Robin Allender
@robinallender.bsky.social
I’ve got a great idea for a new kind of central heating system: when it’s cold you press a button marked ‘on’ and the heating comes on
November 22, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I’ve got a great idea for a new kind of central heating system: when it’s cold you press a button marked ‘on’ and the heating comes on
German compound word for trying to watching Strictly but eyes keep being drawn to Paul Chuckle in the audience
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
German compound word for trying to watching Strictly but eyes keep being drawn to Paul Chuckle in the audience
Listening to the new Oneohtrix Point Never album and pretending it’s Carnival of Light
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Listening to the new Oneohtrix Point Never album and pretending it’s Carnival of Light
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French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
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Stupid, unworkable, AND needlessly cruel are the slogans of the day.
I suspect they're delaying it because its mental and unworkable - and is clearly aimed at the exclusion of trans, and gender conforming people, from society.
November 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Stupid, unworkable, AND needlessly cruel are the slogans of the day.
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🚨NEW PODCAST!🚨Guitar legend and member of Paul’s band in the ‘90s, Robbie McIntosh joins us on the pod for the last of the series. Available now where you get your pods and sods.
November 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🚨NEW PODCAST!🚨Guitar legend and member of Paul’s band in the ‘90s, Robbie McIntosh joins us on the pod for the last of the series. Available now where you get your pods and sods.
Why does this man always look so confused
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Why does this man always look so confused
Pleased to be one of the supporting musos in the research of this brilliant piece. I also had Singles Going Steady on cassette, it rarely left the Walkman.
A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, support the podcast, “don’t gob at me”.
This week: Buzzcocks, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays/Why Can’t I Touch It?
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This week: Buzzcocks, Everybody’s Happy Nowadays/Why Can’t I Touch It?
www.patreon.com/backlisted
November 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Pleased to be one of the supporting musos in the research of this brilliant piece. I also had Singles Going Steady on cassette, it rarely left the Walkman.
Thanks Kieran!
Brilliant interview. The insight into your different creative processes was really interesting. Knowing when to wait/not relying on inspiration to strike. I think birdwatching is a great analogy. And I’d like to apologise on behalf of my generation for the queuing in pubs debacle.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Thanks Kieran!
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New podcast out today and it’s an interview with the fantastic Bristol-based musician Emily Breeze! We talk about songwriting, queuing in pubs, and the concept of Alan Partridge narrating Joyce’s Ulysses
pod.fo/e/354295
pod.fo/e/354295
The Allender Calendar: Episode 15: Emily Breeze
This month on The Allender Calendar, I speak to the fabulous Bristol-based musician Emily Breeze, whose lipstick-smeared and glitter-drenched album Rats in Paradise is one of my favourites of the y...
pod.fo
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
New podcast out today and it’s an interview with the fantastic Bristol-based musician Emily Breeze! We talk about songwriting, queuing in pubs, and the concept of Alan Partridge narrating Joyce’s Ulysses
pod.fo/e/354295
pod.fo/e/354295
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When you use cut in Word, the text is deleted forever and when you paste it, a complete new identical copy of the text with identical memories is reproduced on the document
November 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
When you use cut in Word, the text is deleted forever and when you paste it, a complete new identical copy of the text with identical memories is reproduced on the document
Do you think the people who come up with collective nouns for things and the people who come up with the names of phobias for things ever hang out? Maybe they have a Christmas party.
November 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Do you think the people who come up with collective nouns for things and the people who come up with the names of phobias for things ever hang out? Maybe they have a Christmas party.
New podcast out today and it’s an interview with the fantastic Bristol-based musician Emily Breeze! We talk about songwriting, queuing in pubs, and the concept of Alan Partridge narrating Joyce’s Ulysses
pod.fo/e/354295
pod.fo/e/354295
The Allender Calendar: Episode 15: Emily Breeze
This month on The Allender Calendar, I speak to the fabulous Bristol-based musician Emily Breeze, whose lipstick-smeared and glitter-drenched album Rats in Paradise is one of my favourites of the y...
pod.fo
November 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
New podcast out today and it’s an interview with the fantastic Bristol-based musician Emily Breeze! We talk about songwriting, queuing in pubs, and the concept of Alan Partridge narrating Joyce’s Ulysses
pod.fo/e/354295
pod.fo/e/354295
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At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books, according to a survey of local authorities.
