Failed Human Being
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My listening for November 2024 - can see Blixa Bargeld and Imai Hisashi literally duking it out over who gets to be my biggest obsession....
Saved you a click on that ‘New York is killing culture’ piece!
December 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Saved you a click on that ‘New York is killing culture’ piece!
LOL I mean my ‘Spotify’ style line in the sand is Meta, like whenever left wing people ask me to join a WhatsApp group or post something on FB I’m like OVER MY DEAD BODY
December 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
LOL I mean my ‘Spotify’ style line in the sand is Meta, like whenever left wing people ask me to join a WhatsApp group or post something on FB I’m like OVER MY DEAD BODY
Time to dye my hair before my trip - they stopped making COSMIC PURPLE so I’m going to try to mix CYBER PUNK PURPLE and BURNING AMETHYST CHRIME
December 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Time to dye my hair before my trip - they stopped making COSMIC PURPLE so I’m going to try to mix CYBER PUNK PURPLE and BURNING AMETHYST CHRIME
I think the LKM might be working? I went to do a little hate read (I know, I know - I never hate read) and after about 5 minutes I was just like “dude, I wish you well with this…” and peaced out instead of spiralling
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I think the LKM might be working? I went to do a little hate read (I know, I know - I never hate read) and after about 5 minutes I was just like “dude, I wish you well with this…” and peaced out instead of spiralling
Suck it, Spotify Haters. Only 440 fangirls in Japan live this band more than me!
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Suck it, Spotify Haters. Only 440 fangirls in Japan live this band more than me!
Hmmm. I don’t know that I agree. Before Spotify, I used Last.fm to track my listening and remind me of what I connected with (that I might have forgotten in favour of Big Albums at the year’s end). Algorithms are all about how you use them!
I wrote about listening, thinking, reflection, memory & not “offloading” it all to sp*tify!
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...
Spotify Wrapped is taking over our feeds, but you don’t have outsource your relationship with music to AI | Liz Pelly
The streamer’s annual charts are just another version of the tech that’s alienating us from our inner lives. Hold on to your musical memories and reclaim ownership of your taste
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Hmmm. I don’t know that I agree. Before Spotify, I used Last.fm to track my listening and remind me of what I connected with (that I might have forgotten in favour of Big Albums at the year’s end). Algorithms are all about how you use them!
Just read about the Women's Institute and the Girl Guides and it's terrifying and awful how quickly this country has swung to persecuting trans people and trans women in particular. The Starmer era is just a horrorshow
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Just read about the Women's Institute and the Girl Guides and it's terrifying and awful how quickly this country has swung to persecuting trans people and trans women in particular. The Starmer era is just a horrorshow
I was OUTPAISLEYED at the LGBTQ seniors meetup!
I wore a paisley shirt with a velvet waistcoat over it, but one of the elder gays had a VELVET PAISLEY WAISTCOAT!!! 😱
I wore a paisley shirt with a velvet waistcoat over it, but one of the elder gays had a VELVET PAISLEY WAISTCOAT!!! 😱
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I was OUTPAISLEYED at the LGBTQ seniors meetup!
I wore a paisley shirt with a velvet waistcoat over it, but one of the elder gays had a VELVET PAISLEY WAISTCOAT!!! 😱
I wore a paisley shirt with a velvet waistcoat over it, but one of the elder gays had a VELVET PAISLEY WAISTCOAT!!! 😱
I do love my Mum but she drives me insane
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I do love my Mum but she drives me insane
Ugh my mother is such an INSANE WEIRDO about my father’s social media (she believes everything he posts, right down to Thanksgiving Dinner photos is a ‘passive aggressive’ subtweet ‘aimed at her’ and it is DOING MY HEAD IN
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Ugh my mother is such an INSANE WEIRDO about my father’s social media (she believes everything he posts, right down to Thanksgiving Dinner photos is a ‘passive aggressive’ subtweet ‘aimed at her’ and it is DOING MY HEAD IN
All Hallows Church, aka Blackwing Recording studios, home to Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and so many more!!!
November 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
All Hallows Church, aka Blackwing Recording studios, home to Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and so many more!!!
Just been to CROSSBONES CEMETERY, lads (but alas, it was closed)
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Just been to CROSSBONES CEMETERY, lads (but alas, it was closed)
OK so it turns out the kind of mullet / shag hair I actually wanted is called a ‘wolf cut’
p.s. I have a mullet now I guess
p.s. I have a mullet now I guess
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
OK so it turns out the kind of mullet / shag hair I actually wanted is called a ‘wolf cut’
p.s. I have a mullet now I guess
p.s. I have a mullet now I guess
OK I have to practice ‘staying with my feelings’ but I have Alexithymia so I don’t have a clue what I’m feeling at any given time
quick, someone please suggest a feeling I can practice with?
quick, someone please suggest a feeling I can practice with?
