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So here's my reading plan for 2026. Let's see how it goes, eh?
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Planning the pages: 2026 edition
In a change to my normal way of doing things, I’m planning the pages for 2026 on New Year’s Eve. This is because I won’t get to do my usual year-end write-up until next year, and …
https://captainfez.com/2025/12/31/planning-the-pages-2026-edition/
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This? This is cool.
silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/qrd-th...
(Today has not been cool.)
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QRD - The Guitarists, by Various Artists
54 track album
https://silbermedia.bandcamp.com/album/qrd-the-guitarists
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Aw dang.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95
One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/26/sonny-rollins-jazz-saxophone-dies-aged-95
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Currently scrubbing my brain with excellence.
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HEDDWCH TRWY ANRHEFN, by auntsoot
15 track album
https://auntsoot.bandcamp.com/album/heddwch-trwy-anrhefn
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I'm a super reader? Weird.
www.afr.com/life-and-lux...
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Some super-readers finish more than 50 books a year. This is how
Even tech titans acknowledge the value of literature to help rise above AI slop. But how to crack the book?
https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/some-super-readers-finish-more-than-50-books-a-year-this-is-how-20251106-p5n8cn
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2026 book 49. Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/m...
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Nicolas Cage Made Himself a Legend. Then He Had to Live With It.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/magazine/nicolas-cage-interview.html?unlocked_article_code=1.klA.SG7y.MgtXx2qYlKpI&smid=url-share
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If I have to switch to headphones because what I'm listening to is giving Eve palpitations, it's generally a good thing. Tonight's "cut the technical document that's ten pages over" listening is Hive MInd:
hive-mind.bandcamp.com/album/gray-l...
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Gray Landscapes 1-3, by Hive Mind
6 track album
https://hive-mind.bandcamp.com/album/gray-landscapes-1-3
7 days ago
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1. Swoop playing Manning Bar while I was in first year. They tried to "rock out" to get people to take them seriously. It didn't work. 2. Earth. Phoned-in bullshit. I had to leave lest my love for the sparseness of Hex be eaten from the inside out.
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Protip: this three hour-plus drone wonderland is INCREDIBLE. Get in.
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Ante Algo Azul, by Nicholas Szczepanik
12 track album
https://nszcz.bandcamp.com/album/ante-algo-azul
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WAIT WHAT
www.androidauthority.com/kobo-announc...
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Kobo finally copies one of Kindle’s biggest ecosystem advantages
Kobo users will soon be able to automatically sync StoryGraph reading progress, ratings, and more directly from their devices.
https://www.androidauthority.com/kobo-announced-storygraph-integration-3668923/
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LinkMachineGo
12 days ago
Paging
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Russ Fischer
24 days ago
HOLY SHIT
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Russ Fischer
21 days ago
fellas, I found the best guy to score our movie
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Yesssss.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Still collapsing after all these years: Einstürzende Neubauten on their fifth decade as a Berlin legend
The band’s newest member, Josefine Lukschy, was born the year their fifth album was released. They and founding member Blixa Bargeld talk about leading the counter counter-culture
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/18/einsturzende-neubauten-berlin-blixa-bargeld-josefine-lukschy-josefine-lukschy
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VERY KEEN for this one.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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‘I’m so grateful I got to live these days’: A Ghost in the Throat author Doireann Ní Ghríofa on recovering from depression
The acclaimed author and poet talks about her new book, telling the true stories of patients at a derelict Victorian psychiatric hospital – a place in which she might have found herself at a different...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/16/im-so-grateful-i-got-to-live-these-days-a-ghost-in-the-throat-author-doireann-ni-ghriofa-on-recovering-from-depression
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Some recents.
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Some good (well, maybe) news following the reading of Fahrenheit 451? This.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8W...
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Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI
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Today in 'cool!': KK Null has written a book! Today in 'boo': This work was written in collaboration with ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.
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2026 book 48. Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Typo of the day: Macquarie Park Pus Station.
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Work restructuring means MORE THIS PLEASE.
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Witchcult, by C H A P E L
6 track album
https://eaglestone.bandcamp.com/album/witchcult
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2026 book 47. Karl Bartos: The Sound of the Machine: My Life in Kraftwerk and Beyond ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Lookit me doing things in a reasonably timely manner.
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Book review: swan-dives, man-dogs, gamblers, magick and the supposed master race
Well well well. If it isn’t me getting more manageable book reviews online in a relatively acceptable timeframe. Pictured: you (presumably) Right, let’s go.
https://captainfez.com/2026/05/14/book-review-swan-dives-man-dogs-gamblers-magick-and-the-supposed-master-race/
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Just want to remind everyone of this iconic happening.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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The Titanic drug poisoning: is one of the greatest mysteries in film history about to be solved?
