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Liam Murphy

@limbamurphy.bsky.social
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Working at The Independent. Editor for @listencorp.org. Bylines for Tribune, Clash, DJ Mag, Byline Times, Off-Chance.

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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I've written about that question you see all over Frutiger Aero communities online, the attempts to profit from said communities and what it tells us about visual aesthetics and trends... open.substack.com/pub/limbamur...
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'Is this Frutiger Aero?': The inertia of a visual aesthetic
A repeated question from part-timers and fly-by-night salespeople are squeezing the fun – and capital – out of a cool community
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Memory Death, by Boards of Canada
from the album Inferno
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Had a good time speaking to these two, have a read!
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Aliens are real. Epstein is alive. Trump will say ‘egg’ in his state of the union. Would you bet on it? Lots of people on Polymarket and Kalshi are. I explored prediction markets with Timothy Fong and Natasha Dow Schull, author of Addiction by Design. www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...
independent.co.uk
The worrying new gambling trend luring boys to bet on airstrikes, Epstein and aliens
Prediction markets – which allow users to bet on the outcome of almost anything – are coming to the UK, bringing with them the possibility of the next big gambling problem. How have these platforms ca...
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
'Change hat' is such a great to-do list item, like if you asked the first iteration of ChatGPT to write you chores for the day www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Luigi Mangione’s to-do list included ‘pluck eyebrows’ and ‘change hat’
Lawyers argue that anything found in the bag should be barred because police didn’t have a search warrant
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
'Some users added tags such as “#seeyouwhenim16”.' No self-respecting 16-year-old would use a hashtag www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Australian teens bid farewell to social media as world-first ban comes into force
Ban requires 10 largest social networks to lock out children under 16 or face hefty fines
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 02/12/2025
The rage-bait era – how AI is twisting our emotions without us even realising it
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The rage-bait era – how AI is twisting our emotions without us even realising it
The rage-bait era – how AI is twisting our emotions without us even realising it
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listencorp @listencorp.org · 30/11/2025
⭐️ FEATURE INTERVIEW ⭐️ There’s strange albums that have grown a cult following online… then there is Shadowdog, the glitch-pop 2015 release by tirestires. We interviewed the person behind it to celebrate its anniversary vinyl release! www.listencorp.co.uk/post/shadowd...
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Shadowdog is still a beautiful, brainrotted mess
We try and make sense of the glitchy, discharge-covered 2015 album with the help of its creator
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 30/11/2025
OpenAI says a suicidal teenager should have read their fine print
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OpenAI says a suicidal teenager should have read their fine print
OpenAI says a suicidal teenager should have read their fine print
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Jeffrey Epstein dreamt up bizarre series starring Johnny Depp, Courtney Love – and even Stephen Fry www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
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Jeffrey Epstein dreamt up bizarre series starring Johnny Depp, Stephen Fry and more
The disgraced financier had an idea for an interview series called ‘Strange Bedfellows’, but none of the stars he fantasised about featuring seem to be aware of its existence
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listencorp @listencorp.org · 14/11/2025
Get your copy of listencorp 007, now! www.listencorp.co.uk/post/listenc...
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Bad news for music, I got my navidrome running again. Shit is going to get LISTENED to
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Neither sleep nor death will sever your connection. But it wasn't always this way... I spoke to the pioneers of dial-up, as well as Dr Lui Gough and @coletteshade.bsky.social about internet nostalgia. And Geert Lovink about how it could all come to an end. www.the-independent.com/tech/gen-z-n...
the-independent.com
Why Gen Z want dial-up back – and how the internet could be driven to extinction
The ‘you’ve got mail’ era already feels like a lifetime ago, but in the week dial-up connections are finally turned off by AOL, Liam Murphy-Robledo talks to the pioneers of commercial dial-up internet...
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listencorp @listencorp.org · 28/09/2025
🚨 LISTENCORP 007 IS HERE 🚨 Octa Sheffner (@gerogerigaygaygay.bsky.social) reveals why it's over after 850+ releases and we dive into their 8-hour masterpiece, LUX. Baths (@bathsmusic.bsky.social) gives insight into his new album and its brutal poetry... www.listencorp.co.uk/post/listenc...
listencorp.co.uk
The seventh edition of listencorp is here
Octa Mobius Sheffner! An exclusive cassette! Baths! Lucy Liyou! Ninjarachi and more!
