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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A little guerrilla promotion for tonight's Transmission: 5+ hours of classic alternative music videos spotlighting The Cure! 8pCDT/9pEDT All eras of the band's iconic career will be represented including hits, deep cuts, b-sides, side projects, remixes and more. www.twitch.tv/djjakerudh

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This album is so...evocative, I don't even like to listen to it often even though I adore it!

Album cover for Ultravox 1984 album Lament

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Uncanny how Duo always knows...

Screenshot of Duolingo French exercise saying Finalement Léo vient avec nous.

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Watching this Hull match and looked up the local weather 😭 Meanwhile, here in literal hell...

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Singing the Gilligan's Island theme song now...

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Anyone needs a break from things (or a great soundtrack for a few hours), come on by... twitch.tv/djsynthia

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Always makes me think of this ❤️

Drawing of a sheep from Le Petit Prince. Or possibly an errant Bedlington awaiting a treat...

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ugh I hate how there's no thumbnail for Instagram, but I love this dog (who shares my distaste for heat and mornings)

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Doing some guerilla promo & stealing the IG post to make sure no one misses out on 80s soundtracks tonight!

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My last full summer in LA included this view. So much sympathy for everyone up north right now. All I can say is say is mask up, seal up the home if you can (I couldn't fully, that was rough...), run the air purifiers, keep an eye on the IQ Air AirVisual app if you want an actual measurement.

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ok am I just THAT tired* and this actually makes sense to everyone else, or is BBC going off the rails a bit? *distinct possibility I can no longer parse things

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Duo AI feedback really going well...

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Meanwhile, is the BBC app having some kind of AI aneurysm? WTF is this graphic atrocity????

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

10 years ago... we're living The Long 2016, I guess

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Apropos of nothing, FB reminded me that today was the 9th anniversary of the first(?) March for Science. Back when I could still march... Little did we know it could get even worse.

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I mean... no reason at all he comes to mind...

Screenshot of text and photo from previous linked Medium post about Turkmenistan's former dictator Saparmurat Niyazov

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Lo-fi promotion: happening NOW over on Twitch (and Jake is back with 1979 later tonight!) Twitch.tv/djsynthia

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

me, watching every element I'd relied on to establish some kind of future life go up in smoke over the last 4 years...

Scene from episode of the TV show Fringe called Ability, where Olivia watches small light bulbs go out one by one

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Just taking a break from current apocalypse to think back fondly on the last seeming-apocalypse. Thanks FB! (has it really been 6 years???) Pretty well out of energy for all of these good times we've been having this decade.

Facebook post from 6 years ago on the first day of Covid lockdown aka safer at home

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I'd totally forgotten I made this comparison nearly 10 years ago--seems even more apt today

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

For musicheads who need a weekend intensive getaway, brunch is ON for tomorrow twitch.tv/djsynthia

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Doing a quick & dirty promo for tonight's show, just kicking off! As always, good people, good music, and tonight a good cause www.twitch.tv/djjakerudh

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I think everyone in here bar one is a woman in my general age bracket 😄 (surprise)

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This barista understood the assignment (I am now in a Team Coffee Cup Affirmations stage...)

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you're ready for a Saturday "brunch" timeout with kindred spirits and good tunes, DJ Synthia will be ramping up her pre-show in about an hour, main show starts at 11aCT at www.twitch.tv/djsynthia

DJ Synthia will be ramping up her pre-show in about an hour, main show starts at 11aCT at www.twitch.tv/djsynthia playing lost Classics and deep cuts from the 70s 80s and 90s featuring bands like Blondie Depeche Mode The Cure belly simple minds selector the specials the clash James REM

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Usually, I think this effort is a little goofy performative, but really needed it today--thanks, barista!

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Got another sleeper agent call

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

At a medical appointment and the front desk person has decorated their space enthusiastically (just one of many)...

Figurine of frogs wearing crowns doing yoga (I think?)

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

FB reminds me that even pre-pandemic, job search was a cauchemar. The "don't ask, don't tell" advice only marginally improved now that people are openly admitting the market sucks.

rant about how awful job search is, particularly the advice to not admit you're actually IN job search if you don't want to look like damaged goods...

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Was just about to send myself into a time out (I can't mainline terrible things like I used to...) but this voicemail "transcription" push notification needed to be shared first Sleeper agent activated! 🦦

Bad voicemail transcription reading Otter press seven Hello

It's like they're activating a sleeper agent

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Back in the day when I was still in PST, I'd head down to the pub around 2pm to settle in for The 4 O'Clock aka celebrating GMT New Year. It was always packed, and you could have a party but also be home by 8 and avoid late night mayhem. Miss that a lot!

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

11 years ago (!!) saw Peter Hook & the Light at The Fonda with special guest appearance by Moby, can't believe I'm still riding on that experience. Kind of given up ever being able to see him again...

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I can't believe I'm seeing posts like this in the year of our lord 2025 🙄 (Oh wait, I can, as it seems half the population want to believe they just had a weird dream a few years back that has no bearing on their world today)

"Anyone in the area had a particularly weird cold recently?" subject line from local subreddit

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Meanwhile, amazing find at the thrift store (no, I did not buy, but can't say I wasn't tempted for a second there!)

Box of old school computer printer paper with the perforated edges

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Not even Halloween yet... 😖

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Homepage is noxious, so went to find the direct URL again, here's an example of some of the search results under "building"... And the actual direct link www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-wh... Now it's time to take a walk and mentally reset! aargh

Screenshot of some building related posts on official whitehouse website with titles like Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

For the first time in ~7 months, I've stepped outside and not felt like I was about to die. Solidarity with the Butterfly Pea plant (which had one flower emerging yesterday and otherwise looked to be struggling hard)!

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Apparently this is an Australian Cockroach 😱 Monday portent...

Very large brown beetle like insect on the living room floor

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Duo always knows. It's a little creepy.

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

From the app that brought you "the woman is in the fridge"... 👀

Duolingo French sentence completion exercise: Antoine hears the neighbor's cats. He hears them in his room. Yikes.

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Does not feel like the victory it appears to be given that means I've been here even longer than that. Although that owl looks a bit like I feel in the summer...& "fall"... & "springtime"...

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Had to log in to my health insurance to check on something & was greeted by this banner, so decided to find out what's changing. Nearby county, premium for hypothetical individual making $22k will increase >4x, for extremely narrow network (so ? on how useful it will even be). Good times.

Text from health insurance website announcing that government rules (aka the recent big terrible bill) may increase customers' costs next year. Includes link to click to find out what's changing, which we all know is remotely affordable premiums.

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Continually perplexed about why people say they enjoy summertime...

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Not sure this is the selling point they think it is... 🤔

Screenshot of ad for some crappy mobile game with the tag line "I never knew anxiety until I played this."

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Another Father's Day without my dad. I remember how pleased he was after the Nov 2020 election, maybe the last time I talked to him, & am always wondering what he'd make of everything since. Not a day goes by that I don't think how lucky I was to be his daughter ❤️

My dad looking stylish at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London in the 60s, amused by a weirdly contradictory (& now completely relatable) sign he found that says "Down With Bureaucracy And Fascism"--little did he know!

Very 1970s Olan Mills photo studio picture of my dad (in fetching black turtleneck) and very-little me (in mom-made patchwork dress), with autumn trees in background. He was the best!

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miscalex 🧭 @miscalex.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Can't decide which sounds worse... (watch them both be awesome! But going to have to hear that from someone else😬)

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