This is so good youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

breathtaking

The real fantasy of Fifty Shades turns out to have been the idea that a man that rich was capable of writing an email.

RIP John Virgo. Feel quite weird about this for annoyingly vague reasons that may or may not come to light at some point (sorry) www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooke...

This part is wrong and I think it’s an important nuance. LLMs have been good at code the whole time. I was using LLMs for code 3 years ago and talking about how they were good at this. To me this has always suggested that there are things, like code, which LLMs are suited to, and things they aren’t.

Gruev playing like the last man standing out of this lot after you’ve replaced the rest of the team with actual players

Weekend bump for this thing I wrote about having a ‘hit single’ and lots of other things, including the malevolent floor of Leeds venue the Cockpit https://open.substack.com/pub/tomwoodhead/p/forward-russia-twelve-a-brief-history?r=5j9la&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Very happy to have done an inter-media thing, as I planned

20 years ago today my band had a top 40 single. I wrote about it here open.substack.com/pub/tomwoodh...

Bump for this, in case anyone missed it

20 years ago today my band had a top 40 single. I wrote about it here open.substack.com/pub/tomwoodh...

Hello everyone. I (Tom) have started a substack (sorry) and will soon be publishing a little potted history of Twelve. There are 24 footnotes. If that sounds like your kind of thing, link to subscribe here tomwoodhead.substack.com

My son is really getting shit done at school

'Members were expelled for levity, for profanity and swearing, for lax attendance at class meetings.'

I don't really care about Pitchfork either way, but it's a bit pathetic to see so many people painting the idea of it going behind a paywall as some terrible act of immorality. Not everything can be free all the time

20 years since the Twelve single was released! Here’s something Whiskas posted on the gram

Gerald Murane. This is what old writers should be like imo: cranky and insistent

Just saw a police car just not bother indicating when turning. Driving slowly, no sirens. Great country

CAPTCHA CAPTCHA man / I want to be / a CAPTCHA man

No. It isn't.

Seasoning my food with de-icing salt

Went to see Marty Supreme last night and loved it. Not as good as Uncut Gems, but then nothing is

I’m still awake

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

Big fan of my Discogs profile ‘aliases’

Still obsessed with this record btw

Convinced that organisations don't actually want you to be able to sign in to their services any more

*Furiously gritting teeth*

A cool thing about being an adult is that you can just have a fishfinger sandwich for breakfast if you want; who’s going to stop you?

Dickens predicting The King of Pop in 1853. That *is* something he’d wear!

I don't think I saw anyone brag about their salary/denigrate someone else's salary on the internet before about 2020. What happened?

I've got a piece of software that monitors my son's web-searches on his PC, filters out 'inapproproate' content etc (he's 12). It sends me a little report every morning. I apologise, son, I was clearly unaware of your game...

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