Post a banger that isn't in English. youtu.be/Vc2_urJqjPY?...

Post a banger that isn't in English. youtu.be/Kj2fdV8brXo?...

What a great version of Harborcoat!

I reckon if you could say 'the poundshops will come back, you won't have to buy shit from Temu and the cost of your shopping will come down' you'd have a solid base of pro-rejoin voters

I sometimes feel like people take policy decisions based on the Daily Mail in their head. The story since 2016 in the UK has really been, regardless of what real people actually think, to answer to the people who live in your imagination made up by right wing people who insist you respect them

Always gets me how everyone assumes that it's an ancient building. If you've ever been to a meeting there, the corridors and stuff feel a bit like a decaying seaside hotel.

Jake That, Ben Sync, The Roland Stones, The Rex Pistols, Procul Herman, Ray Against The Machine, Mercury Reg, Half Mandy Half Biscuit

Geoff Leppard, Fred Zeppelin, Jack Sabbath, Judith Priest, Brian Maiden, Seb Pultura.

Venn Om, Beth Ory, Dirk Throne, Em(ma) Puror

Dwight Stripes

Geoff Leppard, Fred Zeppelin, Jack Sabbath, Judith Priest, Brian Maiden, Seb Pultura.

Bad geeks fucking rotting everything from the inside goes back a long way it seems.

I think this year might be the one where crypto stops being a wierd fringe thing because its collapse is really going to screw over people who have never traded a thing in their lives

"Don't cry my child, you must know That every man I've ever loved Has been a child, and fatherless" youtu.be/eEvdP7LYCiE?...

Incredibly consequential story with massive repercussions and implications but: 1. Peter Mandelson looks like he is in a caravan, sorry, 'static home' 2. What the fuck is happening behind him?

I love these 'get people to talk about their favourite records' pieces from The Quietus, because talking about favourite albums is a very different proposition to talking about favourite songs. Sure you talk about time and place, but it also invites talking about the music in a more defined way

This is a good observation. People voted brexit because they wanted change on that day, but the actual effect was in the future. This future. It's very hard to engage with brexit publically because giving dire news is not what people want from figures who are meant to exude reassurance

This 100%. There was a point where platform function, network effects and fewer paywalls meant that folks who wanted to be were hyper up to date with events. For me, twitter functioned like that before Musk. Before that blogs and rss feeds. There was still a lot of noise, but also strong signal

I was once at an All Party Parliamentary Group in the palace of Westminster that had to stop for 20 minutes because a mouse ran across the floor

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Wondering: just how common were ex-jukebox seven inch singles? I had a few old Johnny Clarke reggae ones. But even yer mam and dad's crappy Amstrad hi fi had a hole with an adapter in it. Like, every record player up to a certain point was like 'now you'll be able to play them jukebox sounds daddio'

Wondering what percentage of young, fresh faced 'I'm going to use new technology for social good' folk from the years 2003-2020 you used to see at every unconference and hack day are now either A) crypto dudes B) Weird regressive dude libertarians Or C) people who actually got involved in helping

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

This is really worth your time. I've long wondered how computer game logic of interaction, as someone's rails for understanding how the world works, interacted with politics and relationships and it seems some people much more evil than me had been thinking about just that - ideology in interaction

Long been fascinated by the way rich people insulated from consequence will behave in ways that would, on any housing estate, get your windows put through. The only times in my life where I have been exposed to a pantheon of wrong 'uns is in the company of rich people.

It seems that the british Royal Family can only survive as long as it can avoid acting in ways that historic Royal Families have throughout history.

I wish we could have a return of Guards Vans on intercity services.

I wonder how many famous/rich people took the opportunity to say to their other famous/rich friends 'no, I don't think I'd like to go to Epstein's island'. And why they didn't.

Quite enjoying the phase of capitalism that says 'can we do things to make people's lives better? No, where's the glory in that. Instead, let's try to extend suffering indefinately with a scalable subscription service model'

Gee, rich people sure do enjoy knocking about with sexual predators don't they?

A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them. It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!

Newcastle and Gateshead public health chief Alice Wiseman has warned that food inequality is driving “unmanageable healthcare demands on the NHS”

This is a major point made in Michael Wolff's Trump books - people with no good name to lose. People who may have feared the derision of others but just pushed through it and found a new life rolling around in the shitty red mush of everything worst about humans.

thinkin a lot this week about how those who formed the core of the Nazi party were those who had failed in public life, had become figures of fun, and were consumed by a relentless desire to debase the society they could not flourish in

Fascinated by the dunderhead collecting process that is 'appoint a government of sycophants when you yourself are fucking rubbish', all of them running about trying to make sure they outrun future justice by making enough bank now to afford the same kinds of lawyers as their cock of a boss

On brexit day I was helping give hundreds of vulnerable people their first dose of covid vaccine in the cold about a fortnight after my sister died. Combination of human bravery and doing what needed to be done and abject horrific political careerism fucking everything up. And numb, dumb grief.

Feel a bit confused by the idea of it not being fair that those who don't go to university are subsiding those who do. A counter argument is low paid people and people out of work or unable to work are kindly subsidising the lives of those who live from profits and ownership by not making demands

A man with serious and credible threats of sexual assault against him pivoting to Men's Mental Health has wound me right up. It's said best in the piece below by @markoneinfour.bsky.social These guys hate "weak" men as much as they hate women. markoneinfour.medium.com/fear-of-othe...

I would absolutely snap up a republished collection of Moorcock era New Worlds.

I remember saying day after EU referendum results that the notion of angry men breaking stuff if their will was not enacted was being thrown about will nilly, as if the capacity for being angry and breaking stuff was suddenly the only meaningful influence on policy. I thought that was a trap then

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This worth your time. And NSUN is worth your follow and support.

I've been fascinated by the blade runners and the like around here (Kent end of South London). In some way, it occurred to me, the idea of it holds the same fascination for people as rum smuggling a couple of hundred years ago. The idea of night time resistance to taxes as being a kind of folk hero

I have had, for the last couple of months, had the unshakable and unexplainable thought that spectre of the detritus of British 70s and 80a pop culture will somehow be the power that will vanquish the wrong 'uns in US public life, like a plague found in a defrosted glacier sample.

I have had, for the last couple of months, had the unshakable and unexplainable thought that spectre of the detritus of British 70s and 80a pop culture will somehow be the power that will vanquish the wrong 'uns in US public life, like a plague found in a defrosted glacier sample.

Four monthly newspapers away off to print today. Plenty of ads sold by our small team. It never gets any less nerve-wracking. Each month is like being a band: you're only as good as your last big record. Each month I think: so much gassing on about the crisis in news, so little talk of the business

Fascinated by the implication that there could be a pre-watershed and post-watershed Internet. Also fascinated by the conflation of smart phones and social media. I do feel like we aren't asking 'what does it mean for children and young people to be present in online public space?'

I'm just going to keep saying this until I die: In a white supremacist patriarchy, you have value only insofar as you serve the white supremacist patriarchy. Kyle Rittenhouse & Ashli Babbitt did. Renee Good & Alex Pretti didn't. On Jan 6, the insurrectionists did. The cops didn't. Rinse, repeat.