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Wrote about FBI raids on bootleg Bart Simpson shirts, @alansiegella.bsky.social’s fantastic new book on it, and how an animated show helped shape our modern times for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
independent.co.uk
The Simpsons didn’t predict the modern world – it shaped it
The record-breaking animation may be returning for a 37th season, but many fans have long switched off. If ‘The Simpsons’ is struggling to make an impact, it only has its own success to blame, writes ...
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Wrote about Charlie Kirk, Cracker Barrel and the politics of pain substack.com/@limbamurphy...
substack.com
YEARS OF LARD: Cancel culture, but make it stupid
'CRY MORE LIB,' I cry, as the woke mob is forced to write 'Charlie Kirk' on my Starbucks coffee
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
‘Cry more lib!’ I cry, as I force the woke mob to write Charlie Kirk on my Starbucks coffee
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listencorp @listencorp.org · 29/07/2025
A prolific online visual style brought to life… 🌈 🎠 🏘️ Crossing Bridges’ Dreamcore OST draws out the strange familiarity of nightmarishly idyllic cul-de-sacs and endless green hills. @forestcorp.bsky.social
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In a week where UK vs US discourse grew – a debate both invigorating and fatiguing – Jim Legxacy is busy flicking through his Blackberry, laying a patchwork of disparate influences over a nucleus of Black London musicality My review for @clashmusic.com www.clashmusic.com/reviews/jim-...
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Jim Legxacy - black british music (2025) | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
UK rapper charges a formidable first album with heart and quick-step style changes, aglow with Bluetooth-charged eclecticism… --- --- “A lot of shit
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Anybody else up loving their music?
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Luke, I am your drum and bass father
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listencorp @listencorp.org · 11/06/2025
Like booting up some strange PC game… w o r l d 2 0 0 0 by International Telecom, out on Deep Sea deepsea-nostalgia.bandcamp.com/album/--6
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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Great piece by Liam Murphy @the-independent.com on how AI deepfake voice scams are becoming the most insidious threat on the internethttps://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deepfake-scams-chatgpt-b2775006.html
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How AI deepfake voice scams are becoming the most insidious threat on the internet
Most deepfake programmes need only one picture to create a semi-believable facial model, and experts say AI can make voices indistinguishable from the real thing with just a few minutes of audio. This...
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
From Jean Baudrillard’s ‘The Evil Demon of Images’: ‘It is precisely when it appears most truthful and most in conformity to reality that the image is most diabolical…’ ‘There is … a seduction, a force of diversion and distortion. There is a kind of fatal strategy of conformity.’
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I didn’t see the spaghetti but I have commented nonetheless 😀 As we are engulfed by Israel/Iran deepfakes, the threat of unreality gets ever nearer.
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
They made Will Smith eat spaghetti. What can AI make you do? ‘Personal misinformation’ is growing, fuelled by bad actors, but also by our own habits. Spoke to @lilianedwards.bsky.social and @swachter.bsky.social for this piece in @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-deep...
independent.co.uk
How AI deepfake voice scams are becoming the most insidious threat on the internet
Most deepfake programmes need only one picture to create a semi-believable facial model, and experts say AI can make voices indistinguishable from the real thing with just a few minutes of audio. This...
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The Bidenification didn’t really take long, did it? BREAKING: Trump is reportedly very ticked off with Netanyahu 😡 told them NOT to do that!!! Trump angy at Putin, per Reuters
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Instagram doing incredible things
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I spoke to @jcz.bsky.social about his album Horizons™ and what it can tell us about the metaverse and its strange, empty spaces For @digital-frontier.bsky.social www.digitalfrontier.com/articles/metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds-john-zobele
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listencorp @listencorp.org · 14/05/2025
👁️ FEATURE ANALYSIS 👁️ A new dawn arrives. We dive into the new album from t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 on @geometriclullaby.bsky.social, with the help of @desertsand.bsky.social to understand what it means for slushwave and to explore the beauty of the genre www.listencorp.co.uk/post/spirit-...
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Spirit of slushwave: the return of t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力
With the help of slush aficionado desert sand feels warm at night, we dive into one of the new albums and what they mean for the genre
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Those houthis messed with the wrong guys 😎 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Another $60M US Navy jet falls off USS Harry Truman and is lost at sea
Two aviators were forced to eject from the aircraft as it suffered an ‘arrestment failure’, said reports
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Only just realised how much I need to see Casey Frey dance to a song from James Ferraro’s BEBETUNE$ album
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
It’s 25 years since a signed sci-fi book shoved into a young John Travolta’s mailbox hit the big screen, powered by Scientology. So how come we’re not eating popcorn out of novelty e-meters? My piece on the Dutch-angled disaster, Battlefield Earth for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/articles/bat...
