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Ben Mackenzie

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a3poify on other places, formerly @bmack0 on Twitter Hail majestic corporate light, heaven born and ever bright. Irk the purists. Turn on “require alt text before posting” in the accessibility settings.

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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 28/09/2026
Did anyone even get an Elton John ticket? I was on there a second after 9am and all that was left were disabled+companion ones, which are now also gone! Didn’t think I’d get a ticket but still.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 26/09/2026
This is what happens when you get Wynton Marsalis on board as co-producer
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 20/09/2026
If I was Prime Minister I’d rename the House of Lords to the House of Funkadelic.
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Billy Domineau 🇵🇸 @billydomineau.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11 is a great day to reread my viral Seinfeld spec and to remember I’m one of the most talented TV writers available to write for your show. I have $225k in student loans and my family is about to pay OOP for my dad’s post-stroke rehab, so you’d better believe I’m gonna give you my best!
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Read This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11
Read This: A darkly comedic Seinfeld spec script set days after 9/11
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 11/09/2026
One of my favourite pieces of writing regarding 9/11 comes from @bowiesongs.bsky.social and his piece on David Bowie’s cover of America, performed at the Concert for New York City, and which I think about a lot but especially today. bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2014/09/11/a...
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America
America (Simon and Garfunkel, 1968). America (1-2-3, live, the Marquee Club, 1967). America (Bowie, the Concert for New York City, 2001). America (Bowie, Robin Hood Benefit, 2002). Those towers wer…
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 08/09/2026
youtu.be/iHm7uIC84YM More rock frontmen should be 1) dressed nicely 2) on absolutely ludicrous amounts of stimulants 3) about 5 seconds from killing
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Dr.Feelgood 【She Does It Right】
YouTube video by wa e
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 09/08/2026
I think that's what the post meant
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 31/07/2026
Playing my latest charity shop find. Not what I’d usually expect to have found in Huntingdon but I had to get it!
A photo of a turntable playing a record, next to the sleeve of They Might Be Giants’s debut album
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 13/07/2026
Early digital recording was the least sexy era of music. George Michael’s I Want Your Sex just sounds like toy keyboard demo tunes
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 25/06/2026
youtu.be/UZOhskMsqzI Prince says “guitar solo” before playing a guitar solo here
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Loose!
YouTube video by Prince - Topic
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 15/06/2026
Sitting in the choir seats at the Albert Hall, so close enough to pick up Internet Will Happen, which I’m really, really hoping is Elvis Costello and his band’s backstage WiFi hotspot with the worst pun name on Accidents Will Happen imaginable
A list of WiFi names at the Albert Hall featuring one called Internet Will Happen
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 04/06/2026
£20 to sit this close to Bill Bruford tonight is what I call a fantastic deal
Drum kit at the Bear Club in Luton.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 29/05/2026
Saw them supporting Godspeed You! Black Emperor a couple of months ago which was a pleasant surprise as I didn’t realise they were Lankum adjacent until I heard Ian’s voice
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 28/05/2026
Two listens into the new Boards of Canada and it’s very, very good. Not as industrial or bleak as some of the early impressions suggested but it definitely feels like it’s stepping back into the same thematic vein of Geogaddi while using a new sound palette
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 28/05/2026
Every time a marmite lover reads a story like this our resolve strengthens
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David Wynne @davidwynne.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.
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University of Hertfordshire UCU @uhertfordshireucu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Petition to save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire: c.org/9JLppW5tMS
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Sign the Petition
Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 18/04/2026
Running into the streets tonight, proclaiming that our long international nightmare of a 20-ish year, almost unbroken run of poor-to-middling Madonna singles is finally over
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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/04/2026
Poor Sleep Linked To Gong theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-g…
Poor Sleep Linked To Gong
Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 09/04/2026
"The Scottish island of Summerisle, home of the best fruit in Britain. The first thing you notice? No churches. The farmers here practice a fascinating form of pre-Christian worship…and I just learned I'll be playing the lead role in their annual May Day festival. First stop: my costume fitting."
(fake) Tom Scott video thumbnail featuring 1973's The Wicker Man. "Can this ritual bring their apples back?"

