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I declare that henceforth, Artificial Intelligence shall forever be known as 'SI'. But sir, SI is already the metric system... It can be two things!

Mayor Quimby telling his Lackey that it can be two things

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 21h

Just did my first (and so far only scheduled) interview for my upcoming book and had lots of fun. If any more of you media/pod/zine types want to hear me blab enthusiastically about Japanese indie music culture, contact me or Awai Books and we'd love to sort something: awaimedia.com/Tokyo_Doesnt...

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Awai Books | Tokyo Doesn't Exist

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 18h

BlueSky has its flaws, but without it I would never have become aware of Alison's utter beguiling ukulele versions of XTC songs. (Or, in the gorgeous example below, Dukes songs—leading to a most gratifying pun.) Honestly, give this a listen. You'll be so very glad you did.

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ #MusicChallenge Somewhere I've been California—Joni Mitchell Spent a few months there back in the days when people still visited the US. Never kissed a sunset pig though... youtu.be/l6tlDUqRMUo #musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The five greatest British Films of all time 1. Don't Look Now 2. The Third Man 3. The Lady Vanishes (1938) 4. The Wicker Man (1973) 5. This Sporting Life #Filmsky

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Were you about to listen to Oranges and Lemons by #XTC ? Well hold off, and we can all do it together at 9pm GMT this Wednesday 30th. That way you can share beloved moments, air any grievances and mildly panic because you always seem to be a track behind everyone else.

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anyone else keeping a loose tally on #5DebutAlbumsFinal ? I reckon if it were *only* BlueSky ballots: The top 3 would still be JD, VU & SR, but it would be much closer. Then I've TV and REM 4 and 5—plausible. For the rest of the Top 10 I have Pixies, Pistols, DLS(!), Clash & Lloyd Cole…

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ #MusicChallenge W is for... Wales A Child's Christmas in Wales—John Cale Then wearily the footsteps worked The Hallelujah crowds... youtu.be/r9IKnVVRsmk #musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Big, big thank you to everyone who took part in #HomeMadeMusic yesterday. Great to catch up with the regulars as always and meet some new heads too. Catch you all next Saturday, and in the meantime, if you're looking for a handy way to catch up on all the tracks, might I suggest this feed?

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Pilfering Kibble @ednasmeds.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#HomeMadeMusic This song isn't necessarily about an end, but then again most of my songs aren't specifically about any one thing anyway. This one is, however, brand new, written and (hastily) recorded on Tuesday/Wednesday I think it's called... red glitter - fake.halo

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red glitter (2026 demo)

new song happened, sounds kinda like this

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Never the Bridle @neverthebridle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fell asleep! Yeah I think I'm beyond it this week. Hope you've had a good listening day 🎶

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Jonny Blue Jay @lonesomebluejay.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#HomeMadeMusic Bit different from me this week. A remix/reworking I did of Down To My Grave by Ironweed (2005) as Audio Suspects, which is a name I used for projects back then (PS2 game music, hip-hop DJing, producing etc) Riding a train to my grave is a fairly final ending! youtu.be/NJ33LdA_2CM?...

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Ironweed - Down To My Grave (Audio Suspects remix).wmv

YouTube video by Toby

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Izak. @izak-detroit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#HomemadeMusic I got it. This one’s about breaking intergenerational cycles of abuse.

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Destiny

YouTube video by Izak.

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Terry @terrybones.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

terrybones.bandcamp.com/track/you-de... Celebrating the end of a week and the enjoyment of a weekend getaway. #HomeMadeMusic #music #musicsky #TerryBones

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You (demo harmony 1st mix), by Terry Bones

track by Terry Bones

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Jupiter from Stuffy Doll @stuffydoll.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Buckhorn” is about an ending, alright. It’s about a girl who becomes so jaded and disillusioned with white suburban American life that she blows up her neighborhood, leaving nothing but a smoking crater behind. #HomeMadeMusic

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Buckhorn, by Stuffy Doll

track by Stuffy Doll

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mnem e @pooltoy.info · 26/09/2026

torn between this oldie and a newer one about the often-abrupt nature of endings. this one's more naturalistic decay over aeons and the shorter-spanned lives that see it, so, eh. #HomeMadeMusic neonorangepylonofterror.bandcamp.com/track/crumbl...

