Good point, well made @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/just-possi...

An impaling and a beheading seemed fittingly cathartic.

Just what’s required today… youtu.be/9S7cVCFUqE8

Aaaand finally, all my favourite films from the year twenty twenty five: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...

All my favourite telly from 2025: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...

It’s end-of-year list time. First up, mt favourite fifty tracks of 2025: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/best-of-20...

there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction

Soulwax definitely on with a strong shout for best remixers ever. Purely on the strength of THAT Tame Impala/Justice/Marie Davidson rework… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

🤞🏼 www.nutmegfc.co.uk/p/the-replay...

Trump went through all the trouble of releasing redacted Epstein Files then uploaded the files but used Acrobat to redact text making it highlightable and now the real files have leaked showing Trump was accused of raping a teenager who was found dead

Wasn’t aware that if the US Gov isn’t able to use that emergency act to justify its tariffs, it’ll have to pay back every penny - and now FS firms are shorting affected companies… whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-expens...

Disappointing vote, but still time to make changes - do write to your local MSP to ask them to support a child’s right to choose…

Genuinely fascinating research - seems like exactly the kind of thing that might be imperilled by the current US administration - and I now really want to have some of these shrooms. nhmu.utah.edu/articles/exp...

Lovely stuff, as per, from @danielgraywriter.bsky.social on an early christmas present for the Tynecastle faithful: www.nutmegfc.co.uk/p/the-slow-m...

While pitching something recently I was told that to get it published I needed to insert myself into the story - so I feel some vindication in point one of this sensible list: oliverfranklinwallis.substack.com/p/what-editi...

Signs and portents

❤️🎄🇵🇸 𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐂𝐊: Buy “Lullaby” by Together for Palestine for £1.98 *right now* to make it the UK Christmas # 1. All profits go to Palestinian-led aid orgs. Together for Palestine are: Nai Barghouti, Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Celeste, Mabel & more. Please buy it & repost this! xx linktr.ee/T4Plive

It looks like Glasgow’s beloved Arches are going to be turned into bowling alleys, so I wrote something about their history, current travails and what the future might hold. www.thebusinessdesk.com/scotland/new...

Highest 2 Lowest is a decent enough Spike Lee joint, as they come. But why is the original music so consistently, melodramatically, Hallmark movie terrible?

I always forget the name of this series, so posting this more as an easy way to remember for next time. Anyway, one of the finest drama/thrillers on the BBC in the last few decades - definitely deserving of a repeat. And what a hauntingly-beautiful theme: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt4R...

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

I had never heard of this incident before - but then maybe that was deliberate. Anyway, a fascinating tale: www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/2...

Cheap solar is one of the few things that’s making me positive about the future right now - another great story out of Africa: climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...

Save Radio Scotland’s music shows from cancellation: c.org/hk6Zr8cLzY

This might be the best thing Clive’s ever written On the long-stay ward at St Thomas’. My son was born there, so I know the place well and his description is 🎯 Also the point about overhearing everything from neighbouring beds and piecing together people britishchaos.substack.com/p/the-observ...

Y’all heard the one ‘bout bird cowboy? youtu.be/E0VDIx0VkaE

Martin Parr has died & this grimmest gloomiest greyest, Sundayest of Sundays is the perfect day to watch Signs of the Times. All four extraordinary episodes are full of pathos, beauty & humour, life & love stories told through relationships with interiors & objects www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Good review of a great album.

Here here - I hereby join @kendragaylord.bsky.social and the Bring Back Doors in hotel bathrooms campaign… youtu.be/QFPGUTyo9Yk

Just a whole load of tiny, beautiful things: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Dimbleby unleashed: enjoyed the first part of this doc asking what the point of our royals is www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The best end-of-year list. Thanks @tomwhitwell.bsky.social medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

Good points, well made @jasonkpargin.bsky.social jasonpargin.substack.com/p/interstell...

I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing. Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

Just unearthed this piece I wrote a decade ago when The Arches was first closed: pegerteg.onfabrik.com/blog/in-prai... I can’t believe we’re about to lose the place a second time.

youtu.be/9DCnIvLmKdA?... it's it's a wonderful life season. i love this movie to shreds. it is one of the great socialist films made by a staunch anti-communist. one of my favorite scripts. and david lynch talking about it is lynch at his most emotional.

🚨 new blog post 🚨 Have a gander here and sign up if you like: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad...

Simple, poignant; perfect. Always take a wee moment when I pass this.

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

🎯 open.substack.com/pub/genzero/...

Did you buy a house in 1970? Did it cost you £5,000? Is it now worth £2.5m? You did fuck all to earn that wealth. Stop complaining about being taxed on it.

Inertia means that I’m still on Spotify - is there a reasonably easy way to port playlists to a marginally more ethical alternative? Anyway, I’ve made another set of songs: the theme this time being things I didn’t know the name of, but liked enough to track down. open.spotify.com/playlist/3ZR...

The way we view pets is a symptom of how we view nature - that we are separate and superior to it and nature exists only to serve us. As if nature and natural beings don’t have their own autonomous desires. New Substack on the ethics of owning animals. heatherbrooke.substack.com/p/pets-as-sl...

Back to someone’s house for the afters, miraculously you get handed the aux to get the tunes going - what’s your go to? For that perfect mix of obscurity points and warm house goodness, this is my pick: youtu.be/bXBBZDg-iJQ

Funtime kitchen disco mix from @mixmag.net alum Philly D on @brixtonradiolive.bsky.social - certainly powered the creation of this evening’s spag bol… www.mixcloud.com/brixtonradio...

New Nathan Fake is exactly what I needed today. nathanfake.bandcamp.com/album/bialys...

Explains a lot - I’d never really thought about how not being able to conjure mental images affects reading, remembering and relationships… www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

EdTech platform proliferation has gone too far.