the way all this bigotry is out in the open and unpunished because of grok is the latest symptom of something profoundly rotten. maybe the internet needs to be burnt down now.

the sweet release of death are playing a show again next week in groningen. in my universe, this is huge.

none of this would be a problem is train traffic wasn't privatised here

grote geelstaart

couple of snowflakes and the NS just flails like a bunch of idiots out there when you monopolise something essential and make it expensive, at least take responsibility for it to work properly the greed is shameless and yeah, they should be shamed

each second spent on LinkedIn, i can feel my brain growing more grotesquely detached by the second.

Be gentle… my @theguardian.com debut. All about levenslied.

eddington movie of the year for me

my pal @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social making his long overdue @theguardian.com debut, about the Dutch levenslied phenomenon www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

fireworks. i fucking hate fireworks. pointless. polluting. pet-scaring.

“I think in an ideal creative scenario, it is a constant flow of water. But in reality, the pipes get clogged, the faucet is leaking in places it shouldn’t.” – Cassandra Jenkins in Issue 73. The issue and subscriptions are all 50% off here: www.undertheradarmag.com/news/help_us...

spinvis is basically dutch belle & sebastian?

nice to see hard work finally paying off

grote geelstaart was even better today than last week. almost extraterrestrial. do they grow bands in labs now instead of in rehearsal rooms?

off to the zeitgeist fuckery. nijmegen be forewarned. we have bands like clt drop, mandy, indiana, the null club, lambrini girls, grote geelstaart and fellatio. properly strapped in

every day i have a new fav nilufer yanya song. today it's ready for sun.

Hi! We’re so proud to share our brand new single “White Thread” with you! We teamed up with Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties), who produced the track. Check it out here: wearejoinersband.bandcamp.com/track/white-...

another sexual predator going scott free. color me surprised. the world often is a disappointing place.

always need 10-20 min breaks from doing transcriptions to keep my brain from turning into mush

excited for sunday at the paradiso

bully the bullies

"We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves." -Carl Sagan, Cosmos

call it love by nilufer yanya <3 i have a new fav every day

cool new band alert. (also, my @thelineofbestfit.com debut) www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/int...

painbirds

always more productive during hoops season because i use work to make the time before basketball games go faster

all i want for the holidays is finish my new book in peace

sometimes i have to turn in copy at 20% brain capacity, but i can still flex that i didn't use chatgpt as a shortcut

i don't trust anyone yapping that art and politics should be separate things

Congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social! You ignited a grassroots campaign, built on the radical idea that everyone deserves to live in dignity. This is a seismic victory — not only for the people of New York, but for all those who believe that humanity & hope can prevail.

it's also le guess who?-week. not sure if this will be survivable.

LUCY PLAYS SKATECAFE TODAY!!!!1!1!11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ps...

everyone in the music industry is spread so thin, you wonder how things get done in the first place

my bpm review of LOTD 2025: beatsperminute.com/nothing-matt...

patagonia ugly ass logo. why are people wearing that stuff willingly? where's the self respect?

can't wait for this at le guess who www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...

i'm bracing for more disappointment at the dutch elections.

don't let fear win. #DutchElections

the hobknobs, arie and yael's new thing, was excellent yesterday. i cried. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmjC...

Thinking about the band 'Stores' who moved me very much at Left of the Dial 2021, only to disappear into thin air. Sometimes bands be like that. Those special ones can be fragile ecosystems, shattered by the first gust.

Foolish Fellatio Fanfare Fun www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S6Y...

i started watching basketball in '96. to hear roundball rock before some elite hoops again is the best type of nostalgia ever.

IT'S BACK!!! John Tesh performs "Roundball Rock" live on TV 🥹

The @lotdrotterdam.bsky.social madness starts this weekend. I'm back in the reviewer's bracket for it: beatsperminute.com/14-acts-to-w...

plunging into that LOTD lineup. it's great to still have showcase festivals where you know next to nothing. we need about 30 more of these

november 4th can't come soon enough www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u-x...

this new tune by library card is an absolute gem theneedledrop.com/news/library...

My interview with Jay Som is up at Needle Drop HQ: theneedledrop.com/interviews/i...