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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 24m

"I struggle as an artist to make work about this because I don't know if it makes it better or makes it worse? But I trust in the process, that making it and expressing it, is better than holding it in." Yeah over 1 1/2 years later, it doesn't get easier... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_k...

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tbc aka Instamatic - A Bearly Lit Crystal Path (Fleetwood Mac vs Oneohtrix Point Never)

YouTube video by timbearcub

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 4h

Exploring A Castle in North Wales! Castell Dinas Brân a medieval castle in Denbighshire. youtu.be/wnfHCF3ekuo

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Exploring A Castle in North Wales!

YouTube video by The Hard Up Hiker

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 5h

Hmm a spam email from Andy Burnham asking me to join Labour? LOL. Not sure how they got my address or if this is a scam. I couldn't, cos I vote Green and not planning to change that. Also I ask my union to take me off the automatic Labour membership after Starmer did his left purge, so err, no?

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also anyone chatting shit about AI being great should try talking to EVRI's chatbots and phone system. It's now impossible to talk to a human, and the AI assistants are useless - templated into forced Yes/No canned responses which of course my parcels don't fit into.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's an obvious rant, but fuck EVRI - they've fucked up not one but two parcels in as many days. First one they damaged, and sent back without telling me, so had to phone them to why it was sent back to sender. Second they seem to have totally lost despite telling me it's at the Parcelshop.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's a classic acid house banger directly inspired by Lone's Vulcan Mill Acid - hence the name, the more acidic work of Squarepusher and by early piano acid house by the likes of Frankie Knuckles and Adonis in general. Rave like it's 1988! fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/vogon-...

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Vogon Mint Acid, by Reality Engine

track by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Annoying...went to pickup a parcel at a local "convenience" shop and was told they couldn't give it to me cos it was 'closed'. Despite what EVRI says, they've invented all kinds of weird restrictions about when/how you can send/pick up parcels. Used to be just when they were open til midnight!

Random list of times for EVRI pick up and drop off and boxes...

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What did I say last night about this not passing the smell check? That smell was apparently (stolen?) petrol. Something that of course needed an international security response, LOL. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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No explosives found in three vans searched near RAF Fairford, say police

Head of Counter Terrorism Policing defends decision to bail five British men arrested in connection with incident

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fairford suspects had no explosive but a sizeable amount of petrol...

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This does not pass the smell check: www.msn.com/en-gb/news/o...

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Bruno Mars, Taylor Swift and Drake are the three horsemen of pop music stagnancy." Exactly. And I like Tay Tay but the system is very broken, and SO boring. holidaykirk.substack.com/p/the-imperi...

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The Imperial Regime

How a Generation of Millennial Pop Artists Ruined Pop Music

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Choosin' Texas: "most weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart." I've never heard it. Not even once. Usually I'd chalk that down to not being in the same circles, but when something is really big, it makes it way over here. Clipping bots methinks. Most of those recent hits are faked.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great video from Barry...It's not really really about Steven Bartlett - sorta....explaining the science of how social media works, para-social relationships, fame, YouTube... ...lots of stuff here that bugs me. I did it with that 'you want to be liked' comment! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqh1...

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Diary Of A CEO Responded To My Takedown. I Wasn't Ready For This

YouTube video by Barry's Economics

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"You want to be liked" I never got how and why this could ever be an insult? Field would have a Freud day, cos I am guessing the people who say that have an affected aura of disaffected disinterest but deep down desperately want to be liked...so hate that in others.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Really? Never watched it, but had one ex-friend get stroppy that I didn't watch it, so much so I decided to never watch it, cos fuck him. Also I hate being strong-armed into doing something. But the initial reason was that for all the hype, I sensed it was...not good. But everyone raved about it.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Questioned whether to post this - it's very different but it shows development as it's one of the first things I wrote. It was meant to be early music but it changed drastically. Country meets shoe gaze & post rock, Nu gaze? I dunno, I just work here. fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/album/anarch...

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Anarchist Pillar, by Reality Engine

3 track album

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have classical pretension in my music making - not intentionally, but it slips out. It's very much beyond my pay grade! Here we have early 20th C impressionism a la Debussy or Delius in drum and bass form, in an English garden on a summer's sunny day... fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/debuss...

