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@peteashton.com OK, I will try harder.

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First band might have been Add N to X, but that feels little late. First ‘proper’ mad gig for sure.

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I’ve checked my archives and the worst band was called Sweet Lilly. Here’s the review: web.archive.org/web/20051228…

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And of course Sun0))) were way louder than Swans. Duh

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@tomewing.bsky.social Ding.

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@mattandrews.info Ooh, good. I’ll give it a go!

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@mattandrews.info Is Morfydd Clark kicking arse and taking names again like in the early episodes? That’s all I care about.

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@tomewing.bsky.social This makes me think about how “AI”, from a data-crunching perspective, favours dominant trends and norms, ignoring the fringe, weird stuff. (It’s an argument for it being a fascist-adjacent technology.)

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Tech that expands vs that contracts our sense of selves.

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@tomewing.bsky.social I wonder if it’s their formative post-war years. US was all optimism, UK was bomb sites.

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@kerryyellow.bsky.social Exciting times!

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@kerryyellow.bsky.social Not just you: check-air-quality.service.gov.uk/location/sti…

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@tomewing.bsky.social Yeah, same here. Amusingly my entry point was the serialisation of Melmoth and yet the admiration was strong enough to overcome that! (Plus I had 100+ back issues to buy…)

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@acmedarryl.bsky.social There’s a lot of people who you can say they’re “doing fascism” without being actual fascists, or they’re opportunists, or whatever. But Miller is literally a fascist. And now he’s basically running the presidency. Fun times.

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@lucidfrenzy.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grm4…

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@kerryyellow.bsky.social As someone who has decluttered such things and then regretted it, I would caution against that! Put them somewhere you won’t come across them for a decade. But your call!

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Notes and links from 2 Nov: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 31 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 1 Nov: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 29 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 29 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 26 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 26 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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@tomewing.bsky.social 100%. I’ve been reviewing my old blog posts and it’s very clear that Pete in his 30s in the 2000s with a broadband connection was making up for lost time discovering stuff that Pete in his teens and 20s was unable to access without befriending terrifying cool people.

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Notes and links from 23 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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@neillcameron.bsky.social Oh, the plan is definitely that it will be once (if) they make it essential to everyday functionality. I suspect they’ll fail, in which case goodbye pension funds, but that’s the plan.

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@tomewing.bsky.social TBH it’s the lyrics that got me. I was expecting to cringe but they’re rather clever and insightful. Sheriff Fatman is a strong piece of angry social commentary. I wonder if there’s been any “were quite good actually” revisionist pieces written?

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@reubs.bsky.social Yeah, I have many favourites but they rank depending on mood, context and whoever I happen to be at that moment. The notion of having a single favourite thing (life partner aside) is just weird. People contain multitudes.

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@tomewing.bsky.social Belatedly, but this convo came to mind when they just popped up on shuffle.

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You know who’s grebo-adjacent and has surprisingly stood the test of time against all my expectations? Carter USM.

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Notes and links from 20 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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@acmedarryl.bsky.social I recognise this. Must be in a zine I have in a box upstairs…

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@tomewing.bsky.social I saw them (maybe even this track) on some yoof TV show and was immediately sold. PWEI triggered something in my teen brain which stuck for a good while. Funny thing, when it came to introducing music to my niece/nephews I was reticent as to whether they were actually any good. Still not sure.

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Notes and links from 16 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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@kerryyellow.bsky.social Once again I thank my mother for my secular upbringing.

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(“Causing embarrassment to the whole school” would get any child of mine a medal. :)

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Notes and links from 15 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 14 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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@kerryyellow.bsky.social I don’t think this is uncommon. Charitably, it’s like starting a cold engine. Takes a while to get going again.

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Nah, the world of work is just evil and exploits people’s ability to adapt.

