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John Keogh
@j-v-k.bsky.social
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I like books, Hawkwind, art, dark chocolate, sf, Marmite on toast, beer, purple, music, beetroot, photography, fountain pens, film, cheese, Apple Macs, coffee, actors, design, curry, hauntological radiophonic weirdlore, things in old tobacco tins and lists
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Marianne Faithfull (27) Frankie Goes to Hollywood (22) Thea Gilmore (20) Wire (6) Wreckless Eric (6) Donovan (5) and 209 other artists last week. #Music www.last.fm/user/jovike
December 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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The line-up for tomorrow! 🎄 Christmas Day on #TalkingPicturesTV
December 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Nurse With Wound (19) Psychedelic Source Records (15) Daisy Chainsaw (10) Hawkwind (6) Frank Zappa (5) Ike & Tina Turner (5) and 219 other artists last week. #Music www.last.fm/user/jovike
December 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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“‘Don’t be disheartened by mistakes’: 10 lessons my artist father taught me” by Amelia Gentleman www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
December 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Markus Reuter (20) Dirk Schlömer (17) Erik Emil Eskildsen (17) Volker Lankow (16) Twinkle (5) Edgar Froese (4) and 174 other artists last week. #Music www.last.fm/user/jovike
December 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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How to cope www.cartoongravity.com/how-to-cope-...
How to cope with 2026
Some strategies for doing better on our next trip around the sun.
www.cartoongravity.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: The Arms of Someone New (16) Kombynat Robotron (16) Spare Snare (14) The Moondig (13) Edwin Astley (4) Faust (4) and 106 other artists last week. #Music www.last.fm/user/jovike
December 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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How to quit Spotify www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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talkingpicturestv.bsky.social
Back in #TheCellarClub at 10:05pm #CarolineMunro presents
THE STONE TAPE (1972) with #MichaelBryant #JaneAsher #IanCuthbertson sci-fi chiller #TPTVsubtitles
November 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (gift article) (via Cartoon Gravity) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Alexander R. Cargill Esq. (11) Giants of Discovery (9) Kitchen Cynics & Grey Malkin (6) Klaus Morlock (6) Edwin Astley (5) Field Lines Cartographer (5) Steeleye Span (5) and 214 other artists last week. #Music www.last.fm/user/jovike
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Some interesting apples www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/will...
'Some Interesting Apples' Delves into the World of Feral Fruit
William Arnold and James Fergusson, a pair of Cornwall-based creatives, have planted an orchard growing only "feral" apples.
www.thisiscolossal.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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why can they not just fix it
[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point]. 1 CUSTOMER: Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered 2 McDONALDS EMPLOYEE: Number 187? CUSTOMER: Yes 3 CUSTOMER: Maybe I pressed the wrong thing? I just ordered one strawberry milkshake. 4 EMPLOYEE: Oh - yeah sorry 5 EMPLOYEE: The milkshake machine’s not working. 6 EMPLOYEE: The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage. 7 CUSTOMER: Is that a new flavour? EMPLOYEE: Yeah 8 [We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter] EMPLOYEE: If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage. 9 [Customer looks inside the cup] 10 [Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup] CUSTOMER: So there is 11 CUSTOMER: Is that something people want, then? EMPLOYEE: No! No, not at all. 12 EMPLOYEE: It just keeps happening when we press banana. [ends]
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
j-v-k.bsky.social
Douglas Adams got it right again. “Just keep banging the rocks together, guys!” www.404media.co/advanced-2-5...
November 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Black Tape for a Blue Girl (22) Psychedelic Source Records (21) Soft Works (12) Aglaia (10) David Bowie (6) Francis Cofone (6) and 209 other artists last week. #Music www.last.fm/user/jovike
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: The Caretaker (26) Black Tape for a Blue Girl (21) Sam Rosenthal (15) Steve Roach (13) Sam Rosenthal/jarguna (7) Erik Wøllo (6) Fanny (5) and 174 other artists last week. #Music
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: The Caretaker (31) The Moody Blues (27) Frank Zappa (24) Volker Lankow (14) guru bobol (10) Hawkwind (10) David Bowie (8½) and 164 other artists last week. #Music
November 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: ABBA (23) Ian Boddy (13) TaboTago (13) Dr. Feelgood (6) Edwin Astley (6) Frank Zappa (6) Bar-Kays (5) and 197 other artists last week. #Music
October 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Dirk Schlömer (20) Christina Ruf (18) Volker Lankow (17) Deepspace (15) Hawkwind (8½) and 208 other artists last week. #Music www.last.fm/user/jovike
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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“Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state” — Scott Larson. Horrors in the Windows 11 install. (via Charles Arthur's Overspill) www.scottrlarson.com/publications...
October 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Psychedelic Source Records (14) Volker Lankow (12) Stefan Matthias (6) Hawkwind (6) Hawkwind Light Orchestra (5) and 205 other artists last week. #Music www.last.fm/user/jovike
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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♫ My Top #lastfm artists: Pilot Voyager (15) Satorinaut (14) Highbay (13) Lemurian Folk Songs (11) Come and See (8½) Hawkwind (8½) Slight Layers (7) and 213 other artists last week. #Music (mostly Hungarian hippies)
October 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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‘The revenge of elitism’ onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-reveng...
🟧 The revenge of elitism
Plus new MoMA design store, burgers, AI ads
onethingnewsletter.substack.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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‘The Wellness Industry Won’t Heal You’
oneliness.substack.com/p/the-wellne...
via the useless usefulness: “exploitation disguised as empowerment”
September 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM