Darren Adam
@darrenadam.bsky.social
British-Icelandic / Chris' partner / RÚV English & RÚV English Radio: English language radio from Iceland’s national broadcaster / former @LBC.co.uk / I like cars/vinyl/brutalism/cold (happily)
https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/spila/ruv-english-radio/34448
https://www.ruv.is/utvarp/spila/ruv-english-radio/34448
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If you've just arrived via the Ringways Map, hello! 👋 You might like this podcast I recorded for Radio 4 a few years ago, telling the Ringways story and how I came to be writing about it. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Sounds - The Boring Talks, #32 - Roads That Don't Exist
Chris Marshall loves roads... even those that don't actually exist.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If you've just arrived via the Ringways Map, hello! 👋 You might like this podcast I recorded for Radio 4 a few years ago, telling the Ringways story and how I came to be writing about it. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Audible got that right.
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Audible got that right.
So… help us to stop AI by teaching our AI to stop AI?
November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
So… help us to stop AI by teaching our AI to stop AI?
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The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
November 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢
Finally. Now that Halloween is out of the way...
November 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Finally. Now that Halloween is out of the way...
It’s time. I love this film. And I love the Point Reyes area of California where it’s filmed. Maybe one day it will be possible to return.
October 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It’s time. I love this film. And I love the Point Reyes area of California where it’s filmed. Maybe one day it will be possible to return.
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British newspaper headline: The Andrew formerly known as Prince
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
British newspaper headline: The Andrew formerly known as Prince
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People simply became uninterested in the past.
October 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
People simply became uninterested in the past.
My friend @willguyatt.rocks, struck by a kind of localised Mandela-effect, thinks that I used to have a #Saab. None of my 30+ #cars (and counting, doubtless) have been a Saab. I wish I'd had a 9-5 though, as they came with dual sun visors, for the front and side. Because, you know, we turn corners.
October 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My friend @willguyatt.rocks, struck by a kind of localised Mandela-effect, thinks that I used to have a #Saab. None of my 30+ #cars (and counting, doubtless) have been a Saab. I wish I'd had a 9-5 though, as they came with dual sun visors, for the front and side. Because, you know, we turn corners.
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i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
October 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling
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Cannot tell you how incredible it was to play all of the acid house records I did (loudly) in Littlewoods record department at this time when I worked there (Northumberland Street). Yer nana coming downstairs for her tin of pek with Voodoo Ray belting out. Scenes. #TOTP
October 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Cannot tell you how incredible it was to play all of the acid house records I did (loudly) in Littlewoods record department at this time when I worked there (Northumberland Street). Yer nana coming downstairs for her tin of pek with Voodoo Ray belting out. Scenes. #TOTP
We also stopped here when driving the PCH from San F to Los Angeles. Back in the days when visiting the USA was desirable/possible.
A peek through the trees reveals the southern coast of Big Sur at Ragged Point last Fall.
#Scape #Landscape #Seascape #Nature #Scenery #California #HighwayOne
#Scape #Landscape #Seascape #Nature #Scenery #California #HighwayOne
October 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We also stopped here when driving the PCH from San F to Los Angeles. Back in the days when visiting the USA was desirable/possible.
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#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge
7. Visage - Fade To Grey
One of the downsides of the fragmentation of mass media is that you no longer get moments like this, where everyone sees something like this on daytime television and collectively has their minds blown.
#MusicChallenge
7. Visage - Fade To Grey
One of the downsides of the fragmentation of mass media is that you no longer get moments like this, where everyone sees something like this on daytime television and collectively has their minds blown.
Visage - Fade To Grey
YouTube video by VisageVEVO
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#80sTop30
#MusicChallenge
7. Visage - Fade To Grey
One of the downsides of the fragmentation of mass media is that you no longer get moments like this, where everyone sees something like this on daytime television and collectively has their minds blown.
#MusicChallenge
7. Visage - Fade To Grey
One of the downsides of the fragmentation of mass media is that you no longer get moments like this, where everyone sees something like this on daytime television and collectively has their minds blown.
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The death of Soft Cell's Dave Ball is extremely sad. We lived in Covent Garden for 8 years and it always amused me to know that the Pink Flamingo - or its inspiration - was just round the corner. Say Hello Wave Goodbye is one of the greatest melodies ever written.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Dave Ball, synth-pop hitmaker as one half of Soft Cell, dies aged 66
Synth player and producer had huge success with Tainted Love and other Soft Cell hits, and later returned to UK Top 10 with dance project the Grid
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The death of Soft Cell's Dave Ball is extremely sad. We lived in Covent Garden for 8 years and it always amused me to know that the Pink Flamingo - or its inspiration - was just round the corner. Say Hello Wave Goodbye is one of the greatest melodies ever written.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
We had our staff meeting two weeks ago in this apparently “buried” town. Grindavík is very much alive and open, with firm plans to thrive further. This is the kind of unadulterated gratuitous screeching horseshit one would expect from British low-rent, right wing “news” papers. Not the BBC. Shame!
October 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
We had our staff meeting two weeks ago in this apparently “buried” town. Grindavík is very much alive and open, with firm plans to thrive further. This is the kind of unadulterated gratuitous screeching horseshit one would expect from British low-rent, right wing “news” papers. Not the BBC. Shame!
A decent fall of snow on Esja. That’s more like it.
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A decent fall of snow on Esja. That’s more like it.
That literally wouldn't be exile.
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
That literally wouldn't be exile.
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Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!
October 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Hello Bluesky. I'm here because Meta doesn't want me. Looking forward to post unfiltered, unhinged and un-whatever stuff here. Tell your friends!
Stockhausen's #centenary is a couple of years away. Buying his complete works from #Stockhausen Verlag would cost - ready? - 2,186 EUR. And that's without a nice box. So, a) will there be a retrospective box set, and b), what hope is there of it costing even half that?
www.stockhausencds.com
www.stockhausencds.com
:: StockhausenCDs.com | SITE BY OSHIN SAGINIAN ::
Stockhausen CD website. Karlheinz Stockhausen's music, works and history of the famous 20th century composer.
www.stockhausencds.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Stockhausen's #centenary is a couple of years away. Buying his complete works from #Stockhausen Verlag would cost - ready? - 2,186 EUR. And that's without a nice box. So, a) will there be a retrospective box set, and b), what hope is there of it costing even half that?
www.stockhausencds.com
www.stockhausencds.com
I want to cease non-work use of Facebook altogether, but am required by sweaty craven cyborg Mark Zuckerberg to keep a personal account in order to manage a page.
It does however mean that “memories” like this pop up.
It does however mean that “memories” like this pop up.
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I want to cease non-work use of Facebook altogether, but am required by sweaty craven cyborg Mark Zuckerberg to keep a personal account in order to manage a page.
It does however mean that “memories” like this pop up.
It does however mean that “memories” like this pop up.
I’ve been saying this - explicitly referencing this episode - for years.
times like these i look to The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror VI "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores" when Lisa and Paul Anka sing “Just don't look! Just don't look!" to get people to turn away from the monsters rampaging the town and the lack of attention defeats the monsters and saves the town
October 18, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I’ve been saying this - explicitly referencing this episode - for years.
Gorgeous.
October 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Gorgeous.