Tychy

Aah! I just binged 30 episodes (4 seasons) of the podcast Dirt: An Audio Drama and was ready to cue up THE SERIES FINALE only to discover that IT HAS NOT YET BEEN RELEASED.
People of @dirtaudiodrama.bsky.social, please hurry. Everyone else: Give yourself an early holiday present and download it now.

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Pop artist, Andy Warhol, shopping for Campbell’s soup. 📷 Bob Adelman (1965).

Why PBSA is the King of All Edinburgh. Last week I was at a rally in George Square that had been organised by the University and College Union (UCU). Edinburgh University is pursuing £140 million of savings, which UCU does not see any g…

A look at what Purpose-Built Student Accommodation is doing to #Edinburgh (and why): tychy.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/w... Visiting contentious planning decisions at Jock's Lodge, Fountainbridge and the former Caledonian brewery.

The paper’s *own reporters* revealed all this stuff years ago, but nobody wanted to make an issue of it back then, because they all wanted McSweeney to succeed. Now that he’s repeatedly embarrassed the fuck out of them all, it’s suddenly big news.

Tychy @ the Fringe: Seizure. Stage Fancy Productions are from Kansas and their new show “Seizure” is written and directed by Breanna Danielle. We are peering in on a rehearsal of a play within a play, a noir-ish story about a …

REVIEWED: "Seizure" by Stage Fancy Productions at theSpace at Surgeon's Hall: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/t... #EdFringe2025 #edfringe

Tychy @ the Fringe: MARIUPOL. [The following contains spoilers.] Katia Haddad’s new play “MARIUPOL” remembers a centuries-old city that saw 90% of its residential buildings damaged or destroyed during the spring of 2022. Haddad…

A review of "MARIUPOL" by Katia Haddad at the Pleasance Courtyard: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/08/03/t... #edfringe #EdFringe2025

Tychy @ the Fringe: Another Sight. [The following contains spoilers.] I am somebody who has attended hundreds of plays at the Edinburgh Fringe over the years. When somebody asks me which genre is my favourite, I will give an answer …

REVIEWED: "Another Sight" by Teatro Cego at the ZOO Playground: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/t... #edfringe #EdFringe2025

Tychy @ the Fringe: Marble Cake. [The following contains spoilers.] In “Marble Cake,” a drama created and performed by Nathaniel Allen and Olivia Penhallow, two mixed-race and mixed-heritage siblings have an angry showdown. Kumi i…

REVIEWED: "Marble Cake" by the Chequered Theatre Company at theSpace on the Mile: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/t... #edfringe #EdFringe2025

Tychy @ the Fringe: Storm Floris/ The End of the Line. Storm Floris has now finished its run at the Edinburgh Fringe. It is likely to be most remembered as a clumsy exercise in overhyping, a production that, from the glitzy title down, had promised wow…

REVIEWED: "The End of the Line" at the Bedlam Theatre by the Edinburgh University Theatre Company: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/t... #edfringe

The End of the Line - Bedlam Theatre - North West End UK Four strangers are sat on a tube when a global warning sounds telling them that a nuclear bomb is about to explode and not only is it coming for London, but they are in its exact location. What can on...

#REVIEW - The End of the Line at Bedlam Theatre as part of @edfringe.bsky.social "a good watch" northwestend.com/the-end-of-t...

Tychy @ the Fringe: The Hoop. Ahmed Musa Albun Himdah’s new play “The Hoop” is not just supported and funded by the Saudi Theater and Performing Arts Commission. It is literally culture that has been commanded from the top, as …

REVIEWED: "The Hoop" at the Bedlam Theatre, from Saudi Arabia's Performing Arts Commission: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/08/05/t... #EdFringe2025 #edfringe

Cheers 🙂. Already spotted it and it sounds very good.

first wrote about this in 2017 (!) as I was covering the post-Brexit wars, and have written about it multiple times since - it really has been incredibly wearying to be an immigrant who follows current affairs closely for the past decade or so

Tychy @ the Fringe 2025 Artwork. Tychy will be circulating at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, investigating new theatre, new writing and new ideas. I will try, as always, to review something every day and hopefully it will all cap…

This year I will be circulating at the Edinburgh Fringe, investigating new plays and new writing. Hopefully I will review something every day. Here is the artwork for this round: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/t... #edfringe #Shakespeare

Pete, the pastor who believes God made Stephen straight.

