"I suppose you’ve come to say you’re sorry? I hope so, given your years of sneering and hand-wringing about how I was ruining knowledge. Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film." #McSweeneysTop25of2025

We are so close.

I'm a regular guy, I put my trousers on the same way as everyone else: falling into them through a hole in the ceiling via a contraction operated by my long suffering dog

Been in transit and without my laptop, so administering the maintenance on this new song post of mine has been a bit of a bother. But here is a blog post on my new song "Fly to Heaven", my in-between song. anearthwithoutgrammar.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/s...

Tech support from @microsoft.com for problems with my dad's Windows account while I'm visiting from the UK is the early Christmas gift I didn't know I needed.

Quote-posted this reflexively saying "Love it!" Then thought, maybe that's a little too enthusiastic about a story involving drugging horses to make them exceed their ordinary capacity for physical activity. Instead, "Really interesting!"

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Grateful to be back on the West Coast of Canada to spend time with family and friends. Heading over to my mate Ira in a bit. He is the musical mind behind the crazy coda on my new song "Fly to Heaven", as well as the janky Telecaster solo. youtu.be/QweDUX6nbrE

Friday before Christmas, just a little bit of new music for y'all. I'm releasing a new album in February, but "Fly to Heaven" is grabbable now with a preorder on Bandcamp michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/album/if-wor... and also with this wicked video by my daughter Isla. youtu.be/QweDUX6nbrE

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye Ich do love Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich do love

Friday before Christmas, just a little bit of new music for y'all. I'm releasing a new album in February, but "Fly to Heaven" is grabbable now with a preorder on Bandcamp michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/album/if-wor... and also with this wicked video by my daughter Isla. youtu.be/QweDUX6nbrE

On of all places SkyTrain from YVR when somebody says "they just tied the game" as I'm looking at this post.

my year of using the crying-and-laughing react on 100% of the texts I receive, without exceptions, has resulted in a 40% decrease in overall texts received. Strongest recommendation

I'll be flying over the Atlantic tonight and thus unable to join this event. But I'm glad it's happening and can be a point of unity at a time of so much worry. If you're in Cardiff, come if you can. @abdulazim.bsky.social

Coming at you tomorrow... #FlyToHeaven. 🎵 👼🤘

I can vouch for the bonus aspects of Edinburgh life. Truly a city that spoils you for any other.

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

I am losing my mind DO ANY OF THESE JOURNALISTS KNOW THAT VENEZUELA IS NOT ON THE PACIFIC THAT THE CARIBBEAN SEA DOES NOT TOUCH THE PACIFIC THAT IN FACT THIS IS WHAT THE PANAMA CANAL WAS BUILT FOR WTF IS THE EASTERN PACIFIC PLEASE LOOK AT A MAP

…. I tried looking up what “Eastern Pacific“ means and our media stenography situation is such that they all reported that phrase without asking ANY questions

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

I genuinely thought the LLM / AI thing would blow over as soon as anyone pointed out it was based on piracy and had no viable business plan. That we’re still talking about it, betting on it, is gobsmacking. It should be the Tamagotchi craze of our decade. It should be Pogs by now.

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The little details make up a big story.

This entire weekend

Date yourself in a post. I am "there were two channels for the movie showing at the front of the plane - French and English" years old. Same flight where I listened to Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" several times and John Bird & John Fortune's comedy sketch about sight reading. Formative stuff.

I'm gutted by the news of Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner's deaths. Everything is jagged and horrid at the moment, but (because art, I guess) this really stands out for me. If he had only directed Stand By Me, the Princess Bride, and When Harry Met Sally, it would have been enough (dayenu).

Fuckin Rob Reiner.

Solidarity with Muslims and Jews in Cardiff and everywhere who need to live with the spectre of violence from assholes like these two guys. So disappointing and worrying to see this statement from my colleague and friend @abdulazim.bsky.social in his sec-gen of Muslim Council of Wales role.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The fight for same-sex marriage reminds us how recently gay men & lesbians were persecuted by govts. Just over 50y ago most treated gay men as criminals, equated them with child abusers & saw them as rapists. There were major concerns about gay men in men’s toilets! Sound familiar?*

Here's a video I made out of some excellent peaceful drone footage of rivers. It accompanies the music (and lyrics!) to my song "Peace Like a River". Hope it brings you some. youtu.be/eM-l-6T2oSg

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

To punish myself as I wade through the last of marking before annual leave for the holidays, I'm finishing the last bags in my box of this Lavender Earl Grey. Keeps me angry. Keeps me alert.

Not surprised, of course. But still. Steal from the creators who made your company what it is at a large enough scale, and you reward the thieves with wealth the likes of which none of us will ever see. openai.com/index/disney...

Excellent.

Is there a piece of scholarship on your syllabus that students really connected with or really worked well for your semester? You should take some time today to email those authors and tell them. I love sending these emails.

The event included the planting of a stone pillar on the grounds of the Temple of Peace honouring victims of the Srebrenica genocide of the 1990s. Ahmed and senior lecturer @michaelmunnik.bsky.social visited the pillar, next to which is a plaque with a commissioned poem by Cardiff poet Abeer Ameer.

brb, just going to apologise to my three kids for screwing up so massively all the time.

The university bought Claude AI for students to use. Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished. Great stuff, academia.

Today in "of course the devices aren't listening to you": talked about student work y'day with my wife- one paper that discussed an interest in professional wrestling. What do I see on my Facebook wall for the first time today and, as ever, totally unsolicited? Elite wrestling coming to South Wales.

Okay, noon has been and gone. Time to dive into all the marking and, we trust, get it all done and moderated before annual leave begins.

'Displaced memories in the Trieste border area: a neverending historical entanglement' by Roberta Altin From #Identities' latest Special Issue, 32.6: doi.org/10.1080/1070...#Identities' #migration #SpecialIssue @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Haha, amazing! I can hear his delivery.

In case y'all thought I was joking. Okay. They aren't *all* full of I Am with the Hunters CDs, but there are still many, and you can buy them here: #BandcampFriday michaelmunnik.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-w...

One for the #BandcampFriday watchers...

What I'm trying to say here is, my house is about to be full of many more copies of this CD, so please do me a solid this #BandcampFriday and buy one. You'll like it, I promise: a ukulele hymn to the city of Toronto and a totally original collaboration with poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen +more.