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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sent from my iPhone 18 a mere four days late because sodding DPD lost the first one. Yay.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why am I awake? WHY?
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Those Squier VIs are fab* though, tremendous bang for the buck - the Fender version wouldn’t be much better (unless they let their Japanese manufacturer do a run) * even if you bought one in “Dysentery Burst”… 😛
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My whole timeline in every app is wall-to-wall love for Dolly Parton. Fair enough.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Went to see "Kyotographie: Kawada Kikuji x Iwane Ai" at Japan House a few weeks back and immediately missed the grunge of B&W film photography… so I picked up a preloved Olympus Trip 35 banged a couple of rolls through it.
Black and white photo of a Gibson SGBlack and white photo of a bridge Black and white photo of a tube platformBlack and white photo of the Thames
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So... as of yesterday I've run 66.1 miles (~106km) during July. Rather more than 11 hours of running and nearly 10,000 calories burned. During a heatwave. But it's all for a good cause, innit? If you've got any coppers spare it'd be much appreciated: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.or...
fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org
Neil's Giving Page
Thanks for visiting my fundraising page. I’m taking on the Run 66 Miles Challenge for the Bobby Moore Fund to help raise money for Cancer Research UK. More than a decade ago my mum had a battle with bowel cancer, which she won largely due to the kind of research the Bobby Moore fund pays for. So... with me having largely been off the running since she passed away in back in May here's an double opportunity for me to get back to it AND give a bit back. If you can spare some change it would be much appreciated. Wait.... crap... it's MILES not KM? Gah.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This afternoon I have mainly been playing the jaaaag. #guitar #fenderjaguar
Fender Jaguar with “Hosaka” sticker
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Only took ten years… #pebble
Pebble Time 2 boxPebble Time 2 watch
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Clearing out the guitar cupboard. If you don't mind a trip to west London there are some bargains to be had… www.ebay.co.uk/usr/looptron. #Guitar
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looptron on eBay
Follow looptron on eBay. Buying, Selling, Collecting on eBay has never been more exciting!
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Went for my morning constitutional, got a decent coffee, the sun was shining and meanwhile the algo fed me Ned's → PWEI → Senser → EMF → Carter USM Not a bad start.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
For a very limited engagement (one gig) I will be the bass player in a band, which means I get to use this bad boy in anger. The Silent Parade @ The Good Mixer, Camden, Sun 22nd Feb. Doors 7pm.
Fender Mustang bass with Ono-Sendai sticker.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Huh, PRS finally made a guitar I'd actually consider buying… uk.prsguitars.com/electrics/m...
Photo of a green PRS S2 Vela HHT
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I have awoken with Sheriff Fatman going round and round my brain on repeat. youtu.be/iQXRsshaZk8?si=_-ZQT...
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Carter U.S.M. - Sheriff Fatman
Music video by Carter USM performing Sheriff Fatman. http://vevo.ly/FwLtNC
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
You don't need to be competent. It's the interweb. Just post the good take.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Today's escapism: a tale of unregulated law enforcement summarily executing people in a place that used to be America. I miss when #2000AD was fiction.
Cover of Prog 2464 of 2000AD
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
So Des said a thing, which made me fish out the blue meanie, which needed new strings putting on it, which needed stretching in, which led to this. #guitar #livelooping #slidepheromone #summerday #inappropriateseasonalsongs
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
"'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring…. except the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation."
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Probably third in the all-time list of guitarists I've nicked riffs from. RIP, sir. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... #Guitar
bbc.co.uk
Steve Cropper, guitarist of Booker T and the MGs, dies aged 84
The musician was known for his work on hits including Green Onions and Otis Redding’s The Dock of the Bay.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
For almost exactly a year I have owned this wonderful thing. But… it's strictly one in, one out at the moment and it never got played enough to warrant its spot on the rack so it's off to a new home later. I may have seller's remorse. 😿 #Guitar
A Hello Kitty x Squier Stratocaster in pink.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I am sorely tempted by these Jet 7-strings (because cheap, also non-pointy) and I have zero qualms about the super simple control scheme… but if you only have two controls on a chug-box why put them so unbelievably close together? #Guitar
Close up of the body of a Jet Guitars JS-400 7-string
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I can't work out if "Thundersnow" should be an early 80s show about a one-off AI milspec snowcat and it's ex-cop-turned-vigilante driver OR the next Roland Emmerich disaster B-movie… either way, I'm available to write the theme tune #thundersnow
BBC News screengrab about the possibility of “thundersnow”
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
You're all moaning now, but shonky DNS will be the thing that saves us from the AI apocalypse. Mark my words.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
First time I've bought myself a factory-fresh Gibson… and it has one of the worst cut nuts I've EVER seen. String spacing is wonky (D & G too close together), the D binds and the low E buzzes in its slot. In the case were QC cards from both Gibson and Andertons. Good job, everyone! 😂 #Guitar
Gibson SG with vibrolaClose up of shonky nut
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Bluuuue
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I'll let you know when I figure it out! 😀 ttmm.is/portfolio/ti...
