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alanbenzie
@alanbenzie.bsky.social
· Apr 25
Rise Sessions, by Re:Search
4 track album
researchmusic.bandcamp.com
Self promotion post. My old band have started putting tracks we made many years ago online and you might like them. this was recorded in Glasgow tenement 30 years ago, although I don't think it sounds like it
researchmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rise-s...
researchmusic.bandcamp.com/album/rise-s...
On my third "stop doing this thing that is urgent and start doing this thing that is apparently more urgent" of the day.
November 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
On my third "stop doing this thing that is urgent and start doing this thing that is apparently more urgent" of the day.
Arm pedestrians with rocket launchers, it would be safer.
Devastating news out of Hamilton. Crossing guards are on the front lines in the fight for safe streets. That job is truly terrifying. Distracted to contemptuous drivers, the full range of road violence on display all day, just so we can cross the street safely...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
52-year-old crossing guard dead after being hit by dump truck in Hamilton
Hamilton police are investigating after a 52-year-old crossing guard was struck and killed by a truck at the intersection of Mohawk Road and Upper Wentworth Street.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Arm pedestrians with rocket launchers, it would be safer.
Went to see The Rapture last, maybe 20 years after the last time I saw them. It was good fun, full of young people absolutely loving it, only onwe of the original band left. So it goes.
They did a cover of this which I'm a big fan of -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsJ_...
They did a cover of this which I'm a big fan of -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsJ_...
A Certain Ratio - Do The Du (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Mute
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Went to see The Rapture last, maybe 20 years after the last time I saw them. It was good fun, full of young people absolutely loving it, only onwe of the original band left. So it goes.
They did a cover of this which I'm a big fan of -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsJ_...
They did a cover of this which I'm a big fan of -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsJ_...
Fire your typographer
Tonight 🔮 Catch the enchanting @theanchoress.bsky.social tonight with special guest @roxannemusic.bsky.social at #UnionChapel
Friday 14th November | Doors 7PM
Book your last minute tickets now at: unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-...
Friday 14th November | Doors 7PM
Book your last minute tickets now at: unionchapel.org.uk/venue/whats-...
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Fire your typographer
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They’ll write anything to avoid saying “Republican (allegedly) rapes kid” huh.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
They’ll write anything to avoid saying “Republican (allegedly) rapes kid” huh.
At least 25% of Hannan's ancestral voices are donkeys.
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
At least 25% of Hannan's ancestral voices are donkeys.
Some people write grammatically fucked, ambiguous emails at least partly because someone below you misinterpreting your message allows a great opportunity to be an angry bully.
November 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Some people write grammatically fucked, ambiguous emails at least partly because someone below you misinterpreting your message allows a great opportunity to be an angry bully.
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Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Me, wisely: "But *his* emails"
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How come no one outside of the US had seen a picture of an opossum until about three years ago? I suspect they are entirely cgi.
October 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
How come no one outside of the US had seen a picture of an opossum until about three years ago? I suspect they are entirely cgi.
Started reading this on the bus this morning, then on a train journey to a site visit, and it’s a brain twisting page turner. Might have to take the afternoon off work to finish it.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Started reading this on the bus this morning, then on a train journey to a site visit, and it’s a brain twisting page turner. Might have to take the afternoon off work to finish it.
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Maybe we could just stop making Jams Bond films?
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Maybe we could just stop making Jams Bond films?
This - www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6oa...
fucked up into this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUD-...
never fails to bring a smile.
fucked up into this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUD-...
never fails to bring a smile.
Live Your Life With Me
YouTube video by Corrina Joseph - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
This - www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6oa...
fucked up into this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUD-...
never fails to bring a smile.
fucked up into this - www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUD-...
never fails to bring a smile.
Amused to find there's a typeface with my name, based on Helvetica.
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Amused to find there's a typeface with my name, based on Helvetica.
Maybe we could just stop making Jams Bond films?
November 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Maybe we could just stop making Jams Bond films?
Checking out the “what does middle class mean in the UK” discourse and unsurprised to see it’s about 90% wrong opinions. GYAC money has very little to do with it.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Checking out the “what does middle class mean in the UK” discourse and unsurprised to see it’s about 90% wrong opinions. GYAC money has very little to do with it.
Got some blue Toxic Waste and it's appropriately sour, with a slightly urine-y tang, but not in a totally bad way. As with all Toxic Waste I do think the sour wears off far too soon
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Got some blue Toxic Waste and it's appropriately sour, with a slightly urine-y tang, but not in a totally bad way. As with all Toxic Waste I do think the sour wears off far too soon
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I will never 'watch to the end' and none of you will ever make me.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I will never 'watch to the end' and none of you will ever make me.
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Barely more than a week ago The Times published an interview with the wrong Bill De Blasio slagging off Mamdani. It is about a serious error as one can get. The editor of The Times has not resigned and there isn't a campaign for him to do so.
November 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Barely more than a week ago The Times published an interview with the wrong Bill De Blasio slagging off Mamdani. It is about a serious error as one can get. The editor of The Times has not resigned and there isn't a campaign for him to do so.
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my first post was a year ago today and now it is time for an
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
regarding the future of this account:
i'm gonna keep doing it
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
regarding the future of this account:
i'm gonna keep doing it
In October of 1982, Gary Larson changed the world by publishing the single greatest panel in cartooning history: Cow tools.
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
my first post was a year ago today and now it is time for an
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
regarding the future of this account:
i'm gonna keep doing it
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
regarding the future of this account:
i'm gonna keep doing it
we have a spare ticket for tonight at Cafe Oto - if you'de like to come let me know asap - www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/dwarf...
Cafe OTO → Alan Bishop/ Alvarius B. (solo) + Maurice Louca (solo) + Sam Shalabi (solo), Friday 7 November 2025, 7.30pm
The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio composed of Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.). Hailing from...
www.cafeoto.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
we have a spare ticket for tonight at Cafe Oto - if you'de like to come let me know asap - www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/dwarf...
Estonian Television Girls Choir - Sampo Tagumine (Kuniyuki Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MByH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MByH...
Etv Girls Choir - Sampo Tagumine (Forging The Sampo) (Kuniyuki Remix) [MULEMUSIQ271]
YouTube video by Electronic Love Collective
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Estonian Television Girls Choir - Sampo Tagumine (Kuniyuki Remix)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MByH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MByH...
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OK we're there! A conversation with @stewarthome.bsky.social is such a cultural encyclopedia-meets-rollercoaster, there was so much to look up.... as ever no-questions free subs for anyone on low income or in education, just DM, but obviously support if you can.
📸 @briandavidstevens.bsky.social
📸 @briandavidstevens.bsky.social
No. 41a: Stewart Home Part 1
Baudrillard and bootboys: broadcasting from the sewer with the provocateur extraordinare.
bassmidstopsandtherest.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
OK we're there! A conversation with @stewarthome.bsky.social is such a cultural encyclopedia-meets-rollercoaster, there was so much to look up.... as ever no-questions free subs for anyone on low income or in education, just DM, but obviously support if you can.
📸 @briandavidstevens.bsky.social
📸 @briandavidstevens.bsky.social
Actively researched "What happens when you put milk in the sodastream?" Spent three hours cleaning the kitchen ceiling.
What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever done? I don’t mean “cheating on your partner” stupid, I mean stupid stupid. Like, once, I had this bubble bath which smelled absolutely delicious, so I took a big glug of it. That kind of stupid. (It did not taste delicious.)
October 31, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Actively researched "What happens when you put milk in the sodastream?" Spent three hours cleaning the kitchen ceiling.