Taking my son off to university today which is alarming because I'm pretty sure he only just started big school like a couple of years ago. The cats are going to be Very Upset for a bit

How 9/11 and Osama bin Laden kick started the UK's underground internet creative hotbed that shaped early 2000s web culture, in the words of its creator.

b3ta@b3ta.com · 2w ago

25 years ago today B3ta launched Well, 25 years ago today, we launched the version of the website you are familiar with, we were going for at least three months beforehand, if you check newsletter dates on issue 1. However most b3tans look at the board post date - so happy birthday us. Sort of.

This arrived today. Amazing stuff. Absolutely loved the music on Moomins as a kid, which means right no I was into experimental DIY electronica from a very early age actually yeah man

This says you're "nailing it" if you are 50 and have a spare CR2032 battery. I'm only 48 and already have four - also looking at the junk drawer there's CR2025s, a CR2016, LR44s, an MN21 and a G5 whatever that is, feel free to ask me for life advice etc

Full-blown adulthood: does it actually start at 50?

According to a new survey, that’s the age when people feel most confident and in control of their lives. In other words, they no longer have a chairdrobe ...

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Marvellous evening listening to The Mistys and @pefkin.bsky.social at Holmfirth Sound Society, courtesy @sulkrooms.bsky.social, so nice to be able to just walk down to a gig like this in my hometown, very much looking forward to the next one

Normal service has been resumed in Yorkshire

What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be.

The DJ down the pub yesterday got the crowd quite worked up for a Sunday evening

Primary School - The Remixes is now out on @wormholeworld.bsky.social. Listen to it all free and maybe even buy it if you like it. Wonky acid remixed by Roberta Fidora, Proc Freq, Xqui, Audio Obscura, Jez Thelwell and mintimperial. wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/album/primar...

Primary School The Remixes, by Roland Oakes

6 track album

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Henge! Insane and completely brilliant, no idea how they do everything they do in those get ups

If you've ever thought 'man, cat rescue looks like hard work,' please please sign this. Before we become one of those countries with sickly stray cats breaking your heart on every corner

Petition: Introduce a national strategy to tackle the cat overpopulation and rescue crisis

This strategy should seek to expand affordable neutering, support overwhelmed rescue centres, strengthen responsible pet ownership education, and review measures to reduce irresponsible breeding and cat abandonment.

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Slow Readers Club are still pretty good, enjoyed that

Have bought very little of late cos skint (as per) but @wormholeworld.bsky.social managed to extract a fiver or so cos this is lovely stuff. Worth the price of admission for the 9 minute Xqui rmx alone.

One of my fave things about bandcamp is when you get a nice note in the packaging from the people who make the music. Also, as you can see one of the greatest breaks labels of all time is releasing again yesssss

It's only (!) 20°C in the office today and the last few months have conditioned me such that I now feel actively cold even with a hoodie on

Great start to the week, car is dead, nice one. Love kicking things off scrabbling around trying to find the battery in a stupid modern car and then wrestling the bastard thing out from its ridiculous hiding place which it turns out is under the back seat for some insane reason

It's that day again #alevels

The universe is pretty amazing sometimes innit

Saw Josh Wink blow the roof off The Golden Lion last week which was amazing. Very sweaty, but amazing

Used my weird niche skill of pinpointing UK mountain locations from photos and videos to interact with my musical heroes twice this month already I'm so cool

OMG NEW BOBBY FINGERS

Pre-orders go live in 2 days at @wormholeworld.bsky.social Roland Oakes remixed by: Roberta Fidora @robertafidora.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Proc Freq Xqui @xqui.bsky.social Jez Thelwell of @moolakiiclubai.bsky.social Audio Obscura @audioobscura.bsky.social mintimperial @mintimperial.com

The first Holmfirth Sound Society show is incoming! Very much looking forwards to hosting The Mistys and my good friend @pefkin.bsky.social here in Holmfirth on Sunday 30th : wegottickets.com/f/22025

Doing this thing live later on for dogsonacid.com monthly production challenge, my first time hosting. Over two hours of completely fresh, wonderful and weird underground music, the chat crew are lovely people, gonna be fun! 8pm UK time, check it out... youtube.com/live/xii-cK5...

Dogs On Acid July 2026 Grid Challenge Livestream 160BPM

YouTube video by mintimperial

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Quality little interview with Fila Brazillia here all about their origins and the processes behind their first album Old Codes New Chaos: www.frvr.world/blog/fila-br...

Forever Records

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I don't follow the road bikes much anymore but holy beans Pogacar is something else innee, that was some Eddy Merckx level shit right there wow, anyway that's enough sports content for this year back to our regular programming: should I get a TR-8S?

Are you around Manchester way? Want to see me do an hour set of dancey mememememe madness? DICE - dice.fm/event/g535a6... RA - ra.co/events/2467214 Use code WEEBLFAN for 10% off (can be used for the first 20 customers)

BITRATE. Tickets | From £22.25 | 15 Aug @ Concept Haus, Salford | DICE

**BITRATE. is an exciting new day party festival in Salford, with plenty surprises in store. Much like the internet back in the 2000s, who knows what you'll ...

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