ttmm.is
TIC-TTMMCHART
ABOUT CLOCK FACE Inspired by the dynamic world of charts, TIC-TTMMCHART visualizes time as an ongoing duel where hours and minutes compete for dominance—rising, falling, and striving for victory. On t...
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
That this exists as a real thing in the real world makes me incredibly happy. #Pebble
A new Pebble 2 Duo watch.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The Parker Fly is still my dream guitar. RIP Ken Parker, you mad genius. #guitar
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A non-functioning pile of parts with vague potential. (But enough about me, here's a guitar I'm putting together.) #Guitar #Stratocaster
Some loose parts of a Stratocaster guitar positioned as if assembled.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Have been working on a tune for about 6 months, rehearsed it dozens of times, and only now (while trying to configure a click track to record it) have we discovered that no-one really agrees where the 1 is.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Holiday must have been a success because I appear to have forgotten _everything_ about my job.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Up.
Blue skies and beach umbrellas.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I should definitely be asleep.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
DAME HANNAH HAMPTON.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Is this thing on?
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Halfway down this BBC article is a quote that struck me: "The Holocaust has filled us all with a high sense of guilt, and so it should because we were complicit. But it also teaches us the lesson that we mustn't be complicit now when we see crimes being committed." www.bbc.co.uk/news/artic
bbc.co.uk
Israel is accused of the gravest war crimes in Gaza
Distinguished lawyers, senior humanitarians and diplomats tell Jeremy Bowen why they are increasingly concerned about the catastrophe inside Gaza.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Well, this is fun.
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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
To the tune of Eric Carmen's 1975 hit All By Myself:
Screenshot of a Tweet by noted lunatic Laura Loomer. She's replying to the newly-elected head of the Catholic Church with the words 'WOKE MARXIST POPE'.
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Dr. Bucky Isotope, PhD, BOFA @buckyisotope.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🎵HEAD LIKE A HOLE, BLACK AS YOUR SOUL🎵
Julie Andrews playing guitar and singing  to children in the sound of music
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Noooo. Not Jill Sobule.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Apple Health just notified me that my VO₂ max stat has changed from "Below Average" to "Above Average" this month… despite zero change in my levels of exercise. It turns out the secret to my newfound vigour is the "average" changes quite drastically the moment you turn 50. WIN
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Or we ignored what B5 taught us because it didn’t seem important. I remember thinking in the late 90s that the whole fash thing was largely done and dusted (apart from a few dickhead BNP types on the fringes) and that Earth-goes-fash bit felt overcooked. Ha ha. Hahaha. Gggngh.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This triggers my inner prepper so much: github.com/ericjenott/Evertop
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Hearts Filthy Lesson
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Just finished Kim Stanley Robinson’s “New York 2140”. Weirdly joyful for a post-climate disaster narrative. Best thing I’ve read in ages.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
It really says something about the state of the USA when Wired feels compelled to post articles like this… www.wired.com/story/how-to...
wired.com
How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border
Customs and Border Protection has broad authority to search travelers’ devices when they cross into the United States. Here’s what you can do to protect your digital life while at the US border.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Let’s see if this thing works then… (another crosspost test)
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
As Popes go, he seemed like a decent-ish human being. More of that, please.
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Accurate. theoatmeal.com/comics/hello_kitty?n…
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In honour of International Haiku Poetry Day I present my 2016 magnum opus “Dishes” (after which I retired from the format): a friendship will end unless you learn to load the fucking dishwasher
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looptron @looptron.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Proof of life. Test of cross posting. Is this thing on?
Me in front of a graffitied wall.
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