Ian Robinson

@ianrobinson.info

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Belfast based writer, walker, atheist, cinema lover, hobby musician, science junkie, perpetual maths student, cricket fan, chess patzer. I post about new music a LOT! #Music #NewMusic

The Apple Weather widget on iPhone showing the current temperature is 17°C in Stormont, Dundonald, Belfast at 21:35 on Tuesday 23rd June 2026.
The cover of the book THE 21st CENTURY BRAIN. Cutting edge neuroscience to help us navigate the future. By DR HANNAH CRITCHLOW. I’d had a colourful outline of a brain A side on view.
The hardback edition of Everything Must Go by Dorian Lynskey in my living room bookcase with other hardback editions I’ve bought.
A screenshot of a post by Adam Roberts followed by one by me asking and asserting that the Brazilian athletes came in stilsuits from Dune novels.
Screenshot that has the following text: Please Stand By film is very good. Suitable amounts of mild peril for the main character, who is autistic and has issues interacting with people, trying to get from San Francisco to Los Angeles. To hand in her exceptionally long (500+ pages) script for a Star Trek fan writing contest at Paramount Pictures. Dakota Fanning is ace playing the lead character. Worth 1.5 hours of your time to watch it. 👍🏻 8/10.
A list of the names of right wing kooks and fascist USA military organisations that I filter so that posts mentioning them are removed from my feed.
A bookcase in my living room with various books in it. Including three Folio Society Dune books with a space for the new fourth God Emperor of Dune book I've just ordered.
The Essence novel by Dave Hutchinson on the Apple Books Store.
The Lock Screen of my iPhone. Showing the sun low on the horizon shining through some leafless trees on a winter day.
The Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning film page on Apple TV.
The cover of Illustrators magazine issue Nine. Shows an alien creature looking up into the sky from an exoplanet.
A screen recording of me hiding an annoying overlay on a web page in Safari on iPhone
A screenshot of a Bluesky post saved in Craft app.
A view up my street from outside my house. A clear blue sky with a bright yellow sun just climbing after it rose ago 90 minutes previously
A green Brian May Guitars electric guitar and a natural wood Lowden acoustic guitar sitting on guitar stands in my living room. With sunlight from outside shining on them.
A screenshot of my January 2025 Apple Music Replay stats page. Showing I listened for 3,231 minutes. Top artist was Hawkwind. Top song was Sprinter by Cat Ridgeway. Top album was When It All Goes Quiet from OLI.
Screenshot from Clash Magazine on Instagram. With the following quote: "I'm lucky because I no longer have to raise money on touring, which younger musicians are often forced to do. In that respect, Spotify is probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians. The streaming culture has changed an entire society and an entire generation of artists." - Björk via Dagens Nyheter
The three hosts of For Your Consideration on my living room TV.
An arch over a path in Most Park that has the text “Welcome to Moat Park Fairy Trail” on the top section of the arch.
Screenshot from Apple Weather showing the current wind speed average (41 kilometres per hour from south east) and maximum gusts (77 41 kilometres per hour from south east).
A screenshot from the iOS Letterboxd app showing the JustWatch provided rental and purchase options for a film.
A black rectangle with a map of the Earth drawn in white dots. The map is centred on Europe with two dots about London in orange.
Film posters for the four films I picked as favourites on Letterboxd. They are from left to right: 1. CODA 2. The Incredibles 3. Lawrence of Arabia 4. The Valet (2022)
A short clip from the Saoirse Ronan film called Hanna.
Screenshot from Apple Weather showing the wind speed chart from midnight on Thursday to Midnight on Friday. The wind peaks about 07:00 with an average speed around 70 kilometres per hour with gusts over 130 kilometres per hour at the same time.
Screenshot of the Government Severe Alert sent to mobile phones in Northern Ireland due to the RED warnings for strong winds.
Dundonald cemetery taken from an upstairs window in my house looking over my garden. The grass and trees are covered in heavy white frost. The sky is most clear blue with a few white and gray clouds.
The account deactivation and delete screen on Threads.
My living room TV cabinet without a Christmas tree. It does have my 49inch screen, a HomePod Stereo Pair, a LEGO Saturn V rocket model, and satellite speakers from a Harman Kardon soundsticks (for backup if the HomePods aren’t working - I haven’t had to use them yet. Plus a WiFi router.
The summary sheet from my 2024 Apple Music Replay stats. It shows: Top Album was Queen 1 (2024 Mix) by Queen. Queen was also the artist I listened to the most. My most listened-to song was Godspeed by Ava Morse. Which had 52 plays, although that’s not shown in this picture. I probably played it more than that, as the plays were split over a single release and then an album release.
The information page for the film Christmas with the Coopers on AppleTV app on my living room TV. With my Christmas tree beside the TV.
A notification on my iPhone Home Screen saying: Best morning to see Mercury. Look for Mercury in the eastern sky shortly before sunrise tomorrow morning.
A brick fireplace with a log fire burning in it. On my living room TV. From Magic Fireplace app on AppleTV.
A large yellow cardboard box of Tunnock’s Tea Cakes. It contains 36 tea cakes.
A view of Divis Mountain and Black Mountain plus Cave Hill mountain to the west of Belfast. Picture taken from Sydenham in East Belfast looking over residential areas and the shipyard and aircraft factory.
The 20th Century Studios Hollywood skyline and searchlight film opening credits.
An oblique view of the islands of Ireland and Great Britain from the International Space Station over the Atlantic Ocean. Lots of cities and towns are lit up with street lights on both islands.
The What If film homepage on AppleTV. With my Christmas tree and lights around the TV
My Christmas tree sitting to the left side of my TV on my TV cabinet. There are over 500 LED lights coloured yellow, red, blue, and green on the tree and spread out under the TV then a single strand running up the wall behind the TV and hanging around a picture on the wall. The picture is an artist’s depiction of sunrise on a planet on an alien solar system. The TV shows the artwork from the Du Blonde album called Sniff More Gritty.
Two sets of led Christmas lights lit up and spread out on my living room floor.
A screenshot of my Wrapstodon stats for Mastodon. I’m in the top 0.1% of users and made 13,066 posts. With Music being my most used hashtag.
A line chart from HealthExport app on iPhone showing how many kilometres I walked per day in September. The total is 178.786
The image is of the book “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: 2 Quanta and Fields” by Sean Carroll. The cover features a dark blue cosmic background with galaxies and a glowing number 2. The book is described as “luminous” by Carlo Rovelli and notes that the author is a winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize.
The front and back covers of the NEL paperback edition of Dune. Showing a Fremen fighter with the blue spice eyes, five other Fremen walking away, a spice harvester, and two ornithopters.