alpha seven (Pete Roberts)
@alphaseven.bsky.social
Sporadic releases of electronic music. MUST NOT BUY MORE SYNTHS.
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www.sofacom.co.uk
AI - another reason to oppose it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
YouTube channels spreading fake, anti-Labour videos viewed 1.2bn times in 2025
Exclusive: More than 150 anonymous channels using cheap AI tools to spread false stories about Keir Starmer, study finds
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
AI - another reason to oppose it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
For the record, Robin Ince is a superb comedian, an absolute mensch, a remarkable thinker and the kindest human you’ll ever meet. And the BBC is a genuinely great and globally unique institution that needs to stop being afraid. I think that’s where most of its faults and issues stem from.
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GB News grilled me apparently?
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
GB News grilled me apparently?
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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AI’ is becoming shorthand for ’We don’t care if it works, we just don’t want to pay people to do it properly.’
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon pulls AI recap from Fallout TV show after it made several mistakes
The errors included getting dialogue wrong and incorrectly claiming a scene was set 100 years earlier than it was.
www.bbc.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
AI’ is becoming shorthand for ’We don’t care if it works, we just don’t want to pay people to do it properly.’
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
I'm heartbroken for him.
December 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm privileged to call Robin a friend, and as such, have seen behind the curtains with what went on with Monkey Cage. When BBC bosses say they don't recognise his version of events, I was being told of them by Robin in real time. This stuff has been going on for YEARS.
I'm heartbroken for him.
I'm heartbroken for him.
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Always nice to hear the review of the year from Laura Kuenssberg.
Trump:
- moved into the White House
- asked Europe to increase defence spending
- moved to create a ceasefire in Gaza
- didn't create a global trade war
Hmm. I sort of thought he did more than that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump:
- moved into the White House
- asked Europe to increase defence spending
- moved to create a ceasefire in Gaza
- didn't create a global trade war
Hmm. I sort of thought he did more than that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Always nice to hear the review of the year from Laura Kuenssberg.
Trump:
- moved into the White House
- asked Europe to increase defence spending
- moved to create a ceasefire in Gaza
- didn't create a global trade war
Hmm. I sort of thought he did more than that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump:
- moved into the White House
- asked Europe to increase defence spending
- moved to create a ceasefire in Gaza
- didn't create a global trade war
Hmm. I sort of thought he did more than that.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Quote from Bears excellent article. Because if your health system cannot survive five days of industrial action, that isn’t evidence that striking resident doctors are immoral villains out to destroy the NHS - it’s evidence that you’re running a health system with the resilience of wet tissue paper.
A winter flu surge.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
A looming doctors’ strike.
A health system with no slack left.
This is neither bad luck nor a “perfect storm” - it’s exactly what will happen when resilience is treated as optional and difficult decisions are used to excuse incompetent ones.
A Saturday long read.
Saturday Long Read: The NHS is Collapsing and Labour is Running out of Excuses
A system shaved to the bone, a winter crisis already unfolding, and a government furious because the arithmetic no longer works.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Quote from Bears excellent article. Because if your health system cannot survive five days of industrial action, that isn’t evidence that striking resident doctors are immoral villains out to destroy the NHS - it’s evidence that you’re running a health system with the resilience of wet tissue paper.
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Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
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Hollow Earth Radio playing Neu! Hallo Gallo. All I ever wanted to be in was a band that could play like that. Music that moves along a straight horizon line and get there. Music that sounds like it had been going for ages before you got there and will carry on for ages after you've gone.
December 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hollow Earth Radio playing Neu! Hallo Gallo. All I ever wanted to be in was a band that could play like that. Music that moves along a straight horizon line and get there. Music that sounds like it had been going for ages before you got there and will carry on for ages after you've gone.
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Mulberry Street, Manchester, painting by Jane Braithwaite.
December 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Mulberry Street, Manchester, painting by Jane Braithwaite.
