iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This cool young dude is the Real Deal. Rapier wit. Rollercoaster plotting And dialogue so sharp it could cut carbon. When I grow up I want to be @callummcsorley.bsky.social

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Up. Face like a Paisley plasterer’s Motorola flip-phone. Hair like a shag-pile rug in the squat of a 70s hippy Free Love commune. Voice like Bungle being force-fed chunks of dissected Zippy. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Up*. Face like an Etch-A-Sketch doodle of Marty Feldman, drawn by Lennie Peters. Hair like Telly Savalas’s UHU’d dome after an hour in a feather-filled wind tunnel. Voice like Les Dawson being repeatedly kicked in the balls by Red Rum. Morning. *70s Celebrity Special

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Up. Face like the aristocrat formerly known as Prince tucking into cold grey porridge. Hair like a waxing clinic's used ‘Brazilian’ strips. Voice like a morose HR Pufnstuf: ‘who’s your friend when things get rough?’ Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Up. Face like Michelangelo’s ‘Davd’, not F Ross’s. Hair like Pompadour-era Elvis. Voice like Mahalia Jackson leading a celestial choir in ‘O Happy Day’ The goodest of mornings to ya.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Up. Face like a demonic dermatologist’s carpet. Hair like half-eaten Shredded Wheat dropped on a rug. Voice like a lapsed WeightWatchers celebratory orgy. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Up. Face like a determined Marty Feldman passing through the eye of a needle. Hair like the fraying ends of a Haight-Ashbury hippy’s jeans. Voice like a drunk R2-D2, chatting up a broken Dyson. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Up. Face like Stephen Miller in a hall of cracked mirrors. Hair, matted and wet, like DJT emerging from three days inside a Rostov-on-Don swingers gulag. Voice like a dove, about to be sacrificed for the ‘Board of Peace’ canapés. Morning.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Up. Face like an old man from Catatonia unable to understand why ice isn’t green. Hair like a taxidermist’s waste bin during grouse season. Voice like a yodeller’s convention afflicted by botulism. Morning.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Up. Face like the sunken, hollowed-out husks of an underfed, underwatered links golf course. Hair like a Highland bothy’s roof, thatched with the redundant wigs of a disgraced High Court judge. Voice like a Laurie Anderson single played at 78rpm. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Up. Face like a backstreet dermatologist’s carpet. Hair like a badly stitched surgical wound. Voice like the sound of an overflowing septic tank*. Morning. (*a metaphor for modern day socio-political discourse)

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT: “David F. Ross Ltd has issued a warning notice that stocks of ‘Up/Morning’ descriptions are running low due to Trump’s anti-NATO Tariff measures. Words now require to be rationed and Pre-used repeat Ups may need to be deployed.’ Up. Marty Feldman etc. Morning.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Up. Face like Bagpuss’s stunt double in the film, ‘Bagpuss & The Chip Pan Fire Disaster’. Hair like it was cut and styled by Play-Doh. Voice like Bungle being force-fed chunks of dissected Zippy. Morning. *today’s Up was sponsored by CBeebies new ‘after the watershed’ schedules.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Up. Face like a masturbating Notre Dame gargoyle. Hair like the unkempt grasses of a Pampas plant, swaying in the wind outside an Airdrie house of ‘swing’. Voice like the busted carburettor on a demolition derby non-runner. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Up. Face like the collective thunder of a ménage of anti-Meghan monarchists. Hair like the worn out tawse of a destitute Dundee dominatrix. Voice like the Armageddon alarm bell sounding. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Up. Face like I've just heard a new Anthrax LP. Hair like a brushed-up bucketful of Rod Stewart’s torn out extensions. Voice like Chewbacca chewing crack. Morning.

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Slumberland Records @slumberlandrecords.com · 29/12/2025

Looking back at SLR 2025: 1 single and 10 albums. 9 new releases, 1 comp, 1 reissue. 6 albums co-released with awesome labels/pals. 2 stellar debut albums, 1 fantastic reunion. 1 flexi, 4 tapes, 0 minidiscs. Counting the days to 2026! slumberlandrecs.bandcamp.com

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Up. Face like a course of unanaesthetised root canal treatment. Hair, cut by a blunt Edward Scissorhands. Voice like Barbapapa with burst piles from a fall onto an upturned rake. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Up. Face like the Ghost of Christmas Brexit. Hair like a glue-lacquered Greg(g) Wallace in a feather-filled wind tunnel. Voice like Michelle Mone’s conscience. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Up. Face like Zelda from Terrahawks after a ten-hour sauna session. Hair like a Trump-style combover of loft insulation quilt recovered from a Saltcoats skip. Voice like a helium-high Joey Barton guesting on Loose Women. Morning.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Up. Face like 340 million residents realising their country has been renamed ‘Trumpica’ overnight. Hair like Lady Liberty’s strands reshaped into a concrete orange combover. Voice like the redacted howls of protest dubbed to chant ‘Hail To The Thief’ Good Morning, America.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Up. Face like a rearranged Jake Paul jawline. Hair like the swept-up remnants of a Love Island aftershow party. Voice like a latter-day PPE Medpro investor. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

There’s a kind of Caligula-type spiralling descent that Trump is displaying now, isn’t there? That whole ‘one of us’ mentality, but the ‘us’ is getting smaller by the day. Only the truly mad cultists or the self-invested back-stabbing opportunists are still about now, right?

