Fender wins Stratocaster Lawsuit with huge IP implications going forward - nice one #KDH www.youtube.com/watch?v=BII6...
HUGE Fender Lawsuit News
YouTube video by KDH
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Human brain cells on a chip learned to 'play' Doom in a week: www.newscientist.com/article/2517...
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications
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This is research strand data in 2036. and rightly so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfS0...
I ATTEMPTED THE BIGGEST PASTA CHALLENGE IN ITALY...IT WAS BRUTAL | BeardMeatsFood
YouTube video by BeardMeatsFood
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🚨 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026 Abstracts due for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music with @BloomsburyAcad. We need 350w abstracts on lit/music intersections. 📥 Sub: tinyurl.com/cfcblolitpop... 📄 CFP: iaspm.org.uk/the-bloomsbu... #LitStudies #PopMusic #CFP
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music
The relationship between literature and popular music is deeply interwoven. Literature has long served as an inspiration for popular music, with lyrics, form and style borrowing from classic and conte...
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Call for Chapters: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music This interdisciplinary volume from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social (2027) explores where literature and popular music meet - how they shape, influence, and inspire one another. More info: tinyurl.com/litpopcfc27
🚨 Deadline: Feb 2, 2026 Abstracts due for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music with @BloomsburyAcad. We need 350w abstracts on lit/music intersections. 📥 Sub: tinyurl.com/cfcblolitpop... 📄 CFP: iaspm.org.uk/the-bloomsbu... #LitStudies #PopMusic #CFP
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music
The relationship between literature and popular music is deeply interwoven. Literature has long served as an inspiration for popular music, with lyrics, form and style borrowing from classic and conte...
tinyurl.com
Call for Chapters: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literature and Popular Music This interdisciplinary volume from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social (2027) explores where literature and popular music meet - how they shape, influence, and inspire one another. More info: tinyurl.com/litpopcfc27
Quatermass! The rocket guy! Pew! Excellent, influential movie free on YouTube TONIGHT followed by Nigel Kneale documentary we made with @tobyhadoke.bsky.social @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @drtauk.bsky.social @tommygorilla.bsky.social @eklectics.bsky.social
Andrew Dark Tom's Sin@andydrewz.bsky.social · 12mo agoIf you're stuck for a film this Halloween, Hammer's YouTube channel will be live streaming their 4K restoration of Quatermass 2 this evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOdy...
An amazing story. Just a matter of time before it's made into a motion picture, I think. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Defiant nuns flee Austrian care home for their abandoned convent in the Alps
Sisters Bernadette, Regina and Rita needed a locksmith to get back into their convent, defying Church leaders.
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David Bowie's archive opens to the public this week, revealing a treasure trove of unrealized projects and personal items.
David Bowie's archive opens to the public. Fans can see and touch 1000s of his items
David Bowie's archive opens to the public this week, revealing a treasure trove of unrealized projects and personal items.
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This is not a surprise: AIs prefer other LLMs because it's not as bursty or perplexing as human text. Humans prefer LLMs for the same reason. This opens a space for humans to *be* bursty and perplexing, the things that delight us most, and that LLMs aren't very good at. futurism.com/chatgpt-deep...
New Research Finds That ChatGPT Secretly Has a Deep Anti-Human Bias
New research suggests that ChatGPT and other leading AI models display an alarming bias towards other AIs over humans.
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Field Music Defend Their Doors Covers Band, Say Making A Living From Their Own Music “Bordering On Impossible" www.stereogum.com/2315170/fiel...
Field Music Defend Their Doors Covers Band, Say Making A Living From Their Own Music “Bordering On Impossible”
In May Field Music performed their first show as a Doors tribute band. After some backlash from fans, the British art-rock duo shared a statement as to what inspired the new project called the Fire Do...
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This really is worth a watch and has a lovely Michael Nyman score as a bonus.
Rose Ruane@regretteruane.bsky.social · last yr.Today’s good news is that Peter Greenaway’s delightful documentary Act of God, about lightning strike survivors, made for Thames TV’s Take Six strand in 1980 is on YouTube youtu.be/Ruuxxdq4v4Y?...
in slightly different but not entirely unrelated news, my talk on The Doors as part of the Romancing the Gothic series is coming up, saturday 19th july at 10am and 7pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gothic...
The Gothic and the Doors with Victoria Roskams
An Exploration of The Doors role in the evolution of the Gothic
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Our book was published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social today! Nice work @profkirsty.bsky.social and #ChristianLloyd and ALL our amazing authors - some very experienced scholars, some brand new voices. Looking forward to our copies in the post. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rereading...
Rereading Musicians and Their Audiences
Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through variou…
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Talking about 1981 Dr Who story The Keeper of Traken with @tobyhadoke.bsky.social - out now on all good streaming platforms :-) open.spotify.com/episode/1jXa...
Happy Times and Places 93.1 - The Keeper of Traken 1
Doctor Who: Toby Hadoke’s Time Travels · Episode
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Back as a talking head discussing the Legend of Nigel Kneale - genre pioneer, social critic, and architect of British telefantasy - with @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social on the Quatermass 2 boxed set for @hammerfilms.bsky.social 😀! hammerfilms.com/products/qua...
Back as a talking head discussing the Legend of Nigel Kneale - genre pioneer, social critic, and architect of British telefantasy - with @bronteschiltz.bsky.social and @tobyhadoke.bsky.social on the Quatermass 2 boxed set for @hammerfilms.bsky.social! hammerfilms.com/products/qua...
Quatermass 2 Limited Collector’s Edition
Brand-new 4K restoration of Quatermass 2 makes its worldwide debut in this definitive 5 disc, limited edition boxset.
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Researching Welsh Language Pop has turned up this lovely thing: youtube.com/watch?v=1UCl... "Titrwm Tatrwm", the title of the song, is the phonetic sound of rain falling.
Titrwm Tatrwm
YouTube video by Gareth Bonello - Topic
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Calling all Pop Music fans and authors! A terrific opportunity to get involved with a new book series from @manchesterup.bsky.social
Almost perfect pop music: The Sundays, from 1990. Amazing that this is nearly 40 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yARV...
The Sundays - Can't Be Sure
YouTube video by TheSundaysVEVO
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"These are complex times for reality. You can’t move for people demanding your attention from beyond the grave." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Andrew O’Hagan · Diary: Whitney lives!
I had come along in the course of my duties as a hopeless necromantic. I don’t think I have ever believed that pop...
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Delighted to be part of The Legend of Nigel Kneale—a sharp, thoughtful piece connecting Quatermass with sociology, anthropology, & postwar visions of Britain’s future. A brilliant team and a beautifully made package. Pre-order the Quatermass Xperiment collector’s set: hammerfilms.com/products/the...
The Quatermass Xperiment Limited Collector’s Edition
Brand-new 4K restoration of The Quatermass Xperiment makes its worldwide debut in this definitive 5 disc, limited edition boxset.
hammerfilms.com
Simon Guerrier@0tralala.bsky.social · last yr.Super deluxe box set of The Quatermass Xperiment now available to preorder - hammerfilms.com/products/the.... It includes new documentary The Legend of Nigel Kneale, featuring @tobyhadoke.bsky.social, @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social, @bronteschiltz.bsky.social @gralefrit.bsky.social @drtauk.bsky.social