Alan Hay
@alanhay68.bsky.social
Brighton. Poet. Used to play records out, now play records in. NHS lifer.
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Two seemingly contradictory facts about Coming On The Scene by Johnny & The Attractions: 1. Everyone I know who's heard it absolutely loves it & original copies go for up to £850; 2. Almost nothing has ever been written about it. I've been thinking about why that is. www.patreon.com/posts/it-cou...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Two seemingly contradictory facts about Coming On The Scene by Johnny & The Attractions: 1. Everyone I know who's heard it absolutely loves it & original copies go for up to £850; 2. Almost nothing has ever been written about it. I've been thinking about why that is. www.patreon.com/posts/it-cou...
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did the sitwells sit well? an investigation
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 AM
did the sitwells sit well? an investigation
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A dream trip on any UK waterway you say? Well... 50 years ago almost to the day, I was with my parents on an autumn half term holiday trip along the Grand Union towards Leicester when I came across a bridge that someone had painted BALLS TO ENOCH POWELL on. I still dream about this moment. -
If you could go for a dream trip on any UK waterway, where would you go?
#ukcanals #ukrivers #boattrip #iwa #wedigcanals #inlandwaterways
#ukcanals #ukrivers #boattrip #iwa #wedigcanals #inlandwaterways
October 28, 2025 at 10:37 AM
A dream trip on any UK waterway you say? Well... 50 years ago almost to the day, I was with my parents on an autumn half term holiday trip along the Grand Union towards Leicester when I came across a bridge that someone had painted BALLS TO ENOCH POWELL on. I still dream about this moment. -
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Have no idea who put this pristine copy of 11 late-career Frank O’Hara poems—copyrighted by the estate and compiled by Ted Berrigan in 1974—in a little free library box on Cooper Square. But, I think I’m going to hold onto this one…
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Have no idea who put this pristine copy of 11 late-career Frank O’Hara poems—copyrighted by the estate and compiled by Ted Berrigan in 1974—in a little free library box on Cooper Square. But, I think I’m going to hold onto this one…
Define your musical taste in eight artists:
Incredible String Band
Beatles
Arthur Russell
Judee Sill
Shangri Las
The Equals
The Velvet Underground
13th Floor Elevators
Incredible String Band
Beatles
Arthur Russell
Judee Sill
Shangri Las
The Equals
The Velvet Underground
13th Floor Elevators
Define your musical taste in eight artists:
Saint Etienne
James Yorkston
Kate Bush
The Necks
Talking Heads
JS Bach
Big Thief
Underworld
Saint Etienne
James Yorkston
Kate Bush
The Necks
Talking Heads
JS Bach
Big Thief
Underworld
Define your musical taste in eight artists:
1) Lambrini girls
2) Mort Shuman
3) Lana Del Ray
4) Cheekface
5) Pogues
6) the Fall
7) Eels
8) Dry Cleaning
1) Lambrini girls
2) Mort Shuman
3) Lana Del Ray
4) Cheekface
5) Pogues
6) the Fall
7) Eels
8) Dry Cleaning
October 17, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Define your musical taste in eight artists:
Incredible String Band
Beatles
Arthur Russell
Judee Sill
Shangri Las
The Equals
The Velvet Underground
13th Floor Elevators
Incredible String Band
Beatles
Arthur Russell
Judee Sill
Shangri Las
The Equals
The Velvet Underground
13th Floor Elevators
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"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
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October 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"Do you still get paid in Roubles Ted?"
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Arson attack at Sussex mosque.
Men run for their lives from fire after arson attack at mosque
There has been a fire at a mosque. A man was seen escaping with his life after the fire starts
www.theargus.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Arson attack at Sussex mosque.
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It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
August 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It's getting harder and harder to deny that AGI is a near certainty. This kind of rapid expansion, this level of investment and infrastructural shift, this amount of *risk* - it doesn't happen without astronomical reward. The other day I saw a big barn, which can only mean one thing: giant horses
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We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive.
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May 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive.
buff.ly/qiSx3j8
buff.ly/qiSx3j8
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Over 500 Unison members have signed a letter showing their dissatisfaction with Unison leadership over their initial statement following the Supreme Court Ruling
You can also sign it here if you are a Unison member docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can also sign it here if you are a Unison member docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Over 500 Unison members have signed a letter showing their dissatisfaction with Unison leadership over their initial statement following the Supreme Court Ruling
You can also sign it here if you are a Unison member docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You can also sign it here if you are a Unison member docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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reminder for UK people protesting today - do not accept a sign from the Socialist Worker's Party and certainly don't wave one around unless you remove their branding first
(search for "Comrade Delta" for reasons why)
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(search for "Comrade Delta" for reasons why)
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April 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM
reminder for UK people protesting today - do not accept a sign from the Socialist Worker's Party and certainly don't wave one around unless you remove their branding first
(search for "Comrade Delta" for reasons why)
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(search for "Comrade Delta" for reasons why)
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I wrote about trying to keep up with the quick poetry of Tom Raworth someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-have-tas...
