Jon Hicks

If you're a fan of British Folk Horror, please support this innovative idea! Withered Hill was the best fiction I read last year, and has stayed with me (went on to read Scuttler's Cove, and now in the middle of Scratch Moss). It's such a rich universe and I would LOVE to see this project happen!

Grateful for this repost Suw, I hadn't seen this!

Also, meant to say that The One Footer/Unfinished Business version of the episode has short snippets of each track and is only 1hr 11m. The Troika version has the full tracks so is a hefty 2h 16m!

Recording this episode has been one of my favourite things I've done this year. Maybe I should do Troika episodes involving other people's choices…

Troika #60: One Footer in the Unfinished Troika - Hicks.design Something a wee bit special for episode #60! This is the first one to feature *other* humans, because this is a crossover with two other podcasts: One Footer in the Grave (who I co-host with Marcus Li...

It's crossover podcast Friday! Troika episode #60 is a coagulation of One Footer in the Grave (who I co-host with @marcus-lillington.bsky.social & @allthatmalarkey.bsky.social) with Unfinished Business (Andy & @clagnut.com).

We chat about our three favourite songs 🥰

hicks.design/troika/troik...

Daughter tips me off that the new Harry Styles album (Kiss all the time. Disco occasionally) has elements of Passion Pit and Postal Service. It really does! 😍

The problem with Bandcamp Friday is that I won’t see any email notifications from US/Canada bands until tomorrow morning 😕

Apple Music Rolling Out Disclosure Tags for AI-Made Songs - MacRumors Apple Music is rolling out a new metadata system called Transparency Tags, which indicates when AI has been used in the creation of music hosted on the platform. According to Music Business Worldwide, Apple sent a newsletter to industry partners on Wednesday to explain how it will roll out the new set of metadata. The system covers four categories including artwork, track, composition (lyrics), and music video. Labels and distributors can begin applying the tags immediately.

Remove it, don’t just label it.

(But then there’s always the grey areas, such as The Beatles “Now and then” for example)

www.macrumors.com/2026/03/05/a...

A fisheye photo of me performing at Whelans in Dublin.

Folks of BlueSky! I've got a range of gigs coming up in the next few weeks, places what I missed out in my big tour of last Autumn.

Come and get the full Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan experience at Leeds, Oxford, Liverpool and Llandudno!

Details at warringtonruncorn.com/live/

Mucking around with the CSS to customise the Qobuz web player and desktop app, I keep muttering to myself “have they not heard of the flippin’ cascade?!”.

Then I see the word that explains it all: “Tailwind”.

🚶💨

Totally, I’d heard that team were going to do @benaaronovitch.bsky.social’s Rivers of London series, and willing that to happen with every fibre.

One of those captcha things. This one says ‘select all images with bicycles. Click verify once there are none left’. There are 9 squares - 4 contain photos of bicycle seats, with the remaining 5 showing the beautiful head and face of a grey greyhound with a white stripe going from the top of their head to the tip of their nose.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

OOh, what is it?

I've been unemployed for a few months. I now set myself pretend jobs to prevent the rot setting in. My son thinks this guy is funny, which is a good enough excuse to make something. Any requests?

Peregrine Falcon flying low with Teal and Wigeon on the water in the background

Amazing moment at RSPB Greylake yesterday when this stunning Peregrine Falcon shot low across the water! 😍😊
This is the fastest animal on earth!🐦
#BIrds 🪶

This is why vampires shouldn’t fall asleep on park benches and lose track of the time.

So much good news on one day 🥰

But seriously. We are back! Next week we start shooting #bbcghosts the movie! Huge excitement in the camp, lots of splendid people joining us.

Ah that's a new one to try, thanks!

Thanks, I'll take a look! I haven't had great experience with ShazamKit apps in the past though - too many false matches, or not matched at all 😕

Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory – Byline Times A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

What a difference to wake up to really good news! Greens won, and by a large margin. Hope not hate!

bylinetimes.com/2026/02/27/h...

Albums - 'art view' with large album artwork

Albums app - album library view

Spite app, with an even larger album art view

There are two music apps that I'm loving at the moment, with large album artwork:

Albums - for playing my Apple Music Library. The new MacOS app ticks most of my criteria!
www.albumstheapp.com

Spite - for playing my own digital collection. Lovely streamlined interface!
www.jamesreeves.co/spite/

Currently looking for work and projects. Give me a shout or a DM if you have a project - ttrpg, card game, etc that's in need of illustration/art/concepts.

I've got 800 to do by end of day :(

A screenshot of an email intro, which says: Hello Jon, If you're seeing this, we made it happen, 1600 booked meetings this past year using Al

Dear God NO

A black and white duck

A black and white duck

A black and white duck. Again

Nice Oxfordshire rarity to show up, even better when its on my local patch! Long-Tailed Duck (oddly missing its long tail). Should be at the coast, if indeed found anywhere in the UK, not in the most land locked county.

#plumescrolling

🎉 Looking for new work.

15 years front-end dev + Design Systems specialist.

I help folks build, maintain & transform design systems.

I'm also available for focused projects, front-end builds, codebase modernisation.

Short to long term.

Let's chat - stu@alwaystwisted.com

reposts appreciated <3

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

With any luck, they’ll accidentally delete Meta itself next

www.404media.co/meta-directo...