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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Can any dream interpreters let me know why I had a chicken katsu curry in a bag in my dream last night?

joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

WFH productivity has nosedived this week as new internet with a handy meshing system means I can more easily look at memes at my desk.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Do Arsenal finally not need a new striker?

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Farke. He was in trouble at the end of last season and it’s only a matter of time.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

This is a great punchline I wrote for a joke about an octopus. Sadly I cannot remember the joke.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Spotted on a postdoc’s desk at work.

A pretty good drawing of a horse and a flower, on a desk in an office. A colourful object with the word ‘Joy’ on it stands, ironically, next to it.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Have you ever seen both @themerl.bsky.social and Milk-o-Mania used in a friendly workplace reminder before?

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

After all, why wouldn’t we?

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Not to be a pedant, but last season our squad average age was about 33, so it follows that this year it is probably 34. I’m not saying that is good, in any way.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I don’t think I have ever been this sweaty in my life and I am generally a sweaty man.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Fun for all the family tonight. Ten on ten.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Last night’s lighten was a fantastic album from The Delgados. Didn’t garner much of a reaction from the family I’m sad to say. I loved it however.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

And tonight was this classic, picked up from Truck Store for a huge £4.50. I’m a huge fan of Duke; other family members were not as keen as I was, but didn’t go as far as disliking. #dukeellington #vinyl

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

So two weeks off turned into four weeks of sick leave as my back has turned to dust. Happy to report that we are now back to records as I can sit at a table again. Last night we enjoyed this Marnie Stern joint. Big thumbs up from the baby who was grooving whilst eating a burger. #marniestern #vinyl

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

The only redeeming quality about West Brom is the lad in the combi boiler suit. #DERWBA

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It has taken 34 years and ten months, but last night I finally used ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’ in a sentence. (I realised immediately after that I meant ‘disestablishmentarianism’.)

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Obviously tonight not last night, I am so incredibly ready for two weeks off work.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Got through this utterly huge rager last night. One of my favourite albums as a mid- to late-teenager and still rips today. Super wintery album. Theo tonight was more taken by a nappy bag floating through the air but Holly listened eagerly to my musings about the feels I get from this. #autolux

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We’re currently doing a side a night due to time constraints, and we’ve started the week with this absolute all-timer. Soundtrack of my youth baby! The fact that I now have a baby is really bringing the whole aging thing home. #deftones

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

‘My Plague’ is such a great song #slipknot

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Tonight was Fomie’s ‘Ominus Prominence’, which came curtesy of the Limited Addition record club. Theo bounced a bit and I really enjoyed it personally, must invest more listening and had in-laws talking over it.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Sorry been manic recently. Last night was this incredible offering. All family huge fans. Theo’s favourite track is ‘Apple’.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We had to do this over two nights. It very much confused Holly and her mum, but Theo was all over it like a dog on a new lamppost. Absolute banger album, love Cardiacs, love music that sounds better than the Beatles one minute and like a carnival on amphetamine another. #nowspinning #vinyl #cardiacs

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

How did you manage to fit in it?

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

We are so fuckin back baby. Confirmed third gen New Order fan in Theo. Even visiting Granny was please with the choice. On a totally unrelated note, does anybody in Oxford have some Pig Destroyer on vinyl that I could borrow? #vinyl #neworder #pigdestroyer

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Do we talk about #universitychallenge on here because a) that was thrilling and b) I’d have won the tie-break.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Remembering a funny incident with my large human baby (1Y) yesterday in which he did a big fart and pointed to his nappy, which he does to indicate that he’s shit himself. Took him upstairs, on the changing table, nappy off, no shit and the wee man laughing at me. Mugged off by a baby.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We didn’t do any of this over the weekend because everybody is ILL and we’ve had to call for HELP. Normal service may resume this week, which is good because I have a hankering for some New Order.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Furiously stat-padding in preparation for #spotifywrapped

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Ruben Amorim is a phenomenally sexy man.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I’m not a Baleba that that was a yellow card. #motd #boubha

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I also got ChatGPT to roast my record collection, and Black Sabbath into Fiona Apple is definitely vibey.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Got ChatGPT to tell us what to listen to tonight and it came up with this. Great reception all around. ‘The Boxer’ is just one of the most perfect songs ever, isn’t it?

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Time for a nice and totally normal lie down

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Me on the 90th minute on a Saturday (r)

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Tonight was a stone cold Lips classic. Holly enjoyed a lot, Theo slightly non-plussed but he’s more of a butt rock guy. Massive, formative memories for me from this album - I don’t love all FL output but this and The Soft Bulletin are top drawer. #vinyl

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I should be doing these as replies really, not quotes.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Just had to explain to my 13 month old son that, sadly, Paw Patrol is ACAB and he can’t watch it.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Apart from ‘Just Another Nervous Wreck’, of course, which is an absolute baton of a tune.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tonight’s listen was Breakfast in America by Supertramp following complaints of previous choices being too abrasive. Holly - ‘yeah that was good’. Theo - not the usual levels of excitement but he enjoyed the title track. I’m a fan of this album (I own it, after all); side A rips, B is a bit meh.

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joel atkin @joelatkin.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Usual listeners are Joel (34M), Holly (32F) and Theo (1M). Theo cannot yet talk.

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