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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just signed up for an online course for over 40s to learn how to use AI to make internet memes. I lamented to my wife “As an over 40, I’ll never learn how to use AI to make memes.” But she said “Just do the online course.” So, if you like funny memes, check back here in 6 to 8 weeks time.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 23/09/2026

Trying to remember how this works.

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palacetapes @palacetapes.music · 22/09/2026

enjoyed this rant about audiophiles. i read it in the voice of billy bob thornton www.reddit.com/r/audiophile...

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Beanie Tapes @beanietapes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We contributed a Max Blansjaar track to this excellent special edition #cassetteweek tape. Save Ferric is an amazing name for a cassette fanzine. Props to @mflah.bsky.social for keeping the dream alive. ✨

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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i am begging people to go outside. it's good for you

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now in the future if someone wants to make art from a burnt out data center, that probably has potential. But for now, when people say “AI is just a tool”, it’s important to remember that tools are an enemy.

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Technology in music is only interesting when it fails or is misused (overdriven amps, 303, feedback, etc), because this is a triumph for humanity and art over unnatural forces of order and predictability. AI is different. As long as it’s being used it can’t fail / be misused, as it’s in on the joke.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 03/09/2026

Great read. I never made it as far as private trackers, but now I wish I had. www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-p...

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The Lost Joy of Music Piracy

What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.

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audio.computer @audiocomputer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Man, time flies. We just finished building batch 3 of Beat Friend (that’s 300 out in the world now!) and we’re going to spend some time working on the time stretch machine. Honestly very excited about both.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 25/08/2026

This looks very promising indeed! And it looks like they’re open to collaborating with others who are doing similar more manual things with notes/curation, which could be cool.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A new automatically-collated website aims to partially fill the large gap left by the demise of the indie music magazine Nightshift. oxfordgigs.co.uk pulls together information about gigs in Oxford on a map or a list, with plans for a calendar view. Promoters can also add their own gigs.

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Find music gigs in Oxford

A searchable list of gigs in the Oxford area, with links to venues and tickets

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How your email finds me.

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

People sometimes ask me if anyone can start a tape label and the answer is no. You need to have at least a Degree in Music Business from one of the top schools such as my “alma mater” The Music Industry Business School For Gifted Children.

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 12/08/2026

Sat down with some cheese and crackers in a dark room at 6pm to escape the heat, ended up watching Clockwatchers (1997) and forgot about the eclipse. Great film though.

Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette and Parker Posey looking shocked in a scene from Clockwatchers (1997).

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 07/08/2026

was this written by an alien

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 06/08/2026

Oh DPD, you’re so charmingly unpredictable!

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Best guitarists of 2026: 1. Slash Guns (Guns & Roses) 2. David Mustang 3. the Oasis brothers (tie) 4. Geese 5. Avril Lavigne 6. Belle (Belle and Sebastian) 7. Ringo Star (Rolling Stones) 8. Eminem 9. Taylor Swift 10. the trapezoid one from Angine de Poitrine 11. Joe Satriani 12. Sting 13. Bucketman

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the Suno hack "reveals"/reminds that these companies do not give a shit about artists, people, culture, their customers, or one God damned thing besides making money off other people's work they are as festering rot on a wet board, and of equivalent value

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 15/07/2026

Not surprising but the stealing is depressingly brazen.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/07/2026

OH IS THE REF AWAKE NOW, HAS HE AWOKEN FROM HIS 37 MINUTE NAP AT A CONVENIENT TIME FOR THE NATION OF ARGENTINA

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Difficult Art And Music @difficultart.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Another day, another email from a small label jacking it in because no one buys music anymore. We really need to find a way to communicate to the masses that culture will only survive if they invest in it.

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(the band) Lucy Leave @lucyleave.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I have made a little gig guide for Oxford and the surrounding area, in lieu of the @nightshiftmag.bsky.social (RIP) one. it's very simple atm but I'd love for more people to get involved and for us to expand it and maybe have some print copies one day oxfordgigguide.com

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Oxford Gig Guide – A Gig Guide for Oxford

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drew @grmnygrmny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

i had so many songs left to trade

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 29/06/2026

We had so many good times and nurtured a truly good corner of the internet, but what a shitty fizzling ending for the folks who got laid off today (and many more a couple of years ago).

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Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I am absolutely gutted to learn that the Oxford music magazine Nightshift is shutting after all these years. It was my bible in the late 90s/early 00s, and I still checked in with it long after I moved away from the area. Here's a link to a PDF of the last issue: nightshiftmag.co.uk/2026/jun.pdf

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

dad jokes? i bet he does

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A lot of “preppers” just stick weird shit between the strings in their piano to make them sound funny, and that’s important work too.

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Good to see him actually stomping the Nazis, rather than only getting in on a split Nazi vote!

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Bluesky, is in fact, ATproto/Bluesky, or as I've recently taken to calling it, AT Protocol plus Bluesky. Bluesky is not a platform for misunderstanding jokes unto itself, but rather an AppView of a fully functional ATProto system w

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

My friend took his family to see the Michael Jackson movie and his son claimed it was the greatest movie he’d ever seen but I’m a real MJ fan so I don’t believe the accounts of little boys

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this inspirational Horse Pin. I don't know about you guys, but I really needed to read this today. collabs.shop/oj6gks

a round enamel pin features a brown horse's head and the humorous, scrambled text: "Give a man a horse he'll eat in a day, teach a man to horse. and make him drinks water."

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇮🇪 @telescoper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Whichever of the purple dots you look at turns more purple.

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NIGHTSHIFT MAGAZINE @nightshiftmag.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

For the 12 people on here and the three who might care, June's Nightshift is online now at nightshiftmag.co.uk/2026/jun.pdf Last one, may feature teary-eyed nostalgia.

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Turn the speaker notes on and marvel at the harm being done to codebases the world over

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 29/04/2026

Cool to see that integrated shipping has landed on Bandcamp. Maybe not full support outside US/Canada but what the hell I have a tape to ship and I’m going to try it anyway. 🤞 blog.bandcamp.com/2026/04/27/1...

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Bandcamp Shipping Labels: Print Discounted Labels In-Platform

Bandcamp now lets sellers buy and print discounted shipping labels in-platform with EasyPost. Streamline fulfillment from the Merch Orders page.

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Topher Florence @topherflorence.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

social media was a wonderful brain toilet for every random half thought you didn't want to bother real people with before they decided to move all of society and infrastructure and government inside of the toilet

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/04/2026

TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo: “weak on crime” “terrible for foreign policy” “catering to the Radical Left” “owes his position to me” “sit down and mind your own business” POPE LEO, unbothered: “We are called to love.”

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Ben Walker @ihatemornings.com · 01/04/2026

Cool to see another Oxford act get a Bandcamp shout out. @chollymusic.bsky.social is great!

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Tim Day @timday101.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Ok if any of the UK SF writers I follow or anyone else knows anyone involved in the film world who could throw a bit of weight behind this it would be great Community owned cinema in Oxford threatened by a greedy redevelopment c.org/ZCtqx4ktK8

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