtable, which unearths & reissues recordings from the 60s & 70s If you’re a serious jazz head who likes fusion & funk, check it & dig it! theroundtable.bandcamp.com/album/colours

theroundtable.bandcamp.com

Colours, by Judy Bailey Quartet

4 track album

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Google really trying to make me buy more storage space by NOT DELETING MY TRASH NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I TELL IT TO 🤬

Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is based on the faulty premise that it will be profitable

Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Cryptonomicon is a great poster child for ebooks

Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I've been hearing "Trump is done for now" takes since his first presidential campaign so I don't put any stock in the ones about his health

worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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we need more bats on here

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Haruomi Hosono - Yours Sincerely - we are blessed to still have him; his new album is both whimsical and wistful. Includes a brief setting of Edward MacDowell's "To A Wild Rose", which was the bridal march at my (ill-fated) first wedding

haruomihosono.bandcamp.com

Yours Sincerely, by Haruomi Hosono

10 track album

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Wanted to join in on Mystery Jukebox today but this week's host is blocking me. 😕

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Started a new attempt at Disco Elysium after not getting very far the first time. This time I found the shirt! Last time I only found the pants and jacket and was vaguely uncomfortable the whole time as a result. A promising start!

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Finally taking the dive into Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, and struck by the novelty of "a portable e-mail machine that talks to the Internet by radio" in 1999

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thinking of trying Disco Elysium again, but with voices turned off. They talk so slowly I can't stand it

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have been trying to see Chopteeth Afrofunk Big Band for 16 years and it's about to happen! They are setting up now on the Greenbelt Labor Day Festival music stage 🤩

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I am disqualified from about half of the YouGov surveys I start when I answer that I don't/won't use AI. Seems like sample bias to me

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I see CDs are hot again, yay! I picked these up for a buck apiece yesterday at a PTA book sale

Morelenbaum^2/Sakamoto - Casa
Evan Lurie - Selling Water by the Side of the River
Trio Da Kali and Kronos Quartet - Ladilikan
Sheila Chandra - ABoneCroneDrone
Sheila Chandra - Weaving My Ancestors' Voices
Sheila Chandra - The Zen Kiss

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The experience of watching The Reflecting skin in my 20 was a series of gleeful "that's so fucked up!" at each seemingly random plot development. At 60, recognizing there are actual themes at play, it is profoundly sad #FolkHorrorFriday

"Innocence can be hell" she says as she gets in the murderers' car #FolkHorrorFriday

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Terrible miking in this movie, subtitles are a must #FolkHorrorFriday

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"Should have got out before she drains you" Who is the real vampire? #FolkHorrorFriday

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"Sheriff says it's a short leap from kissing to killing" yep, sounds like a cop #FolkHorrorFriday

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"In gonna burst" Just like that frog, eh? #FolkHorrorFriday

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"Smell my dead one!" Stashing that away to use sometime #FolkHorrorFriday

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This apology visit is not what he expected, for sure #FolkHorrorFriday

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My unsolicited Star Trek opinion is that when Data got his emotion chip he should have acted like a human with no ability to control their emotions: a baby. And it should have taken at least ten years to get them under control.

Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I haven't seen this since the 90s, #folkhorrorfriday is a perfect opportunity to revisit it

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I love Steve Miller's "Fly Like An Eagle" and every cover of it that I've heard. Just heard a new one (to me), courtesy of my erstwhile WVUD colleague Ako, by Lezlie Harrison with some sweet Hammond organ by Ben Paterson

lezlieharrison.bandcamp.com

Fly Like An Eagle, by Lezlie Harrison

from the album Let Them Talk

Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Best concerts that you ALMOST got to see but DIDN’T. Hawkwind, at the Bayou: show canceled Hawkwind, at Union Transfer: tour canceled Foetus at (old) 9:30 Club: canceled Danielle Dax: already committed to a different show that night with my girlfriend

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Still salty that the Apple TV series of The Changeling took eight episodes to cover half of a single novel

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 29/08/2026

The Aleatorica Orchestra - Sands [Russia – Post Rock, Avantgarde, Prog, Jazz] (1993) Another beautiful and athmosperic instrumental, to find on the debut album by this extraordinary russian band testing the limits of post roc redd.it/p9wjlx youtu.be/BusrfZ2RB60

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Bill Barnett @burlveneer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tim Curry's Pennywise sounds really fun, but having read the synopsis of It, it sounds stupid as shit so I will never read or watch it.