Adrian Clark
@mradrianclark.bsky.social
Likes cake
Born at 4th, League Division 4
Born at 4th, League Division 4
Either religion or some chin-strokingly absorbing (and harmless) men-in-sheds hobbies.
increasingly feel we need to bring religion back - not for me personally, I'm good, but lots of people could clearly do with Some Form Of Guiding Light In Their Life
www.ft.com/content/d0b7...
No thank you.
No thank you.
January 29, 2026 at 12:46 PM
Either religion or some chin-strokingly absorbing (and harmless) men-in-sheds hobbies.
Tell you what, Daksh Gupta... we'd hate to ruin your vibe, so why don't you put our bins out while you're up and about?
January 29, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Tell you what, Daksh Gupta... we'd hate to ruin your vibe, so why don't you put our bins out while you're up and about?
I particularly like the title track – a little bit of 'Another Green World' vibe.
🌻 'here I am briefly' is a six-track collection of short works created by guitarist Zahrah Hutton across 2024-2025 through improvisations, performances of scores, electric guitar, loop pedal, and voicenote recordings of train stations and train journeys...
prxludes.net/2026/01/19/z...
prxludes.net/2026/01/19/z...
January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
I particularly like the title track – a little bit of 'Another Green World' vibe.
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🌻 'here I am briefly' is a six-track collection of short works created by guitarist Zahrah Hutton across 2024-2025 through improvisations, performances of scores, electric guitar, loop pedal, and voicenote recordings of train stations and train journeys...
prxludes.net/2026/01/19/z...
prxludes.net/2026/01/19/z...
January 28, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🌻 'here I am briefly' is a six-track collection of short works created by guitarist Zahrah Hutton across 2024-2025 through improvisations, performances of scores, electric guitar, loop pedal, and voicenote recordings of train stations and train journeys...
prxludes.net/2026/01/19/z...
prxludes.net/2026/01/19/z...
I've been spending a lot of time with this boxset recently, digesting a couple of sonatas at a time. Barenboim in his 20s. What a body of work. Can't imagine this Beethoven chap had much time to compose anything else.
January 28, 2026 at 5:22 PM
I've been spending a lot of time with this boxset recently, digesting a couple of sonatas at a time. Barenboim in his 20s. What a body of work. Can't imagine this Beethoven chap had much time to compose anything else.
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Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
Rest of UK has so far resisted calls to make it mandatory for developers to install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Scotland after Holyrood backs ruling
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You can join the Big Plastic Count here: share.google/q1bdJ4OXqcuy...
Join The Big Plastic Count
The UK’s biggest people-powered investigation into household plastic waste.
share.google
January 23, 2026 at 4:03 PM
You can join the Big Plastic Count here: share.google/q1bdJ4OXqcuy...
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Someone should do a daily podcast this May on the General Strike one century on.
15 min episodes 4th to 12th May.
(I will happily write and present this podcast if some organisation wants to pay me).
15 min episodes 4th to 12th May.
(I will happily write and present this podcast if some organisation wants to pay me).
January 28, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Someone should do a daily podcast this May on the General Strike one century on.
15 min episodes 4th to 12th May.
(I will happily write and present this podcast if some organisation wants to pay me).
15 min episodes 4th to 12th May.
(I will happily write and present this podcast if some organisation wants to pay me).
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if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
January 28, 2026 at 10:19 AM
if they can offer free AI training they could offer free media literacy training too. i know which of those would do more for the public good
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Feels like a good time to remind us all that we had a drought last year. Anyway, lets carry on and use AI to decide what to have for dinner
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
2025 drought: how it developed in England
www.gov.uk
January 28, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Feels like a good time to remind us all that we had a drought last year. Anyway, lets carry on and use AI to decide what to have for dinner
www.gov.uk/government/p...
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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BTW the EASIEST way to convince a pet-owner the NHS shouldn't be privatised is to ask them how much their last vet bill cost.
January 28, 2026 at 10:27 AM
BTW the EASIEST way to convince a pet-owner the NHS shouldn't be privatised is to ask them how much their last vet bill cost.
Richard Osman's House of Games.
January 28, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Richard Osman's House of Games.
I am abreast of the news, but surely "Gorton and Denton" should really be a late 80s Aardman Animation series (unusually dark for them) for Channel 4, about two curmudgeonly old snails sitting on a wall, grumbling about all the people walking past?
thing.late
thing.late
January 28, 2026 at 12:00 PM
I am abreast of the news, but surely "Gorton and Denton" should really be a late 80s Aardman Animation series (unusually dark for them) for Channel 4, about two curmudgeonly old snails sitting on a wall, grumbling about all the people walking past?
Disappointing. Yorkshire Tea (aka Taylor's) are closing their Terracycle recycling scheme for loose-leaf tea wrappers. Last day for sending a boxful is TODAY
Unlike ground coffee bags, these ones can't go in the boxes at your supermarket (and neither can go in kerbside plastic recycling).
Unlike ground coffee bags, these ones can't go in the boxes at your supermarket (and neither can go in kerbside plastic recycling).
