Yus.

Slightly taking the edge off how it ended by remembering just how patter-tastic this season in Scotland was… oldfirmfacts1.medium.com/the-2025-26-...

Harsh but fair. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Been saying… onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/the-banali...

🤯 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Nice bit of data vis on data tracking: sinceyouarrived.world/taken?utm_so...

Stay classy Celtic - dreadful in defeat, worse in victory…

Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march

Early candidate for dancefloor heater of the summer… manoletough.bandcamp.com/album/real-y...

There are very few people in politics or public life as profoundly unimpressive as Keir Starmer. Unfortunately for us Wes Streeting is definitely one of them.

FFS Motherwell.

A great yarn, brilliantly told. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

A long and rambling essay for sure, but one with some interesting perspectives and conclusions about the meaning of travel in 2026. fugitivemargins.substack.com/p/the-end-of...

Some good did happen yesterday amid all the Reform rubbish…

We just need to keep placating and humanising racists a little bit more and then I'm sure politics will get good for everyone

Casting Clem Fandango as Geoff Linton is inspired - completing the Matt Berry circle.

We are so back youtu.be/74NluS3jzTo

Doubling up on my Friday 🔥 this week, as I can’t overlook the second EP by my man MFÒ: thirdlandscapes.bandcamp.com/album/marine...

There’s a lot to like about that new Octo Octa album, but so far this is my favourite track - and this week’s Friday 🔥 octoocta.bandcamp.com/track/keep-p...

All the best things (and a few bopters) I saw during the last month: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad...

The popularity of this thing never ceases to baffle me. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More football games like this please #psgbay

Chelsea and Man City in the FA Cup final. No other English clubs have systematically ignored, bent or broken the rules like both have done. In terms of trophies won, no other English clubs have been as successful over the past decade and a half either. The moral of the story - is that there is none.

Finally got round to writing something fairly comprehensive about #AI Tailored to the Scottish business audience, but hopefully insightful enough for everyone Avoiding booster/doomerism and not straying into bubble burst or global annihilation prediction… www.thebusinessdesk.com/scotland/new...

There isn't a bucket of popcorn big enough to enjoy while this plays out.

It’s a Komputercast kind of day… m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tmi...

not the vicar of christ with another absolute banger of a post

So utterly infuriating. We must never forget this genocide, just like we must never forget the holocaust. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The new one from @midlandsound.bsky.social is Friday 🔥 (still trying to make this a thing) midlandsound.bandcamp.com/track/in-the...

A loooooong read, but an important one. Really getting into the weeds of why Sam Altman is not the man who should be leading the drive towards AGI. archive.ph/8FFpH

TIL: Dr Seuss was a rotter. downtownbrown.substack.com/p/the-traged...

The new guy is shite, but when the old guy is Orban; then this still feels like a win.

Good point, well made - on increasingly accepted Islamophobia. www.welcometohellworld.com/a-pernicious...

A shocking, but not surprising, state of affairs. www.cjr.org/feature/who-...

This is catastrophic.

That new @machinedrum.bsky.social track is a delight. machinedrum.bandcamp.com/track/no-1-k...

Superb stuff - ta for the tip off @joemuggs.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The good news (🤞🏼) I needed today.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Bluesky likes books, right? Top shelf material at my parents house:

This transport debacle had passed me by - something we’re truly world class at. Great history lesson, as ever, by @threadinburgh.scot: threadinburgh.scot/2026/04/01/d...

Squeaking in before the deadline is my March roundup: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/p/pete-s-pad... Featuring the obligatory manosphere discourse, a contemporaneous review of Project Hail Mary and some first quarter music recommendations.

Project Hail Mary was a delight. Full review and much more besides coming later this evening here: peters-newsletter-dfe447.beehiiv.com/subscribe

For some reason Soupy Norman came to mind just now and so the last half hour has been finding what’s left of it on YouTube. I wrote a piece a while back on some of the more obscure comedy gems - and wonder now how hard it would be to track them down in full… pegerteg.onfabrik.com/blog/in-prai...

Beyond Partridge levels of divorced dad behaviour - you have to admire it.

Good point, well made - on what Bryan Johnson’s DMT epiphany really means, for him and those seeking solace in optimisation. psychedelicsociety.org.uk/read/optimis...