@luketurner
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
It's striking how Iranian Shahed drones inhabit a similar space to the German V-1: a slow, noisy, horizontal approach then fast descent. See also how Ukrainian acoustic detection device Sky Fortress echoes these oddities from the pre-radar early c20th, as per the FT
www.ft.com/content/947f...
Amen.
give it a go on Instagram maybe?
fucking hell Marie, hope you have a deep bunker and a good tin hat!
That’s lovely to hear, and thanks for saying so! 🖤
How are you finding it? Seems to be a lot of us on it out there!
For The Observer, I’ve written about growing up under the shadow of Section 28, bi erasure, and the role of the Bishopsgate Institute’s archive informing new books on LGBT+ history that offer resistance and lessons in our own increasingly intolerant times
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
An interview with filmmaker John Smith on more than half century of work exploring the unreliability of the camera’s lens, from The Girl Chewing Gum to The Black Tower & more
thequietus.com/interviews/m...
What’s the point of building that, you’ll just have hundreds of crazed people waiting outside to kill you for your tins of beans. Instant vapour for me too pls.
Never seen this very entertaining Mark E Smith interview before, in which he says he was raised Methodist and says that the hymns of Charles Wesley were an influence on The Fall group (and that modern praise music is rubbish by comparison, is right)
nobody does crisps as well as the Swedes, whenever I'm over at the in-laws I just sit powering through massive bags of the LantChips – so salty, so crunchy, just spot on.
"...the feeling of devoting my full attention to a story and losing myself in the rhythms of its language." This by @tomgatti.bsky.social is lovely on reading aloud to kids, one of my absolute favourite parts of parenting - the performance/voices aspect especially.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
ah yeah, I think one of those wouldn't work as I tend to instinctively breathe through my mouth – I noticed last night though that with the lovely airflow I was naturally switching to the hooter
oh Lord if those ones go I will be so happy, I often wake up screaming like that. My main reason for getting it in a way was the hope that it might dial down how horrific my nightmares are.
amazing! How do the pillows work? I am a massive princess about pillows and can only have feather, no artificial fibres, so wonder if that would bring me out in "pass the salts"
OK great. It is mad, I had quite interrupted sleep due to the wife getting back v late and getting used to the mask, but even with six hours of broken sleep I feel way better than I usually do, only 2 and a bit apnea episode per hour rather than the usual 18. Hope it continues like this!
my sympathies, it has kicked in with a vengeance this week. Have you had a go on the new Allevia ones? I found they're way more effective than Piriteze etc.
great, thanks Stewart. Will see how I go with the supplied one as changing it every month is going to be a bit £!
hopefully it continues to be OK!
I recommend using this app, which will give you a bit of an idea if apnea is part of the problem. Hope you can get it sorted! soundsleep.info
I hadn't realised they were bad until my missus kept recording me literally stopping breathing, and driving her out of bed with the snores. I told the GP, got a sleep clinic referral, about a year wait, they did a test and I qualified. It's definitely worth seeing your Dr about
Oh nice, where do you get them? The supplied plasticy rubber one does seem to have irritated my skin a bit
You have one too! Amazing!
First night with a CPAP machine, quite hard to get used to but my ‘not actually breathing’ apnea incidents down to barely any and no thunderous snoring at all. Praise be the NHS!
I'm currently reading @danieldylanwray.bsky.social's excellent new book on Sheffield music history and it just screams of how much easier it was to make really weird bands and refuse the system back in the 70s – cheap rent, accessible space, dole, supportive youth organisations, arts funding etc etc
ha yes same here, it is money that never used to happen but now does, and I use it to replace worn out trousers.
it's such a massive mystery, I got loads first year, then it dropped off, and stays about the same couple of hundred quid each year now
One week to go! Come! Am also currently editing a wonderful essay by @grindrod.bsky.social on the relationship between suburbia, sexuality and the music of the Pet Shop Boys to run on @thequietus.com next week 🏠🏠🏠🏠🍆👀🏠🏠🏠🏠
See also having a small child who cannot understand that “it is light!” does not mean “time to wake up and start demanding things happen” 😩