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Up. Face like a pug-nosed 60s bankrobber sheathed in American Tan. Hair like a typhoon-ravaged Arizona cornfield. Voice like Satan's bagpipes heralding the impending incoming of DJT. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Up. Face like....ach, fuck it! You leave everything lying at your arse. You never replace the toilet rolls. And the milk carton has a lid for a reason! Fill in your own description in the space provided. Face: Hair: Voice: I’m sick fed up having to do everything for you. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Up. Face like an Egg McMuffin made by a disinterested work experience trainee. Hair like a 60s free love festival. Voice like the sound of a mini tactics board being crushed by a refuse compactor. Morning.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Up. Face like a child’s papier-mâché balloon head, dusted in vermicelli. Hair like it was crimped by a Wyoming waffle iron. Voice like a stag party of drunk SAT-NAVs tying the SAT-NAV groom-to-be to a cargo ship and turning off his GPS. Morning.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Up. Face like Infantino after making 2000 ‘number not found’ calls. Hair like the ragged tawes of an overused ‘70s schoolteacher’s belt. Voice like the one in Pete Hegseth’s hidden earpiece screaming “Stop fucking talking … YES/NO answers, remember!?” Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Sad news about Frank Gehry. Met him in Meier’s office in New York in the late 90s. Magnetic, charismatic personality. And a creative genius, obviously.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Up. Face like a plasterer’s radio. Hair like the Barshaw Bridge FC pitch, mid-January. Voice like Frankenstein being chased from his zero hours contract job as a lollipop man by red-faced, pitchfork-wielding English nationalists because he sounds ‘a bit foreign’. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Up. Face like a frazzled White House intern stapling a ‘loopholes for liars’ appendix to the Geneva Convention. Hair like an oil/sweat/booze-soaked Hegseth presser. Voice like a deluded Trump denying knowledge of boats. And drugs. And Venezuela. Morning.

Monorail Music @monorailmusic.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

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Monorail turns 23 years old today. Thanks to all our customers here in Glasgow and across the world - we're honoured to still be your record store of choice. Love and gratitude from Stephen, Dep, MK, Russell, Lauren, Emily, Mark, Laura and Lizzie.

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Phil @philjbrett.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Curtis - debut solo album from Curtis Mayfield, heralding a series of great albums. My number 1 #5debutalbums7074

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Disco Fall Islands Welcome Only Dead Weekenders T-shirt idea.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Up, Face like a condemned Shortlees single-end. Hair like a scarecrow's intestines. Voice like a decapitated draw-string Action Man. Morning. Today's 'Up' was brought to you by Horlicks; the evergreen route to a good night's sleep for terror-addicted insomniacs everywhere

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Up. Face like a drunk, ah-say drunk … Foghorn Leghorn on a magic mushrooms trip. Hair like a Branch Davidian membership’s PUNGENT shower drain blockage. Voice like a lapsed WeightWatchers celebratory orgy. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Up. Face like a condemned 60s brutalist concrete high rise. Hair like the neglected wig of a faded 70s light entertainment star. Voice like 80 E-riddled kids yelling 'No-one quite like Granma'. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Up. Face like a failed Biactol prototype experiment. Hair like the sweaty remnants from a Free Love Festival. Voice like a leper’s bell. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Up. Face like a melted Grateful Dead picture disc. Hair like the inside of Larry Blackmon’s codpiece post-sauna. Voice like a Yorkshire gurning champion celebrating with a Highland Chew. Morning.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A soulless, heartless fuckwit. Imagine this balloon governing what the public can watch. Never has the phrase ‘politics is showbusiness for ugly-hearted people’ had a more apt example.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Up. Face like the ones Stephen King dreams about. Hair like it was cut by a combine harvester driven by Ted Kennedy. Voice like an Action Man drawstring doll with a wonky Chic Murray vocal. Morning.

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David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Up. Face like Marty Feldman superglu’ed to the front of a Japanese bullet train. Hair like a sweaty oxter from the first Summer of Love. Voice like Nigel Farage being fired across the Channel from a giant catapult (broadcast live on the BBC). Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Up. Face like a Donald Trump police mugshot collage spliced together from different federal charge sheets. Hair like half-eaten Toblerone peaks. Voice like my defence lawyer when he reads the first sentence. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Up. Face like a Tutankhamen death mask made of marzipan. Hair like strings of Ken Dodd’s used dental floss. Voice like Donald Trump drowning in an impartial and finely balanced vat of chocolate orange-flavoured spray tan. Morning.

David F Ross @dfr10.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

The BBC being held to a completely different standard than other media outlets by that paragon of honesty and integrity, Kelvin McKenzie. That said, a monumental cock-up to have allowed Trump and all these arse-licking liars to claim a morale high ground.