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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Just started playing the beautiful and innovative paper-folding puzzler Paper Trail and only 41.3% of players have petted Ollie the cat. This is a travesty. #games #cats

A screen grab from my Steam post-game summary for the video game Paper Trail, showing that a disgracefully low percentage of players have petted Ollie the cat.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

This hardback of Wuthering Heights from That Little Bookshop in Stafford is absolutely beautiful. One of my favourite books, taught to me by my favourite high school teacher. Such a thoughtful gift from my little sister 😁

A hard-back edition of Wuthering Heights, with a beautiful green and red illustrated cover

A hardback edition of Wuthering Heights, shot from above, showing the page edge artwork

The illustrated front and back cover of a hardback edition of Wuthering Heights

The inside cover of Wuthering Heights, showing the green and white artwork

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Recent Reading: The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso. 2024. A supernatural investigator's night off from caring for her newborn goes spectacularly off the rails as she's drawn into a horrifying and deadly game spanning multiple realities. Fast-paced, vivid, and exciting queer SF #books

A paperback of The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso on a blue carpet.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Recent Reading: Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang. 2023. A failed author witnesses the death of her wildly successful friend/rival, steals her last novel, & passes it off as her own. Eviscerates social media, publishing, & white privilege. Demands to know where you draw your moral lines and why. #books

A paperback of Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang on a blue carpet.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Recent Reading: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. c. 1940. A trickster Satan and his bizarre retinue wreak chaos all over Moscow in this ludicrous and brilliant satirical novel. Seances, witchcraft, the debilitating guilt of Pontius Pilate, and an invulnerable pyromaniac cat. #books

A paperback of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov lying on a wooden chest.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Recent Reading: Selected Works by Cicero. Published by Penguin 1960. The breadth of topics and styles make this a weird, incoherent book. Dense legalese, aggrieved correspondence, ethical guides, and a hilarious character assassination of Anthony. Apposite reading for populist times, though. #books

A Penguin paperback of Selected Works by Cicero on a blue carpet.

An excerpt from Cicero's A Practical Code of Behaviour (On Duties III) from Selected Works. It reads "Indeed this idea - that one must not injure anybody else for one's own profit - is not only natural law, an international valid principle: the same idea is also incorporated in the statutes which individual communities have framed for their national purposes. The whole point and intention of these statutes is that one citizen shall live safely with another; anyone who attempts to undermine that association is punished with fines, imprisonment, exile, or death."

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Recent Reading: Out by Natsuo Kirino. 2004. A bleak crime novel in which four low-paid factory workers conspire to conceal a murder and are drawn into the Tokyo underworld. Memorable for its frank interrogation of patriarchy and the economic oppression it inflicts upon the women. #books

A paperback of Out by Natsuo Kirino on a blue carpet.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Recent Reading: More Than This by Patrick Ness. 2013. Part sci-fi/cyberpunk adventure, part exploration of teenage love, betrayal, and grief, part metaphysical and epistemological inquiry. Whenever I read Ness, I'm impressed by clarity with which he approaches philosophy in a YA context. #books

A paperback of More Than This by Patrick Ness on a light wooden chest top.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Today's words that I (quite unjustifiably) do not ever want to read again in any novel: cerulean, lapis lazuli, coruscating, acrid, thrum, and acerbic. #books #language

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Currently playing: Black Mesa by Crowbar Collective. 2020. A fan-made, original developer-approved remake of sci-fi disaster FPS/puzzler Half-Life. The headcrabs are awful, the ladder mechanic's infuriating, and do not talk to me about the helicopters. Somehow, it's excellent, though. #games

A screenshot from the video game Black Mesa, showing a health bar, a crowbar, and a notice attached to a concrete wall. The notice reads, "Notice. Your notice of this notice has been noticed and any contributing participation in noticing new notices will be noted and reported to the notable authorities."

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Recent Reading: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. A hit woman who pursues abusive men, a precocious novelist, and an archetypal Murakami loner investigate a cult guru and multiple realities. The novel's moral ambiguity leaves the use/portrayal of male gaze and sex either harrowing or problematic. #books

A paperback of Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, lying on a blue carpet.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Recent Reading: The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo, 2001. A funny, sexy verse novel about a black girl growing up in Roman London. Characters mix modern English, Latin, and slang in a book with plenty to say about power structures and the immigrant experience. #books

A paperback copy of Bernadine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe, lying on a black and grey duvet.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Recent Reading: Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. 1951. A collection of short sci-fi imaginings of where technology will take us. Prescient stuff with (what now reads as) a Fallout-like retro-future aesthetic. #books

A paperback of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man lying on a wooden chest.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"You can't not-be on a boat." "I've frequently not been on boats." "No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats." #Perfection

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

A chaotic quarter of an hour in the world of remote composition. 'Wuuuuuutttt' indeed. #music #composition #throweverythingatthewall

A WhatsApp chat between musical collaborators

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

1/3 Remembering that time when online listening parties were keeping me relatively sane during lockdown and I wrote an (insane) book about them #lockdown #listeningparty #dataviz #selfpublished #music #books

The front cover of a book called 'lockdown listening party', a composite of many album covers

A reworking of a Quentin Tarantino movie poster featuring Margot Price's 'World's Greatest Loser'. A silhouette of a person holding a knife against a red background.

A photo of a page from a book featuring text, a WhatsApp message, and a composite image of musicians

A photograph of a book page sitting text, a table, and a Sankey diagram matching music genres to men and women.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

After many years telling anyone who'd listen what a terrible format audio cassettes are, I have to admit I've loved making these 2024 mixtapes. #mixtape #cassette #2024playlist

A black and white photograph of two cassette tapes with handwritten inlays.

Black and white photograph of two cassette tape boxes on top of a Goodmans cassette deck

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Working on a mystery musical collaboration and the other side just added a note so confusing it can only be notated like this. #composition #dissonance #collaboration

A blurry treble clef stave showing one note which is obscured by a crude, blue, yellow, and pink drawing of a biped, the note forming a leg with a second leg scrawled on.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Longest of long shots, but I had this guitar stolen in Nottingham in 2012. It's a hand-painted Epiphone Les Paul Special. I painted it myself and would love to have it back. Any reshares greatly appreciated! #stolenguitar #epiphone #lespaul #splatterpaint #handpainted #burroughs

Hand-painted white, red, blue, silver, and black electric guitar lying on wooded studio floor. The guitar is painted in the splatter painting style of Jackson Pollock. Partially visible is a William Burrough's quote stenciled on the side of the guitar: "Confusion Hath Fuck His Masterpiece"

A man in a black T-shirt, visible from the neck down, is playing a hand-painted electric guitar while seated in an orange arm chair.

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A snippet from yesterday's bookofnumbers session. Unplanned and improvised #noisecore where the joy is in the performance and any recordings are (to me) very much a bonus. #synth #noise #pedals #improvisation

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Andy @fuelandwood.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

What do these knobs do? Anything? Nothing? No idea. Anyway, it sounded great! #noisecore #pedalboardsofdoom

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