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For Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, maturity means an alertness to the world: an empathy for their neighbors inseparable from a ruthless honesty about themselves. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/04/27/i...

one of the remixes of the year, in a year not that memorable in that "category"(I'm being kind it was dreadful when compared with 2024) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2H...

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Artist: S-Crimmy https://b3ta.com/board/11423341 From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling

"Magic fly" and "Oxygene 4" - life changing singles for eight year old me. I knew this synth stuff was MY music.

What I remember is drought and heat and gas rationing and skateboards; what I didn't know was roots, rebellions, nonchalance, the restoration of weirdness/otherness.... #viveleroi #revolutionarytemper #thinkingofyou

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Sit Down, Sitwell (should be the name of a running Mitchell & Webb sketch, that)! The Hitchins grumble reminded me of what the late A.A. Gill - an actual dyslexic - had to say about the condition, with so much more actual erudition: samedifference1.com/2010/03/22/a...

This arrangement is extraordinary. If it were Bob Graettinger scoring for Kenton you'd long have been all over it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=80A5...

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Really interesting post about Hammersmith Bridge, which has been closed since 2019, a presumed “loss” of 25,000 daily car trips. “The local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.” [nickmaini.substack.com]

my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

I review De La Soul's wonderful CABIN IN THE SKY, as vibrant, buoyant, and thoughtful as any they've released. A lovely year-end surprise. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/p...

This one from March, which I do not think has been paralleled or even attempted anywhere else in music writing: nobilliards.blogspot.com/2025/03/radi...

He was central to so much, but I'll remember him as a breathtaking part of one of the most stunning instrumental group performances ever recorded. RIP Steve Cropper.

RIP Steve Cropper

I forgot to post for #HolidayRobin yesterday so here's a set of newly fledged Robins to keep you going until the next set in about 8hrs time. Captured @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social #naturephotography #ukbirding #BirdLife #Robins

JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US. If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail. Signal boosts appreciated!

Get it through your head.

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It's just logic

Senator Jon Ossoff nails it! #ResistTrump

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Me explaining why I'm not doing an end-of-year albums list this year, nor indeed for any further years: warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

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FIP just played a track from Out Of Season by Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man from 23 years ago, the first major album I reviewed for Uncut. It remains remarkable, astonishing and inventive. Everything that Lux a generation later strives to be but isn't.

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Alison Goldfrapp’s ‘Flux’ is included in our shortlist for the BEST ALBUMS OF 2025 and you can vote to help determine where it ranks in our year-end list. Explore the full shortlist + vote here: album.ink/BestOf25Poll

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

Delighted to be speaking at this charity concert at Wembley in March. Tickets on sale 10am Tuesday! Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

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Happy Thanksgiving

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Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.

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Bar book-related plugs and FLA episodes, won’t be on here much for a while. Genuinely quite scared about the future and the lack of paid work. If you know of any book editorial work coming up, do email me (email in bio). PS I do have to work from home at the moment. Thanks c

Transcribing the (to me) legendary fragrance chart in the US Vogue from November 1981 from a smartphone. This is for a thing, not the thing itself but very much a 'putting myself back into the early 80s' moment....

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#NowPlaying and it really is as good as everybody's saying it is, unlike certain other recent albums I could mention: open.spotify.com/album/0yBlUg...

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What a delightful day out we had for our eighteenth wedding anniversary today. Just goes to show that London still possesses that magic - you have to work slightly harder to find it these days, but it is still there.

The Lucy Show #feelings

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This week’s listening.

Interesting chat with @emmaandersonmusic.bsky.social about this and that: firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/11/23/f...

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The future starts here: late at night with neon, spiralling into infinity, pausing now and then....'make it new'... #blastfirst #athousandships #aplaceforthegenuine

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