samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And one of these days in six words, I'll express this sorry tale. 0261
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Can I nominate bureaucracy as having a similarly maddening surfeit of vowels? 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I feel like body horror really hits hard at that age and there's definitely some uncanny body horror bits in Mars attacks (in my memory). 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My primary school best friend's mum ran a video shop so I think I saw all sorts of wild stuff (I think we saw Emmanuel aged ~7) but the two that stuck in my nightmares were the face stretching from Beetlejuice and the liquid metal self healing from Terminator 2. Neither exactly horror as a grown up. 210
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We've all been there. I once cooked an (admittedly weird shaped) scotch bonnet into a stir fry thinking it was a normal jalapeno type supermarket chilli. I had to go and have a bath afterward. 190
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The last part of which gives me my favourite family anecdote. The day my nan first encountered chilis at the market in the early 60s so bought a pound of them to boil up and serve to my grandad when he got back from work. My mum still nearly dies laughing thinking about it. 1220
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No, they all have opinions about which are the most effective for them. We have a whole Slack channel for sharing these things at work - they all sound like grey wallpaper to me but they're unquestionably popular. 100
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's really popular amongst a large cohort of (possibly mostly tech right now) workers who want "productivity music" or whatever. 120
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Oh I'm 100% on your side of this equation (and as a massive magpie I have no idea what personalised music would even mean for me) here but I'm not sure that the general consumption of music today is so very far from what he's describing and wouldn't be shocked to see it go that way. 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm not sure that is how most music is listened to is it? Sure, 6 music dads and K-pop stans are going to want to explore and learn but for the vast number of people who turn on Smooth or Hits Radio or Relaxed Playlist etc. and have it wash over them 12+ hours a day are less likely to be bothered. 451
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Minor claim to fame: My babysitter as a child was one of the cenobites. Fortunately I was not aware of this at 8 years old or I'd probably have turned out very differently. 010
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026For sale, sex swing, never used. 130
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Blimey, I drifted away a long time ago but what a formative period it was. 001
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Christ, 6 music just giving unchallenged air time to one of the “protesters“ from Portsmouth on the news bulletin. New low. 010
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 04/09/2026God, imagine the #content coming out of those bad boys this week. 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 04/09/2026If only the UK had a recent example of of teflon coated, media darling politician brought low by a succession of individually minor scandals they could draw on as a mental template. 010
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"Oh yeah, I should probably have mentioned, Dave has a spaniel." 020
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Repulsion is a form of influence I guess? 020
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 31/08/2026It's an incredible spot even with the numbers down. Here's a shaky video from us rounding in a race earlier this summer: 020
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 27/08/2026But it's nice for it to remember Rutger Hauer's brief stint as The Doctor. 110
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I saw a video a while back describing Grooved Arete on Tryfan as a scramble and honestly the point at which you're bigging up a notoriously tricky and polished climb as a scramble is the point someone should drop a rock on your head. 030
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Another Cinematic Orchestra track but how about: open.spotify.com/track/2OzVzX...open.spotify.comAll Things To All MenThe Cinematic Orchestra, Roots Manuva · Every Day · Song · 2002 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Apart from Foot and Mouth, obvs. 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Look, if you came from Longtown you'd want something. Anything. 210
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Fond memories of being told I was a racist for complaining about loud cars on twitter. 010
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Genuinely: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_(w...en.wikipedia.orgHead (watercraft) - Wikipedia 221
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Ridiculous question, you don't shit off the side you shit off the front. 110
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026100% agree* *on the evidence of one night 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Being up in the loft installing a ceiling fan yesterday was hellish but goddamn was it worth it last night. I don't think I really knew what I was missing out on. 130
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 12/08/2026This has reminded me of this excellent Chilean graffiti. 060
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Quite enjoy that they've given it a bit of a Basquiat aesthetic though. 010
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Ohhh, I like this, I reckon I can dovetail it into my latent take that the emergence of Smooth Radio as the omni-music is responsible for the rise of fascism. 010
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I was having a large gash in my leg stitched up by an italian doctor after a skiing crash and rather than a local anaesthetic he chose to shout the names of british military heroes at me. Starting out the window at the dolomites whilst a man shouted "WINSTON CHURCHILL" and shoved a needle into me. 2663
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It's been very noticeable that the most prominent face of the ongoing Tyne waste spill cleanup has been Kim Mcguiness, far more so than the local MPs. I can imagine some degree of translation to _some_ sorts of casework. 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/07/2026But it's nice that in both cases you could be accompanied on the organ 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I think I'd be buying a new pool skimming net. 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 30/07/2026As an anti-wetroom evangelist I can't get past the walk in shower which will inevitably overflow onto the natural stone flags and end up with mould problems. 060
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 29/07/202643 years old with over a decade in electoral politics? Time to forgive some youthful missteps. 030
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Also, wine fridges are great and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 010
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Just a more civilised way to live, here's mine: 110
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I've been trying for ages to frame the pushback against 6 music's promotion of a more diverse playlist in recent years as britain's Gamergate - if you'd like any scare quotes. 020
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Weirdly quiet out considering... Just taken a bus from Blyth to Newcastle and saw single figures of football shirts and the pubs were half full half an hour before kick off. 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 13/07/2026It's definitely affluent and niche-ish, kind of a small niche within a big audience. I would assume so, I think he's also seeing it as part of a model where he can monetise his engineering skills by building paid tooling associated with the content he provides. 020
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 13/07/2026I can't understand the economics of someone with 5 figure subscriber numbers nudging towards 6 figure income but fair play to him. 120
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 13/07/2026One of my development team recently left the industry because he realised that his moderately successful Youtube channel could bring in more than he was making from a company paying top end of the UK salary scale for software engineers. 140
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I do quite a lot of offshore sailing and one of the pleasures that affords you is the right to say "worse things happen at sea" and then look wistfully into the distance. 31000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Back in the 90s IIRC she was always portrayed as stuck in the past but in some ways she's been ahead of her time. A real prototype for the bedroom warrior who starts out with some niche beliefs and finds an incentive which amplifies them to the point of radicalisation and allows no compromise. 000
samcartwright.bsky.social @samcartwright.bsky.social · 09/07/2026The replies to that seem remarkably... sane? Is X not coming out swinging for Farage? 100
