Troutboy
@troutboy.bsky.social
Designer. Lover of comic books, art and music.
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Went for my first run after a month off from surgery - felt really good and looking forward to getting back into proper training for the London Lea Valley 50km. I’m running to raise money for Step Forward, a charity that supports youth in Tower Hamlets - including an excellent LGBTQIA+ youth group.
Ellie's fundraiser for Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
Help Ellie Mackin Roberts raise money to support Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)
www.justgiving.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Went for my first run after a month off from surgery - felt really good and looking forward to getting back into proper training for the London Lea Valley 50km. I’m running to raise money for Step Forward, a charity that supports youth in Tower Hamlets - including an excellent LGBTQIA+ youth group.
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A festive freebie for anyone up and about and already a bit bored. It’s issue 1 of Stramash’63 as a PDF. Link should be good for a month
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
December 25, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A festive freebie for anyone up and about and already a bit bored. It’s issue 1 of Stramash’63 as a PDF. Link should be good for a month
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dnuza...
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Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
One of the best Christmas movies.
As every year at Christmas, some Japanese theaters will screen "Tokyo Godfathers" ;o;
www.shin-bungeiza.com/schedule#d20...
www.shin-bungeiza.com/schedule#d20...
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
One of the best Christmas movies.
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In deeply unsurprising news, the foxes said they'd prefer the hen house doors to be left wide open.
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In deeply unsurprising news, the foxes said they'd prefer the hen house doors to be left wide open.
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this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous
this is worth sharing and educating people about
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He’s laundered a genocide. He demonises desperate people seeking asylum. He panders to Reform at the expense of people of colour. He’s implementing transphobic policies. He cuts benefits for disabled people. “Inoffensive”? He’s deeply offensive if you are affected by any of this (Lewis isn’t)
How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
The Prime Minister can only re-establish authority if he learns to command the message
www.newstatesman.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
He’s laundered a genocide. He demonises desperate people seeking asylum. He panders to Reform at the expense of people of colour. He’s implementing transphobic policies. He cuts benefits for disabled people. “Inoffensive”? He’s deeply offensive if you are affected by any of this (Lewis isn’t)
Check the lyrics, gang vocals and riffs. Mashaal is a community minded band made up of immigrants and the children of immigrants, and their demo puts the racists and xenophobes in the UK on blast. mashaal.bandcamp.com/album/demo #hardcore #punk #asian
DEMO, by Mashaal
6 track album
mashaal.bandcamp.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Check the lyrics, gang vocals and riffs. Mashaal is a community minded band made up of immigrants and the children of immigrants, and their demo puts the racists and xenophobes in the UK on blast. mashaal.bandcamp.com/album/demo #hardcore #punk #asian
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When we interact with automated (or "automated") systems, whether by choice or not, we are engaging with a global system of labor exploitation
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Report Reveals the Devastating Cost of AI Intimacy
Plus, what an uncanny customer service experience taught us about global systems of labor exploitation
buttondown.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
When we interact with automated (or "automated") systems, whether by choice or not, we are engaging with a global system of labor exploitation
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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New: Our Palestine Holiday Book Gift Guide
From history to memoir to frontline journalism. These are books that tell Palestinian stories on Palestinian terms.
bookshop.org/lists/books-...
From history to memoir to frontline journalism. These are books that tell Palestinian stories on Palestinian terms.
bookshop.org/lists/books-...
Books for Liberation: A Palestine Holiday Gift Guide
This holiday season, give the gift of truth.
bookshop.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
New: Our Palestine Holiday Book Gift Guide
From history to memoir to frontline journalism. These are books that tell Palestinian stories on Palestinian terms.
bookshop.org/lists/books-...
From history to memoir to frontline journalism. These are books that tell Palestinian stories on Palestinian terms.
bookshop.org/lists/books-...
I’d forgotten about this one. Really good album, released on the mighty Iron Lung Records label.
'Super interesting and distinctive band from Reno, Nevada who have an infectious late-70s-forged take on punk rock that spins off towards both hardcore and new wave without contradicting itself.'
Rotary Club - Sphere Of Service is No 3 in tQ's Best Punk and HC of 2025
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Rotary Club - Sphere Of Service is No 3 in tQ's Best Punk and HC of 2025
buff.ly/02Lav6g
December 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I’d forgotten about this one. Really good album, released on the mighty Iron Lung Records label.
