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Peter L

@peterlatimer6.bsky.social

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Shoegazer, actuary, hockey player, MD ANT, statto, #setlistgeek, #Latbrokes, facilitating the move over from Twitter and promoting the use of custom feeds

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Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · Sep 20

I’ve been playing about with creating new feeds this week.

This one should show gig pictures (as long as someone uses the word gig in their post).
Have a try and pin it if you think it might be of interest, the more feed options the better I’m finding.
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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James Tansley @tansleyjames.bsky.social · 3h

#90sTop30 Starts 1st November.
Choose an artist. Choose a song. Choose another song. Choose a single. Choose a b-side. Choose an album track. Choose a classic. Choose a fucking classic. Choose a music challenge. Choose this music challenge. Choose wasting your life competing in music challenges…

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Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · 5h

I was a fan of the Age of Chance version

Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · 6h

I once came back to my student flat after a night out, so early hours in the morning, not wanting to disturb anyone I plugged in my headphones into my stereo, put the EP on and turned it up very loud, so loud that I didn’t realise that my speakers were also pumping it out. Oops! Sorry neighbours.

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Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · 6h

Day 10 of #80sTop30
21. W.O.G.S - AR Kane
Up Home! EP
1988

From the inventors of dreampop, although arguably this song is closer to a shoegaze sound. Play loud for the best effect, it’s incredible.
A little story to follow in the next post 👇

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Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · 18h

AR Kane are my 80’s pick tomorrow so I also mention them inventing dreampop.

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Rob Morgan @durutti74.bsky.social · 19h

Spotify's own self generated playlists are shite.

"Shoegaze Classics". 11 hours long. No Moose (for whom the term was invented)

"Dreampop Classics". Only 4 hours long. No AR Kane (who invented the term)

Idiots.

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Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · 18h

Yes I was also wary when they first announced it as enjoyed the normal series with real people, but this celeb cast is very good.
Yeah Alan Carr in particular is hilarious already, can’t wait for tonight’s episode.

Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · 20h

It’s a bit like Sewing Bee & Pottery Throwdown in that they have activities and then disappear 1 by 1.
I maybe stretching the similarities there 😆
It’s really just a party game taken to extremes, however it is very entertaining.

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Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · 22h

Have you really not come across the Traitors? It’s been the big BBC hit for the last 3 years, lots of media attention.

Oh I really like Claudia, and she hams her role out so well, plus wears a lot of black 😉

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Peter L @peterlatimer6.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, the David Tennant bits were unnecessary and it really wasn’t an ITV1 show. The games themselves were well constructed, but as a whole it didn’t quite work.
I liked the premise of Destination X but felt they were more focused on the bus interactions rather than actual clues & geography.

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Neil Kaye @neilrkaye.bsky.social · 23h

Each month in the Central England Temperature series has warmed rapidly in the last 30 years. Here is a #dataviz showing 30 year average temperature since 1800 for each month. #climatechange #globalwarming