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Debussy Step, by Reality Engine

track by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Never monetised my mashup/Radio Clash channel cos worried about The Copyright Gods. 19 years later they don't seem to care? YouTube's pulling up the ladder for eligibility. Nearly 2,000 watch hours already - so if anyone wants to leave this running I'd appreciate it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY3f...

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I love Davinci Resolve dearly, but it has probably one of the WORST keyframe UIs I've ever used. It fucking sucks, and just enrages me so much I usually try and do it without keyframes, Fusion/FX etc. (& used MANY media apps that use keyframes: Premiere, Capcut, Avid, After Effects, Flash, Director)

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Probably my favourite creation. The first time I realised I was creating something more than random background muzak... Very Advisory Circle/Ghostbox, inspired by Mort Garson with Arp & clock samples, a tongue drum version & bonus beatless if you buy both! fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/album/the-ra...

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The Rainbow Clock, by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dubstep? Spy themes? Harmoniums?! This is when I realised that some of the tracks I was creating went a bit beyond soundtracking a hiking video! Both 'spyfunk' and dubstep versions and a beatless version too.... fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/album/harmon...

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Harmonium Monday, by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Going through photos 2017-2019 from my phone for images I can use... ...and I was really proud of the garden. I took so many photos of it. All of these things, the lights, the plant pots etc. destroyed by my neighbours. Depressing. It's now a bit of a wasteland cos I won't touch it anymore.

Working in the garden. I'd not bother now

Most of this is gone bar the lilac tree and ivy.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

First of the new tunes used in that Isle of Wight video. Big fan of Vangelis, and here I am playing with the GX80 from Cherry Audio made from the synths he made famous. It seemed to work really well with the sunset scene looking over to Hurst Castle... fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/wavicl...

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Wavicle Goodbye (Less Waves version), by Reality Engine

track by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I took the ferry to the Isle of Wight to see if wild camping is actually possible there. Heatwaves, amazing sunsets, forts & flat batteries, Gulag Holiday Parks, climbing groynes, closed paths, a cooking disaster...and a literal cliff-hanger camping on an eroding cliff edge! youtu.be/YvY1PLFs2Ak

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Isle Of Wight Is Falling Into The Sea! IOW Coast Path 1

YouTube video by The Hard Up Hiker

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's a shame this is so slow - 8 minutes per image on my M1 Mac! The idea is great - make real images impossible or difficult to use for style training, but the thing is: artists don't usually have or can afford the fastest GPUs. The AI bros have those? glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

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Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AI

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Very worrying - idea that AI could trigger WW3 is Skynet level shit, but also people think of that scenario like some fantasy Bots Gone Rogue launching nukes, when it's more likely to be something like this. A human response to fake info from AI.... edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Freudian slip: offered my neighbour a lift somewhere and instead of saying 'do you want a lift?' I said 'do you want me to run you over?' Yes, he gave me a funny look and declined the offer.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

More DX7 goodnesss, this time whole track bar the 808 drums, one of two that's entirely so. This one sounds less game like, but definitely a bittersweet mix of nostalgic, slight melancholy and awe. Sugar in the salt, honey in the milk. Light and dark. fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/saunte...

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Sauntering, by fingertrouble aka Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is why I've never been to Turkey...and I'd suggest LGBTQ people and allies avoid going there also, cos if it's not safe for the locals, how will it be safe for us? Solidarity with Turkish queer folks. x.com/enriqueanart...

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Enrique Anarte (he/him) (@enriqueanarte) on X

The crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights in Turkey is bigger than you think.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I really wonder why this MAGA Trump supporter at the comedy show in Poland stepped out of the US? Us Europeans really don't want these people here...stay in your failing country with your Chinese made silly hat, please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG0s...

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the whole audience turns on MAGA American in Krakow, Poland

YouTube video by Victor Patrascan

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Be masculine, be feminine, be neither, or be both, but Be Kind" Reminded of that Vonnegut quote, comment section is full of Capaldi Doctor Who which is also good...but yes, I love this video, and is that a kilt? www.youtube.com/shorts/LZhS_...

