This record is so fucking good, lol. Wish I was more on the ball

Guy who’s discovering SOPHIE in 2018

Anyone know where I can buy an old-style MagSafe MacBook charger in Belfast? Somewhere between central and north

My wife has been watching a drama series about Queen Victoria and the guy playing Prince Albert has the exact same accent as Daniel Farke

I mastered this EP for Wakefield legends @thecribs.bsky.social

The Youtube algorithm is so unnecessarily aggressive. FInd myself not clicking on things because I don't want to be bombarded with similar shit for months

I’ve never listened to The Rest Is History but I just found out the hosts are called Tom and Dominic, which are my first and middle names. This freaks me out more than it should

Kind of getting the impression I’m supposed to eat this

For my Elvis book I met the Finnish academic who performed and recorded Elvis songs translated into both Latin and Sumerian. "Of course, they did not have blue suede shoes in Sumeria," he told me, "so I had to translate the song as 'on my sandals of sky blue leather, please do not stand".

Old lad I’m friendly with on the street (would guess late 60s) hurt his leg/ankle stumbling down the stairs a couple of weeks ago; every time I see him I beg him to go see a doctor about it: it’s swollen as fuck, looks like an elephant’s leg and he is walking at about 20% his usual pace

Whamageddon? More like WARHAMMERGEDDON amirite?!?!? (Failed by me every year between the ages of 9 and 14)

The Silence of the LLMs

Somehow got to the age of 41 having read very little Ballard (Cocaine Nights for some reason), but I just finished High Rise. That’s an insane fucking book; the last 30 pages are such an amazing climax

Just fucking give the goal or don’t. What a fucking waste of time

Found this photo of me clearly about to say ‘milady’ at my parents’ house

Proposed new Birmingham City stadium looks like something out of FF7. I'm into it

Fucking hell, Mani's wife died two years ago and they had two 13-year-old kids. That's so fucking sad

If I replaced the batteries in my keyboard as often as MacOS told me to I reckon I'd be about 250 quid down

Given the choice to go back in time and kill Baby Hitler, I would instead choose to kill the baby who would go on to invent the term ‘fandom’

Forgot to mention Jon Fosse's A Shining here, which was also good but not as good as the other three

Read some really great novellas recently. Not sure which of these was my favourite

Back in 1998, Actua Soccer 3 made progressive moves by featuring Arsenal Ladies as an unlockable team. ♀️ However, other, less progressive teams also featured. Different times.

Randomly got sent a load of backdated Forward Russia royalties for continental radio this morning. Over a grand. I could get used to this.

Imagine if we had Global Brightening instead of Global Warming. That would be fucking sweet

The James Bond franchise faces a big problem: me, the viewer, has been shot at the start of the movie through the barrel of my gun, and I'm dripping blood over my own eye balls (they're in the gun)

Starmer vs Streeting has massive Major vs Redwood vibes

As a bald man who has been bald for a very long time, it's bizarre to see how much advertising/anxiety exists around baldness for men in their 20s/30s today. You can waste years of time, energy and money trying to fight it, or just decide not to give a fuck!

There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is. 🧵 1/5

Tesco delivery just tried to substitute Hoola Hoops for Monster Munch. Come on lads

The other day my son said 'I was thinking earlier, I've lived through some really unique days', thinking he was going to say COVID or something. When pressed as to what he meant, he said '2/2/22'

I need to send some equipment to the EU (Finland) to be repaired. Has anyone done this post-Brexit?

And people have the temerity to claim TV isn’t relevant any more

BOOOOOOOO

A third thing: stood in line for the bar at the ballet, of all places, I unbuttoned my shirt, thinking there was a t-shirt underneath (there was nothing)

Oh, I also once lacerated the skin of my penis trying to reload an air-rifle

I didn't do this myself but when I worked at the Cockpit one of the other engineers accidentally made up a power cable with the plug where the socket should have been

So fucking sick of companies telling me my password doesn't meet their lofty standards. Fuck off!

Keir's favourite post-punk group

*tosses another example onto the comedically large pile of examples showing how replacing spelling and grammar checkers with a statistical engine to find the -likely- word rather than the -correct- word and training said engine on everything everyone ever wrote online produces Not what's needed*

Anyway, just six months until the clocks go forward and life becomes bearable again

Mastering is a great profession. Basically, you have to stick to every deadline with the rigidity and precision of a nuclear reactor, and everyone else can just kind of do what they want, whatever

5 years ago we had a listening party for Give Me A Wall by ¡Forward Russia!. You can replay the listening party (no_478) here:

the powers that be want you to know less about your computer. they are taking away your beautiful file pathing, keyboard inputs, considered mouse clicks, and expertise of your OS. everything will soon be done by mumbling into the open air and praying it works correctly. this is a nightmare.

I wonder how many of the greatest minds of our age, instead of curing cancer, are paid a fortune to direct as many eyeballs as possible to Google's 'YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO SEND EMAILS ANYMORE' spiel that absolutely everyone ignores

I haven't played Football Manager for years, but I still have a reflective twitch that I should buy the new one every time it comes out

You know when they *finally* elect the mayor of New York City? Will he get to do any governing or does the next race begin immediately?

The hole in a guitar is traditionally used to store soft cheeses and dried meats which are fed to the drummer when he does a good job

I wonder which tech company is going to be the first to put the undo function behind a paywall

They’ve started selling cox apples in Sainsbury’s again. We are so back.