Steve Bullock
@guitarmoog.bsky.social
Large, slow-moving, land mammal. Bed-dweller. Horizontal guitarist. Loser of remote controls, vapes and plectrums in blankets. Deactivater of account for no reason sometimes. Late adopter of fuzz. Haver of Long Covid. He/him/Moog
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Steve Bullock
@guitarmoog.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Europe is at the centre of a new Cold War, but this time the two main protagonists - Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America - want the same thing. An authoritarian, anti-democratic Europe, scared and subservient to them, and devoid of its Enlightenment values.
With 13 rounds gone my 6th career season is even tighter than the actual F1 championship. Only 9 points separating the top 4.
November 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
With 13 rounds gone my 6th career season is even tighter than the actual F1 championship. Only 9 points separating the top 4.
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STAT News: 'I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
By Peter Swenson, professor emeritus, Yale University
'Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid...'
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
By Peter Swenson, professor emeritus, Yale University
'Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid...'
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
A “journey” is something you choose. No one chooses chronic illness.
www.statnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
STAT News: 'I have long Covid. Don’t call my chronic disease a ‘journey’
By Peter Swenson, professor emeritus, Yale University
'Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid...'
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
By Peter Swenson, professor emeritus, Yale University
'Like an estimated 20 million Americans, I have an incurable post-acute infection syndrome that goes by the name of long Covid...'
www.statnews.com/2025/11/25/c...
Don't know about you
But I am un chien Andalusia
But I am un chien Andalusia
So oddly my bro (who is a Spanish national) was telling me that the Andalusian tax system now bizarrely gives you a tax break if you own a dog.
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Don't know about you
But I am un chien Andalusia
But I am un chien Andalusia
Outstanding news!
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Outstanding news!
This is really nice. And I completely agree with Dave. Brussels is the only place I’ve ever felt like I can really just be myself.
My Brussels journey: I sat down with the MyBrussels podcast to talk about how I ended up here (believe it or not, unlike most expats it was on purpose!) and what I love about this city.
Listen here: www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/...
Listen here: www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/...
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is really nice. And I completely agree with Dave. Brussels is the only place I’ve ever felt like I can really just be myself.
Apparently if you run out of the drug you take to reduce bone, joint and muscle pain, your bones, joints and muscles really hurt.
In unrelated news I’m an idiot.
In unrelated news I’m an idiot.
November 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Apparently if you run out of the drug you take to reduce bone, joint and muscle pain, your bones, joints and muscles really hurt.
In unrelated news I’m an idiot.
In unrelated news I’m an idiot.
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Survey opportunity:
Validation of the Vienna Post-Exertional Malaise Assessment Questionnaire (V-PEM-AQ)
English:
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-AQ_eng...
German:
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-Q/
Questionnaire is estimated to take 20 minutes
Screenshot from latest Science for ME update
#MEcfs #LongCovid
Validation of the Vienna Post-Exertional Malaise Assessment Questionnaire (V-PEM-AQ)
English:
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-AQ_eng...
German:
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-Q/
Questionnaire is estimated to take 20 minutes
Screenshot from latest Science for ME update
#MEcfs #LongCovid
November 25, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Survey opportunity:
Validation of the Vienna Post-Exertional Malaise Assessment Questionnaire (V-PEM-AQ)
English:
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-AQ_eng...
German:
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-Q/
Questionnaire is estimated to take 20 minutes
Screenshot from latest Science for ME update
#MEcfs #LongCovid
Validation of the Vienna Post-Exertional Malaise Assessment Questionnaire (V-PEM-AQ)
English:
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-AQ_eng...
German:
www.soscisurvey.de/V-PEM-Q/
Questionnaire is estimated to take 20 minutes
Screenshot from latest Science for ME update
#MEcfs #LongCovid
I thought a vulgar roast was people ordering their Christmas Turkey from Harrods.
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I thought a vulgar roast was people ordering their Christmas Turkey from Harrods.
If you find your breathing too loud or annoying due to mic selection, positioning, or just how you breathe, I’d recommend a gentle noise gate, medium attack, fast release giving 4-6dB reduction. Adjust threshold so it’s inactive while speaking but active taking a big breath. Much more natural.
Hey podcasters using that automatic editing thing that awkwardly cuts out breathing leaving OneLongStringOfNonstopAnnoyingSpeech: cut this shit out. It's annoying to listen to, and human breath is also the main way we can distinguish real people worth listening to from AI slop.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If you find your breathing too loud or annoying due to mic selection, positioning, or just how you breathe, I’d recommend a gentle noise gate, medium attack, fast release giving 4-6dB reduction. Adjust threshold so it’s inactive while speaking but active taking a big breath. Much more natural.
