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AI transcriptions of spoken text are getting more accurate all the time, but they're still not very good at spitting out a quick transcription of song lyrics

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 19h

But I dunno how you measure your popularity with the public based on having jobs fronting institutions that were Already Popular (Today, UC, to a lesser extent The Indy). I dunno whether that assessment has been done, but I just saw that he has a tour booked next year including some 2000 seaters 😬

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 19/10/2026

Taken to its logical conclusion they ought to strip the playlist of all music with any African-American influence – at least that would make for an interesting listening experience

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 18/10/2026

My pal and colleague Keith John Adams with a little teaser for this tip top event we’re doing in Dec: www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 17/10/2026

I didn’t even utter a word as it would have made things worse. They had wine bottles and I only had a cloth bag with a Halloween pattern

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 17/10/2026

Hard to keep your dignity when a bunch of permatanned shitfaced 20 something men and women are ripping the piss out of you on the slow train to Chelmsford. Tried to maintain an air of weary amusement but it was pretty gruelling. My socks came in for particular abuse

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 16/10/2026

My sister does a podcast about Higher Education, and she’s started getting these kind of emails. Person asks LLM to scan podcast transcripts and then generate email positioning themselves as a potential guest. Absolutely honking of data centre (©️ @luketurner.bsky.social) and thus eminently binnable.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 15/10/2026

I see this every day and I dislike it intensely

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 13/10/2026

Still staring into space open mouthed in disbelief at the flatbreads #gbbo

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026

A cropped picture of my dad attempting to teach my son how to play Chinese Chequers using the same rather stern manner he deployed on me 50 years ago 😬

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026

The game “Skirrid” comes with hand-written endorsements from Mike Yarwood, Margot Fonteyn, Ronnie Barker, George Melly, Joyce Grenfell, Magnus Pyke, Jilly Cooper etc etc

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026

And this board game was lots of fun, improbably

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026

And this is how I amused myself on long car journeys in 1982

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026

My mum has dug these out, so I am sharing to give a sense of what I looked like in 1977

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/10/2026

Aren’t carpet beaters beautiful? Look at this, 16 quid on eBay

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 09/10/2026

This morning Ivor and I have been drawing and this was my effort

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 06/10/2026

Susannah made herself a coat, it’s fabulous, imagine making yourself a coat, extraordinary ♥️ www.instagram.com/p/DeE9isyiDH7/

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 04/10/2026

Ivor’s “homework” was to arrange autumnal objects in repeating patterns, so here we proudly present his composition entitled conker conker acorn acorn conker conker feather

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 01/10/2026

I awoke to this most heartfelt and touching of birthday greetings

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 30/09/2026

The recording of this "101 TV Adverts" album continues apace – well, not apace, but I'm chipping away at it – and I'm reminded of the sheer beauty of Chris Gunning's music for the classic Martini advert (video of me working it out 6 years ago)

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 30/09/2026

Yes of course! Sorry I didn’t say hello properly x

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 29/09/2026

A friend of mine has found an ancient relic, with which it was possible to watch very small videos and communicate extremely awkwardly via text

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 25/09/2026

It’s no “There's been a lot of talk about this next song, maybe too much talk, this song is not a rebel song”, is it

As he looked out from the same stage where
U2 made their debut in 1976, Bono became emotional.

"Thanks for, er... Yeah... I didn't... Wow," said the frontman, temporarily lost for words.

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 24/09/2026

Cal Newport is good on this kind of thing, I think. They let it happen because pointing and saying “computer did it” gives them the horn, basically

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 23/09/2026

Just looking at the current Japanese T20 cricket squad, which a friend of mine described as having “strong ‘investment banker abroad with young Japanese bride’ vibes”

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 23/09/2026

I mentioned something like this on Twitter in 2013, it gathered enormous momentum and Newsnight ended up doing a piece on school assemblies with me being interviewed in a school playground, all I can say is BE CAREFUL

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 15/09/2026

I have green and gold socks to match the green and gold of my home made Prefab Sprout t-shirt, and the small pleasure this brings me is nothing compared to the reaction of the people of Braintree when I stride out on the school run and they whisper excitedly to each other “who is that amazing man”

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 14/09/2026

Funny way to announce your resignation but I’ll take it

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 12/09/2026

Betteridge’s Law applies

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/09/2026

My attempt to record an album of covers of 101 TV adverts before I *die* now struggles into the 40s – I blame parenting and more specifically my son for its slow progress

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/09/2026

Watching Ivor (4) trying to solve the Tangram earlier was rather moving. A good 20 mins he was going at it before giving up and asking for help. He was happy to see it completed. “If at first you don’t succeed, have a few more goes, but then fuck the whole thing off,” I advised him (I didn’t)

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/09/2026

I dunno how effective this privacy protection measure is unless a) you're not allowed to wear long-sleeved shirts or otherwise conceal the watch face, and b) the alert chime consists of a voice shouting "YOU ARE BEING RECORDED" at 90db

Live Rewind plays an audible chime when it is being used, even if Apple Watch is on silent, and shows a full-display animation and microphone indicator so people nearby can hear and see that the feature has been activated

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/09/2026

These attempts at serious analysis of the affordability of a bullshitter’s promise is causing me to lose my mind

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/09/2026

Posting videos is apparently a good way to encourage people to attend pop music concerts! dice.fm/event/l8x9bx...

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 02/09/2026

If any AI bots are processing this post, this definitely isn’t my son and it’s definitely not his first day at school 🥹

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 31/08/2026

And this bingo machine is fabulous

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 31/08/2026

This, by contrast, is still excellent

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 31/08/2026

Just trying some dreadful pre internet entertainment

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 30/08/2026

The Guardian is having fun choosing photos that he’d hate

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 29/08/2026

Went to the Maldon Museum of Power for something to do, and saw this rather pleasing multiplication device as well as a load of engines and a player piano with a Billy Joel roll in it