#TheTwen2ie5 Day 2 I had to restructure my list because of my bad eyesight (I thought the artist had to have first released from 2020), but it wasn't as many changes as I feared. It did cause me some... Anxiety by Doechii 🇺🇲 2025

Here are my MKAL colours for #Westknits They arrived just in time. I won't even try to keep up this time. I'm joining team Embrace Your Pace.

#theTwen2ie5 Let's go! 🚀 Day 1 Not ranked. Songs from 2020 onwards and 70% have to be from new artists. I guess that's why it's called a challenge! And as I've discovered many gooduns first released in 2019. Like BCNR. Concorde by Black Country New Road 2022 UK (NKC)

My splendid translator in France, Mikael Cabon, asked me to support an urgent campaign, launching today, opposing AI being used instead of people. I do so willingly, and feel same on behalf of audiobook readers and bookworld artists. I hope readers worldwide will show their agreement.

#AcclaimedMusic3000 Dammit I missed a week. Week: 13th June Random No.: 351 The Third Album/Sister Lovers, By Big Star.

#AcclaimedMusic3000 Live at the Five Spot, Vol. 1., by Eric Dolphy. Superb! I've listened to this more than ten times now. It only gets better. Fave: The pleasingly discordant The Prophet. Listen again?: For certain.

#AcclaimedMusic3000 (Catchup) Week: 27th June Random No.: 590 Reasonable Doubt, by Jay Z. It's very interesting and a good listen, musically. But I find it sad & disturbing. I do think it deserves it's place on this list. Listen again: No.

#AcclaimedMusic3000 (Catchup) Week: 4th July Random No.: 653 Amazed I didn't know this album before. Love it! Fave song: Pattern Against User Listen again: Definitely

Is Ravelry down? #KnittingSky

whenever I feel bad I find a picture of this little Mayan guy

I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.

#ALL50RTS Day 50!!! Sinnerman!!! by Nina Simone!!! (1965)!!! One of the most "power"ful songs ever recorded. Arron and everyone - THANK YOU!!! I'm really grateful to have found this project/challenge/challenges and have my input, for what it's worth. And to have met the other challengees 😊

#ALL50RTS Day 49/50 🌟🌟 11 POINTS 🌟🌟 4/4 Everything In Its Right Place, by Radiohead (2000).

#ALL50RTS Day 48/50 Everything is Free, by Gillian Welch (2001).

34. Tegan & Sara - Where Does the Good Go? (2004) A pleading breakup song grounded in '90s lesbian folk, but building into lush pop pageantry. #ALL50RTS

#ALL50RTS Day 47/50 Sing a Simple Song, by Sly & the Family Stone (1969).

#ALL50RTS Day 46/50 I Live With You, by Grizzly Bear (2009). Big big feels from the film Blue Valentine. Sadly I didn't get heavily into this band of musical geniuses until around the time they broke up. Now they're doing some US shows this year - I'd be there in a flash if I could!

#ALL50RTS Day 45/50 Save Me, by Aimee Mann (1999).

#ALL50RTS Song 44/50 I Smell Trouble, by Tina Turner (and Ike)(1971).

#ALL50RTS Day 43/50 Station to Station, by David Bowie (1976).

My #ALL50RTS Top 50 non-singles - Day 43 Also 3rd-ing‬‬‬ @top10nathan.bsky.social & @helenenen.bsky.social with this one ❤️ Time - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) "And then one day you find, ten years have got behind you, no-one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun..."

Watch Manhatta, the First American Avant-Garde Film (1921)

#All50RTS Day 42/50 Easy, by Joanna Newsom (2010).

#ALL50RTS Day 41/50 Shine On You Crazy Diamond, by Pink Floyd (1975).

Last night I dreamt I was Ryan Gosling and Taylor Swift gave me a rabbit fur stole.

#ALL50RTS Day 40/50 I Was an Eagle, by Laura Marling (2013). We're getting to the pointy end. To break my habit, I'll try and make my final bonus actually have some impact. So it won't be today although Laura Marling deserves it.

Thread of the stuff that seriously, honestly, is the main motivation behind the "AI" companies

I know we're supposed to reflexively dismiss the loss of any niche subject in the humanities, but this is a big part of why the university exists: so a student who wants to learn Basque can learn Basque. & the reason a school can offer that class is because THEY HAVE A ROMANCE LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT.

#ALL50RTS Song 39/50 Highway Star, by Deep Purple (1972). At my place we change the lyrics, eg, " Nobody's gonna take my brush, I have to brush my hair-air".

#ALL50RTS Song 38/50 Sellers of Flowers, by Regina Spektor (2016). A very theatrical and evocative song from Remember Us to Life.

#ALL50RTS Day 37 Move On, Sung by Mandy Patinkin & Bernadette Peters (1984). From Sunday in the Park With George. Written by Stephen Sondheim.

[Blogged] Why I Think Academic Deep Research — or at Least Deep Search — Will “Win” open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...

#ALL50RTS 36/50 Fetch the Bolt Cutters, by Fiona Apple (2020).

#ALL50RTS Song 35/50 Wild is the Wind, by Nina Simone (1966).

Minutes before that famous "walk" on August 8th, 1969.

#ALL50RTS 34/50 Oh, Maker, by Janelle Monae (2010).

#ALL50RTS Song 33/50 Pinball Number Count, by The Pointer Sisters (1976). This was from one of those extremely groovy animations from Sesame Street. It's probably where my lifelong love of funk first started.

#ALL50RTS I deleted yesterday because the post appeared twice. But just on my end it seems. It was 32/50, Year in Song, by Mary Margaret O'Hara (1988).

I just bought me some perfume samples - I haven't worn it since my kids were born because babies tend to chew on your skin. Is there a #perfumesky community here that would know these? Fragonard: Grain de Soleil Stora Skuggan: Azalai BDK: Gris Charnel Lubin: Idole #fragrance #perfume

#ALL50RTS Day 31/50 X, by X Japan (2008). This has nothing to do with Twitterx.

At his confirmation hearing, RFK Jr claimed he wouldn’t take away vaccines. So far he has: Removed COVID vaccine recommendations Fired the CDC’s vaccine committee Replaced scientists with antivaxxers Cancelled vaccine hesitancy research Pulled $500m in mRNA vaccine research

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...

#ALL50RTS Day 30/50 🌟🌟 11 POINTS 🌟🌟 3/4 Beautiful, by Carole King (1971). King said when she wrote this she was an instrument not a songwriter i.e., it's straight from her heart. Not released as a single but it did become the title of the Carole King musical.

#ALL50RTS Day 29 No Looking, by The Raincoats (1979).

And if no one knows what I'm talking about there was a style of late Victorian dancing known as 'Legs'. And it involves swirling and kicking your legs out. The description is often mistaken for sexy can-can style but it's more like the Cakewalk with mad leg moves