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Notes and links from 10 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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@tomewing.bsky.social Reminds me of a chapter in Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger where she talks about autistic kids historically being seen as stolen and replaced with monstrous doubles. (She ties this into the modern vaccine panic.)

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Notes and links from 8 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 6 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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@editorialgirl.co.uk I would ask The Framers (used to be in Custard Factory, now Stirchley) as they’ve probably worked with all manner of art nonsense. www.theframers.net

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Notes from 5 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social I’m withdrawing due to the futility of debating on this platform but wish you well as a comrade against oppression.

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@georgemonbiot.bsky.social Everything should always be selectively applied. Language and symbols are imperfect shorthand abstractions and applying them dogmatically is dangerous. And we do condone the Swastika in the west when it’s used in non-Nazi contexts, if very carefully, in both cases because context is everything.

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Notes and links from 3 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 2 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 1 Oct: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 30 Sept: notes.peteashton.com

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Clearing the tabs: notes.peteashton.com

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Notes and links from 29 Sept: notes.peteashton.com

","summary":"Psychotherapy day today, alongside a need to rest, so mostly pottering in the garden. Sister came over to borrow something from the shed so we had a brief catch-up. I mentioned my therapy had moved onto some quite specific family stuff and she reacted in a way I couldn’t quite pin down, so I guess a...","url":"https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/29/notes-and-links-from-sept.html","date_published":"2026-09-29T20:00:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Pete Ashton's notes and links","url":"http://notes.peteashton.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fpeteashton%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"peteashton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-29 20:00","date_timestamp":1790712000,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://social.coop/@pete/117356103006198099","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h4sgqavmnb462joxzzswvnmf/post/3mwoml27exb2r"]}},{"id":"98327668","content_html":"

Notes and links from 28 Sept: notes.peteashton.com

","summary":"Nothing much to report today. Bit of a fuzzy head so a rest day, all in all.\nNot overly happy with my link-notes below. Can’t seem to get the phrasing right, but also my judgement might be off and it’s all fine actually. I will publish and be damned.","url":"https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/28/notes-and-links-from-sept.html","date_published":"2026-09-28T20:28:06+00:00","author":{"name":"Pete Ashton's notes and links","url":"http://notes.peteashton.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fpeteashton%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"peteashton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-28 20:28","date_timestamp":1790627286,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://social.coop/@pete/117350551760626372","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h4sgqavmnb462joxzzswvnmf/post/3mwm5omxvlx27"]}},{"id":"98275581","content_html":"

Notes and links from 27 Sept: notes.peteashton.com

","summary":"So yeah, it’s been a week since I last posted. I had a major chronic fatigue crash on the 19th, the likes of which I haven’t experienced for a long time, maybe since Christmas? It wasn’t nice and I don’t really feel the need to revisit it now but suffice to say it took a while to get over.\nI’m still...","url":"https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/27/notes-and-links-from-sept.html","date_published":"2026-09-27T20:41:56+00:00","author":{"name":"Pete Ashton's notes and links","url":"http://notes.peteashton.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fpeteashton%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"peteashton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-27 20:41","date_timestamp":1790541716,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://social.coop/@pete/117344944825253620","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h4sgqavmnb462joxzzswvnmf/post/3mwjnyvduzg2c"]}},{"id":"97777367","content_html":"

Notes and links from 18 Sept: notes.peteashton.com

","summary":"Didn’t sleep too well, pretty tired today. This has definitely been a recovery week.\nWhat ME/CFS is, and how it’s wrecking me","url":"https://notes.peteashton.com/2026/09/18/notes-and-links-from-sept.html","date_published":"2026-09-18T19:44:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Pete Ashton's notes and links","url":"http://notes.peteashton.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmicro.blog%2Fpeteashton%2Favatar.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"peteashton"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-18 19:44","date_timestamp":1789760665,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://social.coop/@pete/117293757072062764","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:h4sgqavmnb462joxzzswvnmf/post/3mvswlft3dq2n"]}}]}