John Dirge
@johndirge.bsky.social
Bandcamp: brownglitter.bandcamp.com
YouTube: @BrownGlitterMusic
YouTube: @BrownGlitterMusic
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Brown Glitter - Space Filler / Making It Move
YouTube video by Brown Glitter
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A short film about nostalgia, afternoon TV scheduling on 1980s RTÉ, post-WW2 British animation, unsafe driving, obsolescence, memory, degraded YouTube uploads, Kraftwerk & nude green lads flying about on the telly. Special guest appearances from Don Cockburn, Garda John McGonigle and Hugo!
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Poem of the year...
Cracking up since a robotext earlier couldn't make up it's mind on what to text, so it just sent EVERYTHING AT ONCE
December 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Poem of the year...
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That trailer for the new Animal Farm film brought to mind this banger of a tweet
December 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
That trailer for the new Animal Farm film brought to mind this banger of a tweet
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Due to the irregular nature of the cuboids in this diagram, this game could only rotate on a single axis. Renderering it dull at best.
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Due to the irregular nature of the cuboids in this diagram, this game could only rotate on a single axis. Renderering it dull at best.
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When stranger things first came out america was cringe. Now America is hungry rats eating the eyes out of a dead dog so it doesn’t really hit the same anymore
December 15, 2025 at 11:29 PM
When stranger things first came out america was cringe. Now America is hungry rats eating the eyes out of a dead dog so it doesn’t really hit the same anymore
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You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you
all
to
hell!
all
to
hell!
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you! God damn you
all
to
hell!
all
to
hell!
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Here's a Christmas song for everyone who is not where they want to be at Christmas, written by Caetano Veloso in exile in London from the junta that had killed and imprisoned his friends:
youtu.be/rvctrCWrjMk?...
youtu.be/rvctrCWrjMk?...
Caetano Veloso - In the Hot Sun of A Christmas Day - 1971
YouTube video by culturalcannibals
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Here's a Christmas song for everyone who is not where they want to be at Christmas, written by Caetano Veloso in exile in London from the junta that had killed and imprisoned his friends:
youtu.be/rvctrCWrjMk?...
youtu.be/rvctrCWrjMk?...
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Easily my favourite HMHB record since Achtung Bono. Would have been my album of the year if Cardiacs hadn't blessed us with LSD.
"Nigel Blackwell's lyrics are as sharp, surreal, and wonderfully obtuse as ever, in a world that is more sharp, surreal, and obtuse than it's ever been."
Half Man Half Biscuit return with All Asimov and No Fresh Air, their 16th album of sharp pop punk and surrealist commentary on a world gone mad:
Half Man Half Biscuit return with All Asimov and No Fresh Air, their 16th album of sharp pop punk and surrealist commentary on a world gone mad:
The Fantastic Voyage of Half Man Half Biscuit | The Tonearm
Nigel Blackwell's band returns with 'All Asimov and No Fresh Air,' their sixteenth album of sharp pop punk and surrealist commentary on a world gone mad.
www.thetonearm.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Easily my favourite HMHB record since Achtung Bono. Would have been my album of the year if Cardiacs hadn't blessed us with LSD.
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The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The kind .. you find … in a second hand store
There was supposed to be a 4th video, for the album track 'TLJ Ascendancy' & I even grew a beard for it, but the footage was unusable in the end, so I have to grow another one to get that done for Easter, which seems just as appropriate a holiday as Xmas to release it against. Watch this space...
December 14, 2025 at 10:54 AM
There was supposed to be a 4th video, for the album track 'TLJ Ascendancy' & I even grew a beard for it, but the footage was unusable in the end, so I have to grow another one to get that done for Easter, which seems just as appropriate a holiday as Xmas to release it against. Watch this space...
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For lovers of Kraftwerk and 1980s RTÉ randomness
A short film about nostalgia, afternoon TV scheduling on 1980s RTÉ, post-WW2 British animation, unsafe driving, obsolescence, memory, degraded YouTube uploads, Kraftwerk & nude green lads flying about on the telly. Special guest appearances from Don Cockburn, Garda John McGonigle and Hugo!
Brown Glitter - Space Filler / Making It Move
YouTube video by Brown Glitter
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 10:32 AM
For lovers of Kraftwerk and 1980s RTÉ randomness
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This is art.
Put it on the telly in the minutes before the Angelus without any explanation.
Put it on the telly in the minutes before the Angelus without any explanation.
A short film about nostalgia, afternoon TV scheduling on 1980s RTÉ, post-WW2 British animation, unsafe driving, obsolescence, memory, degraded YouTube uploads, Kraftwerk & nude green lads flying about on the telly. Special guest appearances from Don Cockburn, Garda John McGonigle and Hugo!
Brown Glitter - Space Filler / Making It Move
YouTube video by Brown Glitter
youtu.be
December 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This is art.
Put it on the telly in the minutes before the Angelus without any explanation.
Put it on the telly in the minutes before the Angelus without any explanation.
Behind the scenes of the latest video.
December 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Behind the scenes of the latest video.
A short film about nostalgia, afternoon TV scheduling on 1980s RTÉ, post-WW2 British animation, unsafe driving, obsolescence, memory, degraded YouTube uploads, Kraftwerk & nude green lads flying about on the telly. Special guest appearances from Don Cockburn, Garda John McGonigle and Hugo!
Brown Glitter - Space Filler / Making It Move
YouTube video by Brown Glitter
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A short film about nostalgia, afternoon TV scheduling on 1980s RTÉ, post-WW2 British animation, unsafe driving, obsolescence, memory, degraded YouTube uploads, Kraftwerk & nude green lads flying about on the telly. Special guest appearances from Don Cockburn, Garda John McGonigle and Hugo!
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insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
December 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
insanely good thing to say when you enter a room
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Important and enjoyable thread. 10/10.
Okay, as promised, here are my 25 boardgames that would make good presents for historians or the historically-inclined.
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
- I've played them and enjoyed them
- They have to have a historical theme or be related to the practice of history
- They were within the first 25 I thought of...
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Important and enjoyable thread. 10/10.
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Hello, I need the worst Christmas special you have. No that's too bad
December 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Hello, I need the worst Christmas special you have. No that's too bad
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
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Crumb has always been that most boomer of creatures, a "haha look at me tweak the squares" edgelord who goes into absolute "boo hoo i'm being cancelled" meltdown when the squares are tweaked
Bob Crumb coming out of retirement just to say "RFK Jr. is right about vaccines and my ex-wife should've taken more advice from me" is such a fitting end to Boomer Americana and everything the "alt-comix" movement claimed to stand for
December 6, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Crumb has always been that most boomer of creatures, a "haha look at me tweak the squares" edgelord who goes into absolute "boo hoo i'm being cancelled" meltdown when the squares are tweaked
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hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it
December 5, 2025 at 4:57 AM
hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it
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A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A “You’ve Got Mail” remake set on Bandcamp Friday where Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are rival noise artists who accidentally buy each others’s tape because they both released under a new alias.