Rod Dale
@roddale.bsky.social
Optometrist, Londoner via Australia.
Tunes, eyeballs, baked goods, pretty things, drivel.
roddale.com
Tunes, eyeballs, baked goods, pretty things, drivel.
roddale.com
Excellent work AI what a glorious future awaits us all
November 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Excellent work AI what a glorious future awaits us all
I bet this is super important to the plot of this episode of High Potential. Up there with Miranda’s LASIK on Sex and the City.
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I bet this is super important to the plot of this episode of High Potential. Up there with Miranda’s LASIK on Sex and the City.
Rhea Seehorn Kept the Bonkers ‘Pluribus’ Plot a Secret for Three Years:
"This is just gonna keep getting weirder and weirder."
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/r...
"This is just gonna keep getting weirder and weirder."
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/r...
Rhea Seehorn Kept the Bonkers ‘Pluribus’ Plot a Secret for Three Years
"This is just gonna keep getting weirder and weirder."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Rhea Seehorn Kept the Bonkers ‘Pluribus’ Plot a Secret for Three Years:
"This is just gonna keep getting weirder and weirder."
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/r...
"This is just gonna keep getting weirder and weirder."
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/r...
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Also a reminder that #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency has been chosen as a Kindle Monthly Deal for November. The ebook is available for a wag-ulous reduced price of 99p for a limited time only. Canine cosy crime and ideal autumnal reading. Order here: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DT7S7QN...
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Also a reminder that #TheDogwalkersDetectiveAgency has been chosen as a Kindle Monthly Deal for November. The ebook is available for a wag-ulous reduced price of 99p for a limited time only. Canine cosy crime and ideal autumnal reading. Order here: amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DT7S7QN...
The emoji search for “old” is a little bleak
October 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The emoji search for “old” is a little bleak
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this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...
The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne | The Quietus
In the April 1993 issue of Select (a key text in the run-up to Britpop) the first band interviewed in its famous ‘Yanks Go Home’ feature wasn’t its cover stars, Suede. It was Saint Etienne, a trio nam...
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September 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Britpop’s best foundational band. From day one – in the post-perestroika summer of Italia 90 – their approach to music, lyrics, and films has always crossed borders, been open-minded, and kept time-travelling.” Thank you Jude Rogers. thequietus.com/interviews/s...
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TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
www.nbcboston.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Mark Ronson’s interview with @petepaphides.bsky.social is a treat. I knew nothing about his childhood in New York, but if Andy Warhol was dropping by your mum’s place clearly something interesting was going on.
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
Mark Ronson at 50: ‘They’re going to find out I’m a fraud’
The DJ and producer has won multiple Grammys and an Oscar and his Uptown Funk is one of the most streamed songs of all time. So how come Mark Ronson has imposter syndrome?
www.thetimes.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Mark Ronson’s interview with @petepaphides.bsky.social is a treat. I knew nothing about his childhood in New York, but if Andy Warhol was dropping by your mum’s place clearly something interesting was going on.
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...
Finally a documentary about the devastating side-effects of #LASIK eye surgery. Why the procedure can have life-altering consequences, heartbreaking patients' stories and the total failure of regulators make this essential viewing for anyone considering it.
youtu.be/V9g4tnLL2r4...
youtu.be/V9g4tnLL2r4...
August 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Finally a documentary about the devastating side-effects of #LASIK eye surgery. Why the procedure can have life-altering consequences, heartbreaking patients' stories and the total failure of regulators make this essential viewing for anyone considering it.
youtu.be/V9g4tnLL2r4...
youtu.be/V9g4tnLL2r4...
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Rod, my cousin's kid played 'Love Me in the Ass' at her wedding and it was beautiful. There was a line dance and everything.
August 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Rod, my cousin's kid played 'Love Me in the Ass' at her wedding and it was beautiful. There was a line dance and everything.
All of these people saying AI is ruining the music industry, honestly I don't know what they're...hang on a moment
August 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
All of these people saying AI is ruining the music industry, honestly I don't know what they're...hang on a moment
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I wish I had a QR code at the back of my neck to give new dates a pdf manual to me. I just don’t want to explain anything anymore. And there would be troubleshooting tips and links to a subreddit for quick fixes.
