Daniel Learmouth
@daniellearmouth.bsky.social
Retro Import Review at http://youtube.com/daniellearmouth // I pretend to know about games // Hopelessly addicted to vinyl records and stationery // Former Wakefield College student // Militantly Anti-GenAI // 日本語△
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
🥇Day 12 - My Favourite Book: 'The Stand' by Stephen King
An unforgettable post-apocalyptic monster that takes you for a ride and, even after 1,200 pages, leaves you wanting it to keep going.
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🥇Day 12 - My Favourite Book: 'The Stand' by Stephen King
An unforgettable post-apocalyptic monster that takes you for a ride and, even after 1,200 pages, leaves you wanting it to keep going.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
January 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
🥇Day 12 - My Favourite Book: 'The Stand' by Stephen King
An unforgettable post-apocalyptic monster that takes you for a ride and, even after 1,200 pages, leaves you wanting it to keep going.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
🥇Day 12 - My Favourite Book: 'The Stand' by Stephen King
An unforgettable post-apocalyptic monster that takes you for a ride and, even after 1,200 pages, leaves you wanting it to keep going.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
🥈 Day 11: 'The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club' by Peter Hook
A detail-laden series of anecdotes recounting the life, death and legacy of the legendary Manchester nightclub and music venue.
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🥈 Day 11: 'The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club' by Peter Hook
A detail-laden series of anecdotes recounting the life, death and legacy of the legendary Manchester nightclub and music venue.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
January 4, 2026 at 3:46 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
🥈 Day 11: 'The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club' by Peter Hook
A detail-laden series of anecdotes recounting the life, death and legacy of the legendary Manchester nightclub and music venue.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
🥈 Day 11: 'The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club' by Peter Hook
A detail-laden series of anecdotes recounting the life, death and legacy of the legendary Manchester nightclub and music venue.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
🥉 Day 10: 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess
A horrorshow book about things that makes you ask one question in particular: "just how far is *too* far?"
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🥉 Day 10: 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess
A horrorshow book about things that makes you ask one question in particular: "just how far is *too* far?"
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
January 3, 2026 at 1:16 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
🥉 Day 10: 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess
A horrorshow book about things that makes you ask one question in particular: "just how far is *too* far?"
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
🥉 Day 10: 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess
A horrorshow book about things that makes you ask one question in particular: "just how far is *too* far?"
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 9: 'The Doctor Who Fooled the World' by Brian Deer
A chronicling of one of the worst scandals in medical history, from the perspective of the man who dragged it all into the light. A very important book.
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Day 9: 'The Doctor Who Fooled the World' by Brian Deer
A chronicling of one of the worst scandals in medical history, from the perspective of the man who dragged it all into the light. A very important book.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
January 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 9: 'The Doctor Who Fooled the World' by Brian Deer
A chronicling of one of the worst scandals in medical history, from the perspective of the man who dragged it all into the light. A very important book.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 9: 'The Doctor Who Fooled the World' by Brian Deer
A chronicling of one of the worst scandals in medical history, from the perspective of the man who dragged it all into the light. A very important book.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 8: 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata
A short-story compilation with mullings on relationships, sex, family, food, and cannibalism, made palatable by Murata's madcap style.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 8: 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata
A short-story compilation with mullings on relationships, sex, family, food, and cannibalism, made palatable by Murata's madcap style.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
January 1, 2026 at 4:49 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 8: 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata
A short-story compilation with mullings on relationships, sex, family, food, and cannibalism, made palatable by Murata's madcap style.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 8: 'Life Ceremony' by Sayaka Murata
A short-story compilation with mullings on relationships, sex, family, food, and cannibalism, made palatable by Murata's madcap style.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
How to know it's the New Year: you unwrap your new Hobonichi Techo.
January 1, 2026 at 8:30 AM
How to know it's the New Year: you unwrap your new Hobonichi Techo.
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 7: 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' by John le Carré
A grounded, compelling Cold War-era espionage tale, brought to you by a former spy.
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Day 7: 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' by John le Carré
A grounded, compelling Cold War-era espionage tale, brought to you by a former spy.
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December 31, 2025 at 1:45 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 7: 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' by John le Carré
A grounded, compelling Cold War-era espionage tale, brought to you by a former spy.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 7: 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' by John le Carré
A grounded, compelling Cold War-era espionage tale, brought to you by a former spy.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 6: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole
'Don Quixote' for the 20th century, a gut-busting comic adventure, with a tragic background.
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Day 6: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole
'Don Quixote' for the 20th century, a gut-busting comic adventure, with a tragic background.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
December 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 6: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole
'Don Quixote' for the 20th century, a gut-busting comic adventure, with a tragic background.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 6: 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole
'Don Quixote' for the 20th century, a gut-busting comic adventure, with a tragic background.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 5: 'The City & the City' by China Miéville
A mind-bending crime tale that transcends geography as we know it.
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Day 5: 'The City & the City' by China Miéville
A mind-bending crime tale that transcends geography as we know it.
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December 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Day 5: 'The City & the City' by China Miéville
A mind-bending crime tale that transcends geography as we know it.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 5: 'The City & the City' by China Miéville
A mind-bending crime tale that transcends geography as we know it.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 4: 'The Cyberiad' by Stanisław Lem (trans. by Michael Kandel)
A collection of hilarious science fiction short stories about two robotic geniuses and the inventions they devise for the problems they're to solve.