I Have Tasted Fire
Trying to keep up with Tom Raworth
someflowerssoon.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I wrote about trying to keep up with the quick poetry of Tom Raworth someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-have-tas...
Critical thinking about AI images - really useful stuff if you’re struggling to think and talk about the what this repellent slop actually is.
As on the other site, I'm going to collect my longer threads about AI image synthesis and »platform realism« in one meta-thread, mainly to keep an overview for myself. So this is where we start ...
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With each update, tools like Midjourney promise us more »realistic« representations – but the »reality« these images represent has often little to do with the one we live in. Rather, they are best described as »Platform Realism,« a second-order aesthetic of generic images. A thread ...
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March 9, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Critical thinking about AI images - really useful stuff if you’re struggling to think and talk about the what this repellent slop actually is.
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day 12 in the basement of "big pink". dylan and the band are continuing to rehearse "you ain't going nowhere". on take 4 or 5, they pause for a breather, and rick danko announces he's going to big sainsbury's. does anybody want anything
February 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
day 12 in the basement of "big pink". dylan and the band are continuing to rehearse "you ain't going nowhere". on take 4 or 5, they pause for a breather, and rick danko announces he's going to big sainsbury's. does anybody want anything
Cicero he ain’t
February 20, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Cicero he ain’t
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Even now I can't get over the disaste I feel when a few lines of software calls me by name.
January 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Even now I can't get over the disaste I feel when a few lines of software calls me by name.
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3 “pieces” of gin???? In the morning???? He didn’t give his day a chance!!!
This was a year ago. Ordered and drank 3 gin and tonics for breakfast on a workday. Sexual assault, ran two nonprofits into the ground, racist.
Republican Senators are actually prepared to turn over the most lethal army in the world to this man. Because they’re afraid they’ll be….”primaried”??
Republican Senators are actually prepared to turn over the most lethal army in the world to this man. Because they’re afraid they’ll be….”primaried”??
January 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
3 “pieces” of gin???? In the morning???? He didn’t give his day a chance!!!
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Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1
December 22, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1
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imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
December 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM
imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio
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my mate who used to work in dominic raab's office had a mate who used to work in kemi badenoch's office who reports that what is being said about her eating steak at her desk every day for lunch is completely true. what is being missed out is that she would sear it in the office laminator
December 12, 2024 at 3:08 PM
my mate who used to work in dominic raab's office had a mate who used to work in kemi badenoch's office who reports that what is being said about her eating steak at her desk every day for lunch is completely true. what is being missed out is that she would sear it in the office laminator
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Getting drunk, shouting at people
Leaving the gate, encountering a creditor
When goods are cheap, being too poor to buy them
In high summer, happening upon an obnoxious guest
- Li Shangyin
Leaving the gate, encountering a creditor
When goods are cheap, being too poor to buy them
In high summer, happening upon an obnoxious guest
- Li Shangyin
December 11, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Getting drunk, shouting at people
Leaving the gate, encountering a creditor
When goods are cheap, being too poor to buy them
In high summer, happening upon an obnoxious guest
- Li Shangyin
Leaving the gate, encountering a creditor
When goods are cheap, being too poor to buy them
In high summer, happening upon an obnoxious guest
- Li Shangyin
I mostly don’t really like Xmas that much, or at least I don’t enjoy its expensive awful obligations. But I do like this bit - is it there or isn’t it. Somedays I hear sleigh bells, sometimes it’s just the squeal and yawp of railway tracks on a rainy bend. Today a bit of both, are you listenin
December 5, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I mostly don’t really like Xmas that much, or at least I don’t enjoy its expensive awful obligations. But I do like this bit - is it there or isn’t it. Somedays I hear sleigh bells, sometimes it’s just the squeal and yawp of railway tracks on a rainy bend. Today a bit of both, are you listenin
X: I am the bloody hammer of the libs and elon wants me for an orc
Bluesky: Another snugglesome day here at the goblin library
Bluesky: Another snugglesome day here at the goblin library
November 28, 2024 at 4:53 PM
X: I am the bloody hammer of the libs and elon wants me for an orc
Bluesky: Another snugglesome day here at the goblin library
Bluesky: Another snugglesome day here at the goblin library