My wife, a fan of all things Scandinavian, now has a new nickname thanks to IKEA

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Still in the woods at nightfall, seems bad #FolkHorrorFriday

Jeez this long 2-shot is intense 😬 #FolkHorrorFriday

"It's okay, I know another way in" uh-oh #FolkHorrorFriday

"You won't get lost" uh-oh #FolkHorrorFriday

Bigfoot is bears BTW #FolkHorrorFriday

Those Bigfoot burgers look good #FolkHorrorFriday

It's almost time! #FolkHorrorFriday

Ruin a potato salad with one ingredient: Pickles

listening to the preview tracks on this & omg I am stoked for this release, niiiiice work @melvingibbs.bsky.social & co!! harriettubman.bandcamp.com/album/electr... #MusicSky

I've been thinking about physical control knob UI after having misinterpreted one in my new house (electric baseboard heat setting). If the scale is printed on the stationary part around the knob, with intensity increasing clockwise, and the knob has a pointer, that's easy to understand. 1/

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Need some comfort music tonight, and idk what it is but this record has just stuck with me deeper than a lot of other stuff.

There are only three song lyrics that make me cry, but they get me every time: 1. "Just a little loss of courage as their age began to show" (Merle Haggard, "Hungry Eyes") 2. The secondary vocal part at the end of Diana Ross' "Touch Me in the Morning" 1/2

Canada geese are consistently referred to as "ducks" on Taskmaster 🤔

This fits into one of my favorite genres: "sounds like something I might have randomly come across on PBS in the middle of the night in the 80s"

Put the message in the box Put the box into the car Drive the car around the world until you get heard #rules

Album of the week. If you're after something that drifts in like a warm fog off the English coast, then Woo's M = C (just out before Christmas) is the sort of record that quietly insists on being played when the house is empty and the light is soft. The brothers Ives have been doing this...

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

I like this reading, but it glosses over the part where two of the kids--arguably the most abused of all of them--do NOT make it.

Some new on the horizon... iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/ihn014...

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Hannah Frances - Nested in Tangles - outstanding singer-songwriter folk/Americana prog rock with horns

Books I read in 2025 (* rereads)

With my imminent return to my hometown (more or less) I look forward to rekindling old friendships

Here's that Bill Nelson sound I referred to in my post about Perth Lewis bsky.app/profile/burl...

Stranger Things may have overstayed its welcome, but the denouement really hit home in depicting the warring emotions of knowing it's the last time, and being in denial (the older kids) or accepting it (the younger ones). 1/2

My first book of horror fiction

Daft Punk - Around the World youtu.be/K0HSD_i2DvA

It's the last good day of the year

Found my first book of weird fiction

End Of Data - If I'm Not A Killer [France - New Wave, Art Rock, Synth-pop] (1984) https://redd.it/6ckv3z https://youtu.be/MDkiL9tF2ic

Packing up all my books for the move I am confronted with all my reading ambitions of the last 40 years. (And it's a lot, I have posted before about my hoarding tendencies and resultant love of ebooks.) I have barely scratched the surface! Getting rid of some, e.g. I'm never going to read Proust

The Habibi Funk label has a year-end Gulf mix up on YT of various tracks sourced from cassettes, so why not treat yourself with a listen? Tracklisting in the description. Flagging @matoswk.bsky.social for a start.

Packing up a house after 15 years for a major downsizing move is hard. Going through boxes unopened since the last move and seeing tons of kids-related ephemera is emotionally draining; the instinct to keep it all clashes with seeing what that instinct unchecked has done to my parents' house.

Gaudi - Jazz Gone Dub - "does what it says on the tin"

Levitation Orchestra - Sanctuary - 10-piece band runs the gamut from gentle chamber jazz to heavy prog/fusion, sometimes in the same piece

Psychedelic rock jams veering into jazz are a specialty of El Paraiso Records, the latest example being Kronstad 23's new album Sommermørket www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNae...

Gang of Four Tops

Wow, trying to activate Malwarebytes on my dad's new PC is the most frustrating thing I've done all year. Clicking "Activate this device" opens a web page that returns an "Invalid parameter: redurect_uri" error every time 🤬

To the best of my knowledge Air has never covered Dream Weaver and I think they should, it's like the basis of their whole sound

The Natural Yogurt Band - Red Sky at Night - Miles Newbold has squeaked out a third album this year; vintage-style library music with extra psychedelia this time

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VIBE RIDE by Hu Vibrational (New Dawn 2025) Use this link for US shipping! Led by ADAM RUDOLPH, one of the top hand-percussionists in Jazz. Some of the best ambient, dub Jazz you will hear. Deep rhythm exploration. RIYL: Don Cherry, Jon Hassell huvibrational.bandcamp.com/album/vibe-r...

Perth Lewis - Moments In Time - like a collaboration between The Durutti Column (the guitar) and Bill Nelson (the Eastern-tinged synth patterns) (and the drum machines they both used) circa 1982; so good it made me post on Christmas

I would add, from experience, don't try to catch a falling drinking glass, either.

Give yourself the gift of no more AI bullshit at the top of your Google searches this Xmas. pumpkinnmayo.com/posts/disabl...

Album covers that Tumblr says require a "Mature" content label (???)

Nicola Conte presents Viaggio - his picks from the Italian library music label of the 70s