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beka valentine @bekavalentine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love the Snow Crash audio book I have. it has this ridiculously vibin' chapter title audio that's so perfectly early 90s cyber

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Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UK version out next week with our sister imprint, Zer0 Books www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/o...

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New radio show, up now on the wire website for your listening pleasure 🎶

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The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Samhain edition of The Invisible College takes place on 30th October at Tough Love with a screening of Censor + Q&A with director @pranobaileybond.bsky.social + a live set by @meemocomma.bsky.social + @bunnyhausen.bsky.social on DJ duties. Tickets: wegottickets.com/f/27776

Poster for the next edition of The Invisible College at Tough Love on 30th Oct featuring a screening of Censor + Director Q&A + Meemo Comma (live) + Xylitol/DJ Bunnyhausen (DJ)

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our October 2026 issue www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...

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Office Ambience 512 - The Wire

Stream a selection of tracks from releases we listened to during the making of our October 2026 issue

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Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New book in the British Library series by Travis Elborough has one the most delightful descriptions of the inside of a record shop I have read, of the Record Album shop in Brighton: 'The output of Howard Keel had its own bin.'

The Philosophy of Vinyl by Travis Elborough (published by the British Library)

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Yiannis Kalaitzis @yianniskalaitzis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Illustration: Ella Baron/The Guardian

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Wire 511 is out now! Featuring Space Afrika on the cover, plus Nuno Canavarro, Lucy Liyou, Jad Atoui, Rump State, Primitive Percussion Youth Orchestra, Darla Quintana, Jennifer Herrema’s Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

NEW We are donating all proceeds from the release of the new Blue Tapes House Band release to support the medical bills and rehabilitation of BTHB member Eugene S. Robinson, who recently suffered a stroke that robbed him of the ability to speak, read or write.

Eugene S. Robinson in hospital, post-stroke

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Rhi @digitalisnarcissus.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This robotic arm constantly trying to recover an ever leaking blood-like fluid.

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Can't Help Myself (Sun Yuan and Peng Yu) - Wikipedia

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Simon Coates @simonjcoates.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

An exhibition of album covers from the early days of the Greensleeves record label is coming to London. Free entry 💥

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Blue Tapes @bluetapes.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

And check out Yapping Portal bluetapes.bandcamp.com/album/blue-f...

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blue fifty-six, by Yapping Portal

18 track album

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The Invisible College @jjstannard.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The Invisible College debuts at Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings on 16th August. We’re screening Philip Brophy’s body horror classic Body Melt with an exclusive video intro from the director plus live sets from @triggerobject.bsky.social and Dream Skills. Get tickets here: wegottickets.com/f/22399

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Travis Elborough @improbableatlas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My Slacker Shakespeare season at the @riocinema.bsky.social and sponsored by @fivepointsbrew - kicks off this Sunday 21 June at 2pm with @gus_van_sant My Own Private Idaho riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...

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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

In the company of @paulreesauthor.bsky.social's’ ‘Raised on Radio – Power Ballads, Cocaine & Payola’, Travis Elborough dips into the history of Adult Orientated Rock — the sound of a confident, car-driving North America www.caughtbytheriver.net/2026/06/rais...

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Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

a horse walks into a bar and says to the barman, "on a right angled triangle with sides x, y and z, if x and z are perpendicular which side is opposite the right angle?", and the barman says "y, the long face"

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Listen back to last night's edition of The Wire’s weekly radio show, which was hosted by @lucythraves.bsky.social and featured music by Scott Walker, Marvin Tate, Fire-Toolz, Rosa Pistola and more www.thewire.co.uk/audio/on-air...

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Lucy Thraves hosts Adventures In Sound And Music - The Wire

The 21 May edition of The Wire ’s weekly radio show on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Scott Walker, Marvin Tate, Fire-Toolz, Rosa Pistola and more

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

this is one of the best, sharpest dystopian books predicting some present day horrors, and it's especially sick/brilliant for being written from the perspective of painfully vapid teens. love it so much and so glad to see it recommended here

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Melvin Gibbs @melvingibbs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

my book is available in the UK on June 4th

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Shimmersoft @shimmersoft.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

That's not Bluesky advertising what the site is like. That's Bluesky trying to subliminally remind you that you could just be outside instead of posting.

