Mosquito by Yeah Yeah Yeahs has dreadful artwork, ugly and off-putting in every respect. It looks like something an also-ran 90s ska-punk band would have as an album cover.

Algorithmic feeds are mindless engagement optimizers, meant to keep you ensconced in a cesspit of advertising. This "luring people to hateful rhetoric" ecosystem is as wrong for 18-year olds and 58-year olds as it is for 17-year olds.

Lads, I don't want to jinx it but this looks winnable for England. #cricket

Possibly the best queer novel ever, Geoff Ryman's Was is part of this year's Pride Storybundle. www.storybundle.com/...

If Reform’s Zia Yusuf is concerned about black and brown people gaining systemic advantage over white people, maybe he should stand for election like others in his party? Surely that’s fair to all Reform members. In 2024 Yusuf donated £200,000 to the party. Weeks later he was named Chairman

#RecipeOfTheDay goes by the name of Cheesecake in a Glass in my house, where it happens to be very popular! www.nigella.com/recipes/chee...

Watching a 1980s clip from The Old Grey Whistle Test and remembering how I was actively repelled by its name as a young pop fan. I still can't understand why it was thought a good idea to include the words "old" and "grey" in the name of a music show

last year we raised over £300 for Mermaids UK charity with these shirts, can we beat that this year? fenrisgames.com/shop#!/~/sea...

I am thankfully unable to comprehend what his family must be going through. That even their son's memories are not theirs, instead being kicked around for political points, is beyond disgusting.

New idea. The BBC shouldn’t do news. It certainly shouldn’t do issues-based rage-bait news following the talking points established by old and new billionaire media giants. Because the market already provides that.

"Gatekeeping" sounds like a sinister elite conspiracy to marginalise dissent, but basic respect for facts is actually quite a good gate and it really could use a bit of keeping here and there

An interesting article, but one reason it’s interesting is it opts to go for Zhao and not, say, some of the white guys of the same cohort, who also came from money and went to an elite film school but got skip the part where you fight for grants and cobble funding together because…white guy.

I actually agree with this argument (It would be great if Hollywood was able to use these lessons to put more non-horror orginal films in the cinema) but it was probably a less sniffy way to phrase this.

I hate this myth so fucking much because it started after a study specifically to see if brains developed after 18. So they limited the study to age 25. And people decided that meant brains develop only until 25 even though a later study with no age limit showed brains NEVER stop developing.

Oh, Flimsy Steve, where have you gone? What have you seen?

Every recipe should start with: "Wash the dishes that are already in the sink because you'll need some of those."

www.maptap.gg June 7 95🏅 98🎯 83✨ 88✨ 8😱 Final score: 647 I feel quite strongly that "World War II" is not a place.

Wanted to watch Beyond The Curve but I found the flat earthers too annoying. I think the Wikipedia editor of its page agrees with me: “It features clips from the 2017 International Flat Earth Conference, held in North Carolina, US, which attracted hundreds of attendees from around the globe”

Textbook block-worthy reply

The commentary on Brazil v Egypt is being fed through a delay pedal apparently

If I was Lee Dixon I would simply get a job where I don't have to watch football matches

Calling it "DEI" (in the UK it's EDI) is yet another tell about how much the right-wing agenda in the UK is just imported wholesale from the US.

Not sure how Kane and Watkins together is gonna work but I guess that's why Tuchel is trying it? #ENGNZL

oh you love big butts? name all of them then

cut price tv deals in usa, china, india. business geniuses at fifa.

#THEN0UGHTIE5 Day 6 "Adventure" by Be Your Own Pet (2006) I wasn't expecting much from BYOP - another teen punk band, surely nothing I've not heard before? But I *hammered* this album, and this track in particular showed they could do much more than three-chord thrash. tidal.com/track/220375...

Good thread by someone who has actually read that Guardian article rather than just reacting to what they imagine it says.

No business — be it retail, industrial, entertainment, food, you name it — has ever been simple or easy but now we’re promised AI can *make it so* because Computers Are The Future and that magical thinking is already creating so much heartbreak. Life is risk! Do the work!

What's wrong baby? You haven't touched your peach piss n fart cake.

I'm sorry what? As part of its 1987 rebrand British Rail's sectorised freight business Railfreight had its own branded After Eight mints and called them AFTER FREIGHT!?

THERE'S A K9 AND COMPANY OPTION NOW!

This is 100% going to happen to a World Cup match. As the story notes further down, it happened several times during the Club World Cup last year. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I suspect this might be the best photo I ever take

Over the past week or two, I have had a couple of quite bruising encounters on BlueSky with British people who simply refused to accept that something that I said was possible in the UK is actually possible. I ended up blocking because. They were unreasonably protective of their helplessness.

More than a quarter of UK musicians lost all EU work since 2021, report finds. Average tour earnings down 45%, with nearly three-fifths of musicians saying touring in Europe is no longer viable. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j... @theguardian.com

This is interesting in the light of the recent recovery of The Beatles' first TOTP appearance. This is just over a year later, and the TOTP team apparently believe that clip doesn't exist any more. Either they didn't know the BBC still held it, or the film had already escaped the building.

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

if you cant bust a nut to a 43 year old suburban house mom then thats a skill issue homie

Well this is a shitshow isn't it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For your consideration. RIP.

So they can have a little walkin' around money www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Head's delivery in the opening exchange here is amazing. Xander's line is already funny, and Giles' response tops it. youtu.be/cmrYGq8DNG4?...

Had to deliver the bad news about Anthony Stewart Head to my 18yo and his goth girlfriend :(

I'm not going to say how I know Anthony Head was wonderful because the person involved is trying to be a bit guarded about it, but let it be known that Anthony Head was bloody marvellous.

This was such a funny thing to drop midway through the fourth season of a show.

Yo-Yo Ma Finally Works Up Courage To Tell Parents He Quitting Cello https://theonion.com/yo-yo-ma-finally-works-up-courage-to-tell-parents-he-quitting-cello/

Giles aside, actually very sorry to hear Anthony Steward Head is gone. He seemed like such a good guy. www.thepinknews.com/2019/12/20/a...