With Irmin Schmidt's new album Requiem reviewed on tQ today, you can also revisit the Can keyboardist and composer's archive Baker's Dozen... Irmin Schmidt’s Favourite Records: #ThePortal - Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/Pk4Xxvt

hooooo boy www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

“paper-shaped objects” - @emilymbender.bsky.social www.404media.co/google-deepm...

a reminder that wholesale copying artistic photography for a painting is often still plagiarism, even though it’s two different mediums

It's Monday!

a rude technology deserves a rude response

I love when humans respect animals

Incredible piece. Just incredible. www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

oh wait the NYP already did nypost.com/2026/04/26/u...

OMG. I just experienced a U2 apple bug again. My phone started playing that shit instead of something else. Over a decade later that bug is still embedded in so many edge case. With me it happens with voice recorder app. Sometimes your acoustic recording gets replaced with U2 for no fucking reason.

Fucking hell. Lost a bass player this week but gained a new one a day later. Turns out he's fucking brilliant. Absolutely nailed a lot of stuff just improvising. He's notoriously unreliable though according to legend. He was still an hour & half late even though he texted me an hour before the jam!

At the SATs, nobody knows you're a dog.

So many examples. Luckily some make it through due to sheer spite.

We are training Marcel to “sit” with guidance from @mikeldelgado.bsky.social. He’s a super smart boy who needs stimulation and challenges and this has been great for him!

It's weird how costs have altered music. Fela Kuti had 70 people on the touring team at its peak. Not all those were in the band of course but a huge number of people to move around. It's really hard to do a big band these days.

Ouch!

#Chornobyl fallout cloud animation over four weeks https://youtu.be/mqu_l29WioM#Chornobyl

The people yearn for a time when insanely rich paedophiles could at least dance.

ITV are about to show Shaun of the Dead, just in case you haven’t already seen it 1,000 times.

The funny thing about Hannah Spencer is that she’s literally exactly what everyone pretends they want from politicians in political media: a working class woman who has broken into politics from a normal job, speaking her mind from genuine lived experience. And they fucking hate her for it lol

What, like this?

If any of the FBI agents apparently newly monitoring BlueSky have any questions about sharks, you know where to find me

A lightning-packed line of storms charges across Kansas this afternoon.

The n is 1, so let’s not draw actual conclusions. But I seem to be in the minority here for finding “the shooter is normal poster who engages with normal accounts” pretty unsettling, particularly if it’s at all representative of larger trends.

all cats are criminals and must engage in a certain number of crimes to retain cat status

Thinking or trying somewhere new for my haircut this week.

Coming summer 2027 "Now then Now then" the heartwarming tale of a quirky marathon runner who raised a lot of money for charity.

recreating iconic moments in music video history

The owl-y trinity

Op-Ed writers this week

Sunday mood ...

New Weirdest Unit Of Comparison just dropped.

"I don’t think there’s any putting the genie back in the bottle at this point."

astonishing scenes to live through i think we can all agree, but thankfully the BBC have a live feed keeping us all updated www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

once you know that police are *trained* to shout “put your gun down!” *after* they’ve shot someone, because they know witnesses will remember it happening the other way around, it’s very hard to take paranormal podcasts seriously

I actually thought the video had frozen for a bit but no. The capybara just stopped moving completely for ages. Just staring into the distance.

It's like when the UK police shot a suspected "terrorist" who was actually a Brazilian tourist running fast to catch his train. They assumed running fast meant he must be a guilty guy.

What even is fake to people these days? Like they could have shot someone by mistake & all kind of fuckery could have kicked off in a panic. The CCTV looks like they saw someone running for the loo because they had diarrhoea but shot them. Was that planned? Uh probably not. Was it dumb as hell? Yes.

Idk man, I think the journalists who have been traumatized the most were not sitting in that room tonight. The feds gassed the shit out of us, knocked us over, sent in the local PD to harass, detain, and hurt us, shot a teenaged photographer in the face and he lost an eye, and that's just in LA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbrs... 8 hours of capybara and chill

no journalists were present. feel bad for the waiters

I was writing jokes for Amber Ruffin when she was supposed to host the White House Correspondent's Dinner last year, but then she got fired for saying bad things about Donald Trump. I think tonight, I shall post a few of them here.

Professional advice. You might be pretty late to arrive on location but don't run this fast when you attend a government dick sucking event staged for the media. They might think you run too fast or something.

every few months, americans are asked to resume their banquet and pretend a shooting didn't just happen

What if my bollocks like the sun? My bollocks were moaning about being stuck in a dark place just yesterday.

Yeah because chatbots are basically role playing games. That's why system prompts have glib things at the beginning like "You are a super helpful assistant." It's all bollocks linguistic probability games really. Chatbots are a clever parlour trick that should never have left the lab.

it’s a chaotic situation here at Versailles but we’re hearing some chanting about bread prices?? I think it goes without saying that this is an attack on all of us

Is this a first? I've literally never seen a post with zero replies but lots of quotes and reposts.

Whatif they needed to get him out of the room before the spell wore off and he becomes a sack of bugs again?

Lol. They left Melania under the table.