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Hilda cat is fiercely guarding this one, always a sign of quality

Hilda, a white cat with black spots, fiercely guarding the new issue of The Wire, at least she's not pissing on it, that's usually how she likes to mark her turf

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

New show alert! Lots of soothing drones, rocking out and spoken word weirdness in here, plus links to what's what and where to find it all, enjoy 🎶

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

of course, OF COURSE Dawkins imagines his Claude as female...barf

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Great stuff, this is as good as when someone figured out how to use google translate's text to speech feature to beatbox

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Travis Elborough @improbableatlas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

My latest Elborough's Eye books column in the new issue of @idlermagazine out now www.idler.co.uk

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, @jjstannard.bsky.social hosts The Wire's weekly radio show, delivering a deluge of delights including tracks by 808 State vs Humanoid, Kristen Gallerneaux, Sunn O))) (pictured) and more. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule 📷 Charles Peterson

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/04/2026

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Zola! last year this dude's novels kept me sane; rec. his R-M novel cycle for rhymes with/relief from the insanity of the present moment: super detailed/historically damning, humane, treats women as real people and there are racy/trashy pulp plots to boot, something for everyone ❤️

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Tonight on Resonance FM & Resonance Extra, Chris Bohn hosts Adventures In Sound And Music, playing tracks by Albert Ayler Quintet, Black Nile, and Lucy Liyou (pictured) + a special tribute to Mania D/Malaria!’s singer/saxophonist, Bettina Koester. Tune in from 9pm BST extra.resonance.fm/schedule

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

got this ad on the guardian website for some bs AI language learning app. (there was a larger image explaining it was AI, but the proportions were wrong to upload here) fluent in italian? this isn't even fluent in english. dis-apper indeed.

some brain dead & misspelled ad text for an illiterate AI translation app

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The Wire 507 is out now! Featuring Sunn O))) on the cover in special Savage Pencil black and white editions, plus Delphine Dora, The Sleeves, Jair-Rohm Parker Wells, Brion Gysin, Irmin Schmidt’s Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

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Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

In Mario Kart Wii, crashing the game and activating the crash handler will eventually start playing back the contents of the Wii's RAM as sound. Since the data was never intended to be interpreted like this, it ends up sounding like experimental harsh noise music.

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Wire 506 is out now! Featuring Wendy Eisenberg on the cover, plus an Augustus Pablo primer, Mariá Portugal, KAVARI, Yellow Swans' Invisible Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

this is streaming right now! 🎶

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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The Wire 505 is out now! Featuring dälek on the cover, plus an industrial hiphop primer, Vic Bang, Pascal Comelade, O Ghettaõ, Daniel Blumberg’s Jukebox, and much more. Pick up your copy here: thewire.co.uk/shop/

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/01/2026

The first comment on YouTube for this video is "This song sounds like it's airbrushed onto the side of a van" and there has perhaps never been a more apt assessment of a song than this youtu.be/DyhYzRRMBSU

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Castle Rat - WIZARD

YouTube video by CastleRatVEVO

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byron coley @byroncoley.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

RIP WALTER STEDING as a weird underground nyc violinist steding was always second (in my mind, anyway) to boris policeband, but that ain't hay. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/a...

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Walter Steding, Otherworldly One-Man Band and Portraitist, Is Dead at 75

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Awkward Egg @sleepwalkingdog.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Leonardo DiCaprio has stopped using Wikipedia.

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Gary Lachman @garylachman.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

At the launch I'll be in conversation with pop culture savant Travis Elborough. I'll be showing the short film my son Max made to promote the book, and giving away copies of the rare "Amor Fati" CD, of tracks by my band The Know, with every book sold.

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Emily Bick @saving-throw.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

For whoever tried to message me on the chat here, I can't read those because I'm not sending bluesky a scan of my passport for "age verification". Please send a general message or email me, or try my mastodon instead. Thanks!

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taber @kvetch.gay · 28/12/2025

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

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Lucy Thraves @lucythraves.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This year I've noticed high fashion piggybacking on experimental cultures that are much more precarious and amorphous than it. Is this new? What effect does it have? Is it even a problem? Attempted to answer these questions in this short end-of-year essay for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social

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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Authoritarians used to burn books. Now their collaborators burn literacy.

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MORZZ @mmorzz.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Well this rules. If you’re not familiar, a chanson is a polyphonic composition typically of late medieval and Renaissance vintage. If you like this sound and want to go looking for more, I highly recommend listening to the work of Josquin de Prez.

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