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dawse

@dawse.bsky.social

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I am a truthful man from the land of chimneys. My posts are like a wounded faun seeking refuge in the matrix. 🎶 Music & bothering waves 🎬 Sci-fi & horror flicks 🎨 Art & creative creatures

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · Aug 22

🧵 So in a break from the gloom I'm gonna share something wonderful:

In 2020, after years of searching, I finally managed to score an original copy of the Sunday Times magazine containing THAT almost mythical 'A Life in the Day of Tom Baker' article...

Vintage Sunday Times magazine. Open on 'A Life in the Day of Tom Baker' article. Featuring a pic of Tom propping up the bar in his favourite old London pub. To the right is an advert for a green Mercedes car.

A close up of the picture of Tom in his favourite haunt.

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 5h

This is so lovely!

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 7h

Oh go on then. I’ve also added the skull and Corbett. These are a bloody bargain, there’s 45 years of wisdom infused and contained within them

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A squiggly wibbly skull in oil pastels on grey paper, slightly collapsed

Oil pastel drawing of Matthew Corbett, a white man with reddish brown hair, Sooty Sweep and Soo, three hand puppets, part of a 1980s tv programme that’s fondly remembered by some

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 6h

Same! *1000 yard stare*

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 9h

Update: so then I tried their live web chat and thought I was talking with a bot called Stephanie, until they said they'd give me a call! And Stephanie was real and lovely and it's all sorted. I weep for the day there are no more Stephanies.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 10h

Just called the council to sort something complicated out. Got connected to a talking bot. Hung up. Christ everything is so shit. I used to love technology.

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 12h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

Gnight! I hope you're getting to grips with / enjoying the new chapter.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

Herbie Hancock giving a demonstration of the Fairlight CMI synthesizer to children on Sesame Street

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Herbie Hancock Demonstrates the Fairlighton Sesame Street

YouTube video by Rapid Eye Movement

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 1d

As a lemony cloth for my brain’s art hands, it’s Matthew Corbett and his family

Mathew Corbett with Sooty Sweep and Soo, an energetic oil pastel drawing based on an innocent 80s publicity photo of a white man with reddish hair and three small famous hand puppets, a yellow bear a grey dog and a femme panda

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

#NotAllLamps

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

If I was in charge my first order would be to stop people turning vintage objects into stupid looking lamps.

(I've just seen a Trimphone with a light bulb sticking out the handle)

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

This should have read "speed camera van".

Thankfully I was able to avoid collision by using the hole torn into the fabric of space by the irony.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

G'night. I hope you and the feline void are settling into the new digs.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

*waits for Tony Newman and Doug Phillips to come tumbling out*

David Paul Nixon @newghoststories.bsky.social · 1d

Dover town centre has this curious mist tunnel. Perfect for pretending you’re passing into a different dimension when you do your shopping. #art #sculpture #dover

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)

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dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

This morning has lasted a day already.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

I want my epitaph to end with that.

dawse @dawse.bsky.social · 1d

Ironically the guy reposting Zelda Williams' masterclass on AI seems to have copied it from someone that already posted and went viral with it. Oh well.