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Great Post-Trash interview with Aaron Turner – talking Pharaoh Overlord amongst other things:
post-trash.com/news/2025/12...
post-trash.com/news/2025/12...
Journey to the Center of Aaron Turner | Feature Interview — POST-TRASH
Post-Trash’s Kurt Orzeck chats with Aaron Turner of Isis, Sumac, Old Man Gloom, and Mammifer about being a father, a collaborator with Pharaoh Overlord, and a multidisciplinary creative.
post-trash.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Great Post-Trash interview with Aaron Turner – talking Pharaoh Overlord amongst other things:
post-trash.com/news/2025/12...
post-trash.com/news/2025/12...
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I collaborated with CMYK and Angela Kirkwood on the redesign of cult classic game Magical Athlete! I worked on the brand identity, art direction, and all the graphic design for components like cards & tokens. Now ask me how much math I had to do to make an evenly spaced game board with 31 spaces...
December 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I collaborated with CMYK and Angela Kirkwood on the redesign of cult classic game Magical Athlete! I worked on the brand identity, art direction, and all the graphic design for components like cards & tokens. Now ask me how much math I had to do to make an evenly spaced game board with 31 spaces...
From ‘balancing the books’ & way it views migrants, its lurch towards AI, the embracing of Palantir, & its begrudging opposition to the Gaza genocide, it feels like this Labour govt is just a mildly sanitised version of the US one. If they could launch their own version of ICE I’m sure they would.
Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"
December 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
From ‘balancing the books’ & way it views migrants, its lurch towards AI, the embracing of Palantir, & its begrudging opposition to the Gaza genocide, it feels like this Labour govt is just a mildly sanitised version of the US one. If they could launch their own version of ICE I’m sure they would.
This ode to rocking and never stopping seems to be missing from a lot of end-of-year lists. You’ve got to rock your own way! steroidband.bandcamp.com/album/chainm...
CHAINMAIL COMMANDOS, by STERÖID
11 track album
steroidband.bandcamp.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
This ode to rocking and never stopping seems to be missing from a lot of end-of-year lists. You’ve got to rock your own way! steroidband.bandcamp.com/album/chainm...
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It’s small business Saturday.
Buy quirky, different, unusual and unique.
My little offering dozens of pride themes science and Sci Fi pins.
proudscience.etsy.com
Also, what should I make in 2026?!
Buy quirky, different, unusual and unique.
My little offering dozens of pride themes science and Sci Fi pins.
proudscience.etsy.com
Also, what should I make in 2026?!
December 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
It’s small business Saturday.
Buy quirky, different, unusual and unique.
My little offering dozens of pride themes science and Sci Fi pins.
proudscience.etsy.com
Also, what should I make in 2026?!
Buy quirky, different, unusual and unique.
My little offering dozens of pride themes science and Sci Fi pins.
proudscience.etsy.com
Also, what should I make in 2026?!
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Such a cool and inspiring story
"This is Charlotte Astor’s fantasy, her obsession: to unearth a single piece of recorded music lost to time. To finally hear the thrashing guitar, the crunch of the bass — and the sound of her mother’s voice."
Searching for her mom’s lost punk legacy:
Searching for her mom’s lost punk legacy:
Lost cassette tape connects N.J. girl to her mom's punk legacy. She's got the whole country looking for it.
The South Jersey teen sparked a nationwide search for a tape her mom recorded 30 years ago
www.nj.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Such a cool and inspiring story
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NEW SHOWS: June 2nd-3rd at @iklectikartlab.bsky.social
June 2nd: @merzbow.net , Cavalera & Bernocchi
June 3rd: Merzbow (Solo Set)
Tickets available now via Dice
link.dice.fm/Merzbow-Cava...
June 2nd: @merzbow.net , Cavalera & Bernocchi
June 3rd: Merzbow (Solo Set)
Tickets available now via Dice
link.dice.fm/Merzbow-Cava...
December 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
NEW SHOWS: June 2nd-3rd at @iklectikartlab.bsky.social
June 2nd: @merzbow.net , Cavalera & Bernocchi
June 3rd: Merzbow (Solo Set)
Tickets available now via Dice
link.dice.fm/Merzbow-Cava...
