I think measure the quality of an idea by the number of fonts it uses, this has 5 which makes it utterly facile

See, that wasn't so hard, was it?

It's odd how many 21st ideas are in #Ulysses Bloom wonders why hats aren't shaped like heads preempting by a century Rafael Behr's classic Shoes shaped like feet

youtu.be/y9BJlNDXH8U?... Little Dead Babies is their song that gets all the love however this is the one that makes me lose all leveleheadedness and may well have permanently changed my speech patterns

Living in Slateford that pretty much took the roof off

Sometimes a little bit of power punk is what you need to get you the 7 millionth damp grey morning of the year youtu.be/2ieyIMbpj48

“Listen, because I dived into the abyss I started to love the abyss of which I am made.” — Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

On balance this is bad, but a twisted part of me is looking forward to hearing how Kirk will demonstrate her ignorance of Northern Ireland.

For hip-hop heads, especially those into MF Doom, this may well be worth checking out: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

John Le Carré implies the existence of John Le Droppé

Post a banger that's not in English youtu.be/gwRgJ66ylpU?...

cars may kill a lot of people everyday but at least they are also very expensive and insanely inefficient means of getting around

i don't really believe people when they say they work their email jobs entirely with their work issued laptop screen. like sending a few messages on Teams, sure, but what do you do when you have to do a full day of serious computing? that requires a two 27-inch monitor setup minimum

bsky.app/profile/robi... that they're doing it by posting screenshots on twitter really intensifies the look

Regretfully, I am calling for @strongmisgiving.bsky.social to resign. We simply cannot continue with this level of chaos. He has led us admirably up until this point, but his position has become untenable, and I'm afraid I must join the increasing number of voices saying "Dump him, girl"

Huge breaking news. Anas Sarwar is going to call for Sir Keir Starmer to quit. Emergency press conference at 2.30pm. Follow @heraldscotland.bsky.social live blog here www.heraldscotland.com/news/2583840...

"If McSweeney has a genuine talent, it's as a con man."

Tomorrow we release the final episode of Backlisted for the foreseeable future.* After ten years, it's a very odd feeling. I am looking forward to spending more time with my books and fewer times on social media. * Boats against the current, we beat on via Patreon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmQK...

It's very uplifting for a Monday morning that my German, which was rudimentary at best when I was there in the 90s, is rated good enough for the intellectuals now

Labour now targeting the unreliable narrator vote

Solidarity with Edinburgh Napier folks this week ✊🏻

I wonder if I am an Anti-Hero voter

Hiding in the branches

Skateraw stormtossed

I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)

ICYMI bsky.app/profile/obso...

IN THE HEART OF THE HIBERNIAN METROPOLIS

Television ~ Elevation (from Marquee Moon, 1977) #FredSmith #RIP #MusicSky "The last word Is the lost word" www.youtube.com/watch?v=st--...

When you’re very relaxed software developers

Dungeness at the Edge of Town

As a software developer of 30 years I'm going to tell you two things you can take as unrefutable fact... 1. None* of this software is complicated to write or difficult to scale 2. Britain has world leading software talent *Browsers and operating systems are, but there are open source solutions

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

New active travel project delay tracker live. - not sure how maintainable this will be but I will try! www.city-scope.co.uk/active-travel @spokes.org.uk @edi.bike

‘Peter Mandelson is a case study for the way the Westminster ecosystem protects its own. Protecting the system, and the powerful men who feel entitled to benefit from it, matters more than protecting the people it harms.’ New from @judeinlondon.com: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

I'm hearing that the government can only do what was in the manifesto which is great news if you don't want ID cards or jury trial abolished

The news from Scotland

The Shrouds, David Cronenberg (2024 )

Richard Lloyd just announced that Television bassist Fred Smith died in hospice today RIP to one of the greats

Viewers in Scotland will not be happy until we see Met Police tents in the gardens of those Camden and Wiltshire addresses

Very happy our special guest through 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in March will be the one n only @kathrynjoseph11.bsky.social ❤️ The Sensory Illusions, feat. magnificent Bill Wells & tubist Danielle Price also join us in Glasgow 🙌 If you can, get your 🎟s now ➡️ linktr.ee/wasylyk @rockactionrecords.scot

Here's my compilation of things I heard for the first time in 2025 from around here - with links to videos and Bandcamp (and with some wittering) one by one below 🧵

View from window. Delightful.

Immediately thought of this C www.instagram.com/reel/C9Wrd0D...

Set your SatNav for Stromness Museum during Free February, while there's free entry for all visitors throughout the month! Those becoming Stromness Museum ‘Friends’ this month will also enter a prize draw for a £25 gift voucher! We're open Mon-Sat at 11am-3.30pm.🚗

she makes better movies without computers

Some general notes: Argos Farfish sounds like The Sonics if they grew up on the Nile Thomas Mapfumo was perhaps the first music I heard on John Peel that I thought I liked but I had no context for, nearly 40 years later I think I'm getting there Analog Africa are doing the the Lords work

President dumps Said To Tecumseh I am celestial Sorry Tiny tears of blame We all know Where he came from #FallFriday youtu.be/H9kULIKaUzc?...

Here's my compilation of things I heard for the first time in 2025 from Africa in 2025 - with links to videos and Bandcamp (and without wittering) one by one below 🧵

an extremely pathetic sentence really