Hogwarts’ lesser-known professor of Jewish studies.

Disney fired and unfired Jimmy Kimmel the right way. by Ezra Klein

Shana Tova to all my favourite podcasts hosts out there

Today we saw a fascist Gesamtkunstwerk, but done the right way. by Ezra Klein

I'm sorry the weekend is almost over, to make you feel better here's Einstein's Nipples

Untilted remains my favorite Autechre album - or tied closely with Tri Repetae and Draft 7.30. Is it because I was 19? Because it’s tightly sequenced? That career high cover art? Been anticipating the return to wax for a while, and it definitely doesn’t disappoint.

Very much this - Musk can make up conspiracies all he wants, but the truth is that most advertisers aren’t looking for an unmoderated space festering with neo-Nazis. Not exactly stellar for brand safety. This isn’t hard to understand!

It makes more sense when you remember that Klein is exactly the kind of smug dolt who sees these states as basically noble savages and none of them are queer or nonwhite or, you know, women. “Unlike you I *respect* the toothless inbred hicks” 🧐

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

Weekly listening 5x5

Gary Kasparov describes how Putin put an end to Russia's nascent free press, starting with attacks on comedians. The similarities to the Trump approach are uncanny. www.thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-...

Focusing on some positives - this week was a goldmine for long-awaited records arriving. Cardiacs' LSD and the Autechre reissues of Untilted and Quaristice, all sounding splendid.

In legitimately ha-ha funny news for a change, The Independent appears to have accidentally promoted a review of the London City Ballet with an image of Spinal Tap.

35 years of the swooping dream pop crossover beauty

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

My grandmother once fed our dog from the table because he was begging and, when he continued begging, asked my mother why he was doing that, since "I gave him what he wanted!"

Notwithstanding, this order of AP alerts today is a little on the nose.

"They Weird Al'd Philip Glass" "What?" "They did a Weird Al to Philip Glass" www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV3q...

We could have had nice things

HEY KIDS Can you identify which of the following happened to Lou Reed in “Perfect Day” and which happened to Ice Cube in “It Was A Good Day”?? a) drank sangria in the park b) fed the animals in the zoo c) saw the lights of the Goodyear Blimp and it read "Ice Cube's a Pimp" d) later a movie too

Thoughts on Cardiacs - LSD 1/ And here it is. Surprisingly speedy shipment from across the pond(ie), it’s LSD. The final Cardiacs album that seemed forever lost, the final statement of Tim Smith, heaven born and ever bright, finished by his loyal companions.

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They want entire ethnicities to feel afraid to leave the house.

As with many of Joel’s pleas for even an iota of nuance, the replies both prove his point and illustrate the depressing situation for progressive Jews trying to show up.

1/ Eno doc reflections - half I loved, a quarter "this is not that clever/deep/profound/anti-profound", a quarter "editing would have made this particular part really work." But it did inspire me to come home and work on a drone for an hour that went nowhere.

We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.

Getting ready to see whatever ~*GENERATIVE*~ version of the Eno doc is playing this evening.

Autumn escapism trip to The Strand.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

Some news that flew more under the radar this week - representing yet another celebration of cruelty to the world's most vulnerable people. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Americans didn't ask for Trump's authoritarian takeover. Keep your jack-booted goons out of my city.

Weekly listening 5x5

My sub when I accidentally blasted Techno Animal's Brotherhood of the Bomb at 33 instead of 45 ty @bugpressure.bsky.social for that tingle

tonight's listening - been a while since I got lost in this one

Wait this crap is real? I thought for sure it was a marketing stunt for Black Mirror or something.

Just for the record, I’ve never liked or trusted Ezra Klein. Wonk for wonk’s sake crap treating politics like pro wrestling as though it’s all kayfabe and none of it matters so long as the pundits get paid.

Egregiously bad reporting by the Times here. The President’s “fury” is not justification or explanation for a spew of lies and libels. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

Food for thought tonight, via @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social

pronouncing shoegaze like foie gras

this is really fuckin wild

That zone between enticement and fear. Building on a legacy of 50+ years of her knife’s edge guitar noise, cornet dissonance, and oddly warm beats.

“I’ve always wanted to interview him. He’s never agreed to an interview but I’m going to ask him like some very specific questions about gay sex and see if he can even answer. I doubt he even knows.” I'm a gay man and I'm pretty sure I don't think about gay sex as much as Tucker Carlson.

If you're conversant in the lingua franca of the online right, you know the helicopter emojis the official White House account is using here are a reference to the Pinochet dictatorship's practice of flying people above the ocean and dropping them to disappear them. That's what they're threatening.

weekly listening 5x5

i am once again posting this article for no particular reason

oh hey I just saw that episode of South Park

I know nothing about sports but my colleague immediately knew that we'd bond over picturing Kawhi hanging with Vito and the no-show crew.