Simon Hickinbotham
@franticspider.bsky.social
It's-not-music as a genre; Artificial Life; EvoDevo for Engineering; R for archaeology; attention deficit programming; cycling/fitness/MH in a 50+ alien world
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Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
November 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Read 'em and weep. (www.nber.org/system/files...)
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New date for How Buildings Fail gig in Loughborough!
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
New date for How Buildings Fail gig in Loughborough!
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I was forced to use a tool today, like some kind of *crow.*
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I was forced to use a tool today, like some kind of *crow.*
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Beverly "Guitar" Watkins(1939 – 2019) was an American blues guitarist & singer. Here she's 78 years w/ the Rick Fowler Band 🎶'Rock Me Baby' #bluesmusic
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Beverly "Guitar" Watkins(1939 – 2019) was an American blues guitarist & singer. Here she's 78 years w/ the Rick Fowler Band 🎶'Rock Me Baby' #bluesmusic
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However, names like Pattee, Cariani, and Hofmeyr were left out of their scope despite their enormous contributions to the topic. As shown in my latest #complexitycat essay, the first in proposing time to resolve self-reference was Tomek Korbak, not them!/3
amahury.github.io/posts/time-a...
amahury.github.io/posts/time-a...
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
However, names like Pattee, Cariani, and Hofmeyr were left out of their scope despite their enormous contributions to the topic. As shown in my latest #complexitycat essay, the first in proposing time to resolve self-reference was Tomek Korbak, not them!/3
amahury.github.io/posts/time-a...
amahury.github.io/posts/time-a...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I can just see this as the sleeve to the next Joy Division single...
'SMOKING TAIL' OF INTERSTELLAR COMET 3I/ATLAS: NASA's not releasing its images of Comet 3I/ATLAS. No problem. We have our own. On Nov. 9th, Frank Niebling and Michael Buechner used a telescope in Spain to take this picture of the comet in the pre-dawn sky spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...
November 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I can just see this as the sleeve to the next Joy Division single...
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Switch Angel is at it again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M
November 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Switch Angel is at it again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
www.openculture.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche
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#5DebutAlbums1014
Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (2012)
Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (2012)
The Last Foundry
YouTube video by Raime - Topic
youtu.be
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
#5DebutAlbums1014
Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (2012)
Raime - Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (2012)
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The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization from which the modern West descends. That's especially true if you happen to be looking in Europe, though echoes of Latin mak...
www.openculture.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas
IF YOU LIKE LIVE MUSIC, get y'self along to the Fulford Arms in York next Tuesday, where you'll be able to see poet pop, electro bop, politely harsh noise, ambent burstscapes, two minute wiggles and experimental side hustles of sonic pioneers from York and beyond.
www.facebook.com/events/15322...
www.facebook.com/events/15322...
EMOM York XXII
Event by North Facing Garden on Tuesday, November 11 2025
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November 4, 2025 at 2:30 PM
IF YOU LIKE LIVE MUSIC, get y'self along to the Fulford Arms in York next Tuesday, where you'll be able to see poet pop, electro bop, politely harsh noise, ambent burstscapes, two minute wiggles and experimental side hustles of sonic pioneers from York and beyond.
www.facebook.com/events/15322...
www.facebook.com/events/15322...
Some of these look worth trying!
Not to self-promote, but I have a list of useful resources for Linux music production on my website, feel free to check it out: crosleybendix.xyz/resources
Crosley Bendix
Personal webiste of Crosley Bendix which contains contact information, a diary, music and useful resources.
crosleybendix.xyz
November 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Some of these look worth trying!
November 2, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
October 31, 2025 at 8:24 PM
this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.
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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
78% are murdered by a partner/ex
Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this
Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety
In fact, they voted against them...
Electronic Music Open Mic XXII
Fulford Arms, York, 11th November 2025
#EMOM #electronicmusic #electronicmusicopenmic
message me for more info - all welcome
Fulford Arms, York, 11th November 2025
#EMOM #electronicmusic #electronicmusicopenmic
message me for more info - all welcome
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Electronic Music Open Mic XXII
Fulford Arms, York, 11th November 2025
#EMOM #electronicmusic #electronicmusicopenmic
message me for more info - all welcome
Fulford Arms, York, 11th November 2025
#EMOM #electronicmusic #electronicmusicopenmic
message me for more info - all welcome
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October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Two meteors overnight left notable persistent ion trains.
Crestone, Colorado USA October 28-29, 2025
#astronomy #astrophotography
Crestone, Colorado USA October 28-29, 2025
#astronomy #astrophotography
October 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Two meteors overnight left notable persistent ion trains.
Crestone, Colorado USA October 28-29, 2025
#astronomy #astrophotography
Crestone, Colorado USA October 28-29, 2025
#astronomy #astrophotography
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#plants #ferns #history #botany #art 🌱
Struthiopteris spicant syn. Blechnum spicant - Deer Fern, Hard Fern.
Hardy, attractive and very adaptable ancient fern common from #Nordic countries to #Iran, and #Pacific NW seaboard from #Alaska to #California.
Grow ferns -
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types...
Struthiopteris spicant syn. Blechnum spicant - Deer Fern, Hard Fern.
Hardy, attractive and very adaptable ancient fern common from #Nordic countries to #Iran, and #Pacific NW seaboard from #Alaska to #California.
Grow ferns -
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/types...
October 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies