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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“This REALLY pissed me off”. Awww. (Is it all music recorded after 1979? No, don’t tell me.)

“This REALLY Pissed Me Off” – YouTube thumbnail.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

“What if we never started wearing clothes?” No, we definitely did. 🙄

YouTube thumbnail: “What If We Never Started Wearing Clothes?”

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Plan B: become the new Doctor Who? - ‘The Curse of Clacton’ - ‘Frontier in Sea’ - ‘Four to Bin Day’ - ..?

Nigel Farage points pointedly in a flyer.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Remember, it’s Brian Eno not Brian Emo.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“Looking for results in English?” asks Google. Well, Google, if you had the competence to check the Accept-Language header string that was supplied by the browser, you wouldn’t need to ask or guess. Also, that’s not how questions are formed in English. 🧐 #cluebatNeeded #theSearchEngineOfLastResort

“Looking for results in English?” asks google.com, patronisingly and yet idiotically.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I wish you knew that you wish you had known that rather than thinking you wished you knew.

A YouTube thumbnail of a guitar with the text “I WISH KNEW THIS”.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Well I’m unconvinced about this… 😜

“The post you're replying to was marked as being written in German by its author. Would you like to reply in German?”

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“Fury at…” (as the newspapers say) the Daily Mirror’s incorrect application of the phrase “begs the question”! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging...

“But now Mandy is refusing to hand over his private phone, which ~~begs~~ the question WHAT IS LEFT TO HIDE?” – Daily Mirror

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

“What If Vladimir Lenin Ruled the USSR Until 1950?” No, he definitely didn’t. #grammar

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

“… unfortunately, they also destroy the people the city dwell in.” That’s from the _opening sentence_ of a new “documentary” video on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6gm...).

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Blog post ‘Trump as Jesus or Doctor or Magician or Father Christmas or Whomever’: phantomcircuit.com/posts/2026/0... #metapolitics #soHotRightNow

A composite image of: a portrait of Jesus; the infamous image posted by Trump; the ‘Magician’ tarot card; montage by Phantom Circuit; ‘So hot right now’ still from ‘Zoolander’.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Won’t somebody please think of the normies? #tldr

“Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal neoule want”

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Who remembers… Kathy Burke in the video for her song ‘Cloudbusting’?

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“Thanks, People's Poet! Now the pigs won't hassle us now on the street any more…”

Rik dreams about delivering “The People’s Poem” to police officers in ‘The Young Ones: Flood’.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“I’m going to show Zoë the sort of thing she may be in for.”

Patrick Troughton with a memory visualiser gizmo on his head, as seen in ‘The Wheel in Space’.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Does he really wish that he knew tips that he does not know, and is that even possible?

YouTube: “52 Tips I Wish I Knew Before Visiting Athens, Greece”

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure that they did. 🙄

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

We can’t put this off any longer. The humane course of action now would be to put YouTube out of its misery.

“AI finally decoded the Rosetta Stone” Wut.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Phantom Circuit #464: Achromic Tit Pun Tracks by Kavalcade (c/o @wepn.bsky.social), Wahn (c/o @ivopetrov.bsky.social), @toxicchicken.bsky.social (on @earthrid.bsky.social), Portal, Seefeel and many more. First heard yesterday on @beachyheadradio.bsky.social 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/BeachyHeadRa...

This vintage painting of an owl and a blue tit illustrates Phantom Circuit #464.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It’s a very good album, but as for the cover: “who wore it best”?

Tommy Cooper in a costume split vertically for two characters.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Psst! @bsky.app assumes that you only use one device and never clear out your cookies, and that therefore it’s alright to show this pssting piece of psst every pssting time you try to pssting post! Psst!! Whoever implemented this “feature” must have been pssst...

"Psst! You can edit who can interact with this post."

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

“Laure Beccuau said 'upper echelons of organised crime' unlikely to be involved as one perpetrator remains at large”. What, the upper echelons normally grass them up?!

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I was wondering just this morning whether you might return..!

A hand emerges from the ground, in a graveyard. (Art by Shravan Pandala, used under licence).

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

☎️ “Hello Milton, the BBC people say yes, you can wear the eyepatch again but Michael still hasn’t returned the beret or the coat. Ooo!” Milton Johns in ‘The Intruder’ (1972) and ‘Doctor Who: The Android Invasion’ (1975). What’s all that about then? Monoptical thespians deserve an answer!

Milton Johns in ‘The Intruder’ (1972). Doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo doo doo doo... 🎶

Milton Johns in ‘Doctor Who: The Android Invasion’ (1975).

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I hear some people have been critical about casting in ‘Tron Guy: Arise’ but I wouldn’t know about that.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Well that’s how I read it too, the moment I saw an advertisement for it, on the side of a bus, Tron: Arse. As for whether it’s any good or not: I don’t know or, frankly, care.

Father Jack looking forward to ‘Tron: Arse’.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Phantom Circuit featured a Nash the Slash interview and live set way back in show #10 (2008). 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/phantomcircu...

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Perplexed series 1 judge: “Tape”?

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Don’t forget to “like” and subscribe and press the bell icon and salivate and blah blah blah blah… 😴

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

A typical Bluesky “trending” list as seen from the UK. 😕

Trending: Sebnatorial Urgings / Orbit Bucket / Bob Barfschnitz / Niftball Precough / Scurvybridge Trimester / Grazb Forble

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

‘The Summer of Our Discount Tent’ opens the show! How is that for an endorsement, @vardamanens.bsky.social? 😉 I also omitted to @-mention Secret Nuclear c/o @whirecordings.bsky.social... and perhaps other artists too… but I’m sure everyone listens to Phantom Circuit religiously anyhow…

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Phantom Circuit # 446: Cog in the Machine Music by @anoushkashankar.bsky.social, @weldroid.bsky.social, @toxicchicken.bsky.social, @caryaamara.bsky.social, Secret Self (c/o @simonheartfield.bsky.social), Weldroid (c/o @ivopetrov.bsky.social) and many more. 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/BeachyHeadRa...

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🆕 Phantom Circuit #443 – featuring a session by David Strother 🎻 (@dstroviolin.bsky.social) and with music from artists on @whirecordings.bsky.social, @bathysphererecords.bsky.social & other fine labels! Listen: 🎧 www.mixcloud.com/BeachyHeadRa... 1st heard yesterday on @beachyheadradio.bsky.social

David Strother playing electric violin on stage.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

“Rather amusing, don’t you think?”

Liz is not amused. From ‘Spearhead from Space’.

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Phantom Circuit @phantomcircuit.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

@benasterisk.bsky.social @quiteamess.bsky.social BARBARA: The Doctor’s from a different age, a different planet altogether. CAST: The Doctor’s from a different age, a different planet.

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