The key cities group of councils, which represents second-tier cities in England, said 60% of councils were planning to sell assets to meet the escalating costs of adult and children’s social care. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At some point, for the love of God, will someone ANYONE at long last take the council funding crisis seriously?!?
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
Because THIS is what will break down a society, not some poor soul escaping incredible dangers, arriving on our shores.
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We seem to be in an era of pleasant, nostalgic competence,
esp. when it comes to guitar-based music.
esp. when it comes to guitar-based music.
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
We seem to be in an era of pleasant, nostalgic competence,
esp. when it comes to guitar-based music.
esp. when it comes to guitar-based music.
I’m listening to one of these new shoegaze bands that you get nowadays and it’s very good, but it feels like a bit of a genre exercise doesn’t it. I mean I reckon I could make a shoegaze album in a week if I didn’t have anything else on.
November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’m listening to one of these new shoegaze bands that you get nowadays and it’s very good, but it feels like a bit of a genre exercise doesn’t it. I mean I reckon I could make a shoegaze album in a week if I didn’t have anything else on.
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Big up Ben Wheatley, who has been creating and building a giant YouTube playlist of all the various BBC Arena documentaries from back in the day. It’s now featuring over 100 films. Loads of gold in here. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
BBC ARENA - YouTube
A Playlist of BBC Arena Docs all in one place. Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC since 1 October 1975. Voted by...
youtube.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Big up Ben Wheatley, who has been creating and building a giant YouTube playlist of all the various BBC Arena documentaries from back in the day. It’s now featuring over 100 films. Loads of gold in here. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The best short ghost story ever.
October 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The best short ghost story ever.
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Wonder which British rag - that is, all British news publications - is going to be the first to run "is being a pedophile bad? Perhaps not - if you have lots of money"
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Wonder which British rag - that is, all British news publications - is going to be the first to run "is being a pedophile bad? Perhaps not - if you have lots of money"
Listened to Strauss’s last songs and Pantera’s Cowboys from Hell this morning, real duality of man stuff
November 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Listened to Strauss’s last songs and Pantera’s Cowboys from Hell this morning, real duality of man stuff
‘How does it work?’
‘We don’t know, it just does.’
Got to admire Pluribus for exposition like that. (I loved it btw.)
‘We don’t know, it just does.’
Got to admire Pluribus for exposition like that. (I loved it btw.)
November 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
‘How does it work?’
‘We don’t know, it just does.’
Got to admire Pluribus for exposition like that. (I loved it btw.)
‘We don’t know, it just does.’
Got to admire Pluribus for exposition like that. (I loved it btw.)
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the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
The worst you can accuse Panorama of doing is making a misleading edit – and I’d dispute that! – to make *a point that was true*.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
The programme aired without anyone seeing any issues with the edit. It was on iPlayer for a year without complaints. Donald Trump *did* incite Jan 6th.
Tory culture spox demanding the BBC "grovel" to Trump is baffling. Who is this supposed to chime with?
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
Just a bizarre line that no one who doesn't use X would ever think.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
the fun thing about the BBC story is that I can't actually read about it for more than couple of minutes at a time because it makes me feel too insane :)
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Can’t help but feel “Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $1bn” is the point the BBC should stop being balanced in its reporting.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Can’t help but feel “Donald Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $1bn” is the point the BBC should stop being balanced in its reporting.
Jack Dorsey in 2007: I might create a microblogging platform so people can share jokes and updates, what’s the worst that could happen
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Jack Dorsey in 2007: I might create a microblogging platform so people can share jokes and updates, what’s the worst that could happen