Dan Pop-o-matic
@danpopomatic.bsky.social
Mostly retired DJ at Pop-o-matic and Got To Give It Up. 1/3 of popshow promoters Macho Music Is Stupid. Also quite keen on horror and craft beer. He/him.
I tried with the Rosalía album. Honest I did.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I tried with the Rosalía album. Honest I did.
Started getting followed by (and immediately blocking) quite a few accounts with no posts or replies again. What gives?
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Started getting followed by (and immediately blocking) quite a few accounts with no posts or replies again. What gives?
Oh cool! Phil Ellis is the guest on the @scarredforlife.bsky.social podcast this week!
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Oh cool! Phil Ellis is the guest on the @scarredforlife.bsky.social podcast this week!
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Friend of mine fell and broke his wrist while on holiday in New York last week. Had to have an x-ray and got bandaged up. His hospital bill was £7550. Just in case anyone was starting to buy into the current UK effort to privatise our healthcare and forgot how good we have it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Friend of mine fell and broke his wrist while on holiday in New York last week. Had to have an x-ray and got bandaged up. His hospital bill was £7550. Just in case anyone was starting to buy into the current UK effort to privatise our healthcare and forgot how good we have it.
Fuck me, they really are making it difficult for me to justify buying GTA 6 (should it ever come out) at this rate.
Former Rockstar Games staff were fired for sharing internal company messages on an employee and union-only Discord server, new report suggests
www.eurogamer.net/former-rocks...
www.eurogamer.net/former-rocks...
November 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Fuck me, they really are making it difficult for me to justify buying GTA 6 (should it ever come out) at this rate.
"Balloon Balloon Balloon", the second Sharp Pins album of the year, is even better than the earlier one, and *that* was an album of the year contender for me. Power-pop ahoy!
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
"Balloon Balloon Balloon", the second Sharp Pins album of the year, is even better than the earlier one, and *that* was an album of the year contender for me. Power-pop ahoy!
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️
his one and only social media post:
📽️
his one and only social media post:
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Aw, Jimmy Cliff. First thing that popped into my head was his appearance on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, where he reduced the sometimes very abrasive Mark Lamaar to putty belting out 'Many Rivers to Cross'
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Aw, Jimmy Cliff. First thing that popped into my head was his appearance on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, where he reduced the sometimes very abrasive Mark Lamaar to putty belting out 'Many Rivers to Cross'
Awwww man, and Jimmy Cliff now as well? 😢
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Awwww man, and Jimmy Cliff now as well? 😢
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Stunned to learn this news. Udo Kier’s filmography is undeniable, but his place as an out, queer figure in genre was, in a word, crucial. Uniquely eccentric and truly monolithic. Absolutely one of a kind.
Udo Kier has passed away at 81. A singular screen presence, Kier had a long history in the horror genre, starring in films including Mark of the Devil, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, Blood for Dracula, Blade, Feardotcom, Rob Zombie's Halloween, and Dario Argento's Mother of Tears.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Stunned to learn this news. Udo Kier’s filmography is undeniable, but his place as an out, queer figure in genre was, in a word, crucial. Uniquely eccentric and truly monolithic. Absolutely one of a kind.
Well this is rubbish news to wake up to. The man was in too many cult classics to list, and it was always a good sign if he cropped up in a film (if nothing else, the whole thing would likely be worth it for him alone). RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Udo Kier, German Actor Who Appeared in ‘My Own Private Idaho,’ ‘Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein,’ Dies at 81
Udo Kier, a German actor who collaborated with everyone from Andy Warhol to Lars von Trier to Madonna, died on Sunday morning. He was 81.
variety.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Well this is rubbish news to wake up to. The man was in too many cult classics to list, and it was always a good sign if he cropped up in a film (if nothing else, the whole thing would likely be worth it for him alone). RIP.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
![Thoughts about “AI”
Yes it’s:
The slop
The theft
The brainrot
The loss of work
The crumbling of creator rights
The destroying of the environment and infrastructure
But it's also the destroying of trust in anything that you’re not seeing with your own eyes right in front of you.
Wonder now turned to the narrowing of eyes in immediate scepticism seeing something magical.
Questioning the realness of everything from a stilted written apology to profound works by students in school.
It feels like a slow poison to creativity and humanity at large.
[At the bottom is a doodle of me, mouth a thin line, looking at the viewer]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlstghbtgoakwc7evp5v6ubw/bafkreihv3rly5g2olva6kbhnisvwtzqbyn3u3fxjfcbjqyp2zud22hrzgq@jpeg)
August 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Morning thoughts about "AI".
Where do we go from here?
Where do we go from here?
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I have started watching TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, and wasn't expecting Michael Ontkean off of TWIN PEAKS to turn up in the first episode.
Dunno why the first episode had to be set and filmed in Jamaica either, other than everyone fancied a jolly on ITVs money.
Dunno why the first episode had to be set and filmed in Jamaica either, other than everyone fancied a jolly on ITVs money.
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I have started watching TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED, and wasn't expecting Michael Ontkean off of TWIN PEAKS to turn up in the first episode.
Dunno why the first episode had to be set and filmed in Jamaica either, other than everyone fancied a jolly on ITVs money.
Dunno why the first episode had to be set and filmed in Jamaica either, other than everyone fancied a jolly on ITVs money.
I got in via an agency when I was unemployed and didn't totally hate every second of it so applied for a permanent role when one became available.
November 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I got in via an agency when I was unemployed and didn't totally hate every second of it so applied for a permanent role when one became available.
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which dial make food come
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
which dial make food come
Time to see if ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER lives up to the insane amount of hype.
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Time to see if ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER lives up to the insane amount of hype.
At least I don't have to go in to the office to talk to any United fans tomorrow.
Let the traditional post-derby riot commence!
Let the traditional post-derby riot commence!
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
At least I don't have to go in to the office to talk to any United fans tomorrow.
Let the traditional post-derby riot commence!
Let the traditional post-derby riot commence!
The stream of the game kept stopping. Probably protecting me from having to watch it tbh.
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The stream of the game kept stopping. Probably protecting me from having to watch it tbh.
Glad I'm not at Hillsborough, because it's just started pissing it down. That and the ever present threat of football related violence during a Sheffield derby.
November 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Glad I'm not at Hillsborough, because it's just started pissing it down. That and the ever present threat of football related violence during a Sheffield derby.
I'm being totally normal about this, but Alice Lowe's hair in this sketch show is amazing.
Wait what Sarah Kendall and Alice Lowe were in a Channel 4 sketch show from 2008 and it's still on streaming. I promise to be normal about this.
November 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I'm being totally normal about this, but Alice Lowe's hair in this sketch show is amazing.