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken, Charlie Brown; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, Lucy pulls the football away, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her, Charlie Brown.
My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance, Charlie Brown, in this life or the next.
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken, Charlie Brown; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, Lucy pulls the football away, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
A movie that takes place where you're from.
(Not exactly, but very close by)
(Not exactly, but very close by)
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from.
(Not exactly, but very close by)
(Not exactly, but very close by)
I don’t wish to berate this essay as it is informative and sincere, but I think it misses a key thing which is that Christianity* has put a person being Christian, or even just being religious or believing in God, morally above their actions & their consequences.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggression
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I don’t wish to berate this essay as it is informative and sincere, but I think it misses a key thing which is that Christianity* has put a person being Christian, or even just being religious or believing in God, morally above their actions & their consequences.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Just blocked an account that keeps appearing on my feed campaigning to abandon summertime and maintain standard time all year round on the grounds that they are almost certainly morning people so we’re unlikely to get along.
November 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Just blocked an account that keeps appearing on my feed campaigning to abandon summertime and maintain standard time all year round on the grounds that they are almost certainly morning people so we’re unlikely to get along.
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
This is fantastic.
Ever wanted to know just what is stereophonic sound on your record player / turntable? Well then, this inner lp sleeve from RCA will tell you all about it!
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is fantastic.
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One day we won't need to gather to support the right of women and girls to live without violence
Until then #UNiTE
Until then #UNiTE
16 Days of Activism 2025: End digital violence against all women and girls
1 in 3 women is affected by violence. Join the 16 Days of Activism this year to call on governments to end digital abuse and place online safety at the heart of equality.
www.unwomen.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
One day we won't need to gather to support the right of women and girls to live without violence
Until then #UNiTE
Until then #UNiTE
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Hello #AudioEngineers #Musicians , do I know anyone on here who has set up a universal audio Apollo interface on a silicon Mac? Mac mini M2 Pro in my case. There’s this UA meter and control panel thing that has some system setting that I cannot figure out how to fucking get to. Will pay for help. 😭
November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hello #AudioEngineers #Musicians , do I know anyone on here who has set up a universal audio Apollo interface on a silicon Mac? Mac mini M2 Pro in my case. There’s this UA meter and control panel thing that has some system setting that I cannot figure out how to fucking get to. Will pay for help. 😭
🎶So when I'm lying in my bed
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel that love is dead
I'm loving angels instead🎶
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel that love is dead
I'm loving angels instead🎶
November 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🎶So when I'm lying in my bed
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel that love is dead
I'm loving angels instead🎶
Thoughts running through my head
And I feel that love is dead
I'm loving angels instead🎶
🎶I don't believe in an interventionist God,
But I know, darling, that you do🎶
But I know, darling, that you do🎶
November 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
🎶I don't believe in an interventionist God,
But I know, darling, that you do🎶
But I know, darling, that you do🎶
🎶I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like🎶
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like🎶
November 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🎶I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like🎶
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like🎶
Mrs Moog made me egg fried rice using yesterday’s leftover rice and lamb rogan josh. I scooped it up using yesterday’s garlic naan, toasted, and it was probably the best brunch I’ve ever had.
Spice endorphins are such a great start to a day. Makes you feel alive!
Spice endorphins are such a great start to a day. Makes you feel alive!
November 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Mrs Moog made me egg fried rice using yesterday’s leftover rice and lamb rogan josh. I scooped it up using yesterday’s garlic naan, toasted, and it was probably the best brunch I’ve ever had.
Spice endorphins are such a great start to a day. Makes you feel alive!
Spice endorphins are such a great start to a day. Makes you feel alive!
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The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
The last few hours have proven 2 terrible things. First, the US and Russian governments are so close that the US government takes large parts of Russian proposals and passes them off as their own, and second that some people are so desperate to exonerate Trump that they act like this a good thing.
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Well.
Not only was the US peace plan not a peace plan, it was from Russia and not the US.
Not only was the US peace plan not a peace plan, it was from Russia and not the US.
So the US was aware that the world thought the document was US endorsed, yet waited until now to clarify that it wasn't?
How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
How could the US have communicated to Ukraine that they had to accept the proposal or lose US support without clarifying that the Russian proposal wasn't actually their proposal?
November 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Well.
Not only was the US peace plan not a peace plan, it was from Russia and not the US.
Not only was the US peace plan not a peace plan, it was from Russia and not the US.