Alan Hay

Poet but don't look too closely / DJ inasmuch as everyone in Brighton seems to be / NHS administrator for as long as this shit holds up.

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@Andr6wMale Arthur Russell: A Platform On The Ocean

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@Andr6wMale O’Jays: Ship Ahoy

[Marc Riley ⚽️🍺🐳 @marcrileydj]

It really is a great thing mate. A proud document of how we really were. There’s no posturing or smoke and mirrors here. We were a great band… like no other. Very proud of this (& Slates Live). Lots of work from myself, Craig, @hanleyPa @Stephenhanley6 & cast. 💥

[The Jase 🐶 🎸 🎥 @jasemonkey]

Donald Trump's 'Eating The Dogs' transcribed for trombone.

[London Review of Books @LRB]

‘These songs don’t feel “written” in any conventional way; they are like pollen on the breeze. Words as vibrations, passing places, silvered keys to unlock the heart.’

Ian Penman (@pawboy2) on the many-faceted music of Arthur Russell: https://t.co/C5qquAWYb0

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@robertrea circles, and the racism I grew up with just stayed there pretty much the same. The communities it was in were largely ignored and we assumed / felt it was dealt with. But tbh whenever I went home through 80s - 2010s it didn’t seem very different. Maybe just my experience.

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@robertrea I agree. But - I think I’m maybe from a similar background to you. First in my generation to go to uni, moved to London etc. and I wonder if a lot of the perception of change was just me moving away from estates and pit villages and market towns into metropolitan, progressive /1

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@bbboatclub Ooof. This is from Ship Ahoy, check the title track - absolutely epic soul trip about slavery and the middle passage, sound effects, strings, really haunted and moving.

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

Dylan Thomas describing a heatwave.

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@stephencgrant Nightwatchman in test cricket makes no sense.

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@indosinchak @RobBryher It’s not Caroline Lucas anymore. She had a huge personal following, some of which drifted back to Labour after she stood down and was replaced by Sian Berry

[@[email protected] @mrchrisaddison]

Vote, and I cannot stress this enough, these cunts out.

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@AaronBastani @DaleVince @OwenJones84 Brighton *Pavilion* Aaron, important to make that clear. The other two seats in Brighton , Hove and Kemptown, both had Greens in 2019 on about 6% and certainly in Kemptown it wouldn’t take much for a Tory to be returned. Brighton people are not at all clear about this I’ve found.

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

Truly a full, leaky nappy. I mean why politicise anything. Leave all that to Lewis Goodall and just *enjoy things*. Also amazingly wrong about Shakespeare for someone who went to a £50k/yr school - that Baronet should ask for his money back innit.

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@SianThomas7 @OwenJones84 @carla_denyer a 25yo solicitor who had to withdraw racist campaign leaflets and who last year was convicted of drink driving after sharing 3 bottles of champagne on the way back from a *country shoot* if you please. /2

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@SianThomas7 @OwenJones84 @carla_denyer There are three seats in Brighton. In 2019 outside of Caroline Lucas’s seat, Pavilion, Greens got no more than their national average of 6%. If half the Labour vote in Kemptown went Greens that wouldn’t have returned a Green MP. It would have allowed a Tory to win: Joe Miller /1

[Justin - JIBREEL 公平 ☁️🌩️ @TheLamb93]

Guess who is also standing for Brighton Kemptown and Peacehaven?

Yep, Kellie-Jay Keen.

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

Computer says yellow stockings with black cross-garters

[Andrew Wilkinson @awilkinson]

I used to dress terribly.

When I had kids, I basically gave up on looking good and took “athleisure” a little too seriously. I wore a uniform of a Patagonia jacket,  black t-shirt, and black jeans.

I didn’t look terrible, but I didn’t look particularly good either. I never put any effort into my appearance and as a result I noticed my self-esteem started to slip.

A couple years ago, I did something that sounds ridiculously expensive, but isn’t. I hired a personal stylist. Basically, I sent her a bunch of photos of me, then each quarter she’d send me a whole bunch of outfits and tell me how and when to wear them.

Over time, I graduated to the point where I felt confident choosing my own outfits and started buying my own clothes again. But I noticed something.

I’d get into clothing ruts. I end up wearing the same sorts of outfits, or sometimes I’d get stuck. What kind of shirt goes with khakis again?

The other day, I tried something. I uploaded a photo of the outfit I was wearing to ChatGPT and asked: “Help me make this outfit better.”

It filled the screen with ideas.

“Try wearing it with a pair of brown desert boots, a stainless steel watch, and a pair of black sunglasses, with your hair a bit more casual.”

Suddenly, my outfit was upgraded. My girlfriend even noticed.

For the last week, I’ve been doing this every day. I’ll throw on a pair of pants or something and start asking for suggestions to go with specific outfits, or feedback on color combos—something I’ve always struggled with.

Who knew we all had a personal stylist in our pockets? So cool!

[Alan Hay @alanhay68]

@Andr6wMale A letter from a catholic adoption agency telling a young woman they couldn’t help her, inside a copy of My People Were Fair by Tyrannosaurus Rex. Letter hidden there by the person who first owned the record based on the date.