Loved this piece on the enduring, singular brilliance of Rachel's from Alex Deller. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Baseball is the best because a guy who looks like this and wears this kinda tee can be the best player in the American League.

More colored liquid No scent, no skin More stained paper More parts per million Just an absolutely brilliant song.

Our method: 1. Put cat bed in corner to be ignored for a year. 2. Live through global pandemic requiring home working. 3. Reluctantly install desk in said corner after 6 months of procrastinating. 4. Marvel as said bed and corner instantly become desirable territory. 5. Have feet scratched lots

One of the great acting performance of all time IMO. Two hours on screen alone, about four lines of dialogue. Totally bleak and utterly riveting. I think about it all the time, and it was my instant thought upon hearing yesterday's news. What a final act.

This is a picture of Uncle Computer from ‘The Bear’.

Hard to look past hardcore bands for me. Greg Puciato, Keith Buckley, Jeremy Bolm, Brendan Garrone, George Clark all on my list. Think Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe and Hayley Williams are all good shouts. I think MMJ count, so Jim James is in. Guy Garvey from Elbow too, IMO.

🎶I'm sorry Nick Jackson (woo) There is no deal We called off the Bayern loan-to-buy Fly home to replace the injured guy🎶

Man United? The international T-shirt brand?

Yanited LOL

A smidge away from one of my most enduring ADHD stim phrases/ear worms: ‘Why can’t I walk down a street/Cat’s Protection’

Goodness. Just a sentence that keeps getting worse. Some of the rankest vibes of all time.

Great interview and a perfect way to remember one of the most prodigiously brilliant musicians of the era. Just an incredible, mind-bending, unique talent. RIP

Stephen's ongoing nemesis of the new HBO Potter reboot is one of my favourite things on the internet. Also - even allowing for VFX supported re-sizing - Nick Frost looks absolutely ridiculous cosplaying as Robbie Coltrane.

The Clash. I’m just like, y’know it’s _fine_. And then the dub reggae stuff lands and I actively hate it.

Absolute rubbish

Sadly couldn't make @mogwai.scot last night, but remembering Reading 2001 when @plasmatron.bsky.social said "this is our last song" after 30 mins & we were a bit "wtf?" and then they played My Father My King and... SOMEONE RECORDED IT!! Goosebumps listening back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyN6...

Not surprising that the person who made a film as offensively bad as Saltburn would do this. Not spoken about enough how bad that movie was. On every level. A stupid, offensive story and a drab, lifeless and poorly made film.

Really terrific listen. Gareth is a great talker, Niall is a great interviewer and the subject matter is fascinating. More than got a soft spot for Prievidza now.

Foos must pay well, because having seen NIN recently this is like trading being in King Crimson for a local pub band. Maybe he just wants a doss? Win-win for NIN and Josh Freese though.

@martycricket.bsky.social enjoying you and Mark chatting about Durham's night life. By my era (2002-2005) Rixy's on North Road was officially called 'DH1', but only ever known as Rixy's. Remain mentally scarred by Klute. Then Sunderland midfielder and Durham resident Jason McAteer was a regular.

The Mets hitting coach is the drummer from Neutral Milk Hotel?

take down all the other plaques. this is the hall of fame now

Chuck Mangione and Dock Ellis celebrate opening Day at Yankee Stadium, 1977.

What on earth is this shootout?! #SWEENG

I think it’s time for the entire Jomboy collective to do a lot less talkin’

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Incredible book every sports fan should read.

Major League Baseball should celebrate the anniversary of Larry Doby’s 1947 debut, which integrated the American League. His path was hardly an easy one.

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Never seen this one. Also never seen a picture of him where he didn’t look like the coolest man alive. Damn.

It’s at every cultural event and landmark. Went to see DaVinci’s Last Supper in Milan last week. You get 15 minutes in the room. One couple spent 10 of them taking selfies of themselves with it as backdrop. Utterly garbage behaviour.

Wolf of Wall Street obviously a horrible film but the worst on this list is Her. Boring. Just really, really boring.

While we’re on film chat… Paul Dano and John Cusack’s twin performances as Brian Wilson in LOVE & MERCY are, IMHO, the best in any music biopic. A really, really great film that honours the genius at its heart without avoiding or lionising his issues.

What Stephen said. Just extraordinary how brilliant it is. Tim Key somehow both plays himself and gives one of the most hilarious, emotionally deft and moving performances I’ve ever seen.

In a cab with Talksport on. Not really tuned in but Coisty keeps yammering about Calamity Jane for some reason and it’s taking me out of myself. ‘That cannae be Doris Day?!’

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

Four incredible records. What a run. Walking With Thee and Winchester Cathedral both 10/10 records IMO.

Having worked on devo policy very early into the lifespan of CAs, obviously delighted to see this. But man did I get to do that job on 'hard mode'! The Green Book changes were line one in every spending review letter I wrote. The funded transit schemes in Liverpool were in half of them.

I'm enjoying the hell out of this story. "Apparent soccer star and former Netherlands player" is THE funniest description of Marco van Basten. More please, everyone.

Luis Enrique’s greatest moment is still D/M/F (R/L/C)

Some football season this! Sunlun going up and Arsenal WFC toppling Barca on top of Palace, Spurs, Napoli, Liverpool et al. Absolutely lovely stuff.

Am anticipating this Ange post-match like a Ric Flair promo in his prime

What he’s actually saying here is: ‘You’re still not the best West Cumbrian goalie, Dean. John Burridge played for us at 43! Wow!’

Dean Henderson - FA Cup final MOTM; still a jam eater.

Hilarious. What a prat.

Incredible example of the cost of things in the UK v Europe here. £340 a ticket for WWE Raw in Birmingham this August. Me and @thegibshow.bsky.social got TWO tickets for Raw AND the Clash in Paris PPV for £430. Unsustainable and ridiculous 🤯

One of the most perfect songs ever written.

French polish? Yellow Pages? Bit of 90s nostalgia there.

‘He’s got a tin foil pal and a peddle bin’ One of the best lines ever written in any medium.