Best Simon Tyszko Podcasts (2024)

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Fused in the Face of… Beautiful sounds for brutal times 59:18

8M ago59:18

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Finding myself with fuses blown as the Israeli war on the people of Gaza builds a macabre momentum, and Western Governments proudly stand by Israel as it executes textbook war crimes and crimes against humanity…… The scale of what’s happening has temporarily blown my fuses, and being painful aware of the need to get programming right and my unprepa…

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Death Drones Droning for White Men Fun 58:23

8M ago58:23

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The bodies of children killed in an Israeli strike, lie on the floor at the morgue of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir Balah in the central Gaza Strip on October 22, 2023, as battles continue between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images) Hello, good evening. It’s Sunday night. T…

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Resonant Lacunae 58:03

9M ago58:03

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Lacuna, blank space, Silent void of the unknown, Whispers yet untold. I don’t care what the people might say, people might say I’m gonna keep all love, I love this way, love this way I don’t care what the people might say, people might say I’m gonna keep all love, I love this way I don’t care what the people might say, people might say I’m gonna ke…

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It’s Going To Be A Happy Year In Britain In The Future as the world burns summer special 58:34

9M ago58:34

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isotopica broadcast 30 July 2023 It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain, this year in the future. It’s going to be a happy year in Britain, this year …

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Rhyzomaticaly More Than Human with Elo Masing 58:15

9M ago58:15

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This week Simon Tyszko brings us an extended and captivating work in progress from Berlin based Estonian Composer Elo Masing, exploring post-human and cross-species themes, and commissioned for performance in Switzerland in the coming weeks. This preview has been remixed, attenuated, affected, and finally reassembled by Isotopica especially for Res…

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spectral snap crackle pop and echo 58:12

9M ago58:12

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This week Simon Tyszko (again) channels Mark Fisher and Jacques Derrida, within a composition of texture and spectrality of (Vinyl) Surface Noise, and extended through copious echos. Our working title……….: Spectral Snap, Crackle, Pop, and Echo. Simon Tyszko this week takes Isotopica further into the mysteries of recent experimentations, examining a…

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Nightingale walks in a Berlin Park 58:49

2y ago58:49

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Isotopica this week was recorded just three days ago (27th. May 2022) in a (secret) Berlin park. Simon Tyszko was in conversation with comPoser Elo Masing, accompanied by some songs from Berlin’s legendary visiting nightingales, in this walking field recording. Elo Masing and Vincent ************* performing a graphical score by Vincent, at a galle…

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Love, sex, relationships, and the patriarchy……… 59:04

2+ y ago59:04

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In this episode we meet death and death falls in love with us, and despite her parent's plans Grazia also falls for Death, and Death falls for Grazia, her fiancé get's confused and perhaps we find ourselves in a love hexagon.... or some other equally complex shape.Death plays Jenga with a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) in Bergman's classic The Sev…

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Sign Waves for Cats and Dogs (and other people too) 58:19

2+ y ago58:19

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Continuing our cross species experimentation (with Elo Masing in Berlin), we present today a new composition by Simon Tyszko specifically made for, and with the help of, other kinds of animals (as well as the usual Homo sapiens suspects, plus the usual conversation and cultural fillers that so define ISOTOPICA. Details watch Idoru engage with risin…

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A Telephone Rings and Someone Speaks 59:06

2+ y ago59:06

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exchange | ɪksˈtʃeɪndʒ, ɛksˈtʃeɪndʒ | noun 1 an act of giving one thing and receiving another (especially of the same kind) in return: negotiations should lead to an exchange of land for peace | [mass noun] : opportunities for the exchange of information. I have always held a fascination for the sheer magic of telephony, with the transmission of di…

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walking nowhere thinking everything 58:51

4y ago58:51

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From lockdown we take a phantom stroll with Jimmy Fox, inspired by Walter Benjamin, who, drawing on the poetry of Baudelaire, made the Flâneur an emblematic archetype of the modern urban experience. The Flâneur of course evolved into the psychogeographer via Guy debord and his theory of the derive, to Iain Sinclair in twentieth century London, to t…

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Is it that time already? 58:53

