Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1hBluesky has evidently make the tweak to make the feed more sticky - i.e. there’s always something new - but sometimes you don’t always want something new… That feeling of being able to catch up quickly and then close the app is quite rare, and it’s a shame they’ve changed it 0420
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1hI use the “Popular With Friends” tab on here when I’m busy as it’s a nice Bluesky snapshot - and it’s always been finite, i.e. you can catch up with it in the morning to where it left off the previous night. But now it’s infinite - i.e refresh and there’s a load more posts - and this is a shame imho 3301
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1hJust become aware that there’s a university in the Punjab called Lovely Professional University and I wholeheartedly approve www.lpu.inlpu.inIndia’s Best Private University in Punjab - LPULPU ranks 31st among all top government and private universities in India according to NIRF Rankings 2025. LPU offers the best diploma, undergraduate, and postgraduate courses in management, engineeri... 3635
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 2hThis is SO clever. Read down the thread (and follow the link) for a better sense of how clever it is… 1248
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 13hIvor (4) has been chosen to play the part of Joseph in the school nativity play and I for one am glad that he making this first important step towards a stable, solid career in show business 151410
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 14/10/2026When UK police made a public request for people not to share the footage, they probably hadn’t counted on their request being effectively overridden by the President of the USA, whose brain is so irretrievably broken that he can’t comprehend for a moment why that might be a bad idea 61236
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 14/10/2026The news that Trump actually reposted footage of William Chapman in the tiger enclosure at Yorkshire Wildlife Park has made me so furious that I’ve had to go for a walk 1318516
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 13/10/2026Yep, I think the fact that they all turned out shit might indicate a lack of time and guidance But even I’ve made a flatbread in a pan and I found the whole thing baffling 030
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 13/10/2026Still staring into space open mouthed in disbelief at the flatbreads #gbbo 6773
Reposted by Rhodri MarsdenCaptain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Yesterday's funeral had an a.i. Order of Service which is clearly a thing now, but the Moment of Reflection was a 6 min a.i. generated song about the life of the deceased. It clearly meant a lot to the family, but I'm not sure my face was entirely convincing when they later asked for my opinion. 1716721
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 13/10/2026Just remembered LOLing last week at the quack Instagram influencer who recommended drinking “radium water”, so I went to look at his account, and of course it’s jam packed with conspiracy, antivax and vicious antisemitism and he has half a million followers — I am no longer LOLing 4490
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 12/10/2026I can’t stop thinking of @luketurner.bsky.social’s description of such things as “honking of data centre” 080
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 12/10/2026I produced a few of them, including Xenia Garden's version of "Hey Ya!" – I saw her performing with her harp at a Moomins theatre production for kids last Christmas and thought YES she would be brilliant, and she was. All hail Lush's support of unsigned artists <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMhb...youtube.comHey Ya!YouTube video by Release - Topic 1151
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 12/10/2026It's shipping later this month, but it's out on streaming services – link via this page. Marvel at Jackie Oates's version of "I Need A Dollar" by Aloe Blacc, etc etc. www.lush.com/uk/en/p/best...lush.comBest Day Of All Time | Vinyl | LUSHCurated by Lush Co-Founder and devoted music enthusiast Mark Constantine, he introduces his fifth installment of his musical autobiographies, Best Day Of All Time. This stunning triple album features ... 150
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 12/10/2026The latest triple album of covers commissioned by Lush's CEO Mark Constantine (from the years 2001-11), is out! Mark & Luise and I cooked it up, and there's some brilliant stuff on there, e.g. Sheema Mukherjee's bhangra version of Single Ladies, Eliza Carthy doing Pink's Get The Party Started → 1102
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026Yep. But you can’t suddenly switch someone’s experience in the way the OP suggests. Or even successfully keep out a certain kind of content. Once you’re being fed it it’s whack-a-mole 110
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026A 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 😬 41000