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Educating haters (again)

YouTube video by blumineck

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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Educating haters (again)

YouTube video by blumineck

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Drag Race UK has been cancelled? That came about 8 series too late, hunty. :-P No srsly, I love drag but never liked RuPaul or Drag Race, reality TV is always exploitative and that series is no exception. It's not the drag you'd see in the clubs, it's watered down for telly.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I spent days on some tracks stacking choirs and strings and sweating blood to make work - and then this simple track with bells on sounds a 1000x better. Made with Vital, Arp Odyssey, Korg M1 and Cloudrum, which is a Steel Tongue Drum plugin. fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/distan...

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Distant Bells, by Reality Engine

track by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I spent days on some tracks stacking choirs and strings and sweating blood to make work - and then this simple track with bells on sounds 1000% better. Made with Vital, Arp Odyssey, Korg M1 and Cloudrum, which is a Steel Tongue Drum plugin. fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/distan...

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Distant Bells, by Reality Engine

track by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Band from the US, on BBC Radio now, talking about their viral success - they're young, 18-19. Viral on TikTok, apparently the biggest thing...so was interested how they sound... They start the session and they're basically have re-invented Pavement, with touches of Nirvana. LOL.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Found this photo I took of me and John, 14th July 2017. It's rather a brain-melting photo but it's actually a reflection of a sculpture at the V&A. I like the fact there's not only 6 of us - 12 counting reflections - and we kind of synced up with the PUB STEP tshirt and his standard MIND THE GAP.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I went through a DX7 (Dexed) phase, and found whatever I produced it sounded like game or hold music or 80's funk (not totally complaining) but this is a very Plaid style experiment in trying not to sound like that. And is named after a Virgin Engineer! fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/vergin...

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Vergineer, by Reality Engine

track by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As an exercise I try make my version of a genre or track. Here's my take on Sabres of Paradise - Andrew Weatherall (RIP) was a big influence. More Hauntological Church than Haunted Dancehall though! 'Xiphē Paradeisou' = Swords of Paradise in Ancient Greek. fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/album/xiphe-...

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Xiphē Paradeisou, by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ooh I found an anthem for my favourite phrase: I don't know I just work here, I suppose I don't care You can burn it down as far as I'm concеrned Call it apathy, or maybe I'm just lazy I don't know But it's still me, mysеlf, and I against the world www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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Durry - idk i just work here (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by DurryVEVO

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This makes me very angry...not a wheelchair user myself but i've faced BS like this from London bus drivers, they are a law to themselves. You complain & go to arbitration when they swear and threaten you (as I have) and nothing happens, they just close ranks. www.tiktok.com/@someguy6848...

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TikTok video by SomeGuy

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A similar but more recent track 'Ephemera' which used to languish under the title 'Some Awe' which we can all agree was a terrible title. Entirely using free plugins - here Apus, Capysynth, Ephemere (hence title) & Partial Strings. New age chiptune? fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/ephemera

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Ephemera, by Reality Engine

track by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

More music, a double track + bonus release where I explore using real world instruments - dulcimers, harpsichord, piano with synthetic sounds. Very ambient/new age/chillout, but started out using Ondes Martenot until disaster struck! fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/album/though...

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Thoughtful Wander, by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am watching a really generic slideshow with testcard music on YouTube that's basically regurgitated Reddit Good News Post feed and I am loving it cos it's not AI, it's obviously been put together by a human, with cheesy transitions. It's a bit lazy, but it's human lazy! And refreshingly not AI.

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The second was used in the North Wales video - In A Lonely Place. "for a windswept mountain, all on your own, cold but weirdly happy. It's how I feel on some of my more remote hikes." Boards of Canada meets hauntology and a love of vintage drum machines. fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/a-lone...

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A Lonely Place, by Reality Engine

track by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Started posting some of the music I created for my channel over at my Bandcamp... some of it is far too good for beds! I overshot there...first up is 'Cosmic Merrygoround' which is about John, and is the theme of the Ridgeway series. Check the description! fingertrouble.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic...

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Cosmic Merrygoround, by Reality Engine

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Tim 🌈 ♾️🏳️‍🌈💛🤍💜🖤 @fingertrouble.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just had a 'lovely' debate with someone who said "[JKR] is defending women’s single-sex spaces." and said she loved and knew trans people (LOL) then the precious snowflake got upset at being called a transphobe. Bless. They're so fragile, but how is that not transphobia? Like "I'm not racist..."

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