I will be blocking anyone who makes an "oh god the bees" reference, that is a different movie not worthy of discussion.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 08/04/2026
I for one am glad we’re not all going to die in horrific nuclear hellfire before we find out what this Boards of Canada stuff is about
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 07/04/2026
Every time it happens I think some huge and terrible (or good, maybe?) news story has happened, and then I remember that no, it's just a website that barely fucking works and never really has
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vineyille @vineyille.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
More songs should start like Monkey Gone to Heaven. "There was a guy." Ok I'm listening, what's this guy up to
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 02/03/2026
If you know John’s work, it really isn’t
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 15/02/2026
They famously did - during this period in the mid 1990s Elton and Luciano could frequently be seen eating out of a bucket, running around a big field and defecating in full view of passing motorists and pedestrians
A photograph of Elton John and Luciano Pavarotti. Pavarotti is pointing at something and Elton is looking. Above them it says “Elton John and Luciano Pavarotti: Live Like Horses”
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cleo @cleoseni.com · 14/02/2026
69 pieces inspired by love songs // @themagfields.bsky.social
colorful collage of 69 pictures in various art styles, inspired by each track on the album 69 Love Songs by The Magnetic Fields, in the bottom right corner is a small recreation of the album cover
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Futurama Slurm Factory meme:
THAT'S THE META AI. YOU CAN ASK IT ANYTHING says Slurm tour leader.
ASK IT TO FUCK OFF says Prof Farnsworth.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 29/01/2026
I sometimes check a walkthrough when I get stuck in a game but Myst is one I don't get. You could theoretically "beat" it in about a minute since (iirc) everything you need to do is on the first island, it's just the order of switches and codes to use that you have to figure out with the rest.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 29/01/2026
Sitting at my grandparents house watching daytime TV. A quiz show hosted by Clive Anderson has just come on and my first thought was “Wow, he’s aged well” before I realised that for some reason they’re showing a 20 year old episode of whatever this is
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Did Maine Elect the Wrong Collins? Rockstar Phil would at least admit that there must be some misunderstanding in Minnesota.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 21/01/2026
(Nik Cohn’s Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom for anyone wondering)
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 21/01/2026
Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. “But almost best of all was Sweet Little Sixteen.”
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 21/01/2026
Think my comment on Rate Your Music calling Diamond Dogs “Bowie’s gayest album” got deleted. Obviously they don’t realise that’s a huge compliment
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 20/01/2026
Not sure how I’ve heard Let’s Dance so many times and yet only upon this listen has the line “Let’s dance, for fear your grace will fall” brought the image of David carefully dancing with an Archbishop to mind
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 19/01/2026
Have finally gotten to the 2018 re-do of Never Let Me Down, which takes a pretty dismal 80s Bowie album and turns it into an honestly pretty great 90s Bowie album. It sounds like it should have come out in the late 90s when Hours did. I guess that I'm just a sucker for Reeves Gabrels guitar squeals?
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 18/01/2026
Giving Bowie's Hours a relisten - it's just not very good, is it? Outside was an incredible burst of creativity, Earthling was slightly patchy but with huge highlights, then Hours comes and gives us about 40 minutes of dull adult contemporary with The Dreamers put on the end to give it a little edge
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 18/01/2026
On the other hand, he doesn’t mention “camel shit” on part 1, so who’s to say which is better or worse
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 17/01/2026
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) is a lot like Low or Heroes conceptually, but instead of the second side being instrumental/experimental the second side's concept on Scary Monsters is "being good and yet still somehow unsatisfying"
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 17/01/2026
Going to be tweeting a lot of my odd Bowie opinions in the next few days I feel so buckle up for that.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 17/01/2026
Why did Harry Maslin listen to Station to Station, which he produced spot on in 1976, and think "I could do better in 2010" and then he just kinda removed the vocal effects from Bowie's voice and made it uncomfortably dry sounding. People rag on Visconti's 2017 Lodger (which I like) but ignore this?
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 17/01/2026
This is like Are You That Somebody, a defining song of late 90s R&B, being done for the Dr Doolittle soundtrack
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Lionella @lionella.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
aspirational
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 16/01/2026
Too much Bowie stuff now takes the attitude that nothing he did between about 1980 and 2010 is worthy of much discussion. I don’t have a solution to this, I just wanted to vent.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 12/01/2026
Absolutely horrible to hear the news about Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin (ex-Black Midi). Never got to see them live while he was in the band but from live recordings the dual-guitar attack was absolutely fierce. Rest in peace. www.instagram.com/p/DTaf9tJiAoL/
It is with deep sadness that we as a family regret to inform you that Matthew Kwasniewski-Kelvin has died after a long battle with his mental health.
A talented musician and a kind, loving young man finally succumbed;
despite all efforts. Matt was 26 years old.
He will always be loved.
Please take a moment to check in with your loved ones so we can stop this happening to our young men.
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 11/01/2026
Remembering the time I was so bored working a retail job I spent about 4 hours thinking about the Mr Show Pallies sketch youtu.be/Svr6Zl2QgX8
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Mr. Show - Pallies
YouTube video by Laser Time
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
what fresh hell is this on the streets of brooklyn?
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 09/01/2026
Listened to new Morrissey single out of morbid curiosity - sounds like a bad Brosnan-era Bond theme 25 years too late
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Ben Mackenzie @dumbposts.net · 08/01/2026
I love the book! I hadn’t actually heard any of the songs so far so it’s been nice to get acquainted with the early early stuff
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