Robert
@robertd1.bsky.social
(failing) writer; @loudandquiet @thequietus @clash
"To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have."
Baudrillard should be required reading in the days of LLM...
Baudrillard should be required reading in the days of LLM...
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have."
Baudrillard should be required reading in the days of LLM...
Baudrillard should be required reading in the days of LLM...
Me when people ask what my book is about:
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Me when people ask what my book is about:
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It seems The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club by @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social is part of the M&S winter campaign.
Didn’t see this one coming…
Didn’t see this one coming…
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
It seems The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club by @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social is part of the M&S winter campaign.
Didn’t see this one coming…
Didn’t see this one coming…
I'm coming to the opinion that Don Delillo is US's great post-war writer not Pynchon. Delillo is everywhere in his writing, got his hands wrapped around all the cables being coursed thru by electricity. Yes, some of his novels suck, but how can one man write Libra, Cosmopolis, Mao II & Ratners Star?
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'm coming to the opinion that Don Delillo is US's great post-war writer not Pynchon. Delillo is everywhere in his writing, got his hands wrapped around all the cables being coursed thru by electricity. Yes, some of his novels suck, but how can one man write Libra, Cosmopolis, Mao II & Ratners Star?
Shakespeare plays
Under-rated: Troilus and Cressida
Perfectly rated: Macbeth
Over-rated: Richard III
Under-rated: Troilus and Cressida
Perfectly rated: Macbeth
Over-rated: Richard III
November 22, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Shakespeare plays
Under-rated: Troilus and Cressida
Perfectly rated: Macbeth
Over-rated: Richard III
Under-rated: Troilus and Cressida
Perfectly rated: Macbeth
Over-rated: Richard III
Waited years to get my hands on blackstar. Repress of course, but it turned up like this.
November 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Waited years to get my hands on blackstar. Repress of course, but it turned up like this.
Finally secured the bag
November 21, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Finally secured the bag
My personal fav Bark Psychosis record. So much closer to the textured, electronic bedroom rock-y sound of today (Caroline, Alex G etc).
November 21, 2025 at 9:28 AM
My personal fav Bark Psychosis record. So much closer to the textured, electronic bedroom rock-y sound of today (Caroline, Alex G etc).
One of literature's beautiful accidents.
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
One of literature's beautiful accidents.
You know what, near perfect list
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Brat pack: Charli xcx’s 20 best songs – ranked!
As she releases music from her upcoming soundtrack to Wuthering Heights, we count down the best of her frank, futurist tracks
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
You know what, near perfect list
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Me to my partner when they ask if they snored last night
November 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Me to my partner when they ask if they snored last night
Had this beautiful, beguiling book for over ten years. Re-read it more often than any other and it looks like it
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Had this beautiful, beguiling book for over ten years. Re-read it more often than any other and it looks like it
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Pope Leo absolutely cooking
November 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Pope Leo absolutely cooking
Saw a trailer at the cinema today for a film called G.O.A.T. where the lead character is the greatest basketball player of all time and also, a goat.
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Saw a trailer at the cinema today for a film called G.O.A.T. where the lead character is the greatest basketball player of all time and also, a goat.
Got so wavey the other day that I found out Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' is a cover.
November 16, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Got so wavey the other day that I found out Natalie Imbruglia's 'Torn' is a cover.
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Brugge Belfort, 23.59h last night, about 10 seconds before they turned the lights off.
November 16, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Brugge Belfort, 23.59h last night, about 10 seconds before they turned the lights off.
Read almost all Burroughs as a 20 year old trying to impress a girl (didn't work). But I didn't read Interzone, thinking it was a cobbled together collection of stories. Having read it now by chance, it is the skeleton key to what would be the most ludicrous shift in styles I have read. (1/2)
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Read almost all Burroughs as a 20 year old trying to impress a girl (didn't work). But I didn't read Interzone, thinking it was a cobbled together collection of stories. Having read it now by chance, it is the skeleton key to what would be the most ludicrous shift in styles I have read. (1/2)
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A chapter from my book-in-progress is found here, in this splendid annual. Where I bemoan the disappearance of good pubky pubs in Leiden and invoje William Langland www.kormplastics.nl/the-third-an...
The Third Annual – Korm Plastics
www.kormplastics.nl
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A chapter from my book-in-progress is found here, in this splendid annual. Where I bemoan the disappearance of good pubky pubs in Leiden and invoje William Langland www.kormplastics.nl/the-third-an...
One of the best decisions I made in the last year was seeing John Cale live. Hoping to get the chance again
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
One of the best decisions I made in the last year was seeing John Cale live. Hoping to get the chance again
John Cale's late-stage run is genuinely inspirational. Charli XCX's current run is pure spectacle. This was always going to be amazing.
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
Charli xcx - House featuring John Cale (Official Video)
YouTube video by Charli xcx
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November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
John Cale's late-stage run is genuinely inspirational. Charli XCX's current run is pure spectacle. This was always going to be amazing.
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
youtu.be/Xgp7wlBfASA?...
Went to Alex G concert tonight and no-one knew the entire set up until the encore and I didn't know the set after the encore. Never felt the tiktok divide like that ever. but everyone there still for the love of the game and it was a beautiful concert. Everything will be alright
November 10, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Went to Alex G concert tonight and no-one knew the entire set up until the encore and I didn't know the set after the encore. Never felt the tiktok divide like that ever. but everyone there still for the love of the game and it was a beautiful concert. Everything will be alright
Lived here 15 years and I can say unequivocally that Belgium is custom-built to be sitting on €140bn of frozen Russian assets and being pulled in every direction about what to do with it. It is, by far, the most Belgian of situations.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Lived here 15 years and I can say unequivocally that Belgium is custom-built to be sitting on €140bn of frozen Russian assets and being pulled in every direction about what to do with it. It is, by far, the most Belgian of situations.
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Remembering William Hope Hodgson, author of 'The House on the Borderland', 'The Night Land' and other celebrated works of weird fiction. Killed in action at the Fourth Battle of Ypres on 19th April 1918, aged 40.
#RemembranceSunday
#RemembranceSunday
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Remembering William Hope Hodgson, author of 'The House on the Borderland', 'The Night Land' and other celebrated works of weird fiction. Killed in action at the Fourth Battle of Ypres on 19th April 1918, aged 40.
#RemembranceSunday
#RemembranceSunday