(failing) writer; @loudandquiet @thequietus @clash My extended essays: https://urblindspot.substack.com/https://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mzdtpfjtwc2pMy Chemical Romance. Oasis, but for emos.02 Nov 2026 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzdtpfjtwc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mzdofgi63c2pThe thing with the Victoria line is it's all a bit too from Malkuth to Kether for me. You're just in Walthamstow and then you're in Brixton, without any scope for tzimtzum. Where's the Tikkun? [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Nov 2026 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzdofgi63c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mzdngfi62c2pMe after every single kids film I've seen for the last two years: "I think that really was a powerful allegory for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict". And I think every single time I'm irreconcilably wrong.02 Nov 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzdngfi62c2phttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mzcx72zj7k2gShow me the most Belgian thing you have on your phone. Here is my offering. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Nov 2026 08:54 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzcx72zj7k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mzbo7jdfds2aIs it general consensus that if we consider Sweet Thing / Candidate/ Sweet Thing (Reprise) as one song, that it's Bowie's best song? https://youtu.be/CiydgQymvTE?is=xAGflbcSGtMlnKP201 Nov 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzbo7jdfds2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mz76scvj6c2rWilliams is probably the best young English language writer. Been waiting for the literary reckoning of the matured Millennial generation, bought up on collapsing systems and alive to see the internet ripen from utopia to ruin. She's the real deal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Oct 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz76scvj6c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mzax53waqk2y01 Nov 2026 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzax53waqk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mzaitypf622yDavid Bowie in Russia in 1973. Aladdin Sane (very much Ziggy in America) morphing into cracked actor of Diamond Dogs who would shatter into a hundred thousand million pieces from Young Americans onwards. Piecing himself back together through Low / Heroes / Lodger. Scary Monsters the resulting mosiac01 Nov 2026 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzaitypf622yhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mz76scvj6c2rWilliams is probably the best young English language writer. Been waiting for the literary reckoning of the matured Millennial generation, bought up on collapsing systems and alive to see the internet ripen from utopia to ruin. She's the real deal. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Oct 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz76scvj6c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mz72z6qqg22rThis was Van Hecke today, to the tee. #spurs https://youtu.be/uwJLWLBkr0k?is=QbM-uCaIguUml4mF31 Oct 2026 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz72z6qqg22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mz63fmkzw224Bring back books with massive fold-up maps attached31 Oct 2026 10:26 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz63fmkzw224https://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mz4j63gamc2nI've never heard of this - but sounds good.30 Oct 2026 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz4j63gamc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mz4f7lj6yk2nSpoke to the lead singer of HMLTD today, say what you want about their music, he knew his military history. A probe into a lyric about Germany's WW1 Schlieffin Plan sent him talking about The Battle of Jutland and moving into Franco-Anglo military relationships in the 18th & 19th C. Not a joke.30 Oct 2026 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz4f7lj6yk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3myxnmktvxs2nBy FAR the best of the trilogy and I loved the other two. On par with the Lunch. What a ridiculous thing to exist. The whole endeavour is astonishing. Will read 'Dead Fingers Talk' next.28 Oct 2026 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3myxnmktvxs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3myx6v2ifis2nI saw something on Instagram on tier-list of 'rabbit-hole events', had most of what you would expect - but no feature of The Brabant Killers. Single-handedly the most confounding event I've heard and a few books later have no handle on what the fuck happened here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabant_killers28 Oct 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3myx6v2ifis2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3myv6u76ob22n [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Oct 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3myv6u76ob22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3myui4hgsvc2kOn full display + for sale at the children's book fair at my daughter's school. She is 5. This is liquidé Belgium27 Oct 2026 14:47 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3myui4hgsvc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3myu5zjxhik2kNo, no, not the Roberto Bolano 2666 black hole. I escaped you! I'm happy now. OK, just one read of an article and a tiny bit of numerology, just for old times sake.27 Oct 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3myu5zjxhik2khttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mystky4tfc2kHarry Kane winning the Ballon D'or is the icing on the cake. I love music, I love art, I love literature, but more than anything I love football. And the idea that a kid like me from the same area would go on to define what English football is to a world stage makes him my hero. A gentleman too. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Oct 2026 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mystky4tfc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/robertd1.bsky.social/post/3mysm2sn6xk22My occasionally left-field choice for favourite Godspeed album. I reviewed it 5 years ago and stand by what I now refer to as the Godspeed Key Performance Indicator. GK!PI, for short.26 Oct 2026 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:or2bx3vp3vctvselfdzu4beh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mysm2sn6xk22