July 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wish I had a QR code at the back of my neck to give new dates a pdf manual to me. I just don’t want to explain anything anymore. And there would be troubleshooting tips and links to a subreddit for quick fixes.
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➡️ Paintings now in my shop 🔗 in my bio
July 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM
➡️ Paintings now in my shop 🔗 in my bio
Or trousers, apparently.
July 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Or trousers, apparently.
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It’s been a weird, unproductive week at the lab and I’m feeling a little down. So here are 10 cool facts about vision:
June 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
It’s been a weird, unproductive week at the lab and I’m feeling a little down. So here are 10 cool facts about vision:
As they say: a snip! Get in there.
Everything Must Go is in the Kindle monthly deal so you can satisfy all your apocalyptic needs met for a mere 99p. A snip!
May 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
As they say: a snip! Get in there.
Will be writing a strongly worded letter to M&S to request they discontinue making these as I am weak and helpless in their presence and cannot stop.
February 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Will be writing a strongly worded letter to M&S to request they discontinue making these as I am weak and helpless in their presence and cannot stop.
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Out today in the US
"Terrifically entertaining" — NYT
"Clever and insightful… shows that exciting intellectual history isn't an oxymoron" — Washington Post
"Doom without the gloom… the book's own stock of revelations never runs short" — New Yorker
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709872...
"Terrifically entertaining" — NYT
"Clever and insightful… shows that exciting intellectual history isn't an oxymoron" — Washington Post
"Doom without the gloom… the book's own stock of revelations never runs short" — New Yorker
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709872...
January 28, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Out today in the US
"Terrifically entertaining" — NYT
"Clever and insightful… shows that exciting intellectual history isn't an oxymoron" — Washington Post
"Doom without the gloom… the book's own stock of revelations never runs short" — New Yorker
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709872...
"Terrifically entertaining" — NYT
"Clever and insightful… shows that exciting intellectual history isn't an oxymoron" — Washington Post
"Doom without the gloom… the book's own stock of revelations never runs short" — New Yorker
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709872...
Jake Shears interviewing John Cameron Mitchell about creating Hedwig & The Angry Inch and the anthemic "Midnight Radio" on his podcast, Queer The Music, is excellent.
youtu.be/uSPau7P2_Bg...
youtu.be/uSPau7P2_Bg...
a close up of a woman 's face with a tear running down her face
Alt: a close up of a woman 's face with a tear running down her face
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January 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Jake Shears interviewing John Cameron Mitchell about creating Hedwig & The Angry Inch and the anthemic "Midnight Radio" on his podcast, Queer The Music, is excellent.
youtu.be/uSPau7P2_Bg...
youtu.be/uSPau7P2_Bg...
If you're in need of some spectacular-sounding, noise cancelling in-ear buds, the Bowers & Wilkins Pi7 S2 are less than half price at John Lewis (£149). A bonus is that they can be used on flights to transmit the enterainment audio wirelessly:
www.johnlewis.com/bowers-wilki...
www.johnlewis.com/bowers-wilki...
January 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
If you're in need of some spectacular-sounding, noise cancelling in-ear buds, the Bowers & Wilkins Pi7 S2 are less than half price at John Lewis (£149). A bonus is that they can be used on flights to transmit the enterainment audio wirelessly:
www.johnlewis.com/bowers-wilki...
www.johnlewis.com/bowers-wilki...
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Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters
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December 10, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters
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I wrote about the time Scotland Yard sent a SWAT team to investigate my child, and how it was all Jamie Demetriou’s fault heawood.substack.com/p/why-scotla...
Why Scotland Yard put me and my child on a register
and Stath Lets Flats is to blame.
heawood.substack.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:13 PM
I wrote about the time Scotland Yard sent a SWAT team to investigate my child, and how it was all Jamie Demetriou’s fault heawood.substack.com/p/why-scotla...
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It's a national holiday! Celebrate with this clip of Endora illustrating why Bewitched is a homosexual television program for homosexuals.
December 6, 2024 at 6:26 PM
It's a national holiday! Celebrate with this clip of Endora illustrating why Bewitched is a homosexual television program for homosexuals.