Conversion therapy is often shown as a big dramatic thing, but Ian’s experience (like many others) was subtle, coercive, and damaging.

Find out more at #edfringe Aug 1st - 9th.

#daretodiscover #TheatreSky

Book Review: Hierarchies of Solidarity by Moshtari Hilal and Sinthujan Varatharajah. Last year, a question was posed on Twitter/X that read, “What phrase or word instantly makes you roll your eyes.”  I was astounded when somebody who I follow answered with “solidarity.” Once m…

A book review of "Hierarchies of Solidarity" by Moshtari Hilal and Sinthujan Varatharajah: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/b... Is solidarity a means, an end, or an obstacle?

a jacket on a bench in a hallway that has somehow landed in he shape of a dog in profile

one time my dad threw his jacket onto the bench and it landed in the shape of a dog

Against Reform. On Friday, Nigel Farage’s latest party Reform UK won a picnic hamper of goodies in the English and Welsh local elections: a parliamentary seat, two mayoralties and over 650 council seats. The media…

"Farage bases Reform on the idea that low economic growth is somehow natural and inevitable and the only remaining option for us is to adapt to it by restricting immigration..." Writing about the Malthusianism behind Reform UK: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/a... #NigelFarage

2/ Some people did point this out at the time. The narrative of renewables being cheap (and getting cheaper) took hold during a period of historically low (and falling) long-term interest rates. That period is now over, and too many people have failed to realise what this means.

Man speaks to killer from beyond the grave in Arizona courtroom through Al video

I’m seeing a lot of outrage about this story but honestly it’s preferable to the old way of doing this which was both disrespectful of the deceased and traumatising for the puppeteer

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YouTube Review: “‘Godfather of AI’ predicts it will take over the world.” Geoffrey Hinton is a thinker and scientist whose research into machine learning has helped to bring us to the point at which we are at today, a world of mass-produced “artificial intelligence” (AI)…

Should we fear conscious AIs or instead just pity them? A humanist consideration of Geoffrey Hinton's predictions about AI: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/y... #artificialintelligence #DeepSeekR1

A tree - possibly an ent - with legs, arms and an unusually large bellybutton.

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

Book Review: Lucid Dying by Sam Parnia. [The following contains spoilers.] Suppose that one evening I am making love to my best friend’s wife when he arrives home early from the office. Screaming and suddenly brandishing his semi-automat…

Are the extraordinary visions and wonders seen after cardiac arrest really so... important? A new book review of Lucid Dying by Sam Parnia: tychy.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/b...

This is really good 👍

Wandering in a Haunted Landscape - new blog post. psychogeographicreview.com/wandering-in... #psychogeography #hauntology

Grim and scary.

£9150 for the month

Just had a look at the first offers of Edinburgh Fringe accommodation for this year's festival: a smallish standard 1-bedroom fairly close to centre...
Going to be a great year.

YouTube Review (Obituary Mode): Myles Power. During the noughties, the “New Atheist” movement became predominantly responsible for setting the tone of the religious content on the internet and across youth culture in general. This movement wa…

What has happened to the YouTuber Myles Power and what does his disappearance, or his apparent retirement, say about scepticism in the UK currently? tychy.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/y... A look at the politics of the rationalist movement (feat. @jeffholiday.bsky.social) #scepticism #skeptics

It's here! The latest episode of Dirt is now live! Find out what awaits Joseph and Antonia as they search for the latest clue in Aimo's mysterious treasure hunt.

This is the third of eleven episodes in Season 4 that will totally wrap up the entire series. Hope you enjoy! 🚜 🌆 ⛰️ ✨