Feels like a Zulu Rock kind of day open.spotify.com/album/6hngrx...

I’m going to be thinking about this one for a while

If you see this, quote with an image from a game that released the year you were born. absolute banger

I worked at an Ottakar’s bookshop and then a Waterstones when I guess I was 20-23, so end of 90s, v.early 2000s and it was wild how much control I had over what I stocked, I ran the sci-fi, fantasy, horror, comics, music and mind, body, spirit sections and I had almost free reign with very limited

Kill jester

Evidence Bluesky doesn’t have the juice, haven’t heard a single sniff about this until I heard one of the mixes on a Union Saint Gilloise reel (more proof they’re the best) And it’s been out a month

wealth inequality is bad and all that but I've also just discovered these Wrensilva record consoles, which start at around $13,000 so we're either all going to have to suddenly get a lot richer or I'm going to have to abandon you all to your fates and just become incredibly well off on my own

ok, I'm used to seeing crappy songs uploaded to Spotify under a bigger artists name to scrape a few plays but this is a new one on me, essentially a real band uploaded a joke EP/advert under the band name Kyuss (& they're not hiding who they actually are) (you seen this before @mrtrick.bsky.social?)

I can say with a decades plus experience now, for me at least, the most annoying thing about having to have a government issued ID card is having to waste half a day at the commune when you need a replacement, which I’ve had to do twice in that time YMMV

ohooooo @discopogo.bsky.social have lowered the paywall temporarily so you can read my ***AWARD-WINNING*** article about Sade's relationship to the dancefloor and deep cultural flows.... go go go

There is no way it should be legal to make someone this drunk still have to get up to get a flight

Inappropriate, presumptive, date night movies is such a rich field I have a particular fondness for a first date I had at the bfi in the early 2000s to see Blackboards, a film entirely in Kurdish, about Iranian teachers trying to find new students whilst being chemically bombed Pure romance

Queen

Now to take a big sip of coffee and put on Salo, this month’s DVD from my Foreign Films Club

Kid’s play area manager: You paint those murals of jellyfish? Painter: Sure did boss, real fuckin penis shaped, just like you asked. Kid’s play area manager: what.

Do you think he’s asked for a refund for those prayers now it’s been updated it was detainees not ICE scumbags that were shot?

Can’t say I’m entirely happy about going home tomorrow 😑

I always liked that @clashmusic.com went out of their way a decade or so ago to actually clarify what their review scores meant Still never stopped me having clients complain about 6s or 7s

Once again the non existence of good billionaires can be instantly proven by the fact any single one of these money gobbling freaks could, hands off, fund a dozen print & online news titles that are just free not to handmaid the apocalypse and yet none of these shits ever fucking do

once again thought I'd suffered some kind of blunt force trauma during the night, only to realise my timeline had been set to Discover

Seriously where does Paul Verhoeven go to get his apology

Oh mate…

“many Bothans died to bring us this information, wait till Imperial taxpayers hear about this unfunded, and frankly inefficient as far as planetary destruction goes, second Death Star”

You may try but i can tell you that you will never create a better strapline for a game called Honor’s End than they came up with here

There’s a bloke here doing ‘widths’ of the swimming pool, just feels like an incredible new kind of annoying man has dropped

Nothing but respect for people who are like, people who own boats are loaded, let’s create a magazine for them, now… what shall we call it?

This is a great piece, shows not only how games are an intrinsic part of our cultures but also how you can use them to tell wider stories. Excellent stuff

I am admittedly at least 3/4 cut but I have just become overwhelmed with a need to own a sparklets globemaster soda siphon. As a kid I was obsessed with the one my nan had and am now fundamentally very annoyed I didn’t inherit it, what a beautiful object

Has Wired dropped its page count by about half?! Just went to pick up a copy and it felt like a pamphlet

Happy new Castle Rat album release day to all who celebrate, we've had it on repeat for the last 6 weeks or so and it's a monster, literally US: castlerat.bandcamp.com/album/the-be... UK/EU: www.bluesfuneral.com/search?q=cas...

It’s very funny and entirely expected that being super anti-gen AI art/writing/etc seems to be exponentially more popular than being pro-human artists/writers

So, you know we've a new print mag out in a hot minute but that also means we can finally spend some time on our new website too Kicking things off @macreadymusings.bsky.social speaks to @andrewgillis.bsky.social about Girl By Moonlight (@evilhat.bsky.social), hope, transcendence & transformation

maybe this is showing an abundance of caution but on the slim chance that pointing out their constant breathtaking hypocrisy and stunningly bad faith arguments doesn't, for some reason, cut through with the public or seem of any interest to the press, does anyone have a plan b?

Yes please

have to say I'm not mad at Sandrider's cover of March of the Pigs first track released from Magnetic Eye's forthcoming The Downward Spiral Redux comp

I think one of the biggest mistakes British people make is thinking that generally speaking we understand American culture Like I’ve spent much of my life obsessed by so much of it and yet really it is just completely alien in so many ways

Has there ever been a good book written that’s solely focused on the late seventies Liverpool punk/indie/pop scene and all that spun off from it? Whenever I dig into it i always come away thinking between the Beatles in the 60s and the rise of Manchester in the mid/late 80s it gets a bit overlooked

this looks interesting "Turning revolt into style: The process and practice of punk graphic design is a comprehensive analysis of punk aesthetics and the subculture's key watchwords of do-it-yourself, autonomy, and authenticity...

Start your week off with my new O Is For Orange mix for @bleep.com that celebrates Boards of Canada and their influences - includes full video version if you have a spare hour. bleep.com/bleep-mix-30...

right finally time to take my 'writing about dragons and wizards' hat off and put on the 'writing about Italo disco producers' one back on. thankfully that doesn't require as much of a mind or indeed vocabulary shift as you might imagine

This is incredibly good

Right, time to give that reading malarkey a go again

Every year I always remember too late to cash in that I knocked this up for a terrible joke a few years ago, so yesterday’s march at least has given me a nice heads up ahead of poppy season

Time for some performance enhancing meaty chunks

So, our test packages to the US have so far all got through without grief and so the great distribution of issue 7 begins, I’m going to say probably towards the end of next week just to be safe. But now’s a great time to order a copy and/or pick up our mega bundle with issues 3-6 shop.wyrd.science

Very exciting as it’s the first Brussels Dog Olympics today in the bois de la cambre. Monty is entered and it’s going to be absolute fucking chaos

The contrast between last week, OAPs being arrested for alleged “terrorism”, and this week, coked up Nazis pissing all over Trafalgar Square without challenge, could not be more stark. bsky.app/profile/jame...

Damn… new Kelly Moran track is 🔥🔥🔥, can’t wait for the album Seriously good

Warhammer does, obviously, attract some right wronguns but honestly I suspect video games act a bit like Jupiter & as losers enter the, let’s really hammer this shitty metaphor, gaming solar system from the dork cloud, it pulls most of the worst into its orbit, leaving only a few to make it through