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crumbled shore, by neon orange pylon of terror

from the album 1128, or a warm hug

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Zack Loup 𓃦 @straysongdog.com · 26/09/2026

This song is about the strangeness of losing a loved one in the modern era. The odd phenomena where you can run into their digital ghost unexpectedly sometimes. #HomeMadeMusic #musiciansky #musicsky straysongdog.bandcamp.com/track/modern...

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Modern Memento Mori, by Stray Songdog

from the album Cry Coyote

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distanttrains.bsky.social @distanttrains.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#HomeMadeMusic A disclaimer for everything I’ve ever recorded: my “songs”’were always focused on the lyrics, and the music was both secondary and amateurish, probably never more so than on this one. I hope to re-record this someday. on.soundcloud.com/67qHWc2p2POm...

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Cold Case

A net for catching ghosts, a cloudy database with maiden names, the cities where you sublet apartments 30 years ago, and mixtapes with no covers. The flares I send up go unseen in this arc light sun

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musisic timothy @wgwgsa.net · 26/09/2026

#HomeMadeMusic - www.youtube.com/watch?v=piL2... Well, i guess - this is about the aftermath of a murder. that certainly counts as an end

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SO ALIVE!!

YouTube video by Water Gun Water Gun Sky Attack - Topic

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Rough Guess Music @roughguessmusic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#HomeMadeMusic Hello, Wiz Ball and fellow songwriters! Here's my song about endings. It's called "Walk Away". Thanks for listening. 👋😀 The video features remixed footage from the 1968 public-domain film "Appalachia: Rich Land, Poor People", by Lee Lockwood and Don Lenzer. #musiciansky #musicsky

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Ian (F) Martin @ianfmartin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My #HomeMadeMusic this week on the theme of "an end" is really a song about someone trying to end something but being unable to do so for long, and on some level already knowing that even before they leave. soundcloud.com/rizladeutsch...

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Master of Ants - (Sooper-Beta)

Side-project of one half of Rizla Deutsch!, composed of demos recorded summer-autumn 2017.

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The Pomegranate County Irregulars @pomcountyirregs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#HomeMadeMusic I think “The Rain Falls on Everyone” started with a desire to have a pop lyric with a “Brazilian” beat. (And clueless in the mimicry is one way to be different. Take THAT LLM pushers.) pomegranatecountyirregulars.bandcamp.com/track/the-ra...

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The Rain Falls on Everyone, by Pomegranate County Irregulars

from the album At Sea with the Serfville Monad

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Gayle Ramage @mealygarage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tenuous link but the last/end track on the Hey Child EP. Chopped up a recording of a woman talking at length, from freesounds dot org, and set it to music. thedandysboutique.bandcamp.com/track/always #HomeMadeMusic #musiciansky #musicsky

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datzkiw.bsky.social @datzkiw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Next Room was inspired by an extremely rapid onset of ALS and his way of dealing with it. youtu.be/jCXVBNfQZ08 #HomeMadeMusic

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Next Room

YouTube video by Ken Datzkiw

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Akiko Kumagara 【IRIAM】 💜🐻 @akiko.social · 26/09/2026

This song is about losing someone close to you. I imagine it being about the recovery period following a grand adventure in which one of your fellow adventurers tragically did not come out of as fortunate as you. The narrator is stuck in the turmoil and guilt of being the survivor. #HomeMadeMusic

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【東方 Arrange】r0tt3napp13 (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Lunar Shift

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just adding #HomeMadeMusic to this so it shows up in the feed. If you want to leave a like or comment for sea of days, make sure you click through to do it!