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Ian Curtis with Joy Division at The New Osborne Club, Manchester, 7 February 1980. Photo by Daniel Meadows.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Ian Curtis with Joy Division at The New Osborne Club, Manchester, 7 February 1980. Photo by Daniel Meadows.
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It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new Electronic Sound, which marks 50 years of KRAFTWERK’s ‘Radio-Activity’. You can also buy the mag directly from us, bundled with a seven-inch of THE DIVINE COMEDY’s dazzling cover of the album’s title track. electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine
December 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It’s the first weekend in UK shops for the new Electronic Sound, which marks 50 years of KRAFTWERK’s ‘Radio-Activity’. You can also buy the mag directly from us, bundled with a seven-inch of THE DIVINE COMEDY’s dazzling cover of the album’s title track. electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine
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Potatoman's secret HQ. Where he keeps the Potatomobile, the Potatoboat, and the Potatocopter
December 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Potatoman's secret HQ. Where he keeps the Potatomobile, the Potatoboat, and the Potatocopter
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I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Zack Polanski: Allow small boat migrants in and let them work
Green Party leader accuses Sir Keir Starmer of following Nigel Farage in ‘pushing racist rhetoric’ and calls JK Rowling’s stance on single-sex spaces ‘hateful’
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I've spent three days in Calais & it's horrendous.
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People living in disgusting conditions. Our Government is spending £476m on the militarisation of the border.
We must divert that money to a humanitarian response that treats people with basic dignity.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Excited about Moonbuilding Weekly's Top 20 Tracks Of The Year going out on the Urban Mutant show on @khuh.bsky.social in Seattle tonight... Thanks for asking @bleek.bsky.social tune in at 1am! www.hollowearthradio.org/listen
Hollow Earth Radio
www.hollowearthradio.org
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Excited about Moonbuilding Weekly's Top 20 Tracks Of The Year going out on the Urban Mutant show on @khuh.bsky.social in Seattle tonight... Thanks for asking @bleek.bsky.social tune in at 1am! www.hollowearthradio.org/listen
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I look at these and cannot help thinking that nothing would be worse, and many things would be better if none of these people had done anything.
90% of AI is the invention of tools out of unnecessity.
90% of AI is the invention of tools out of unnecessity.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 13, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I look at these and cannot help thinking that nothing would be worse, and many things would be better if none of these people had done anything.
90% of AI is the invention of tools out of unnecessity.
90% of AI is the invention of tools out of unnecessity.
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There's still time to get your Tube Mapper 2026 London Underground calendar before Christmas.
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
There's still time to get your Tube Mapper 2026 London Underground calendar before Christmas.
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Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 92, our review of the year special, is out now! Last issue of 2025!
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
Issue 92 / 12 December 2025
The essential DIY electronic music weekly: Your totally bumper Xmas issue featuring Album Of The Year, Track Of The Year and Compilation Of The Year rundowns...
moonbuilding.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 92, our review of the year special, is out now! Last issue of 2025!
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-92-1...
very festive down at Mayow Rd vets
December 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
very festive down at Mayow Rd vets
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
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A quick observation capturing the angel Christmas street lights behind the TFL Roundel logo at the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 AM
A quick observation capturing the angel Christmas street lights behind the TFL Roundel logo at the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
The roundel looks like it has angel wings.
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On the 12th day of #sketchpadvent it’s the 1971 Irvine New Town Plan, showing considerably more sunbathers and sports cars than was entirely realistic
December 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
On the 12th day of #sketchpadvent it’s the 1971 Irvine New Town Plan, showing considerably more sunbathers and sports cars than was entirely realistic
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How come the media isn't reporting what is going on in universities? The implications of this (and this is just 1 of many universities doing the same) are terrifying. For the local populations, for the towns affected, for the next generation, for research & development, for the future! #academicsky
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:07 AM
How come the media isn't reporting what is going on in universities? The implications of this (and this is just 1 of many universities doing the same) are terrifying. For the local populations, for the towns affected, for the next generation, for research & development, for the future! #academicsky
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🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid.
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10
A pissed off thread using data.
Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10