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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 5h

More predictive text capers. I typed “jejeune” and what came out was “leftovers”.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Art department at full stretch on this one…

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At last, a company unafraid to admit the truth…

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nice of the late Liam Payne, formerly of One Direction, to offer to redesign my website. It was Charles Windsor a couple of weeks ago. These scambots need to try harder!

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Predictive text typing becoming increasingly random and bonkers. During a recent write, the word ‘value’ came out as ‘’bakery’ and the word ‘famous’ was rendered as ‘gangrene’. And the word ‘write’ in the sentence above just showed up as ‘wee’. I can’t be getting THAT ham fisted at the keys can I?

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sign of aging: having an erotic dream about someone off The Repair Shop.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wordle 1,903 6/6* 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Too close!

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New band, I note, calling themselves The Guest List. They may live to regret that. Not as much as Closed For Private Party did, perhaps, but still…The jokes will wear thin.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If there is a God, I’d like to thank him sincerely for the greengage.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In other seasonal news, press release declares “Vince Guaraldi Trio’s ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ becomes best-selling jazz album of all time, certifies 6x platinum.”

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Am I right that someone on here was looking for these on vinyl? In my local store. Can arrange for them to be put aside.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Enjoying Blue sky because unlike every other social media platform, there isn’t an AI Amish man with a banana mashing life hack every six posts.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Wordle 1,850 6/6* ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Always the last place you look…

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Meanwhile on Discogs, one dealer hasn’t fully grasped the terms of his trade: “The vinyl is mint as I only played it on day of release.”

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In the June 1970 edition of Films and Filming this ad appears for the Carry On franchise. But Carry On Comrade never appeared. I’m assuming it became Carry On At Your Convenience, which was about a strike at a lavatory factory. (The follow up to Carry On Loving was Carry On Henry.)

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

YouTube keeps offering me a record collector who shows off what he’s bought at car boot sales but, apparently, knows fuck all about music. “Don’t know anything about this…(says this a lot)…but I recognise that logo. Love. So, yeah, Love’s the name of that group.” Drives me nuts.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wordle 1,838 6/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Only three possible, I think, and I chose them in the wrong order…

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Is Sesame Brioche still writing for the New Yorker?

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Q: What do you call a butterfly that wont come out? A: A party pupa

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

An unbroken run of disappointing Lemon Twigs albums, then.

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

So Bluesky does this thing, if I look closer at an image in a post, when I click out if it, the viewer jumps back to the top and I have to scroll all the way down to find my place. Really irritating.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Bemused by Blue Note’s new soccer themed merch? “There is a common fabric to both the art of jazz and soccer with improvisational wonder at its heart.” explains the press release.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Bots are shit. Spotify just invited me to buy tickets for Genesis (the band) at Kentish Town Forum on Sunday. Wow, some small-scale reunion show? No, brief research elsewhere showed it is in fact an Israeli stand up comedian whose show is called Genesis. Fucks sake.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I had to skip McCartney singing The Days We left Behibd on SNL. Too painful.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Hey I forgot to tell y’all about this. It dropped at the start of the month. My bad. Hear me chuntering on about how I misnavigated the 1980s! open.spotify.com/episode/5I8g...

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EAP Episode.115 - Jim Irvin - Furniture (Songwriter, Singer, Journalist) : "Furniture were quite good at not doing what was required!"

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Anyone on here coming down for The Great Escape? Heads up, it’s currently hailing.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Kinks fans! At what point does See My Friend, sung, released and chart documented in the singular, start being referred to as See My Friends by Ray and others. Khronikler Doug Hinman never refers to it in the singular, implying it was always a misprint.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

How did Smashing Pumpkins get away with that terrible Mellon Collie pun? Fancy making a massive double album and then doing that…

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Now playing: 20 years on, album 4 at last.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Delighted to learn that the Dutch have an expression for sweating the small stuff which translates as “ant fucking”.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Now playing. Screen ready atmos by top class four-stringer.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

No self-respecting president should feel the need to reveal the raw nerve that can be touched.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

RIP the great Keith Altham. Shame he never got around to THE book.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Wordle 1,749 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minge

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Wordle 1,747 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Hmm

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I thoroughly recommend this too! www.eelpierecords.com/uploads/1/1/...

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

This has snuck into Record Store Day. Not in all listings, though. www.eelpierecords.com/uploads/1/1/...

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I note that, despite the major iOS update, Apple still hasn’t managed to restore the ability to convert Pages to Word on mobile devices. Why FFS? It was doable for decades.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Does anyone on here know for certain what’s playing after Van sings “When the foghorn blows” on Into The Mystic? I always assumed it was a low organ put through a Leslie speaker, but now I wonder if it’s just brass or perhaps a mix of the two…?Great noise, whatever it is.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Still hating the latest Apple mobile iOS. Using the Mail app is now like trying to read through a riot of balloons and sausages.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It’s been said before, but woah, Kevin Rowland’s autobiography is astonishing. His rocky journey from childhood confusion to chronic lead singer syndrome to late-breaking self-awareness is unlike anything you’ve ever read before. Excellent use of various C words too.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Startling news that Suella Braverman has defected to the Great British Bake-Off.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Startling news that Suella Braverman has defected to the Great British Bake-Off.

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Thinking of writing a book about a group of failed pop musicians called “Hey Hey We’re The Manqués”

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Jim Irvin @jimirvin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Steve Jobs would have hated the new IOS. Fussy, busy, buggy and plastic.

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