iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s a classic theme, one of the seven songs in rock ‘n’ roll – the break up, lovers parting in glorious colour, and of course, in tragic black and white.. deanfrw.substack.com/p/wouldnt-do...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It’s September! Casting my mind back over the years, I associate the endings of summer with great sighs of longing and poetry. Arriving with uncalled swathes of rhyme, dropping into a drawer scented silk of a love recently departed, then finding discarded passion in a sink, now resident elsewhere :)

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

deanfrw.substack.com/p/ethel "I watched inside my brain as it continued to tick along, regardless. It was the end of the world, but somehow, I was still here."

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Ethel

my beloved grandmother

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

deanfrw.substack.com/p/mug-of-the... Mug of the Swiss [descripticon] Dean Whitbread, May 07, 2025 My growth from Media, Art & Biology from London, and others and how it made me who I was and possibly now. Enjoy :)

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Mug of the Swiss

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

- and I mean putting up with a sour person, not "putting up with all the kids". They had it worse, I could walk out.

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I wrote this, "Rough Patch" about a sadistic Head Teacher. I don't often write about real people and publish; I was more thinking strength, forbearance, patience, the part of suffering I had to put up with like all the kids. Dean Whitbread, Sep 02, 2023

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A pathetic, petty little man without compassion Obsessed with reputation Dragging his heels In a casual effort to exhaust and impress his coterie “You are safe” he whispers “and so you must be punished for your betrayal”

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

PUSH - A real story from Highbury, Islington substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I live with Poppy the Cat, and we love and encourage one other. She isn’t a spiteful creature, but she does have a developed conscience. Where we used to live the chaos was much more built up, with lots of noise...

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Poemly @poemly.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Ezra Pound, 1913. He wrote it after stepping off a train at La Concorde in the Paris Métro, struck by face after beautiful face emerging in the crowd. He spent months cutting the moment down, from thirty lines to two. #poetry #poem #poemly #paris #poetrycommunity

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We get them, Redkites. Will pic a baby out from it's wheelie in a jiffy...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"If there is a moral to this absolutely true story, it could be, be careful what you invent, for it might turn out to be more real than you think." deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-boy-wh...

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The Boy Who Didn’t Cry Wolf

First Written November 14, 2005

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Hmmmmm well I'll check back and see if it improves. I did question whether it was a self-inflicted wound or DDoS, or both :-/

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

… Kurt Vonnegut then spoke to me, and I understood immediately something that was about to change us … We were all about to become totally fascinated by both conceptual and actual possibilities - not all bad, not all good; but we needed to understand it …

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Interesting. I've lost quite a bit of things they are saying I never had.. did you lose stuff you had here?

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Well, I'm in my account now after most of the day being flat out in UK, but being in, I'm getting strange responses preventing me from usual interaction. Anyone else getting this?

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Amy Jean Nobles @ajnobles.com · 16/04/2026

My knees hurt just looking at this

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

These were simple times, my friends, boys and girls, as we made our own scripts, living with ideas we’d just understood, watching without knowing that a take-over, digital world was about to totally replace our present, our past, slowly and inexorably evaporating the old times..

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Anything can happen on a Saturday, and it really doesn’t matter what the weather is doing , because it’s Saturday (almost). Household obligations and the desire to sleep are the only things between you and this miracle domain of freedom... one more to lift your spirits :) deanfrw.substack.com

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Lloyd Davis @lloyddavis.eurosky.social · 16/03/2026

I'm going to start doing the online version of "Living Coffee Culture Mornings" weekly, starting this Friday. The First Friday in-person one will also continue for those who can get to London. perfectpath.co.uk/2026/03/16/i...

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It’s Friday… it’s 10am… and you don’t have to come to London for it.

We’ve been having coffee (and often cake and biscuits) on the first Friday of every month at Essex Hall under the heading of “Living Culture Coffee Mornings” for just over a year …

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Happy World Sleep Day 🧘 I'm going to bed now, like Poppy the cat, for the rest of the day

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hello BlueSkyers - here's a true story from my early family days. I don’t remember ever asking for a budgerigar – in fact, the very first thing I ever asked for was a dragon, because of the cat that used to sleep on my feet in the pram. deanfrw.substack.com/p/billy-the-...

I don’t remember ever asking for a budgerigar – in fact, the very first thing I ever asked for was a dragon, because of the cat that used to sleep on my feet in the pram. I think the budgie was another family addition designed to lift my mood and prove my viability as a functioning human.

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Years previously, in a dream, he had experienced panic in the face of some unknown deadly danger of a supernatural kind. In true horror film style he tried to recite the Lord’s Prayer to protect himself, and realised he couldn’t remember it beyond “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name”

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Years ago, under a dark, fearful spell, being tested by doctors who found nothing conclusive but called me back again and again for more tests, I became fixed upon the fact of my death. But something happened which was quite beautiful... deanfrw.substack.com/p/golden-hou...

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Golden Hour

drawn until dawn

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Hey Bluesky it’s been a long time since I loosened my tenacious ego’s hold on my consciousness by indulging in drugs of any kind, with the noble exception of caffeine, but every so often I wonder whether total abstinence is such a good thing. It's a love story :D deanfrw.substack.com/p/drug-dreams

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Drug Dreams

Written and published some time past, categorized as Uncategorised

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Hello freedom.. what happened? So, I’m not hanging around waiting for a miracle, nor standing waiting to be someone’s puppet. Sometimes I’m given tears, and when they come, I let them roll down my face. They decide it’s cry-time. If I’m upside down, my head gets wet.

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Deek Deekster of funkpod.co.uk/podcast/ has just written: "For your enjoyment I offer a brief account of my existence, including how I survived being young and understanding the real meaning of ‘funk’ " deekdeekster.substack.com/p/real-funkp...

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

As well as writing the song from scratch, I was playing guitar and singing, producing the live streaming show, and producing the podcast. Danny Payne was on drums and sax. Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration is still available on Bandcamp. riseandshinetv.bandcamp.com/album/rise-a...

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Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration, by The Daily Song

24 track album

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It went beautifully, much of the time, and when not, it was still worth it in its go-for-it mayhem. We would accept the ideas of our listeners, and that gave us all buzz. I'll never forget the improvisational way we went for it, by lunch the finished tune available to your ears, and sometimes ours.

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

In 2008 I was taking a part The Daily Song, aka Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration. It meant an ad hoc musical group getting together most mornings and from scratch writing and recording online, for the ears of a live audience. riseandshinetv.bandcamp.com/track/the-ot...

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The Other Side, by The Daily Song

from the album Rise and Shine: Breakfast with Inspiration

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

'The Midst of Life' - one year without within - explains sans mystification. My life and my study of death seem to be overlapping. In the midst of life I am in death. That’s assuming I die at 126 years, which would be a good tally, possibly... deanfrw.substack.com/p/the-midst-...

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The Midst Of Life

- one year without within

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The best bit for me was strutting across the stage singing to the the bouncing audiences (we had them!) pompously strutting about how "fantastic" I was, the song based on a mixture of all the people I ever knew or observed or both who were / are like that.. ;-) Oh the days, those wond'rous days! 👍😀

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Dean Whitbread @dfrw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"You Can Have It" is one of my best early kind-of-hit and I still love it to death. I'm the geezer on the left back, with Kevin who is a monster creative. © Dean Whitbread and Kevin Goldsborough 1990 from The Believers, released September 29 2017. Enjoy! thebelievers89.bandcamp.com/track/you-ca...

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You Can Have It, by The Believers

from the album The Believers

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