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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Someone design cards for the unglamorous numbers between the big ages, so we don’t have to worry what goes best for someone’s 43rd.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Still haven’t fully grasped I’m on the way to seeing Saint Etienne’s last ever London show tonight. Subconsciously I think we all believed they would exist forever.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Mathematicians of the world - have retrieved this from the cupboard to use as a packing box again, I’ve been looking at it for hours now and still haven’t worked out how a net like this ever became a cuboid.

A large piece of cardboard on a bed; folds in the cardboard divide it into a net of 2x3 panels. It is not the conventional cross-shaped net of cuboid-shaped objects.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Finally getting to sleep after an epic #PrideInLondon day. Thanks to my awesome colleagues and marching companions, everyone who put on the event and came to show support; everyone who couldn’t come but we still marched for. There’s still so much for us to fight for.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What a day for PJ Harvey to bring us the infinite coldness of space open.spotify.com/track/4YZ7rG...

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Voyager

PJ Harvey · Voyager · Song · 2026

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

In celebration of the return of summer, BBC Four are currently showing the Christmas Day 1999 episode of Top of the Pops.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Very grateful to Billie Eilish whose recent patronage of Black Box Recorder means I’ve finally had the chance to see them live. Pleased to get ‘The English Motorway System’ but despite being teased between songs, no ‘Andrew Ridgeley’.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

@flahr.bsky.social The first and last starter from last weekend’s pop culture buzzer quiz competition - never has there been a pair more ‘I saw these and thought of you’, pretty sure you’d topline these even faster than I managed.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It’s a weekend, so of course there’s a new Reds Pinks and Purples album out. Give him a thirteen-year window and he’d have well over fifty done.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

What’s concerning is this comes 13 years after Tomorrow’s Harvest, which was 8 years after The Campfire Headphase. Which means we’re on the bloody Fibonacci sequence and the next one won’t be until 2048.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I didn’t think we’d ever see the day

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Large orbs start appearing in Seoul and suck anyone they touch inside. South Korea descends into anarchy and cults.

‘The Black Orb’ novel by Ewhan Kim, translated by Sean Lin Halbert.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Just back from seeing Ladytron do a launch show for the excellent new album ‘Paradises’ at the tiny Gorilla in Manchester. It’s well over an hour long yet somehow doesn’t drag, which is the sign of some kind of genius.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

@flahr.bsky.social I think you might appreciate this but it’s best I don’t say where I found it

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

He’s only gone and done it. Keep up this pace and we’ll be looking at the record a few years down the line. #AusOpen

Post by me on the other site from 18:38 on 9 June 2024: Crazy to think Alcaraz already only needs an Australian Open and he’ll have the full set.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Aus Open app’s had a proper glow-up, and praise be actually now works. That abomination of a couple of years back is a distant memory.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Pre- Everything Everything pub chat: what would the bible have to say about jazz?

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Dispiriting Sainsbury’s Christmas playlist has just been perked up by the appearance of ‘Sound and Vision’, so we can only assume an algorithm somewhere has taken ‘waiting for the gift’ a bit too literally.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Saw the German electro pop band SPARKLING last night in what surely is a much smaller venue than they’ll play next time they’re in London when everyone will want to join in the fun. The algorithm that decided I might want to hear them after I had a Digitalism afternoon did its work right.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

My feet seem to have entered some netherworld between sizes, where nothing in the shop can venture.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Melon soda withdrawal symptoms setting in now.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Arigato Tokyo, it’s been incredible and definitely won’t be so long before I’m back. No ready for the downer of returning home just yet so let’s start the way back with a few days in Taiwan.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Brit-in-Japan cliche incoming: Thought I’d racked up an enormous bill on my first ever visit to a kaiten sushi bar. I’ve barely gone over a tenner.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Izakaya Fuwatoro in Osaka has a chaotic aura and food totally worth it. It’s like being inside Japanese TV with like four things going on at once. And a rubber chicken hanging from the ceiling.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

My travel companion’s just got them to put Memory Tapes on in an Osaka record store and right now I’m a very happy person.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Holy shit I appear to be in Japan.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Truly this is a spell of good content.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Wait there’s a new Prolapse record too?

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Also given some of the new Cut Copy album a go and that’s also as dependably good as always. A good day for new records all round.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Just finished the final Saint Etienne album, International, and it’s suitably wonderful. It’s going to be strange without them in the landscape, they’ve always just been dependably there.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Once or twice a year I steward at a graduation ceremony and it’s probably the biggest concentration of happy people in one room I see at any time.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Wonder what the odds are on Sinner and Alcaraz both getting to 20+ majors. They’re easily good enough. #Wimbledon

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Vale for another year, #Wimbledon. No other sports event comes close.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It would be most remiss to watch what could be a very long #wimbledon final splayed out on the bed so I’ve decided to make pies. In this weather. In a room that faces the sun at this time of day. My life choices aren’t always optimal.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

When Kipling wrote “if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same” he didn’t take giving an interview after being on the end of a 6-0 6-0 scoreline in the #Wimbledon final into account.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Absolute demolition job. Swiatek barely made a mistake the whole way through. Anisimova’s still on the way back, she’ll be fine in the long term. #wimbledon

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Today’s march at #prideinlondon felt more important as a protest than in the last few years, with the precarious nature of lgbtq+ rights round this way at present; me and the work colleagues were there for each other, and everyone who couldn’t be there.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Came to Copenhagen to see Mew’s final hometown show tonight (was meant to be their final final show but they’re playing all over until the end of the year now. I don’t get emotional at much but Jonas just keeping it together during Comforting Sounds completely set me off.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Time for the semi-regular fun of working out who exactly shows the tennis these days.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

There’s a greater than zero chance that my attempt to handle the clocks going forward by agreeing to do a quiz at midday might backfire horribly, and I’ll fall asleep on Zoom in front of everyone.

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mark @moretalesfrom.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

In hindsight, I probably shouldn’t be allowed unsupervised access to coffee.

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