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Day 4: 'The Cyberiad' by Stanisław Lem (trans. by Michael Kandel)
A collection of hilarious science fiction short stories about two robotic geniuses and the inventions they devise for the problems they're to solve.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
December 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 4: 'The Cyberiad' by Stanisław Lem (trans. by Michael Kandel)
A collection of hilarious science fiction short stories about two robotic geniuses and the inventions they devise for the problems they're to solve.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 4: 'The Cyberiad' by Stanisław Lem (trans. by Michael Kandel)
A collection of hilarious science fiction short stories about two robotic geniuses and the inventions they devise for the problems they're to solve.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 3: 'README.txt' by Chelsea Manning
A memoir that recounts Manning's struggles with sexuality and gender identity from as far back as her childhood, and her time in the military, imprisonment and eventual release.
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Day 3: 'README.txt' by Chelsea Manning
A memoir that recounts Manning's struggles with sexuality and gender identity from as far back as her childhood, and her time in the military, imprisonment and eventual release.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
December 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 3: 'README.txt' by Chelsea Manning
A memoir that recounts Manning's struggles with sexuality and gender identity from as far back as her childhood, and her time in the military, imprisonment and eventual release.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 3: 'README.txt' by Chelsea Manning
A memoir that recounts Manning's struggles with sexuality and gender identity from as far back as her childhood, and her time in the military, imprisonment and eventual release.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 2: 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner
An Odyssean Southern Gothic tale about a family going through hell and high water to fulfill their mother's dying wish.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 2: 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner
An Odyssean Southern Gothic tale about a family going through hell and high water to fulfill their mother's dying wish.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
December 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 2: 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner
An Odyssean Southern Gothic tale about a family going through hell and high water to fulfill their mother's dying wish.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 2: 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner
An Odyssean Southern Gothic tale about a family going through hell and high water to fulfill their mother's dying wish.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 1: 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (trans. by John Rutherford)
Arguably the first modern novel, 'Don Quixote' is a legendarily chaotic adventure for the ages that's funny, smart, and approachable.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 1: 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (trans. by John Rutherford)
Arguably the first modern novel, 'Don Quixote' is a legendarily chaotic adventure for the ages that's funny, smart, and approachable.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
December 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
12 Books of Christmas 2025 #BookSky 📚💙
Day 1: 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (trans. by John Rutherford)
Arguably the first modern novel, 'Don Quixote' is a legendarily chaotic adventure for the ages that's funny, smart, and approachable.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Day 1: 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (trans. by John Rutherford)
Arguably the first modern novel, 'Don Quixote' is a legendarily chaotic adventure for the ages that's funny, smart, and approachable.
daniellearmouth.com/posts/12-boo...
Putting 'In the Miso Soup' in the 'Asian Tourism' section of Waterstones is absolutely diabolical,holy shit!
December 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Putting 'In the Miso Soup' in the 'Asian Tourism' section of Waterstones is absolutely diabolical,holy shit!
#NowSpinning: 'GNX' by Kendrick Lamar
December 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
#NowSpinning: 'GNX' by Kendrick Lamar
The state of my record collection after the day just past.
I might struggle next year to be able to fit more stuff; I'm probably going to need some new shelving...
I might struggle next year to be able to fit more stuff; I'm probably going to need some new shelving...
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The state of my record collection after the day just past.
I might struggle next year to be able to fit more stuff; I'm probably going to need some new shelving...
I might struggle next year to be able to fit more stuff; I'm probably going to need some new shelving...
Good to know that a bunch of new games from big name publishers (Ubisoft, Nexon, Level-5, Activision) have used AI for things like artwork and voiceover. Truly wonderful, love it, incredible, amazing.
This industry can eat the fattest cheesiest dick.
This industry can eat the fattest cheesiest dick.
November 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Good to know that a bunch of new games from big name publishers (Ubisoft, Nexon, Level-5, Activision) have used AI for things like artwork and voiceover. Truly wonderful, love it, incredible, amazing.
This industry can eat the fattest cheesiest dick.
This industry can eat the fattest cheesiest dick.
I guess this is how I write 北 now.
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I guess this is how I write 北 now.
#NowSpinning: 'Technique' by New Order
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#NowSpinning: 'Technique' by New Order
It's been a hot minute since I've been given some literal fuckery with the Anki stuff...
I just want an example sentence featuring '不特定' which doesn't involve the concept of eating ass.
I just want an example sentence featuring '不特定' which doesn't involve the concept of eating ass.
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's been a hot minute since I've been given some literal fuckery with the Anki stuff...
I just want an example sentence featuring '不特定' which doesn't involve the concept of eating ass.
I just want an example sentence featuring '不特定' which doesn't involve the concept of eating ass.
I went a bit mad again and bought some more books. This should be the last load of books I buy until a good chunk of the way into next year.
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I went a bit mad again and bought some more books. This should be the last load of books I buy until a good chunk of the way into next year.
#NowSpinning: 'Automatic For the People' by R.E.M.
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#NowSpinning: 'Automatic For the People' by R.E.M.
I've been using Anki across the last nine months and change now, and I have accrued a pocket dictionary's worth of words from books I have been reading.
As a consequence, I have reached a funny number.
As a consequence, I have reached a funny number.
October 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I've been using Anki across the last nine months and change now, and I have accrued a pocket dictionary's worth of words from books I have been reading.
As a consequence, I have reached a funny number.
As a consequence, I have reached a funny number.