4+ y ago58:53

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It's now always a late 1970's Sunday afternoon in the in the days of the contemporary PestA mechanical timer prised from a discarded kitchen in a Bruxelles back street, provides an analogue rhythm around which we build today’s program. Camus provides some words, we tune in to some intercultural networked improvised music from The Ethernet Orchestra…

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Plays For Horses 58:52

4+ y ago58:52

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The Train Rolls On. Chris Marker’s Le Train En Marche (1971) First the eye, then the cinema, which prints the look…. A stunned episode post tory election landslide, in which we listen simultaneously, to both the French and English soundtracks, of Chris Marker's Le Train En Marche, in an attempt perhaps, to revisit, and even find a route back to, th…

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Music For Birds 58:52

4+ y ago58:52

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Performed by humans, Produced by birds.An international phone conversation, London to Berlin, with Elo Masing representing Berlin based WIG (improvisational trio), and Simon Tyszko in London, discussing the world's first musical transcription produced by birds,Music For Birds by WIG, and It's genesis within the glamorous and rarefied world of cross…

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Unprepared Piano stories 58:52

5y ago58:52

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From Chile to Chatham both haunted and alive.Some field recordings and ambient sounds from summer 2019.A zoom recorder balanced just below the pendulum of an ancient yet working grandfather clock in a central room of a venerable Kent House, picks up the steady yet illusory passage of time along with snippets of my extended (Small) family life and c…

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Voiced, spoken, said, uttered, expressed, articulated, oral, by mouth. 58:51

5y ago58:51

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A Radio impression of VOCALIS, an irregular performance event at the delicious Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall London.VOCALIS places emphasis on giving voice in many forms; sharing ideas, drawing on collective memory and Beaconsfield’s long engagement with text, time-based/live art, performance and sound. Informal and open, Vocalis happens in Beacons…

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extinction or rebellion, rebellion or extinction….THIS IS NOT A DRILL! 59:33

5y ago59:33

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99.7% scientific consensus414 parts of CO2 per million, the highest in earths history.Once in a lifetime weather events every week.Mass extinction and loss of natural habitat happening now.Short term profits in place of life as we know it.We are facing an unprecedented global emergency. Life on Earth is in crisis: scientists agree we have entered a…

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Multilingual, multifaceted, Intended, Multiplex, Zoe Zakovski 58:52

5y ago58:52

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A play on wordsZoe Zarkovsi and Simon Tyszko engage in Word play or wordplay (also: play-on-words) being a literary technique and a form of wit in which words used become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.Examples of word play include puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and…

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A convivial conversation with a cat on a bike as the crane cries 58:06

5y ago58:06

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This particular episode revolves around a trip to the vet with Idoru the cat, during which we share a delightful conversation around topics of the day.Our cycling conversation perfectly sets the scene for a program approaching the cutting edges of trans-species art research, featuring tracks from a new album entitled 'Crane Cries', which revolves a…

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Ken Livingstone’s London. Red, Red, and very very missed 58:52

5y ago58:52

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Ken LivingstoneKen Livingstone, The only truly successful left-wing British politician of modern times......is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as Mayor of London from the creation of the office in 2000 until 2008. He also served as the Member o…

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Mr Dante fontana and some Free Jazz, as political lens, or mirror? 58:52

5y ago58:52

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a doctored image, not fakeThe song Mr Dante Fontanna, comes from the 1966 film Fumo Di Londra a vehicle for Alberto Sordi and was composed by Piero Piccioni who was in turn pianist, organist, conductor, composer, and architect, he was also the prolific author of more than 300 film soundtracks. He played for the first time on radio in 1938 with his …

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Extinction or Rebellion. Our only choice now? 42:17

5y ago42:17

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oday on Isotopica we are in conversation with co-founder of Extinction Rebellion Roger Hallam.By Simon Tyszko

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Dr Ben Sessa, Psychedelic research, and Simon Tyszko 1:10:03

5+ y ago1:10:03

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"As part of the UCL psychedelic research team, Iv’e been legally administered LSD, Psilocybin, DMT, ketamine, and MDMA in the past ten years " (by Professor David Nutt no less).By Simon Tyszko