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026Although as anyone who has ever tried to block a channel on YouTube knows, you can’t block channels on YouTube. You can request that it doesn’t recommend a channel, but that has minimal overall effect. 🤷 (Do advise me if I’m wrong about this but I don’t think I am) 3241
Reposted by Rhodri MarsdenRhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 07/10/2026My dear pal Michèle Noach is putting on an event at the Royal Geographical Society on 3rd Dec dedicated to ice. (Not ICE.) Art, science, music, film, literature. I'll be performing songs about ice & snow with my bestie Keith Adams, his first gig in an eternity. Whoop! www.rgs.org/events/upcom...rgs.orgIce Station RGSJoin us for an immersive late-night celebration of ice, where beauty meets urgency. 0229
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026The game “Skirrid” comes with hand-written endorsements from Mike Yarwood, Margot Fonteyn, Ronnie Barker, George Melly, Joyce Grenfell, Magnus Pyke, Jilly Cooper etc etc 6240
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026And this is how I amused myself on long car journeys in 1982 6464
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026My mum has dug these out, so I am sharing to give a sense of what I looked like in 1977 242659
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026Dream Themes played with them in Manchester about 10 years ago (weird bill, huh) and they were glorious 010
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026Oh gosh, have I already posted about it? I keep returning to it 110
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026The first track on that link (“Worlds Apart”) should be the auto-play track, it’s terrific 100
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026I dunno how many people share my love of that post-disco / R&B / boogie sound of 1982/3 (Kashif / Sharon Redd / D-Train / Melba Moore etc) but Galaxians (from Leeds) evidently do. Can’t stop listening to this record. Unashamedly retro but absolutely banging galaxians.bandcamp.com/album/feel-i...galaxians.bandcamp.comFEEL IN MOTION, by Galaxians11 track album 6342
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026I will now list all the books I might have read if I had not been looking at social media 1) Bravo Two Zero 2) Delia Smith’s Book Of Cakes can’t think of any others 6891
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 11/10/2026I was just imagining what a fascinating and impressive human I would be if I’d spent the last 20 years reading books instead of looking at social media, but unfortunately I am an empty shell of a man, alternately furious and terrified, still, we are where we are *scrolls* 101339
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/10/2026I think there is a real opportunity here to get heavily into carpet beating 140
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/10/2026Aren’t carpet beaters beautiful? Look at this, 16 quid on eBay 81030
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 10/10/2026From Anthropic’s own report, the models were completing tasks which they’d been given by Anthropic, and while doing so circumvented restrictions which Anthropic failed to make sufficiently strong, so how exactly were they “acting on their own”? 🙄 614837
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 09/10/2026Yes! I remember proving it by doing a mash-up with C&C Music Factory 😬 110
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 09/10/2026I know this doesn’t even need saying, but if you ever feel tempted to have a look at a controversial post on Twitter, just don’t do it - the unhinged madness contained within the replies will leave you terrified for the fate of humanity (and this post was only about folic acid) 31032
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 09/10/2026Enjoyed listening to the News Agents podcast just now, and Lewis Goodall being unable to find a word to describe Pete Hegseth and eventually settling on “twat” 3882
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 09/10/2026This morning Ivor and I have been drawing and this was my effort 161171
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/10/2026Local Tesco currently unable to take contactless payments for some reason. Stern announcements over the in store PA, shoppers (including me) wandering around holding our phones with confused looks on our faces, desperately trying to remember what cash and cards look like 5404
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/10/2026Obviously I’m getting a lot of revisionist “standing” pushback bullshit, but I just found a Mr Tumble video where he sings “sitting”, unbelievable 8580
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/10/2026“Yeah, it was a shame what happened to Eddie, he went down this rabbit hole one morning and got sucked into this whole bottle vortex and he’s never been the same since” 040
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 08/10/2026First publication in 1928 says “hanging”, I think some people may have changed it to “standing” in order for it to MAKE SOME BLOODY SENSE 0110