Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 2m

Thirty days of musics 🎧

Me @ last.fm: last.fm/user/anxovert

A dense list of 50 artists is displayed on a bright yellow background with black text. The artists are: Taylor Swift, John Grant, Suede, The Divine Comedy, Fightmilk, Olivia Rodrigo, Huey Lewis & The News, Maisie Peters, Jon English, Regurgitator, Elle King, John Hiatt, Damian Cowell's Disco Machine, Leonard Cohen, Self Esteem, Warren Zevon, girl in red, U2, Childish Gambino, Van Halen, Zolita, Brooke Alexx, CMAT, Kanye West, The Beautiful South, Pet Shop Boys, Tears for Fears, Boney M, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott, The Housemartins, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Cure, The Indelicates, Aerosmith, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Cake, Elton John, IKE, Joe Jackson, Kenny Rogers, Kirsty MacColl, Kiss, Madonna, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Ryan Adams, The Smiths, Tom Jones, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Barbara Pravi.

The bottom left corner shows the text "Top 50 Artists / anxovert (12 Sep 2025 - 11 Oct 2025)".

The top of the image has a header with "last.fm LABS".

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 9m

You do you. If you tag 'em as explicit, anyone who doesn't want to see them, won't.

Reposted by Andrew™

Spike @do-not-fold.bsky.social · 6h

From here:

www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...

1 1

Reposted by Andrew™

Bips McCallister @hoomph.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t believe your brain if it tells you you aren’t good enough

A solved Rubik’s cube standing in front of a mirror with a reflection of an unsolved cube

3 21 130

Reposted by Andrew™

misternatural.bsky.social @misternatural.bsky.social · 11h

Brilliant 1990 track by Nick Cave, when he was arguably at his peak.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqhO...
#punk #punks #punkrock #punkrockhistory #womenofpunk #goth #alt #IndieMusic #ProgRock #ElectricGuitarForAll #Bandcamp

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Weeping Song (Official Video)

YouTube video by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

www.youtube.com

1 3

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 11h

Browsing a portfolio of Lynn Paul Russell's art in the magnificent @honesterotica.bsky.social archive, and this piece was too good not to share.(appropriately tagged, so you shouldn't see this if sexually explicit content offends.

If this was drawn from life, this chap must be popular at parties...

An illustration by Lynn Paula Russell from The Essential Kama Sutra (2003)

Reposted by Andrew™

Clara @asummerghost.bsky.social · 12h

Bad Camouflage.

🎨 Susan Wilkinson

#Caturday

7 36

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 15h

To my ear, ‘panties’ are children’s clothes. ‘Knickers’ has an erotic feel and ‘underwear’ does for everyday use.

Different strokes, and all that.

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 15h

Reading affords me a glimpse into other lives, usually—thanks to a steady diet of romance novels—lives that are (ultimately) free of anxiety and self-doubt.

1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 16h

THIS!

BEAVE @beaveinflow.bsky.social · 16h

Being a bibliophile is fun because I get to say things like “I’m reading” when I’m actually dissociating in silence.

1 2

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 16h

John Carpenter’s John Wick

Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 16h

John Carpenter’s Bee Movie

Mx. D. D. Ward (they/them) @ddwardiswriting.bsky.social · 17h

John Carpenter's The Devil Wears Prada

1 9

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 16h

A captioned image featuring a close-up of a character from the 1980s animated series She-Ra: Princess of Power.

The character, Glimmer, is shown sleeping peacefully, face resting on a pillow. She has long red hair, a golden circlet, and is wearing a gold and magenta outfit. The background is a warm, orange-toned gradient.

The text overlay, centered above Glimmer's head, reads: "My hobbies include sleeping when I shouldn't be sleeping and being awake when I should be asleep:"

In the upper right corner, a smaller line of text attributes the meme to "The Narcoleptic Goddess".

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks! You and me both.

1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 17h

Not a fan of that feeling. Even if I have the next book, I find it hard going straight to it. When I finish a book I’m ready for something different, then by the time I get back to pick up from the cliffhanger I’ve forgotten too much.

And so I pretty much avoid series.

1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks, Nellie :)

I hate flying (and the expense of…) so I didn’t make this trip, but our daughter is moving to within driving distance in a few months, so I’ll get to see a lot of them then.

I’m loving having reading back. I feel like me again.

1 1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 18h

Fifth day without TV.

This will change tomorrow when my wife has returned from ten days visiting our new granddaughter, but I’m going to make an effort to make TV the joint entertainment it used to be while maintaining my neely regained reading mojo.

It might work. 🤞

1 3

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 20h

An antique-style, black and white illustrated guide titled "What to do if There's a Witch at Your Door."

The image depicts a dramatic scene: a woman, clad in a dark, flowing dress and pointed hat, stands on a cobbled path outside a sturdy, heavy-doored wooden house. She is poised mid-gesture, her arm raised as if pointing or commanding, and she clutches a broomstick.

The house, with its textured stone and small-paned windows, could be from an early colonial or Puritan setting.

Below the illustration, the three steps are outlined in a stark, serif font:

"STEP ONE: Invite them in."

"STEP TWO: Make tea."

"STEP THREE: Plot against the puritans."

The entire image exudes a playful, gothic, and anti-establishment aesthetic, encouraging camaraderie with the mystical figure rather than fear.

1

Reposted by Andrew™

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · Sep 5

youtube.com/watch?v=5VXS... 🎧

The Divine Comedy - Invisible Thread

YouTube video by The Divine Comedy (Official)

youtube.com

1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 21h

Well, gosh! ☺️

1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 21h

After some thought I’m giving a shout out to Morrissey and Lloyd Cole.

And Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, though I’m aware of my massive fanboyism when assessing his work.

2

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 21h

I still rate and review on three review sites, and I share on bsky where I have 1,000+ followers and a healthy 0.5% engagement chance.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s only a sentence” goes hand-in-hand with “all reviews help”, and I’m still doing that.

I even post review/comments on literotica.com 😁

1 1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 21h

That was my line for years, but I 'like' every review I read, and once Meta became untenable for me reviews became too much effort for yawps into the void.

I'll put ten minutes into a 300 character post for nobody, but I won't spend upwards of two hours on three paragraphs, as I did for years.

2 1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 22h

I've stopped putting energy into reviews. I used to spend hours on them and I have hundreds on Amazon AU and so few likes that I decided they were going nowhere. I'm not in it for likes, but with no feedback they felt like a waste of time.

Now my "reviews" are whatever fits in a single bsky post.

1 1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 22h

Hi Nellie! :)

1 1

Andrew™ @anxovert.bsky.social · 22h

'When I Was Cruel' (2002) is the last EC album I truly loved, but I still listen to everything he puts out.

If I used the descriptor "the bomb" I'd say he was the bomb for the best part of three decades. No mean feat.

1 2