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Potemkin and an improvised score 59:13

7y ago59:13

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Ingredients.An impending anniversary of revolution, one of the great films of the 20C, an assembled group of musicians, some professional, some not, a beautifully restored 150yr old cinema, a mastermind or two.Mix the ingredients without any rehearsal or predetermination (in the style of Cardew's scratch Orchestra), screen the film and improvise (w…

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Coltrane, Einstein, and the Bomb 58:05

7y ago58:05

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Dartmouth professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander describes his jazz epiphany as occasioned by a complex diagram Coltrane gave legendary jazz musician and University of Massachusetts professor Yusef Lateef in 1967. “I thought the diagram was related to another and seemingly unrelated field of study—quantum gravity,” he writes in a Business I…

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Binaural Sine Waves, Mind Control, And Some Radiation (In A Storm) 58:05

7y ago58:05

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mind control through sound...beta and gamma radiation....a radioactive thunderstorm...past life regression.... and much much more on isotopica.... like wow!By Simon Tyszko

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A Saucepan, A Freud, A Fox, And I 58:05

7y ago58:05

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we prepared a saucepan,and played it as a semi autonomous instrumentby lighting and adjusting the gas.we added a partial recording of a new text by jimmy fox (16 and a half)... we then added some wax cylinder recordings and other sound items,we treated this all with a complex array of digital effects, and then mixed the various sound files into tod…

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sutton ritzy 1:00:04

7+ y ago1:00:04

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simon tyszko in conversation with dudley sutton, in which dudley tells us about his experience of the english middle class, censorship and the queenBy Simon Tyszko

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Dr Sutton Talks Paranormia 1:00:36

7+ y ago1:00:36

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dudley sutton and i converse live whilst raising funds for resonance fm dot com......dudley imdb dudley wikipediadudley sutton, national treasureyou too can own one or more of theseBy Simon Tyszko

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international brigades (south west london) 58:05

7+ y ago58:05

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a field recording of a moving event in bishops park fulham at a memorial for the local lives lost and the wider struggle of the international brigade in their historic fight against the facists in spain. the memorial was placed by the socialist council in 2007. the event recorded here marks the anniversary of The Battle of Jarama (February 6–27, 19…

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bingo number stations (ode to brexit) 58:05

7+ y ago58:05

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as britain heads towards the cultural cliff edge of the foul brexit, isotopica considers this fate with a kind of 'carry on' number stations edition.... early edison wax cylinders, field recordings and judiciously selected samples make up this edition, as well as a world premiere of 'ode to brexit' by yours truly.…

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pleasant yet sad piano 58:05

7+ y ago58:05

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another long slow one, a glimpse of an even longer pice in progress, filmic reference, field recordings, spectral effects, and moods.......By Simon Tyszko

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strange french 58:05

7+ y ago58:05

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sometimes a piece of music just grabs the moment and right now for me it is la vie moderne by Léo Ferré,who was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death...and also we start the broadcast with Golden Dark, the haun…

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early reverb 58:05

7+ y ago58:05

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my dark mood presents time stretched early music, ivor cutler, gina birch and a treacle thick drone, what's not to like?By Simon Tyszko

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agit prop rev olt 58:05

7+ y ago58:05

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REVOLTINGa collage of political spoken word collected from 1960's radical cinema (heavily from jean luc goddard's sounds of england),field recordings and attenuated recordings of installation at of wall mounted airflow instruments.By Simon Tyszko

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devil cat 58:09

7+ y ago58:09

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The “LionMan” is the earliest known work of figurative art, reliably dated to before 40,000 BCE, this mystery piece was fashioned from a mammoth tusk, and depicts a leonine head with a human mouth, atop a leonine body with human arms, standing erect on human legs. Rediscovered in the Swabian Alb, south-west Germany, just two days before the outbrea…

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two thousand and sixteen a reverb review 1:59:08

7+ y ago1:59:08

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https://player.vimeo.com/video/1973974022016 & very left wingAt the end of 2016 isotopica find’s itself politically twisted, exhausted, and for virtually the first time ever, almost stunned into a radio silence.. As the banal and reactionary forces breaths a foul new life into intolerance ignorance and prejudice, we present a highly processed and v…