June 2nd: @merzbow.net , Cavalera & Bernocchi
June 3rd: Merzbow (Solo Set)
Tickets available now via Dice
link.dice.fm/Merzbow-Cava...
Quite a few albums I really liked on this list especially those from Oromet, Messa, Hell, Chat Pile and Sumac. 🎸 ⚡️
Kez Whelan picks out the 20 best records from 2025 in metal, year of heartening cross-pollination and pushed limits, as well as some heartbreaking departures
Columnus Metallicus: The Best #HeavyMetal of 2025
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Columnus Metallicus: The Best #HeavyMetal of 2025
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December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Quite a few albums I really liked on this list especially those from Oromet, Messa, Hell, Chat Pile and Sumac. 🎸 ⚡️
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🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
December 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🌲 THE BIG CHRISTMAS GIFT THREAD! 🌲
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
If you are a creator or small shop/business, reply to this post with:
- pics and a brief description of what you do (don't forget the alt text!)
- a link or details on how people can buy
I will boost you!
Everyone else: buy the cool things! Repost this post! ⛄
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Due to popular demand, Smote are repressing their sold out album 'Clyppan'.
– 250 copies on 'Transparent Blue' vinyl from all good record shops
– 150 copies on 'Transparent Lime' vinyl, via the Rocket shop:
rocketrecordings.com/products/cly...
The repress is released on 23rd January.
– 250 copies on 'Transparent Blue' vinyl from all good record shops
– 150 copies on 'Transparent Lime' vinyl, via the Rocket shop:
rocketrecordings.com/products/cly...
The repress is released on 23rd January.
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Due to popular demand, Smote are repressing their sold out album 'Clyppan'.
– 250 copies on 'Transparent Blue' vinyl from all good record shops
– 150 copies on 'Transparent Lime' vinyl, via the Rocket shop:
rocketrecordings.com/products/cly...
The repress is released on 23rd January.
– 250 copies on 'Transparent Blue' vinyl from all good record shops
– 150 copies on 'Transparent Lime' vinyl, via the Rocket shop:
rocketrecordings.com/products/cly...
The repress is released on 23rd January.
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Okay, this is a cool idea.
If you're wondering ‘What do you mean it reads back to front as well as front to back?’
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
Well, I'll try to quickly explain what “THE SPECTACULAR SPACE LOOP” is ⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Okay, this is a cool idea.
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Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options.
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookshops.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookshops.
uk.bookshop.org
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Your occasional reminder that @bookshop.org is open for all of your Christmas book shopping needs. Every sale supports independent bookstores, the books arrive beautifully packaged, and they even have gift wrapping options.
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
Buy some great books and stop paying for Jeff's botox
uk.bookshop.org?next=t
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New interview with the Messthetics on the humbling and inspiring experience of covering Sonny Sharrock's 'Ask the Ages' in full, which they'll do again on Friday in D.C., along with James Brandon Lewis: darkforcesswing.substack.com/p/like-tryin...
'Like Trying to Get to Saturn': The Messthetics on Covering Sonny Sharrock's 'Ask the Ages'
Ahead of a full-album cover show with frequent collaborator James Brandon Lewis, the genre-blending trio discusses adapting and inhabiting the 1991 avant-jazz classic
darkforcesswing.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
New interview with the Messthetics on the humbling and inspiring experience of covering Sonny Sharrock's 'Ask the Ages' in full, which they'll do again on Friday in D.C., along with James Brandon Lewis: darkforcesswing.substack.com/p/like-tryin...
There seem to be mentions of “powering up” these data centres, but I couldn’t see anything in this strategy about water sourcing and cooling them down…
UK government publishes "AI Growth Zones" strategy - essentially places where they'll make it easy for data centres to connect to the electrical grid, plus other perks.
3,000-ish words, no mention of "green", "net zero", "climate". One reference to "clean energy".
www.gov.uk/government/p...
3,000-ish words, no mention of "green", "net zero", "climate". One reference to "clean energy".
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Delivering AI Growth Zones
www.gov.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
There seem to be mentions of “powering up” these data centres, but I couldn’t see anything in this strategy about water sourcing and cooling them down…