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  • About MeHello and welcome to my website. My name is Jyoti Mishra. According to my server stats, there’s an 83% probability you’re viewing this page because in 1997 I had a brief flirt with fame when my band, White Town, had an international number one hit with my song ‘Your Woman.’ You can find out plenty of detail behind what happened then in some of the rants on this site. Though I’ve left out the bit about EMI reducing me to crying in the bath. (You can listen to and buy all my non-EMI stuff by clicking here!) I was born in India and moved to Britain with my family when I was three. We moved around a lot when I was young and I ended up in Derby at around the age of ten. I was the annoying know-it-all kid at school, a title I held alongside fattest lad. I left school at 16 specifically to go on the dole and join a band. I’ve been a songwriter since then. I became a revolutionary Marxist in the ’80s, via the orthodox Trots known as the Militant Tendency. It was the best education I’ve ever had. Nowadays I tend more towardsu0026hellip;
  • HeroesThese are a few of my heroes:
  • White Town
  • Synthlover
  • Photography
  • August 16, 2026

    On Kage Baker

    (This is replying to a post on Bluesky)

    I wish she was better known as a writer. As someone who has a not-normal gender/sexual identity, I usually skip the romance/sex parts of most books. But Baker… she captures human truth that other writers can’t. I never feel a sense of dread when romance starts flowering in her narratives.

    She can make the most real, most grounded emotions play out amidst robots, time travel and wildly varying historical settings.

    I miss the feeling of knowing a new KB book was arriving, that delicious excitement of knowing I was going to throw myself into that universe again.

    Just genius. ??

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  • August 15, 2026

    It’s SIMPLISTIC!

    Please stop saying ‘simplistic’ when you actually mean ‘simple.’

    ARGHGH

    “This is a simplistic solution.”

    DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME AS
    .
    “This is a simple solution.”

    The first is a criticism, the second is a compliment/boast.

    Yes, I’m a cranky old man.

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  • August 14, 2026

    Musk The Mass Murderer

    Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14?051?750 (uncertainty interval 8?475?990–19?662?191) additional all-age deaths, including 4?537?157 (3?124?796–5?910?791) in children younger than age 5 years, by 2030. (Source: The Lancet)

    In his destruction of USAID, #ElonMusk will personally be responsible for around 14 million deaths, 4 million of those being children under 5. 

    Think about what kind of person you have to be to know that your actions are going to cause this much death and misery and to still spend most of your time acting like a 14yo 4Chan Edgelord.

    The billionaires have to go. All of them.

    #AllBillionairesAreEvil #YesEvenThatOneYouBootlick #EatTheRich #Capitalism #CapitalistHellscape

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  • August 11, 2026

    Nat Markeaton

    After our excellent lunch, a few snaps at Markeaton Park.

    I was burping.

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  • August 11, 2026

    Duncombe Arms, Ashbourne

    A short drive away to have some of the absolutely tastiest food I’ve scarfed down in a long time. Everything, EVERYTHING was beautifully flavoured and perfectly cooked.

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