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hey radical 58:07

7+ y ago58:07

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Isotopica today takes a detour around Radical Voices, an exhibition of radical literature in UCL’s Senate House library with artist in residence Orlando Harrison and secret guests, we also do a little secret urban exploring via tiny book lifts around the secret shelves in the great Senate tower.[advanced_iframe securitykey="57341ed54fbcaf450fb79cd7…

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strange cycles 58:04

7+ y ago58:04

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today we are featuringGOLDEN DARKwhich.....was born out of the serendipitous meeting of two musical dyslexics - Elo Masing and David John Hull - who had been feeling their way through seemingly radically different musical traditions: psychedelic folk and experimental new music.The result is a strikingly original melange that cannot fail to leave th…

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Paris sans Martin Stone, sans arcades, mais avec le marché et les amateurs de certains 58:34

7+ y ago58:34

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Martin Stoneborn 11 December 1946,Â died November the 7th 2016 at home in his apartment in Versailles on the outskirts of Paris. He died quietly in his sleep after a year long fight against cancer and was cared for by his long term partner Lynn. Martin was an English guitarist and rare book dealer. A longtime resident of Fingest in Buckinghamshire,…

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St Tropez et Le Catholique 58:05

7+ y ago58:05

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a post reality episode including poetry, abortion, god & it's patriarchy, references to st tropez and moreBy Simon Tyszko

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back in the sea oh engerlund 59:00

8y ago59:00

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David Ellis and Simon Tyszko groan and moan about the utter banality & sheer absurdity of brexit ad nauseam and infinitum... they try not to swearBy Simon Tyszko

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who am eye (my european identity) 58:35

8y ago58:35

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who am eye.Cary Grant was very excited by and fond of LSD Post unnecessary plebiscite, handed down to the uk by simply the most arrogant and incompetent prime minister we have ever experienced, this silly little island is in search of an identity..... like an early teenager trying on new styles and fashions engerlund, is struggling to understand wh…

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br-exit back into the sea oh silly engerlund 59:00

8y ago59:00

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eye seaPersonally, i find the whole notion of engerlund (as it is now to be known) leaving the eu to be both absurdist and obscene.a political car crash so obvious in the making yet one this little land has sunk to embracing. morally, politically, strategically, financially, historically it is an abortion of our liberal future. so here is an an epi…

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titled with a swear word about brexits 58:48

8y ago58:48

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cunt It's a perfectly nice little word, a word with 800 years of history; a word used by Chaucer and by Shakespeare. Semantically, it serves the same function as "dick" or "prick" – a signifier for a sexual organ which can also be used as a descriptor or insult, a word that is not passive, but active, even aggressive. It's the only word we have to …

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Z 58:34

8y ago58:34

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Isotopica today is in conversation with Zelda Cheatle, Photographer, Curator, Academic and the woman who influenced and oversaw the rise of Fine Art photography thru her time at the Photographers gallery and her own eponymous Gallery. A fine time was had by all....Zelda Cheatle by kurt van Steelantphotosensitive silver halide grains under an electr…

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Ropac:s 59:01

8y ago59:01

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today on isotopica we speak with Thaddaeus Ropac,owner and director of the eponymous european galleries….. we converse and let our toes skim the surface of what is a deep mystery to many contemporary artists….. the art market and the gallery system.. as ever i claim few journalistic skills and actually find myself a little out of my bleak comfort z…

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psychic 50:36

8y ago50:36

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Mr David Ellis & Mr Simon Tyszko continue their random journeys thru the strange ephemera of empire past..... Today in thei haBy Simon Tyszko

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Tibetan electroshock 58:40

8y ago58:40

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electro shock in the age of stupidaHadean Eon (formally known as pre cambrian)EoarcheanPaleoarcheanMesoarcheanNeoarcheanMesoproterozoicNeoproterozoicPaleozoicMesozoicCenozoicSubatlanticSubboreal,Atlantic,Boreal,Preboreal,which is subdivided intoHoloceneAnthropogeny and finally......Homo-amathês = the age of stupidresults gave up drinking, output bo…