DJ 2 Minute Noodle

Ed had a habit of redoing things and making them worse, didn’t he. My reaction when I heard the update to Hyperborea was more or less astonishment. “Why Ed, Why? WTH were you thinking?!” 😁

I’m sad. They’ve ruined my dinner party story about how it took father-in-law years to get a poem published there, only for it to turn out to be the last issue 😝

Nope, I'm definitely in the Gen-X that Just Can't Wait to Get Over the Whole Wage-Slave Thing Despite Almost Certain Poverty in Retirement category 😂

needless to say I haven't got past 'disc 3' yet and unlikely to ever, at this stage. Bless them though. The only box set I ever wanted was David Sylvian's first few albums in it, and then I found it in Red Eye for a silly price but now I have it, and no other box sets. Oh the Stravinsky of course.

I got a notification this morning that there's a new Super Deluxe Edition of Tales From Topographic Oceans available. It has 12 discs (according to Apple Music which doesn't have discs) and despite everything I am going to be spending today listening to it.

I have yet to perform wearing a cape, but

From the AFR: sorry but this is absolutely batshit fucking crazy and it needs to stop

A poster showing six different kinds of scrumptious breakfast and the text: All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast — John Gunther.

I just stumbled across this photo I took in Chiang Mai in 2019. Strong agree.

reminds me of the time an academic lost 7 years of research because he falsely thought our backup systems would take care of it and didn’t have his own copy of the work when all the computers in the department got stolen in a brazen heist by corrupt cleaning contractors. fun times.

This is a great article for the pedagogically inclined.

I saw them here ooh I don’t know maybe 20 years ago now and it was such a going-through-the-motions show what with Bernard’s teleprompter and all. They got bored of it all a lot earlier than most bands somehow?

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Do men look good in a string bikini? (1977) | RetroFocus

“Do men look good in a string bikini?” (1977) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Px7...

When ABC News brought you the important stories.

Thomas Dolby and The Flat Earth “I love having a canvas to paint on,” says Thomas Dolby. “With lots of influences from books I’ve read, films I’ve seen, stories I’ve heard, bits of history that I know. I can then hurl them all on…

Fresh on the Haunted Generation website - a long and fascinating chat I had with the great @thomasdolby.bsky.social for @electronicsound.bsky.social. Includes The Flat Earth, muppets, Robyn Hitchcock soundchecks and his old Morris Minor being in Star Wars...
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Never mind politics and all that, this is the sort of thing we should be arguing about on the internet. 🧵

No, we’re a bit south of Bermagui. First one is Barragga Bay, second one is on the map as Jaggers Beach but the family know it as Seeton’s bc that’s who owned the adjoining property in the 80s 🙃

I will watch when I get enough internet and let you know if you’re right or not 😝

a different beach, less cloud, tide is out, waves are barely waving, there were some locals just out of shot to the left but we didn’t care. it was around 6pm perfect conditions for sharks so i was keeping an eye out.

Second swim today was even better.

a wide sandy beach, clear sapphire waters, not sure what they call that sort of cloud cover but there were enough patches of sun to warm the body before plunging in to the actually not as cold as I expected water. in the middle distance is a beach cabana thing with like 4 people around it. bloody tourists.

First swim today was perfect. (although still slightly too many people on the beach for my liking)

Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit A “whistleblower” tried to corroborate his viral post with AI-generated evidence. This is how I caught him. PLUS: Grok's image-generation crisis, and the rapture over Claude Opus 4.5

So, turns out that food delivery service whistleblower thingy on reddit was a scam, and also things are a bit grim for journalists right now. www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

The Venezuela Crisis: Australia needs to do much more than issue a general “Get-Well” card The abduction and subsequent arrest of the President of Venezuela is a dramatic re-statement of America’s dominance of the western hemisphere and its willingness to do whatever it takes – including de...

Excellent analysis by Allan Behm on Venezuela

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Danger! Robots and Melting!, by Lagowski 7 track album

I don’t know if I worked harder on any other piece of music lagowski.bandcamp.com/album/danger...

The reasons the opposition wants a royal commission and the reasons the government doesn’t want a royal commission are equidistant from rationality, quite an achievement really

It would be practically and legally impossible to hold a royal commission that goes anywhere near the actions or motivations of the accused killer, before his criminal proceedings are concluded, which could take years. That limitation would render the royal commission itself pointlessly premature.

“Nightmare on the Hawkesbury”, being an ambient sound recording near The Anglers Rest Hotel, Brooklyn, 27 December 2025.

Boxing Day Galloverse Skies

Side note for Death: could you go for some absolute shitheads for a while please? Leave us with some of the good ones for a bit longer, please.

No you can't. Telling a computer to paint something for you is not remotely the same as painting something yourself, what is wrong with these people

The problem is that the powers reliant on Mass AI adoption have sold a lot of Gen X and Millennials on the lie that optimal AI use is in the same bucket as optimal search engine use was in the early oughts. The different is that one revealed truths and helped research, the other deadens and obscures

bookmarked

Just tellin’ it like it is 😛

This is a great album. Everything Arc did was a great album, in fact. RIP Mr Shreeve :(