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Martin Austwick

@martinaustwick.bsky.social

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Musician/podcaster/writer; often: Song by Song, Neutrinowatch, Pale Bird, Drilled also: The Allusionist, 20,000Hz martinzaltzaustwick.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Bandcamp Friday is over for another month, so now's the perfect time to tell you about my music! It means the world to me when people listen to my music. That’s why the world is so trash rn, I did a deal with the devil and I'm a bad negotiator!

palebird.bandcamp.com

In reverse chronological order:

Poison Garden, by Pale Bird

track by Pale Bird

palebird.bandcamp.com

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 7h

No, we settled in Vancouver, Canada, at least for now!

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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 17h

In short season 10 of @withinthewires.bsky.social needs some music! It's the final season too, which is sad because @happierman.bsky.social and @j9andif.bsky.social are BRILLIANT colleagues and this has been a really wonderful world to be part of. <3

Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 17h

Once a year, the lesser-spotted Mary Epworth manages to drag herself into a Logic session, to actually record some new music. Today is that day.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 18h

In 2020 I made "I Told You How Important You Would Be" with @lilyrosesloane via the Songfight project. It's about ghosts and wanker billionaires going up space.

Listen if you like: [gl/w]itchy folktronica
Favourite songs: personal space, indeterminator

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/i-told...

I Told You How Important You Would Be, by Pale Bird and Lily Sloane

7 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 19h

Oh wow, sorry to hear that. Glad to hear you're thriving though! Are you still in Chapel Hill?

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Pete Fowler @petefowlerart.bsky.social · 21h

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 20h

(how are you?!)

Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 20h

Moreso in person, apparently

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 21h

Antifa Activist Michael Heseltine Shifts Overton Window Leftwards

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22h

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 22h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 22h

Or Jackie Mason guesting on Answer Me This! 😜 answermethispodcast.com/tag/jackie-m...

Jackie Mason – Answer Me This! Podcast

Posts about Jackie Mason written by Helen Zaltzman

answermethispodcast.com

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 22h

The tagging procedure!

bsky.app/profile/sask...

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 13d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 18d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 22h

This is just incredible

A tiny, tagged Monarch butterfly has flown from Southern Ontario in Canada to *Oklahoma* in a couple of weeks, as part of their migration

And they haven't got google maps open on their phones either, they just know where to go

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 22h

Actually the non pareil of this might be “Heroes”-era Bowie appearing on the Bing Crosby Christmas special

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Tom Hawthorn 🇨🇦 @tomhawthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Ramones played the University of B.C. campus in Vancouver, Canada, in 1980, the same year Tennessee Williams became a writer in residence on campus. (Alas, the events were several months apart.) @raxkingisdead.bsky.social

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Dr Allison Andrews’ monster @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 23h

One of my favorites:

It was possible for Abraham Lincoln to send a fax to a samurai.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 22h

Some great stuff in the quotes and replies.

I think about Samuel Beckett giving Andre “the giant” Rousimoff lifts as a kid. But maybe that’s missing the point, it’s as much about what could have been

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 1d

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them.

And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.

Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 3d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 23h

This stuff is so tiresome. In a world where hard skills like coding are getting replaced faster than they can be taught, it’s the soft skills that arts degrees teach you that remain valuable.

Me for the i Paper when Sunak tried this very same nonsense last year: inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

This EP is a good way into my œvre in general, and Many Moons has a cool video youtu.be/aP1zp8kIEmI?...

ok that's enough for now, I'll be back with more discography later

Many Moons by Pale Bird

YouTube video by Pale Bird

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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Unwavering Sentinels of Dreaming EP

Songs composed for 7- and 8-string guitars. Quite a few songs about space, living on other planets, mystical comets, and similar.

Listen if you like: phat bass, but also sadboi shit
Favourite song: Many Moons

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/unwave...

Unwavering Sentinels of Dreaming, by Pale Bird

5 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

The World Outside My Window

Created for the Neutrinowatch podcast, it has over a million different variations. This is just one version.

Listen if you like: combinatorial pandemic country
Favorite songs: listen to all one million versions!

palebird.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

The World Outside My Window, by Pale Bird

11 track album

palebird.bandcamp.com

Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 1d

Poison Garden is a new single presaging an as yet untitled (and not finished) new album. It’s about things that aren’t “woke” now, like poisoning children, and the four horsemen of the apocalypse,

Listen if you like: sarcasm
Favourite song: [it’s a single]

palebird.bandcamp.com/track/poison...

Poison Garden, by Pale Bird

track by Pale Bird

palebird.bandcamp.com