David N Atkinson
@dnatkinson.bsky.social
Graphic designer / DJ of The Tone Shift radio show on http://loose.fm
http://mastodon.social/@DNAtkinson
http://instagram.com/thetoneshift
http://mixcloud.com/TheToneShift
http://mastodon.social/@DNAtkinson
http://instagram.com/thetoneshift
http://mixcloud.com/TheToneShift
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Dancing at the Sunset Club, a jazz and calypso club, situated at 50 Carnaby Street - December 1951
December 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Dancing at the Sunset Club, a jazz and calypso club, situated at 50 Carnaby Street - December 1951
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Nice move by Lloyds having a defibrillator next to the cash point for when you check your balance after Christmas
December 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Nice move by Lloyds having a defibrillator next to the cash point for when you check your balance after Christmas
#NowPlaying McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive! (City Slang, 2025)
Magic, Alive!, by McKinley Dixon
11 track album
mckinleydixon.bandcamp.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#NowPlaying McKinley Dixon – Magic, Alive! (City Slang, 2025)
#NowPlaying Jo Kurzweg – Winterzeit – Schöne Zeit (Amiga, 1976)
December 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
#NowPlaying Jo Kurzweg – Winterzeit – Schöne Zeit (Amiga, 1976)
I guess Christmas increases the risk of this kind of thing but kinda funny hearing a Radio 3 show end with Silent Night and the following show play another version about 15 minutes later
December 24, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I guess Christmas increases the risk of this kind of thing but kinda funny hearing a Radio 3 show end with Silent Night and the following show play another version about 15 minutes later
Right.
I am officially On The Sherry
I am officially On The Sherry
December 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Right.
I am officially On The Sherry
I am officially On The Sherry
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After reading The Raven a high school classmate asked if poetry existed before Edgar Allen Poe, and what did they call it?
December 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
After reading The Raven a high school classmate asked if poetry existed before Edgar Allen Poe, and what did they call it?
#NowPlaying Yara Asmar – everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much (@hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com, 2025)
everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much, by Yara Asmar
11 track album
yaraasmar.bandcamp.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
#NowPlaying Yara Asmar – everyone I love is sleeping and I love them so so much (@hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com, 2025)
Anyone thinking ‘how could you possibly need a tub of mustard that big’ has clearly never tried it
December 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Anyone thinking ‘how could you possibly need a tub of mustard that big’ has clearly never tried it
Can’t tell if this is the original audio or it’s had a free improv percussion solo edited over it
CVL Engineers Inc. on Instagram: "In Kragujevac, part of the road collapsed (11/28/2025) along with a retaining wall after the investor removed a large amount of earth to build a multi-story building....
A retaining wall collapse in Kragujevac, Serbia has raised eyebrows among locals and experts alike. The collapse occurred after an investor removed a large amount of soil without a full building permi...
www.instagram.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Can’t tell if this is the original audio or it’s had a free improv percussion solo edited over it
Perhaps a day late but this winter solstice set from @michaeltanner.bsky.social is doing all the right things to my soul
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
Michael Tanner’s Winter Solstice Mix | Folk Radio UK
For Winter Solstice, Michael Tanner treats us to a collection of hymns, carols, folk standards and field-recordings from the past 800 years.
klofmag.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Perhaps a day late but this winter solstice set from @michaeltanner.bsky.social is doing all the right things to my soul
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...
Apparently my brain/eyes have decided to start confusing ‘reminder’ with ‘reindeer’
December 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Apparently my brain/eyes have decided to start confusing ‘reminder’ with ‘reindeer’
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"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."
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Half Ma’am Half Brisket
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Half Ma’am Half Brisket
#NowPlaying Ohio Players – Contradiction (Mercury, 1976)
Ohio Players - Contradiction
Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Contradiction by Ohio Players. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#NowPlaying Ohio Players – Contradiction (Mercury, 1976)
This is genuinely fascinating; I love the drawing. The discovery that foxes have been ‘cunning’ in stories for 4½ thousand years! The cliffhanger! The multicoloured cows!
Good work, Dr Jana Matuszak
Good work, Dr Jana Matuszak
Babe wake up, new Sumerian myth just dropped. phys.org/news/2025-07...
Study translates fragmentary ancient Sumerian myth around 4,400 years old
A recent study by Dr. Jana Matuszak, published in the academic journal Iraq, examines the mythical narrative contained in a tablet (Ni 12501) dating to the Early Dynastic IIIb period (ca. 2540–2350 BC...
phys.org
December 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This is genuinely fascinating; I love the drawing. The discovery that foxes have been ‘cunning’ in stories for 4½ thousand years! The cliffhanger! The multicoloured cows!
Good work, Dr Jana Matuszak
Good work, Dr Jana Matuszak
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Martin Green played this amazing record at last night's Stars 0n 45 event with Lawrence and Steve Furst at the Circle & Star in Hampstead. Spaghetti Junction by Friday Brown, as featured on her eponymous LP from 1971 #Birmingham71
youtu.be/9JJp12o9idI
youtu.be/9JJp12o9idI
Spaghetti Junction by Friday Brown.wmv
YouTube video by Joe Eggs
youtu.be
December 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Martin Green played this amazing record at last night's Stars 0n 45 event with Lawrence and Steve Furst at the Circle & Star in Hampstead. Spaghetti Junction by Friday Brown, as featured on her eponymous LP from 1971 #Birmingham71
youtu.be/9JJp12o9idI
youtu.be/9JJp12o9idI
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Either
1) neo-Nazi holocaust denier, conspiracy theorist and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, named by the Anti-Defamation League as ‘perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite’, or
2) Walliams
1) neo-Nazi holocaust denier, conspiracy theorist and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, named by the Anti-Defamation League as ‘perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite’, or
2) Walliams
ok, just because this is close to my heart: who's the worst person with your first name?
It's long been the worst of times for many of us
February 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Either
1) neo-Nazi holocaust denier, conspiracy theorist and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, named by the Anti-Defamation League as ‘perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite’, or
2) Walliams
1) neo-Nazi holocaust denier, conspiracy theorist and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke, named by the Anti-Defamation League as ‘perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite’, or
2) Walliams
#NowPlaying Love, Builder of Worlds – Scared for the Climate (Grime Remix) /via @jam.coop
Scared For The Climate (Grime Remix) by Love, Builder of Worlds
An album by Love, Builder of Worlds released on jam.coop - a music platform run by and for artists
jam.coop
December 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
#NowPlaying Love, Builder of Worlds – Scared for the Climate (Grime Remix) /via @jam.coop
Let me just check what time my reservation is
December 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Let me just check what time my reservation is
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Július Hegyesy (1933-2018)
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Július Hegyesy (1933-2018)
#NowPlaying Ambrose Akinmusire – honey from a winter stone (@nonesuch.com, 2025)
honey from a winter stone, by Ambrose Akinmusire
5 track album
ambroseakinmusire.bandcamp.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
#NowPlaying Ambrose Akinmusire – honey from a winter stone (@nonesuch.com, 2025)
#NowPlaying Open Mike Eagle – Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse Records, 2025) @mike-eagle.bsky.social
Neighborhood Gods Unlimited, by Open Mike Eagle
14 track album
openmikeeagle.bandcamp.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:20 PM
#NowPlaying Open Mike Eagle – Neighborhood Gods Unlimited (Auto Reverse Records, 2025) @mike-eagle.bsky.social