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
OK I have to practice ‘staying with my feelings’ but I have Alexithymia so I don’t have a clue what I’m feeling at any given time
quick, someone please suggest a feeling I can practice with?
quick, someone please suggest a feeling I can practice with?
Got vegan (No) Pigs In Blankets sandwich for my Meal Deal and since I’m warming up the oven for something else I'm going to toast them for maximum blanket!!!
November 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Got vegan (No) Pigs In Blankets sandwich for my Meal Deal and since I’m warming up the oven for something else I'm going to toast them for maximum blanket!!!
Oh no, there was a hard, hard frost last night that my weather app did not predict and I left all my tender plants outside last night 😭
November 26, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Oh no, there was a hard, hard frost last night that my weather app did not predict and I left all my tender plants outside last night 😭
My eyes are going.
I noticed ages ago that 恵比寿 had a hidden 寿 but I did not notice that the god for whom Yebisu beer was named (that lent its name to the district) also had one!
(This is clearly why 今井寿 drinks his namesake)
I noticed ages ago that 恵比寿 had a hidden 寿 but I did not notice that the god for whom Yebisu beer was named (that lent its name to the district) also had one!
(This is clearly why 今井寿 drinks his namesake)
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
My eyes are going.
I noticed ages ago that 恵比寿 had a hidden 寿 but I did not notice that the god for whom Yebisu beer was named (that lent its name to the district) also had one!
(This is clearly why 今井寿 drinks his namesake)
I noticed ages ago that 恵比寿 had a hidden 寿 but I did not notice that the god for whom Yebisu beer was named (that lent its name to the district) also had one!
(This is clearly why 今井寿 drinks his namesake)
Halfway through The Future by Naomi Alderman and i’m so annoyed because this is exactly the theme and the plot point that I used in The Light Eaters but also excited because Alderman has written a way better, denser, more engaging book than I could have
November 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Halfway through The Future by Naomi Alderman and i’m so annoyed because this is exactly the theme and the plot point that I used in The Light Eaters but also excited because Alderman has written a way better, denser, more engaging book than I could have
My neighbour just shouted “GET A HAIRCUT!!!” at me from across the street and I realised I have achieved the full Scottish Coo 🐮
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
My neighbour just shouted “GET A HAIRCUT!!!” at me from across the street and I realised I have achieved the full Scottish Coo 🐮
Haha I bought the CHRISTMAS MARZIPAN at Lidl before it was all gone so I win at life today!
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Haha I bought the CHRISTMAS MARZIPAN at Lidl before it was all gone so I win at life today!
This is what I mean when I talk about ‘male privilege’ - it’s nothing to do with BEING male and everything to do with being PERCEIVED as male:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Bro boost: women find LinkedIn traffic ‘drives’ if they pretend to be men
Collective experiment found switching profile to ‘male’ and ‘bro-coding’ text led to big increase in reach, though site denies favouring posts by men
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This is what I mean when I talk about ‘male privilege’ - it’s nothing to do with BEING male and everything to do with being PERCEIVED as male:
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Mani? It can’t be real. What a loss to UK music!
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Mani? It can’t be real. What a loss to UK music!
And they announce this on Trans Day of Remembrance? Absolute GHOULS, this government
The UK is considering a policy that would effectively segregate trans people from society. It would bar trans people from "single sex spaces" even when they use the facility of their sex assigned at birth.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
This is a full on policy of segregation without even the benefit of separate facilities.
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
And they announce this on Trans Day of Remembrance? Absolute GHOULS, this government
Oh thank god I'm not going insane. I knew I had seen it on Tumblr.
E.R. Hughes - Oh, What's That in the Hollow?
www.tumblr.com/jacques-le-f...
E.R. Hughes - Oh, What's That in the Hollow?
www.tumblr.com/jacques-le-f...
November 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Oh thank god I'm not going insane. I knew I had seen it on Tumblr.
E.R. Hughes - Oh, What's That in the Hollow?
www.tumblr.com/jacques-le-f...
E.R. Hughes - Oh, What's That in the Hollow?
www.tumblr.com/jacques-le-f...
Am I going crazy, that I can distinctly remember a painting of The Twa Corbies done in pre-Raphaelite style (not this one, it's more blue and the dead knight is lying in a briar patch)
artuk.org/discover/art...
artuk.org/discover/art...
'The Twa Corbies' | Art UK
'The Twa Corbies' by Campbell Lindsay Smith (1879–1915), 1901, from Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums
artuk.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Am I going crazy, that I can distinctly remember a painting of The Twa Corbies done in pre-Raphaelite style (not this one, it's more blue and the dead knight is lying in a briar patch)
artuk.org/discover/art...
artuk.org/discover/art...