An unanticipated benefit of cancelling my Spotify subscription is that I haven't gotten a sick burn from this year's #spotifywrapped

A reading from the Book Of Festivus "Verily, if a man ventures into a pub on the first evening of December he must expect to hear Last Christmas within thirty minutes."

This one weird trick really works. I've been using Google Web Only searches for a couple of weeks, and it's such a relief udm14.com

#TheTwen2ie5 day 50 1️⃣ Ezra Collective ft Yazmin Lacey | God Gave Me Feet For Dancing | Dance, No One's Watching | 2024 | UK 🥇12 bonus points🥇 Just a joyous song which reminds me of why music means so much to me ezracollective.bandcamp.com/track/god-ga...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 49 2️⃣ Father John Misty | I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of Us All | Mahashmashana | 2024 | USA ⭐12 bonus points⭐ Any judgement on recent music is risky: we love a tune now but in 12 months? I bet most lists have way more picks from 2020 than 2025 youtu.be/73qfO13cjns?...

I don't usually bother posting these because, y'know, who cares? But this one is a bit special... Wordle 1,619 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It's been a couple of weeks since I've posted a #nyt Spelling Bee, but it's not because there was nothing to brag about.

#TheTwen2ie5 day 48 3️⃣ Arab Strap | The Turning of Our Bones | single | 2020 | UK ⭐11 bonus points⭐ One of only two NKC❌ ISB❌ picks in my list. But I was so happy when I heard the Strap were not just back but turning out quality fare arabstrapband.bandcamp.com/track/the-tu...

Post a movie where you're from (kinda) youtu.be/6ewUOSlRDkk?...

The weather outside is grisly, calls for some heat and spice. #SaturdayNightIsCurryNight Chickpeas, cauliflower and butternut squash, with peas and red peppers for colour. #IncidentallyVegan

#TheTwen2ie5 day 47 4️⃣ Arooj Aftab | Raat Ki Rani | Night Reign | 2024 | SAU/PAK/USA ⭐11 bonus points⭐ Extremely cool youtu.be/Y5IOeXg1jJY?...

His most entertaining moment since Home Alone 2

In the same way that a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, even GrokAI is sometimes correct

#TheTwen2ie5 day 46 5️⃣ Nubya Garcia | Boundless Beings ft Akenya | Source | 2020 | UK ⭐11 bonus points⭐ Into the top five with a face of modern jazz nubyagarcia.bandcamp.com/track/boundl...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 45 6️⃣ Nia Archives | Baianá | single* | 2022 | UK ⭐11 bonus points⭐ The modern face of drum'n'bass *Also appeared on Sunrise Bang Ur Head Against Tha Wall EP youtu.be/oELrBolP5mM?...

According to #nyt Spelling Bee, GOOP and GORP are words but PRANG and PARP are not. No wonder America is in the state it's in.

#TheTwen2ie5 day 44 7️⃣ Mdou Moctar | Chismiten | single | 2020 | MALI ⭐11 bonus points⭐ I don't listen to much guitar-oriented music these days, so this is an utterly uninformed opinion, but Mdou Moctar is a truly great guitarist mdoumoctar.bandcamp.com/album/chismi...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 43 8️⃣ Beth Gibbons | Floating on a Moment | Lives Outgrown | 2024 | UK ⭐11 bonus points⭐ 🎶Without control I'm heading toward a boundary That divides us, reminds us Travelling on a voyage where the living They have never been, have never seen🎶 youtu.be/ldrx0eSqV-E?...

Shopify to rebrand itself as Shitify within the next six months

#TheTwen2ie5 day 42 9️⃣ Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & LSO | Movement 6 | Promises | 2021 | UK/USA ⭐11 bonus points⭐ The last recording of the cosmic jazz legend is this electronica-classical crossover masterpiece floatingpoints.bandcamp.com/track/moveme...

Just been chaating on the doorstep with a guy from Hyperoptic who's trying to interest me in changing suppliers. No, I say, I'm satisfied with Virgin Broadband 's speed and reliability. When I get back to my laptop ....