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In case anyone wants to take part in #HomeMadeMusic today but is put off by the theme, a song that ends an album or collection, or the last song you recorded with a certain instrument or bit of gear would fulfil that brief perfectly well too 😉

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#HomeMadeMusic The World Ends With Us Originally written as an Act I for a musical called 'Trousers' (long story), it has an overblown, camp quality, which lives on in the vocal. So excuse some theatrics and the odd silly lyric or two 🎩🎭 #musiciansky #musicsky five-0.bandcamp.com/track/the-wo...

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The World Ends With Us, by Five-0

from the album The World Ends With Us

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning to all you writers of songs! Since last we spoke summer here has ended, inspiring today's theme: Post a song you've written about an end; to a relationship, an era, a pint—that's up to you. All I ask is that you mark it #HomeMadeMusic and quote this post. 😘 #musiciansky #musicsky

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ #MusicChallenge V is for... Vermont Moonlight on Vermont—Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Give me that old time religion! youtu.be/NZFG1yAxjdQ #musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl

Trout Mask Replica
Capt. Beefheart & his Magic Band

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Gayle Ramage @mealygarage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As an indie author it's hellish trying to promote myself as I'm pants at it. I'm proud of JOCKULA, though, so please consider reposting this so more fans of horror comedy fiction can be made aware of the book. Thank you.🙏

Promo image for the book JOCKULA. Includes reviews:

"Jockula delivers laugh-out-loud horror with a scottish soul and an unexpectedly tender heart... the funniest vampire novel to come out of Scotland since... well, ever." - Ginger Nuts of Horror.

"Having always been fascinated by vampire lore, this is a fun addition with original ideas... a nice breezy pace, has a great style, and Ramage certainly knows her pop culture references." - Amazon Review.

"Jack Rushton is instantly likeable: foul-mouthed, funny, self-pitying, loyal, and far more human than he wants to admit." - Amazon Review.

www.gayleramage.co.uk/jockula.

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Artificial Noodles: Now available in chemical and dead animal flavour!

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ #MusicChallenge FREE is for... Rockin' in the Free World—Neil Young A song that a child could tell you is heavy ironic, yet is still taken as 100% sincere by the right wing intelligentsia. See also: Born in the USA #musicsky #nowplaying

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Rockin' in the Free World

YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

His centenary may be over, but the Trane keeps running. Amazing to think this might be the last truly canonical jazz standard recorded (Herbie wouldn't agree). At any given time somebody somewhere in the world is playing this, luxuriating in its wide harmonic structure. #vinyl #musicsky

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#WorldAtoZ #MusicChallenge U is for... the USSR It's a 'Beatles' and 'Back' double bill! Back in the USSR— #Beatles "That Georgia's always on my my my my my my my my my my mind..." Might be the funniest line Macca ever wrote... m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Arl... #musicsky #nowplaying

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Back In The U.S.S.R. (Remastered 2009)

YouTube video by The Beatles - Topic

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Kara Jane Adams @ghostinexile.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

John Cleese was always a cunt, it’s just people didn’t care because he was funny. Maybe Ricky Gervais could try that.

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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For months, Meta has been continually running hundreds of paid ads that include child sexual abuse imagery. Yet feminism they can ban with immediate effect. Just try and get your head around that. And once you have, close Facebook a/cs, close Insta a/cs: divest yourself of this evil corporation.

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Meta continues to run ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India: report

The report follows a BBC Eye investigation that found Instagram running paid ads promoting such material in India.

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#5DebutAlbumsFinal Pod—Breeders I may be wrong, but it looks like Kim is the only artist to appear on two albums from this illustrious list. If so, it's an honour well deserved. Pod is an album closer to SR than Doolittle; equal parts divine and profane. It's glorious #musicsky #vinyl #nowplaying

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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here's my shout for the Top 10 American shows this Century: 1. True Detective (Season 1) 2. Twin Peaks: The Return 3. Better Call Saul 4. The Americans 5. The Wire 6. Breaking Bad 7. Succession 8. Mad men 9. Boardwalk Empire 10. Veep

nytimes.com

My Top Shows — the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century

True Detective (Season 1), Twin Peaks: The Return, Better Call Saul and 7 more.

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