Wasn’t expecting my old boss to become the main character on Bluesky tonight. (I think some missed the sarcasm in his post about art nerds being obsessive, and I can say that he’s not the tech bro he’s being painted as…but I doubt that’ll help)

Helvetica Black practicing her Ron Mael pose

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders. Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

Spotify is strangling the music industry – bands like mine must make a stand Artists are being ripped off by streaming services in a business that is more unfair, uncreative and exclusive than ever, writes Gareth David https://bit.ly/4kuzTiv

London’s Southbank Centre has been listed, ending a 35-year battle to secure heritage protection for the 1960s Brutalist landmark.

The (much expanded upon) full story is here: www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/03/the-...

British values (laudatory) m.youtube.com/watch?v=f6VB...

Spending the evening on gov.uk trying to see if the UK government is going to wreck our holiday plans for this year (my daughter falls into a very odd loophole where she is not automatically a UK citizen, but could register as one…so does she need an ETA or not from the end of the month…)

At long last, we have created Solaris, the Tyrant Sun from Grant Morrison's classic comic seres "Don't Create Solaris, the Tyrant Sun."

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

Back in London later this year to see Saint Etienne at Shepherd's Bush Empire! (I like SE concerts as I almost never feel like the oldest person in the room ;))

We are now at "is there anything to be said for holding another Mass?"

Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

Still no Wagner??

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: batten down the hatches, tie down any loose valuables, Paul Shane is singing on Pebble Mill, with Mike Holoway from Flintlock - promoting a musical!

if you don’t think you can campaign on abolishing this agency and prosecuting the people involved - if you don’t think you’re able to make that case using this video and other like it - get the fuck out of politics

Because I have to focus on something else: the idea of a Blake’s 7 reboot is just so pointless. It was a good to terrible series. Just let it be and…write something new, maybe? Let that ending be the last of it.

me when you get your acoustic guitar out at a party I was up to that point enjoying

Once again, I ask why American hotels have seeming almost total aversion to overhead lights.

Every time I pretend that CLT will be different, and every time it ruins my day.

My increasingly militant self:

This title card makes this documentary look like a one-series sitcom by LWT in the late ‘80s

In Dublin, on Fenian Street, there's a factory that makes child sex abuse material. You can pay it money, as a subscription, and that's one of the services it offers. This doesn't happen by mistake or because you've tricked or hacked the system. It’s a feature. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

Dennis Waterman at the 1983 Logie Awards is very VERY clearly drunk, and he's got a feme tune to sing

40 YEARS AGO TODAY: we meet Lovejoy for the first time as he meets Eric and Lady Jane before embarking on an investigation that leads to his getting involved with an antique theft gang that leads to the death of Ronald Fraser and a bombing.

white guys who want to sneer at the resolve of liberal and left wing white women right now: this is a superb time to shut the fuck up and go do something useful instead

My Christmas project — training a viable embedding model on 'hobby' hardware in under 24hrs! snappishproductions.com/blog/2026/01...

The shooter and Bovino have to be arrested. ICE murdered someone in broad daylight.

The message here should be “we want the shooter.”

“And then Robin gets his cock out?”

low polyamory

I might be in a situation where I don’t have a spare figure 8 cable and I feel that means I have failed as a father.

RETVRN

Love it when I start reading a book that opens with lauding Pearl Jam “not selling out”, before partly blaming today’s cultural woes on poptimism. Is this all because I wrote a glowing review of ‘Biology’ back in 2025? (Very sorry, everybody.)

"Script: John Wagner" Okay, I'm in

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#Discourse2000 returns with the best #2000AD story yet as Judge Dredd goes epic in a story about horror, history, Britain's idea of America and what it means to be "THE LAW" - join me for a saunter across THE CURSED EARTH freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2026/0...

There is absolutely no way that a Muppet Show episode with Sabrina Carpenter can live up to the hype in my head, but fine I guess they’ve got me…

Meades’ “France” documentary trilogy has to be the most “mask off” set…

We don't want it! Send it back!

There is a bit of a difference between S1 and the rest too…it's not like it was ever edgy, but there was a lot more nudity in the first series than I was expecting, having grown up with it as "that thing on Sunday evenings that we don't watch"

I get to post the best image I've ever made again. Happy New Year's!

MTV shuts down music channels that started in 1991. BBC radio, which started in 1922, is still broadcasting

Not only a perfect denouement, it was the end of an era. Thirty years ago today, this strip was published.

It's NYE back home, so it's time to bring out the Southern swansong once more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=76LD...

"why is my training taking five times as long?" <ten hours later> "Oh, I'm using the _decoder_ variant of ettin instead of the _encoder_" *sets fire to the past 48 hours of work*

This is a day for Dad. (Which means everybody else is out so it’s safe)