I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

Tom Stoppard near singlehandedly inspired my love for the theatre. A Titan.

The broken part of my brain now wants to see if I can find other diametrically opposed song titles to put into a playlist. Like I don’t have other things to do which are music related.

IF I WALKED AROUND WEARING A TSHIRT THAT SAID "I'M A STUPID IDIOT" WITH A PROMINENT PRICE TAG SHOWING I PAID $10,000 AND A NOTE PROCLAIMING THAT ALL MONEY FROM SALES OF THAT SHIRT WENT TO THE KKK, I WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO GET MAD WHEN PEOPLE ASSUMED I WAS A STUPID RACIST.

It’s getting down to the wire now for me to listen to 1000 albums by the end of the year and defeat Ian Wang off Only Connect, but I’m hanging in there. If I can rattle off 3 new albums per day I’ll be done by mid December…

Tony: Hey Dave. Check it out. I added a button to the login page. Dave: Oh yeah? Tony: Yeah it's right there. See that right there, little oval in blue with a check mark next to it, says "stay logged in on this device"? Dave: Oh yeah ok cool. What's it do? Tony: literally nothing

I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button

I saw @cmatbaby.bsky.social at Sheffield tonight and goddamn if she, and the very sexy CMAT band, are not the best live band I’ve seen maybe ever. This was the third time I’ve seen them, and they just keep getting better. Awesome.

As I was trying to find my 18th birthday card from William Hague (for a PowerPoint quiz, what else), I found this birthday card from my Granddad. And I think we can all agree - top tier life advice. It's all we can hope for in this world.

What if... what if we kissed at the City & County of Honolulu Department of Parks & Recreation Designated Radio Controlled Model Boat Area? 😳

After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.

I don't go to the mall very much anymore but I know I'm definitely not in meadowhall.. I'm nost definitely in the US I literally went "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK" when coming across this.

Tonight in Mythic Bastionland, the brave knights travelled in winter to seek a seer, picked up the kingdoms most eligible debutante, killed her horse, upset the companies squire, bullied their trainee knight in tow, braided each others hair, all while finding time for some light questing also.

“Our talented team with its own human hands and brains and souls decided that all this shitty art made by a computer was good enough to go in our game” is not a good defense of using AI tools to generate assets.

Shorter and more often, that was the promise, so here’s a short meditation on how Muse lost my attention, how Queen managed the relationship between camp and quality, and what a nice weekend I just had. #music #musicsky #blog www.recordreconstructor.com/2025/11/0440...

I’ve waited a very long time to see Lorde live, and she was everything I hoped for. I would have killed for her to play Glory & Gore but you can’t have everything.

It’s 1am and I’ve written about the indelible link between professional wrestling and music, my crush on blonde Canadians, and whether there is already enough hair metal in the world. #music #musicsky #blog www.recordreconstructor.com/2025/11/0431...

If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies. "Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."

It’s 1am and I’ve written about the indelible link between professional wrestling and music, my crush on blonde Canadians, and whether there is already enough hair metal in the world. #music #musicsky #blog www.recordreconstructor.com/2025/11/0431...

I only bought a single tree ornament from the Taylor Swift shop but that might have been because by the time I decided what I wanted the other 3 had sold out :(

This week I’m starting off writing about Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Eminem in the late 90s, making mistakes and living with them, and the insane power of a media crossover to make the unlistenable into the undeniable. #music #musicsky #blog www.recordreconstructor.com/2025/11/0430...

I’m starting to think this Jeffrey Epstein guy was up to no good

Incredibly proud of my insanely clever and talented wife, who is now a published author. She writes academic articles for books like this whilst I play make believe on the internet. We really are a power couple you’re right to think it.

This screenwriting team need to watch the Now You See Me films and lower their expectations about what their audience will choose to interrogate narratively. The answer is you have some new actor walk into frame, say to someone “Bond. James Bond” and THATS ALL THAT IS REQUIRED.

What a fiasco this week was. #LupeFiasco to be precise.

Just a quick PSA: word of mouth will forever and always be the best vessel for music discovery. Yes, algorithms can steer you towards music that aligns w/ the taste you've fed it over time, but a human literally saying "you should check this out" offers a superior layer of personalization.

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

"The AI industry’s most important product at this moment is not a chatbot or a video generator; it’s the story the AI industry is telling about itself.... According to an MIT study, 95% of businesses that have deployed generative AI have gotten no value from it." www.theringer.com/2025/11/04/t...

I’ve got a truly pointless couple of days of work ahead while will eat all my time and energy, so I wrote another blog post while I had time, this time about the excellent time I had seeing #flipturn and #colonyhouse on Friday. #music #musicsky www.recordreconstructor.com?m=1

Yay Sheffield

I’m a man of my word and when I said shorter, more frequent blogs I meant it. In this one, I talk about Lily Allen’s new breakup album, what a great breakup album sounds like, and why those two statements aren’t the same. #music #musicsky #blog www.recordreconstructor.com/2025/11/0422...

Catherine is away for the weekend and has taken the car, my friends have other plans so I am seeing no-one this weekend, can I spend the entire weekend in my pajamas? For science?

Tonight we brought Spring to a close in #MythicBastionland where my brave knights stole/reclaimed a ?magic? crown from some ruins, killed some Yeomen just trying to do their jobs, fed a corpse to some giant crows, and gave the cursed crown to a knight before pushing him off the top of a tower.

Hey I haven’t given up writing blog posts it seems, sorry haters. This one asks why anyone would be a support band, how writing less is a good thing, and discovering Nadine Shah. #music #musicsky #blog www.recordreconstructor.com/2025/11/0421...

Paging @shanodin.bsky.social

Come fly with us in the aeroplane over the sea. Josh Tyson brings #NeutralMilkHotel before the tribunal!

Anyone have a copy of Trophy Dark they want to part with?

UK Games Expo promoted a tabletop RPG on Instagram that claimed to use "fully ethical and transparent" generative AI. Everything went downhill once the publisher began responding to criticism.

Time Walk: A Powerful Card. Another 7 win Powered Cube draft, which included attacking two different opponents with Emrakul and Ulamog at the same time for the win. #MTGA

[Me, stumbling out of my bomb shelter full of TTRPGs, looking over the blasted landscape devoid of life]: There's time enough now! Time enough at last! So, uhhh, what's everyone's availability?" Smouldering Skeleton Nearby: This month is actually really busy for me.

A Teams Meeting Invite just titled “All Hands URGENT must attend”

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

I’ve now run #mythicbastionland for two sessions and the insane stuff I’ve ended up improvising off two prompts on a table or three sentences on a Myth page has been exhilarating but I’m worried this plane I am building under me is going to crash, killing all my brave knights at some point.

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

My most popular cartoon by a long chalk is also oddly niche, in that it mostly appeals to a generation who remember the song it refers to and enjoy the nostalgia for their youth. I can draw one for you if you like. www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

More live bands should have a loading bar filling up preceding their arrival on stage. #HAIM #iquit

The future of solar power is bright, finds @tinymaddie.bsky.social *Solar panels are cheap, and getting cheaper *Batteries are good, and getting better *Economic case for solar will overwhelm political apathy In short, we're going to run the world on sunshine www.newscientist.com/article/2500...