"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

The UK: reverse gear, foot to the floor, eyes screwed shut

On the day Rubio inaugurated an archaeological “tunnel burrowed under a Palestinian district, along a Roman-era street” in an “archaeological park established by an Israeli settler organisation… Israeli planes bombed the most important storage depot of ancient artefacts in Gaza City”

This day in "so horrified I can't properly respond" and "the Catholic Church still has ***'ISSUES'***": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_G...

I’ve started reading ‘The End of the World’ by Ernesto De Martino. It feels timely through written in the early 1960s. Great insights on deep cultural crisis and the feeling of losing the sense of being at home in the world. I fear no happy ending!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2tyV.... Danny Thompson R.I.P...

In Intriguing Furniture news: yesterday I visited Lichfield Cathedral and found a new 13 metre long table made from a 5000-year-old oak log discovered perfectly preserved in a peat bog in 2016. The cut planks took 9 months to dry out, losing 2 tonnes of weight in the process. Definitely haunted...

A different take focusing on the "synthesizer played live in performance" aspect is interesting, and it marks the first public Moog performance to September 25, 1965, with Herbert A. Deutsch: reverb.com/news/how-ear...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSq3.... Why not have a go ascending with this instead.

you can laugh at any age but you cannot guffaw until you are 35 or older sorry

This person has my discography, @yannnovak.com , @room40.bsky.social and more than half of the artists on room40 uploaded for free download and streaming on archive. org archive.org/details/@esc... I can't deal with it now, Tomorrow is my wife's surgery but someone should have a talk w this person

What a joyful find in Oxfam for just £5.00 - this rare 1990 heavily illustrated catalogue of work by graphic designer Vaughan Oliver of 4AD

From @iheartnoise.bsky.social. Can't recommend this highly enough. Nothing else sounds quite like it - crash's voice is worn and torn but wavers with humanity and vulnerability. It's somehow from the past and the future. iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn012...

Happy 80th to Laurie Spiegel 🐦🎈🐭🎈

Caligo is still in stock at @boomkat.com, plus more of my albums. Check them out! boomkat.com/products/cal...

It would be nice to think that this could be a nail in the coffin of fossil fuel imperialism, when taken into account with Chinas use of Thorium. Fossil fuels can then go back to being just fossls www.sustainability-times.com/low-carbon-e...

It's incredible how close the Red Arrows fly together, must take nerves of steel

Private Eye

Also nothing good about being beholden to an internet connection any time you want to press play on something

Haunting comes in many forms... music.youtube.com/watch?v=dPyY...

Mental illness is an entirely legitimate response to late stage capitalism.

The book exists. First copy hand delivered by my editor at Yale, who was on his way to see Pulp in Boston! Thank you super blurb crew Jarvis Julia Heba Jeff Stephin @lizpelly.bsky.social & @simonreynolds.bsky.social PREORDER LINK: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Stop what you're doing and listen to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c40S...

Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops of wine, the dew. -Adam Zagajewski Resharing a favorite. [trans. Clare Cavanagh, published in TheNewYorker’s Sept 2001 special issue] #everynightapoem

reboost!!!! alt tech - leave big tech pad.riseup.net/p/online-too...

Farewell to a true genius m.youtube.com/watch?v=a-S7...

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

Ruin a band by sharing screenshots of the drummer's tweets about immigration.

Long term sober alcoholic here. People who insist they have to be on social media for work reasons always phrase their justifications for not quitting in terms anyone who has been in a programme will recognise.

Blows my mind that there are so many public domain image resource sites out there, that will happily let you use some incredible imagery for absolutely nothing, yet some bands and artists persist with real dogshit looking AI bollocks. Bleak.

Imagine how fucked we'd all be if bandcamp went.

that's probably enough modular synthesizer records for now, thanks.

Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves To Death and Technopoly makes the point that: It is actively damaging to your mental health to be constantly exposed to/engaged with terrible events that you can take no actions over. It erodes your sense of capacity and your ability to act.

#otd 1962 — white supremacists attempted to assassinate Black civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi. While staying with her friend Mary Tucker, racists drove by, firing 16 shots at her, all of which missed. #history bird.makeup/users/wrkcla...

This album is immense. Nothing else quite like it.

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

On the same day in the Telegraph:

mystery blue object

Why You Should Only Work 3–4 Hours a Day, Like Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf & Adam Smith

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam,Soundgarden or Alice In Chains.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Show of hands for this #bandcampfriday! Who owns a CD player and wants to hear some new music? Click a like and you just might get interesting something from us...

Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.

This country has always been split into two camps: freedom to be naked and freedom from naked people.

Currently failing the 'not cutting off and eating a bit of the parmesan before returning it to the the fridge' challenge for the 3728th time

I still am trying to convince David Tibet to do Time After Time

Turns out the category of "worst man to ever make comics" is a crowded field.