Rob Brewer
@rbrwr.bsky.social
Mediocre guitarist, sporadic photographer, slow cyclist. He/him.
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Promising eBay description. (I bought it)
December 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Promising eBay description. (I bought it)
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Idly wondering if the Rolling Stones will manage to continue playing for 50 years after Joe Strummer sang "no Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones, in 1977". Getting close now.
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Idly wondering if the Rolling Stones will manage to continue playing for 50 years after Joe Strummer sang "no Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones, in 1977". Getting close now.
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check this shit out. gonna write a song contrasting your guy macheath with a shark. that’s right a fuckin shark. whole compare and contrast deal. ppl gonna be singing this shit for a hundred years. see if I lie
—Bertolt Brecht, to Kurt Weill, over drinks, 1927
—Bertolt Brecht, to Kurt Weill, over drinks, 1927
December 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
check this shit out. gonna write a song contrasting your guy macheath with a shark. that’s right a fuckin shark. whole compare and contrast deal. ppl gonna be singing this shit for a hundred years. see if I lie
—Bertolt Brecht, to Kurt Weill, over drinks, 1927
—Bertolt Brecht, to Kurt Weill, over drinks, 1927
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Regarding Reiner, I have known a lot of musicians and been in bands myself. I can’t overstate the importance of This Is Spinal Tap in adjusting the self-importance of musicians. Everyone knows the movie, everyone has identified Spinal Tap moments, everyone is humbler and funnier as a result.
December 16, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Regarding Reiner, I have known a lot of musicians and been in bands myself. I can’t overstate the importance of This Is Spinal Tap in adjusting the self-importance of musicians. Everyone knows the movie, everyone has identified Spinal Tap moments, everyone is humbler and funnier as a result.
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“So, Nick, what kind of dog do you have?”
“She’s a werewolf.”
“Yeah, haha, that’s O SWEET JESUS -“
“She’s a werewolf.”
“Yeah, haha, that’s O SWEET JESUS -“
December 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“So, Nick, what kind of dog do you have?”
“She’s a werewolf.”
“Yeah, haha, that’s O SWEET JESUS -“
“She’s a werewolf.”
“Yeah, haha, that’s O SWEET JESUS -“
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Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
November 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat
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Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
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This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
At least the 2008 crash was about a bet that housing would never decline. The next one will be about betting that six companies who sell each other magic beans would never decline
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Judge for yourself: did the dossier accusing the BBC of doctoring a Trump quote…doctor a Trump quote?
Left: Donald Trump’s Jan 6th quote, as presented in the dossier that brought down two BBC bosses
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
Right: What Donald Trump actually said.
Full story in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Judge for yourself: did the dossier accusing the BBC of doctoring a Trump quote…doctor a Trump quote?
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Adams has railed against vaccines, and science in general, for many years. Kennedy cut funding for promising work including mRNA vaccines for prostate cancer. Just, the audacity here.
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Adams has railed against vaccines, and science in general, for many years. Kennedy cut funding for promising work including mRNA vaccines for prostate cancer. Just, the audacity here.
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There’s a quite famous passage in Mein Kampf where Hitler recounts how his young self looked at a Jew in the street and asked himself “is this a German?” Change a few words and locations and I bet you could get it in the Spectator now.
November 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There’s a quite famous passage in Mein Kampf where Hitler recounts how his young self looked at a Jew in the street and asked himself “is this a German?” Change a few words and locations and I bet you could get it in the Spectator now.
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A friend of mine just pointed out that the Pixies were so far ahead of their time they were already doing the "6 7" thing in their album art in 1989.
November 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A friend of mine just pointed out that the Pixies were so far ahead of their time they were already doing the "6 7" thing in their album art in 1989.
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This is all going to get deeply hilarious when Andrew fucks off to Norway and tries to raise an army.
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This is all going to get deeply hilarious when Andrew fucks off to Norway and tries to raise an army.
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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1/9
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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1/9
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Labour Party hq today
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Labour Party hq today
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Updating my LEGO White House
October 23, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Updating my LEGO White House
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Did a new one
August 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Did a new one
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The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.
October 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.
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I can beat the medievalists! In 61 CE, revolting British natives attacked the Roman colony of Camulodunum (Colchester). In 2015, in a domestic space, archs found the remains of a whole box of coriander as well as fenugreek, poppy seeds, cumin, & other Indian spices. Homesick Roman women made curry.
I'm pretty sure there were Indian spices in England before potatoes.
The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point
October 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I can beat the medievalists! In 61 CE, revolting British natives attacked the Roman colony of Camulodunum (Colchester). In 2015, in a domestic space, archs found the remains of a whole box of coriander as well as fenugreek, poppy seeds, cumin, & other Indian spices. Homesick Roman women made curry.
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The strange death of "socially liberal but fiscally conservative". Always largely self-serving bs, but in terms of people's expressed beliefs, a big part of the political spectrum has just vanished.
October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
The strange death of "socially liberal but fiscally conservative". Always largely self-serving bs, but in terms of people's expressed beliefs, a big part of the political spectrum has just vanished.