The Taylors Coffee and Yorkshire Tea Free Recycling Programme | TerraCycle® UK
Taylors of Harrogate and TerraCycle have joined forces to bring a free recycling programme for your Taylors of Harrogate flexible coffee packaging to the UK!
www.terracycle.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Disappointing. Yorkshire Tea (aka Taylor's) are closing their Terracycle recycling scheme for loose-leaf tea wrappers. Last day for sending a boxful is TODAY
Unlike ground coffee bags, these ones can't go in the boxes at your supermarket (and neither can go in kerbside plastic recycling).
Unlike ground coffee bags, these ones can't go in the boxes at your supermarket (and neither can go in kerbside plastic recycling).
I mean, far be it from me to question Reform UK's strategy, but putting up Britain's most dislikeable man for election?
Reform UK announce Matt Goodwin as their Gorton and Denton by-election candidate
January 27, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I mean, far be it from me to question Reform UK's strategy, but putting up Britain's most dislikeable man for election?
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Women’s trouser style or personal insult? - an occasional series.
January 27, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Women’s trouser style or personal insult? - an occasional series.
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be nice if Chris Mason et al were able to pause their attempts to write soap opera storylines and paid attention to their favourite boy’s plans
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 27, 2026 at 9:33 AM
be nice if Chris Mason et al were able to pause their attempts to write soap opera storylines and paid attention to their favourite boy’s plans
I can't provide profound political insight, but I just find Andy Burnham a bit annoying. It's the whole professional Mancunian thing (not that that's limited to Manchester; see also London). It's just a place. We're all from a place.
January 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I can't provide profound political insight, but I just find Andy Burnham a bit annoying. It's the whole professional Mancunian thing (not that that's limited to Manchester; see also London). It's just a place. We're all from a place.
Early 90s, I went to a Whale & Dolphin Conservation conference, with John Craven as compere. The joke was "Bill Clinton wasn't available, so they got me, the lookalike".
30+ years later... he (a) doesn't look much older and (b) now resembles Glenn Cullen from The Thick of It.
30+ years later... he (a) doesn't look much older and (b) now resembles Glenn Cullen from The Thick of It.
January 27, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Early 90s, I went to a Whale & Dolphin Conservation conference, with John Craven as compere. The joke was "Bill Clinton wasn't available, so they got me, the lookalike".
30+ years later... he (a) doesn't look much older and (b) now resembles Glenn Cullen from The Thick of It.
30+ years later... he (a) doesn't look much older and (b) now resembles Glenn Cullen from The Thick of It.
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Incredible to think that John Craven has been on television for *half of television*.
January 26, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Incredible to think that John Craven has been on television for *half of television*.
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The world’s first pocket music player was this tiny Mikiphone from the 1920s. A gramophone like machine.
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
Invented by Hungarian siblings Miklós and Étienne Vadász though produced in Switzerland.
It could fit in a pocket, though only played 10” records.
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
Invented by Hungarian siblings Miklós and Étienne Vadász though produced in Switzerland.
It could fit in a pocket, though only played 10” records.
January 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM
The world’s first pocket music player was this tiny Mikiphone from the 1920s. A gramophone like machine.
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
Invented by Hungarian siblings Miklós and Étienne Vadász though produced in Switzerland.
It could fit in a pocket, though only played 10” records.
www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/...
Invented by Hungarian siblings Miklós and Étienne Vadász though produced in Switzerland.
It could fit in a pocket, though only played 10” records.
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To repeat myself - Andrew Wakefield should spend the rest of his life banged up in prison, the lying cunt
⚠️ BREAKING:
UK Loses Measles Elimination Status After Nearly 3,000 Cases Reported in England and Wales
The World Health Organization says the UK has lost its measles elimination status after nearly 3,000 cases were reported in England and Wales in 2024.
UK Loses Measles Elimination Status After Nearly 3,000 Cases Reported in England and Wales
The World Health Organization says the UK has lost its measles elimination status after nearly 3,000 cases were reported in England and Wales in 2024.
January 26, 2026 at 4:57 PM
To repeat myself - Andrew Wakefield should spend the rest of his life banged up in prison, the lying cunt
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Centenary day on the blog, with a Magic Rays extract, recounting JLB's 26 Jan '26 public presentation of 'true television', plus links to Don McLean's article at The Conversation, and contemporary reports at Andre Lang's History of Television website.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/centenary-day/
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/centenary-day/
Centenary day - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Happy 100th birthday, television! Exactly one hundred years ago tonight, John Logie Baird gave the first public presentation of what he called ‘true television’ in his workshop abou...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Centenary day on the blog, with a Magic Rays extract, recounting JLB's 26 Jan '26 public presentation of 'true television', plus links to Don McLean's article at The Conversation, and contemporary reports at Andre Lang's History of Television website.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/centenary-day/
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/centenary-day/
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Had a pretty convincing scam call from a lady pretending to be from my mobile operator.
Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in?
And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)…
(—> cont’d)
Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in?
And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)…
(—> cont’d)
January 25, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Had a pretty convincing scam call from a lady pretending to be from my mobile operator.
Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in?
And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)…
(—> cont’d)
Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in?
And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)…
(—> cont’d)
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Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.
January 25, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.