Area Man
@areamancm.bsky.social
I’ve never been wrong. I used to work in a record store.
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@areamancm.bsky.social
· Apr 12
BLACK MIRROR 1848:
Dagguereotypes allow widows to see ghostly countenance of their beloved after death
Deposition of monarchs leads to people electing leaders who still make terrible decisions
Too much use of the telegraph leads to people no longer gathering around the pianoforte
Dagguereotypes allow widows to see ghostly countenance of their beloved after death
Deposition of monarchs leads to people electing leaders who still make terrible decisions
Too much use of the telegraph leads to people no longer gathering around the pianoforte
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Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just made this. I’m a widely respected intellectual, you know
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Last month marked the 30th anniversary of Coldcut’s Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness, probably the greatest mix CD ever released. Am listening again and it’s an incredible piece of work and is still astonishingly contemporary 30 years later on.soundcloud.com/ps4Tq5I0Ji2Q...
070 - Coldcut '70 Minutes Of Madness – Journeys By DJ (1995)
Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/theclassicmixcdseries
Buy it here: www.discogs.com/marketplace?master_id=21043&ev=mb
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November 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Last month marked the 30th anniversary of Coldcut’s Journeys by DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness, probably the greatest mix CD ever released. Am listening again and it’s an incredible piece of work and is still astonishingly contemporary 30 years later on.soundcloud.com/ps4Tq5I0Ji2Q...
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Post an image that will always make you laugh
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Post an image that will always make you laugh
I see Simon Jenkins has written a history of the USA - can’t we just put it in the pulping machine and cut out the middleman
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I see Simon Jenkins has written a history of the USA - can’t we just put it in the pulping machine and cut out the middleman
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The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The last 2.5 years of Bluesky were a steady build up to "criticism of Jeffrey Epstein's writing ability is ableist." Congrats everyone, we did it.
My theory about this justly famous post is it will continue to hold until, one day, and apparently for no special reason, it won’t
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My theory about this justly famous post is it will continue to hold until, one day, and apparently for no special reason, it won’t
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This is like…something for piles of rope? No, that’s not it
November 13, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This is like…something for piles of rope? No, that’s not it
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FENTON!!!!
November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
FENTON!!!!
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Can't believe the BBC edited the president's emails to make him look like a massive greasy nonce.
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Can't believe the BBC edited the president's emails to make him look like a massive greasy nonce.
Something from The C*nary just turned up on my IG feed
a man in a striped shirt is holding a cup of coffee and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a striped shirt is holding a cup of coffee and looking at the camera .
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November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Something from The C*nary just turned up on my IG feed
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I did write about it. Though it isn’t just about that. Quite a good story in here. firstlastanything.co.uk/2021/11/12/w...
WHICH REMINDS ME
I firmly believe that the iPod Classic, introduced twenty years ago last month and scandalously now discontinued, is the finest invention of the 21st century, apart from obviously all the pioneerin…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I did write about it. Though it isn’t just about that. Quite a good story in here. firstlastanything.co.uk/2021/11/12/w...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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The Insane Clown Posse have entered the chat
November 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Insane Clown Posse have entered the chat
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Ian Fleming killed off James Bond at the end of the fifth novel, From Russia With Love, and then starts the next one with “Phew, that last case was a bit much, I had to spend a few days in bed, anyway back to work…”
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Ian Fleming killed off James Bond at the end of the fifth novel, From Russia With Love, and then starts the next one with “Phew, that last case was a bit much, I had to spend a few days in bed, anyway back to work…”
Inclined to @eddierobson.bsky.social’s view that the “Bond writers are stuck on script because Bond got killed!!1” story is bollocks, but FWIW, from a Doctor Who fan perspective, the Bond series always had a cavalier attitude to “canon” - and rightly so! It doesn’t need one
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Inclined to @eddierobson.bsky.social’s view that the “Bond writers are stuck on script because Bond got killed!!1” story is bollocks, but FWIW, from a Doctor Who fan perspective, the Bond series always had a cavalier attitude to “canon” - and rightly so! It doesn’t need one
I like this
Make the McGuffin in the new Bond film notionally something to do with quantum computing. Have Q explain the many-worlds hypothesis. "So there might be a universe where, I don't know, you were born in 1921, or died in 2021. Anyway, that's not the point..."
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I like this
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I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything
NEW! #FirstLastAnything Ep 32: We are back each Sunday, till Christmas, and my guest today - versatile and fascinating music writer and musician Joanna Wyld (@joannawyld.bsky.social) - talks about bellringing, Queen, liner notes, Molly Drake and much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/09/f...
FLA 32: Joanna Wyld (09/11/2025)
Of all the guests I’ve had on First Last Anything so far, Kent-born Joanna Wyld might have worn the most musical hats. Writer, musician, composer, librettist, teacher and administrator, she’s playe…
firstlastanything.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I persistently plug these because they take time to do, both for me and the guests, so do share and tell people about it if you like it. The aim is to make a quality long read each week. Thanks. #FirstLastAnything
There is no more deranged online obsession in this country than the whole “yookay” business - completely confected out of nothing, a vessel for whatever dopey prejudice performative right-wing types fancy, utterly baffling to anyone who regularly goes outside
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
There is no more deranged online obsession in this country than the whole “yookay” business - completely confected out of nothing, a vessel for whatever dopey prejudice performative right-wing types fancy, utterly baffling to anyone who regularly goes outside
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Addiction
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addiction
How're you gonna get your girlfriend pregnant with a BEHAVIORAL addiction, man?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addiction
How're you gonna get your girlfriend pregnant with a BEHAVIORAL addiction, man?
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Addiction
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addiction
How're you gonna get your girlfriend pregnant with a BEHAVIORAL addiction, man?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/addiction
How're you gonna get your girlfriend pregnant with a BEHAVIORAL addiction, man?
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I suppose the main thing I object to is the endless right-wing whinging over institutions that they have run for most of my adult life and *still* complain. Forget bald men fighting over a comb. It is like fighting this bald man over a comb he does not have after five unsuccessful hair transplants.
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I suppose the main thing I object to is the endless right-wing whinging over institutions that they have run for most of my adult life and *still* complain. Forget bald men fighting over a comb. It is like fighting this bald man over a comb he does not have after five unsuccessful hair transplants.
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