Doesn't look like anybody has tagged @kevlin.bsky.social yet. We ought to respect the traditions

#TheTwen2ie5 day 41 1️⃣0️⃣ Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul | Mantra | Topical Dancer | 2022 | Belgium ⭐11 bonus points⭐ Into the top 10 and the first of my #coollist picks. charlotteandbolis.bandcamp.com/track/mantra

#StairsOnSunday Kachette, Old Street

At a family wedding and my in-laws are recreating that Likely Lads episode, only trying to avoid the rugby result. They have managed it so far, which is no mean feat in this hyper-connected year of our Lord 2025

#TheTwen2ie5 day 40 1️⃣1️⃣ Sault | Angel | 2022 | UK The enigmatic contemporary ensemble will no doubt be gutted that they didn't quite make it into my top ten saultglobal.bandcamp.com/track/angel

How badly are you stuffing things up if Kemi Badenoch - who served in Truss's cabinet - feels she can say you don't know what you're doing

#TheTwen2ie5 day 39 1️⃣2️⃣ Lil Yachty | THE BLACK SEMINOLE | Let's Start Here | 2023 | USA Crank up the volume for this one youtu.be/J8l2kS4U8EE?...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 38 1️⃣3️⃣ Greentea Peng | Nah It Ain't The Same | MAN MADE | 2021 | UK An extremely mellow blend of jazz, reggae and breakbeat. The video portrays the consumption of various forms of tea 😉 "The tea you can really taste" youtu.be/5CzNP_sKWK4?...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 34 1️⃣4️⃣ Sélène Saint-Aimé | Indigo Bay | Potomitan | 2022 | FRANCE Eerily lovely. If Beth Gibbons's post-Portishead stuff had sounded like this nobody would have been surprised. selenesaint-aime.bandcamp.com/track/indigo...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 32 1️⃣6️⃣ Loyle Carner | Nobody Knows (Ladas Road) | hugo | 2022 | UK Just realised I should have posted this yesterday 🙄 Better late than never youtu.be/kaDgT7w4dEg?...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 33 1️⃣5️⃣ The Comet Is Coming | CODE | Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam | 2022 | UK The sort of jazz which defies you to say "Nice" soundcloud.com/thecometisco...

With thanks to the son'n'heir who spotted today's pangram..

#TheTwen2ie5 day 32 1️⃣7️⃣ High Vis | Mind's a Lie | Guided Tour | 2024 | UK Pulsing bass and a pounding beat drives this post-punk belter. highvis.bandcamp.com/track/minds-...

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

#TheTwen2ie5 day 33 1️⃣8️⃣ Lana Del Rey | White Dress | Chemtrails Over the Country Club | 2021 | USA I'm sorry if this song makes a fitting soundtrack for your Saturday evening. youtu.be/yJuV8PDwvC8?...

Fins don't lie

An ancient mariner writes

Inflatable rack of ribs ahoy! #LordMayorsShow

Unfortunately that *is* all the gold we have left in the Bank Of England's vaults #LordMayorsShow

#TheTwen2ie5 day 32 1️⃣9️⃣ Ghostpoet | Concrete Pony | I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep | 2020 | UK "There is no such things as experimental music now, there is just music." Discuss ghostpoet.bandcamp.com/track/concre...

#AdoorableThursday #LeeMiller #TateBritain

#TheTwen2ie5 day 31 2️⃣0️⃣ Kokoroko | Baba Ayoola | single | 2020 | UK Uplifting London Afrobeat for what is a grey day here kokoroko.bandcamp.com/album/baba-a...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 30 2️⃣1️⃣ 4am Kru & Papa Levi | Ribena | single | 2024 | UK One more thing those FB nostalgia whiners always forget: back in the old days we did not have the joy of a carton of blackcurrant cordial in our luncbox. 4amkru.bandcamp.com/album/ribena

#TheTwen2ie5 day 29 2️⃣2️⃣ Yazz Ahmed | Ruby Bridges (DJ Plead Remix) | Polyhymnia Remixed EP | 2020 | UK/Bahrain (ft Australia) One of the innovations of modern jazz is its embrace of other music forms: dance and breakbeat, the dub and the remix. yazzahmed.bandcamp.com/track/yazz-a...

#TheTwen2ie5 day 28 2️⃣3️⃣ Ibibio Sound Machine | Electricity | Electricity | 2021 | UK HAve you ever wondered, what if Kraftwerk had hailed from Lagos rather than Düsseldorf? ibibiosoundmachine.bandcamp.com/track/electr...

#autumn in #Southwark

To all those principled #FantasyFootball managers - like my son - who refuse to even put Haaland in their team, let alone make him captain: We salute your integrity even as we enjoy our higher league placings. Yours is the moral victory.

Friends fear he is flexing again

#TheTwen2ie5 day 27 2️⃣4️⃣ Lola Young | Messy | Messy EP | 2024 | UK A tidy littel number youtu.be/k-k2_Liofy8?...