While filming the epic movie, 80 people – including James Cameron and Bill Paxton – were hospitalised after their food was spiked with PCP. Who was behind the psychedelic clam chowder?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/16/the-titanic-drug-poisoning-is-one-of-the-greatest-mysteries-in-film-history-about-to-be-solved
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Turns out musk stick best-before dates DO apply.
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Let's see how these pan out.
www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...
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The 100 best novels of all time
A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time
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Time for ritual Chinese ambient.
shiren.bandcamp.com/album/--7
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淫祀, by 筮人
9 track album
https://shiren.bandcamp.com/album/--7
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Black metal and chiptune eh? Well yes please.
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Coldest Keep in Bitter Heavens, by Gonemage
7 track album
https://gonemage.bandcamp.com/album/coldest-keep-in-bitter-heavens?from=embed
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2026 book 46. Jinwoo Chong: Flux ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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This is an excellent series.
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Abandoned Britain | The Guardian
<p>The story of the UK in six empty buildings</p>
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/series/abandoned
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So Doki Doki Literature Club is excellently what the fuck. I mean I'm o my ten years too late or whatever but GODDAMN.
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Another one for the list.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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Gun-toting drunks, boy-eating sharks and bloodsucking babies: the violent, brilliant stories of Eric Walrond
Tropic Death – 10 blistering, astonishing stories about racist, exploitative outrages in Caribbean ‘paradises’ – won him a Guggenheim award. Why did this star of the Harlem Renaissance die such a sad ...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/05/tropic-death-eric-walrond-harlem-renaissance-caribbean
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Filed under YES.
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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‘My body ached from the volume’: the mystery and majesty of Japanese noise-rockers les Rallizes Dénudés
The incendiary Japanese group who emerged out of late-60s unrest were suspicious of studios so their legacy was long left to bootleg obsessives. But unheard recordings are revealing their lesser-known...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/05/les-rallizes-denudes-japanese-rock-band-disque-4-interview-makoto-kubota
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I think the premise of this NtE game is that I'm either a twink or a booby catgirl? I'm still confused.
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2026 book 44. Richard Kaczynski: Mind Over Magick - The Psychology of Ritual Magick ⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I mean I would.
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Tom Waits With Red BMX 1 off 3.3/4" Custom Action Figure. distraction figures | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Tom Waits With Red BMX 1 off 3.3/4" Custom Action Figure. distraction figures at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/306916455464
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Cool, cool.
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One in four humanities students in Australia to take more than 25 years to pay off student loans, Treasury finds
Job-ready graduates program will also leave almost two-thirds of humanities and creative arts students with debts exceeding $50,000
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/04/hecs-student-loan-humanities-students-australia-25-years
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WHAT A FUCKING RECORD
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Today in avoidance: tagging the entire Fiadh Productions library so that it shows up correctly in Plex. Only 928 tracks to go! (Real ones know this task.)
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Nautical Nazi zombies.
youtu.be/4tSxiN1VXD0
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Shock Waves (1977) | FULL ZOMBIE HORROR MOVIE | Brooke Adams - Luke Halpin - Peter Cushing
YouTube video by FILMIX
https://youtu.be/4tSxiN1VXD0
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2026 book 43. Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda (reread) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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This is absolutely incredible.
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Matthew Sheffield
29 days ago
LLMs are mirrors of their users. It's no coincidence that narcissists like Dawkins keep writing essays about how their AI girlfriend is alive. The "End of History" guy wrote this exact same article a year ago:
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My ChatGPT Teacher
Do believe the hype.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt-teacher
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Hoping that my choice of grown-up cruise isn't, well, this.
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Matthew Sheffield
29 days ago
In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass:
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An excellent explainer.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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Shaken staff and an author exodus: how a picture book plunged an acclaimed Australian publisher into a crisis over antisemitism
The cancellation of Jazz Money’s children’s book Bila, A River Cycle over comments by the book’s illustrator, Matt Chun, has led to the publisher’s potential collapse
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/03/shaken-staff-and-an-author-exodus-how-a-picture-book-plunged-an-acclaimed-australian-publisher-into-a-crisis-over-antisemitism
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My turn. Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only - Twin Peaks The Kingdom Succession Prime Suspect The Sopranos The Simpsons Bojack Horseman Spooks Doctor Who Ozark Mad Men Penny Dreadful The Killing Deadloch True Detective
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Reading Griefdogg while experiencing hot fresh grief for an actual dog is an unusual combination.
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The film clip for Pet Shop Boys' 'Heart' is a cracker: new bride fucks Gandalf the Vampire.
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Pet Shop Boys - Heart (Official Video) [HD Upgrade]
YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone
https://youtu.be/vlIsU7ImU0w?si=PBPtketE10Z6dbvB
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