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Psychlo killer: Battlefield Earth 25 years on
Scientology's spectacular flop went down in history for all the wrong reasons. A quarter-century on, what went wrong?
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A true masterpiece of the internet age has been analysed and I’m honoured to tell you about it!
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listencorp @listencorp.org · 27/04/2025
📕 FEATURE INSIGHT 📕 BUY NOW’s BRILLIANCE IS CLEARER WITH EVERY PAGE We look at @jingajik.bsky.social brand new book on @disasteradio.bsky.social’s MIDI masterpiece, and how incredible it is to see it celebrated Released via @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social www.listencorp.co.uk/post/eyeline...
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The brilliance of Eyeliner's BUY NOW
Dr Michael Brown's new book does the impossible, in drawing together every element that made this vaporwave touchstone
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
‘Such is life at a paranormal convention, where everyone is looking for a story that might provide a gateway into the unknown.’
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The US is so hilarious
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Me at the Rahat Fateh Ali Khan concert if he plays Chaap Tilak or Rabba Main Toh Mar Gaya Oye
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nelson simpson from the simpsons is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and his eyes closed .
ALT: nelson simpson from the simpsons is sitting in a chair with his mouth open and his eyes closed .
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I followed James Ferraro’s steps to try and understand his album ‘Far Side Virtual’! open.substack.com/pub/limbamur...
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I followed James Ferraro's steps to understand 'Far Side Virtual'
By the way, the chef suggests the Australian coral reef roll, £1000
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
No soy-drenched totopos. No sashimi tacos. Just genuine imaginative fusion of Japanese and Mexican cuisine at Los Mochis and Juno Omakase. I spoke to the creators of the restaurants and others about the unlikely pairing for @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/life-style/f...
independent.co.uk
Mexican-Japanese fusion should be a disaster – but Los Mochis pulls it off
The collision of Mexican and Japanese cuisine sounds like a recipe for culinary chaos. But as Liam Murphy discovers at Los Mochis, Markus Thesleff and Leonard Tanyag are proving that, with precision, ...
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Sir Matthew Rycroft outlining the difference between Conservative and Labour policy on migrant hotels. Conservative plan: big barges to stick people in Labour plan: slightly smaller places to stick people in www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Migrant hotels will be used for four more years despite pledge to close them
Home Office aiming for zero asylum hotels by ‘end of this parliament’ as work continues to clear claims backlog
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I know politicians are naturally funky looking people. But I don't think anybody is out here doing it like Javier Milei
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
'The more one considers the American Century, the more it resembles a historical aberration. Geopolitical circumstances are unlikely to allow another to become as powerful as the US has been...' @dbessner.bsky.social in @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2022...
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Empire Burlesque, by Daniel Bessner
What comes after the American Century?
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Really love this part by @ladymissbarton.bsky.social, the analogy of biopics and Burke's X Factor 'Hallelujah' cover... "...struck by how remarkable the transformation is, how deadening the result." They often feel like a cinematic version of a wax model. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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Finally, a Jeff Buckley film that handles his legacy with grace
This week, a docudrama about the late singer Jeff Buckley premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to a rapturous response. Hallelujah, says Laura Barton, who argues that more filmmakers should be brav...
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The best cinema in the world needs your help! @princecharlescinema.com you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save The Prince Charles Cinema
The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A pleasure to bring out another edition of listencorp 🐠 Shoutout to @mxhdroom.bsky.social for the fantastic @catsystemcorp.bsky.social as well, a wonderful secondary feature. And thanks to everyone else involved in its production or who has picked one up.
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“There were people dancing together who had been having beef for years…" Lovely little piece in @statmagazine.org statmagazine.org/the-kids-are...
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The Kids Are Alright - STAT
Parents bemoan the death of cool culture — it still exists, they just don’t know about it. Mary O'Neill, an artist and writer from St Helens reminisces.
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
"To anyone who knows the reality of privatisation, their dogmatic refusal to look at the evidence is the very definition of ideology itself." @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social on Labour's privatisation playbook www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...
independent.co.uk
Jeremy Corbyn: Keir Starmer needs reminding that the NHS is not for sale
As the government unveils its plans for NHS patients to be treated privately in a bid to cut the waiting list backlog, former Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn says this administration is repeating the mistakes of the last
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Starting one of those technostalgia TikTok’s where you’re holed up in the woods using outdated gadgets and listening exclusively to this
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Liam Murphy @limbamurphy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
So proud to bring out this feature, where friends shout out friends and write about some of their favourite music from 2024
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