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Longden Calling

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Shropshire 📷 and 🖊️by me unless not Profile pic Ingrid Thulin in 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘬𝘵𝘦𝘵 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯, Ingmar Bergman 1957) -ai

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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wasn't it Mark Fisher who said, "Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state - or read a new China Miéville novel it's taken him twenty years to write - you will have to kill someone."?
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have not read it yet but I have bought a copy for my dad's birthday (a tradition over the years, although his fiction has been less prolific in recent). I loved EOMY, and Going Out inspired me to do English at uni. Both very lovely people too.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
China Miéville (author), me (egg), Scarlett Thomas (author) circa 2009
China Miéville (author), me (egg), Scarlett Thomas (author) circa 2009
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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RP Fox @rpfoxart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Fire! Fire! Bluesky's on fire!"
Alan Partridge shouting "Fire, fire, the fayrs's on fire!"
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke Ban This Filth!: Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive, ed Ben Thompson The Visitor, Maeve Brennan
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RP Fox @rpfoxart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My first exhibition of 2027, 'Surface Noise', will be at the Bear Steps, Shrewsbury 14-27 March Hopefully see every single one of you there 🍻 #blueskyart #exhibition #penandink #shropshire
Exhibition poster for my forthcoming show 14-27 March 2027 at the Bear Steps, Shrewsbury
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Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Liberal England... Alan Garner: The Edge of The Ceiling
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Alan Garner: The Edge of The Ceiling
Alan Garner talks about his life and writing career.  This documentary was first shown by the BBC in June 1980, and first posted on this blo...
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Really superb story. Bidmead knew how to write Davison so well.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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AF03: Amanda Feery & Michael Tanner - To Run The Easting Down, by Amanda Feery & Michael Tanner
3 track album
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Industrial Strength: A Guide to Godflesh
Justin Broadrick is shutting down his famed industrial-metal project—but first, a guided tour of his catalog.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
When identifying something that's clearly AI masquerading as authentic, don't explain how you know. Ridicule it, for sure. Make sure everyone can see how shit it is. But don't show your workings - leave it to the fuckfaces who push AI to figure out for themselves how to make it less shit. #FuckAI
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A derelict stairwell in Welshpool, made of brick and stone. It will have all been pulled down this time next week.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I did an illustration based on that scene and called it 'September 21st, Tuesday'
Sadako emerges from the television set to kill Ryuji
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well, point taken, but I really only meant it to be lighthearted.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I am
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Love the alt text. That will really help.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If only OpenAI displayed similar concerns about the environmental impact of AI. I don't think they have the inclination or imagination for that, though. #FuckAi #FuckOpenAI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
OpenAI reveals cases of ‘concerning’ AI behaviour as it announces new disclosure system
Model adopting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ among six more cases as firm reveals framework for tracking AI misalignment
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
HAMMERSMITH I meant 🙄
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dilapidation is part of the magic for me. Or rather it foregrounds it. I remember seeing some pics of a road closure at Hanmersmith Bridge a while back. The tawdryness of the barriers and piles of dug-up road didn't detract from the otherworldly portal that bridge seems, it just emphasised it.
Hammersmith Bridge road closure
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My word, that is pretty.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Black and white shot of some concrete steps
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Ben Rock @benrock.com · 11/09/2026
Hey check out my newly-redone website! I built it myself on @squarespace, I’m not really a web designer so I’d invite any feedback. www.benrock.com
benrock.com
benrock.com
Website and portfolio for film, theater, and audio director Ben Rock.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh perfect
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring
John C Reilly as Jim Kurring in Magnolia (2000)
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RP Fox @rpfoxart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
'Pentre Ifan' Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #blueskyart #penandink #illustration #neolithic #standingstones
Pointillist illustration of Pentre Ifan burial chamber
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
'I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul' J.G. Ballard
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Old pumpkin on old trellises
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A view of the town of Shrewsbury, just over the river Severn, close to English Bridge.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
25 years of Jane Doe #Converge
My tattoo of the front cover of Jane Doe, by Converge, on my right forearm
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Across the US, workers are souring on AI. The tech industry has insisted that AI would make workers’ lives easier and more productive, that the more people understood and used AI, the more they would like it. Something closer to the opposite has happened.
bloodinthemachine.com
Why office workers are turning against AI
Whether or not you like AI at work ultimately boils down to a question of power.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Going through Netflix and blocking Youtubers who have started appearing on the kid's profile feels like a victory but one of the few victories left in the world now.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh wow! It will be shit!
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Companies with 'eco' in their name who use AI in their promos. Fuck's sake, twats. #FuckAI #FuckyouforusingAI
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think the creature in the top left is from The Reptile (Hammer Films, 1966)
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That reminds me, my grandad's getting remarried!
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Just randomly replying 'except for viewers in Scotland' to strangers' posts
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Lovell radio telescopeBoneland by Alan Garner
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The eldest and I took a trip to Jodrell Bank today. Had a lovely time. Here she is quoting from 'Boneland', by Alan Garner.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I recently saw her in Tentacles. That hat was the best part of the film.
Shelley Winters in a big hat
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My wife often tells me that I don't speak the kids in a normal way, that I bring up things that are inappropriate. [Walking up the Lawley, Shropshire hills, with the ten year-old] Me: Has your school taught you about Albert Pierrepoint yet?
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I really don't understand who Folio editions at that price are aimed at.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Oh wow, yeah never heard of that before. I'm intrigued.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
They filmed Berg?! I did not know that. I love Ann Quin.
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RP Fox @rpfoxart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
'Radiotehnika' Ink on Bristol board, 2026 #blueskyart #penandink #illustration #latvia
A pointillistic illustration of the Radiotehnika building in Riga, Latvia, in the process of being demolished.
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A zebra walking across its enclosure at Beekse Bergen Safai Park
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I don't understand this one. Is it surrealist poetry?
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Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ted Heath candles
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